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PAGE B01MD2NA0619 SECTION UNDAY UNE 19 2005 EWS ATCH EWS ATCH INSIDE: Steve Jobs offers life lessons. B7 Editorials and commentary are on B2-3 NewsWatch continues on B4 ISSUES ANALYSIS PHOTOS BY ANDREW CUTRARO POST-DISPATCH Gene Simes, a Marine Corps and Vietnam War veteran from Rochester, N.Y., leads fellow Marine Corps veterans on an impromptu march along a replica of the Vietnam Memorial as they pay their respects to their fallen comrades in Branson, on Wednesday. Simes is followed by Lyle Emme of Hutchison, Charles Row of Jackson, and Andrew Ivey of Fort Worth, Texas. Vietnam War veterans of the 101st Airborne Division carry a 38-foot-by- 20-foot as they march down Shepherd of the Hills Expressway in a parade on Friday. Tens of thousands of Vietnam War veterans have gathered in the town for a weeklong tribute called, Home: Tribute to Vietnam CONCERT TIME: The Riverport Amphitheater, a new concert venue in Maryland Heights, held its inaugural concert featuring Steve Winwood and Robert Cray on June 14, 1991.

It is now the UMB Bank Pavilion. Source: Louis by Joe Sonderman TICKET TROUBLE: A new policy at Busch Stadium, where Cardinals tickets are scanned instead of torn, has resulted in cases of fans going into the ballpark, then passing their intact tickets out to someone who resells them. Unsuspecting buyers are then turned away when they try to get into the game. A BRIDGE TOO FAR: Transportation cials plan to add safety lights to the Discovery Bridge over the Missouri River after the latest incident in which someone trying to jump between spans missed and landed in the river. TIED UP: Construction on Interstate 44 near Cuba, has caused lengthy jams for motorists who use the highway for summer getaways.

our substantial efforts over the past years, we have been unable to get the Blues and the Savvis Center anywhere close to a combined break- even in our projecctions. This leaves us with no other choice but to search for a new Mark Sauer president of the Blues was really hard to believe what he was telling foreman Paul Rodriguez on the testimony of Michael accuser, after Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of Dr. Jon Thogmartin who lead a team that performed an autopsy on Terri Schiavo Senate failed you and your ancestors and our Sen. Mary Landrieu on a resolution that apologizes for the failure to enact laws against lynching cut and run because of image problems is the wrong, wrong thing to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on suggestions that the U.S. close the Guantanamo Bay prison smart too late and old too soon.

I just got caught up in that suction cup. I feel like Rip Van Winkle right Boxer Mike Tyson after his latest defeat took me a while to get my head together, so this is my Vietnam veteran Butch Meilinger at the reunion held in Branson last week I die, when Oliver R. Nelson who earned his high school diploma at age 83 VERBATIM INTHENEWS FLASHBACK GUANTANAMO BAY Durbin stays on attack over prisoners Oil, corn states square off on energy bill EIRDRE HESGREEN Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON en. Dick Durbin was recently sifting through a stack of Justice Department memos for ammunition to use against one of the Bush nominees to the agency when one document caught his attention. It was an FBI description of maltreatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

The report help Durbin with his case against the nominee, but the Illinois Democrat pulled it out last week on the Senate for a speech blasting the administration for what he called in the wake of Sept. 11. salvo, however, caught heavy criticism itself, and may have caused some collateral damage both to his own rising prominence as one of the savviest political warriors and to the broader argument about the treatment of detainees captured in Afghanistan and Iraq. A sharp-tongued, bare-knuckled partisan, Durbin gained national stature this year with his elevation to the Senate No. 2 leadership post.

With that job has come increased scrutiny. His remarks last week put him at the center of a burgeoning brouhaha, eliciting a string of condemnations from the White House, conservative talk show radio hosts, and even some of his normally collegial GOP colleagues. ILL AMBRECHT Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON ast Alton Mayor Fred Bright has tangible reasons to oppose curbs on suits to clean up pollution from an infamous gasoline additive: a $5.1 million check from oil companies deposited recently in the bank account. The money arrived in April thanks to a suit over the contaminant MTBE, and the yearly interest alone will enable East Alton to keep its water clean and drinkable for the foreseeable future. But as a new national energy policy nears passage in the Senate, oil-state members of Congress are demanding limitations on future liability for manu- facturers of MTBE.

Until a deal is struck that suits them, House Majority Leader Tom Delay, R- Texas, and his allies vow to withhold their support for an energy bill that includes a provision of huge consequence to the Midwest: a new federal requirement that doubles the use of ethanol. Two years ago, the MTBE standoff derailed what would have become the energy bill in a decade, and it could do so again. But this time, with gas prices climbing and a stronger bipartisan to the energy bill, there is new pressure to resolve the issue. Last week, President George W. Bush promised to get involved.

is the time to stop the debate and the partisan bickering and pass an energy bill. I look forward to working with members of the Congress to come up with reasonable compromises on outstanding issues such as the president said in a speech in Washington. East experience speaks to the vexing nature of the problem. The town was looking at shutting down its water plant after the discovery that MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), a smelly and unhealthful gasoline additive being phased out, was leaching into wells from underground gas tanks. The Illinois senator caused a storm after saying the mistreatment of detainees could sound like actions taken by the Nazis.

He reaf- his support for troops, but not apologizing. See Energy, B4 See Durbin, B6 Link to more information on Operation Homecoming USA, including our earlier story from Branson, at STLtoday.com/links hey came from near and far to a place that takes pride in honoring wartime heroes. They came to remember. They came so others never forget. They came to hear the words, home, Thousands of Vietnam veterans descended on Branson, during the past week for a homecoming that organizers said is 35 years overdue.

Home: Tribute to Vietnam was a weeklong $5 million celebration that included concerts, a parade, reunions and more. Honoring Vietnam vets MORE IMAGES AND COVERAGE ON B5 GIVE AND TAKE Midwest lawmakers seek a federal requirement that could double the use of ethanol. Oil producers want to limit liability in lawsuits over MBTE, a gasoline additive being phased out..