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anneaslIPIPliCr" EFTA01682136 * The Palm Beach Post SATURDAY, AUGUST 5.2006 PalmBeachPost.com LOCAL BUSINESS State response team ready to help animals. farmers after disasters. Inside this section, 8B w c Six DCF workers may have lied for aid Weeding out errors State reviews caught $428,945 worth of fraud before disaster food stamp payments went out in Wilma's wake - less than one-fifth of 1 percent of benefits paid. The reviews help catch: ■ Math errors • ■ lies about living in the disaster area • People who applied for benefits more than once ■ People who fail to report income from verifiable sources like Social Security retirement or child support Silence leads to dismissal of jury A juror failed to disclose her daughter was murdered. By LARRY KELLER Ebb.; Ptah ha SW mum The anticipated start of the high-stakes murder trial of Jeffrey Lamb ended abruptly Friday when it was learned that one of the jurors did not disclose during jury selection 'hat her daughter was murdered five years ago. The juror's reticence re- sulted in all 12 jurors and one alternate being dismissed. The panel was chosen from a pool of 120 prospective jurors after three days of painstaking questioning. Among the questions was whether any- body in the jury pool or their family members had been crime victims. "She flat-out should be charged with perjury," said prosecutor Craig Williams. "She should be made an ex- ample of." The Lamb trial unraveled less than two hours before attorneys were to deliver opening arguments, when a woman in the jury pool who was not selected for the panel phoned the jury administra- tion office and the office of the trial judge, Circuit Judge Lucy Chernow &own. She said that one juror. Dorothea Moore, had mentioned to several people that her daughter had been killed by the daughter's husband. but had not disclosed this during questioning by attorneys (lur- ing jury selection. lamb, 33, was charged two years ago with brutally smashing Cathy Lamb in the head with a heavy tire iron in their Lake Park duplex. The motive: to collect a S29,000 insurance policy from the Walgreens corporate office where she worked. Prosecu- See 11.1808. 4B ► Accused of cheating to obtain hurricane food stamps By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN Pa/* Ikack ltot Sal Write. Six Department of Chil- dren and Families employees who applied for disaster food stamps after Hurricane Wil- ma may have lied to get the payments. according to a state report released this week. Of 449 aid workers who applied. a total of 20 were paid the wrong amounts, review- ers found. A wider survey of applications from the public found fewer mistakes — 15 out of 1.203 payments in a random sample. The review, however, cannot catch people who lied about hurricane damage or expenses. And it cannot catch Getting better with age Mike Henley. 74. of lake Worth practices water-skiing Friday at Okeeheelee Park near Greenacres. Henley. who began water-skiing those who lied about the in- come they earned, except in i the case of ts own employees, whose paychecks are on record with the agency. Florida distributed $269.7 million in emergency aid to more than 2.1 million people after Hurricane Wilma. The one-lime payments, ranging from $152 for a single person to $1.938 for one household of 17, were meant for families who could not afford to buy groceries after the storm. A Palm Beach Past investi- gation earlier this year found few safeguards to prevent people from lying about their income, number of house- hold members or even iden- See FOOD STAMPS: 4B ► in 1954. will travel to Bakersfield, Calif. in a few weeks to compete in the National Water Ski Championships for his age group. West Palm budget sparks debate on cutting tax rate The city has $14 million in new money to spend because of increases in property values. By THOMAS R. GOWNS Palm Rerul Post St4f IVrifer WEST PALM BEACH — Three new police officers, money for kids' programs and some improved parks are the highlights of the city's proposed budget for the year that will start Oct. 1. But in a city where the value of the property jumped by 25 percent over last year — helping to bring in about $14 million of new money to be spent — city commis- sioners are gearing up for a debate on whether to de- crease the tax rate. The result of that debate could reshape the early bud- get draft, which was released this week. A budget workshop is scheduled for Aug. 24. to be followed by public hearings Sept. 6 and 18. But by the time the public hearings are held, cities traditionally don't make many significant changes. As it stands now, here are the key new items and capital projects in the $358 million budget. • 8355.000 for seven new police positions, including three new officers and four civilian staffers who will free up officers to do more actual policing. • $1 million on youth programs. Mayor Lois Frankel said this is all new revenue. But she is only sure how $400,000 of that will be spent. It's been set aside for two "youth empowerment centers" that will provide job training, help with school- work and offer recreation for teenagers. IN $2.2 million on curb, street. and sidewalk repair around the city. • $I million for city mad entryways and landscaping. • $500.000 on park im- provements. including re- vamping the ball fields at Phipps Park. • $120.000 to create a strategy for redeveloping the See BUDGET. 48 l• RUMORS ABOUND AMONG LOCAL COMMUNITY Cuba natives here revel in notion of life after Castro By AK M. VALDES Palm Ittcri Rut &d Writer -alai lia? ad r On left her native Cienfuegos, Cu'-'". :35 years ago. hut news that communist leader lidel dead Castro could be l or possibly smile to her face. • "1 was watching television, and I said to myself, 'Fidel has died. How wonderful. I almost danced d a conga," Padron. 73. saidsaidFriday we at in- ner with relatives at the Cuban Atneri- VI/l re4; Pik.- Road in suburban .• MM.). "I don't wish death upon anybody, hAll, he IS not a good person and has killed so many people." added • radian, who fled Cuba during the CAR COROMOO: we Nabgriptat ,I tope they wry hIrn tips*, down': Hide Araujo joins other at the Cuban American Club, where she danced Friday oh her husband. Tony, in wishing tte worst torCuba's Fidel Castro. Freedom Flights of the 1960s and since has find in Palm Beach Coun- y. At a nearby table in the large din- ing room where televisions broadcast Spanish-language programming Hit d a Araujo.fti. expressed similar senti- ments. Whie eating codfish fricassee with white rice and black beam she said she thinks Castro is either dead or on life support. See CUBAN CLUB. 4B IP Expert: Ignorance of age isn't defense in sex cases By LARRY KELLER Palm Beath Hal skeWnkr Even if Palm Beach mom ey manager Jeffrey Epstein didn't know that girls who police say gave him sexual massages at his Intracoastal home were under the legal age, that alone wouldn't have exempted him from criminal charges of sexual activity with minors. Ignorance is not a valid defense," said Bob Dekle, a legal skills professor who was a Lake City prosecutor for nearly 30 years. half of that time specializing in sex crimes against children. 'ere is no knowledge element as far as the age is concerned." Dekle said. After an 11-month investi- gation, Palm Beach police said there was probable cause to charge Epstein. 53. with unlawful sex acts with a minor Epstein: Two politicians have returned dona- tions since he was charged with soliciting minors. and lewd and lascivious mo- lestation. They contend that Epstein — friend of the rich and famous and financial pa- tron of Democratic Party or- ganizations and candidates — committed those acts with five underage girls. In the pas! week. New York Attorney General and bernatorial candidate Eliot itzer has returned about S. .000 in campaign contri- butions he received from Ep- stein. and Mark Green, a candidate to replace Spitzer in See EPSTEIN. 58 IP Emily 1. Minor's column will return soon. • State raises Vali, for three schools after appeils, 3B • Gunfire scatters crowd at National Bikers ioundup, 3B EFTA01682137 2B THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 2006 METRO REPORT S C Weather, traffic, breaking news and special reports PalmBeachPosLcom/local Armstrong Howard POLICE BLOTTER JUPITER — An Ill-year-obi was arrested and charged with fatally stabbing a 21-year-old man during a house party melee early Fri- day. Jupiter police arrested Nick Arm- strong. 18. and charged him with second- degree murder. He was booked into Palm Beach County Jail on Friday afternoon. Armstrong got into a fight with John Collins, 21, at a party on Hampton Circle and stabbed him in the chest around 12:15 a.m., police said. Collins then stumbled to the porch of a neighbor, who called for help. Collins was taken to Si- Mary's Medical Center. where he died a few hours later. Officers were already in the area because someone called police about the initial fight. RIVIERA BEACH — A 20-year-old man Is wanted for allegedly shooting his father and another man during a fight. Junes Howard Jr. is be- ing sought on charges ot at- tempted murder and aggra- vated battery with a fire- arm. At about 5 p.m. on July 28, Howard got into a fight with Donte Richardson, 23, in the 800 block of West 13th Court, police said. James Howard Sr., 45 tried to break up the fight and — along with Richardson — was shot. Neither man's in- juries appeared to be life-threatening. Po- lice say Howard Jr. may be carrying a semi- automatic firearm. He is known to drive a Soccer in solo WEST PAIN EF.ACII — Luis Corte of West Palm Beach practices by himself in the noon heat on the Dyer Park soccer fields Friday. Coria says he likes the park's seclu- sion. PICKUM GRAMM, StelPoolcomatre 2000 blue Chevrolet Monte Carlo with Florida tag E31X or a beige Lexus with Florida tag G1911(1. Anyone with informa- tion about Howard Jr. is asked to call Rivi- era Beach detectives at (561) 882-3514, ex- tensions 15 or 24. or Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-8477. ELECTIONS Monday Is the deadline to register to vote In the Sept. 5 printery elections. The registration deadline for the Nov. 7 general election is Oct. 10. To register, applicants must be 18. U.S. citizens and legal residents of Florida. Seventeen-year-olds may pre-register and receive their cards in the mail after their 18th birthday. Registration can be handled online, at winv.pbcelections.org, or in per- son. Applications can be obtained in per- son or by phone, from the Supervisor of Elections main office. 240 S. Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL 33415. (561) 656- 6200. BRIEFLY PALM BEACH — Yltschak Ben Gad, the consul general of Israel to Florida, will be a guest speaker at the Bairn Beach Synagogue on 7 p.m. Tuesday. The free lecture is open to the public and will be a "behind-the-scenes update on Israel's just war,- according to a • news release. An author and expert on the Palestinian Arab National Movement and the Middle East, Ben Gad became consul general in 2005. He holds a doctorate in political science from Dropsie University in Philadelphia. The synagogue is at 120 N. County Road. For more information, call (561) 838-9002. CAPITOL CARPET & TILE AND WOOD With the lowest prices and best service... why would you buy from anyone else?" LOU MORANO. handset CARPET TILE Mohawk' Wood Alloy Blinds CARPET Mohawk Texture $12.77 sq. yd. Weardattd Soh Touch $18.88 sq. yd. AtMawk Elie Collection $26.54 sq yd. 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The number. which council members agreed will include new construction and existing homes, is in line with the Palm Beach County Workforce Housing Needs Assessment Package. The package says the city should add that many units by 2025. but Deputy Mayor Susan Whelchel said she hopes the city can reach the goal well before then. "I hope we get it in the next five years." The council also agreed to continue a study that must be completed before the city can impose impact fees on The city will need 500 more affordable homes by 2025. developers to help pay for workforce housing. Started in July. the study was put on hold until the council could get more clear direction on the workforce housing issue. Council members dis- agreed about "linkage fees,- which could be charged to businesses that bring more jobs into the community. Mayor Steven Abrams was in favor of the fees, but Coun- cilman Mike Arts said they don't make sense. "Office Depot is moving their corporate headquarters to Boca Raton and the county is giving them incentive dol- lars to create jobs in our community." Arts said after the meeting. "A linkage fee means that we would turn around and tax them for the jobs they're going to create in this community. That doesn't make a lot of sense." Several other details of the workforce housing plan are still up for debate, in- cluding how to use money in a trust fund set up to provide workforce housing. The fund now holds $3 million, depos- ited in June by Stiles Corp., a developer. City Manager Leif Ahnell said the city could use the money to assist buyers or renters, for financing pro grams or in partnership pro- grams with developers. Lisa Bright, executive di- rector of Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency and Michael Weiner, a Delray Beach attorney who often represents developers, said they hope local commu- nities will approach work- force housing with a regional perspective. Councilman Pe- ter Baronoff agreed. hope to live long enough to see that on the re- gional basis, a solution was given: he said. Staff writer Tanta Valdernoro contributed to this story. O Laura ammermanWobposlcom 15 from county in statewide drug bust 8) STEPHANIE WIER Poisi lima Past Slairgilks Al least 15 Palm Beach County residents are among the 1,219 arrested recently in a statewide attack on drugs and drug-related crime, the Florida Department of Law En- forcement announced Friday. More than $7.5 million, 100 kilos of co caine, 1,000 pounds of marijuana, 180,000 Ecstasy pills. and 3000 doses of hydrocodone and oxycodone were seized during the monthlong sweep, am:writ:les said. Teams and task forces from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies also busted 14 methamphetamine labs, served 72 search warrants. and seized 53 guns and 28 Cara "I hope this will send the message that Florida has zero-tolerance for drug activity," FULE Commissioner Gerald Bailey said. 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"I'm thrilled. I can't wait to let The Department of Education rejected appeals from John I. Leon- ard High (U), Melaleuca Elementa- ry (8). Glades Central High (D) and the C -STAR School of the Arts charter school (C). the teachers and my parents know: Terranova attributed the initial grade to a mistake made by the state's data handlers. While West- ern Academy scored high enough for a C. the school was dropped to a . Western Academy Principal I) because of poor reading ins Iznda Terranova was ecstatic about provements — only because the the results. state had lost the previous year's scores, Terranova said. While the school had one reason to celebrate, it had another reason to be disappointed. Superintendent Art Johnson said he was not surprised by some of the rejected appeals. -We do understand that this is part of the state's accountability The school lost its appeal to meet system: he said. the "adequate yearly progress" fed. The state granted appeals from eral standard. South Fork High in Martin County. The state awarded the designer moving the school to a B and a tion to Royal Palm School, which "provisional" status under the adt- was the only other school in the quate yearly progress standard. district to appeal. . Schools that earn an A or B but The grades and the adequate fail to make adequate yearly yearly progress designations are progress under federal standards required under the federal No Child are labeled with the "provisional" Left Behind Act. status. Across the state, 33 schools submitted appeals and 19 were granted. Staff writer Christina DeNardo CON- tnbuted to this story dri_yomarammestcom Senior services takeover will stand A court decides Ruth Rales gets the grant the Mae Volen center had. By SUSAN R. MUER Palm Mack lbst She Wain An appellate court has refused to stop Ruth Rales Jewish Family Services of South Palm Beach County from taking over from Mae Volen Senior Center in Boca Raton the provision of in-home services to about 400 of southern Palm Beach County's frail elderly. The 4th District Court of Appeal on Friday denied Mae Volen's re- quest to stop the takeover while it contested the award of a $1.7 million-a-year, three-year state grant to Ruth Rales by the Area Agency on Aging Palm Beach/ 'Treasure Coast Inc. last week. attorneys for Mae Volen, which had the grant for 26 years, filed a motion with the ap- pellate court arguing that the bid- ding process had been tainted be- cause numerous errors had been made, rules were changed in mid- process that altered scoring and MA gave independent bid review panel membersmisinfonnation that led to its lower score. Ruth Rates earned 371 points: Mae Volen, 365. • Mae Volen President Elizabeth Lugo said she simply wanted her case to be heard before services were transferred. On Friday, she said no decision had been made on whether to take further legal action. The two agencies have worked together to provide the services paid for through the grant when Mae Volen held it, and they can work together now that Ruth Rales is lead agency, said Robert McFalls. AAA's chief executive. • AAA, for its part, said Ruth Rales won the grant fair and square based on a ratings scale used in previous years. "We had a very good indepen- dent review committee that read <Very proposal and scored it and had the opportunity to discuss it," said Robert McFalls. AAA's chief executive, dismissing Lugo 's claim that the committee simply rubber- Stamped the agency's recommen- dation. • In the meantime, all parties have begun to work together toward what they say will be a smooth fransition of services. "We are giving 100 percent and cooperating hilly? Lugo said. • Still, the change has some of Mae Volen's clients worried. Alice Kraulos. 80. of Delray Beach fears that the day-care services .her ec .hus- band. Andrew, r eives will disapi pear. He suffers from Parkinson s and she from emphysema It took her eight months from the tune she applied to the time her husbandrngragnott. into Mae Volen's daycare 'ng care of w 24/1.1 got to a Win! V, 1. .• "Before this. I wastaki h I twee said- do it a% back a little said. -11 has given in fife: Although Ruth Hales does not five a seniornlidanyr cthenetesre,r*. the SeacY ontrading with daycare es , possiblys even citai n es Volen, Executive Ruth meedoe *bath Fatter sala.guaraw "While can't give any the least tees, vie wan. t to. have amount of disruption In client ser- vices: giKarsylle:186. of tetra.' Beach. Jean home health service who receives through Mae Volen, was not happy to hear about the change either, but added. -I have no c hoice- 'just hope tharenc)daaavia't o ak amuyse homehave afigethoetkdi One AM• a audMaeoVnce°1etno AceSteadY " aye met spr6des. exect-- the wails -gMn other or( to e dorm ag c er ho es althaughtbeY ,gtdcb xtiopnth. . ppes. hedbY months to make tt e Su um n° visaw&beaco A backpack worthy of praise DELKAY BEACH — Kailyn Graham, 4, is proud of the new pink backpack she received at the Staples store through Variety In- ternational Processing, Inc., a drug-testing company that wanted to give back to the community. About 300 backpacks were dis- tributed to several organizations in the city, including Christ Missionary Baptist Church, which Kailyn attends. Gunfire mars bikers event; deputy shoots man By ALINSON BIRD IL's* Ittual /Ur Staff 'Ent., First came hail, then came gunfire. As National Bikers Roundup vendors tried to repair their booths after bad weather Thursday at the St. Lucie County Fairgrounds, a biker from the Wheels of Soul motorcycle club allegedly began fuing a revolver into the crowd. The situ- ation ended when a sheriffs deputy shot a 37- year-old Chicago man in the stomach. The man was flown to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach. where he remained in critical condition Friday, the St. Lucie County Sheriffs Office said. The agency did not release his name because his family had not been noti- fied. The sheriffs office also refused to release the deputy's name, but Sheriff Ken Mascara said he is 52 years old and a 24-year veteran of the force. Mascara said deputies did not know why the man allegedly began shooting or how many shots were fired. The sheriff said the suspect has pnevious weapons and burglary charges. Florida Highway Patrol troopers escorted the rest of the man's motorcycle club — about 50 members of the Wheels of Soul — north on Interstate 95 and out of the county. Even with the Wheels of Soul gone, several vendors packed up their trucks Friday afternoon, though the event lasts through Sunday. David King. a local Subway restaurant owner, said the shooter ducked booth behind his car and the Thursday crowd trampled night King and other vendors hid inside a refrig- erated truck until the shooting ended. Several of them insisted Friday that there was more than one shooter. -They didn't catch the other guy, so they're going to say there's not one more," vendor Andy Schmidgall said. Warnings about the Wheels of Soul, which Mascara said camped in an isolated corner of the fairgrounds, were given before the roundup. A sheriffs office report on the shooting said officials knew the club had come to St. Lucie County to recruit local members for a new chapter. 'They were to be in possession of automatic firearms and possibly drugs: the report said. But officials did not use metal detectors or search people for weapons before they entered the event. 'The logistics of searching everybody com- ing into the fairgrounds would have been impossible," Mascara said, though large outdoor concerts frequently use metal detectors. He added that information about bikers intending to shoot people did not come until after the roundup had begun. But the same report stated: "On July 31st. the sheriffs office received a phone tip that several outlaw biker gangs were going to show up to the event and start shooting members of the hosting club." The problems at the fairgrounds Thursday night were not limited to the Wheels of Soul. An hour before the shooting, a man was stabbed in an unrelated scuffle. Mark Alexander, 36, emerged from the melee with a bleeding stomach but told a friend that he had not been stabbed, a sheriffs report said. The report stated that Alexander, who was "very uncooperative" with investigators, was taken to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute in Fort Pierce. Both the shooting and the stabbing hap- pened in the food booth area. Vendors banded together. looking for an apology. Event organizer Kevin Perry said he would work with them Sunday to discuss partial reimbursement. Meanwhile, representatives from the roundup and St. Lucie County tried to emphasize the positive avects of the event at a news con- ference. After three days without even traffic complaints. officials pointed to the money the estimated 30,000 customers brought to the county per day. Organizer Carly Lamy said that previous National Bikers Roundups have left s3.5 million to $12 million in host counties. Sheriffs officials said they did not plan to increase the number of deputies. But Friday afternoon, the sheriffs new armored personnel carrier— a tanklike vehicle like those used in the Iraq war — rolled through the fairgrounds, dropping the jaws of snow cone-clutching kids and leather-laden bikers alike. 0 altmonbtrdepepostcom Delray mayor distances self from commissioner By DIANNA 5W111 HIM BAN* Haab/Wow DELRAY BEACH — Mayor Jeff Perhnan wants to make two things perfectly clear to the more than 800 employees of Delray Beach. He and Commissioner pn Levinson share many of the sane goals and concerns. But what tiey don't share is the same style in which to handle city staff In an effort to defuse assuip; lions that Perlman always ace 'th Levinsoris scolffing Perlman has started to clear tb air with seven months to go in hisixa; year legit For the fiutith doart mayor, he is meetingr tnent heads and city staff.sinegs;ips to stress how proud he 'dotal a. and to let them know h. e _ dam 'I want to clarify- uwilitehriegtlaant latingu, even to tollbarfidaent's decslik e al °them,' he said. laboratory technicians to the pri- Ways see eno t of his to lose planners. engineers and Perlman said this weeh.chlovorkda: and Levinson ac- ed a customer-service program Ind. Perlman said, ' This year, commissioners start- vale sector. While the commission should be looked at as I'm a lot more diplomatic Han h‘else. hurtful an forLe a vinasonf called SPIRIT, a motivational pro- spends the next few weeks analyz- ing Ihe upcoming budget, figuring The statements the rumors counts linking him newspaper brings an is in the right )face. i'o, have 'been ve sion. The one thing we whet Commissioners have met twice emplo l to • ik hard and treat ewialltrnstspttivree °°' how t° fill these empty spots. make hisrounds. continue to an awful lot to thee h about Jo .. '5 . ___ple._ ry I to wgral orkil ernreviratoednntioenUtrotfinadt Perlman said he will stands and w people." his year with a strategic planner to customerserg work We re able to share things with know where he . Sits are peaks his mind. I cuanno.na leview goals and objectives, and includes respect. The pro- " • employee reeogni- "That's with the Rita F1 so ash in to meet with the planner tion. barbecues with games and each other: Perlman said. horn ecectwe sscgal.n in October. Normally, the Hula Hoops and badges employees how things get better." attended several where veopinals are reviewed only Vice Vasa nt _ Cal d once a year. can wear on a voluntary basis that • demi srvinednicstews . • - meetings came Perlman comment on Levinson's de- meanor. "I'm not sure why he feels like he has to deal with people on that lev. el." Ellis said, add- ing, "When they bring this up. I refuse to talk about it. He's a fellow commissioner. We all want the same things." Levinson. who was travelling and could not be reached for com- ment Friday. hasn't been shy about his feelings toward city staff. Ile's pointed out their flaws during pub- lic meetings, telling those who don't agree with the city's customer ser- vice policy to "get off the bus." Ru- mors that he wants to push 16-year veteran City Manager David Hard- It was during the meetings this year that commissioners began to voice concerns about city staff. Residents, they've said, have complained that some employees haven't returned calls promptly or haven't taken the time to help. Perlman wants staff to know he cares about them and he wants them to do the best job possible. 'We're trying to create a culture where people will be honest with the commission,' he said. "I want to know what's going on ... how I can help. I feel I have a very good rela- tionship with staff. I've really grown close to them over the years" 'Though Harden, who oversees city staff, nonnally would speak to the employees about customer ser- vice and morale, Perlman said he thought it was his responsibility. 'I have worked even harder now say, 'Ask Me About SPIRIT." Commissioners formed a SPIRIT committee and though many em- ployees publicly have said they en- joy the program and feel it helps both staff and residents, other em- ployees have complained about the program, saying they feel forced into it. Though Perlman supports SPIRIT, he stressed that it was not his idea. The city already offered good customer service, he said. "It's taken on a life of its own. It's something I'm being labeled with; he said of SPIRIT. "I really see that as a management function. I didn't want to be in the business of moni- toring it, implementing it." Perlman has said that some de- partments are overworked. There are 16 vacancies within the fire de- partment. and the city is continuing EFTA01682139 46 THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2006 W C Application reviews reveal remaining cases la. FOOD STAMPS from 18 ti ty in order to qualify. Federal Riles allow applicants to qual- ify without a Social Security Mimber, and the state allowed those without photo identifi- cation to have a friend vouch for them. Several workers told the tout that it was easy for people to fudge their income and ex- penses, and believed that some were padding. their ap- plications with fictitious rela- tives and roommates in order to qualify for larger payments. The state caught $428.945 worth of fraud before the payments went out in No- vember 2005, less than one- fdth of 1 percent of benefits paid. An additional 168 people who got the payments, but may have lied on their appli- cations, were referred to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for investiga- tion, according to the report. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the disaster food stamp pro- gram. requires the report to ensure states weed out those trying to cheat the system. 1Tte review catches prevent- able errors like payments to people who lied about living in the disaster area, who ap- plied for benefits more than once or failed to report in- come from verifiable sources like Social Security retire- ment or child support. It also catches mathematical errors. The review showed an accuracy rate of 98 percent for those types of mistakes. "Overall, we're pleased with how we operated the Disaster Food Stamp Pro- gram last year." DCF spokesman Tun Bottcher said in a statement. DCF turned over all six to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for criminal Investigation. Three of the six DCF em- ployees who may have lied on their application were turned in by an anonymous tip last fall. Two employees of the South Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center in Miami underreported household in- comes to get the benefits, the inspector general found, and an administrative assistant for DCF in Miami-Dade County failed to report her husband's wages and military pension. Three more cases of sus- pected fraud were found when DCF reviewed employ- ee applications for the federal review. DCF turned over all six to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for crimi- nal investigation. So far. DCF has found 449 disaster food stamp applica- tions from its employees — 282 from temporary workers and 167 from MI-time em- ployees. But the agency has not been able to double-check every application submitted by an employee because it still isn't sure who sonic of those employees were. The state relied on workforce agencies and temp compa- nies, which did not keep records like date of birth or address for 2,500 disaster food stamp workers hired in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The tbsr's investigation on those who could be identified found that dozens of workers. with access to applicants personal information had records of financial crimes, including organized fraud. public-assistance fraud and identity theft. DCF officials say they plan to require background screens on em- ployees before the next di- saster aid program. A separate report by the DCF inspector general also suggested better training for the temporary workers hired to take and screen applica- tions. After Hurricane Wilma. many of the workers gathered in large groups for trainimi. Sonic of the instructors t have microphones, and not all workers could hear instruc- tions, the report said. Other problems included 36.700 payment cards that arrived several weeks late because of a mistake at JP- Morgan EFS. , which pro- grammed the cards for the state. Huge numbers of appli- cants crowding the sites also put pressure on employees to approve the money quickly. and DCF did not have away to prove the identity of each person who submitted each paper application. Next time. DCF plans to have people register for di- saster aid in advance online or by phone. DCF can then ver- ify the information is com- plete and accurate and flag suspicious cases before peo- ple arrive to apply in person. The state also hopes to install card readers that can scan driver licenses fi an . to con- firm applicants' identities. • saimeta_csaamaiwteboostcom Frankel, Mitchell at odds over rate W. BUDGET farm 18 Coleman Park neighborhood in the city's north end. ft• city will then pursue grant money to help with the actual redeveloping. Frankel said the budget's themes are "hometown se- curity" and "neighborhood investment: "It stresses the two big- gest issues that I hear all the time out in the community. which is that everyone wants the community to be safer. and number two, there isn't m anybody around who doesn't want their environment to be beautiful? Frankel said. The proposal includes only the spending plan for the general departments, such as police, fire and parks. It doesn't include spending plans for the downtown and north-end districts that get to keep most of their property tax money for redevelop- ment projects. The budgets for those districts will be released later and discussed at a workshop on Aug. 14. Last month, city commis- sioners set the maximum tax rate at $8.22 per S1.000 of taxable property. The owner of a 8200.000 house with a $25.000 homestead exemp- tion would pay $1,438.50. Commissioners can't raise that rate• but can re- duce it. And that's just what 'Commissioner Kimberly Mitchell. a longtime Frankel adversary, has proposed. "You have to be mindful of people's earning capacity. not just how much you can take from then, but how much they can afford." said Mitchell, who in recent years has made a habit of pushing for a lower rate. "you cannot continue to tax people just because you can." She says a reduction of the city's tax, plus pushing for the elimination of the Downtown Development Authority tax on downtown residents — $2 on every S 1.000 of taxable property — could have a big effect on tax bills. But commissioners have limited pull on the DIM. While its board members are City commissioners set the maximum tax rate at $8.22 per S1,000 of taxable property. They can't raise that rate, but can reduce it. appointed by the mayor, the DIM itself was created under state law. After a gradual reduction from 1997 to 2003, the city's tax rate has stayed level for past three years even as property values have soared. Reducing the rate by 10 cents per $1,000 of value. for example, would save the owner of a $200.000 house, with a homestead exemption, 817.50, or about the price of two movie tickets. But it would cut hundreds of sands of dollars from the city budget. Frankel has made it clear she believes that because the city is providing better ser- vices, it makes sense to keep the rate the same. "Do the residents want to use their money collectively for the city or do they want a few dollars back?" Frankel said. Commissioner Bill Moss said that the city's current rate makes the city competi- tive with the county in at- tracting businesses. And the improvements made to neighborhoods with the extra tax dollars will add value to residents homes in the long-term, he said. "It's probably more im- portant right now to go ahead and fix the sidewalks, curbs. the neighborhood issues rather than giving the neigh- borhoods an arbitrary re- duction: Moss said. But Jeri Muoio, a com- missioner just appointed in May, said the commission needs to have a full discus- sion on reducing the rate. think we need to weigh sonic of the requests that come to us from the neigh- borhoods against a reduction in the millage rate and make a decision about it," she said. "Ifs not an easy decision to make." O thartas_coa,130)bacg urn Jury dismissed after member tells of killing lbJURORAwn tit tors are seeking the death penalty if Lamb is convicted. Attorneys would have wanted to know if Moore could be impartial in lamb's case given the fact that he is charged with murdering his wife. Moore. 47, of Riviera Beach admitted in court Fri- day that she didn't mention that her daughter. Tanga, Moore. was murdered by her husband. who then killed himself. "I felt it was none of their business? she told Brown. She denied, however. telling others in the jury pool about her daughter's death. 1 haven't spoken a word to anybody about that. she said. She repeated that as- sertion to reporters later. Moore was dismissed front the jury. Other jurors were then called into Brown's courtroom one by one and asked if they had heard VA 5.1.4.