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Security was lax at the Olympic Village. Wearing sweat suits, eight men simply climbed over a 6-ft. barrier around the village at 4:10 a.m. Armed with AK-47s, they rounded up 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and a referee, shooting two dead early on. The terrorists demanded the release of 234 prisoners from Israeli jails. Negotiations were ruled out by the Israelis, but the Germans began fake ones to buy time. In the afternoon, the Black September commander, distinctive in his white hat, insisted that his team and the hostages be flown to Cairo...
Getting blacklisted isn't hard. At Wal-Mart, which once had a lax return policy, just three round trips in 45 days without receipts triggers an alert. If you get flagged, you'll need a manager's approval to complete your purchase; then it will be six months before you can return an item as usual. Barnes & Noble and Home Depot have their own proprietary tagging systems...
Despite new restrictions that required tailgates to end by the beginning of the third quarter and prohibited drinking games and drinking paraphernalia, students said police enforcement was lax with tailgates extending well past halftime...
...students at the Kennedy School of Government contributed to a recent controversial ABC investigative report that alleges lax security at nuclear reactors located on 25 U.S. college campuses...
...never have to worry about the police when transporting animals. Most don't even know or care that it's considered a crime," he says with a laugh. "And the ones who do are already in the business and making money themselves." The combination of soaring demand and lax enforcement is leading to a potentially catastrophic situation for the region's wildlife, activists say. "At the current rate there is a very good chance that we will lose a lot of species before we even know where they are or anything about them," says TRAFFIC's Compton...