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This recent round of congressional hearings on TV violence seems to have produced nothing more than a vague commitment from broadcasters to play warnings before "violent" programming. If these warnings operate anything like those imposed on the record industry by then-PMRC chair Tipper Gore, all they will accomplish is to enhance the success of shows which bear them...
...votes for a half-trillion-dollar package. The compromise was virtually complete, but reluctance by rank-and-file Democrats to go along could spell defeat when the House and Senate vote on the plan this week. Party discipline might work in the House, but White House officials expected Al Gore would have to cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. "The big question," joked a senior official, visibly exhausted from hours of lobbying, "is whether we can hold Gore...
Clinton hopes to woo Nunn with promises of additional cuts that he says Al Gore will propose this fall when he unveils his scheme for "reinventing government." "There are more cuts coming," Clinton told TIME. If that doesn't work, Clinton will try party loyalty. "They aren't going to get Nunn or Johnston," said a Democratic Senator, "unless it's clear that it's going to fail without them...
Books like The Babysitter III or Monster -- and there are suddenly a remarkable number of books very much like them -- do not reach such underage readers by subterfuge or stealth. Adolescents now constitute a booming niche market for the peddling of published gore and violence. "Teens' interests go in cycles," says Patricia MacDonald, editorial director of Archway Paperbacks, an imprint of Pocket Books and a major player in the teen-horror field. "In the '70s it was problem novels, the disease of the week. Then it was romance novels, soap operas like Sweet Valley High and Sweet Dreams...
...President's self-imposed deadline to come up with a compromise on the military ban on gays in the armed forces. However, despite nearly six months of studying and analyzing, arguing and negotiating, Aspin's report could just as well have been made in January. With Vice President Al Gore, David Gergen, George Stephanopoulos and National Security Adviser Tony Lake sitting in, Aspin told Clinton that the policy dubbed "Don't ask, don't tell" -- a politically unsatisfactory solution in which the Pentagon would not inquire about, and gay soldiers would not volunteer information on, sexual orientation...