‘E sLir wrwrire °MIMS Moore was a juror in the Jeffrey limb murder trial until it was discovered she neglected to disclose her daughter's murder. Moore say anything about her life that had relevance to the Lamb trial. A woman said she over- heard Moore tell a group of five to seven prospective ju- rors about her daughters murder. And a man dropped another bombshell: Moore told him there was no way she would impose the death penalty if Lamb was found guilty. Prospective jurors were asked by attorneys if they could impose the ultimate penalty. Those who said no were dismissed. Defense attorney Richard Lubin asked Brown to dis- miss the entire jury panel. -There was deception here . . . that affected the entire process" he said. believe this jury has been tainted.. Brown granted the motion to "preserve the integrity of the process." Moore. who said she's an operations manager for a motor coach company in Lake Worth, told reporters that she could have been an impartial juror. 1 would have listened to the evidence, lis- tened to the facts and then made my judgment: she said. Brown could fmd Moore in contempt of court for her actions, which carries a max- intum penalty of six months in jail and a fine. She said she wants to review testimony before deciding what she will Some fear Raul Castro's leadership ► CUBAN CLUB from 1B "And if he is dead, I hope they bury him upside down, so that he falls deep- er," added Araujo, who left Cuba in 1961 and has not re- turned to the island. At this weekly gather- ing, where locals enjoy homemade food and dance to salsa and merengue. many Cubans chatted about Castro's recent surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding. They also shared opinions on how his brother Raul has become the island's tempo- rary leader. Some believe he has died and the Cuban govern- ment is hiding it, while oth- ers agree it could be a ru- mor or simply a farce. "Who knows? It's a ryes tery. Castro started working in Cuba with lies, and the lies continue," said Roberto Padr6n. 81, of Lake Worth. "But that needs to end soon." Maria E. lzquierdo said although she was relieved to hear Castro could be dead or very ill, she fears Raul Castro's leadership. "It makes me doubt about what is going to hap pen over there. Many pep-, ple are going to die. But it so important that freedom comes for the people of Cu- ba," said Izquierdo, 67, of West Palm Beach. Although the crowd was made up mostly of older Cu- bans who fled the island de- cades ago, some of the younger people who recent- ly left the island say they were surprised to hear Cas- tro could be sick because they never imagined the leader could be weakened. 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EreopnonasSenVce sf a Roasonetwo Wilco! ODPUetl: renvievilia:tsttliiipe deped. ) vend in 4 to 6 W eeks' etta EFTA01682140 S C Lawyer: Jurors often believe adults over kids THt PARR BEACH POST SATURDAY. AUGUSTS 2 POO 58 SMOKERS WANTED 0. EPSTEIN from la his current job. has returned S10.000 to him because of the Palm Beach scandal, the New Yee* Daily Neus has reported. Rather than file charges. the state attorney's office presented the case to a county grand jury. The panel indicted Epstein last week on a single. less serious charge of felony solicitation of pros- titution. The case raised eyebrows because the state attorney's office rarely. if ever, kicks such charges to a grand jury. And it increases the difficulty of prosecuting child sex abuse cases, especially when the defendant is enormously wealthy and can hire high- priced, top-tier lawyers. At least one of Epstein's alleged victims told police he knew she was underage when the two of them got naked for massages and sex- ual activity. She was 16 years old at the time and said Ep- stein asked her questions about her high school, ac- cording to police reports. A girl who said she rues Epstein when she was 15 said he told her if she told any- body what happened at his house, bad things could hap- pen, the police reports state. Epstein's youngest al- leged victim was 14 when she says she gave him a massage that included some sexual activity. She is now 16. The girl's father says he doesn't know whether she told Ep- stein her age. "My daughter has kept a lot of what happened from me because of sheer embarrass- ment," he said. "But she very much looked 14. Any prudent man would have had second thoughts about that." Defense attorney Jack Goldberger maintains that not only did Epstein pass a polygraph test showing he did not know the girls were minors, but their stories weren't credible. The state attorney's office also implied that their credibility was an issue when it decided not to charge Epstein directly, but instead give the case to the grand jury. 'A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fash- ion." a state attorney's spokesman said last week. Epstein hived Harvard law Professor Alan Der- showitz when he became aware he was under investi- gation, and Dershowitz gave prosecutors information that some of the alleged victims : had spoke of using alcohol and marijuana on a popular Web site, according to a Palm Reach police report. Prosecutors typically consider two things in decid- ing whether to charge some- body with sex-related offens- es against minors— whether there is sufficient evidence i and whether there is a public interest in doing so. Ikkle said. America's Last Soapbox f.^ fon:7300 \bra rand bowl xxpres• your oolong oo • Meal or national Yea to • War to Ito Post, Sate lancets 2 the Wet The Ptato Beech roe P.O. boa 14700 West Palma Bock FL. 53416 rat MI420-4728 teuen/p1910- 0101 Child sex abuse cases often are difficult to prosecute, an attorney says. If two teens are in a sexual relationship and the boy turns 18 before the girl, he could be charged with a sex crime if the sex continues. There would be no public in- terest in pursuing that. Dekle said. But where there is a large gap in ages — and especially in cases of teachers with stu- dents — there is a public in- terest in prosecuting, he said. Likewise if the accused has a track record of sex with mi- nors. Still there is a "universal constant" in prosecuting these cases, fickle said. Men who exploit underage chil- dren for sex often carefully choose their victims in ways that will minimize the risk to them, he said. Victims usually an• front a lower social status, and they may suffer from psychologi- cal problems, Dekle said. "Lots of child sexual abuse victims have been vic- timized by multiple people over a period of time. Then the act of abuse produces behavior in the victims that further damages their credi- bility." Examples include promiscuous behavior and drug abuse. Some of the alleged vic- tims in the Epstein case re- turned to his home multiple times for the massage ses- sions and the $200 to 5300 he typically paid them per visit. "That would be a definite problem for the prosecutor,' said Betty Resch, who prom cuted crimesagainst children in Palm Beach County for five years and now is in private practice in Lake Worth. "The victim becomes less sympathetic" to a jury, Resch said. "But she's a victim nev- ertheless. She's a kid." Most men charged with sex crimes against minors look normal, Dekle said. A jury expecting to see a mon- ster seldom will. And the vie- tints' ages work against them and in favor of the defendant in a trial. Dekle said. If a child and an adult tell different stories and both swear they're telling the truth, adult jurors are more likely to believe the adult, Dekle said. "You have all these things working against you in a child sex abuse case. Prosecutors normally try to be very care- fu in filing those cases be- cause they know what they're ge ting into. There is no such thing a, an ironclad child sexual abuse case." 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The Palm Beach Post PaImBeachPost.com EFTA01682141 ' 6B THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY. AUGUST 5, 2006 w C Man gets 2 years for illegal transport Man charged with murdering tourist who wanted directions By KEVIN DEUTSCH Baba Brain hat Ste Writer A suburban West Palm Beach man was sentenced this week to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit two Piper Navajo planes for illegally transporting a radioactive material and making a false statement to the govern- ment. according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said Harold J. DeGregory Jr.. president of H&G Import Export in Fort Lau- derdale at the time of the crimes, agreed to transport iridium-192 to and from the Baha- mas, where the Bahamas Oil Refining Co. planned to use the radioactive isotope for in- dustrial radiography. In October 2004. De4;regory subcontract- ed the transportation of iridium-192 to a com- mercial air carrier. Amelia Airways, which flew the material from Fort lauderdale to Freeport. He never submitted the hazardous-material manifests required by law, prosecutors said. The following month, authorities found more radioactive cargo in the wing compart- ment of DeGregory's aircraft after it flew from Freeport to Fort Lauderdale. Again, he failed to disclose the cargo, prosecutors said. In January a federal jury convicted him of three counts of illegally transporting a radio- active material and two counts of making a materially false statement to the government. The iridium-192 was bought from a U.S. company that legally shipped the material to Fort Lauderdale. Although the material has legitimate industrial uses, it also can pose public-health risks if not properly handled. DeGregory was also fined $1,000 and will have two years of supervised release once his term is up. laindatah666pos1420m AREA DEATHS Palm Beach County Capps, Sandra, 54, of Jupi- ter. died Friday. Tillman Fu- neral Home, West Palm Beach. Funeral in Chinco- teague Island, Va. Daniels, Snide, 71, of North Palm Beach, died Tuesday. Levitt-Weinstein Memorial Chapel, West Palm Beach. Funeral Sunday. England, Karen D., 44. of Loxahatchee. died Monday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth. Parise, Iritng, 89, of Delray Beach, died Friday. River- side-Gordon Memorial Chap- el, Delray Beach. Haase, Albert, 85, of West Palm Beach. died Thursday. Weiss Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Met Dora C., 87. of West Palm Beach. died Tuesday- Dorsey-E. Earl Smith Memo- ry Gardens Funeral Home. Lake Worth. Klein, Kenai lames, 63, of lake Worth. died Wednes- day. Del Lago Funeral Home, Lake Worth. Funeral today. Mahan), Samnarine, 65, of West Palm Reach. died Fri- day. Tillman Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Visitation today; funeral Sunday. Rico, Ubertad, 73, of Palm Beach Gardens, died Thurs- day. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth. Semen, William c, 91, of Greenacres. died Thursday. Dorsey-E. Earl Smith Memo- ry Gardens Funeral Home, Lake Worth. Funeral today. Sheldon. Vhdan Catherine, 86, of West Palm Beach, died Thursday. Quattlebaum Fu- neral Home, West Palm Beach. Visitation Sunday: fu- neral Mass Monday. Shenberg. Bernice. 84, of Boynton Beach. died Thurs- day. Boca Jewish Funerals. Boca Raton. Funeral in Ar- lington Heights. Ill. Stemthat, Solomon, 86, of Delray Beach. died Thurs- day. Neptune Society, Fort Lauderdale. Sustln, Rose, of Lake Worth, died Thursday. Rubin Memorial Chapel. Delray Beach. Thompson, W. Gene, 87, of West Palm Beach, died Wednesday. Northwood Fu- neral Home and Crematory, West Palm Beach. Turner, Robert K. Sr., 84. of Riviera Beach. died Thurs- day. Northwood Funeral Home and Crematory, West Palm Beach. Martin County Brown, Raymond 1., 81, of Stuart, died Tuesday. Young and Prill Funeral Home, Stu- art. Funeral Monday. Potts, lulls Kathleen, 91, of Stuart, died Tuesday. Young and Frill Funeral Home, Stu- art. Okeechobee County Johnson, Joshua Ryan, 20. of Okeechobee, died Tuesday. 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To egait oustr=r6 10 meta NNW* comblititiaa FIND A FUNERAL HOME Maps and driving directions are available for animal facilities. PalmBeachPost.com Click on Obituaries REVISIT OBITUARIES. Our online archive lets you go back several months to view obituary stories with photos of prominent local and national figures. PalmBeachPost.com Click on Obituaries 11 CUFFORD DEL SANTO, "Del" 7(1, of Late Worn. FL. Need as ay on korai 3. X06 k• was born co October 24. 1MinWray even. FL loCitlortl Del Sarno a. relUtImUeroste Del Stria. TMSWy "Meet WON POI See venCletind en a yyWpynnpp DOI. 1N Melded Palm Such High School DA W14,101410 NNW he CONY the U.S. NaW DOI served In the Peale on $ Mee Nee a alEbartene win DV et hiantireDly <Merged ,n 1946. net arrive.; has. 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Brandon Anton Rolle. 22, of 3802 Day Ave. walked into downtown police headquar- ters around 4:20 Friday af- ternoon. gave his name and said: "I've come here to clear some things up. I need to talk with Homicide." He was calm and casually dressed with a blue-and- white striped shirt and blue Dickies shorts. He is charged with first-degree murder. Police say Rolle shot and killed Ronald Gentile, 54, around 5:30 p.m. July 29 at the intersection of Washing- ton Avenue and Jefferson Street, near U.S. 1. Stolen: a necklace with a cross, a gold bracelet, a diamond ring and a wallet. The shooting occurred just minutes after Gentile had dropped his 17-year-old son off for work at the Shops of Sunset Place in South Mi- ami. Gentile, a furniture salesman from Homewood, ill., arrived in Miami more Thar, a week ago for his teenage son's birthday. "This was one of those random situations where this poor guy just took the wrong turn." SO Jose Gra- nado said "That's all it takes, just one bad individual." Rolle has a criminal record of cocaine posses- sion, robbery, assault, car theft and fleeing a police of- ficer. He was first arrested when he was 16. hope it ain't true," said Lucille Rolle. Brandon's great-grandmother, reached by phone Friday afternoon. She hadn't seen hint in a week, she said. "He was go- ing straight, that's what he told me. He had a baby on the way, said he was getting a job to take care of the baby and the girl — washing dishes, doing something." At Miami police head- quarters, a woman describ- ing herself as Rolle's girl- friend and the mother-to-be of his child said that "every- thing is fine. He didn't do anything." 'This is not right, in the name of Jesus, this is not right," screamed another woman before a crowd of television cameras and re- porters. She later said she would "find out who did it." Rolle's family was gone by the time police hurried hint front one of the rooms upstairs through the lobby and into a patrol car. His hands were cuffed behind him. He was headed for jail. The newsmen yelled their questions at him: "Any comment, Mr. Rolle?" "How's your family? What about the family of Mr. Gentile?" But Rolle said nothing, and his face bore no expres- sion. "Every suggestion is that he was hiding." said Miami police spokesman Delrish Moss. "He turned himself in because of the pressure." Police say that the night Gentile and Rolle met, Gen- tile was probably heading back to his ex-wife's home in the Dadeland Mall area when he steered toward downtown Miami and ended up in the Grove. Witnesses told police they saw Gentile roll down the window of his rented white Chevrolet Cobalt, then saw Rolle rob and shoot him. Gentile was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. This week, Gentile's son and his ex-wife, Cathy Gleber-Girten, along with other relatives, distributed fliers to help police locate possible witnesses. Relatives returned Gen- tile's body to Chicago this week. The wake will be Sunday; the funeral Monday. News of an arrest brought the family — in Mi- ami and the Chic-ago area — cold comfort. "It won't bring my hus- band back," Colleen Gentile. 55, told the Chicago Sun- Tunes. "No good is coming front this for anybody." said Patrick Gleber. Gleber- Girten's brother. "If he's guilty, then he should be punished." FUNERAL • SERVICE DIRECTORY Funeral Homes ATTENTION VETERANS PRE-NEED SPECIAL NEW VETERANS CEMETERY CEMETERY SERVICE $1450.00 CASKETS FROM $595.00 CALL LEV1TTiWEINSTEIN MEMORIAL CHAPELS 561-RA4703 ETERNAL UGNY MEMORIAL GARDENS From Generation to Oweration Only Minutes free the Turnpike Simenort & Deny Exits 11520 State Rd 7. 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AUGUST 5, 2006 PaIMBeaChROStCOM THE MARKET REPORT • DOW 11,240.35 ♦ NASDAQ 2,085.05 Y S&P son 1.279.36 • RUSSEL!. 2000 701.26 • 10-YR Nom 4.90% • CRUDE OIL 574.76 .2.24 -7.29 -0.91 -3.12 -0.06 -$0.70 1HE MORNING LINE Delta asks to end pilots' pensions AnA,N7A- Delta Air Wes Inc. filed a formal request with bankruptcy court late Friday to ter- minate its pilots' pension plan. as President Bush prepared to sign a bill aimed in part at helping the struggling carrier save its other employees' pensions. If the court in New York ap- proves Delta's request to cancel its pilots' pensions effective Sept. 2, the government's pension insurer would take over the plan and pay pilots a reduced benefit based on when they retire and other factors. The 6,000 pilots, as part of a $280 million concessions agree- ment with the company first reached in April, have agreed not to oppose the pension termination request. though other groups may oppose it. Threat eases, oil prices dip 1 NEW YORK — Oil prices slipped below $75 a barrel Friday as sup- ply concerns eased after a storm in the Caribbean weakened and ap- peared to no longer threaten Gulf Coast oil facilities. light sweet crude for Septem- ber delivery dropped 70 cents to settle at $74.76 a arrel Friday on the w York MbMercantile Ex- change. U.S. firms' profits up 19% DETRon — U.S. companies second-quarter earnings rose by an average of 19 percent as energy producers. bolstered by record oil prices, regained their standing as the fastest-growing industry group. Profit for members of the Stan- dard & Poor's 500 Index climbed more than 10 percent for the 12th straight quarter. matching the longest streak since 1950, accord- ing to Thomson Financial. Oil and gas companies reported a 45 per- cent increase on average, the larg- est among the index's 10 main in- dustry groups. Record for ringtones set NEW YORK - Universal Musk Group. the world's largest music company, sold a record 3 million ringtones from a song by rapper Chamillionaire. illustrating the growing importance of mobile- phone downloads to U.S. music companies. The sales, at about $2.50 a pop. imply revenue of as much as $7.5 million for the track Ridive. Music companies get about $1 to $1.50 each for the ringtones. U.S. job growth slows Markets slip on fears Fed will hike rates anyway By 1EANNiNE AVERSA swing front its intraday high early in At Associated Press the session. Broader stock indicators WASHINGTON — Gripped by cau. also lost ground. lion, employers slowed hiring in July, Friday's report showed that em- pushing the nation's unemployment ployers added just 113,000 new jobs in rate to a five-month high. July. dovm from 124,000 inJune — the But while Wall Street got what it latest in a string of mediocre job gains wanted — Labor Department data in recent months. showing slower job growth — cau- With companies wary of increas- tious investors pushed stocks mod- thew civ forces i unemploym n a slowing economy. tl ili ent rate estly lower, unssil mg to report was enough to keep the Fed- jumped from 4.6 percent in June to 4. eral Reserve from raising interest percent, matching the rate of last rates next week. February. The last time the jobless cent. The major indexes closed out the rate was higher was in December. at It's a challenging time for certain week little changed. The Dow Jones 4.9 percent. job-seekers. industrial average fell 2.24. or 0.02 "Companies are feeling the strain of Job cuts were reported at facto- percent. to 11,240.35 - a 104-point rising costs for energy and raw mate- See ECONOMY, 158 se Unemployment The monthly unemployment rate for the past 13 months: seawtiaUy adjusted 5.1 5.0 49 48 JetBlue plans D.C. nonstop Janine Airways (Nasdaq: JB- I.U. $10.99) will start nonstop ser- vice between West Palm Beach and Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., with one daily round-trip flight begin- ning Oct. 3. No other airline at Palm Beach International Airport currently of- fers nonstop flights to Dulles. ac- cording to the airport's flight schedule. An introductory fare of $79 each way is available on flights booked by Aug. 15 for travel through Nov. 15. Regular fare will be between $99 and U99 one way. • Work on Boca center starts Developer Marvin Chancy has broken ground on Boca Raton Commerce Center, a 46-unit ware- hous6 condominium located on • Boca Rio Road. just south of Glades Road on the west side of Florida's Turnpike. Spaces will av- erage 1,500 square feet. and prices . at $215 per square foot. Oc- cupancy is slated for next year. • —Perm Han nws mead are moons Mellon Bank Building sold Two newly formed affiliates of New York-based RFR Holding MC have bought the Mellon Bank Building at 1645 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd. and the Horizon Office Center at 1401 Forum Way just off the well-traveled boulevard for a combined $28.3 million. One of the selling features of the West Palm Reach properties is "virtually no new competitive of- flee development ongoing or planned" in that area, said Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LR's managing director. Herren Rodriguez, who represented the seller, Palm Beach-based Tricony Florida. rials as well as higher interest rates. 43 They also remain uncertain about the 4 6 economy's prospects for the balance 4'5 lASONDi 20f06 ran» of the year. Therefore. they are re- 2005 luctant to aggressively bulk up theTr Monthly net change in non-farm, payrolls: said Lynn Reaser, chief payroll employment economist at Bank of America's In- 400.000 vestment Strategies Group. For blacks, the unemployment 300000 rate rose from 9 percent in June to 9.5 percent in July, the highest in eight months. The jobless rate for Hispan- ics. however, held steady at 5.3 per- 200.000 100.000 113,000 11 o .1ASONOHM AM.11 2005 2006 Sourot Departnent et Lab" PIE ASSO:WID PRESS After a hurricane, when most resources focus on human life, the rescue of animals and agriculture falls to a growing Florida network. RAFAI/Getr The State Agricultural Response Team. whose vetennanans and equipment rescue large animals alter storms. was a fledgling group before 2004. Now it has 432 members. SAVING FARMS FROM HARM State Agricultural Response Team What is it? A coordination agency consisting of governmental and private groups. What does it do? Handles disaster preparedness and response for animals and agriculture. Contact info Visit www.flsart.org or call the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services at (850) 410-0900. A State Agricultural Response Team program takes root in Palm Beach County. By SUSAN SAUSBURY Palm Aka* Pita Sae Writer WES.7 PALM BEACH — Imagine horses in Wellington stranded in a flooded pasture, or loose in the roads, after a hurricane. Or cattle in Okeechobee up to their noses in water with no food in sight. Or even a hot and hungry puppy left by its owners to fend for itself. 'Ile rescue of these animals af- ter a disaster, when human life is the focus and direction of most re- sources, falls to the State Agricul- tural Response Team. It's a multi- agency coordination group in which government and private en- tities focus on disaster prepared- ness and recovery for Flonda's animal and agriculture sectors. said David Perry, a response team specialist with the state Depart- ment of Agriculture. Perry was in West Palm Beach on Friday for a hurricane- preparedness meeting sponsored by Farm Credit of South Florida. All emergencies should handled locally thitsulitalloleo operative lc en dlgend:e i aatss .to Landscape oiotti )tilri lhe rescue 0 iEo5c Society I nf Veterinary said eep sponsoring Association, m teal ielt eh boa nntr ni State l fBg n, eFoeblna Association. lnea animals, during toucHnc hutrik network Medicine. im nud aeesiiecuod counties s..iar c;nneho Florida Cattleso. County yii erutcan :aaaCHA:cet Co-ills,- shee University Nursery ityofi.loGridroaweacelmisoo rsl_ a InnaineardnTh ite' sysapo eiardniv..so rItonertiproraicatri lintan hiencac spoh :Rom • leant, t has veterinarians and equipment need- ed has nt 0l0 ie :he:ars:i s in the winter, those services could someday be needed. mem- bers front Florida traveled to Hat- tiesburg, Miss, where they orga- nized aid for large animals, includ- ing feed and hay receiving, veteri- nary treatment and housing. "In a hurricane response, com- panion animals are one of our larg- est responses to deal with; Perry said. "Some have been left behind, or like in Katrina. they got dis- placed." Palm Reach County is among the one-third of Florida's 67 coun- ties setting up response team pro- grams, said Julie Hinote, an Okeechobee-based Agriculture Department inspector who also works with the team. The program works through a county-based team coordinator who is based at the local emergen- cy operations center during a di- saster. "The idea is that there is strength in numbers. It's about in- formation and sharing." said Lyn Cacella, vice president for market- ing at Lake Worth-based Farm Credit. "It's also for vegetable See RESPONSE, 158 ► Pension bill good news for younger workers By JIM ABRAMS Asuriated His WASHINGTON — Young workers, Wall Street, a cou- ple of airlines and U.S. tax- payers could come out as winners in the pension changes made by Congress. Some older employees. as well as truck drivers and construction workers hop- ing to retire early, might not fare as well. The legislation passed by the Senate late Thursday and sent to the president will, if successful, prod companies to fund their pension plans properly and ensure that workers get the retirement benefits they de- SOW. But the bill also reflects the reality that the tradi- tional defined-benefit pen- sion plan system is in de- cline. and the transition to new, defined-contribution- style savings plans won't be easy. Here's bow some of the major players in the legisla- tion may be affected: The 30,000 defined- benefit plans run by em- ployers are now under funded by $450 billion. and the bill requires plans hi reach 100 percent funding levels in seven years. Seri. ously under-funded "at-risk- companies must contribute at an accelerated rate. The American Benefits Council, which represents companies with traditional pension plans, said the bill was a "mixed bag." that promotes saving but could See PENSIONS, 158 P. 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The Boca Raton wire- less communications in- frastructure company's loss from continuing oper- ations deepened to 77 cents a share from 38 cents a share. Revenue rose 38 per- cent to $87.4 million from $63.2 million. Analysts, on average, expected the company to post a loss of 15 cents a share and revenue of $83 million. SBA expects third- quarter revenue of $93 million to $96.5 million and full-year revenue of S345 million to $353.5 mil- lion. Goodyear AKRON. Ohin — 3oodyear Tire & Rubber (NYSE: GT, $11.79) wad dropped 97 percent n the second quarter ximpared with a year ago Feciau se of charges tied to ireviously disclosed plant ilosings and higher mate- la's costs. The nation's iiggest tire maker said if! income slumped to S2 rulhon, or 1 cent per ,hare, In the three nonths ended June 30 :rom $69 million, or 34 ents per share, in the tear-ago period. Sales ose 3 percent to $5.1 ion, a record for any loader at Goodyear, from 15 billion a year ago. Occidental LOS ANGELES—Oil • nd gas producer Occi- ental Petroleum Corp. NYSE: OXY, $105.24) aid its second-quarter in- onie declined. Occiden- l recorded an after-tax cis of $347 million. That ass offset gains the com- any saw from higherpro- uction and gas and oil rites in the quarter. The ornpany reported net in- Ate of $857 tufillen, or ,97 per share. for the uarter ended June 30.. Dmpared with $1.54 W- on, or $3.77 per share, a ear $4 ag .6 billion Reve from $3.39 ue lum miss Re ZURICH.Swisertand — wiss Reinsurance, one of he world's largest re *trance companies, said s first-half profit rose 16 ercent. Swiss Re said net refit rose to 1.57 billion Nieiss francs ($1.27 bil- on) from 1.35 billion ants in the first half of 006. The company does at break out quarterly gures. edco Health 1RENTON, N.J.— Cede° Health Solutions s (NYSE: MHS, 60.65) one of the coun- c's largest prescription enefit managers, said its cepa-quarter Plafave.,„k. raped 24 percent- iakecrbased Meoco aid net income for the se ,lacier ended July l_rif 8170.9 million, or SU cats Per share' front cents 1374 million or 48 er share, a year eatite„-a lb oralal revenue climbed ercent to 510.59 -em S9 billion. ' BiE PALM BUD POST a SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 20% 91 Sales boost Toyotas first quarter profit 39% BOIJIBIKAGEYAMA At Aram-rated1h,, — Toyota report- ed a 39 percent jump in profit in its fiscal first quarter, with strong vehicle sales around the world keeping the com- pany on a pace to possibly overtake General Motors as the world's No. 1 automaker. Toyota's reputation for fuel-efficient cars was prov- ing a boon at a time of soaring gas prices, analysts said. Credit Suisse First BOMUll Toyota Motor Corp. Securities m Tokyo. (NYSE: TM, $108.14). the Endo said that in addition world's second biggest auto- to robust sales of Toyota's maker, is among a clutch of smarter models such as the Japanese vehicle companies Corolla, the company's light reporting robust results lately trucks and Lexus luxury in contrast to U.S. automak- models —which tend to pro- ers. duce healthier profit margins "Everything is going well per vehicle — have also been for Toyota, especially in doing well, boosted by the North American sales,- said perception that they're more Koji Endo, auto analyst at fuel efficient than rivals. oyota's profit in April- June totaled 371.5 billion yen ($3.2 billion), up from zbb 9 billion yen the same period the previous year. as a weaker yen also helped earnings, adding 100 billion yen ($871 million) to operating profit. Quarterly sales surged 13 percent to 5.6 trillion yen ($49 billion) from 4.98 trillion yen a year earlier, according to the manufacturer, based in 'Thy- eta dly in central Ian. Toyota will overtake GM ac the world's No. I automaker in a few years if the current pace continues. In July. Toyota for the first time beat Ford Motor Co. in U.S. vehicle market share, outselling Ford to be No. 2 after GM, although Ford's year-to-date sales are still ahead of Toyota's. MYLF/ CCAVACW/Mt MAMA*, Pep AirTran, whiCh currently employs 7,700 people. expects to add about 500 jobs a year through 2010. AirTran spreads wings as employer while rival Delta still struggles By RIJCSFIL GRWRIAM Itrisa Beath fbrWar Nerds &nice ATLANTA — it's almost midnight and Brad Brown, 30, is overseeing a crew of 10 mechanics giving an AirTran Airways Boeing 717 a thor- ough once-over known as an "A check." Two mechanics at the rear of the 124-foot jet replace filters and do other routine engine chores. Another worker opens wing panels. Some are inside the plane, while an inspector points-out a chafed wing area that he wants buffed smooth. In other parts of Ai ffran's flood-lit hangar at Atlanta's airport, mechanics work with quiet intensity on 21 jets that will have to be back in busi- ness before the sun rises. The busy scene repre- sents a new dawn of another sort for Brown and several of his compatriots. They are part of a group of about 75 AixTran employees who used to do similar work for ar- chrival Delta Air Lines Since joining fast-growing AirTran a little over a year ago, three days after he was furloughed front Delta, Brown has been promoted to supervisor. He's also become a dad and started house- shopping — "something I can do when I have job security." he said. Perhaps nothing more aptly symbolizes the two ri- vals' reversed fortunes of re- cent years. In the minds of many. AirTran is now the safe haven airline employer in town. Indeed, it's one of the few economic bright spots lately on the south side of Atlanta. At a news conference in June in the same Atlanta hangar, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue trumpeted the 7,700- employee airline's projected growth of about 500 jobs a year in the state through 2010. Otherwise, the Atlanta airport's neighborhood is bracketed by disappoint- ments. including the an- nounced closings of the Ford assembly plant off the east end of the runways and the Army's Fort McPherson a few miles away. Delta, which filed for Chapter 11 protection last September, has cut almost 30.000 jobs since 2001. The pay gap between Delta and AirTran (NYSE: AM, $12.88) employees has also shrunk and in some cases been reversed — at least for similarly experienced em- ployees — after Delta cut Applied cnwtal DELRAY BEACH Bed D tal (Nasdaq' \PP wsX,81.0) refidded....a- vassibursdaY fac,,cmci net second quarter zuou nkik1100. of 5A cents -hare, cwny'aCer pion or 6 loss of $3.4 ulliont.be he cents a share' ilts •The ond quarter of 'L005. ma kletray. 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Delta told arbitrators weighing pilot pay cuts earli- er this year that its pay scale for many employees was al- ready lower than pay for sim- ilarly experienced employees at AirTran and other carriers. After Delta pilots agreed to a 14 percent pay cut in April — their second since 2004 — AirTran pilots now make about the same money as Delta pilots flying similar- sized jets. According to -Air Inc., a pilot career service based in Atlanta, Delta's pilot pay ranges from about $43.000 a year for new hires to $167,000 for senior captains flying the biggest jets. AirTran's pilots make 535,500 to 8147,(X0 a year. • nessek_grantbemOrt}e.com Sirius, XM get static over leaking signals By CHRISTOPHER STERN and 004 JEFFREY Bkornterg Nebo Todd Murphy is fed up with satellite radio, and he isn't even a customer. During morning com- mutes. Murphy says, his National Public Radio sta- tion begins blaring out foul- mouthed talk show host Howard Stern. "I'm sitting at a traffic light and all of a sudden I'm listening to a different radio station," said Murphy. 40, a real estate developer in Whitehouse Station, N.J. Complaints by Murphy and other drivers are adding to the woes of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., the world's two biggest satellite radio companies. Drivers said the signals sometimes "leak" and over- power those of stations playing in nearby vehicles. The Federal Communi- cations Commission in April said the radios don't comply with its power rules, prompting the companies to pull some of them off the market. XM last month cut its subscriber forecast be- cause of the ruling and said it may not have enough de- vices in stores for the holi- days. "By Christmas time, it could be a huge issue," said David Kestenbaum, an ana- lyst at Morgan Joseph & Co. in New York who has a `hold" rating on KM shares and recommends buying Sirius. "It's a problem for both of them." After surging more than 10-fold in 2002 to 2005 on optimism they might be- come profitable, shares of Washington-based XM, the largest operator, and New York-based Sirius have plunged. XM (Nasdaq: XM- SR. S12.02) is down about 57 percent this year. Sirius (Nasdaq: SIRE, 83.94), has a declined roughly 41 per- cent. XM last week cut its forecast for subscribers to 7.7 million to 8.2 million, below the 8.5 million pre- dicted in early July and the 9 million originally estimated. While Sirius said it will have 6.3 million subscribers by year-end, Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Laraine Mancini cut her target on the stock to $7 from $9. citing the "un- certainty" surrounding the car radios. The signal interference occurs with portable receiv- ers that use a wireless con- nection to beam satellite signals to a dashboard radio. so programs can be heard over car speakers. The signal should be just powerful enough to reach the car's radio inches away. 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Frank McArdle, manager of the Washington office of Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting firm, didn't think the funding rules would contribute to snore ditched plans. "We think in the end companies will figure out a way to work with them." The Congressional Bud- get Office concluded that companies will contribute less to plans over the next few years as the new funding rules are phased in. but will start making higher contri- butions in about five years. The bill, while stabilizing a shaky system, does not en- sure there will be a defined- benefit plan in a worker's re- tirement future. Half the workers in private industry have no pensions, and the legislation "doesn't do any- thing for that," said Karen Friedman. policy director of the Pension Rights Center. A Hewitt Associates sur- vey of 227 employers last year found 29 percent were very or somewhat likely to close par- ticipation in defined-benefit plans during the year. The HARP said workers get shortchanged in a provi- sion that adds legal certainty to cash balance plans, "hybrids" currently in legal limbo because of a lawsuit against IBM filed by employ- ees claiming age discrimina- tion. The bill. said the AARP's David Sloane. "may lead to discriminatory plan designs that stop or reduce benefits for older workers." Experts agree that young workers in particular will be big winners from provisions promoting automatic enroll- ment into 401(k) programs. Research by the Investment Company Institute and the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that 401(k) participation rates among low-income workers would more than double, front 42 percent to 91 percent, under automatic enrollment plans. The bill also encourages savings by making permanent a 2001 law allowing for in- creased contribution limits to individual retirement ac- counts. This would benefit higher-income households. All this will be a boon to Wall Street firms, which will see a rise in investors. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal agency that insures pension plans, has racked up deficits of $22.8 billion. mainly from taking over defunct steel and airline plans. The PBGC now operates on premiums and interest earnings, but the concern is that a rash of ter- minations could result in a massive taxpayer bailout. Most experts discount comparisons to the bailout for the savings and loan industry, noting that MCC liabilities can be stretched out over 30 or 40 years. If the legislation just keeps airline pensions afloat, the PBGC, and the taxpayer, come out winners. MORTGAGE RATES AND TRENDS By Bankrate.come° Palm &webCovell roonPalge ales are down this week. The average 90 n-ar Savona. loan Is down from t61 percent to 649 parent and the 15.year fixedavekan decreased from 629percergto6. l7percent. Theone-yearARM is dorm front 5.90 percent to 5115 percent The boning ban SLIM'S the mortgage market too. bees on begin= mortgages have dropped to their karst Intl ince Atteil this week as loan appkations dried up. Fever people are NIIIIYIng for home loam dun at any tine since May 2052. according to the Mortgage liankersAwaxiation. The awsocblioak snicker eonspoille lacked. raearareal Inn 496cation wane. is down 29 pinkeye from a yew eao. The kencheniric 30year bed-rate mortgage kg a bat Kiont to 665 percent according to the gankeste.eom• national surveyor large knders. A basis point it op-hundredth of I percentage point. The monger,. in shit week's survey had an average toca/ ol0.3dircount and oagInathal Pninto One Ire ago. the morlpge index vs Ski mom Four weeks ago, it was 691 Rite* sod it wasrag permed two weeks sex The 15-year deed-nee mortgage fell 9 WS points to 63 percent The 5/ I adhadablerate mortgage leg I I twig poingsta 08 percent A number of beton cOntribete to the tang alma Indere mope e 18 0011,12/ for 4iees a the ligioldeg28 - Palle a over the we'd buy T'S Treawnes and mortgage-backed warlike Is sale ingetroents duemg war- ume.poshingdwrn theyieklsof those MandralirstruntmataThe bard market mitts net week's Federal Reverse rar-poicy meeting. The government reports that the mammy slowed in the world quarter of the war. Core PCE catches econotoiste eyes Bond isoestotx paid ins attention to another pat of the cur report: a measure olintlation calkd thecae prpooalconsumptionexptaiitures price index If you want to images) an economist Na call it the core ME index It +bowed that prices for items exchding food and energy, were up 2.4 percent from the world puller of 20W. Thais higher than the Fed wants adlation to he. Wings oune.tore IVE rote at an maraud rate of 2.9percent MTh...mend QUatier — a .lit that lallarann was accelerating. Ann tinalgy. think of the ercoorny as scar that's going &MT t 64/411a11 slreldiClifOild in what/wean. checkPalds ems-therm)" 15 man- The Fed the car to take az kat an hour lo travel the 63 miler. 'her-ranges the !checkpoint ar the 4Sminute nark bat clears the lett IS milt. in is 10 MD. t. falhrterfll What Banks and Thrifts Charge Nero am miss Palm Beech and Martin County banks and thrifts were clusging kr 15.year fixed-rate. 30-year fixed-rate and one-year &Smartt-role mortimes(ARMs) onAugat4.2036. In almostallases. rate (abandon a lockin period of 30-60days. On a one-year ARM. the rate a subject to change annually based on index actuations. Broiler shoukt review how the rate is calculated and inquire about addbonalciosascosts, audits an apyeaisel and tills march. Rates are based on a loan smotrit of 5165,000417.000. 01820Porcent drawl payrnent Rates cover single-family, ormer-occuplad homes up Is the Federal Naar:milMortgage Associabon Irma 5417.050. but may vary by banch location. Phone aunts were provided by the lenders. and there may be a Raw mace Palm Beach-Martin Averages 7.00 6.50 1 6.00 5.50 5.00 • -IF for trio 'se. tap ism 8••••••••• The Fed'a braking action list die eiinwinsiii.in Chi- bond inarketisthatasiowingeosomy ‘oll beetle Enistion dive, eventually' as the Eters I7 ecottoxive nay irkerasestakelua erfeet. The Chicago Bead of Disk has piond in a64 percent chance that the Fed won't rah- narson Aug. It There's a 36 percent chance oda quanenpoint increase. Whether rates go up or dam. Kent poke o4 hotreouncrs tune nation to refinance. According to mortgage I nonctne tat Freddie Mara big reason to ea-firmer in the second quarter was to extract oath from the hour's equity. From April through Jun.-. ti t4 percent el Freddie 84-ovrned WIN that sere refinanced resulted in new harm that were al karst 5 Pment higher than the old loan bahnces. :at to Freddie. Thome people weir dung cashotit refinance. Freddie Mar econ, intia Arny tnws Cutts ..sys a to arr using eash-out refinances to payotIthe balance. of thei.rheene equity Li:1Mo( errdit. That, a , n-soll in Lower :methb to nna-ma. because the avenge rate on a credit One is near the prime rate al x acp-rrica Iheawrgnexthly payment one $ I O.( Vu, 23year faed-rate mortgage polling is down S13 to il.(69- raYment • on a S'.16.05). Eager tars:rate metgagr tell S8 to SI.4I 9 The Itanknie orni' National Index is bust id) a '9,,,lenclan kursey or the 50 lamest banks and the 9/ howea 'twirl. in the to largest metropolitan /WA, in the (ninny Ilx-w arc averages 1 o find specific rah-4/46.nd by lender., go to our rate .earch .-nave at 'Alp/brume bankratecom. ONE-trait ADOUSTMLI Se" Pia 58TIL Rad are Pit 345105 lbw NS Pt Its hobo" Is Pit Li" YLSS slat tun • Ba-coPc•Air 6703)74600 607 100 6.44 103 000 000 OW Bet a fleets MOM. S%4335363 613 073 6W 0 le 888 256 002 Zak" L. 208. 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If you are applying for an adjustable-rate mortgage, you should also ask these questions: • Ina worst-case scenario, what would be the maximum payment on this loan? • Can the mortgage rate be convened to a fixed one at some point in time? If so, what would be the cost and rate? • Is the first-year rate discounted? What is the fully indexed rate and monthly payment, based on your index and margin? • Does this adjustable- rate mortgage have negative amortization, that is, could the outstanding balance rise even as I am making regular payments? Key Definitions On•-ysar 5dietst586: Mortgagewhose annual rate may change yearly. rate is usually based on movements of a published index plus a specified margin. chosen by the lender. Ledo h.nder's guarantee that the mortgage rate quoted will be good for a specific number of days from day of application. Wet A floating index lenders use to cak-ulate the rate on a one-year adjustable- •ete mortgage. The most common indexes are (A) the one-year Treasury Constant Maturity Yield and 0 3) the MLR 11th District Cost of Funds, Caps The maximum amount the mortgage rate can change annually or over the life of the loan. For example. if the caps are 2% annual and 6% life of loan, a one-year ARM whose first.yrar rate is 10% could rise to no more than 12% the second year and 16% over the entire loan term. nerds The number of percentage points added to the index on an adjustable mort- gage. Pt A percentage of the loan amount, paid by the borrower. Each point is ono hundredth of the loan amount. Sexed Tat The gum of the published index plus the margin. For example, if the rate for the index were 9% and the margin 2.75%. then the indexed rate would be 11.75%. Often. lenders charge less than the indexed rate the first year of an adjustable-rate mortgage. Big names on board could draw publicity ► APPLE from 88 The deepening prob- lems also expose Apple to legal hassles that extend beyond Jobs, who is widely regarded as key to the com- pany's success. Depending on the na- ture of the possible stock option abuses, class-action lawyers and prosecutors could target Apple's board for alleged misconduct. The directors include several well-known leaders who would attract intense media attention if they are dragged into the stock option mess. Apple's current com- pensation committee con- sists of former Vice Presi- dent AI Gore, who has been on the board since 2003; In- tuit Inc. Chairman Willram Campbell, on the board since 1997; and J. Crew Group Inc. CEO Millard "Mickey" Drexler, on since 1999. Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison, who calls Jobs his best friend, sat on Ap- ple's board for five years before stepping down in September 2002. Friday's backlash against Apple was not as a severe as Wall Street's treatment of several other companies that have re- cently raised doubts about the accuracy of their past fi- nancial statements because insiders mishandled stock option awards. More than 80 other companies nationwide are entangled in the stock op- tion imbroglio. But Apple's ubiquitous brand makes it stand out from the rest of the pack. "Many will be watching this case because . . . Apple may be the closest to a household name." predicted former federal prosecutor Michael Koenig, who is now in private practice in Wash- ington. Investors may be more forgiving with Apple be- cause the i Pod's success has propelled the Cupertino. Calif-based company on a hugely profitable streak that most analysts expect to continue for at least the next few years. Despite Friday's down- turn, Apple's stock re- mained 16 percent above its value before the company's late June disclosure of "ir- regularities in the handling of options given to employ- ees between 1997 and 2001. Two busy storm seasons lifted team membership 0. RESPONSE front 8B farms and nurseries. if they need help with anything. It's across the board." The response team was founded in North Carolina in 1999 after Hurricane Floyd that September caused the loss of more than 3,000 farm animals. In Florida. the group has ex- panded beyond aiding ani- mals and livestock to in- elude all agricultural pro- ducers such as nurseries and vegetable growers. Before Hurricane Char- ley in 2004. the team was a fledgling group in Florida. but it has grown to 432 members after two hard hurricane seasons, Perry said. David Englert, Presi- dent of Country Joe's Nurs- ery Inc. west of lake Worth, said that after the 2004 and 2005 hurricanes, the nurseries biggest prob- lems amounted to trying to repair and replace dam- aged screen houses and fix the pipes needed to water the plants. The response team's value lies in the coordina- tion of relief measures and getting information out, he said. "If I have a reserve gen- erator I don't need, then maybe someone else can use it," Englert said. S Su580816.10uty0pbpOngom Stores, builders cut jobs; hotels, health firms add ► ECONOMY front as ries, department stores and telecommunications firms. Real-estate companies and specialty home-building contractors also shed jobs, reflecting the cooling in the once-hot housing market. Those employment losses tempered overall job growth. Health-care firms. com- puter designers, hotels and motels and food-service companies were among those boosting employment. The overall picture. though, was of a job market losing more momentum than many analysts had an- ticipated. The Fed's Open Market committee meets Tuesday to weigh whether the na- tion's benchmark rate should be increased by a quarter percentage point to 5.5 percent. Some econo- mists believe the central bank will leave interest rates alone, taking its first break after tightening credit for more than two years. Friday's weaker job growth would justify such a breather, offering more evi- dence of slowing economic activity. "This pushy Fed policymakers toward a pause," predicted Bill Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Financial Services. Other Fed-watchers who are wonied about in- flation, however, think poli- cymakers have another interest-rate jump in store. The hiring slowdown comes as companies cope with soaring energy prices and higher interest rates. Oil prices reached a new closing high of $77.03 a barrel in the middle of July, though they have moderat- ed slightly since then. Crude oil futures fell for a second straight session as Tropical Storm Chris. which traders had feared would damage oil rigs and refiner- ies along the Gulf of Mexico, was downgraded to a tropi- cal depression. A barrel of light crude settled at $74/3 on Friday. down 73 cents. As with the Dow, broad- er stock indicators also lost ground Friday The Stan- dard & Poor's 500 index lost 0.91. or 0.06 percent, to 1,279.36. while the tech- focused Nasdaq composite index dropped fell 7.29, or 0.35 percent. to 2,085.05. EFTA01682151 180 THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. 2006 THE ULT IMATE FURN I TUR E STORE or KEVIN CHARLES '699 SOFA Sofa and Loveseat '1369. Match' g Choir '499 and Sleeper '890. WALL UNIT Wall Urt includes Entertainment Armoire and Two Fier Units. Entertainment Armoire '1199. TV Stand and Projection Wall also available. 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C 0 flil Another Outrageous Legal Situation in Florida Wednesday, August 16, 2006 By Bill O'Reilly FOX NEWS This incredible story involves Rush Limbaugh, the prosecutor who made his life miserable, a wealthy Democrat suspected of having sex with a minor, and the Palm Beach police chief who believes the aforementioned prosecutor is protecting the suspect. We'll begin at the beginning. Florida State Attorney Barry Krischer of Palm Beach County aggressively prosecuted Rush Limbaugh for illegally obtaining prescription drugs, at one time even demanding Limbaugh's private medical records. Subsequently a treatment option settled the case. Then Palm Beach authorities embarrassed Limbaugh by publicizing a legal medical prescription he held which was discovered by authorities checking him after a private plane flight. Bausch b Lomb PureVision C- MM Now some people, including me, believe malice was involved in the Limbaugh situation and suspicion falls on Krischer, a committed Democrat. Now the prosecutor is in the middle of a far more serious controversy. Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter has asked Krischer to remove himself from the case of suspected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Chief Reiter believes that Krischer is in the tank for Epstein, a very wealthy businessman who has donated more than $100,000 to Democrat candidates including Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer. Reiter wants to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Police believe Epstein brought girls as young as 14 to his mansion for sex and when they raided his home they found hidden cameras, pictures of underage girls and a girl's high school transcript. But state attorney Krischer rejected chief Reiter's suggestion and brought the case to a grand jury which returned only a prostitute charge against Epstein. Chief Reiter is outraged. Krischer denies any wrongdoing but surely he knows that Epstein has hired a batter of attorneys including Alan Dershowitz to try and discredit the young girls who are accusing him. The dirt is flying in Palm Beach. As for Chief Reiter, he has handed his evidence over to the FBI because he believes Krischer will not prosecute the case honestly. This whole thing reminds us of Florida State Attorney Brad King who would not prosecute the people who aided the killer of Jessica Lunsford, John Couey. Politics does play a role in local prosecutions, no question about it. And when you examine how much time and effort state attorney Krischer put into trying to ruin Rush Limbaugh as opposed to what he's doing now in the far more serious case of Jeffrey Epstein? 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"Nor' Epstein :mut°. bre recor gird and later paid her 51.000 for the visit, the records allege. l'alm Beach cops prepared an arrest warrant request proposing that Epstein be charged with un lawful sexual activity with certain BEACH BABIES: Lawyer Gerald Lelcoun (left) says money man Jeffrey Epstein (right) is not guilty of molest- ing teens at his Palm Beach mansion — charges reported last month in Page Six. SUM Epstein would then watch the women have sex and take photos of their trysts to display at home, records claim. to cow- 'The teen told cops she always refused to have intercourse with Epstein, the report states. But one time, she told cops, Ep- stein allegedly grabbed her and forced himself on her. minors; and lewd and lascivious molestation. 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Jonathan Papelbon got his 31st save in 36 chances, thanks to Lowell. The Orioles scored twice in the ninth, on an error by shortstop Alex Cora and a bases-loaded walk to Brian Roberts, but Lowell backhanded Mel- vin Mora's sharp grounder down the third- base line and threw him out with the bases loaded. David Ortiz, topping the majors in RBIs and tied for the home run lead, sat out his second game of the season to rest before a three-game series against AL Central-leading De- troit and the big set with the Yankees. The Red Sox had lost five straight before facing Baltimore — AP 6-GRAND M MOST GRAND SLAMS IN A SINGLE SEASON Travis Hafner (Indians, '06) 6' Don Mattingly (Yankees, '87) 6 Jim Gentile (Orioles, '61) 5 Ernie Banks (Cubs, '55) 5 Nine players tied 4 '45 games remaining SLAMMIN' TRAVIS: The Indians' Travis Hafner acknowledges the Cleveland crowd atter hitting his sixth grand slam of the season during the first inning of yes- terday's 13.0 win over Kansas City AP Hafner blast ties Mattingly's mark Post wire reports As a youngster, Travis Hairier was a Don Mat- tingly fan. Now, he's matched his grand slam re- cord. Hafner hit his sixth grand slam in Cleveland's 11-run first inning to tie Matting- ly's single-season record and the Indians routed the Royals L3-0 yesterday in Cleveland. "It's pretty cool to tie a major league record: Hafner said. 'Mattingly was one of the best hit- ters in the game. I liked to watch him on TV when I was young: Hairier put Cleveland ahead 11-0 with his 35th homer of the season and tied Mattingly's mark set with the Yan- kee's in 1987. WM. Sex 7, Tigers 3 In Chicago. Freddy Garcia won for the first time in six weeks, Alex Cintron drove in three runs and the White Sox completed a three-game sweep to move within 51/4 games of AL Central leader Detroit. A sellout crowd chanted "Sweep! Sweep!" as it saw a White Sox team that was a season-high 10 games be- AL ROUNDUP hind Detroit on Monday win its fourth straight. The Tigers, still with the best record in the majors, have lost five in a row for the first time this year. Chicago is 9.3 against De- troit this season, with the teams meeting seven more times. Twin 5, Blue Jays In Minneapolis, Brad Radke pitched seven in- nings and Jason Tyner had three hits and two RBIs to lead the Twins.Michael Cuddyer also hit his 17th homer for the Twins, who had lost three straight overall and five consecu- tive games at home. Minnesota had been out- scored 45-3 over its last five home games and man- aged only one run in the first three games against Toronto. A's 3, Bevil Rap 1 In Oakland, Eric Chavez hit his first homer in nearly a month, a two-run shot in the seventh inning that sent Esteban Loaiza and the Athletics to a three-game sweep. Bad run of Cards: St. Louis swept by Pirates Post wire reports Paul Maholm pitched 61/. shutout innings, Jason Bay and Joe Randa hit consecu- tive homers and the last- place Pirates finished off a three-game home sweep of division leader St. Louis, beating the Cardinals 7-0 yesterday. '11w Cardinals, outscored 17-3 in the series, lead Cin- cinnati by It games in the NI. Central following the Reds' victory. Braves 7, Brewers 4 In Atlanta, Brian McCann homered and drove in four nms to help the Braves.Chipper Jones, re- turning from the disabled list, hit a tiebreaking sacri- fice fly in the seventh and Jeff Francocur hit his 22nd homer for Atlanta, which took two of three in the se- ries. Tony Graffanino hit a two-run double in the top of the seventh to help the Brewers rally from a 4-1 deficit to tie it, but his error in the bottom half helped the Braves take the lead with three unearned runs. Padres 7, Litres 2 In Houston, Woody Wil- liams pitched seven strong innings in another success- ful homecoming to lead the Padres.Mike Cameron hit a two-run homer and fin- ished with three hits for the second straight game for San Diego. which won two of three in the week- end series. Williams (5-4), who was born in Houston, scattered eight hits, struck out three and walked none. Reds 7, Rallies 5 (11) In Philadelphia. 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I didn't know what to expect, didn't know if I'd come out and be sore. but everything worked out well I took a step forward in being able to prove my dura- bility." Pennington chose to dress in the trainer's room. away from the press. The unusually-long 45-minute lag before meeting the media prompted some to surmise that he was hiding an injury, or at least getting treatment. But Eric Mangini revealed yesterday that he had been chatting up his QB. dis- WrillnINACOm PHONE SERVICES Pim Leal Ladles Heents Worthy Gib I 450>S28-telt Whim NT alTalicat IST970-SSSS SS On Lain IMO 1.212.71S-SISS BOLD males yaw ad sunder Crer SS ply by adds 1O old to toe ad CA2129 AUCY LOCAL Ott GUYS TRY IT MEI 1 10071.1.7nS 311. 1400.2214000 $1.29 BOLD makes your ad standout. Only $5 pen Me adds bold to your ad Call 212-930-V00 Tonga best MM seems by MEE t we Coe WO Cal: 646-507.Se1 or 00 -3000300 cussing the game. "Chad's fine." Mangini said. "This was my first go- round. 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"Chad went through the same process everybody else did," Mangini said. "Ile had some soreness, but there was nothing different there, just typical soreness' Even though neither Marisa- ni nor Pennington were will- ing to acknowledsr him as the smiler, for the second straight opportunity the veteran worked with the first team unit throwing a nice out- route TI) to Lavennues Coln. dean. lesteOnypos'.non? Need a quality pre-owned car? IMO DOME DURANGO SLY at ac, ABS. ew. ic lit . seek 621I. V8 Mitunii,, 3rd row seat. yrBwInS CADILLAC • HUMMER CHECK OUT THE NEW YORK POST CLASSIFEDS TODAY! EFTA01682158 TRAINING2006CAMPTC2 Running on empty: RBs not being Cud By BRIAN LEWIS Because Curtis Martin qui- etly churned out 1,000-yards seasons without making waves or getting hurt. people tended to take him for grant- ed, overlook his play and underestimate his value. Until now. The injured Martin's absence was underscored by the Jets' putrid running game Friday. a 16-carry. 44-yard effort that didn't engender much faith in Derrick Blay- lock, Icon Washington and Cedric Houston — who got jumped over by Kelvin Pear- son on the arm-wrenching sack of Chad Pennington. "The running game is going to come down to 11 guys blocking the right people and executing." said Eric Mangini. whose team carried three times for three yards behind the backup line in the second half. The second half more than the first, if you can't execute the core assign- ments. than the issuo- When asked about losing Ills Monsanto Pope and Sione Pouha, Mangini tellingly volunteered. "With every position we're looking to improve. We've talked running back defensive line. a lot of areas. We evaluate nightly and see what our opportunities are." lb that end, they inked FB Tamar Martin off waivers from the Saints, but their halfback opportunities are thin, perhaps Chris Brown or Thomas Tones. If Martin can't return from the arthro. scenic surgery that has kept him out for the past eight months. the Jets' offseason strategy will be criticized. After the 33-year-old reportedly advised them to draft a back they handed a $3.2 million signing bonus to the 5-foot-9 Blaylock — who'd run behind three Pro Bowlers in Kansas City — and waited until the fourth- round to draft the 5-8 Wash- ington. It begs the question if they have enough to get the job done. "Sure. We have the keys, we just have to get the little things done. We can be pro- ductive," Blaylock said. "We know it's going to get better. We just need more focus and concentration. (The holes) were there: we missed some of them" The team didn't have a carry longer than six yards, with Houston averaging just 3.4 yards a carry, Blaylock two yards and Washington one. ■ 'Me team put Pouha on the I.R., and waived WR Jovan Witherspoon yesterday. ... Mangini lauded the play of Washington. 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AP By DAN MANGAN For years, a media-dodb, finan- cial adviser who owns Manhattan's largest pad has cultivated his myste- rious image, suggesting he creates big investment profits for billionaire clients without revealing how he does it or whose portfolios he ban, dies. But now, investment whiz Jeffrey Epstein's darkest personal secrets have allegedly been bared in an ex- plosive, seamy prostitution case in- volving underage girls Instead of marveling at his stock- market acumen. Epstein's celebrity friends are now hearing sordid sto- ries about his alleged obsession with getting massages in his Florida mansion from young girls — one al- legedly just 14 years old. The tawdry tale came to light when Epstein. 53. was busted in Florida on July 23 after a grand jury indicted him on a single felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. The grand jury declined to indict the silver-haired money man on charges of sexual contact with mi- nors. But a bitter rift between Palm Beach cups and prosecutors over how to handle the case has put Ep- stein at risk of more serious charges The FBI now is weighing whether to investigate his alleged contacts with underage girls. Gerald Lefcourt, one of Epstein's high-powered lawyers, said his cli- ent is innocent and that his poly- graph test helps prove it. "There was no sexual contact with anyone underage." Lefcoun said. arguing that that has been 'proved beyond a reasonable doubt- by evidence lawyers gave authorities. Epstein owns what reportedly is Manhattan's largest home — a 5L000-square-foot Upper East Side house — plus a sprawling New Mexico ranch and a 100-acre private island in the US. Virgin Islands. He also owns a two-story pink mansion in Palm Beach. which be- came the focus of a nearly yearlong police investigation. 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Marinas may get tax benefit for staying open to public INSIDE LOCAL BUSINESS SERIOUS SEMINOLE Pahokee's Antone Smith is all business at tailback IN SPORTS MOVING TO ISRAEL Why a Boca man is changing his life • Monday, August 14, 2006 The Palm Beach Post final Edition • l'aimdeactiPost.coin Authorities 50 cents ease some air travel rules, tighten others 4,0 -.0 IN ACCENT Keeping the rules straight Allowed X Up to 4 ounces of liquid nonprescription medicine • Low blood sugar treatments including glucose gel for diabetics ■ Solid lipstick II Baby food Not allowed MI Aerosol sprays II Mascara • Baby teethers with gel or liquid inside II Children's toys with gel inside ■ Gel candles By JOHN HEILPRIN ' TIT • Alsocieurd hos II Official says U.K. tenor threat still high. 5A WASHINGTON — The Transportation • Executive filers adjust plans. Business, IF Security Administration issued modified rules for air travelers Sunday, allowing sives• which the agency's security equip- small amounts of liquid nonprescription went cannot detect in carry-on luggage. medicine to be carrkll onto planes and re- shoes during security checks. quiring that all passengers remove their prescription medicine. Now it will allow up Initially. the TSA allowed only liquid Those were to 4 ounces of liquid nonprescription midi- ordered Sunday in among several measures vine. response to the thwarts terror plot in Britain involving U.S: would In other measures the agency said it airplanes Authorities said the alleged con- sugar treatments, including glucose gel for sptrators had fliers planned to use liquid explo- diabetics; solid lipstick: and baby food. The man who had everythm Epstein's Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Ballo Way. Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends and, investigators say, underage girls By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer LNGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. Inside, hidden cameras trolled Iwo rooms, while the girls came and went. For the police detectives who sifted through the gar- bage outside and kept records of visitors, it was the lair of a troubling target. Epstein, one of the most mysterious of the country's mega-rich. was known as much for his secrecy as for his love of line things: mag- nificent homes. private jets, beautiful women, friendships with the world's elite. But at Palm Beach police headquarters. he was be- coming known for something else: the regular arrival of teenage girls he hired to give him massages and, police say, perform sexual favors. Epstein was different from most sexual abuse sus- pects; he was tar more pow- erful. lie counted among his friends former President Bill Clinton. Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, along with some of the most prominent legal, scientific and business minds in the country. When detectives started Sc, FPSTFIN, 64 iv Epstein's mysterious lifestyle began to unravel after claims of sexual activity with minors. ■ Epsteln's lawyers take on Palm Beach police chief. Local, 1B State suspends Boynton doctor, says he violated previous order By STACEY SINGER him Reach Ayr Slot Weiser Mondays are supposed to be scalpel days for Boynton Beach plastic surgeon Mark D. Schreiber. But not today. The Florida Department of Health issued an emergency suspension order against the doctor late Friday. saying it believed that the last time the state suspended Schreiber's license. he continued to oper- ate, performing liposuction and lip enhancement in Schreiber 200.5 during a month he was forbidden to practice. Awaits action On hearing of the suspension order. Schreiber's on death and a admiral case. See SUSPENSION. 9A * saE I III 26011 Weather. Storms. High 90. low 77. FORECAST OH seACS PAGE or moms DEµ ARV zo BusiNiss cuss/n(0 EE COVES IC CROSSWORD 60 CROSSWORD of DEATHS Ettift0InkS IM FOR HOME DEUYERY CALL 56141204463 HORasCOPE Wings PEOPLE POLTIKS SCORES MAIMS Tv 11.571NGS %READIER a tie ue 40 so tic On Saturday, the TSA added mascara to the list of banned items, which includes baby teethers with gel or liquid inside. children's toys with gel inside, and gel candles. "I don't see us moving to a total ban on hand baggage at this point." Homeland Se- curity Secretary Michael Chertoff said Sunday on ABC's This Week Chertoff said the government was put- ting "less emphasis on the nail clippers and the nail scissors" and more on training ad- See RULES. SA ► 410 S flICK XXI% to "•• AveOXid This unauthenticated photo shows Fidel Castro holding a Saturday issue of Granma headlined 'Absolved by history.' Castro cautions Cuba `to be ready' His recovery could be long and risky, the president wants in his birthday greeting By UM SNOw 77.9 Associated Pray HAVANA — President Fidel Castro sent Cubans a sober greeting on his 80th birthday Sunday. say- ing he faces a long recovery from surgery and warning that they should prepare for "adverse news." But he encouraged them to be optimistic, say- ing Cuba "will continue marching on perfectly well." As a newspaper published the first pictures of Castro since his illness, his younger brother Raul — making his first public appearance as Cuba's act- ing president — greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his arrival to celebrate Fidel's birthday. Fidel Castro, who underwent surgery for an un- specified intestinal ailment that forced him to step aside as president two weeks ago, said in a state- ment that his health had improved, but stressed that he still faced risks. —To affirm that the recovery period will take a short time and that there is no risk would be abso- lutely incorrect." read the statement in the Commu- nist Youth newspaper. luventud &beide. "I ask you all to be optimistic, and at the same time to be ready to face any adverse news." The Communist Party newspaper, Gramma, had offered a rosier picture of Castro's condition Satur- day. saying he was walking, talking and even work- ing a bit. It compared him to a resistant tropical See CASTRO. SA ► Hostilities escalate ahead of cease-fire Lebanon's Cabinet seems torn over Hezbollah disarmament. By HENRY CHU and BORIOU DARAGAHI Los Aviles news BEIRUT — By air and on land. Is- raeli forces and Hezbollah fighters battled fiercely to maximize their positions Sunday in a last-minute surge of bloodletting before an offi- cial cease-fire was to go into effect this morning. The violence came amid signs of potentially serious snags in the Leb- MARUNS 6 D'SACKS anese government's implementation of the U.N.-brokered truce. On Sun- day, after sharp debate, the Israeli Cabinet formally approved the Unit- ed Nations resolution calling for a cease-fire. Throughout the day and into the night, Israeli warplanes and gun- boats hammered southern Lebanon, leveling buildings and bombing oth- er infrastructure around the coastal • Tradition and beauty A slide show features an ancestral celebration at the Morikami Museum. PalmEteachPost.com Attorney general race pits party opposites A novice faces a 10-year Democratic state senator in the primary. Story, 10A city of Tyre. In south Beirut. just outside Hezbollah-controlled suburbs, 20 explosions were heard in the space of three minutes. The blasts destroyed a ■ Israeli complex of shops, novelist's son apartments and offic- killed In es less than an hour battle. I2A after the Israeli Cabi- net voted to accept the ceasefire. At least 18 people were reported killed in the various strikes. Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed See MIDEAST. 12A * Faster test results to help jail's HIV fight Inmates will get a diagnosis in a half-hour instead of three weeks. Local, 18 • • EFTA01682163 4A THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14. 2006 Mayhem mounts despite added troops Five bombings kill 57 civilians in a Shiite area of Baghdad. As New ler* Times itAGIMAD — As U.S. forces conducted a new se- curity sweep in western Baghdad on Sunday, five ap- parently coordinated bomb.- logs in a predominantly Shi- ite neighborhood on the city's south side killed at least 57 people and wounded 148, an Iraqi government official said. The death toll could rise, the official said, as emergen- cy workers searched for vic- tims in the rubble of an apartment building that col- lapsed as a result of the bombings. The attacks, which killed civilians in a largely residen- tial neighborhood, were the deadliest in Baghdad since the C.S. military dispatched new forces to the capital more than a week ago to quell a surge in killings and kidnappings by sectarian mi- litias and criminal gangs. Also Sunday, U.S. and Iraqi soldiers searching for people who had been kid- napped raided Iraq's Health Ministry early in the morning and arrested five body- guards, military and govern- ment officials said. Southwest of the capital. security forces arrested 16 men who were suspected of planning to kidnap or kill members of Prime Minister Noun Karnal al-Malikis fam- ily, according to a state ent from the prune minister's of- fice. The five bombings in the lafaraniya district of south- ern Baghdad occurred in two waves about an hour apart.on Sunday evening, an Interior Ministry official said. At 7:30 p.m., the first of three successive blasts rocked an apartment build- ing, said the official, who spoke on condition of ano- nymity. Shortly thereafter, in a market about 60 yards away, a car bomb detonated, killing people involved in rescuing victims of the first blast, the official said. The third explosion. minutes lat- er. occurred on a road near the building as a police patrol sped toward the scene, the official said. Then, at 8:30 p.m., about 300 yards from the scene of the first three explosions. a bomb rigged to a motorcycle blew up up after neighbors con- frontedits driver, who was trying to park on the street. the Interior Ministry official said. TWO minutes later, the official added, a fifth bomb exploded near the wreckage left by the motorcycle bomb. killing bystanders. The new U.S. led security operation here is intended "to reduce the level of mur- ders. kidnappings. assassi- nations, terrorism and sec- tarian violence in northwest Baghdad and to reinforce the Iraqi government's. control in Iraq's capital city,' according to a statement released by the U.S. military on Sunday evening. The raid on the Health Ministry, which began about 2:30 am. after a tip front a local resident, did not turn up any kidnapping victims. It did draw a vehement reac- tion from the health minister, Ali fal-Shimari, a Shiite who is closely aligned with Muqta- da al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, and the powerful Shi- ite militia he commands, the maw sow. mr Security guards protest on Sunday the arrest of colleagues at Iraq's Health Ministry by U.S. and Iraqi troops koking for kidnapping victims. U.S. deaths in Iraq Total since March 2003 2.600 In combat 2.057 Other causes 543 sNuoncdaaysualtles Identified Wounded in Iraq Total since March 2003 19,387 Returned to duty 10,547 Not returned to defy 8,840 Note:The Pentagon updates the number of wounded each Tuesday knot fl at...naiad Drina Mandi Army. 