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To: marcos who wrote (64)	5/8/2002 2:14:19 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 143

I Agree With You Marcos. Unfortunately this little enclave called Canada has about as much significance and political influence as a gnat on an elephant's @$$. However,I would like more D-I-R-E-C-T pressure put on Uncle from here to lighten up and show the world he too can come out of the 1960's mind set. Cripes....even the Ruskies have relative freedom of speech , and Mexico makes Cuba look like a Gulag in comparison. If Fidel maintains this stance he and his country will never gain respect or trust in the world.Canada " don't get no respect ", but at least we are trusted and can speak freely .We need to apply pressure IMHO. Now Cuba is in this spat with Mexico cause they basically said ( maybe under pressure )what the world in general have been saying all along. But you and I both know the game plan here.Maintain isolation and keep ‘em behind the sugar cane curtain, eh?YUP! And on one hand condemn the US for the Embargo while in reality knowing it is this embargo that keeps him in place.Why the Americans don’t get this I don’t know. Well ,actually , a US think tank did come out recently and state basically what we’ve been saying all along, but the X-Cubano wants to continue down this same failed path of isolating them.We know the Miami lobby will never let down their guard either and would prefer to maintain the lie rather than help their people in Cuba.So sad and so selfish of them. Now Cuba has moved from the short list to the main list of the AXES O’ WEEVIL…Or AXES O’ MEDIEVAL…or whatever they are going to call that one. I don’t know man…but the US just seems to want to look though a very small aperture at the world these days , except of course when they want help in the fight against tourism …er..I mean… terrorism. <g> Regards

To: marcos who wrote (64)	6/15/2002 9:05:02 PM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 143

World-Rivals Mexico and U.S. face biggest clash By Mitch Phillips June 15, 2002 Click to enlarge photo TAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) - The long-running battle for footballing supremacy between neighbours Mexico and the United States is thrust under the global spotlight on Monday when they meet for a place in the World Cup quarter-finals. Almost 70 years of intense, often fractious, rivalry has seen the sides meet 46 times, many of those in World Cup qualifiers, but never before in the finals. Now, with Germany awaiting the winners, it really is time to see who are the kings of the CONCACAF region. "It's going to be a battle," said U.S. midfielder Landon Donovan, who described relations between the two countries as "definitely not friendly". "We know we can beat them and they know they can beat us." The United States, who lost all three first round games four years ago, are bidding to reach the last eight for the first time since the modern format was introduced. They reached the semi-finals in the first World Cup in 1930 with just two wins, before losing 6-1 to Argentina. They got through to this year's second round in somewhat bumpy fashion, beating Portugal 3-2, drawing 1-1 with South Korea and then losing 3-1 to already-eliminated Poland. It was a performance that sums up their whole game -- inconsistent. If they play as they did in the first half against Portugal, when they raced into a 3-0 lead, they are capable of beating not only Mexico but many of those left in the tournament. If they perform as they did in the early stages against the Poles, then their World Cup will end at around 5.30 p.m. local time (0830 GMT) on Monday. The Americans are hoping their shocking start against Poland, when they trailed 2-0 after five minutes, will galvanise the side back to their best. "Maybe it was a good wake-up call for us," said goalkeeper Brad Friedel, who saved his second penalty of the tournament late in Friday's match. "If we would have won we may have gone into the Mexico game a bit cocky." Coach Bruce Arena said: "We will re-group, we'll be fine." GREAT RESPECT Arena said he had a great respect for Mexico, who the United States played twice in qualifying, with a win apiece, and then beat 1-0 in their last meeting in April. "The rivalry is immaterial," he said. "You need to talk about Mexico in the World Cup...they have been one of the top teams here. "We know their team well, they know us well and it's going to be a good game." Arena faces a couple of selection quandaries as centre back Jeff Agoos will miss the game with a calf injury, while right back Frankie Hejduk is suspended after picking up his second yellow card against Poland. Mexico, appearing in their 12th World Cup, are bidding to reach the quarter-finals for the first time outside their own country, having got there on home soil in 1970 and 1986. MEXICANS CONFIDENT Judging by their first round performances, they look well-equipped to do so and, for once, it seems the players might actually believe it. "We are playing some great football at the moment and we are confident we can get through," goalkeeper Oscar Perez said on Saturday. Striker Cuauhtemoc Blanco added: "We have come here playing well and will try to continue that by attacking from the first minute." Mexico beat Ecuador and Croatia in their group and got the better of Italy before drawing 1-1 with their brand of quick inter-passing and clever lay-offs that is very difficult to defend against when it goes well. Coach Javier Aguirre said on Saturday he has no injury, fitness or suspension worries and looks set to start with the same team that played against Italy. Probable teams: Mexico (4-4-2): 1-Oscar Perez; 7-Ramon Morales, 5-Manuel Vidrio, 4-Rafael Marquez, 11-Braulio Luna; 21-Jesus Arellano, 16-Salvador Carmona, 6-Gerardo Torrado, 18-Johan Rodriguez; 10-Cuauhtemoc Blanco, 9-Jared Borgetti. United States (4-4-2): 1-Brad Friedel; 23-Eddie Pope, 22-Tony Sanneh, 4-Pablo Mastroeni, 6-David Regis; 5-John O'Brien, 8-Earnie Stewart, 10-Claudio Reyna, 21-Landon Donovan; 11-Clint Mathis, 20-Brian McBride. Match referee : Vitor Melo Pereira (Portugal) Linesmen : Carlos Matos (Portugal) Egon Bereuter

