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Poor Nintendo. The Japanese conglomerate may have enthralled youngsters with the world's most popular home-video games, but it gets no respect from adults. An antiviolence watchdog group has rated some 70% of the company's games "harmful for children." Physicians warn that too much rapid-fire button pushing can lead to hand strain, a condition dubbed Nintendinitis. And many parents, seeing their kids play Super Mario Bros. for hours on end, are asking what a nonstop diet of synthetic reality is doing to impressionable young minds...
...foresee the scandals in the television ministries or ever try to warn the people involved against them...
...ominous force behind the tensions is a white right-wing organization of self-styled commandos, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement. Dressed in khaki uniforms, members wear a swastika-like insignia, salute Nazi-style and warn of a "holy war" if De Klerk succeeds in carrying out his program. The A.W.B. has launched a campaign of intimidation against Welkom's blacks and has been accused of nighttime beatings. In early May, when armed squads began strutting in the streets during the day, the civic association in Welkom's black township of Thabong declared a consumer boycott. Suddenly white-owned...
...with a French businessman, he noticed that the Frenchman had a photocopy of the memo, handwritten notes and all. Asked how he got it, the Parisian sheepishly admitted that a French government official had given it to him. Because of such incidents, U.S. officials began a quiet effort to warn American companies about the need to take special precautions when operating in France...
Storm clouds may be forming as some Soviets demand faster economic reforms while others warn against the resulting hardships. -- How to cure Israel's political crisis...