'They broke into all the floors, especially the ninth floor, stole some money, which was the salaries of the security workers, and they kidnapped five of our staff, Bush gone; protests near ranch to continue At 'koala:al has CRAWFORD. Texas — Anti-war demonstra- tors said Sunday they hope the end of Presi- dent Bush's ranch vacation doesn't hurt at- tendance at their protest during the rest of the sununer. They urged opponents of the war in Iraq to come to the 5-acre campsite purchased last month by Cindy Sheehan. who resumed her protest a week ago. Sheehan's first trek to Crawford, one year ago during Bush's monthlong vacation, turned into a 26-day vigil that drew more than 10.000 people and spurred counterprotests by Bush supporters. On Sunday, only about 100 protesters were camped on their land near downtown, about 7 miles from the ranch. Bush arrived at his ranch Aug. 3 and re- turned to Washington on Sunday. Sheehan, 49. returned to the camp for an interfaith service Sunday after being hospi- talized for two nights. "Even though George Bush isn't here, it's important still to get together and not just show him but show the world that there are Americans who want the violence in the Middle East to stop." she said. shimari, visibly annoyed, said at his office Sunday af- ternoon. - This is a provoca- tion: he went on. -No day passes by without raids by the Americans against our health institutions." A statement from the evening received milsaiditary oaatolint113 Sunday forces people from a large medical complex in central Baghdad and taken tradqni aMpedlytux kidnapped uniforms had them to the Health Ministry. U.S. military officials did not respond to questions about whether soldiers took :44 any money from Shimari's as. tI Sunday that 15 men wearing fwas ot office, partto bstauot of the saneyiwtagthihjedsa,raid de.s. security situation. Ex-hostage reporter tells of plea for quick death 'I don't want the knife,' she recalls telling her Iraqi abductors. 7Lie fizsociatfd P.m BOSTON — At one of the most desperate moments of her captivity in Iraq. fearing she was about to be behead- ed, reporter Jill Carroll plead- ed with one of her captors for a quick death by pistol, say- ing: "1 don't want the knife. in her first public account of her 82-day hostage ordeal, Carroll said she had feared the worst when her captors said they planned to use her in a second propaganda video. The kidnappers. however, seemed confused when she made her request and said they didn't plan to kill her. Carroll describes the ter- ror she felt, even at times her captors were civil to her, in the first segment of an 11-part series. It was published Sun- day on the 1A'eb site of .The Christian Science Monitor, where she is a staff writer. Carroll said that, within hours of her abduction at gunpoint in Baghdad, she was taken to two homes, dressed in new fed a chicken and rice clothes, fed invited to watch television with the family of one of her captors. -111ey all seemed con- cerned that I think they were good, or at least tehnat they car were treating me w roll wrote. "It sounds hospitable. But in my mind every second was a test — the choice of food. TV program, was kidnapped answer." — and they would kill me. if I The 28-year-old journalist kithdenawrppoeang jans.w7eanr.d herc Iraqi interpreter, Alan En- wiva, was shot dead. She was released near a Sunni Arab office in Bagh- political party doand Ap82rilday2. last s later and turned re- week, to, e tehe. United States the Pentagon announced that U.S. troops had arrested four Iraqi men in connection to her kidmoping. The Web site also con- tains video clips of Carroll describing her abduction, detention and survival. It's the first time Carroll, who was a freelance writer when she was abducted, has told her story. 1pen eonatmhyqucaef tors ” ..s. pthl e first few minutes after my atbde du cmt i tions in Arabic," she wrote. i played dumb, fearful that they would think I understood too much and kill me." Sho attracted a huge amount of sympathy during her ordeal, and a wide variety of groups in the Middle East, inc tiding the Islamic militant group Hamas, appealed for her release. Carroll 128 LBS GONE IN 20 WKS We did it together! 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The photos were credited toEstudios Revolution. a division of Castro's personal* support group that collects historic documents and images. Although some anti- Castro groups in the United States claimed the !photos were fake. many Cubans cel- ebrated the images "What happiness I received!" Margot Gomez said after seeing the newspa- per during a morning walk in Havana. "Long live Fidel. and long live the revolution. He knows what to do to convert setbacks into victories." Dozens of children in the Old Havana neighborhood celebrated Castro's birthday with games and a cake that read: "Always With You Fidel." The boys and girls shouted, 'long live Fidel!" after singing Happy Birthday for the Cuban leader. Raul Castro, the defense minister who is serving as provisional president during AJAR 41:0040.1N FIsacata, Prom Children in the Belen neighborhood of Havana surround a cake Sunday while singing Happy Birthday to President Fidel Castro. Many Cubans celebrated a newspaper's publication of four images of the ailing leader. his brother's recovery, saluted and hugged Chavez when he arrived al midday for a meeting with the elder Castro, his friend and ally in opposing U.S. policies and influence. The state television broadcast was the first tine the younger Castro had been seen publicly since becoming interim president. Neither man commented during the broadcast, but Chavez told reporters Satur- day that he was going to "take him a nice gift, a good cake, and we'll be celebrating the 80 years of this great figure of America and our history." Just outside the capital, the government's minister for the sugar industry, Gen. Ulises Rosales del Toro, reit- erated his support for the Castro brothers. "After Fidel. Raul is the man who is in the best condi- tion to direct the destinies of this nation, either at Fidels side or when he is no longer here," he said. The sugar minister was directing a crew of Foreign Ministry officials as they worked in the fields to show their support for Castro on his birthday. In his statement. Fidel Castro said: "I feel very haft py. For all those who care about my health. I promise to fight for it," His stability has "considerably improved," he said, To the people of Cuba infinite gratitude for your loving support. The country is C1,8A &wooed A televised image shows Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (I greeting provisional Cuban President Raul Castro on Sunda) in Have marching on and will con- tinue marching on perfectly well." Castro made no vows to return to office. Julia Sweig, an expert on Cuba at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan organization, predicted he would not. But rather than make an abrupt departure from power. she said, he has begun a drawn- out campaign aimed at keep- ing the country stable while his aides work out the details of a transition. 1 think they are signaling to domestic and international publics that the duration of Fidels absence may be much longer than the provisional nature he initially stated," she said. '11e transfer is under way." Russian President Eye on Cuba M Photos from Castro's reign. • Audio slide show on Miami' Little Havana. • Timeline of Casho's Cuba. • Submit your comments. PalliaseehPost.com Vladimir Putin joined the sending birthday greetings the Cuban leader and wish hp a speedy recovery. T Kremlin said Putin al promised that Russia a Cuba would continue to "active partners." Putin's government h sought to revive relatio with the island. which h weakened after the collar of the Soviet Union. The New Yoe* Times a tnbuted to this story. U.K. investigating other terror plots More suspects may be at large, Britain's security head implies. The New York Ti..., LONI/ON — Britain's highest-ranking law enforcement official said Sunday that the threat of a terrorist attack here remains "very substantial," disclosing that about two dozen major terrorist coo- spiracles were under inves- tigation. "There are still people out there who would carry out such attacks," Home Secretary John Reid said. "The threat of a terrorist attack in the U.K. is still very substantial." Reid made his state- ments as Britain lowered its security threat level to severe, from critical, where it had been set Thursday after British authorities announced they had dis- rupted a plot to use liquid explosives to bomb up to 10 US-bound passengerjets. Four days later. Britain's airports were still in pande- monium because of height- ened security measures. fn early-morning raids last week, police rounded up 24 suspects and later freed one of them. leaving 23 in custody under coun- terterrorism laws permit- ting 28-day detentions with- out charge. Of those. 22 were being questioned Sunday while the status of the 23rd awaited a court ruling today. In a BBC interview, Reid did not give details of any of the other conspiracies but echoed earlier police assessments that British authorities had foiled four other plots since the July 7 London bombings last year. The figure of 24 con- tinuing investigations into other plots — far higher than had been made known — seemed bound to alarm many people whose lives already had been reshaped by new security regimes and what Prime Minister Tony Blair has called an "elemental" battle with rad- ical Islam. Apparently seeking to bolster official denials of a link between terrorism and Britain's alliance with the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reid said it was now known that Al-Qaeda first tried to attack a British tar- get in 2000. "So this has been a long-going threat, but it is a chronic one and it is a severe. one," he said. "We now think in retrospect that the first Al-Qaeda plot ... against this country pre- ceded by quite a while our intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan and actually preceded 9/11." The remark seemed to be an indirect confirmation, for the first time, that the government saw the hand of AI-Qaeda in the latest con- spiracy. echoing stronger assertions by Pakistani offf cials. Reid did not give details about the purported con- spiracy in 2000 beyond say- ing it was uncovered in Bir- mingham. Britain's second-largest city, which figured in the latest wave of arrests. One man seized there, Tayib Rauf, was said to be the brother of Rashid Rauf. a man captured by police in Pakistan whose arreM reportedly set off last week's roundup of suspects. Asked about a report in The Observer newspaper that police were hunting "two dozen" terror cells in Brit- ain, Reid said: "I'm not going to confirm an exact number, but I wouldn't deny that that would indicate the number of major conspira- cies that we are trying to look at. There would be more which are not at the center of our consider- ations. and there may be more that we don't know about at all." He also appeared to suggest that some conspir- ators associated wi last week's alleged plot th to use liquid explosives in waves of attacks may be at large. "W. e believe it was a major, major plot," he said. Chertoff, agency draw praise for quick response At New loth Rasa WASHINGION - Right after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast. last year, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff flew to Atlanta for a conference on bird flu, then spent months parrying cliff- emu that his department had flunked the first big test of its existence. Last week, the depart- ment confronted a second major test, the arrests in Britain of 24 men alleged to have been plotting to blow up airl ines bound for the Uni ted States In this case, the ini- tial reviewsof Chertoff's performance, and of his department's ability to respond quickly to Impose new security mea- sures. have been largely pos- itive Although questions remain about Homeland Security's unwieldy bureau- cracy and its ability to anticipate threats rather than just react to them, it is notable that Chertoff is being praised by some people who bitterly chastised him in the past. "Until this threat, the department had fallen short of the promise that its cre- ation held." Sen. Susan Col- lins, R-Maine. chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Com- mittee, said Sunday. 'his time we saw a crisp, confident and competent response and Secretary Chertoff was clearly front and center." Rep. Bennie Thompson, U-Miss., minority leader on the House Committee on Homeland Security, said: "He did a credible job. He did not create hysteria among the traveling public, he provided a clear message to the trav- eling public and that is posi- tive." Chertoff and his agencies — which include the Trans- ponation Security Adminis- tration, air marshals, Cus- Chariot toms and Border Protection and others who have been involved in the response to the British plot —did not play a role in apprehending the suspected terrorists. But since Chertoff learned that a plot to bomb planes headed to the U.S. might unfold before the end of August, his agency has been .at the center of the nation seffon to prevent such an attack. The work started in secret, at Homeland Security headquarters, where Chert- off and his top aides met to devise two basic plans: What to do if the plot were suc- cessful and planes started to blow up, and what to do if arrests took place before such a catastrophe unfolded. The first plan involved a protocol for shutting down national airspace, similar to what happened after the 2001 attacks, The second plan included imposing the no- liquids rule at airports and deploying more federal air marshals on planes headed to the US For Chertoff. there was never any question that he would need to be at the center of either effort. But he acknowledged that the Kat- rina experience made this even more critical. 'There were obvious frustrations in Katrina that I relied on others to do some- thing and that turned out that that reliance was misplaced," he said Sunday. "So I guess to some extent, I have incorpo- rated some of that lesson into what I do going forward." Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.. who has been a critic of Chertoff, said that Homeland Security's ability to rapidly institute such a drastic change in checkpoint proce- dures reflected a department that appears to have matured. "We will have to wait and see, but my impression right now is, with the team in place, the progress will now be geometric." said King, chair- man of the House Committee on Homeland Security. All passengers will be required to remove shoes 0. ROLES from IA ditional screeners **specifically to look for ...en gyp( detonation equipment.' The TSA said it wanted to remove any ambiguity from its procedures, particularly over the handling of shoes. Until now, the agency has strongly suggested removing shoes before boarding but hasn't required it. Now, all shoes will have to be Placed on an X-ray belt for screen- - Tightened security End out about fight debts and what is expected of Postal you fly; see photo galleries on Japans amadavide and how they're elected. pa dmIlleackPost coin ing. Fliers can continue to wear shoes containing gel heels, but they must remove any type of gel sole insert and put those into checked bag- gage. Airport travelers also should expect to see more police-trained sniffing dogs. random gate inspections and bag searches. But the TSA is limited by law to 45,000 screeners at the 450 com- mercial airports. Agency chief Kip Hawley said the changes were based on feedback from security officers and the public. "We are maintaining the same level of security while clarifying interpretations in the field." he said. "These tweaks are aimed at making a smoother process at the checkpoint." 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FL 33394 I NO FEE IF NO RECOVERY' , • ALL CONSULTATIONS ARE FREE. I. Tn. horn,: EFTA01682165 4.4 ME PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14. 2006 Jeffrey Epstein has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid, the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. Powerful legal team stymies detectives P. EPSTEIN from m asking questions and teenage girls started talking, a wave of legal resistance followed. If Palm Beach police didn't know quite who Jeffrey Epstein was, they found out soon enough. Epstein. now 53, was a quintes- sential man of mystery. He amassed his fortune and friends quietly, always in the background as he navigated New York high society. When he first attracted notice in the early 1990s. it was on account of the woman he was dating. Gh istaine Maxwell. daughter of the late British media tycoon Robert Maxwell. In a lengthy article, headlined "The Mystery of Ghislaine Max- wells Secret Love," the British Mail an Sunday tabloid laid out specula- tive stories that the socialite s beau was a CIA spook. a math teacher, a concert pianist or a corporate head- hunter. 'But what is the truth about him?' the newspaper wondered. "like Maxwell. Epstein is both flamboyant and intensely private." The media frenzy did not begin in full until a decade later. In Sep- tember 2002, Epstein was flung into the limelight when he flew Clinton and actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private jet. Suddenly everyone wanted to know who Epstein was. New York magazine and Vanity Fair published lengthy profiles. The New York Post listed him as one of the city's most eligible bachelors and began describing him in its gossip columns with adjectives such as -mysterious" and "reclusive." Although Epstein gave no inter- views, the broad strokes of his past started to come into focus. Building a life of extravagance I le was born blue-collar in 1953. the son of a New York City parks department employee, and raised in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighbor- hood. He left college without a bachelor's degree but became a math teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. The story goes that the father of one of Epstein's students was so impressed with the man that he put him in touch with a senior partner at Bear Stearns, the global investment bank and securities firm. in 1976. Epstein left Dalton for a job at Bear Stearns. By the early 1980s. he had started J. Epstein and Co. That is when he began making his millions in earnest. little is known or said about Epstein's business except this: He manages money for the extremely wealthy. He is said to handle accounts only of $1 billion or great- er. It has been estimated he has roughly 15 clients. but their identi- ties are the subject of only specula- tion. AB except fur one: Leslie Wex- ner. founder of The limited retail chain and a former Palm Reacher who is said to have been a mentor to Epstein. Wexner sold Epstein one of his most lavish residences a massive townhouse that dominates a block on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It is reported to have, among its finer features, closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt away fallen snow. That townhouse. thought tote the largest private residence in Manhattan, is only a piece of the extravagant world Epstein built over time. In New Mexico. he constructed a 27.000-square-foot hilltop mansion on a 10.000-acre ranch outside Santa Fe. M any believed it to be the largest home in the state. In Palm Beach, he bought a waterfront home on El Brillo Way. And he owns a 100-acre private island in the Virgin Islands. Perhaps as remarkable as his lavish homes is his extensive net- work of friends and associates at the highest echelons of power. This includes not only socialites but also business tycoons, media moguls, politicians, royalty and Nobel Prize- winning scientists whose research he often funds. "Just like other people collect art, he collects scientists; said Martin Nowak, who directs the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University and was reportedly the recipient of a $30 million research donation from Epstein. Epstein is said to have befriended former Harvard Presi- dent tarry Sununers. prominent law Professor Man Dershowitz, Donald Immo and New York Daily Areas Publisher Mon Zuekemian. And yet he managed for decades to maintain a low profile. lie avoids rating out and was rarely photo- graphed. A life of luxury and secrecy INA liMINERWTht Aso0•04 Pe% Jeffrey Epstein's Meehan townhouse dominates a block on the Upper East Side. Thought to be the largest edam residence in Manhattan, It is repotted to have closed-circuit televisJon and a heated sidewalk to melt fallen snow. Women in his life Ghislaine Maxwell, a future at elite parties and the intensely private daughter of a media tycoon, dated Epstein in the 199Os. 'I'm like 'd• Reiss; told police she took at least six girls to visit Epstein. all between the ages of 14 and 16. PalmBeachPost.com Read previous stones on the Epstein inuestigabon. -The odd thing is I never met him," said Dominick Dunne, the famous chronicler of the trials and tribulations of the very rich. "I wasn't even aware of him," except for a Vanity Fair article. Epstein's friendship with Clinton has attracted the most attention. Epstein met Clinton as early as 1995. when he paid tens of thou- sands of dollars to join him at an intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach. But from all appearances. they did not become close friends until after Clinton left the Oval Office and moved to New York. Epstein has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid, the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson ;mil the Senate bids of Joe Lieberman. Hillary Northam Clinton, Christopher Dodd mid Charles Schumer. Powerful friends and enemies A Vanity Fair profile found cracks in the veneer of Epstein's life story. The 2003 article said he left Bear Stearns in the wake of a federal probe and a possible Securities and Exchange Commission violation. It also pointed out that Citibank once sued him for defaulting on a $20 million loan. The article suggested that one of his business mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after "bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American hisio- As he amassed his wealth. Epstein made enemies in disputes both large and small. He sued the man who in 1990 sold him his multimillion-dollar Palm Beach I home over a dispute about less than $16,000 in furnishings. A former friend claimed Epstein backed out of a promise to reim- burse him hundreds of thousands of dollars after their failed investment in Texas oil wells, A judge decided Epstein owed him nothing. -It's a bad memory. I would rather not have ever met Jeffrey Epstein; said Michael Stroll, the retired former president of Williams Electronics and Sega Corp. -Suffice it to say I have nothing good to say about him." Among the characteristics most attributed to Epstein is a penchant for women. lie has been linked to Maxwell, a future on the high-society party circuits in born New York and Lon- don. Previous girlfriends are said to include a former Ms. Sweden and a Romanian model. "He's a lot of fun to be with," Donald Trump told New York maga- zine in 2002. "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life." Investigation leads to Epstein Although he was not a fre- quenter of the Palm Beach social scene, he made his presence felt. Among his charitable donations, he gave $90.000 to the Palm Beach Police Department and $100,000 to Ballet Florida. In Palm Beach. he lived in luxu- ry. Three black Mercedes sat in his garage, alongside a green Harley- Davidson. His jet waited at a hangar at Palm Beach International Airport. At home, a private chef and a small staff stood at the ready. From a window in his mansion. he could look out on the Intracoastal Water- way and the West Palm Reach sky- inv. He seemed to be a man who had everything. But extraordinary wealth can fuel extraordinary desires. In March 2005. a worried mother contacted Palm Beach police. She said another parent had overheard a conversation between their chil- dren. Now the mother was afraid her 14-year-old daughter had been molested by a man on the island. The phone call triggered an extensive investigation, one that would lead detectives to Epstein but leave them frustrated. Palm Beach police and the state attorney's office have declined to discuss the case. But a Palm Beach police report detailing the criminal probe offers a window into what detectives faced as the% sought to close in on Epstein. Detectives interviewed the girt, who told them a friend had invited her to a rich man's house to perform a massage. She said the friend told her to say she was 18 if asked. At the house, she said she was paid 8300 after stripping to her panties and massaging the man while he tnas- turbai ed. Police interview 5 alleged victims The investigation began in full after the girt identified Epstein in a photo as the man who had paid her. Police arranged for garbage trucks to set aside Epstein's trash so police could sift through it. They set up a video camera to record the comings and goings at his home. They mon- itored an airport hangar for signs of his private jet's arrivals and depar- tures. They quickly learned that the woman who took the 14- t to Epstein's house was Mg a n a swornstatement a ice ead- qua terse the admitted she had taken at least six girls to visit Epstein. all between the ages of It and 16. Epstein paid her for each visit, she said. During the drive back to her houseM i s tosld detectives. "I'm like a Police interviewed five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. Their report shows some of the girls said they had been instructed to have sex with another woman in front of Epstein, and one said she had direct intercourse with him. In October. police searched the Palm Beach mansion. They discov- ered photos of naked. young-looking females, just as several of the girls had described in interviews. Hidden cameras were found in the garage area and inside a clock on Epstein's desk. alongside a girl's high school transcript. Two of Epstein's former employees told investigators that young-looking girls showed up to perform massages two or three times a day when Epstein was in town. They said the girls were permit- ted many indulgences. A the cooked for them. Workers gave them rides and handed out hun- dreds of dollars at a time. One employee told detectives h e was told to send a dozen roses to one teenage girl after a high school drama performance. Others were given rental cars. One, according to police, received a $200 Christmas bonus. The cops moved to cement their case. But as they tried to tighten the noose, they encountered other forces at work. In Orlando they interviewed a itossible victim who told them noth- ing inappropriate had happened between her and Epstein. They asked her whether she had spoken to anyone else. She said yes, a pri- vate investigator had asked her the sane they questions. ey When subpoenaed one of Epstein's former employees, he told them the same thing. He and a pri- vate eye had met at a restaurant days earlier to go over what the man would tell investigators. Detectives received complaints that private eyes were posing as police officers. When they told Epstein's local attorney, Guy Frons tin, he said he investigators worked for Roy Black, the high-powered Miami lawyer who has defended the likes of Rush limbaugh and William Kennedy Smith. While the private eyes were conducting a parallel investigation, Dershowita. the Harvard law pro- fessor. traveled to West Palm Beach with information about the girls_ From their ow files on the pop- ular Web site l pro ySpace.coM, he obtainedheciroupes sei ooffaktheoihrodlianscuds.msioari.ns He took his research to a meet- ing with prosecutors in early 20015. where he sought to cast doubt on the teens' reliability. The Private eyes had _pug up • anive. enough dirt on the girls to make prosecutors skeptical. Not only did some of the girls have issues with drugs or alcohol but also some had criminal records and other troubles. Epstein's legal team claimed. And at least one of them. they said, lied when she told police she was younger than 18 when she started performing massages for Epstein. After the petting, prosecutors postponed their decision to take the case to a grand jury. In the following weeks, police received complaints that two of the victims or their families had been harassed or threatened. Epstein's legal team maintains that its private investigators did nothing illegal or unethical during their research. By then, relations between police and prosecutors were fraying. At a key meeting with prom. defense, Detectiv the lead investigator, was a according to Epstein's attorney. -The embarrassment on the prosecutor's face was evident when the police officer never showed up for the meeting," attorney Jack Goldberger said. Later in April, into a prosecutor' s office a t re walked attorney's office and learned the case was taking an unexpected turn. SWFrto°154.1.the state attorney's office had offered Epstein a plea deal that would not require him to serve jail time or receive a felon • conviction. io n old her he disapproved oft e p ea offer. The deal never came to pass, however. Future unclear after charge On May 1, the department asked prosecutors to approve warrants to arrest Epstein on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and to charge his personal assistant, now 27, for her alleged IIIIIIIIIIIBing the visits. P ' officials also wanted to charge e self-described Heidi F cps, ii tilii lewd and lascivious acts. By then, the department was frustrated with the way the state attorney's office had handled the case. On the same day the warrants were requested, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter wrote i letter to State Attorney Barry Krischer suggesting he disqualify himself from the case if he would not act. Two weeks later, Recarey was told that prosecutors had decided once again to lake the case to the grand jury. It is not known how many of the girls testified before the grand jun. Rut Epstein's defense team said one girl who was subpoenaed — the one who said she had sexual intercourse with Epstein — never showed up. The grand jury's indictment was handed down in July. It was not the one the police deparunent had wanted. Instead of being slapped with a charge of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, Epstein was charged with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail early July 23 and released hours later. Epstein's legal team 'doesn't dispute that lie had girls over for massages," Goldberger said. But he said their claims that they had sex- ual encounters with him lack credi- bility. "They arc incapable of being believed' he said, They had crimi- nal records, They had accusations of theft made against them by their employers. There was evidence of drug use by some of them." What remains for Epstein is yet to be seen. The Palm Beach Police Depart- ment has asked the FBI to investi- gate the case. It also has returned the $90.000 Epstein donated in 2004. In New York, candidates for governor and state attorney general have vowed to return a total of at least 560.000 in campaign contribu- tions from Epstein. Meanwhile. Epstein's newt-sill friends have remained silent as tabloids and Internet blogs feast on the public details of the police investigation. Goldberger maintains Epstein's innocence but says the legal team has not ruled out a future plea deal. He insists Epstein will emerge in the end with his reputation untarnished. He will recover from this," he said. Ste wrier Lary Keller and staff ettSrardietl Ended w Buker, Angtika *near. im Aintnybrill taema d to 'and M elanie mans, is story EFTA01682166 ORCHARD Rhode bland holiday debated The Associated/4ms PROVIDENCE. RI. — Church bells rang. Whistles at fire stations and mill factories sounded. People poured into the streets, waving flags and honking car horns. It was Aug. 14, 1945: the day Americans learned that Japan had surrendered, ending the costliest conflict in human history. "It was pandemonium with happiness," remembered John Lucas, a World War H veteran and executive secretary of the Paw- tucket Veterans Council. , Today, Rhode Island again will observe the end of World War II, the only state still celebrating Victory Day, commonly referred to as Victory over Japan Day, or V-J Day. Critics say it's discriminatory, and they would like to eliminate the holiday or at least remove its reference to Japan. They point out that Rhode Islanders do not celebrate the U.S. victory over Germany. which was defeated three months earlier. 'his is a stigma against the Japanese. whom we do business with and are allies," said George lima, a former state representa- tive who worked on a failed attempt to elimi- nate the holiday in the 1980s. Veterans groups remain committed to the holiday. celebrated on the second Monday of August - Ibis is the way the veterans feel about it in Rhode Island," said George Panichas, a former legislator who was a gunner on a B-17 bomber during World War II. They fought against the Japanese. and they just don't for- get it." There have been several attempts to change the holiday's name, but each time lawmakers met overwhelming opposition. state Sen. Rhoda Perry said. She introduced bills in 1992. 1994 and 1995 to change the Critics say Victory over Japan Day, or V-J Day, is discriminatory. holiday to Rhode Island Veterans Day. A second 1995 bill would have changed its name to Peace and Remembrance Day. Perry said she received - vitriolic" mail from veterans. "It was absolutely a no-winner," she said 'I did not have support, period." However, the General Assembly passed a 1990 resolution stating that Victory Day is not a day to express satisfaction in the destruc- tion and deaths caused by nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People need the holiday to remember the sacrifices that veterans made during the war, said James Brennan, a survivor of the 1942 Bataan Death March, in which Japanese sol- diers tortured and killed thousands of Amer- ican and Filipino prisoners. However, Brennan said he does not har- bor ill feelings toward the Japanese and does not believe the holiday incites racism or ha- tred. "July 4 is our national holiday because we defeated England. Do we hate the English? No," he said. "It's the same with V-J Day. We are the ones who won the war." Mikki lima, a Japanese-American who runs the Rhode Island Japan Society in Prow idence, said she is working to educate younger Americans about Japanese culture. If the holiday cannot be eliminated, she hopes it at least can be celebrated under a new name because of Victory Day's implicit reference to the victory over Japan. -Someday, this foolish holiday's name will be changed," Lima said. Expected war shrine visit sparks protests The Aurnata &co TOKYO — An expected visit byJapan's leader to a war shrine reviled by other Asian nations heightened tensions Sunday, with South Korea warning it would take diplo- matic action and protesters in Tokyo rallying against the shrine for the third straight day. