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...ORDER LAST WEEK, a white racist set off a bomb that killed 20 people on a New York City subway train. Tori Spelling, in the CBS movie Co-Ed Call Girl, grabbed a gun and shot a sleazy pimp. Batman (the cartoon character) was almost thrown into a vat of flames by the Penguin. Lemuel Gulliver (the Ted Danson character) battled gigantic bees in the land of Brobdingnag. And Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy slapped around bad guys in the umpteenth cable showing...
...serious crime. "I chose Bill Bratton," says Giuliani, "because he agreed with the Broken Windows theory." Sure enough, as arrests for small offenses rocketed, New York's streets became notably more civil. Then Maple, who has been Bratton's aide-de-camp and crime strategist since Bratton was slashing subway crime as New York's Transit Police chief in the early 1990s, proposed an intriguing corollary to the theory...
...massive labor dispute that has crippled France since the country's unionized railroad workers went on strike three weeks ago may be in its endgame. A majority of French railroad workers voted to suspend their strike today, one day after subway and bus drivers in Paris agreed to return to work. Despite recent government concessions that included an agreement to renegotiate the five-year contract with the national railway company, hard-line union negotiators remain unsatisfied. "There's going to be another big demonstration here on Saturday that may draw support from private-sector employees, which could be an indication...
Most Paris subway and bus drivers have now agreed to return to work, but bureau chief Thomas Sancton says there is still no sign that other public transportation employees will end their three-week strike: "Some drivers are going back to work, but it's definitely not an indication that the strike is over," Sancton reports. Workers on the Paris commuter and intercity trains will continue striking, despite recent government concessions that included an agreement to renegotiate the five-year contract with the national railway company. "There's going to be another big demonstration here on Saturday that may draw...
...Appalled and dismayed" was Columbia Pictures' re-action to the torching of a New York City subway token booth by assailants whose attack closely resembled scenes from the studio's latest release, Money Train. The clerk working inside the booth suffered severe burns. G.O.P. presidential contender Bob Dole, who has been campaigning against Hollywood's "pornography of violence," took to the Senate floor to urge a boycott of the film. In the debate about whether the movie inspired the crime, it was almost forgotten that the film scenes were themselves inspired by a series of real-life attacks...