Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 9

NEWS-9 about-face Wtp- i Continued from NEWS-1 speeches emphastTing the positive conduct, as well as a continued tumble In stock prices. Republican leaders did Greenspam. who noted that he had served on IS corporate boards before becoming pointed a pied chairman In 1987,7 Senate In legislating stiff Mntyfg for I corporate wrongdoers were the latest of bow deeply questions about business integlty are reshaping both politics and economic policy. The rapid-fire legislative maneu i vcring was noteworthy because the Re that he wMit break the negative m-': a rapid sbouMhce.isiswswa'; chology on Wall Street Alter falling more than 200 points For the day. fix Dow dropped on Tuesday morning, the Dow Jones 166.08 points, to 8,473.1 1.

bringing Its Industrial average pared its loss to 'loss over the last seven sessions to about 20 points during Greenspan's more than 900 points. appearance on'Capltol HU1, In which he House Republicans who had prevl- reassured investors that the economy ously warned against overreacting to al- Included In fix legislation passed 97-0 by the Senate on Monday evening. Pres ldent Bush has strongfy hlnted that he win sign any bill that emerges from Congress. before fix Senate Banking Committee, Greenspan slgialed that the central bank was not In any hurry to raise fix Interest rates It controls from their current low levels. While Greenspan was nominally on Capitol Hill to discuss the economy, 'he' took fix opportunity to make his first extensive remarks on fix roots of fix problems afflicting corporations amt the stock market and he did not pull any punches.

pubtouMontreDed House, whfchhad ls fandannlapoiredfa ieoffaUfle ragTanl Its udves who put opportunities to cash In MM on stock options hhead of their aihiUHHt to their shareholders. XTlx Incentives they created 'over-I came fix good Judgment of too maqy corporate managers, said who three years ago began calling forrSf, mmpanlea to list Stock1. Options 88 expense on their financial statements. 1 It is that humans have become any. more peedy than In generations past.

It is tint the avenues to express greed had gown so enormously. passed own- corporate governance measure tn had previously sought a more limited scope to new laws and rrgulattons than fix st and had not initially addressed criminal penalties. But with new allegations of accounting and other corporate mls- Improvement. But stock prices headed down again -'during the afternoon, defying any hope on fix part of fix Fed chalrfnn as the' market had defied President Bush's two attempts In the last week to -Instill confidence among Investors with misconduct moved quickly on Tuesday to insulate themselves politically appearing to be too dose to business. -They ruwxd to the floor a measure that they said creates criminal penalties far corporate, fraud as harsh, as and far some case harsher than those W1.

a 4 -f i Am 1ff aide or who stray Into off-limits Golden Gate Bridge Is prime target far would-be terrorists. don't think Oils increases the anybodys areas. Several have been ques-' 'vf- 5 j. timed by the CHP and a handful BOB HUMPHREY and Paul Ver-j 'iveniotis their 7 maps prior to sotting out in search offish in. Carmel 7 Bay.

The best -'V competitors attheU.S.1 national free-; dive spear-; com- nllH nwi nwininfT. which begins -Thursday, have been scouting the 1 region for: 1' FAR V'zr v-v'j 1 'V. is in have been arrested for out-, standing warrants, Monroe said. None had direct connections to suspected terrorists or their associates, counterterrorism -officials said, Monroe-, believes bis troops would have thwarted 'a terrorist video project. What would happen.today.tf.

hes Middle 'Eastern or not If hes taking a video or sketching the bridge, he'd be turned over to law enforcement lor ques-" Monroe said, believe Ghalyoun V' shot fire video of the bridge. lt was one many seized during a previous. arrest in April, Spanish 7 police Other, vkfeos depict terrortot training ranqx and combat to the break-. away Russian republic of 1 Chechnya, of nnmmiwl suicide nni of hbhim for radical causes, accmtUng- to Spanish Ghalyoun was first hdd, according to Interior min-. of his tarvotoement' to toe radical Musllm Brofixr-hood, but police later released." 'him because they didn't enough evidence to charge him for a crime.

's arrests culminate tarveatigstiana from NEWS-1 -'S feeding sometimes the fish aren't there, When fiiat happens. It Just messes you up, Humphrey sakL Your first fish Isn't there, and your second fish Is someone rise's first ifs apoker game. If Indeed. spearflshing tea poker game, nationals are pitted far nlckd-dlme stakes. Competitors knofw each ofixr, newconers are welcomed and fix only thlngi not shared are GPS coordinates.

face-down for a qlell, fixh gam two kicks and were gone, leaving barely a ripple. You have toielax. said Edlund. If you dmt relax, you never make It there. Someone bice Allan, he almost shuts down.