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who in- tends to step down next month, is expected to make a pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday. the anni- versary of the end of World War 11 in Asia. Visiting on such a sensi- tive date likely will worsen already strained relations with Japan's neighbors China and South Korea, which bore the brunt of 20th-century Japanese aggression and have repeatedly demanded that Koizumi halt his visits. Chinese and South Kore- an officials Sunday denied a news report that they agreed to accept visits to the shrine by future Japanese leaders if Koizung stays away for the rest of his term. Kyodo News service re- ported Sunday that the na- tions would accept one visit a year from future Japanese prime ministers if Koizumi stays away. But a Chinese Embassy spokesman denied the report as "totally ground- less," Kyodo said. A Korean official also denied the report. The Yasukuni Shrine honors Japan's 2.5 million war dead, including war criminals executed after World War II. It played a role in promoting wartime na- swot stvas.tertse west Veterans in Japanese Imperial Army uniforms parade Sunday at Ya- sukuni Shrine in Tokyo after paying respects to the fallen soldiers there. tionalism, with Japanese sol- diers commonly pledging to fight to the death with the promise to "meet at Yasuku- ni.' It is located in Tokyo and was founded in 1869. It also hosts a museum attempting to justify Japan's militarist past. U.S. Ambas- sador Thomas Schieffer has said the museum, which paints the secret air attack on Pearl Harbor as an act of self-defense. is "very dis- turbing." About 1,000 protesters marched near the shrine Sunday evening, chanting for Japan to repent more sin- cerely for its invasion and occupation of Asian lands in the early 20th century. The rally followed similar but smaller candlelight vigils Friday and Saturday and drew demonstrators from Taiwan, South Korea and Ja- pan- ' is is important to show other Japanese people that Yasukuni Shrine is a symbol of war and aggres- sion," said protester Emiko Suyehiro, 42. "It completely glorifies the war." Koizumi has visited the shrine five times since taking office in 2001, and has dropped repeated hints that he will go again Tuesday. He insists his pilgrimages reaf- firm Japan's commitment to peace and honor the souls of those who died for the nation. 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Tearful friends and relatives gath- €red Sunday morning at the Grossman time in the Jerusalem suburb of tlevasseret Tzion. A statement from the family Skirmishes expected io continue after truce IF MIDEAST from IA more than 220 rockets on dorthern Israel, one of the highest counts of the war. Several landed in Haifa, Isra- el's third-largest city, where billows of black smoke rolled through blue sky. One per. ion died in the daylong &ar- tage. The intensified fighting Capped a weekend of some of the fiercest clashes in nearly eve weeks of confrontation, after Israel widened its ground offensive in an 1 1th. fiour bid to clear out more of kuthern Lebanon in advance of the cease-fire. Five Israeli soldiers were killed and several dozen were wounded Sunday. adding to a death toll of 24 on Saturday, the heaviest losses the milk tary has sustained on a single day since the conflict began July 12. Israel says it has killed more than 500 Hezbollah militants, a figure the Shiite Muslim faction denies. The group has acknowledged the deaths of only about 60 fight- ens so far. Under the U.N. resolu- tion, both sides were to halt attacks today. although Israel is allowed to defend its posi- tions. But troubling signs emerged Sunday as to how Lebanon, Hezbollah and Israel would interpret and implement the agreement. raising the possibility of a continuation of major fight- ing. Amid internal feuding. the Lebanese Cabinet post- poned a meeting to vote on implementing the cease-fire. Although officials were reluctant to describe the dis- agreements publicly, a rift appeared to be developing over the disarmament of Hezbollah, which the resolu- tion demands. The Cabinet had given itself 48 hours to discuss how it would enact the cease-fires term, Interior Minister' Ahmed Fatfat told Lebanese television stations. And Parliamentary described Uri as a young man with a wonderful sense of humor who planned to travel and study theater after his scheduled release from the army in November. Twenty-four Israelis were killed in Lebanon on Saturday, but Uri Grossman's death evoked particular national pathos. His father, whose novels and political essays have been trans- lated into 20 languages, is an outspoken advo- cate of conciliation with the Arabs and of ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank. But, like most Israelis, David Grossman supported Israel's retaliation when Hezbollah fighters attacked an artily patrol inside Israel on July 12 and unleashed a barrage of rockets on civil- ians in the north. By Thursday, he said the war had gone on long enough. The turning point for Grossman D. flros• man came when the government planned to launch an 1 Ithhour campaign to inflict a devastating blow to the guerrillas. In a joint news conference with fellow nov- elists Amos Oz and NB. Yehoshua, Grossman denounced the plan as dam gerous and counterproductive. "Out of concern for the future of Israel and our place here, the fighting should be stopped now, to give a chance to negotiations,' he said. Grossman urged Israel to accept a proposal by Lebanese Prime Minister Faad Saniora calling for the deployment of Lebanese troops in southern Lebanon with the help of an international force that would end Hezbollah's virtual con- trol over the area. "This solution is the victory that Israel wanted." Grossman said. He warned that stepping up the offensive could trigger the collapse of Saniora's government and the strength- ening of Hezbollah — the very force Israel set out to destroy. it's still possible to prevent it," Grossman said. "This is the last Rim Mk M AV«I A Lebanese man shouts for help as he stands in a bombed-out building in a south Beirut suburb. Israeli warplanes pounded the area with 20 missiles in a three-minute span Sunday as the cease-fire approached Hezbollah's leader Watch an audio slide show on Sheik Hassan Hasrallah, the head of Hezbollah and a central figure in the confrontation. PalmlMadiPostcoas Affairs Minister Michel Pharaon, who represents Lebanon's small Catholic minority. said, "We don't want to move more quickly than events. Why should we hurry if the Israelis keep bombing us with such feroc- ity? This is a sensitive issue that will take time to work out." Although Hezbollah is obligated to stop military operations and lay down its weapons, Sheik Hassan Nas- rallah, the organization's leader, has warned that his fighters would continue their campaign against Israeli sol- diers as long as the Jewish state maintains troops in Lebanon. Israel, in turn, contends that its right to defensive action includes preventing Hezbollah efforts to rearm, at least until the installation of a 15,000 -strong international peacekeeping force, along with 15,000 Lebanese troops. Under the truce, Israeli troops would leave the south only as those forces move in. which is days or weeks away. "There has to be a total and complete arms embargo on Hezbollah. so arms trans- ;solutions for Hezbollah are a violation of the cease-fire," said Mark Regev, a spoke* man for the Israeli foreign ministry. "We will be entitled toad. Regev did not specify what kind of action would be authorized, but Reuters quoted an unnamed senior Israeli official as saying it could Mr'. airstrikes on convoys suspected of carry- ing weapons to Hezbollah anywhere in Lebanese terri- tory. Therefore. skirmishes are expected to continue despite the official cease-fire. The hope is that large-scale operations would be sus- pended. Ilowever, observers fear that ongoing clashes could push back the arrival of the multinational force, which would fuel a cycle of more violence and further delays. Optimistically, the interna- tional mediators will arrive in seven to 10 days: countries potentially contributing to the force include France. Ita- ly, Spain, Turkey, Morocco and Indonesia. Both Israel and Hezbol- lah insist they will abide by the cease-fire agreement, but they used the lead-up to the truce to pound each other and to cement their positions. Among the targets pum- meled by Israeli aircraft Sun- day were gas stations around The in the embattled south, as well as a number of facto- ries in both central and southern Lebanon, including, a biscuit and candy factory in the nusuritains east of Beirut Lebanese radio reported. Israeli gunboats also shelled the coastal road north of the southern city of Sidon and in around Nabatiyeh. Israeli armor and troops continued marching across the border into Lebanon even as the Cabinet met in Jerusa- lem to vote on the cease-fire resolution. The final vote was 24-0, with one abstention and plenty of heated debate, media reports said. Prime Minister Ehud Olniert, whose handling of the war has come under increasing criticism for its shifting objectives and per- ceived indecision, character- ized the resolution as a vic- tory for Israel. Establishing a robust international force and dis- arming Hezbollah would deprive the militant group of the ability to act in Lebanon as a state within a state. Obvert said. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the resolution, if implemented, "will result in a significant change in the rules of the game in Lebanon and Israel's relationship with Lebanon. Not every resolu- tion is implemented. I am aware of the difficulties. But having said this, however, I can say that the Security Council resolution is good for Israel." Israeli border town doubts rocket attacks will stop The Ma Vol 71.ies KIRYNTSIISIONA. Israel — Rockets whistling in from Lebanon have been a con- stant in Eli Ben-Abe's life for nearly four decades. As he waited out a barrage Sunday in a cramped, airless shelter, he was sure a truce set for today would not end that enduring threat. "I've been listening to these rockets from 1970 until today," said Ben-Abe, 50. who was squeezed into the tiny cinderblock shelter with his wife, two daughters and four others. "We keep hoping it will end, but it never does." From the residents sweating it out in shelters to those in the bunker that serves as the mayor's office, the people in Kiryat Shmona were deeply pessimistic that the U.N. truce. ' set to take effect this morning, would bring them quiet. Most believed it would take a week or more before the shooting stops, and that any calm would be temporary. In fact, mere residents DU BalWA nor due may be leaving Kirpt Shmona today than returning to it. The Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental group that works on immigration issues, is offering to send as many as 5.000 residents in northern towns out of rocket range for a week of rest and recuperation. said Yarden Vatikay, a spokesman for the group. -There is no cease-fire — just listen for yourself," the town's mayor, Haim Bar- bibai, said a moment after a rocket landed a short dis- tance away, wounding two people and shaking the forti- fied bunker where he now works. "I'm sorry, but I'm not optimistic. I don't think the government has a clear plan on how to resolve this situa- tion." An estimated 17,000 of Kiryat Shmona's 24600 resi- dents have left, and some began calling the municipal offices Sunday to ask whether they should return. "We told people to stay right where they were," Bar- bibai said. Hezbollah has fired about 4,000 rockets in the past month. About 1,000 landed in the Kirvat Shmona area in the northern panhandle. Back in Ben-Abo's shel- ter, he recounted his per- sonal history with rockets as another crashed down out- side. His first taste was at age 13, back in 1970, when the Palestine Liberation Organi- zation, led by Yasser Arafat, began raining rockets on the town. In 1982. Ben-Abo was a soldier who fought in Leba- non for nearly a year in an operation that drove the PLO out of Lebanon but helped spawn Hezbollah. In 1996, a Hezbollah rocket slammed into Ben- Abo's apartment, causing extensive damage, though he and his family were in a shel- ter. Although he has taken cover in the shelters count- less times, the current round of fighting, which began July 12, has been the longest !synod he has had to spend in one. The only break came from Tuesday to Saturday, when the government bused several hundred residents south for a few days of relax- ation. 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The Para- mount Pictures release beat expectations by earning $19 million during the weekend to place it third at the weekend box office. The shocker of the weekend was the high school dance film Step Up from The Walt Disney Co., which placed second with a box office take of S21 million. Rounding out the Top 10 are: Barnyani (10.1 million), Pulse ($8.5 mil- lion), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($72 million), Zoom ($4.6 million), The Descent ($4.6 million). Miami Vice (S4.5 mil- lion) and Monster House ($3.3 million). Microsoft product to let public create games Me itaunated Peas DALLAS — Hoping to spur interest among video-game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to offer a consumer version of the pro- fessional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox 360 console. The XNA Game Studio Express program, an off- shoot of the company's more robust XNA Framework, will be available Aug. 30 fora $99 annual subscription, the company announced today. The software, which re- quires a Windows PC to op- erate, will let anyone create their own video games and then share them on Mi- crosoft's Xbox live online game service, said Peter Moore, a Microsoft vice president. "It's our first step of cre- ating a YouTube for video games." Moore said, refer- ring to the wildly popular free online video-sharing Web site. "It will give you every- thing you need to bring your game to life on Xbox 360." The program would be a first for consoles, which tra- ditionally have been the ex- clusive domain of skilled programmers, artists and de- signers. Moore said the program is basic compared to the pro tools, which cost tens of thousands of dollars. Though it's designed to eliminate much of the tedious hand- coding involved in making a game from scratch, some ba- sic programming skills are still going to be needed for the consumer version. Analysts cautioned that making a game — a multi- disciplinary process requir- ing artists and animators. Programmers and mathema- ticians - will never be easy. Man Panel Eats Our guys test Men's Bread by French Meadow Bakery. TODAY IN ACCENT Steve Carell Look for a profile of the Little Miss Sunshine star. TOMORROW IN ACCENT The Palm Beach Post "It's going to allow very talented individuals to actu- ally be able to do a game in a few weeks, instead of taking years and spending millions of dollars,' said Richard Doherty, research director at the Envisioneering Group. 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I1 ALlornitow BAILEY BERG. VPCirredatios IARRY SI END( VP& Drumm GALE HOWDEN. VPCotrisitimily itrlatroro and MaPirtisw IINDA MURPHY. 171fintatt Hamm Bolt MI Opoisti,ots I AIWA DECK CU NNLNGRASE Director. MOAMAR Nrmtes DAN SHOWIER Gametal Mascot Pal. e.nri Border lapses show need for a national ID card The Bush administration says that the declining number of ar- rests along the US-Mexico border is evidence that the deployment of National Guard troops is deterring illegal crossings. But illegals might have discovered that ifs much easi- er Pr mach safer to walk past bor- der agents than to run from them. According to the Government Accountability Office, illegal im- migrants would be virtually unstop- pable if they tried entering through checkpoints with fake IDs Between February and June, the GAO gave 18 investigators counterfeit documents and sent them to checkpoints in seven border states, including Cali- fornia, Texas and Arizona. Agents repeatedly failed to detect the fake cards and papers. Border Patrol agents failed to recognize that the documents were counterfeit, though their quality was relatively poor. Most of the time, the IDs drew nothing more than a quick glance. At some checkpoints, border agents allowed GAO investigators to enter the country without any documents; they just had to say that they were DS. citizens. Investigators gave some of the agents second chances to catch the frauds, but they (lid no better or even worse. The GAO had a 100 percent success rate in cross- ing: it had only a 40 percent rate in a similar study two years ago. Anyone with a home computer and a printer can generate a fake but credible-for-entry driver license. Still, the Bonier Patrol doesn't deserve all the blame. Agents did intercept about 75000 people with fake IDs last year And the number Counterfeit documents are fooling the agents. of different IDs the government accepts is ridiculous: about 8.000. What agent could possibly recog- nize all of them? Congress passed a -Real ID" bill last year that attempts to standard- ize driver licenses by requiring states to include more information. It is the first step toward a national ID card that would use identifying biometrics such as fingerprints. Op- position to the national ID is based on privacy concerns, but the coun- try may be at a point where bonier security trumps worries about po- tential muth•ms with ID security. The government also is plan- ning implementation by 2008 of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initia- tive which will require travelers going to or from Mexico. Canada, Central and South America. the Ba- hamas and the Caribbean to have a passport or document approved by Homeland Security The Senate, however, has voted to delay imple- mentation, and the House may fol- low because of fears that neither the system nor the public is ready. For migrants without fake IDs, illegal entry is more perilous since 6,000 National Guardsmen arrived. Nine illegals died an Arizona van rollover last week. At least 291 have died during US-Mexico crossing attempts since Oct. 1. The border is tighter for impoverished migrants but not sophisticated terrorists. No Everglades victory yet Improvement that still fails to solve a problem is just that. News that water flowing out of the Ev- erglades Agricultural Area has showed "significant improvement" in phosphorus reductions for the 11th consecutive year doesn't mean that the slate has solved the prob- lem of making water clean enough to send to the Everglades. The water sent from lake Okeechobee to the 500,000-acre EAA, south of the lake. contains lev- els of phosphorus avenging more than 170 parts per billion. After the 2004 hurricanes, levels got as high as 600. So, the water is leaving the EAA much cleaner, with a 44 per- cent reduction in phosphorus. Under Florida's 1994 Everglades Forever Act, growers must reduce pollution in water coming off their farms by only 25 percent, a target they again have beaten. An esti- mated 118 tons of phosphorus was kept out of the canal system that sends water to the Everglades. But to make the water clean enough that the sensitive Everglades ecosystem can recover. the level must be no more than 10 parts per billion. Water leaving the EAA goes to the South Florida Water Manage- ment District's filter marshes, which are supposed to complete the cleanup. These manmade wetlands have native plants, which suck up some of the nutrients. But phos- phorus levels in water flowing from these treatment areas vary greatly, The water is better but still not healthy. with lowest levels in the teens. Perhaps fanners could remove even more phosphorus. But Like Okeechobee itself remains one the biggest unsolved problems in this cleanup campaign. With years of phosphorus-laden muck built up on the lake bottom, with a continuing inflow of phosphorus from farms and urban development north of the lake, phosphorus levels soared after hurricanes stirred gunk from the bottom and suspended it in the wa- ter If the level was at a manageable 40 parts per billion — as it could be, if the state provided enough money — all other parts of the clean-up puzzle would fall into place. The district hopes that its accel- erated plan to build reservoirs and improve filter marshes will help. An- other 41,000 acres south of the lake have been converted to treatment areas, and the district hopes to add 18,000 more acres by 2010. But those solutions nmain years away. Starting Jan. I, the water district will have to meet the 10-parts-per- billion standard for water sent to the Everglades. or face US. District Judge Federico Moreno, who has de- scribed himself as a "jailing judge." He knows the difference between `improvement- and "success." Stick with Machek There arc 85 Republicans and 3.5 Democrats in the Florida House. You would think that Democrats would try to defeat Republicans rather than fellow Democrats in good standing But in House District 78, Steve Ferman is trying to defeat incum- bent Richard Machek in the Sept. 5 primary. Dr. Ferman, a chiropractor who lives in Coral Springs. says he's "frustrated by the lack of activity by Democrats. In reality, he was re- cruited to run by Rep. lry Slosbenz. • now a state Senate candidate, who has clashed with other Democrats. among them Rep. Machek. Perhaps some Democrats wonder about Rep. Machek's involvement in agricultural issues, but that's ap- • propriate for a meandering district that covers southwestern Palm Beach County and parts of Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties. . Overall, Rep, Machek very much is a mainstream Democrat. He supports the party's plan to • lower insurance premiums by creat- ing a state-backed hurricane fund. He likes the class-size amendment. opposes vouchers and would reduce • The Post's endorsements • Florida House District 78 the FCAT's influ- ence. He opposed intervention me in the lirri Schiavo case and favors em- bryonic stem-cell research. The Post disagreed with Rep. Machek's 2003 vote Rip. kInclusk to delay Everglades cleanup. Hut many other Democrats also voted yes. Dr. Perman's style is not as coun- terproductive as Rep. Sloshenes, and with more study, he could be a credible candidate. He does have blind spots. For example, he claims that chiropractors don't play a big role in auto insurance fraud. But on most of the major issues, he agrees with Rep. Machek. With no Republican running, the winner of the open-to-all-voters primary will be elected. There is no reason to choose an unproven candidate such as DE Perman over a Democrat with a proven record. The Post recommends Rep. Machek. Tom Blackburn - — - WALT 1WaXISVA.Thenaw Brother, can you spare $1.3 trillion? How does $1.3 trillion strike you for the cast of President Bush's not- so-excellent Iraq adventure? Well, would you accept $750 billion? Larry Lindsey lost Ins job as the president's economic adviser for estimating $200 billion for Iraq. but that was before a monumentally mismanaged occupation and a civil war. Back then, in 2002. Defense Secretary Donald Rtunsfeld thought $50 billion to $60 billion woukl do the job, but he asked people not to hold him to a hard number. For the record, the price tag passed $251 bil- lion on Dec. 30, and continues to climb. Where do those higher numbers come from? Front a fascinating paper by Nobel Prize economist Jo- seph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. who specializes in budget analysis. -The Economic Costs of the Iraq War" can be accessed at www.nberorg/ papers/w120S4 and is written in ordinary English. They got the tril- lion-plus figure by assuming that all US. forces will be out of Iraq by 2015, the date the Congressional Budget Office projects, with steadi- ly decreasing troop levels. Their lower figure comes from getting everyone out by 2010. They call that scenario "conservative; which is what economists say when they don't think the figure can go much lower. It's also a scenario that only a conservative could believe since it also calls for all the interest on the borrowing for the war to be paid off within five years. That won't happen. There won't be any surplus- es to pay for that borrowing with Mr. Bush's budgets and tax polity. Bush will borrow that, or more, for Iraq War You wonder whether Mr. Bush is giving any thought to the current and future costs of Iraq while he enjoys his vacation. A big-picture guy always risks overlooking the details, where the devil famously is. Paying for the war isn't something a chief executive safely can turn over to former campaign aides piunping up their resumes with govenunent jobs. If anyone shrank Mr Stigiitts and Ms. Bilmes 38-page paper to the president's attention span, he woukl notice a few things. The CI3O, using that 2015 date, estimated the full cost at $500 bil- lion. Why a discrepancy with ME Stiglitz and Ms. Bilmes? The CBO didn't include the lifetime health care and disability payments for returning veterans, replacement of military hardware and the higher cost of getting recntits to replace the troops we lose. War cost esti- mates usually don't include those things. But they have to be paid. We still are paying for %rid War II, Korea and Vietnam, but histo- rians and budget planners have closed the books. The costs turn up now in the Department of Veterans Affairs budget. Every veteran and vet's family ought to hope that the more realistic approach used by Mr. Stiglitz and Ms. Bilmes catches on with budget planners and histori- ans, These cost estimates are all about what taxpayers, or their grandchildren, will pay for Iraq. They are not, however, the only costs to the economy When a reservist is called up, his family's income usually declines, and the decline has the same effect on the economy as a partial layoff would. What about an American company that loses a foreign sale because the customer is thoroughly ticked off at the American president? What about the effects of the war and its aftermath on oil, and, therefore gasoline, prices? The authors deal with those what-abouts with caveats and mod- esty but conclude that the true cast of Mr. Bush's decision — what's borne personally as well as what's borne by taxpayers in general — conservatively tops $1 trillion and could exceed $2 trillion. It might be fun to read the Bush administration's rebuttal to the Stiglitz-Bilmes paper. But to rebut. someone would have to think about the problem. Then. is little sign that any of that is going on in the high reaches of government. This is an administration that declared war on a technique, terrorism, and waged the war by deposing the dictator of a country where three groups of people hate each other and needed only the iron yoke of the dictator removed so they could start in on each other. As they fight, they kill innocent bystanders — soldiers who deposed the dictator An administration that didn't think about that problem before launching mindless violence and that stumbled into an occupation and civil war isn't going to want to pay attention to what its mindless- ness is costing. Paying that kind of attention used to be one of the president's jobs. ?Om Blackburn is an edito- rial writer for The Palm Beach Post. His e-mail address is tom_ blackburnkOkbpost.com Security moves more `feel-good stuff By SUSAN and town TRENTO One month short of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the United States awak- ened to news that British authorities had broken up a purported plot to use liquid chemical bombs to blow up as many as 10 American- owned airplanes as they flew across the Atlantic Ocean to the US. Officials and experts have said that the plot had the "hallmarks" of an AL Qaeda/Osama bin Laden plan. The cable networks breathlessly reported new rules: For now, limited car- ry-on luggage. Passengers may not bring on board any liquids — water, drinks, lo- tions. Only liquid prescrip- tion medicine or breast milk will be allowed as carry-on aboard planes bound front Britain to America. and on all US. carriers. As usual when it comes to home- land security, the authorities are way behind the curve. It's infuriating During the mid-1990s, the US. took into custody two Kuwaiti men who had devised Operation Bojinka — the name for a plan to blow up a large number of jumbo jets over the Pacific. In a test, the perpetrators in 1994 blew up an unsuspecting Japanese businessman in his seat on a Philippines domestic flight by wiring a device using a watch and liquid explosive in a contact-lens case. This proved to the terror- ists that they could get explosives aboard undetected. Thanks to Philippine intelligence, the Us. eventually arrested the two terrorists, Abdul Hakim Murad and Manzi Ahmed Yousef. The two told the CIA about bin laden's plans to knock down big buildings using plants and blow up airliners using small chemical bombs. That was in 1995. Yousef was later convicted in the US. for the MI bombing of the Workl Trade Center. On Thursday. the British arrest- ed 24 people, including one airport employee. Nine of those were alleg- edly set to board flights carrying mini-bombs disguised as everyday liquids. The liquids were to have been mixed together on board and turned into bombs. Authorities said the terrorist cell was believed to have as many as 50 members. A few hours later. the Bush ad- ministration put on a dog-and-pony show, with elevated alert levels and the Department of Homeland Secu- rity barring liquids on U.S. flights. The Transportation Security Administration mentioned nothing about screening the 600,000 em- ployees who work in U.S. airports or the airport contractors who service the planes. How hard would it be for one of them to substitute an explo- sive in a cola can or water bottle, or even in the liquids used to clean the planes? It was business as usual for the TSA: Give passengers and the public the illusion of security but not the reality. One TSA official — disgusted with the agency's standard practice of putting on a strong show of security at the passenger screen- ing checkpoints while ignoring yawning holes in security elsewhere in the civil aviation system - has referred to it as lust more eye candy ... feel-good stuff.' After spending $20 bil- lion on aviation security. we still have not devel- oped a defense against ideas terrorists had six years before 9/11. It doesn't require a genius to figure out that terror- ists might try a version of Operation Bojinka again. There was a sense of absolute panic in the l'SA's announcement that liquids would not be permitted on airplanes. Yet security experts have been recommending for years that carry-on baggage be strictly limited. In 2001, the TSA did ban matches, box cutters and small knives. Then, in December, it started allowing them again. Though chastised in the report by the independent 9/11 commission for failing to act on information already in hand, the 1.NA never has forbidden the liquids that it now is temporarily banning, even though it was fully aware of the Bojinka effort and ALOaeda and bin Laden's penchant for going after targets until he succeeds in bring- ing them down. We were fortunate this time, but we can't depend that we will be again. Susan and Joseph Menlo are the au- thors of the upcoming Unsafe at Any Altitude: Failed Terrorism Inves- tigations, Scapegoating 9/11. and the Shocking Truth About Aviation Security Today They wrote this ar- ticle for the Los Angeles Times. EFTA01682170 • THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14.2006 ISA-. Thomas Frank Conservatives reap spoils of victimhood LETTERS TO THE EDITOR `President Bush operates in Wash- ington like the head of a small occu- pying army of insurgents." the pundit Fred Barnes writes in his recent book, Rebel-in-Chief "He's an alien in the realm of the governing class. given a green card by voles" Let's see: These insurgents today control all three branches of gov- emnient they are underwritten by the biggest of businesses: they are backed by a robust social movement with chapters across the radio dial. The insurgency spreads before its talented young recruits all the appur- tenances of power — a view from the upper stories of the Heritage Rum- dation, a few years at a conquered government agency where expertise is not an issue, then a quick transition to K Street and a suite at the Ritz. For the truly rebellious, princely tribute waits to be extracted from a long queue of defense contractors, sweat- shop owners and American Indian casinos eager to remain in the good graces of the party of values What a splendid enterprise Ameri- can conservatism has turned out to be. How does this work? How does the right keep its adherents in a lather against government bureaucrats and Washington know-it-alls when conser- vatives are the only bureaucrats and know-it-alls who matter anymore? Part of the answer is that, after their crushing defeat in the 1930s conservatives rebuilt their movement by adopting a purely negative stance against liberalism. They were so com- pletely excluded from power, they be- lieved. that in l955 William F Buckley li berals must puncture their marginalization fantasy. Jr. (furiously depicted them "Standing athwart history. yelling Stop" Writing in the middle of the Rea- gan years. the journalist Sidney Blu- menthal gaped at the persistence of this 'adversarial' mindset long after the liberals had been muted. "Even when conservatives are in power they refuse to adopt the psychology of an Establishment." he marveled. Here we are, 20 years later, and. to hear conservatives tell it. every election is still a referendum on the monster liberalism looming like a colossus over the land. Even Toni Delay — the erstwhile "Hamner" — becomes a martyr when address- ing the faithful. "The national media has taken my own reelection as their own personal jihad," he moaned in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February "So we're fighting the fight of ages" That conservatives continue, as Rick Pedstein writes, to "soak in (their) marginalization four decades after the election of the last liberal president puts this victimology be- yond implausible. A century ago, it was conservative stalwarts, not liberal reformers, who were the natural party of government. And they were forthright about what they stood for as well as what they were against: They were for rule by a better class of people. for a Hamil- tonian state in which business was unified with government. Cynthia Tucker And conservatism is still for those things, tacitly, at least. Just look at the resumes of people the president has appointed to the Departments of Labor, Agriculture and the Interior. Or scan one of the graphs on which economists chart distribution of wealth over the past 100 years. The more egalitarian society we grew up in is gone, snuffed out by the party of tradition in favor of an even rosier past that lies on the far side of the IBMs. These ought to be easy things to deplore. They ought to aruuse pre- cisely the kind of simmering fury that millions of Americans feel toward lewd halftime shows and checkout clerks who don't say 'Merry Christmas" But we have difficulty holding conserva- tins accountable for them, so potent is their brand image as angry outsiders. What conservatives do, as everyone knows, is protest government, protest modernity. to hold them responsible for government or for modernity is to bring on cognitive dissonance. Or, rather, it might bring on cog- nitive dissonance. We don't know because puncturing conservatism's marginalization fantasy really hasn't been tried. If liberals ever are to recover, this will have to change. Against the tired myth of the "liberal elite," they must offer a competing and convincing theory of how Wash- ington works, and for whom. Thomas Frank is the author, most recent- B, ofW hat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. He will be a New York Times guest columnist during August. Maureen Doted is on leave. Peace vote isn't a wimp vote There they go again. Hoping for a reprise of the 2002 and 2004 elections, when they rolled over Democrats by claiming that they were soft on terrorism, leading Republicans once again are portray- ing the invasion of Iraq as brilliant, denouncing their critics as traitors and claiming that anything less than enthusiastic support for "staying the course" is tantamount to saddling up with A14/aeda Recently. GOP heavyweights used the victory of anti-war political novice Ned Lamont over three-term incum- bent Sen. Joe Lieberman. D-Corm.. in last week's Democratic primary — Sen. Lieberman had remained a staunch defender of the war — to portray the Democrats as America- hating wimps. With so many in- cumbents struggling to distance themselps from President Bush and the war, pull think the GOP leader- ship would have qualms about that strategy. But if you know only one tune, you sing it. According to Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, Sen. Lieberman's loss means "defeat- ism and isolation are now Democratic Party orthodoxy" Vice President Dick Cheney even suggested that Sen. Liebt•rman's defeat might en- courage "Al-C./atria types." according to The New )irk Times. Al-Qaeda types? They've been closely watching the outcome of the contest between Mr. Lamont