Retailers Prohibit Violent Games Sales to Youths
Kmart will bar sales of mature rated video games to anyone under seventeen using barcode prompts to request ID. Wal Mart follows with a similar policy. Toys R Us confirms store practice in a letter to Senator Sessions. Senate members praise but push for broader bans citing potential links to aggression.
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Alabama
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Montgomery Ward
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Clinton warns oil prices risk recession and seeks Saudi help
President Clinton warned that high oil prices threaten a global recession and urged Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to help lower crude costs. He met on the U.N. fringes with Kim Dae Jung and pressed OPEC to act, while noting Saudi measures to stabilize prices.
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New York
U.S
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Abdullah
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America
Kim Daejung
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
National Security Council
PJ. Crowley
Crown Prince
Crowley
Supreme Court upholds ban on custody hearing media coverage
In Santa Fe New Mexico the Supreme Court sustained a ban on reporting during a custody hearing for Anamarie Martinez Regina, a severely overweight three year old. The ruling preserves a reporters blackout while the case and custody battle continue, with officials and family keeping silent.
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New Mexico
High Court
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Martin Esquivel
Associated Press
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Bicycle pants conceal half a million in Ecstasy smuggling
Vanessa Mendez and Harry A Forget, arriving from Paris on Sept 3, were caught at Miami International Airport with $500,000 worth of Ecstasy hidden in bicycle shorts. They are held at the Federal Detention Center on federal narcotics smuggling possession and distribution charges.
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Harry A. Forget
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GOP leaders seek McCain role in budget fight
Senate Republicans aim to enlist John McCain in the year end budget clash with Clinton. McCain would join on condition of no pork barrel riders and clean hands, rejecting provisions tied to districts in election year spending. His stance signals a push for reform in contested budget bills.
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