NCAA TOURNAMENT: THE ROAD TO HOUSTON

Tough draws for Longhorns, Aggies

No. 4 seed Texas will face Oakland (Mich.) in the first round, while No. 7 seed Texas A&M must get past Florida State. 1C SPORTSDAY: Staff writer Kate Hairopoulos breaks down the tournament eld. 4-5C

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DISASTER IN JAPAN

Nuclear threats rising

Second hydrogen explosion rocks plant, injuring six workers
FROM WIRE REPORTS Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times

Fires continued to burn in Sendai, Japan, on Sunday as workers entered a neighborhood to search for victims.

SENDAI, Japan Japan faced mounting humanitarian and nuclear emergencies as the death toll from Fridays earthquake and tsunami climbed astronomically, the second hy-

drogen explosion in three days rocked a nuclear plant and officials faced cooling problems at five more reactors. It was not immediately clear how much if any radiation had been released by the explosion at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Monday, but Tokyo Electric Power Co. said six workers were injured. The blast was similar to an ear-

lier one at a different unit at the facility. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says people within a 12-mile radius were ordered inside following the blast. Edano says the reactor's inner containment vessel holding nuclear rods is intact, allaying some fears of the risk to the enSee DEATH Page 10A

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The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japans stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. 11A Japans central bank injects a record $183 billion into money markets as stocks plunge. 10A

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METRO

Rescue ends womans 2-week ordeal

A 62-year-old Parker County woman who investigators say was bound and repeatedly assaulted during a two-week abduction was rescued Saturday. 1B Also: Today is the filing deadline for May elections. 3B

rom the verdant valleys of Colombia, the path begins, crossing borders and moving northward by land, air or sea. The path continues in Guatemala, where a weak government and a tortured history of violence and repression have created a paradise for drug cartels, in the words of one expert, and especially for the Zetas. In Mexico, the Zetas have made the northeastern borderlands some of the most dangerous territory in the hemisphere. Here, in the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Len, the path of destruction enters Texas.

2 states, 2 parties, 1 crisis

California, Texas take different courses on plugging scal holes
By WAYNE SLATER
Senior Political Writer wslater@dallasnews.com

WORLD
Gadhas troops make more gains
Moammar Gadhafis forces swept rebels from a key oil town with waves of strikes from warships, tanks and warplanes, closing on the opposition-held eastern half of Libya. 7A

BUSINESS
AT&T to limit DSL data usage
AT&T said it would begin to cap DSL data usage for its customers and begin to implement charges for anyone who goes over the limit. 3D
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Soldiers patrolled the streets in the northern Guatemalan province of Alta Verapaz in December after President lvaro Colm declared a state of siege to challenge the powerful Zeta drug gangs control of the region.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Rick Perry and Jerry Brown are very different governors who dont agree on much, including how to solve their states budget crises. Brown has proposed an even mix of cuts and taxes to close Californias $25 billion gap. Perry is pushing cuts alone to fix a budget that would require $27 billion more to maintain current services reflecting the conservative, tea party message last November about smaller government, less spending and no new taxes. You couldnt find two guys who are more different, two states that are more different. But they have a similar problem, said California political strategist Don Sipple, a Brown
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Some iPhones ub spring time change

Some iPhones bungled the one-hour spring forward to daylight saving time, falling back one hour instead. 2D

NATION
State Department spokesman quits
Chief State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley quit after causing a stir by describing the U.S. militarys treatment of the suspected WikiLeaks leaker as ridiculous and stupid. 6A

Violence, cash travel together

As illegal drugs reach U.S., prots multiply
Second in a series By ALFREDO CORCHADO
Mexico Bureau acorchado@dallasnews.com

About this series

Mexican drug cartels are leaving a trail of violence and corruption from Colombia to North Texas and beyond. The Zetas are among the most notorious. Sunday: The Zetas have used personal and family ties to make North Texas a key base of operations, both for distributing drugs to U.S. markets and for smuggling guns and money to Mexico. Today: From their base along the border with Texas, the Zetas have extended their criminal network through Mexico and into Central and South America, spreading fear, violence and corruption. Tuesday: The grim impact of the illegal drug trade is on display in a Dallas drug court, where a firm-handed judge and the violators themselves work to undo the damage, one hard case at a time.

IRVING

Study nds dads, too, get baby blues

Just like new moms, new fathers can be depressed, and a study found a surprising number of sad dads spanked their 1-yearolds. 5A INSIDE
Lottery 2A Texas 3A Nation 5-6A World 7, 14A Letters 12A Viewpoints 13A Reg. Roundup 2B Sports TV 2C Market Week 2D Jumble 8D Dear Abby 2E Movies 2E TV 5E Comics 5-7E

CCUTA, Colombia In the pink light of dawn, William Yaca Pieda views the blackmarket commerce at this busy crossing on Colombias border with Venezuela. Anything is possible. One day, its gasoline, the next day cocaine, says Yaca, shrugging his sloping shoulders in a white muscle shirt, his biceps bulging. Whatever the world needs, we supply.

Yaca is one of a legion of pimpineros, gasoline vendors who rise in the dark to buy cheap gas from neighboring Venezuela and resell it for a few more pesos in Colombia. But there are higher-margin goods to move: The dollars multiply exponentially when the product is refined cocaine and the final market is Dallas and cities beyond. And at every stop along the way from Colombia to Central America, into Mexico and on to U.S. markets the traffic spawns violence
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Legendary Billy Bob rides again

Big wins, failures line honky-tonk founders path to Las Colinas deal
By BRANDON FORMBY and ERIN AMBURGEY-SOOD
Staff Writers

Young, ambitious and in hiding

Threats, lawlessness in Guatemala turn ex-model into reluctant Dallasite
By ALFREDO CORCHADO
Mexico Bureau acorchado@dallasnews.com

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GUATEMALA CITY For weeks, her parents remember, she cried and screamed. Cynthia didnt want to move to Dallas. She didnt want to leave behind her dreams of a career in broadcast journalism. She couldnt fathom the idea of leaving her family, her friends, the life she knew. But the threaten-

ing calls and graphic text messages kept coming. Youre next, the caller would say. Your body will be discovered near the train tracks, in pieces, just like the other neighborhood girls. Nothing personal, just part of the ritual. The tension and fear at home became unbearable. To avoid the grisly fate of other
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Billy Bob Barnett was on the cusp of bringing a dream to fruition and becoming a bigtime developer in the process when the real estate bust of the late 1980s dealt him a lightningquick reversal of fortune. Billy Bobs Texas, his namesake Fort Worth Stockyards honky-tonk, was auctioned off. He lost adjacent parcels that he wanted to use for massive development of more than 100 acres. He filed for bankruptcy. My coach in college always said you gotta learn how to lose before you learn how to win, he said recently as he sat inside the Fort Worth bar that made him
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