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- THE WEEK, Page 18NATIONEt Cetera
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- TAILHOOKED
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- The sex-abuse scandal that followed 1991's Tailhook
- convention of Navy and Marine pilots has shot down a Navy
- Secretary and held up thousands of promotions. Now two top
- admirals have been hooked -- for other incidents. Vice Admiral
- Jerry Tuttle, 57, named to head the Navy's air arm, was denied
- promotion for sexist jokes in a newsletter he writes. Rear
- Admiral Joseph Prueher, 49, named to take command of the Third
- Fleet, was gigged for a 1989 episode at Annapolis, where he was
- the No. 2 man, when male midshipmen handcuffed a female classmate
- to a urinal.
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- BITTER PILL
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- The Supreme Court may have sustained American women's right
- to choose abortion, but it still seems willing to limit the ways
- to have one. In a test case involving the French abortion pill
- RU-486, the Justices by a 7-to-2 vote upheld an appellate-court
- ruling that bars return of the drug to a pregnant woman. U.S.
- customs agents had seized the pills from Leona Benten, 29, who
- had legally acquired them abroad. The court left open the
- question of the constitutionality of the U.S. ban on RU-486.
- Benten now plans to have a surgical abortion.
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