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PRESIDENT CLINTON signed legislation Friday to expand early breast cancer detection efforts, calling it "an important national need." The bill would allow the Centers for Disease Control to increase grants to states for breast cancer treatment and detection . . . THE BRAZILIAN city of Rio de Janeiro interrupted its daily routine for two minutes of silence Friday to protest against violence. Increased violence in Rio has prompted a drop in tourism, and a recent study said violence is "endemic" in Brazil . . . BANQUE LEU, a Luxembourg-based bank with operations in San Francisco, has become only the second bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to a charge of money laundering. The bank admitted it laundered $2.3 million in cashiers checks for a Colombian drug smuggling operation.