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- THE WEEK, Page 17NATIONEt Cetera
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- SPY IN THE SKY
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- On the basis of radar sightings and strange sonic "air
- quakes," aircraft buffs have been speculating for years about the
- existence of a secret U.S. spy plane they call Aurora. The
- speculation is over, says Jane's Defence Weekly. A definitive
- report prepared by the British military-affairs journal
- describes the stealthy craft as a triangular-shaped hypersonic
- jet fueled by liquid methane and capable of cruising at Mach 8
- (5,280 m.p.h.), 2 1/2 times the world record. Jane's key piece
- of evidence: the report of an aircraft-recognition expert who
- actually saw the plane fly over a North Sea oil rig three years
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- GUAM SETBACK
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- Since the Supreme Court reaffirmed the right to abortion last
- June, antiabortion forces eager to overturn Roe v. Wade have
- been watching the small island of Guam. In 1990 Guam enacted
- one of the nation's stiffest antiabortion laws, prohibiting all
- abortions except those necessary to save a pregnant woman's
- life or to prevent a "grave" threat to her health. But a
- federal court declared it unconstitutional last April, and last
- week the Supreme Court refused to hear Guam's appeal. The
- National Right to Life Committee called the decision
- "disappointing but unsurprising."
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