The lights go dim. 'y. i The pair emerged a minute or so later, grinning broadly. In a nice hole about 35 fret down was an 18xnmd male and two six-to nhxfpund females. A risk on fix Golden (tote AH it says Is some people vho got arrested for terrorism took' some' pictures of fix Golden Gate said Gordon Jofandrpe, qxikesman fix fix White House Office of Homeland Security.

This is Just part of the fact that we are at 7 v. Turadayto; revelations follow', a string of vague or unconfirmed alerts of attacks on fix California authorities fafcW anv ehMiwL Within an hour the CHP doubled the number of ofikeris patrdllng fiw by car and helicopter and alerted police departments near -the Southern rnfarnin rtiwhf additional and-whltes out there, sends fix message that this Is a safe place to be. CHP Spokcsman Wayne Zetoe sakL addlng, "There ft not a new akrt. and there have not been any new threats. The CHP could not estimate the extra coat of added but in fix frnmcdlate aftermath of Sent 11.

tt was soendlmt $335,000 per, day statewide (m counterterrorism. The U.S. Coast Guard aakl It had no plana far Increased surveillance of the bridge bysea. California Natimial. Guard Go.

Paul Monroe aakl he was waiting to be; asked before adding extra troops to fix force on the bridge. If asked, we will add pres-If this to a ahort-tenn tbe CHP can do fix trick. If ifs long-term, well probably aald." Troops have patrolled fix Gfddeh Gain and kept people away from Its supports, ever since Gov. Gray Davis controversial announcement bat November of an unconfirmed plot' to blow up California bribes. Tlx Guard is a month jptoroi the rswlmmlng records at University of CaB-efcrnia.

Lcmg Beach. Carl Knmslfy, at age 8B, sffll dives td 60 faet TheyYe at flx top of a sport that almost no one. at least infix United States knows. But ranktngs are for bragging rights only. The real thriu they say, Is being deeper than moat scuba divers go, -but with -i none of the noisy, cumbersome gear.

Ifs the silence of the kelp farest. the to be underwater as sea lions chase awawwsoverncaa, mcaarauumrusn race back to air. Tbere's nothing like taking th breafii ait fix surface alter youYe.down deq," aald California diver Dave Thursday, Humphrey. Spehar and team-tmate PauLVenenlotia compete against I8 othq three-man teams at the national free you can get four, if someone gets four pound aheephead. forget it, Ira 6 lover shoulders above Italy, said Hawaii diver Steve' Lee.

Italy, tn turn, towers over France. DtvmmUndtedhvCdlfanifa reflihh France to so good everyone else pls far they can get The top prise to Uogxid. a hot- team tomKhreUfok monsterthat cahwrigh top SO A wolid etitlou In pounds, ta? dlwrs are oofy allowTtwo. ttc Spanish threwnan tram showed im -ft-r ww hw differently Europeans play fix game, nf iw irYv-vaaii tk Wrw tm The team was so agpesatve that one diver i.ijoiiqxumraemnapoM perflsh and landed In the hospital recovprfag from the pound. wtthllmltBoq the nSmhy number and type offish allowed.

served for sriiba divers. Another had a Moat points wins, and Humphrey's team-Ms considered the one to beat But he's narrowbnish wlfii shaDowwater Uackout and never finished the day. 7 The final diver was so good fix team still An FBI teak force In SpalB is hetolng local aufiioritiesupoover. and arrest suspects. Including men wlfii terrorist ties who have visited fixU.S.

1 No agent from fix FBTs San Francisco field office to involved to that activity. Agent Andrew Black, He agents in. FBI headquarters are poringover the fresh intelligence from Spate. "Information la still very limited and still coming to. We don't know yet what we have.

We don't What fix truth to yet, Black-said. janlshoffirialsknowthat i who have hmgi and stamina to cany flxm 100 feet deep. One toland team has two aasdlvprsi I and baa qxnt six to -ardacoBeded. The emphasla on trophy-steed catches f'mranaspearitoherscatdi plenty of flak cUeffy fiiat fiteyYe depleting ocean stocks -fay targetlqg fix Ug breeder Humphrey has no answer to that but yiotfff that frfffByffi hinrfta i tirnttM range. Still fix criticism drives him nuts.

He andothera have seen considerable dedlix In stocks over fix decades even as spear- seven hoori day, every day since July 4. in the SO-kfflce water scouting ftoh. Plus top teams tend to know where the hide, so oflen the diase far 'fix 'v? first fish la a one- or two-mlle acramUe In faqraks frokn the starting line. First person gef thert and collect Us breath enough to i -dive wins fae Ifs a race. The very beginning to an out- and-out.

bolls out race, Hinnphrey said. 7 got your anchor line In your lap, gun to your You throw your Une ln fix watertaike five breaths and go down40feeL Golden Gate. mastermind Mo- taking on the mlssfon. hammed Atta visited. Spain troops luve routinely- twlce.

