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...meeting stopped short of a session of Name That TV Theme. Even so, the rare assemblage of media moguls--among them Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, Atlanta cable baron Ted Turner and Walt Disney president Michael Ovitz--gave Clinton good reason to be pleased. They announced plans to develop a ratings system that would label shows high in sex, violence or other adult material. Their action was spurred by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which will require new TV sets to have the V chip, a device that enables parents to block out objectionable shows. Though network executives have long opposed government...
...tobacco, which has traditionally deployed veritable armies of attorneys from such white-shoe firms as King & Spalding in Atlanta, Covington & Burling in Washington and the Kansas City firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, this new assault amounts to a dangerous game of dominoes. "The moment they lose one the other states are going to have to file," says Daynard. "Imagine being the attorney general of a state and saying while my neighboring attorney general is getting $400 million in restitution for the taxpayers of his state, I am not going to file as a matter of principle. At that point...
...scene last week was a nightmare come to life. Four masked terrorists held 25 passengers hostage on Atlanta's MARTA subway system. SWAT teams stormed in, killing all but one terrorist--but not before the captors murdered four hostages...
When Wade Miller called Atlanta to order volleyball tickets, everything went smoothly until he gave the agent his Santa Fe, New Mexico, address. She said she couldn't sell tickets to anyone living outside the U.S.; he would have to call his own national Olympic committee. Miller says he spent the next half an hour trying to convince the agent and a supervisor that New Mexico was part of the U.S. An Olympics official later apologized to "everybody out in New Mexico...
...even more assertive acts of resistance are necessary. The Georgia state flag should be burned--great bonfires of this symbol of evil should be lit all over Atlanta. Furthermore, the Confederate flag should be torn down wherever it is raised. To allow it to fly without serious, even militant challenge is unpatriotic and unacceptable...