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Tickets on sale today for DIA's Degas exhibit. THE WAYWS LIVE, IE Downtown eateries cater to Lions fans. roco, it Today's excerpt: The inside story of how the Wings got goalie Dominik Hasek SPOUTS, ID GUARD FOR 171 YEARS Yi II A vr -7 A El 1 EiETEO FIIfflL rfyrin TUESDAY Sept. 10, 2002 iU 1 MM 1 35 cents 50 mitu uuutitfo 6-cuunty mHru area 1 frcc.cc ONE YEAR 1 MIR tout a Bush, ssing ooraer cro of Ol i Jl If HWnW T1 i i i Jl! 3 nil yii rcrs Ex-Wolverine player charged with thwarting investigation By DAVID ASHENFELTER FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER DOUG MILLS Associated Press Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien pumps his fist before a speech Monday at the Ambassador Bridge with President George W. Bush.

Express lanes, ID cards will help to speed commuters through Customs ByTAMARAAUDI and JEFF BEN FIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS NBA star and former Wolverine Chris Webber, left, and his father, Mayce Webber Jr. Chris Webber, his father Mayce Webber Jr. and aunt Charlene Johnson will bearraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit, but no date has been set. NCAA ACTION The NCAA must decide what, if any, penalties to impose on the University of Michigan because of potential rule violations involving booster Eddie Martin and his involvement with Webber and other basketball players.

MARTIN'S CASE Martin is to be sentenced Oct. 8 on a money laundering charge. He pleaded guilty in May and has been cooperating with the government and U-M in their investigations of payments to basketball players. QUOTE The indictment is ''based mostly on Chris Webber's stupidity." William Mitchell III, Martin's lawyer. Crossing the U.S.

and Canadian border in Michigan could become a lot easier for commuters and businesses starting next year under two new initiatives praised Monday by President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. The leaders visited Detroit to officially launch the Nexus and Free and Secure Trade (FAST lane) programs, which are designed to help speed frequent border commuters through U.S. and Canadian customs inspections. "This great and peaceful border must be open to business, must be open to people and it's got to be closed to terrorists and criminals," Bush said Monday afternoon from underneath the Ambassador Bridge. Bush added that inspectors will spend less time inspecting On the basketball court for the Sacramento Kings, Chris Webber has made a career out of blocking opponents.

But what works on the hardwood doesn't fly with grand juries, according to federal prosecutors. The 29-year-old power forward, his father and aunt were indicted in Detroit on Monday on charges of conspiring to block a federal grand jury probe of cash and gifts Webber and his father allegedly received during Webber's Fab Five years at the University of Michigan. The 10-page indictment said Webber, who lives in Detroit and Sacramento; his father, Mayce Webber 55, of Farmington Hills, and aunt, Charlene Johnson, 49, of Southfield lied to University of Michigan investigators and a federal grand jury investigating payments that U-M basketball players and their families received from school booster Eddie Martin. The indictment didn't say how much Martin gave Webber and his family. However, when Martin, 68, pleaded guilty in May to a money laundering charge in exchange for leniency, he said he loaned $280,000 to Webber when the NBA star was at U-M.

One of Webber's lawyers wouldn't discuss the indictment. "I don't want to make any comment until I have had a chance to talk to him," said L. Fallasha Er-win of Detroit, who handles Webber's business affairs. "I'm just surprised," Erwin added without elaborating. Although Webber has acknowledged in interviews that he received money from Martin, he has said it was as insignificant as the subsequent controversy.

Please see BORDER, Page 2A TIM SLOANAgence France-Presse President George W. Bush speaks at the Ambassador Bridge as Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien listens. Bush sought support on proposed action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. 'km cjELflld have mfes scoui Drew Sharp: Indictment unnerves U-M. ID Regime focused on adding stockpile, study finds Map of where Iraq may be making, storing weapons.

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0 Editorials and Other Voices. 6A-7A Coming Wednesday: Special coverage throughout the Free Press. Previous stories and related coverage: recp.com debate over possible military action against Iraq. But the Bush administration used the 100-page report to bolster its argument that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is a growing threat to regional stability and world peace. Three days before Bush is to appear before the United Nations to make his case against Iraq, the president called UN, European, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian and Turkish leaders and met WASHINGTON As President George W.

Bush pressed world leaders to support an attack on Iraq, a top foreign-affairs think tank said Monday that Iraq has a ready arsenal of biological and chemical weapons and could make nuclear bombs quickly if it imported enriched uranium. A report by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies took no sides in the with a skeptical Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien at the U.S.-Canadian border in Detroit to lay out his case for a regime change in Iraq. The report said developing weapons of mass destruction is one of Iraq's top priorities. MX Tfn- Please see WEBBER, Page 5A Please see IRAQ, Page 3A 'Metro incomes soar, but a big gap exists By ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA FREE PRESS STAFF R1TER Attorney Ruth Johnson, 40, moved from Lansing to Detroit in 1989 and rolled with the good times. She later started a nonprofit consulting business.

Census shows a shift in city toward charter schools. IB Michigan child poverty drops for most. 4B cording to the 2000 census. It was a decade earlier. In Wayne County as a whole, median income levels jumped 12 percent to $40,776.

Oakland County residents saw income levels jump by 10 percent to $61,907. Macomb County median incomes from U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Overall, metro-area residents benefited substantially from the boom of the 1990s as the stock market skyrocketed, auto sales hit record marks and unemployment rates hovered at record lows. But conditions have shifted somewhat with an economic downturn in the last two Incomes grew sharply for most metro Detroiters between 1990 and 2000, but a stubborn trend persisted: White workers continued to earn more than racial and ethnic minorities.

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