To: marcos who wrote (64)	7/22/2002 7:08:08 PM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 143

REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT -- Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border San Antonio, Texas (Rooters) Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs of public U.S. companies made a break for it yesterday, heading for the Mexican border, plundering towns and villages along the way, and writing the entire rampage off as a marketing expense. "They came into my home, made me pay for my own TV, then double-booked the revenues," said Rachel Sanchez of Las Cruces, just north of El Paso. "Right in front of my daughters." Calling themselves the CEOnistas, the chief executives were first spotted last night along the Rio Grande River near Quemado, where they bought each of the town's 320 residents by borrowing against pension fund gains. By late this morning, the CEOnistas had arbitrarily inflated Quemado's population to 960, and declared a 200 percent profit for the fiscal second quarter. This morning, the outlaws bought the city of Waco, transferred its under performing areas to a private partnership, and sent a bill to California for $4.5 billion. Law enforcement officials and disgruntled shareholders riding posse were noticeably frustrated. "First of all, they're very hard to find because they always stand behind their numbers, and the numbers keep shifting," said posse spokesman Dean Evitt. "And every time we yell 'Stop in the name of the shareholders!', they refer us to investor relations. I've been on the phone all damn morning." "YOU'LL NEVER AUDIT ME ALIVE!" The pursuers said they have had some success, however, by preying on a common executive weakness. 'Last night we caught about 24 of them by disguising one of our female officers as a CNBC anchor," said U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Janet Lewis. "It was like moths to a flame." Also, teams of agents have been using high-powered listening devices to scan the plains for telltale sounds of the CEOnistas. "Most of the time we just hear leaves rustling or cattle flicking their tails," said Lewis, "but occasionally we'll pick up someone saying, 'I was totally out of the loop on that." Among former and current CEOs apprehended with this method were Computer Associates' Sanjay Kumar, Adelphia's John Rigas, Enron's Ken Lay, Joseph Nacchio of Qwest, Joseph Berardino of Arthur Andersen, and every Global Crossing CEO since 1997. ImClone Systems' Sam Waksal and Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco were not allowed to join the CEOnistas as they have already been indicted. So far, about 50 chief executives have been captured, including Martha Stewart, who was detained south of El Paso where she had cut through a barbed-wire fence at the Zaragosa border crossing off Highway 375. "She would have gotten away, but she was stopping motorists to ask for marzipan and food coloring so she could make edible snowman place settings, using the cut pieces of wire for the arms," said Border Patrol officer Jennette Cushing. "We put her in cell No. 7, because the morning sun really adds texture to the stucco walls." While some stragglers are believed to have successfully crossed into Mexico, Cushing said the bulk of the CEOnistas have holed themselves up at the Alamo. "No, not the fort, the car rental place at the airport," she said. "They're rotating all the tires on the minivans and accounting for each change as a sales event."