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Meanwhile, a secondary battle over what to call the AIDS virus may have been resolved last week by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses. The name of the virus had itself become a political football as the French insisted on LAV (lymphadenopathy-associated virus), while Gallo's group used HTLV-3 (human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type 3). In a statement published in the journals Nature and Science, a taxonomy group subcommittee proposed a third name, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and urged scientists to adopt it. Because of the pending legal actions, Gallo refused to endorse the change...
France, which gets a world-leading 65% of its energy from the atom, seems to have weathered Chernobyl without incident. The French have virtually no antinuclear movement to contend with, and most view their atomic energy plants as a source of pride rather than a problem. "French opinion overwhelmingly favors nuclear power," says Bertrand Degalassus, a spokesman for France's atomic energy commission. In Japan, which draws 26% of its electric power from atomic reactors and has virtually no natural energy sources, the future ) of nuclear use seems secure. The government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone last week stressed...
...just too much. How can a creative genius function amid the aromas of hamburgers and French fries? World-Famous Fashion Designer Valentino is so upset at the opening of Rome's first McDonald's next to his atelier that he has filed suit to have it closed...
...Iturbe Abasolo, alias Txomin, is suspected of masterminding dozens of killings in Spain. ETA most recently took responsibility for a bomb attack two weeks ago that killed five policemen. Iturbe, 42, has been kept out of reach of the Spanish since he fled to France in 1968. In 1982 French authorities declared him a political refugee...
Last week Iturbe was picked up by French police near the town of Arbonne in the Pyrenees. His arrest, for violating an order confining him to the city of Tours, came less than a week after European Community ministers vowed closer cooperation in dealing with terrorists. In Iturbe's case, the law-and-order- minded government of French Premier Jacques Chirac is likely to fulfill that pledge by deporting the suspected terrorist to Latin America or Africa...