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SPORTS Cl SCENE El Garcia vs Favre B8 Fog A then sun 59143 2002 The Sacramento Bee Volume 290 No 1 1 Comeback menu Restaurateur Biba Caggiano gets back to business after battling breast cancer 'Experience gap is huge but 49er says he learned a big lesson in St Louis FOUND! 17 FRIDAY January 112002 State final www sacbeecom 50 cents ii'innijiiwpipm if Iffcfimti i it iftrt mi i Bridging the gap Here is how Gov Gray Davis proposes to dose the state's estimated 1 2 5 billion budget shortfall education $742 million from human services and $407 million from health programs 1 billion in anticipated federal funding increases By John Hill BLECAPITOl iuiiuau Gov Gray Davis ievealed his plan Thursday for patching a $125 billion hole in the $10(1 billion state budget relying on substantial cuts to health and welfare programs temporaiy loans use of future revenues and the prospect of new fedeial money budget is balanced it is responsible it funds vital services and it does not require new taxes" the Democratic governor said at a press conference to announce the spending plan for the fiscal year that starts in July The administration's strategy is to weather a sudden and perhaps temporary drop in state revenues without major disruptions to programs that have started in recent years especially school initiatives At the same time the governor wanted to make enough ieal cuts to satisfy Wall Street and conservative mtics that the state was bringing spending in line with revenues It is a delicate balance and aheady Thursday the plan was under attack trom both ends of the political spectrum "It's an Senate Piesident Pro Tern John Burton a fellow Democrat said of the budget's failure to provide stale cost-of-living increases foi BUDGET page A13 Inside Groups drop plans for a November sales tax measure Page A3 proposed budget would impose millions in additional state fees Page A13 a SS6 billion in loans and transfers including $2 4 billion from future tobacco settlement money a $672 million loan from road building funds and $87 1 million from deferring payments to retirement funds for teachers and other public employees a $52 billion in program cuts including $2 4 billion in cuts in the budget proposed in November $938 million from $586 million in fund shifts which involve spending money from bonds or proposed bonds to cover general fund spending Sacramento Bee TTTTlTI 6i We lost a good person the bottom line I just wish everybody would have had a chance to know him before this 55 Bob Bancroft Narine Corps Capt Matthew Bancroft's father Enron warned Bush officers The Cabinet pair did not take action or tell the president a spokesman says By David Westphal BEE WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON Responding to a fast-developing investigation of Enion Corp's financial col-j lapse the Bush administration disclosed Thursday that two top Cabinet officers were given an early warning by Enron weeks be-1 foie the Texas energy giant filed for bankruptcy protection 1 The two officials Treasury Sec-1 retary Paul and Commerce Secretary Don Evans took no action on the calls from Enron Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay a major campaign contributor to i President Bush and did not inform the president said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer Meanwhile in a display of the potential conflicts arising from Enron's extensive political contributions Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the Justice Department's newly I announced criminal investiga-1 tion of Enron Company officials and workers contributed more 1 than $50000 to Ashcroft during his failed 2000 Senate campaign according to the Center for Responsive Government And in a further development Enron's principal auditor the firm of Arthur Andersen disclosed that a but number of its Enron documents being sought by federal investigators had been destroyed Andersen said its company rules require "the destruction of certain types of documents" and indicated it was still trying to recover the missing data Rep Billy Tauzin R-La whose House Energy and Commerce Committee is among the agencies and panels investigating called the destruction of doc- ENRON page A16 First group sent to Cuba i Rights activists question treatment of Afghan prisoners By John Ilendren LOS ANGELES LIMI A US military caigo plane left Afghanistan on Thursday with the first group of 20 Taliban and al-Qaida pnsoneis to be trans-j ferred to Guantanamo Bay I Cuba as human rights activists criticized their treatment citing hooded and possibly drugged detainees being sent to Pentagon otficials made no apologies foi the secui ity piecau- tions being taken with prisoners 1 whose ranks have sometimes killed themselves and their cap- -tors with grenades stiapped to their bodies The Cuba-bound prisoners were chained to their seats