June 30, 2005

Pres Bush creates new national security division within Federal Bureau of Investigation that will fall under overall direction of new national intelligence director John D Negroponte; directive's aim is to break down old walls between foreign and domestic intelligence activities, and to consolidate power of Negroponte, whose authority over FBI has been ambiguous; it will elevate intelligence operations to new prominence within FBI, which has remained firmly oriented toward traditional law enforcement, even since 9/11 attacks; White House leaves it to Negroponte to carry out overhaul; this is among most far-reaching changes yet taken by Bush administration and Congress to overhaul intelligence structure whose deep flaws have been exposed by major failures on terrorism and Iraq; it was among recommendations made by presidential commission headed by Laurence Silberman and Charles Robb; new organization chart (M)

For now, Andy Roddick is still a one-Slam wonder, and with his two biggest tennis nemeses, Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt, still in the other half of the Wimbledon draw, he knows it is going to take a major effort to change that label. But at least Roddick is back in the semifinals at the All England Club, feeling better about his form and his chances and feeling much better about his ability to stare down fifth sets.

Federal authorities are expected to file sweeping civil racketeering lawsuit against International Longshoremen's Assn in aggressive attempt to wrest docks and union representing their workers from reputed half-century of control by two powerful mob clans; union represents 50,000 dockworkers at three dozen Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports; it has for years evaded some of most savvy prosecutors, even as some local union officials were indicted and convicted in plundering of union funds and related businesses; office of US Atty Roslynn R Mauskopf of Brooklyn hopes to succeed where others have failed, with evidence developed in recent series of criminal cases aimed at organized crime on piers, and with cooperation of major waterfront mob figure; government will seek to take over union and several of its benefit plans; it will also ask federal judge to permanently bar five top union leaders from playing role in union, its pension benefit or welfare funds; it will also seek to bar several reputed mob figures from Gambino and Genovese families from involvement with union or any of its funds (M)

Gary Sheffield has always considered himself a tough street kid from Tampa, Fla., who developed into a superb baseball player by doing it his way. If Sheffield was pushed, he pushed back harder. Sometimes, he has pushed back even when he has not been pushed or has only been nudged. Sheffield, the Yankees' right fielder, pushed back hard Wednesday after learning that the Mets had asked about obtaining him for outfielder Mike Cameron. In a blitz of a 10-minute interview before the Yankees' game against the Orioles was rained out, Sheffield repeatedly warned teams about the possible repercussions of acquiring him.

Security breach reported at CardSystems Solutions, which put account information of 40 million credit and debit cardholders at risk, reveals vulnerabilities of payment system; CardSystems was vulnerable because it had been improperly storing cardholder account information and security codes on its computer system; about 90 percent of cardholder account records that pass through payments systems are handled by about 20 large processors, which closely follow rules issued by Mastercard, Visa and other card issuers, but not all of small companies, like CardSystems, that handle the remaining 10 percent follow rules, and those rules are not enforced by card companies and banks; in addition, fewer than half of the 10,000 and more small and mid-size merchants that have substantial online presence have even signed up to be screened for their compliance with industry standards; chart of payment systems; photo (L)