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...both an opportunity and a problem for us,'' says Jorge Bustamente, president of Tijuana's Colegio de la Frontera Norte and a professor at Indiana's University of Notre Dame. ``We make money from our proximity, but the power is asymmetrical. The U.S. is boss. It calls the shots, and it wants us on our knees before it will deal with us.'' Adds former Foreign Minister Fernando Solana: ``I congratulate Clinton for being clever. He is helping U.S. investors who made a fortune on Mexico's high- interest rates, but now do not want to assume that risk...
Women, to be sure, share many of the problems of male prisoners, notably overcrowding. The California Institution for Women at Frontera currently bulges with 2,500-odd inmates, instead of the 1,011 it was built to hold. At the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, N.Y., many inmates are double bunked; a visitor can easily see beds sticking up over the half walls that separate individual cubicles. With two lockers and two small metal closets filling up the narrow confines of each space, prisoners barely have room to turn around...
...border. But Mexican newspapers highlighted the fact that the slain policeman was the father of three and accused youthful American visitors of an arrogant belief that in Mexico, anything goes. "We still don't understand one another," says Guillermina Valdes-Villava, head of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Ciudad Juarez. "We seem tied to images that are largely historical...
...terminating bad guys or zapping aliens? He goes to prison. To teach body- building classes to inmates, that is. The star of the sci-fi summer hit Predator caused more than the usual buzz of excitement during a recent visit to the high-security California Institute for Women in Frontera. "There was a large number of women who wanted to see him," reports Associate Superintendent Don Rasmussen. "Number one, because he's a man, and number two, because he's someone famous." Schwarzenegger spent two hours demonstrating various weight-lifting and stretching techniques, then stayed around to chat and sign...
...slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others; and Donald Lee Leisure, 52, self-proclaimed Texas millionaire whom she met while hitchhiking in California in 1965; she for the first time (Laisure claims 35 previous marriages); in the chapel of the California Institute for Women in Frontera, Calif...