in- side a cavernous C-17 military I plane and required to use bed- pan-like portable toilets duiing a flight from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that would take approximately 18 hours The human rights group Am- nesty International issued a statement calling reports of the delain-1 ees' tieatment sedation a "breach of international But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the commanders I ovei seeing the detainees had carefully studied a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif during which a CIA agent and Afghan forces were killed and a shootout in which suspected al-Qaida fighters revolted and killed the Pakistani soldiers who had im- prisoned them "They were all aware that I there ate among these prisoners 1 people who are peifectly willing to kill themselves and kill other Rumsfeld said 1 i PRISONERS page A20 Bob and Beverly Bancroft of Redding said their son Matthew began planning in the seventh grade to get into the Naval Academy so he could become a Marine and a pilot Matthew and six others were killed Wednesday in a plane crash in Pakistan As Marine he reached for the sky INSIDE Some senior Taliban have taken refuge in Pakistan where intelligence officers believe they are being sheltered by renegade Pakistani intelligence officials PageA15 News Focus Among the homages to victims of the Sept 1 1 attacks the custom license plate has emerged as a micro-trend PageA19 Families mourn the Marines killed when their cargo plane crashed into a mountain in Pakistan Page A20 Capt Matthew Bancroft cherished his family and flying By Pamela Martineau BEE STALL WRITER REDDING At 6 feet 4 inches Murine Corps Capt Matthew Bancroft was too tall to fly the fighter jets he yearned to pilot since second grade in Burney So Bancroft trained in a KC-130 cargo plane instead honing his piloting skills in a mammoth aircraft his parents called a "He was driving a Bob Bancroft Matthew's father said of his flight missions "He had a job to parents who reside in Redding thought Matthew would be safer flying a than a fighter jet when he was deployed a month ago to Photos in his parents' home chronicle Capt Matthew devotion to his family and his career as a Marine pilot stall fight in the war on terrorism On Wednesday Bancroft 29 and six other crew membeis died when their KC-130 a four-engine turboprop crashed into a mountain as it approached an airfield in southwestern Paki- Officiuls said the plane was probably delivering fuel to bases in the region The accident marks the single largest loss of American life in the 3-month- PILOT page A20 Inside! dee State files fraud suit against parent Rock etchings shake views of early humans METRO B1 Fatal crash on 1-5 SPORTS Cl Ailene Voisin Grace on ice Michelle Kwan insists that her way as a solo act without a coach or choreographer -is the only way By Claire Cooper and Carrie Peyton BEE STAFF WRITERS SAN FRANCISCO State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday hit Corp with a multibillion-dollar fraud suit saying the holding company that owns California's largest utility drove up power rates and ran its subsidiary into bankruptcy by illegally draining it of cash The lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court demands the return of up to $4 billion which would be refunded or cred ited to customers of the utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co Lockyer asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to look into the transfers last summer but said he never heard back from the federal agency that oversees public utility holding companies On Thursday Lockyer raised the stakes dramatically suing not just for refunds to ratepayers but also for potentially huge penalty payments to the state treasury for violating SUIT page A17 thinking language-using creative people with powers of abstract thought similar to our own a fantastic said Ian Tattersol an anthropologist at the Museum of Natural History in New York The simple geometric etchings he said represent the first really explicit symbolic The next-earliest examples of artistic creation are much more recent cave paintings figurines and other artifacts that date back about 4000Qryears THOUGHT page A13 By Faye Elam KNIGHT RIPPER NEWSPAPERS PHILADELPHIA Seventy-seven thousand years ago long before cave painters ever reached Europe someone living on the tip of South Africa apparently carved a pattern on the flat surface of a stone leaving behind the earliest known piece of art The finding announced today in the journal Science bolsters the notion that early people were Aot the gruntii-j dim-witted cavemen of popular culture but Complete index page A2 Two people are killed and six others taken to hospitals after a series of crashes along a foggy section of Interstate 5 from the Yolo Bypass to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge 7 111 12499 15 7.