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ern and Western states, will face voters whose deep attachment to guns is unshakeable -- not to mention opposition from the still potent National Rifle Association should they vote for restrictions the NRA opposes.
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German guest worker program offers lessons for US as it ponders immigration reform
• BERLIN (AP) -- In gritty backstreets of Berlin, housewives wearing head scarves shop for lamb and grape leaves. Old men pass the time in cafes sipping coffee, chatting in Turkish and reading Turkish newspapers.
• More than three million people of Turkish origin live in Germany -- the legacy of West Germany's Cold War-era program to recruit temporary foreign labor during the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s when the country rebuilt after World War II.
• What started as a temporary program has changed the fabric of German urban life -- from mosques on street corners to countless shops selling widely popular Doener kebab fast food sandwiches.
• Germany's experience with "guest workers" offers lessons for the United States as it debates immigration reform, including whether to provide a path to citizenship for unskilled foreign laborers, or whether there should be additional temporary-only visas for such workers. President Barack Obama has urged Congress to begin debate in April after lawmakers return from a two-week recess.
• Decades after Germany's formal guest worker program ended in the early 1970s, the country is still wrestling with ways to integrate Turks -- the second biggest group among the estimated 15 million-strong immigrant community after ethnic Germans who moved from the former Soviet Union and for Soviet bloc countries -- into German society.
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No one could change Evan Ebel -- not even the prison reformer he may have killed
• DENVER (AP) -- From a young age, no one could tame Evan Spencer Ebel.
• His parents sent him to special camps in Utah, Jamaica and Samoa for children with behavioral problems. Neighbors in the middle-class suburbs west of Denver shied away from a kid they described as "a handful."
• By age 20, state prison had become Ebel's home. There, he joined a white supremacist gang and ended up in solitary confinement, a place his parents believe (Continued on page 36)
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