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...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...
...long-running and unseemly dispute between Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Dr. Robert Gallo of the NIH over who had first identified the AIDS virus raised public doubts about the motives and credibility of scientists. Those concerns remained when Gallo conceded that through inadvertent contamination, the virus he identified had been isolated from a sample sent him by the Frenchman. Last week the journal Science revealed that a draft of a forthcoming NIH report about the affair criticizes Gallo and accuses one of his colleagues of scientific misconduct...
...judicious revenge that a woman takes on a brutalizing man. In another new film, Alan Rudolph's dour and inept Mortal Thoughts, two women (Demi Moore and Glenne Headly) kill a hateful husband (Bruce Willis, who lately can't seem to get a break). The trend straddles oceans too: Luc Besson's stylish French thriller, La Femme Nikita, is about a woman (Anne Parillaud) whose romantic life conflicts with her career as an espionage hit person...
...slugfest became public after Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., announced in 1984 that they had isolated the AIDS virus. But it turned out to be virtually identical to one that had already been cultured in the lab of Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. That was surprising, since strains of the AIDS virus from different people have noticeably different genetic structures...
...FEMME NIKITA. Sleek spy stuff in this melodrama about a killer (Anne Parillaud) recruited by French intelligence. Director Luc Besson serves a handsome mix of violent action and sulky introspection. Look for a Hollywood remake, minus the navel gazing...