and Sen. Lieberman. seeking encouragement? You've got to be kidding. First off, the vast majority of Tex- ans couldn't tell you who won the race between Mr. Lamont and Sen. Lieber- man, much less the rank-and-file of Al-CIaeda. Second, jihadists seem to be getting all the encouragement they need from a heavy-handed American presence in Iraq; an Iran emboldened DIM WA -(41,1 by Iraq's breakdown: and a dispropor- tionate Israeli response to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The mujahedetin couldn't care less about Connecticut. But Mr. Cheney and his ilk con- tinue to beat the war drum because it worked before. In 2002, then-US. Rep. Saxby Chambliss. RCa.. defeated Sen. Max Cleland, 1)- ;a. — a Viet- nam triple amputee — by question- ing his "courage.' Rep. Chambliss ran an ad linking Sen. Cleland to °scoria bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Sintilarly. Mr Bush defeated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.. two years ago by constantly resurrecting the sear- ing memory of 9/11 and questioning Sen. Kerry's toughness against terror- ism. In the months leading up to the election. the Bush administration is- sued a terror alert about once a week. O(klly, there have been precious few terror alerts in the 24ears since Mr. Bush's reelection; the most stringent of those resulted from plots carried out or interrupted in Great Britain. This time around, the GOP leaden ship is going to have a much more difficult time painting Democrats :15 cut-and- run pantywaists. because Republicans want to leave Iraq, too. In June. Republicans staged a fon the-cameras debate on the floor of the House, where they insisted US. troops must "stay the course." U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht R•Minn.. up- braided any who thought otherwise: "Members, now is not the time to go wobbly" he declared. But last month Rep Gutknecht returned from a visit to Iraq with a bleak assessment of the war and called for at least a partial withdrawal of US. troops. "Baghdad is worse to- day than it was three years ago." he said, adding. All of the information .. from the Pentagon and the State Department isn't always true." Really? The voters already had figured that out. According to a poll conducted for CNN this month by Opinion Research Corp. 60 penent of Americans now oppose the war in Iraq, the highest number since the invasion began in March 200.3. Sixty-one per- cent favor the withdrawal of some US. troops by the end of the year. On Thursday Mr Bush used the news of a thwarted plot involving air- craft bound for the United States from Great Britain as a 'stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fas- cists" That is true. But the pnisident forfeited the moral authority to lead that war when he misled the American people about Saddam Hussein and his connection to those Islamic fascists, especially Al-Orreda. The war he led us into has set off shock waves through- out the Middle East that will roil the region for years to come. The damage is already done — even if we start withdrawing US. troops tomorrow. Cynthia Baler is editorial page editor ofrhe Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her e-mail address is nesthiaRajc.com Ruben Navarrette Jr. `Leaders' disserving black America A few years ago, my friend Juan Wil- liams told me that he thought we had something in common — namely; how those who represent our communities. or claim to represent them, view us with suspicion and resentment. In interviews with Hispanic mem- bers of Congress, the National Public Radio senior correspondent and lOx News commentator said he had de- tected that sonic• of them were uneasy about me, and much of what I write. "They don't trust you." he said. "They never know what you're going to do. And they know you won't always agree with them and, when they're wrong, you're going to say so." Juan said it reminded hint of how the members of the Congressional Black Caucus felt about him. • Now, many black members of Con- gress and other leaders will trust hint even less. That's because my friend has written a provocative and impor- tant book that challenges a lot of what they're selling to the masses. • Titled Enough: The Phony Leaden, Dead-End Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America —And What We Can Do About . It. the book is a good read. But it's also a good deed. And you can bet it won't • go unpunished. You see, it ain't easy being Juan Williams, As a panelist on Fox News Sunday, my friend tomes across as a common-sense liberal dueling conser. Those brave enough to say that deserve respect. vat ives who live in a right-wing bubble. But put him around those whom we in the media refer to as "black leaders." and suckle* Juan is a common-sense conservative dueling liberals who live in a left-wing bubble. Mr. Williams has had a bellyful of African-Americans acting as their own worst enemy He's tired of black people not having good leadership and instead settling for professional grievance brokers who "misinform, mismanage and miseducate (them- black community) by refusing to an t iodate established truths about what it takes to get ahead: strong families. education and hard work." Can I get an amen? Convinced that many of the prob- lems that black people face can be solved by black people, Mr Williams doesn't think the answer is to embrace victimhoodl blame your troubles on racism and wait for white America to bail out black America. And he's particularly incensed that you don't have more black leaders get- ting in the faces of Nat* youth and tell- ing them that to be a success, you have to stay in school, study hard, speak proper English. stay away from crack and stop defining what it means to be black as someone who is acting like a thug and -dressing like a convict." Can I get another amen? This should sound familiar Mr. Williams draws much of his inspira- tion from the now-infamous speech delivered by comedian Bill Cosby on May 17. 2004. to a few thousand mem- bers of the black elite who gathered in Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Courtk Brown decision. Instead of basking in how far African-Americans have come. Mr Cosby talked about drop- out rates, out-otwedlock births, drug abuse, high rates of incarceration and other self-defeating behaviors that plague the black community Mr. Cosby was criticized — not because what-he said wasn't true but because he aired dirty laundry. Now. Juan Williams has done the same thing And besides diagnosing the illness, he's offered a prescription. "It's so simple," he told me. "It's all about education. You've gut to say to young people who are thinking of dropping out of school: 'Don't do it. It's a death sentence.'" It's a solid message, for all Ameri- cans. And the black community owes the messenger a debt of gratitude for having the courage to spread it. Ruben Navarrette Jr is a columnist far The San Diego Union-Tribune. His e-mail °arms is rubennanymtle ituniontnb.00m Column, editorial connect sand projects with turtles problems I compliment The Post on the column by Sally 9wartz about sand projects (" 'Save our sand?' St. Lucie has a case," June 14) and on the Aug. 5 editorial about loggerhead sea turtles, "Where are loggerheads?" I believe that there is a con- nection between beach sand projects and sea turtles. Ms. Swartz made some excellent points, but the most impor tant point is the question she posed when she stated, "Maybe it's time to reconsider beach renourishment." One thing is clear. These beach projects are causing environmental damage. One project off Palm Beach near Lake Worth has left some serious negative effects Both the Lake Worth and Kirusler Park beach areas are being inundated by sand from the Phipps project, completed in May. A huge sandbar now exists where there was deeper water In areas where fish once were common near the shoreline, I have observed that the beach has far fewer fish (I snorkel al- most every day in the summer). There have been reports that sea turtles are having trouble negotiating over the escarp- ment left by this project and may have dropped eggs rather than nesting Previous scientific studies have found that sea turtles avoid recently femur- ished beaches. There also are questions about turbidity and plumes damaging near-shore reefs. The editorial on loggerheads indicates a downturn in their population. What if sand renour- ishment in our area is harm- ful to sea turtles? The Phipps project was extended into the sea turtle nesting period. Sea turtles are part of our rich envi- ronmental legacy. What legacy will we have left to pass on to the next generation if we lose our Florida wildlife? How do we know that sand placed near Phipps has provided ; any benefit? We do know it has buried ideal fish habitat near shore, where many fish mature. hitting sand on the beaches is expensive: the project off Phipps Park cost $4 million. We . know that sand renourishment causes environmental damage: -- we know that because the state is permitting the taking (kill- ing) of endangered sea turtles We know that turbidity from these projects can interfere with the health of corals What . if we are damaging reefs. which protect us from storm surge? j. These are important issues that we need to consider. Thank you. Ms. Swartz, for asking this question, DREW MARTIN Lake Worth . Article shows why having Israel as ally Is dangerous Ben Caspitk Aug. 6 article, "Israel will not capitulate. and here's why," gives some clues into how dangerous the Israeli regime is and what's it's capable of. Reading his chilling state- ment. "Make no mistake — we won't go down alone. You. the leaders of the free and enlight- ened world, will go down along with us' one can wonder wheth- er that is what Israel ultimately wants to do, drag the Western world into a clash of civiliza- tions. For whose sake? Our terrorism problem is mostly because of our uncondi- tional support for Israel — re- gardless of the extent of death and destruction it causes, as seen in the obliteration of our (former) ally Lebanon. That statement also brings to mind another scary fact: Israel's nuclear arsenal. Isn't it strange that the media rarely even talk about. much less come down on. Israel's own arsenal of weapons • of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons? Taking the pretext of the Iraq War, shall we now invade Israel because it has nuclear weapons? If not, anyone care to explain how this is not a double standard? With Israel's weapons, one only can Imagine what other war crimes Israel could commit should these weapons fall into the hands of an extremist Israeli government. If I had a friend who told me. 'If I go down, you're coming down with me: I would question that friendship. NkSHEEN KAKLI hilm Beach Gardens Busy Okeechobee needs SunPass-only lane I have been driving a truck locally for ID years and take ev- ery opportunity to use Florida's Thrnpike to save time. I have SunPass in all of my company trucks so that we don't have to deal with paying tolls, which saves a lot of time. Through all my experi- ence using the turnpike, I have learned that the key to eliminating congestion is the SunPassonly lane. There are SunPassonly lanes at Jupiter, PGA, Southern Boulevard, lake Worth Road and now the Beeline Highway ("Beeline interchange open to traffic today-July 27), and I never see congestion at these exits. The one exit that does not have a SunPass-only lane is Okeechobee Boulevard, which is the busiest exit in the county and has daily traffic congestion. Invariably, every toll lane gets a car whose driver either needs directions or has to break a $100 bill, creating instant congestion. It seems to me that at least 50 percent of commuters have Sun- Passes, and all this exit needs is one dedicated lane to alleviate all the congestion. KENNETH D. DUVALL lake Worth - Editor's note: Kenneth D. Duvall owns Duvall's Towing Service. based in lake Wirth. Slosberg's methods of seeking votes dangerous With his-Slosberg Emergen- cy Management Aid" system, using his own trucks to store ice, and with his flier encourag- ing calls to his staff in case of emergency Rep. Iry Slosberg, D-Delray Beach, hints that • rather than improve the system, he is the system ("Storm aid trucks Slosberg's latest plan to win votes,' NW•dnesday). - Taking the "unilateral" page from the George W. Bush handbook, Rep. Slosberg thinks - • he can handle emergencies all • • • by himself. He is setting up an • operations center to "counter the one run by government." So. we'd have two organizations , working imkpendently, without coordination, without sharing resources, interfering with each other. He expects this to ... _ improve things throughout Sen- z ate District 30. in which he Is " running in the Sept. S primary? "e' What if the need isn't when• his .. trucks are idling? A state senator is someone who can make the system do what citizens need — not some- one who thinks he doesn't need anyone. It's hard to get allies in -.- Tallahassee with that attitude. • SCOTT NOVACK Boca Raton •• Human benefit or trash? Bush made his choice President Bush vetoed the stem-cell research bill because he called it murder ("Bush cites 'moral boundary' in veto of bill promoting stem-cell n-search." July 20). We are talking about a cluster of cells this big: . (the dot). These cells would have been used in an effort to find solutions to horrible afflic- tions, which certainly would be considered humanitarian and probably wysild lead to cell therapy rather than drugs. That would be a tremendous advance for better and more effective medical treatment. Instead, these cells now will be discarded when the couples - - involved in the in-vitro fertil- • ization programs are finished. There are more than 400,000 of .• choice is garbage or human • these clusters in storage. The • ben- efit, and President Rush chose garbage. KEN ELKINGTON Palm Springs ,, HOW TO WRITE THE POST The Palm Beach Post welcomes original letters about issues of current in- terest and material that has appeared in the newspaper, All letters are subject to editing and must include the writer's name, address and daytime telephone number, Envelopes without a return address will be discarded. Recommended length is a maximum of 250 words. Send e-mail letters to letterapbpostcom, faxes to (561) 820.4728 and postal letters to Letters to the Editor, The Palm Beach Post, P.O. Box 24700. West Palm Beach, Fl. 33416-4700. EFTA01682171 IBA THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14.2006 ADVERISEMENT 117606hUtIONTAI.THIle SPECUt ADVOTIMMUNFIATLet ADVERISEVrt ADVERISEMENT ADVERISEMENT WVEASAI MEEekSyNDICATE'3939 Eyeetuntild7 Hw °nom OH as709 Pharmacists now armed with a powerful new weapon that delivers real joint comfort Luck of the draw gives local readers 56 hour window to be the first to get the new pills BY G. W. NAPIER Scientists and doctors have developed an amazing new oral tablet called Trigosamine. It's so impressive that one key ingredient has the ability to retain fluid up to 1000 times its own weight, with the potential to increase lubrication for the joints allowing them to move with ease. "Using Trigosamine is like taking a can of oil and applying it directly to your joints" said Dr. Joseph Dietz, Chief of Health Sciences! And thanks to the luck of the draw, readers of this publication will be among the first to get it. That's because this area has already been assigned a toll free Regional Health Hotline, but the catch Is the hotline is set to close in just 56 hours. "We recommend that those living in this area call now to get their share first." said Matthew J. Woods, Director of The Regional Health Hotline. "Right now we're shipping out everything we have on a first come first served basis. We may not be able to meet everyone's demands as word continues to spread across the coun- try," he said. Trigosamine contains one of the most promising joint nutrients known to man. Researchers refer to it as HA13. This important nutrient is a building block of naturally occurring joint oil which is medically known as synovial fluid. This fluid reduces friction in the joints allowing for effortless motion.' It not only lubricates the joints but it also acts as a comfortable shock absorber. "As the body ages the production of synovial fluid declines which forces the joints to grind together resulting in nagging discomfort." Dr. Dietz said. "HA13 has been shown to be absorbed into the body and made available to the joints. That means it has the potential to replenish the ultra slippery synovial fluid which allows joints to slide freely and smoothly,"' said Dr. Dietz. Now for the first time ever the Trigosamine brand combines HA13 with the essential blend of Glucosamine and Chondroitin. It has been clinically shown that this essen- tial blend of glucosamine and chondroitin helps to build healthy cartilage in the joints and allows for increased flexibility and range of motion. This impressive combination works to alleviate uncomfortable joint dysfunction whichiesults in amazing comfort.' A clinical study conducted by the United States government found that glucosamine and chondroitin, similar to those present in Trigosamine, had a remarkable 79.2% effective rate for those with moderate to severe joint discomfort. It was also announced at The American College of Rheumatology' meeting that the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin showed promise among persons with moder- ate to severe discomfort. "The clinical trials have been consistent. The essential blend like the one present in new Trigosamine has been proven safe and is extremely effective." Dr. Dietz said.' One of the reasons Trigosamine is receiv- ing so much attention is because it is derived from natural sources. The ingredients are combined to make a revolutionary new for- mulation that is taken orally just once a day without a prescription. The tough part now is how to get it. "Everybody wants it," Woods said. -The first drugstores to get this new formula couldn't keep it on the shelves." That's why CVS/Pharmacy has already stock- piled the first available shipments. The down side is the other drugstores may not get their ship- ments until later this year. That makes the next 56 hours so critical for everyone living in the local area. Those who get through to the Regional Health Hotline before the deadline will get Trigosamine sent directly to their homes. Otherwise, those who miss the deadline and everybody else living in other parts of the country will be hard pressed to get it. So, even with the clock ticking local readers still have the advantage of being among the first to get their hands on this new medical breakthrough. • Here's how to get it Until all pharmacies are fully stocked the national distribution of new Trigosamine is being conducted on a state by state basis. Those living in the states listed below with a * next to it are authorized to have it sent direct. ly to their home by calling The Regional Health Hotline now. Regional Hotline Approval Code TG1495 * = Call 1.800-782.8750 LINES OPEN at 9:00 am today * ALABAMA: call now 56 hour deadline ALASKA: must wait ARIZONA: must wait ARKANSAS: must wait CALIFORNIA: must wait * COLORADO: call now 56 hour deadline CONNECTICUT: must wait DELAWARE: must wait * FLORIDA: call now - 56 hour deadline * GEORGIA: call now - 56 hour deadline HAWAII: must wait IDAHO: must wait ILLINOIS: must wait INDIANA: must wait IOWA: must wait KANSAS: must wait * KENTUCKY: call now 56 hour deadline LOUISIANA: must wait MAINE: must wait MARYLAND: must wait MASSACHUSETTS: must wait MICHIGAN: must wait MINNESOTA: must wait * MISSISSIPPI: call now - 56 hour deadline MISSOURI: must wait MONTANA: must wait NEBRASKA: must wait NEVADA: must wait NEW HAMPSHIRE: must wait NEW JERSEY: must wait NEW MEXICO: must wait NEW YORK: must wait * NORTH CAROLINA: call now - 56 host deadline NORTH DAKOTA: must wait OHIO: must wait OKLAHOMA: must wait * OREGON: call now 56 hour deadline PENNSYLVANIA: must wait RHODE ISLAND: must wait * SOUTH CAROLINA: call now 56 hour deadline SOUTH DAKOTA: must wait * TENNESSEE: call now 56 hour deadline TEXAS: must wait UTAH: must wait VERMONT: must wait * VIRGINIA: call now 56 hour deadline WASHINGTON: must wait WASHINGTON D.C.: must wait WEST VIRGINIA: must wait WISCONSIN: must wait WYOMING: must wait IMPORTANT: You may be able to find Trigosamine at a CVS/Pharmacy since they are getting the first shipments. Otherwise, if you do not live in a state with a * next to it you must wait to call. A public announce- ment confirming your states eligibility will be published within 90 days. www.tramsarrine.com KNEE ,,,,, +info Medical X-Ray II HEALTHY JOINTS: Diagnostic s-rays reveal human joints that have the proper amounts of synovial Mild to lubricate the joints and act as a comfortable shock absorber. The plentiful fluid allows for comfortable and effortless motion. HOW Trigosamine- WORKS Trigosamine oral tablets are taken once daily with a mechanism of action with three powerful joint nutrients put into place to provide comfort. 1. Hyaluronate-HA13-: This remarkable compound is present id the body's synovial fluid which acts as a shock absorber and makes the joints extremely slippery allowing them to slide smoothly over one another.' 2. Glucosamine Hydrochlorlde-GH15: ..... ...... ......... This clinically proven compound helps build and maintain cartilage to reduce joint dysfunction.' 3. Chondroitin Sulfate-0512: ..... - ............. Clinically proven compound helps improve flexibilrty and promotes increased range of motion.' Dr. Joseph C. Dish . PhD currently conducts Mellen* Mint ere end nutreceuticel ref earCh on TrigOSIIIIMIt for PatentHEALTH. LLC. Slatemeots linen are based upon published public information and do not Imply soonsorntio as endorsement of TrIgesanine. by the American Collet* of RheUrnatelatiY. THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATIOPLIJ THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE. TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. NO]01aOP6NAI Satre &Were-IFAIM 2006 Unclaimed Cash: Mill handover of rare money sheets now underway BY MARY BETH ANDREWS U-iversa (UMS) One Million Dollars in unclaimed rare currency sheets is now up for grabs. And those who are getting it say it feels like winning the Lottery. Here's how it's being tendered to the public. Thousands of crisp new lull uncut sheets of $1, $5. $10 and S20 dollar bills were recently left unclaimed. not with the government, but at the central vaults of the private World Reserve Monetary Exchange. "Just before Christmas hundreds of thousands of people beat the National 48 hour deadline to get the money. But some were left out in the cold because of incomplete billing and shipping information. As a result, those rare currency sheets could not be shipped and were left sitting in our vault. Amazingly, it adds up to over a million dollars." confirmed Stephen S. Speakman. National Director of x Currency Operations. ; The unclaimed full uncut sheets of real money are now being given up, not to banks, not to dealers and not just to the rich and famous. but direct- ly to the general public. But the only way to claim these left- over currency sheets now is through a special worldwide web connection set up to distribute the unclaimed money. "The phone deadline for calling has • A SEA OF UNCLAIMED CASH: One Million Dollars in Unclaimed rare cur- rency sheets are now available to the public. A Security Officer logs in thousands of crisp new uncut sheets of SL 55.510 and $20 that are now being offered to the pub- lic The uncut sheets of real money are so hard to find, banks don't even have them. S already passed. Now the unclaimed money is only being offered through the special website, on a first come first served basis. But when it is gone. they will have to be turned away," Speakman confirmed. "Just think what these currency sheets could be worth years from now. Values always fluctuate. It's diffi- cult when you are comparing apples to oranges, but according to the Official Standard Guide to U.S. Paper Money which provides valuations. some uncirculated 1928 one dollar bills have increased in value by over 6,400%. In fact, a full uncut dozen of 1928 dollar bills sold for S18.400.00." Speakman said. "You would expect to see these uncut money sheets on display in the Oval Office or under guard at the Smithsonian,' he said. Until now, only those lucky enough to be 'in the know' could get their hands on uncut sheets of real money In fact, banks don't even have them But now you can get them direct b.; logging on to the special website. 'You can actually spend it. It's real money. But anyone would be an abso- lute fool to cash them in because they're worth so much more," Speak- man confirmed. There's going to be a lot of excited people when they get their hands on these valuable unclaimed sheets of money. It's a ton of money when you see all four sheets of $1. $5. $10 and $20 dollar bills in the lull Banker's Stack. But readers better be sure to get plenty now because it they try to get more later, they may be out of luck. When they're gone, they're gone. That's why it is important that the general public now log on to the spe- cial website that is listed below to beat the rush. So. on your mark, get set. go. Hopefully, you'll be the first to get your share of the unclaimed money • Here's how to get the Unclaimed Money Log onto the web at: www.moneysheets.com a EFTA01682172 The Palm Beach Post B MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006 PalmBeadoPostan LOCAL S Even without Ozzy, crowd finds entertainment galore at Oufest, 4B George Boonett ROWS Lieberman's loss, refusal to quit rattle local friends Sen. Me tlelMamsa loss in last week's Connecticut Democratic pri- mary produced conflicting emotions among Dems in Palm Beach Coun- ty, which has been a hotbed of Liebermania but is also home to the same brand of anti-aus. fervor that produced Ned Lamones win. Since running for veep in Alla Lieberman has been an adopted favorite son in South Florida's heavily Jewish Democratic pre- cincts. His failed 2061 presidential campaign was backed by such local alpha-Dems as U.S. Rep. Robert Pta- k* and County Commissioner Burt Aaronson. Lieberman helped Arthur Ander- son become county elections chief in 2004 and toured like a mt-k star in Jewish communities for John Ker- ry. He also came here to raise cash for his 2006 reelection hid. turning to Boca Raton attorney Ted Deutch and others for help. It was Lieberman, in fact, who announced Deutch's state Senate bid last September while he was raising reelection money in Boca. "What happened in Connecticut, from my perspective fmm afar, was unfortunate: said Deutch, who called Lieberman an incredibly decent man full of integrity" and a friend. But Deutch declined to opine on his friend's plan to run for reelec- tion as an independent. Democratic State Sen. and con- gressional hopeful Ron Klan also called Lieberman a friend but said he should bow out after losing to Lamont. Wexler, too, opposes Lieberman's independent candidacy At a Democratic club meeting at Century Village west of Boca Raton last week. Madan Hoechstetter said Lieberman "did it to himself" k being too close to Bush on the Iraq war. Emanuel Bidder also disliked Lieberman's ties to Bush but said it shouldn't have cost him the primary. Club President Mania Mamdng said he's disappointed his party doesn't seem to have mom for Lieberman's hawkishness "To me that's a rather sad com- mentary because I've always felt that the Denawratic Party has been a very large tent and capable of han- dling many points of view," Man- ning said. "The Big Tent has a big exit: said Democratic activist Andre Botha who called Lietwrman's loss an 'unhealthy" sign. • Ouch At the close of the school board portion of last week's Gold Coast Builders Association Great Debate, candidate Bob Megan deliv- ered a late hit on rival Way Persist `Having an opinion doesn't make you a statesman. Winning the lot- tery as my opponent did, doesn't make you a leader," Kanjian said. Pereira didn't get to respond as the audience reacted with a mixture of boos and puzzled expreararms In 1998, he was part of an 11- member group that divided a $5.38 million Florida Lotto prize to be paid out over 20 years. Kanjian said he raised the issue because Perei- ra's personal financial disclosure statement doesn't show any 2005 income from a lottery payout. Pereira said his share was less than 6100,000. and he arranged to get it in a lump sum several years ago by selling his interest in the winnings to a finance company. • Opportunism's downside: Repub- lican county commission hopeful Ed Shepherd, who just moved into west- ern District 6 so he could run, missed the Great Debate. He never got an invite. Shepherd said, because "when I moved out to my new home in Royal Palm Beach, all my mail got lost." • After angering many local Dems by quitting a county commission race and giving Republican Mary • McCarty a free ride to reelection, state House District 86 hopeful Jo seph Abruzzi is going to San Fran- cisco this week to raise campaign bucks. Friend MO Hearst N (scion of MI- Nam Randolph Hearst) and former • San Francisco 49er Eric Wright are among the lasts The fog-town fete means there won't be a showdown Tuesday over whether Abruzzo can • speak at a Democratic Club of Greater Boynton candidate confab. • Club prez Jay Welt was among the party bigs vowing to muzzle Abruzzo at Dem events. i •aeorge_bennett.pbovareom Fast tests to help jail's HIV fight Inmates will get their results in a halfhour instead of three weeks. By ANDGONE BARTON hit= Hata het Skce Wiser With little to do and nowhere to go, nearly 700 Palm Beach County Jail inmates this year decided to settle a nagging question and take an HIV test. By the time their test results returned three weeks later, though, most had served their time or been released on bond and were back on the streets. All were squandered opportu- nities to fight the epidemic where it thrives. health and jail officials say. They are the kind of opportuni- ties officials are aiming to seize this fall with the introduction of "rapid" HIV testing, which delivers results within a half-hour. The tests are -a match made in heaven" for the jail population, where the rate of HIV infection is estimated to be as much as five times the rate outside the walls and where inmates await trial and sen- tencing and serve terms of less than a year, said Dr. Pierre Dorsainvil, an infectious disease specialist who serves as the jail's medical director. It is a population made up of the more than 40.000 drug abusers, prostitutes, repeat offenders, hap- less bumblers and victims of cir- cumstance who are booked into the jail each year, about 70 percent of whom are released within 10 days. It is also a transient population with little or no connection to health care, experts say. Of those who have tested for HIV at the jail so far this year, 10 were discovered to be infected with the virus that leads to AIDS. Two of them had served their time or bonded out before those results arrived. That left the health department to try to find them. And of those who tested negative, an estimated 75 percent were long gone by the time their good news arrived. What most had in common — lack of money and education, shaky housing and support systems — should make correctional institu- tions a front line in the fight against AIDS, said state Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. For that reason, See HIV. 7B Pi Diagnosed too late More than 40,000 people a year are booked into the Palm Beach County Jail. MI About 70 percent are released within 10 days. ■ 01 those who have tested for HIV at the jail in 2006. 10 were discovered to be infected with the virus that leads to AIDS. Two of them had served their time or bonded out before those results amved. ■ 01 those who tested negative. about three-fourths were out of jail by the time their good nets amved. Pro-Israel rally takes place at temple in Greenacres GREENACRF3 — Michael Shible waves an Israeli flag as a rally supporting Israel's war effort in Lebanon gets under way Sunday at Temple Beth Tikvah. The public was invit- ed to hear speakers including Michael Ha- dar, executive director of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and Col. Udi Sharon of the Israel Defense Forms. Al the close of the rally, a man (right) participates in a congregational reading of a prayer for the state of Israel. Palm Beach chief focus of fire in Epstein case Defendant's lawyers take him on; he slams state attorney By LARRY ICIER Thlon Beath Ms! Ste Water In the case of Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Ep- stein, it seems, at times, as if two men are accused of wrongdoing Epstein and Palm Beach Police Chief IM PIRIn, , was indict- ed last month on a charge of felony solicitation of pr li n solely because of= • -craziness," one of ein's lawyers said. His department disseminated LAKE WORD! — Jane Tackaber- ry's son, John, kisses her broth- er, Bruce Dillon of Minneapolis. before her toner- al Sunday after- noon. John's ex- girlfriend is ac- cused in Tacka- berry's stabbing death and his son's slashing in- juries last week. LIMA SA' IM nal Proke•Ve' "a distorted view of the case' and behaved in a 'childish' manner when the grand jury didn't indict Ep- stein on the charges it sought, another Epstein lawyer complained. To hear the Epstein camp tell it 48, is a loose cannorlFr suited to be the sheriff of Mayber- ry. They whisper that he's embroiled in a messy di- vorce. Mitid in fact file for divorce m his wife, Jill. last year, after 24 years of marriage. They have a son, Grieving for Mom, sister Share your condolences in our online guestbook at PalmBeachPostcom/obits. 18, and a daughter. 14. The couple is scheduled to go to mediation Wednesday. Nothing in the court file suggests their split is par- ticularly ugly. incurred the wrath of the Epstein camp as well as the • attor- s 78 . ELECTIONS 2006 State House District 78 Machek faces challenge from fellow Democrat By KELLY WOLFE NM Beath Post Staff Writer A political newcomer. and fellow Democrat, is challenging state Rep. Richard A Machek for his District 78 seat for the first time since 2000. Steve Ferman, a Boca Raton chiro- practor. said the district is ready for a • A look at shake-up the candl- "I became frustrated at what I felt dates. 7B was a lack of energy and lack of quality communication on behalf of the Democrats," Pemtan said. 'My opponent has had six years to do what he needs to do." Machek said he wants two more years to work on See DISTRICT 78, 78 ► EFTA01682173 2B THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14.2008 wsc METRO REPORT POLICE BLOTTER BOWITON BEACH —A man who was shot In the back Saturday afternoon at the Quick Stop in the 1900 block of North Se- acreast Boulevard died that night at Delray Medical Center, police said Sunday. Ghazi Mohammed. 44. of Lake Worth died abound 10:10 p.m. A preliminary investigation sug- gests that a co-worker accidentally shot Mohammed, police said. On Sunday, police did not release the name of the co- worker. And they have not charged anyone with a crime, Lt. Lisa Lillie said. The investigation continues. IN TRAFFIC Two days before classes begin, faculty and staff at South Tech Academy in Boynton Beach will meet today to discuss hold- PUBLIC MEETINGS Public meetings scheduled for government channel. On most Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Commission Execu- tive Committee, 8 a.m. today. goy- rmment center, 301 N. Olive Ave.. West Palm Beach. County Commission, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. government center. Am negotiations, 1 p.m. Tuesday. fOur Points Complex. 50 S. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Contract RiMew Committee, 8:45 m. Wednesday, county engineer's .2r.tectrthe office, 2300 N. log Road. Nest Palm Beach. All) negotiatlons, 9 a.m. Wednes- day. Clayton E. Hutcheson Agricultur, al Service Center, 559 N. Military Tree. West Palm Beach. Shortilst Selection Committee for the Convention Center's Attica, In Ore Tropics Protect 9 a.m. ,Sednesdai. gu,emnient center. Transportation Disadvantaged Coor- dinating Board. 10 a.m. Wednes day, government center. Battalion chief contract merged,- dens, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Four Points Complex. EEO/Fair Homing Beard, 5 p.m. Wednesday, government center. Board of Adjustment. 9 a.m. Thurs- day, Planning. Zoning and Building Department, 100 Australian Ave., West Palm Bc.lch Shortlist Selection Committee for the Convention Center's ArtscaPo In the Tropics Project. 9 a m. Thurs Workforce Alliance, noon Thursday. Wo'idorce Alliance. 