'f. east of the Sap FYandaco Bay, Thornburg built a castletike home near imere the Ctaremont now stands. He eventually sold estate to a man named John Ballard and fix original Thornburg home- was consumed to windy hllbldefire July 1901, Twojrranlatcr. fix property Marion Continued from NEWS-1 building' from addf-tiens mat would distort fix vtoutd qualify of the hotel Hqr aiMMnii tn flw ivnlutlnn -came with amne toih words for-the hotel owners, accusing KSL represenlafives of coeying up Wtth wgnnitiiiilnwri and council members. aald KSL: Corporation put more effort Into- one Of OaUands cohxful entrepreneurs, working wlfii Claremont Tt- Smlfii famous for building bars and not Just give the Tonopah and Tidewater anyone who eioys shrimp, tn Hum- phreysieyes, baa ho ground for comptalnL -A spearflsher seeks out one fish and takes tt.

A ahrinq) travder. according to fix Living xwttSSSfisia-' but thera a nano whymixt top A SLOIAL POSTIOIIM SYSTHI Is crucial are touelr 40a and 5(to. Fttodlve aprar- quickly finding Ihe iocky underwater flshlng takes a prat senre of comfort with outcroppings and crevicoe favored by fteh.Competitorshave only recently HkC a fish. Bofi1 skills take years to beenTallowed to use the devices at na-. develop, dlvcrs say.

tional soearfishina meets. Ohs foSaturcbv recently, teammates 1. -I-whldiSpeharwenttocheckjqjonasthe beds can fake mndi more pressure. SKM3S5ffi: 'SSSSSSii nama 55-poundptiq)CT ln90 feet ftfcue Beach, pee would be In an up- T'fltokenonaneiufythree-mtnute first per to fl, the ttohonaunpemiM roar. be aS he rediargedwlth a The first time fix trio loundltmore Qian a month and a half ago the fish canxavlmmlngout from therocks looking for ahandduL Divers take bearingi with hand-hdd Global.Posltionlng System units to mark promising spots.

Krupansky still uses fite old-schod mefiiod: Bketchlng the coast an a satisfaction for a large number of people. waterproof pad, using trees and rocks to he said. trianpilate the exact location. But what of those who find the deep-end Given the reliance cm scouting the home of the swimming pool a terrifying place? tram usually has a considerable don't know what the answer Is to supplying Usualfy. fish to laige numbers of people without Massachusetts diver.

Phil Stevens re- nets," he said before slipping on his snorkel called that at a recent tournament to Rhode for one last dive, aaiunmva bcuwukbcsimwu, iu- Island, Californians won, the Hawallana And with that he was gone, looking for rwmtri to todaUtile tdnnacfe a few took second, and the local boys came to Out one UgQsh Out. aofaratkast. Ebb nthiMwy whare rnUlhmia third. The piys from Rhode bland were ehided hto gun. fix trawlers' nets and pr- abeephead, a prized fish, have been known real pissed, he chuckled.

imw.iBAhoolM. foUTtilunphrey and Vervenlotls floated Stffi, for all fix work, the scouting, fix fix bloodstream inaufilclentfy saturated. Stay down too long and fix fatal result to unconsciousness 10 to 12 feet from the surface. v- On-Saturday's scoping session, Kru- service to KSL Cmporatlori. '-who has owned fix bold 1998 and poured millions Into refurbishing ft, to fix first owner to support toe main building being named a landmark.

A KSL lawyer asked fix council Tuesday -to weaken zoning standards on the gounds, a request fix council rejected. In a'written statement. Clare-jnoot public relations mwy Anne Appel said fix hotel owners were pleased wtth fix' council decision. The vote to support land-status for our historic hotel Is the right decision. Appd said.

We bdieve the City Council showed leadership and in this important railroad to haul fix mineral borax. Smith and fate partner Frank Havens fancied a hillside resort wlth trains dropping San FYan-ctoco vacationera off tn the kttfy. Alter, losing a high-stakes checkers game. Smith was dropped from toe project and Havens began building in 1906 according to fix dfeslgn of Charles W. Dickey, a famous Bay Area architect Construction bii the building a nearly 700-faot position of sharp aqgjea and towering walla visible from the Bay Bridge, stalled hi 1906 after fix San Eranctoco earthquake.

'-It was eventually completed in 1915, to time for the Panama-Paclflc Exposition. It wasn't until fix file 1930s fiiat- fix entire building was white: originally, brown, trimmed the Intricate outer woodwork and 546-foot tower: The hotel owes its start to armer William Thornburg who amassed a fortune in the Gold: Rush bought 13,000 acres of wooded hills.