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OPINION The News México City, February 15, 2001. So Far From God, So Close To The U.S. By RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR. The News Columnist DALLAS -- Poor Mexico, goes the saying, so far from God -- and so close to the United States. For most of the 150 years since surrendering, at the end of a gun barrel, half of its territory to its northern neighbor, a proud Mexico has kept a healthy distance from the United States. It has been just as distant to the nearly 20 million U.S.-born Mexican-Americans who, despite speaking Spanish and retaining much of their ...

Parking Garage Rape Victim Can't Sue Owner NOW Calls Controversial Court Ruling 'Horrible' Feb. 18, 2000 By Mark Eissman CHICAGO (APBnews.com) -- A California Supreme Court ruling in a rape case has raised the controversial issue of whether parking garage owners are liable for protecting patrons from violent crimes on their premises. The January ruling, which has received little publicity, held that a dark, underground parking garage with no security patrols, cameras or monitors is not an "inherently dangerous place." The decision came in a lawsuit filed by a woman who was raped at gunpoint in a parking garage in ...

White South African editors head for clash over 'bias' By Anton La Guardia, Southern Africa Correspondent SOUTH Africa's white-dominated liberal newspapers are on course for a confrontation with the country's black elite after four editors were subpoenaed to appear before the country's Human Rights Commission to answer allegations of racism in the media. The editors of the daily Cape Argus, the Cape Times, the Sunday Times and the Mail & Guardian have not yet said whether they will obey the writs. Non-compliance could lead to six months in jail or a fine. The long-running dispute highlights the dilemma of white ...

Chechnya and Putin: New challenge for Turkey Huseyin Bagci Ankara - Turkish Daily News At the beginning of the new millennium Turkish foreign and security policies will face a number of new challenges. One of these new challenges will certainly be that of Turkish-Russian relations. Being a candidate for EU entry, Turkey is more likely to look north and thus try to reach a new modus vivendi with Russia. To everyone's surprise, Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned on the last day of the 20th century, clearing the way for an infusion of new blood into Russian politics. Prime Minister Putin, ...

Detroit students stage walkout in call for more protection Students from Denby High walked out of their classrooms demanding more action from the city and school officials November 18, 1999 Web posted at: 7:52 a.m. EST (1252 GMT) In this story: Teen-age girl blows whistle to fend off attacker Walkout follows Tuesday's protest Detroit mayor calls for more community involvement RELATED STORIES, SITES DETROIT (CNN) -- Hundreds of Detroit high school students walked out of their classrooms Wednesday in a second day of protests over what they say is a lack of protection in the wake of a string of ...

ATHENS, Nov 2 - Thousands of police will be deployed on the streets of Athens to prevent violent protests during a visit by U.S. President Bill Clinton later this month, police said on Tuesday. Several leftist and peace groups, as well as the Greek Communist Party (KKE), have said they will organise protest marches, rallies and even a people's court to 'try' Clinton for his policies in the Balkans. "We are more concerned with protests than the prospect of a terrorist act," a senior police official told the daily Eleftherotypia newspaper. Police officials told Reuters 4,500 police will be on ...

Meet the bikers who ride for freedom Each year, they invade the Capitol --Insight Freedom Riders By Sean Paige Each Memorial Day, bikers from all U.S. points east and west rumble into Washington to focus national attention on the sacrifices of American veterans. It was all black leather and Purple Hearts at the 12th annual Memorial Day weekend Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington. An estimated 100,000 bikers, many of them military veterans, rode in to show their true colors -- red, white and blue -- by honoring the dead, demanding an account of the missing, and receiving the belated ...