321 Fem St. West Palm Beach. Palm Tran Service Beard, 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Clayton E. Hutcheson Agri• cultural Service Center. Public Art Committee, 4 p.m. Thurs. day, Lantana Town Hall. 500 Grey- fields Circle. Lantana. Martin Finance Authority, 9 am Friday. government center. Community Alliance Child Abuse Protocol Overslert/Managensent Team, 10 a.m. Friday. West Palm Beach Police Department 600 Ban, yam Blvd Natural Areas Management Advise ry Committee, 1:30 p.m. Fnday. Yrs. to Center. 2300 N. log Road, West Palm Beach. Solid Waste Authority Board of Gernmenors, 9 a.m. Wednes day. SWA Audnonum. 7501 N Road, West Palm Beach. South Florida Water Management District WPAC/Acceler8 Issues workshop EM reservoir 'trochee's preliminary design, 5:30 pm. today. SPNMD headquarters. 3301 Gun Club Road The Acreage/Indian Trail Improvement District Public input, 7 p In today, district office. 13476 61st St. N.. Acreage/ toxahatchee. Recreation Advisory Board, 7 p.m. Tuesday, district Office. Special projects, 7 p.m. Wednes- day, district office. Atlantis County workshop, 8 a.m. Tuesday, city hall. 260 Orange Tree Prise Architectural Resin Committee, 8.30 a m Wednesday. city hall. City Council, 7.30 pro Wednesday. city haT. Code Enforcement 10 am Mips day, city hall Belle Glade Special Firefighters Pension Board, Weather, traffic, breaking news and special reports PaiMBeaChPOSLCOM/I0Cal ing a memorial for two of the school's teachers who died last week, the school's president, Jim Kidd, said Sunday. Jane Tackaberry, 53, a part-time cosmetology teacher, died Tuesday in her West Palm Beach home. Police said she was stabbed to death. Four days later, Timothy Gill, 35, of Boynton Beach died after a car crash. Shelley Turner, 25, of Delray Beach, who also died, drove her Ford Escort in the wrong direction on Interstate 95 and slammed into Gill's 2002 Nissan Altima north of Atlantic'Avenue about 4 a.m. Saturday, police said. Gill, who started working at South Tech Academy last year. taught mathematics. Kidd said. Tackaberry and Gill knew one another, though they did not work together. Kidd said. He described both teachers as friendly and well-liked by the students. -We are extremely shocked and saddened. I definitely want to give students the chance to grieve: Kidd said. this week, including those that are televised live on Channel 20, the Palm Beach County cable systems, the programming appears on Channel 20 as well. Consult your listings. 4-30 pm. today. city hall. 110 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. W. Joint pension boards quarterly, 530 p.m today. city hall. Commission workshop, 7 p.m. to- day. city hall. Boca Raton Planning Advisory Rain, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. city hall, 201 W. Pal. metto Park Road. Historic Preservation Board, 5 p.m. Tuesday. cly ha I Community Appearance Board, 7 p.m. Tuesday, community center. 150 N.W. Crawford Beautification Committee, mon Wednesday, city hall. Library Advisory Board, 4 p.m. Wednesday. library, 200 N.W. Sec- ond Ave. Airport Authority, 6 p m. Wednes- day. city hall. Emironniental Advisory Board, 7 p.m. Thursday, city hall. OD Boynton Beach Police Officers Penske Road, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. city hall. 100 E. Boynton Beach Blvd. City Commission, 6:30 p.m. Tues- day. city hall. Code Compliance Board, 7 p.m. Wednesday, city hall, Firefighters Pension Board, 4 p.m. Thursday. City hat. special CPA on the MIK centdor, 6 pm Thursday. Bethesda Memorial Hospital. 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd. Employees pension board, 1:30 p.m. Friday, city hall. Clewiston Commission workshop, 5'.30 p.m. Thursday. city hall. 115 W. Ventura Ave. Delray Beach Police Advisory Beard, 5:30 p.m. today, city hall. 100 N.W. first Ave. City Commission, 6 P.m. Tuesday. city hall. Historic Preservation Board, 6 p.m Wednesday, city hall. Greenacres Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Wednesday. city hat, 5985 10th Air N. Highland Beach Code enforcement special meeting, 930 a m Wednesday. town hall, 3614 S. Ocean Blvd. Hypoiuxo Local Planning Agency/Town CCU. dl, 7 pm. Wednesday. town hall, 7580 S. Federal Highway. Jupiter Beautification Committee, 5:30 p.m. today. municipal comma, 210 Military Trail Tom Council, 7 p m. Tuesday, mu nicipal complec Lake Clarke Shores FROM recreational grant hearing/ budget workshop/town council, 6 30 pm. Tuesday, town hall. 1701 Barbados Road. Lake Park Retired Police Officers Pension Fund, 3.30 p m. Tuesday. town hall, 535 Park Ave. Town Commission, 7:30 pm. Wednesday. town hall. Code Compliance Board, 7 p m. Thursday. town hall. Lake Worth Community Improvement Commit- tee, 6 pm. today, city hall. 7 N. Dixie Highway. City Ceenieissiell. 6 p.m. Tuesday. city hall, manning and Zoning/IMP Board, 6 p.m. Wednesday. city ha'l. Commission workshop, 5.30 p m. Thursday. city hail Lake Worth Drainage District Board of Supervise's, 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Lake Worth Drainage District 13081 Military Trail, Delray Beach Lantana Term Cooed!, 7 p.m. today, town hall, 500 Greynolds Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District Board of Mrectors, 7 p.m. Thurs. day. district administrative building, 2500 Jupiter Park Gene, Jupiter. Mangonia Park Local Planning Agency, 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. town hall, 1755 E. Tiffany Dove Town Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday. town hall. North Palm Beach County Club Advisory Board, / p.m today, village hall, 501 U.S. 1 Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Tuesday. village hall. Budget workshop, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. village hall. Ocean Ridge Town Commission, 6 p.m today. town hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd. Pahokee Safety Committee, 10 a.m. Wednesday, city hall, 171 N. take Ave Zoning, Adjustment and manning concenAng12/18114:6 for Banner, 6 pm. Thursday, city hall. Palm Beach Landmarks Preservation Commis- sion, 9 a.m. Wednesday, town hall, 360 South County Road. Code Enforcement Board, 2 p.m. Thursday. town hall Palm Beach Gardens City Carnet 7 p.m. Thursday. mu mopal complex, 10500 N Military Trail Palm Beach Shores Bodge workshop, 6 p.m. Wednes- day, town hall. 247 Edwards Lane. Palm Springs Leisure Services Board, 7 p.m. Thursday. village hall. 226 Cypress lane. Port of Palm Beach Board of Commissioners, 4 p.m. Thursday. Maritime Office Complex, 1 E 11th St., Riviera Beach. RMera Beach Agenda review, 5 p.m. today, city hal, 600 W. Blue Heron Blvd. Fire-Rescue Explorer meeting, 6 p.m. Tuesday. city hat. Utlllly District, 7 p.m. Wednesday. city hall. City Council, 7:30 p.m. Wednes day. city hall. Code Enforcement special mas- ters hearing, 2 p.m. Thursday. city hail Bleck Elected Officials special Meeting, 6 p.m. Friday. city hat. Royal Palm Beach Candidates forum, 7 p.m. Tuesday. village ball. 1050A Royal Palm Beach Blvd. Special maghtrate, 6 p.m. Wednesday. village hall. VIllage Council, 7 p in. Thursday. village hall South Indian River Water Control District Board of Supervisors, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jupiter High School. 500 N. MilitaryTrail, Jupiter, Tequesta Budget workshop, 9 a.m. Tuesday. recreation center, 399 Seabrook Road. rMago Council. 7 p.m. Thursday, recreation center. Wellington Architectural Review Board, 7 p.m. Wednesday. silage hall. 14000 Greenboar Blvd. Special master hearings, 9 a.m. Thursday. village hall, West Palm Beach CRA. 3 p.m. today. City hall, 200 Second St City Commission, 5:01 pm. today. city hall, Downtown Development Authority. 8 a.m. Tuesday, city hall. Commission workshop on source water prOtection. 4 p.m. Tuesday. city hall. Planning Board. 6 p.m. Tuesday. an hall. Special master hearings on other matters. 9 a.m. Wednesday, city hall, Special Beautification Advisory Committee. 4 p.m. Wednesday. city halt. Housing Authonty Board, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Twin takes Village, 1207 7th St, West Palm Beach. Northend neighborhood meeting. 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, env hall, Water Catchment Area Advisor), Committee, 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Grassy Waters Preserve, 8537 Northlake Blvd., West Palm Beath. Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals. 2 P.M. Thursday. city hail. Public workshop on building sue and mass regulations. 5:30 p.m. Thursday. city hall. Greater Northwood Advisory Board. 5:30 p.m. Thursday. city hall, Audit Committee. 8.30 a.m. Friday. city hall. ROWS. of RFP vendors for financial auditing services. 930 a.m. Friday, city hall. Communications Advisory Commit tee. 2 pm. Friday. 1045 Charlotte Westgate/Belvedere Homes Community Redevelopment Agency Board of Directors, 5:30 p.m. to- day. 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AUGUST 14, 2006 70 Colleagues cite chief's professionalism, IB ney's office for two reasons. First, he pressed for Epstein to be charged with the more serious crimes of sexual ac- tivity with minors. Second, he slammed State Attorney Bar- ry Krischer in blunt language seldom used by one law- enforcement official con- cerning another because of what he perceived as that of- fice's mishandling of the case. In a letter to Krischer written May 1. Reiter called his actions in the Epstein case "highly unusual." He added.-I must urge you to ... consider if good and suffi- cient reason exists to require your disqualification from the prosecution lit cases." In short, told the county's top prosecutor for the past 13 years that he ought to get off the case. It looks like a departure from professionalism," Miami- Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said of Reiter's letter. Follow .pstein's in- dictment, NM referred the case to the FBI to determine whether the super-rich. super-connected defendant had violated any federal laws. won't discuss the case or the broadsides aimed at him. But others almost uniformly use one word to describe the chief: profes- sional. "I have always been im- pressed by Mike's profes- sionalism and his leader- ship." said Rick Lincoln, chief of the Lantana Police Depart- ment and a Palm Beach County cop for 32 years. -Ile town of Palm Beach has a very professional police department. We all consider Mike to be our peer and a man of integrity." Reiter: Town Manager Peter Elwell says the Palm Beach police chiefs well worth his S144.000 sal- ary. Juno Beach Police Chief H.C. Clark II agreed. Al- though he doesn't know Re- iter well, he has met with him on countywide law enforce- ment issues. -I've never seen him lose his cool. I've never seen anything but a profes- sional demeanor from him." pill joined the Palm Be lice Department in 1981, leaving a S20,000-a-year patrol job at the University of Pittsburgh. His personnel jacket shows consistently ex- cellent job evaluations. Posh Palm Beach is no hotbed of crime, and in his first year on the job, a resi- dent confined to his lea h a sick child thank * IM for delive ' few Cokes to the house. refused payment for e erages. Mother resident thanked Reiter for shutting off his car's headlights in his drive- way, saying a valet must have been at fault. worked everything from road patrol to organized crime, vice and narcotics. And he's no novice at investi- gations invoking the island's rich and famous. He was the lead detective probing the drug overdose death of David Kennedy in 1984. He also was one of the officers who worked the investigation of William Kennedy Smith. who was charged in 1991 — and later acquitted — with raping a woman at the Kennedy family compound in Palm Beach. , who has a master's degree in human resource integrity development from Palm Beach Atlantic University. al- so has attended the FBI Na- tional Academy in Quantico. Va., and management cours- es at Harvard. He's been ac- tive in countywide interagen- cy law enforcement organizations and has a lop secret" national security clearance. "He has a perspective that's broader than just ad- dressing the needs of the town." said Town Manager Peter Elwell. who promoted Reiter from assistant chief to chief in March 2001. =I makes more than S144.000 as the town's top cop. Elwell thinks he's worth it. "He's very businesslike, very straightforward. He's not easily agitated or flam- boyant. He's about the work." Elwell said. 1 think that his service as chief has been outstanding in five-plus years." • :any verregtoboostcom 'I want to go back for my last two years and complete a lot of these things which are so vital for Southeast Florida.' RICHARD A. hiACHEK, Distnct 78 incumbent Health care, insurance high on both candidates' agendas 0. DISTRICT 78 from 1B projects he believes a newbie wouldn't have the clout to handle. "You have to earn your position and earn respect in order to get any bills passed or take home dollars for your district," Machek said. "I've been successful in that area. I want to go back for my last two years and complete a lot of these things which are so vital for Southeast Florida. A new person can't do that." The candidates will face off in the primary Sept. 5. Because of term lim- its, this is the last time Machek can run for sprawling District 78 seat, which represents portions of Palm Beach. Martin, St. Lucie. Okeecho- bee and Highlands counties. Pennan moved to Boca Raton in 1993 from Long Island. He has never held political office, but has spent the past dozen years lobbying on behalf of various chiropractic associations. He said he entered the race at the urging of friends. He has been a chiropractor for 27 years, and was named 2005 Chiropractor of the Year by the Flor- ida Chiropractic Association. I believe I am following a won- derful tradition." Perman said, rat- tling off a list of lawmakers who chal- lenged fellow party members. "they all challenged same-party Democrats because they believed they could do a better job. I'm no exception to that." Machek. a fifth generation Flo- ridian who moved to Palm Beach County in 1941, said this race has taught him to campaign all over again. "My issues are always the same," he said. 'Taking care of the constitu- ents." Machek, of Delray Beach, spent most of his career in agriculture, growing ornamental plants. He served on the South Florida Water Management District Governing Board from 1995 until 1999. More specifically. Machek said he is concerned with South Florida's water supply, environmental issues, health care and hurricane insurance. He said he worries the price of in- surance will soon "price people out of their homes." Machek said he is also preparing to help bring the California-based Burnham Institute for Medical Re- search to St. Lucie County. "I think it's going to be a battle between Orange and St. Lucie Coun- ty," Machek said. "Hopefully. St. Lucie will win." Fenian said he wants to focus on affordable health care, hurricane preparedness and response, the ris- ing cost of homeowners' insurance and finding alternative fuel sources. He said he believes patients should have access to doctors of their choice within a managed care system. He said when it comes to health in- '(Many lawmakers have) challenged same-party Democrats because they believed they could do a better job. I'm no exception to that.' STEVE PERMAN, Boca Raton chiropractor State House District 78 Richard A. Machek Age: 68 Personal: Mamed 48 years to Wanda Davis. two daughters and so granddaughters Professional: Agriculture — grew ornamental plants and managed a nursery Political background: State representative for District 78 since 2000: South Florida Water Management Distnct Governing Board 1995-1999; Pam Beach County Farm Bureau President eight years. vice president four years. Position on issaes: Concerned about South Honda's water quality and environment Wants to bring the Bumham Institute for Medical Research to St Lucie County. Is concerned about the rising cost of hurricane insurance. Steve Perman Age: 49 Personal: Mallit'd 23 years to Irene. Has two chilcHen one in college, on, n high schoo: Professional: Chiropractor Polltkal backpound: Lobbyist for various chiropractic associations Position on Issues: Concerned about affordable health care, hurricane preparedness and response. the rising cost of homeowners insurance, and finding alternative-fuel sources. Politics watch Get updated politics coverage. post messages and more. Share comments in our Florida politics forum: The Q Blog PaireEleachPoslcomfoolltics surance, executive salaries are top- heavy and keeping premium dollars from being used for patient care. Perman said said he believes stores and gas stations should be re- quired to have generators. "So they can get right back up and running again," he said. At 97, Anne Hankins drives, sails, plays tennis and serves as a volunteer COP. Breaking the laws of old age By SHAgoti vs:ERN:CND Min ikock an Surf Wnov FORT PIERCE - Even at 97. Anne Hankins is no couch potato. The spry great-grandmother tends to her vegetable and flower gardens, hosts dinner parties, drives her own car (her license is valid through 2012). goes sailing and plays tennis three times a week. "We have a wonderful group, but I'm sorry you can't play with us until you're 70." laughs this church-going Presbyterian. Hankins knows the value of exercise. She was a physical therapist at a treatment center for polio patients in Warm Springs, Ga., that was founded in 1927 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and depicted in a recent Hollywood film. Once, FDR —crippled with the disease — was her patient. "That's my only claim to fame: she says. "I stretched the president's hamstrings." Hankins is not only in good physical shape for her age, but her eyesight and hearing are still sharp, too. In 2001, she put those qualities to work as a member of the Citizens Obser- vation Patrol for the St. Lucie County Sheriffs Office. The volunteer group of 300 green-shined men and women patrol neighborhoods and parks throughout the county. Marine units also cruise the North Fork of the St. Lucie River. Volunteers must be 21 or older, reside in St. Lucie County, complete a 16-hour training course and pass a background check. They have no police powers and don't carry weap- ons. All incidents are relayed to 911. The youngest is 36 years old. Most are senior citizens and retirees. Hankins. who stands five feet tall, outranks them all — in age. I just thought it would he a good idea to help in the community," says Hankins, a Fort Pierce resident since 1973. "Everybody ought to do a little something and help out whatever way they can." For five years, she and Christi Mollet have served together as partners against crime. The duo met in 1998. Shortly after Mollet. 54. moved to her neighborhood, Hankins, a wid- ow and mother of three, was at the door to welcome her. "Anne was the first person I met." says Mollet, a retired financial planner who fosters kittens for the humane society. "She brought me a jar of homemade yam and a petition to stop the (proposed) Walton Road bridge." Their friendship blossomed from dinner parties to patrols. With Mollet at the wheel and Hankins in the passenger seat, the duo cruise twice a month for a couple of hours in a marked car through White City and Indian River Estates and along Indian River Drive. When requested, they walk the perimeter of single-family homes and check the security of doors and windows for snowbirds and out- of-towners. The women also look in on shut- ins and the elderly. -There are certainly plenty of older people who could take advantage of that," Mollet says. Without skipping a beat, Hankins fires back. "Tell me about it." Their training has taught them to recog- nize signs of crime. But even those incidents are rare. Their sole case to date was a house bur- glary, and that was years ago. On a recent pa- trol, the safe crossing of a box turtle on a dirt road was their biggest cause for alarm. Still, the women believe they make a dif Machek said the biggest differ- ence between campaigning in 2000 and campaigning in 2006 is the cost. "It's expensive!" he said. Financial records show Machek has raised $80.235. Perman $59,685. • Kerry *orkOptwoncom Inmates' blood not drawn in new test Do HIV from ID she pushed a $500,000 measure through the legis- lature last session to in- crease HIV testing at eight county jail systems, includ- ing Palm Beach County's. "We're not going to be able to make an impact on HIV unless we make an im- pact in the prisons and jails." said Dr. John P. May, re- gional director for Armor Correctional Health Servic- es, which provides medical care at the jail. A study at the Broward County Jail, which began rapid testing in December 2004 as part of a pilot pro- gram for the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention, highlighted the im- portance of HIV prevention efforts in jail. May said. Among 62 initiates who learned they had HIV through rapid testing at the jail during a 14-month peri- od, a third had developed full-blown AIDS. Those who tested posi- tive had been in jail an aver- age of 6.7 previous times. One inmate had been jailed 24 times, May said. -Imagine being in and out of jail 24 times and not getting tested any of those times," May said. "They've come in and out and we've missed opportunities to identify their disease. to treat them, to prolong their life and keep them healthy, to reduce the odds of trans- mission." At the Palm Beach County Jail, medical com- pliance manager Susan Dean believes more inmates will take a rapid test because it doesn't require blood to be drawn. Even those who tested negative but had been re- leased missed an opportu- nity to get the additional prevention counseling that would have come with the good news, she said. 'Unfortunately, many people who came in here just made a mistake," she said. "This is an opportunity for people to stop and think for a moment and start making responsible deci- sions for themselves." • angontbartantiobpostcom AIDS watch Learn more about causes and risks, plus get the latest news. PalmileachPostcom DAVD SPETCOVStet noto0 CRUISING FOR CRIME: Anne Hankins (left) and Christi Monet prepare for a recent patrol in White City. ference. "What the police department says is we're their eyes and ears." Mollet says. "They do think it deters crime by having another police car on the road. "Hopefully, that's part of the reason it is slow, because we're out here. It's nice to not see any crime." Adds Hankins with a mischievous grin. "I try to look for something evil to pounce on but it's so peaceful." On their rounds, the pair often wave at neighbors or stop to chat. For the most part, motorists respect their authority on Indian River Drive, slow down to 35 mph and follow in single file. Suddenly, someone speeds ahead of them in a no-passing zone. - that's bad, bad. bad," Mollet says. 'The only thing we can do is try and get their license number. The side of our car says Citizens.,... Observation Patrol so some people know; we're not the real cops." Hankins. the daughter of missionaries, 4 jokes that she may take up kickboxing for self-defense. But even if she ever does en-a% counter a bad guy, her sense of humor alone d be disarming. Here's a prime example: - "I got some of this literature from Harvard Medical School in the mail. I kind of laughed 7,.." about it, but then I wrote them a note. I said rm now 97. If you would send me some sugges- tions, I might be able to get to be 100." For more information about the Citizens Observation Patrol. call the Crime Prevention Unit at (772) 871-5303. • soarontvenvorvAllobpostoorn Going On Vacation Outside The U.S.? Go first to The Post's Sunday Travel section for airfares to foreign cities, currency exchange rates and travel bargains from local travel agencies. the Palm kkurit Eta Palm8eachPost(orn On A Budget? Stretch it with bargains advertised in today's Post. • EFTA01682175 8B THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14.2006 Project to open isolated Sarasota beach A Beach renourishment will allow landlubbers access to the paradise. The Assonood Ism SARASOTA — Bob Streb ran out of adjectives as he surveyed the nearly empty crescent beach: Beautiful. Amazing. Stupendous. Leading a family of 12 — wife, three daughters, three sons-in-law and four grand- children — the St. Louis man was on vacation and renting a boat to explore little Sarasota Bay. A fellow at the rental place told him about a secret, little-used beach that can be reached only by boat. "It is just phenomenal." Streb said, smoking a thin ci- gar and looking under the brim of a Panama hat at his family lounging in the shal- low water. On a recent afternoon, the haffmile-long Palmer Point Beach was populated by as few as two beachgoers and as many, when Streb's clan showed up, as 19. And all of them seemed to have a Her- nando de Soto kind of story about how they "discovered" the secluded beach. But next year, the beach that time forgot no longer will be such a secret to local sand lovers. In November, a dredging company is scheduled to start an 811.8 million beach re- nourishment that extends 2 miles north from the south- ern tip of Palmer Point Beach. The 150-foot-wide strip of sand that will be added to the eroded beach will make it easy again for anyone who doesn't mind a little walking to reach Palmer Point. The idea of pedestrians walking to "his" beach did not sit well with Chase Crumbly, who proclaimed: "We don't want more pro- filer Crumbly and his girl- friend. Mallory Maxwell. both from Frostproof. found the beach a couple of months ago while boating and had returned to relax in the gentle waves while enjoying a beer or two. rea MATTSON Pen Chase Crumbly of Frostproof relaxes off Palmer Point Beach at Sarasota For years the publicly owned paradise has been accessible only by boat Several sunbathers talked in near whispers be- cause they were under the impression that Palmer Point is a private beach, owned perhaps by some negligent wealthy landlord. But that's true only if you consider Sarasota County to fit that description. Palmer Point Beach is a marooned part of the county's beach system, cut off by erosion and private property from the heavily used Turtle Beach. half a mile to the north. Be- tween Turtle and Palmer beaches are several develop- ments, including Fisher- man's Haven and Blind Pass Seawall. Palmer Point extends from South Siesta Key's southernmost house, which is falling into the Cuff of Mexico. to the end of the key where Midnight Pass has filled in. The only legal ways to get to Palmer Point Beach are by boat or by picking your way at low tide through rock revet- ments, then splashing around a huge pink aban- doned house that's sliding into the Gulf. Property owners have granted public easements for walking in exchange for per- mits to harden their parts of the beach. but the walkways don't link. Reconnecting Palmer Point is a big part of the rea- son the county was willing to pick up such a large part of the cost of the beach project. said Laird Wreford, the county's coastal resources manager. Sarasota County and the state are paying for about 80 percent of the project's $11.8 million cost, while residents living along the gulf there will pay about $2.2 million. That's wonderful news to Christine Bass, who lives on the north end of Siesta Key and ended her frequent bicy- cle trips to Palmer Point when residents closed their gate to through traffic. 'ere's a big sign that says 'public beach.' but no- body can get to it," Bass said. "I haven't been there since they blocked it off." And she misses her beach. "It's like you're on a paradise island, the water is so many different shades of aqua." There's probably not much reason for the habitués of Palmer Point to worry about crowding on their beach. After all, it still will be a nearly haltmile walk along the restored beach to reach Palmer Point. "Even though they'd open it to the public. I can't imagine many people would make the walk," Streb said. The beach project has obvious aesthetic value. in- cluding the restoration of Turtle Beach and providing 2 miles of uninterrupted public beach. There are harder fi- nancial reasons for doing it, though. The county estimates that the value of gulf-front private property along those 2 miles is S267 million, and that does not include the value of the two public beaches. Protect- ing the value of that private land, whose owners pay the county more than $1 million a year in property taxes and another 52 million a year to schools, is part of the reason for the project, said County Administrator Jim Ley. John Hartrampf says he's happy to pay the nearly $13,000 the county is charg- ing to renourish the 60 feet of beach in front of his home, which is assessed at $1.5 million. "We spend that much on insurance every year that doesn't pay," Hartrampf said. The worry, though. is that the conditions that led to the scouring of the beach on South Siesta Key are still present. After Midnight Pass closed and its shoal col- lapsed, the currents lifted sand from South Siesta Key and deposited it on Casey Key. Renourishments are not permanent fixes, and the currents could erase this one in perhaps seven years, he said. That's why County Com- missioner Nom Patterson wants to make a permanent public walkway through the private developments' part of the project. Still Need A He ROOF uaraMeeit Delivery In L. Weeks NOT Aim Monks! ,•7 p MIL "Metal Roofing Specialists" • 40 YEAR WARRANTY • • Asphalt Shingles • Wood Shingles • Metal Roofing • Tile Rooting • Flat Roof- ing • Reroofing • Repairs COMMERCIAL • RESIDE/MAL Call for a FREE Estimate (561) 683-2692 Evans Roofing Guardmr, Metal Industries Specializing in Large Jobs • Licensed • Beaded Lk. a 0320% WE Care WE Call You Back WE Show Up WE Finish the lob 30 Years Experience NO MORE WAITING COMPETITIVE PRICING QUALITY WORK Call Now to Give Your Children the Individual Attention They Need! 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Mr. Dubov • • Epstein By TARRY KELLER Palau Brae* Post Stag Ibiter Attorneys and publicists for Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein went on the offensive Monday. contending that teenage girls who have ac- cused Epstein of sexual she- nanigans at his waterfront home are liars and saying that the Palm Beach Police De- partment is "childish." "There never was any sex between Jeffrey Epstein and camp calls female accusers liars any underage women," his lead attorney. Jack Gold• berger, said from Idaho where he was vacationing - with his fami- ly Epstein did have young women come to his house to give him massages, Goldberg- er said. "Mr. Epstein absolute- ly insisted anybody who came to his house be over the age of 18. How he verified that, I don't know. The question is. did anything illegal occur. The law was not violated here." He had no explanation as to why Epstein would pay girls or women with no massage train- ing — as the alleged victims said was the case — $200 to $300 for their visits. "The credibility of these witnesses has been seriously ques- tioned," Goldberger said. Epstein, 53, was indicted by a county grand jury last month on a charge of felony solicitation of prostitution. Af- ter an 1l-month investigation that included sifting through Epstein's trash and surveilling his home. Palm Beach police concluded there was enough evidence to charge him with sexual activity with minors. When the grand jury indicted Epstein on the less serious 2-year-old boy in serious condition mcilise, Police Chief mtir referred the case o it to determine whether there were federal law viola- tions. After a spate of stories about the case last week. New York publicist Dan Mores — whose client list has included Paris Hilton and Jennifer Lopez — said on Saturday that Ep- stein's camp was ready "to get their story out." See EPSTEIN. 98 Ifr Toddler run over by 8-year-old cousin By KEVIN DEUTSCH Paha 'Path Past &cc, lirthr The 2-year-old boy lay in the drive- way beside the beat-up Oldsmobile that hit him, a black tire mark streaked across his chest. his forearm broken and bleeding. Jasmine Addison. 12. screamed at the sight of her little cousin, Mikhi Akins, lying in the driveway. She had a weight in the pit of her stomach, a weight that, even at her young age, she identified as guilt In that moment, she wished she'd never taken her mother's keys front the kitchen; that she'd stopped her sister front putting the car into gear. The taking of those keys. Jasmine and her family said, led to Jasmine's 8- year-old sister Jakera Addison driving their mother's white Oldsmobile In- trigue into Mikhi as he stood in the driveway of the family's rented home in the 4150 block of Success Street in sub- urban West Palm Beach just before 4 pm. Monday. Jakera also backed into the beige, one-story house at one point, cracking the wall beside the front door. "She got inside and put it in reverse," Jasmine said after the crash, before de- tectives arrived and interviewed her family. "She backed up and hit him, and she backed up and hit the wall." Mikhi suffered a fractured left fore- arm and clavicle, as well as road burns to his chest, face, and abdomen. He was admitted to Delray Medical Center and was in serious but stable condition Monday night. Jasmine said she'd grabbed her mother's keys while she slept and went to the car to "roll the windows down and clean it up." At one point, she said her little sister took control of the wheel and reversed, somehow striking her cousin and dragging him through the driveway. Investigators said the keys were in the ignition or on a seat when the 8- year-old found them. started the car, put it in reverse and hit the gas. "I feel bad about taking the keys." Jasmine said. Jasmine and at least five other chil- dren had been in the home Monday af- ternoon, along with Jasmine's mother. Kimberly Hall, 32. and another family member. Danielle Hayes. 18. Hall said she'd been watching the kids, several of which arc hers, the en- tire day. She'd cooked them breakfast. made sure they ate again when Hayes .See TODDLER. 9B le OBITUARY Cantor Stephen Dubov, voice just one of his gifts By DIANNA SMITH Palau /ta i Past 94 Writer They sent out the an- nouncement barely one month ago, alerting those at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton that a search committee had hired the perfect man. Stephen Dubov, the new cantor. A witty spirit with broad shoulders and dark hair. He had a per- sonality that warmed souls and a voice that provoked tears. "We looked at cantors lit- erally from around the world? Senior Rabbi Daniel Levin said. "His voice could be ex- tremely powerful, almost penetrating, and other mo- ments. sweet and caressing. But his voice was just a small part of his talent. He had an ability to make people feel important." Levin said Mr. Dubow's death was lust a horrific shock. I really believe the Jewish people have lost a great servant" Today, tears fall for Mr. Dubov, who died unexpect- edly Saturday in Michigan of a dissected aorta, the artery tearing much like a rip in a nylon, said his wife, Chris- tine. It tore quickly, without See MR. DUBOV. 98 le Emily J. Minors column will return soon. To have and to hold DEI.RAY BEACH —Tanavia Durham, 7. hugs her new backpack, courtesy of the Delray Beach Office Depot, during Backpack Do- nation Day at the store Monday. 'Mr. Epstein absolutely insisted anybody who came to his house be over the age of 18.' JACK GOLDBERGER, Epstein's lead attorney City iffy on trash hauler's contract Staff wants a new deal with Waste Management, but not all Riviera Beach officials are sold. By VOUJAM COOPER JR. Palen Beath Post Sae Writer RIVIERA BEACH — If the workshop was to persuade the city council to keep Waste Management Inc. as the city's garbage hauler, the staff made a good case: By bidding the contract, the council risks having to raise rates and losing $1.3 million in annual fees the city gets from billing residents. Council members, however, weren't completely sold on awarding Waste Management a four-year extension on a contract it's held since 1994. when the city decided to dump its garbage division. Over the next two weeks, the council will mull whether it's worth the risk to bid the contract. renew it or scrap the deal alto- gether and go back to an in-house gar- bage operation. The latter has the least backing from staff members. They estimate it would cost about $8 million to revive Riviera Beach's public garbage collection, al- though some residents support the idea. "Nobody can do it cheaper than you; Herman McCray, the city's sanitation di- rector in 1970s and 1980s, told the coun- cil. Council Chairwoman Ann Iles called for last week's workshop to quell rumors that the city was orchestrating a secret deal with M'aste Management. Iles and the council decided to provide a forum for the public to sound off about the contract. Fewer than 20 residents showed up. Four in the audience were from Sunburst Sanitation, a competing garbage hauler. Councilwoman Liz Wade said the poor turnout showed that the rumored complaints were much ado about noth- ing. She asked her colleagues to note that there was no crowd clamoring for change. "If this was something that concerned the residents, they would be here," Wade said. "We should learn to trust our starlit you don't trust them, you need to fire them." Councilwoman Norma Duncombe jumped on the opportunity to counter Wade's comments. "Waste Management should hire See MIER& 68 m Officer Tasers, shoots armed man at taco bus The man would not drop his gun, sheriffs officials say. By ROCHELLE E.B. GILKEY! !Wm Bradt NM Stag Ivnier PAIN SPRINGS—After he was kicked out of a club early Monday morning, Jaime Pineda brought his loaded handgun to the popu- lar taco bus parked across from the Swap Shop on Lake Worth Road. A Palm Springs police officer, aware of the frequent trouble there in the early mornings, pulled into the parking lot about 5:30 a.m. and saw Pineda holding the gun at his right side while he argued with another man over a girl. The officer repeatedly or- dered the 19-year-old to drop his weapon, the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office said. Moeda did not budge. The cop shot a Taser. Pineda pulled out the prongs. Next came the bullets. The officer hit Pineda with two shots to the torso. Pinta did not fire back. But he did not drop the gun until officers kicked it out of his hand, said Teri Barbera. spokes- woman for the sheriffs office. "When he was Tasered, he still would not drop the weapon. When he was shot and dropped to his knees, he still would not drop the weapon: said Barbera. whose office is handling the in- vestigation for Palm Springs be- cause the shooting involved an officer. The sheriffs office did not release the officer's name. The Taser shot went through Pineda's shirt, but it's unclear whether it hit his skin, Barbera said. Pineda, of Greenacres, was flown to Delray Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit late Monday but was ex- See SI10011NG. 68 8- EFTA01682177 2B THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, AUGUST 8.2006 W C METRO REPORT Weather. uaffic. breaking news and special reports PalmBeachPostcomilecal McMillan IN TRAFFIC Nancy A. toes, 74, of Boca Raton died Sunday from Injuries the suffered In a traffic accident in May, according to a report from the sheriffs office. Looser was in hospice care. Five oth- er people involved in the accident. in- cluding the woman's husband. Eu- gene Loeser, suffered minor injuries. MLICE BLOTTEF' BOYNTON BEACH - Michael Thomas Mc- Millan of Boynton Beach may have stolen money from as many as 25 Hams acrt,sc the county who paid him to work on hurricane shutters or screens. police say. On Friday. McMillan. 34, was charged with schem- ing to defraud, grand theft and fraud. He posted bond Satur- day. Christopher Schwarz of Boynton Beach said he gave McMillan 83250 to install accordion shutters. "He said he was going to come for final mea- surements and never came," Schwarz said. Florida Department of Law En- forcement records show McMillan has been convicted of drug traffick- ing and possession of cocaine. David Salazar. 42, of Lake Worth was ar- rested Friday on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet According to an inci- dent report. Salazar told a St. Lucie County sheriffs detective posing as a 14-year-old girl that he wanted to travel to St. Lucie County to have sex with her. Salazar was being held Monday at the St. Lucie County jail on 8300,000 bail. WEST PALM BEACH — A man was beaten and robbed of $150 while he was walking down Southern Boulevard at Dixie Highway around 5:45 am. Monday. police said. The man was walking home from El Norteno liar on Belve- dere Road when a woman asked him to stop. Within a few seconds. a Bu- ick carrying up to six men pulled over and the men started punching him. One hit him in the back with a baseball bat, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call (561) 822- 1600. Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office -satu- ration patrols" on Friday resulted in two DUI arrests. 229 citations, 42 warnings, and one misdemeanor ar- rest, the sheriffs office said. The pur- pose of the central county patrol was to apprehend alcohol- and drug. impaired drivers, increase the pub- lic's awareness of the DUI problem and encourage people who consume an alcoholic beverage to find other transportation rather than drive themselves, officials said. The sher- iffs office also said there was an alcohol-related crash during the hours of the patrol, which ran from 8:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. Seven of the cita- tions were for red light violations and 10 for criminal offenses. Most of the remaining citations were for speed- ing, according to the sheriffs office. STREET WISE A traffic shift on Southern Boulevard that was scheduled for last an and can- celed at the last minute will take place Wednesday. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.. eastbound traffic will move to newly constructed lanes from west of Florida's Turnpike to west of Haver- hill Road. Westbound traffic will not be affected. There will be intermittent lane closures near Pike Road and Pine Avenue during the traffic switch. BRIEFLY South University officials named Nancy Borkowski academic affairs dean for its West Palm Beach campus. Borkowski. an adjunct lecturer at Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University, also has been coordinator of St. Thomas University's master's of Science in Management program and coordinator for its Graduate Study Abroad program. South University is a private college with five campuses. including ones in Tampa and West Palm Beach. 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Box 24700 West Palm Beach, FL 33416 Fax: (561) 820-4728 e-mail: letters@pbpost.com The Palm Beach am Police probe possibility woman set self on fire By STEPHANIE SLATER Palm Beath MO SW MIler DELRAY BEACH — With smoke still rising front her charred body, Christina Simmons cried weakly, "Help me. Please help me. I am in A police officer described her muffled sobs as "softly screaming." She was lying on the ground Sunday afternoon, her shirt burned off, ash, dirt and gravel covering her face. She had bums on 80 per- cent of her body. Police have no suspects. They also are looking into the possibility that the 44- year-old Delray Beach wom- an was so desperate for Oxy- Conlin that she set herself on fire. She had used fire as an attempt to get the painkiller before, Delray Beach Detec- tive Robert Stevens said Monday. In February. she told her doctor that her prescription for OxyContin burned in a fire at her Homewood Bou- levard condo, Stevens said. Her doctor called the fire department to verify the sto- ry. Firefighters then went to her home, but she refused to let them inside. Simmons, who for the past three months lived in a duplex on Northwest Sixth Court in Rainberry Woods, had been depressed lately, her roommate. Donna Levitt, told detectives. "She hadn't been eating or drinking and was behind in rent money; Stevens said, adding that he found rotting food and hundreds of fruit flies in her dresser drawers. "She said she was in a lot of pain and didn't want to live anymore." 1 Nvo people called police around 4:30 p.m. Sunday when they saw Simmons walking quickly along Northwest 12th Avenue. One woman stopped her car and told Simmons to lie on the ground. Paramedics took Sim- mons to Delray Medical Center where she told them that someone poured some- thing on her, but she did not know who did it, according to a police report. Shortly after 7 p.m.. she was flown by Trauma Hawk to Tampa General Hospital's Burn Unit. She remained in critical condition Monday, a spokeswoman said. Police searched neigh- boring streets for clues and found circular patches of burned grass in a dirt alley- way behind Byrd's Paint and Body Shop between North- west 11th and 12th avenues. A gold cane with a worn black handle, some partly burned clothes and a melted plastic Winn Dixie bag con- taining a Gatorade bottle, cigarettes and more clothing were nearby. Police could not find any evidence of an accelerant in the alley. But on Monday they found a half-empty one- gallon gas can on the passenger-side floor of her white Jeep Cherokee, which was parked in front of her duplex. "Whether that's the ac- celerant or not, we don't know." Stevens said. "Every- thing's going to the lab to be tested." Simmons' father, Edward Simmons, flew front his Hempstead. N.Y., home to the Tampa bum unit on Monday and could not be reached for comment. Erika Moreno of Delray Beach said Simmons shared her mother's Homewood Boulevard condo for about eight months. "She was a nice girl. . . . She had her problems, we'll just put it that way," Moreno said. Simmons previously lived in Nashua. N.H. Her landlord described her as a bright woman who had "is- sues" stemming from a ski- ing accident nearly 10 years ago. Detectives said Sim- mons had broken her back. Anyone with information is asked to call Delray Beach Detective Robert Stevens at (561) 243-7868 or Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at (800) 458-TIPS (8477). Staff researcher Bridget Bulger contributed to this story. 0 stephanie slatetOpOpostcom • Spare bedroom El Storage locker {So which will it be?} Bristol Trading Company transforms online auctioning from a tedious, poorly managed venture into a profitable, liberating experience. Just bring in your unneeded possessions or have our convenient home collection service retrieve them. 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The num- ber of people that could arrive here, he says, would be great enough to rival, if not surpass the Marie] boat lift of 1980. "That is a reality," McPherson said. —That's something we need to be prepared for." Officials, business own- ers and average citizens alike here recognize that this city's proximity to Cuba in a time of political uncertainty could make it vulnerable. But few in laid-back Key West say the possibility of such change has them losing any sleep. Mike Morrow, a 61-year- old retired police officer who has lived here for 10 years, sounded sentiments many locals seem to share. "If it goes good, if it doesn't go good, he said, "I don't know that it'll affect me one way or another." If history repeats itself. though, Morrow and others could be wrong. In 1980, when Castro al- lowed those who wanted to leave the island to depart by boat from the small Mariel port, Key West was inundat- ed as roughly 125,000 people crossed the Florida Straits and arrived here. Depending on what hap- pens in Cuba in the months following Castro's death, up- ward of 500,000 people could leave the island nation, esti- mated Andy Gomez. an as- sistant provost at the Univer- sity of Miami who is also a senior fellow in the school's Institute for Cuban and Cu- ban American Studies. Castro, who turns 80 this month, temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul last week when he underwent abdominal surgery. leading to a- Sion that his death might be imminent. "I think there are some Cubans that are willing to go anywhere — Puerto Rico, Central America, Honduras, Mexico — anywhere," he said. Such an exodus could be warded off, Gomez said, if some limited economic re- forrns were put in place or if the new Cuban government made even minor improve- ments, such as increasing the amount of food that residents are given. But Gomez sug- gested the island's new lead- er might open the border again simply in hopes of prompting a mass migration to the U.S. and potentially embarrassing the White House. Cubans here express a variety of views. Some, like 53-year-old Luis Lao Rod- riguez, want to return to their homeland. Others, like 49- year-old Angel Ramos, can't imagine leaving the U.S. And still others, like Arturo Cobo, are ready to fight. Cobo fought in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and later led efforts to help Cubans ar- riving during the Mariel boat lift. He is waiting for the day :hange begins to occur with- n Cuba. and he says he is eady to join the fight for de- meracy. -The people who have en waiting for this, that lye been preparing — tt y're going to wait, they're ging to go there, they're g4ing to help to liberate our cowry," 65-year-old Cobo . The Coast Guard has a plan in place to deal with a potential mass migration front Cuba arriving on unsafe rafts and boats. 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Mr. Dubov was an actor in his early years and performed small parts in more than 150 movies, including Saturday Aright Fever, Arthur and Cadil- lac Man. He was in the televi- sion soap opera Guiding Light, studied at The Metropolitan Opera in New York and be- came part of Broadway per- formances such as Shenan- doah and Pirates of Penzance. Mr. Dubov eventually de- cided to pursue his goal of becoming a cantor. He trav- eled to Israel to begin his studies so he could one day take on the role as clergyman and the one responsible for the musical celebration of Jewish life. "We had met with him for our boys? said Karen Saul, a member of the temple whose sons are preparing for their bar mitzvahs. 'They didn't want to sing, but he sat down at his keyboard in his office and had them both singing. It was wonderful. He was ready to do good things here." He serenaded his family. In the dining room. the kitchen. even the back yard. Mr. Dubov would sing and they would dance. He made things fun and taught his children to enjoy life. His son. Mel, begins col- l4ce this fall. His daughter. Aleksandra. is a voice major at Indiana University. After a memorial today in Michigan. she will sing at her father's funeral scheduled for 10:30 am. Thursday at Temple Byth El. He will be buried in Boca Raton. T Mr. Dubov left South Florida on Saturday after. nOon and traveled to his home in West Bloomfield to help his family pack. They wanted to move to Palm Beach County because Mr. I hibov fell in love with the clergy, his wife said, and be- cause his parents, David and Joan, live here. On Saturday evening, he said he wasn't feeling well. He was rushed to the hospital and died that night. One of Mr. Dubov's many accomplishments was his part in a 1995 cantata called liberation, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camps in Europe. He was chosen as one of the soloists by the musical's composer, Cantor Meir Finkelstein. Eleven years later, Finkel- stein asked Mr. Dubov to perform the role again, this time with the Detroit Sym- phony Orchestra. And he did. On June 29. His beautiful voice exploded from his body and captivated the audience, just as he had done before — onstage in Las Vegas, in movies, in his home and even as he did during his short time at Temple Beth El. Mr. Dubov sang. He brought people to tears. And 1w warmed their souls. "His solo was one of the highlights of the evening. It was amazing. His wife and children were there to enjoy his final performance? Finkelstein said. 'hat's what it was. His final performance." • a n n a _ s m b p o s t a x n Attorney: Police gave media `distorted view' ► EPSTEIN front/8 They did that Monday via Gold- berger and a Los Angeles publicist for Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black, who also has represented Epstein in the case. "We just think there has been a distorted view of this case in the me- dia presented by the Palm Beach po- lice? Goldberger said. Reiter has consistently declined to comment on the case and did not respond to a request for comment Monday. The implication that State Attor- ney Barry Krischer was easy on Ep- stein by presenting the case to a grand jury rather than filing charges directly against him is wrong, Gold- pease' the chief, Goldberger said. berger said. A state attorney's spokesman "Ile Palm Beach Police Depart- would say only that the office refers ment was "happy and ecstatic" that cases to the grand jury when there the panel was going to review the are issues with the viability of the evidence. 1 think what happened is evidence or witnesses' credibility. they weren't happy with the result. Both the state attorney and the They decided to use the press to grand jury concluded there was not embarrass Mr. Epstein." sufficient evidence that Epstein had But records show that Reiter sex with minors, according to Gold- wrote Krischer on May 1 — well be- berger. "It was just a childish perfor- fore the case wentto the grand jury — mance by the Palm Beach Police suggesting that Krischer "consider if Department," Goldberger said. good and sufficient reason exists to The defense attorney said one of require your disqualification from the the alleged victims who claimed she prosecution of these cases" was a minor was in fact over the age Rather than flat-out decline to of 18. Another alleged victim who charge Epstein, Krischer referred was subpoenaed to testify to the the case to the grand jury to "ap- grand jury failed to do so. Epstein's • Ian_ ktilt•WPOOSLCOM Epstein investigation Read a letter from Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter to State Attorney Barry MiSCher on the Epstein probe. PeltalloachPost.com accusers, he added, have histories of drug abuse and thefts. "These wom- en are liars. We've established that? But why would they all invent their stories about meeting Epstein for sexual massages? 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Instead, State Attorney Barry Krischer left the public to wonder whether the system tilted in favor of a wealthy. well-connected alleged perpetrator and against very young girls who are alleged victims of sex crimes. Mr. Krischer took the unusual step of referring the case to a grand jury, which last month indicted Jeffrey Epstein on one felony count of solici- tation of prostitution. That decision came after Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz met with prosecu- tors to undermine the credibility of the 14-to 17-year-old girls who charged that Mr. Epstein had paid them $200 to $300 to undress and massage him in his five-bedroom, 71/2thath home on the Intracoastal Waterway. The girls, Mr. Dershowitz told prosecutors, had written on myspace.com about smoking mari- juana and drinking alcohol. But if the girls have a credibility problem, what about Jeffrey Epstein? Mr. Goldberger, told The Post: "Mr. Ep- stein absolutely insisted anybody Underage girls. A Palm Beachen Just one charge. who came to his house be over the age of 18. How he verified that, I don't know." And prosecutors took him at his word? Police collected evidence that refutes Jeffrey Epstein's defense. Po- lice searched his home and garbage and found phone messages about the girls' school schedules and even a high school transcript, suggesting that Mr. Epstein at least knew that the girls were teenagers. The state attorney's office has responded to criticism from Palm Beach police and others by noting the higher standard prosecutors face for conviction than law-enforce- ment officers do for arrest. But in this case, the state attorney bowed to the risk that a jury might look at both Jeffrey Epstein and the girls, and point fingers at both sides. Even if the girls could be im- pugned as prostitutes, solicitation of a minor is a crime. Former disc jockey and teacher Bruno Moore was charged with that lliesday. Investiga- tors say the 34-yeanold used the In- ternet — myspace.com — to recruit a 13-year-old. Police say Jeffrey Epstein used a 20-year-old woman who had a myspace.com account to recruit young girls. His actions were sleazy. It would have been good to ask a jury just how criminal they were. EFTA01682181 20A 1HE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY, AUGUST 4.2006 The Palm Beach Post TOM GIUMUDA. PublisAn JOHN BARMSEK. Editor Bill. ROSE, Managiag Editor JAN TUCKWOOD, Associate Editor CHARLES GERARDL General Moray. RANDY SCHULTZ, Editor War Editonal Page ROBB OISEN, VP Adwrizarg BARRY BERG. VP Cankgierre LARRY %MIK EPA Manua GALE BOWDEN, VP Conuonty Priatwou and Marti* LINDA MURPHY. VP Mina &morn BOB IWFE. VP OpenttaTts LAURA DECK CUNNINGHAM. Dinnd or. Marbling Service. DAN SHORITS. Grand /domor. PabliBrothitat CUM Drivers: Get ready for technological turnpike The new SunPass-only inter- change that opened off the Beeline Highway is Florida's 'Ilimpike of- ficials latest showcase for new ef- ficiencies and convenience on the toll mad. The $27.5 million facility, which doesn't accept cash, aLso has been criticized as the wrong idea in the wrong location for the retired residents on tight budgets and veterans traveling to the Veterans Administration hospital in Riviera Beach. Officials should cast more than a rearview eye toward needs as Florida motors toward a more technological turnpike. Although many drivers will have to adjust, the proliferation of "electronic tolling also is a nudge toward what is saving motorists time and money. The SunPass tran- sponder, which affixes to auto wind- shields for automatic toll deduction. costs $25. It lets Florida's 2.2 mil- lion SunPass users travel nonstop through toll plazas while paying 25 cents less on average than cash customers. The latter increasingly will have to use toll booths on the side of the highway until all tolls are collected electronically in the next two decades. SunPass-only facilities are much less expensive to construct. The transponders process four times as many vehicles per hour as an at- tendant in a toll booth, which is why 61 percent of customers pay with them, said turnpike spokesman Chad Huff. Add the fact that a less SunPass-only is future, but customers need help. expensive version of SunPass could be available to all potential custom- ers in the not-so-distant future." he said, and the SunPass-only con- figuration "only makes sense." He's correct that each motorist who uses the SunPass-only lanes means one fewer at the adjacent Palm Beach Gardens and Okeechobee Boule- vard interchanges. That translates into congestion relief overall. If not unintended consequences, however, technology such as the free wireless Internet service slated soon for turnpike rest stops always raises more questions. How will tourists leaving an airport in their rental cars, for example, know theyll need SunPass before they reach certain toll plazas? Even driv- ers familiar with electronic tolling in other states might not know that the exit a mile from Aunt Martha's house is SunPass-only. People who purchase transponders preloaded with a certain amount of tolls could conceivably leave the state without having fully redeemed their Sun- Pass investment. Might the unused portions become charitable dona- tions? More adjustments may be needed to help turnpike officials better serve those whom the new efficiencies might not serve best. GOP wages class war House Republicans gave the na- tion a cynical example of partisan gamesmanship when they tied an increase in the minimum wage to a tax cut for multimillionaires, The case for the wage increase is compelling and shouldn't be burdened by political opportun- ism. Workers who earn the current minimum of $5.15 an hour. less than $11,000 a year, fall far below the poverty line. About 36 million Americans — roughly one in eight of us — live in poverty, a quiet dis- grace. Congress hasn't raised the minimum wage in nine years, but lawmakers have given themselves $35,000 in raises during the same period. Think of how costs of living have risen since 1997 — what it was like to go to the supermarket mid- way through the Clinton adminis- tration and what it's like now — and the idea of a minimum wage frozen at $5.15 an hour seems absurdly unfair. Congress has neglected the raise for so long that many states have done it on their own, including Florida, which increased it to $6.40 through constitutional amendment. The deal the House Republicans advanced calls for raising the mini- mum by $2.10 in increments over three years. But the plan includes a poison pill for Democrats, Just in time for the November elec- tions, the proposal has a provision that would carve out an estate tax Minimum for workers, maximum for wealthy exemption for couples worth up to $7 million. Government audi- tors figure that about 8,200 people would qualify for an average tax cut of $1.4 million, which will cost the government about $700 billion during the next 10 years. The loss in revenue could actually lead to the termination of programs for the same poor people whom the wage increase is supposed to help. Because of the creative packag- ing. Democrats who oppose creat- ing another tax cut for the rich — especially while the nation is draining the treasury in Iraq — also will have to oppose raising the mini- mum wage. The credit for devising this diabolical trap goes to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R:fenn., who Ls grooming himself to run for the presidency and wants to deliver on the long-held GOP promise to cut the estate tax. The latest ploy is to tie the tax cut to the cleanup of abandoned coal mines. Congress should have raised the minimum wage years ago, and for Republicans now to hold it hostage to tax relief for their constituents is legislative chicanery at its worst. Can't wait for history "I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have seen it," Gen. John Abizaid, the top US. commander in the Middle East, told senators on Thursday. He wasn't just talking about the number of casualties. The killers are choosing their methods and targets for increased shock value. Just one example: On Wednesday, bombs planted at a neighborhood soccer field killed 12 people, most of them children. If nothing is done, Gen. Abizaid said, "Iraq could move toward civil war" Of course, Iraq already is moving toward civil war. And the question is not whether something should be done; the question is, what can be done to stop it? The Bush administration has not shown that it knows how to answer that question. The latest plan, al- ready under way, is to move more US. and Iraqi troops into Baghdad. But, as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said, the plan involves transferring troops from other areas of Iraq, which could simply lead to in- creased violence in those areas. At the hearing, Gen. Peter Pace. • Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, agreed that, "We do have the possibility of • (Iraq) dewlving into civil war: Yet Defense Secretary Donald Burnside', who also testified, again denied that the administration had sent too few troops to do the job. "It To avoid civil war, Iraq needs good decisions now will be interesting to see," he said, "what history decides." U.S. troops and their families, as well as the Iraqis dying every day. are more than Interested" in whether Mr. Rumsfeld and President Bush are making good decisions. The generals and Mr. Rumsfeld also continued the administration's soft retreat from taking full respon- sibility for the outcome. "We can't want freedom fur the Iraqi people more than they want it for them- selves," Mr. Iturnsfeld said. "Shiite and Sunni are going to have to love their children more than they hate each other," Gen. Pace said. "The weight of that must be on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government." "Hue, but weren't we supposed to show the Iraqis how to govern peacefully and give them a window of stability in which to begin? Asked at the hearing about the new plan to halt sectarian violence, Mr. Rumsfeld said. "I can't predict if it will work this time," but the plan represents "the best judgment" of military and administration offi- cials. lb work, "the best judgment" will have to be much better than the .previous best. THE PASSION OF THE MEL GIBSON He was over 50. And they were girls If the women whom Palm Beach police say a part-time town resident invited to his home and paid for sex acts were. in fact, women, the solicitation charge against Jeffrey Epstein might feel more sufficient. But, according to police records, they weren't. He was over 50. And they were girls. 14. 15. 16. 17-year-old gins. That should count for some- thing — the dif- ference between Elba prostitution and Cramer pedophilia. So, it is baffling that Mr. Epstein. who was indicted last month by a grand jury on one felony count of solicitation of pros- titution, has not been charged, as Palm Beach police strenuously urged, with unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Conviction of crimes against mi- nors would mean steeper penalties than the maximum five-year prison term Mr. Epstein faces if convicted of the single count of felony solicita- tion. It also would help carry a mes- sage of intolerance to perverts who prey on girls. Prosecutors did not pursue charg- es against Mr. Epstein reflecting the age of the victims because they assumed a jury would view the girls not as victims but as promiscuous, untrustworthy, willing participants. The presumption is offensive. Mr. Epstein. a 53-year-old Man- hattan money manager who has hired Harvard law professor Alan Dershosvitz and defense attor- ney Jack Goldberger, has denied knowing how old the girls were. Jury should have decided if Epstein is a pedophile. But police interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, as well as phone mes- sages, a high school transcript and other items that police found from searching Mr. Epstein's trash and 7,234-square-foot waterfront home. provide evidence that he knew the girls were teenagers. One girl couldn't show up when Mr. Epstein wanted because she had soccer Another time. Mr Ep- stein had to wait for his "massage session because the girl he wanted was still in class. Why didn't State Attorney Barry Krischer let a jury decide whether to believe the teenagers — in- cluding a 16-year-old who went to Mr. Epstein's house to "work" in December 2004 after being asked whether she needed to make money for Christmas gifts? Prosecutors gave greater weight to the details Mr Dershowitz pro- vided about the girls in an apparent effort to assail their character. Mr. Dershowitz pointed out to prosecu- tors that some of the teenagers had talked on nnspace.corn about nutri- juana and alcohol use. The 20-year-old Royal Palm Beach woman who told donee she recruited girls for Mr. Epstein has a Web page on myspace.com that es one girl using the name Althoug no c antes of witness tampering have been filed, the par- ents of at least one of the teenage victims complained to police of be- ing followed and intimidated by two men. Police determined that their vehicles were registered to two pri- vate investigators. Mr Goldberger denied knowing anything about it. Police also note in their reports that the state attorney's office of- fered Mr Epstein a plea deal that would have placed him on proba- tion for five years. allowing him ultimately to walk away with no criminal record at all. I asked Mr. Krischer's spokes- man, Mike Edmondson, why the case was referred to a grand jury in- stead of Mr. Epstein being charged and facing a trial before a jury. And shouldn't the victims credibility be a factor to determine whether a crime's been committed, not wheth- er a jury will convict? (After all, as Mr. Goldberger told The Palm Beach Post of Mr Epstein. "He's never de- nied girls came to the house.") Especially, I asked Mr. Edmond- son to explain: Why shouldn't the public look at this case and think there are two kinds of just ice — one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us? Mr. Edmondson said he could not comment on the case because it is active, but on the latter point, he offered, for the sake of "philosophi- cal debate": "Whether wealth buys a different standard of justice across the country ... the answer to that would, of course, be yes" But in thi? case, he said, "regard- less of the battery of attorneys, the outcome would be the same. Every issue that was debated in public was debated in our office before this case went to the grand jury" In this case, it is not the victims' credibility but the state attorney's that deserves questioning Elisa Cramer is an editorial writerfor The Palm Beach Post. Her e-mail address is elisa_cnumeriapbpostcom David Ignatius Turning disaster to opportunity Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East, I find myself looking back- ward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. That long-ago war, like the cur- rent one in Lebanon. began with an Arab sneak attack — a potentially devastating Egyptian thrust across the Suez Canal, cruelly launched on Israel's holiest day. The Israelis initially fumbled against a surpris- ingly ferocious Arab assault and then recovered thanks to aggressive military operations. Then, as now, there was a diplo- matic uproar over a United Nations cease-fire. The Israelis wanted more time to transform their initial reversals into military gains. At the height of the crisis, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger secretly cabled the Israeli ambasKdor to Washington that "we would under- stand if Israelis felt they required some additional time for military dispositions," according to docu- ments released in 2003 by the Na- tional Security Archive. The 1973 war seemed like the ul- timate disaster Israel's survival was at stake in the battle's early hours. As the war dragged on, there was a risk of a US. Soviet nuclear confron- tation; and the conflict triggered an Arab oil embargo that rksrastated the global economy. Because of its close alliance with Israel, the Unit- ed States was isolated front many of its European and Arab allies. Yet in the long lens of history, the importance of the 197.E war is that it opened the door to peace. The Ar- abs humiliated by earlier wars with Israel, now could claim a measure of dignity because of Anwar Sadat's attack across the canal. The Israelis learned that their Arab adversaries wouldn't run from battle, as they had in the 1967 war. That gave them a stake in making peace, too. After the war ended. Egypt and Syria joined in active diplomacy, masterfully orchestrated by Di. Kissinger, who managed to create enough distance between the Unit- ed States and Israel to allow some negotiating room. Mr. Sadat felt confident enough as the "hero of the crossing" to make his famous trip to Jerusalem. Even the terrorist group of the day, the Palestine Liberation Organization, was drawn into a web of secret liaison with the CIA. The 1973 war marked a historic turning point, in ways that no one initially could have predicted. And it is just possible that the current conflict offers a similar opportunity. The key missing element, so far at least, is a Kissinger-level diplomatic commitment by the United States. Condoleezza Rice came close to a Lebanon peace deal last weekend, but to pull it off, she will need to move more toward Dr. Kissinger's stance of honest broker. To turn the Lebanon disaster of 2006 into an opportunity, each side will have to alter its view of the oth- er. In dealing with the Palestinians and the Lebanese, the Israelis will have to revise their doctrine that their adversaries can be coerced solely by military force. As Gal Tuft, a Mired Israeli military offi- cer, commented at a conference in Washington last week, the day§ are dress is davidignatiusrOwashposixom long past when Arab fighters would see the advancing Israeli army, dis- card their boots and flee in terror The strategy of Israel's (and America's) enemies today is to lure the military superpower into a pro- tracted conflict. lb accept the bait. as the Israelis did in assaulting Leb- anon and as America did in Iraq. is to risk stepping into a trap. As Law- rence Wright says in his new book, The Zooming Tower, the master of this approach is Osama bin Laden: "His strategy was to continually at- tack until the U.S. forces invaded; then the mujahadeen would swarm upon them and bleed them until the entire American empire fell from its wounds." The Israeli and American resolve in this grim summer of war should be: No more falling into traps. In the age of missiles, there's limited value in a "security fence" or "se- curity buffer" The evidence grows that you can't achieve real security without negotiating with your ad- versaries or succeed without offer- ing reasonable concessions, For the Arabs. the opportunity of 2006 lies in the surprising success of Hezbollah and its leader Hasan Nasrallah. Their resistance on the battlefield makes them more dan- gerous adversaries — but also more plausible negotiating partners. Lit- tle in Nasrallah's past suggests that he will use his new stature to en- courage indirect negotiations with Israel, but, as 1973 reminds us, the aftermath of war can produce big surprises. US. officials recognize that Nasrallah probably will emerge as the strongest political force in Beirut and hope he will make strate- gic choices that will build a stronger and more stable Lebanon. This war is opening a door: Will the combatants have the good sense to walk through it? 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