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King Hussein of Jordan piloted his royal jetliner through Israeli airspace for 25 minutes. The historic flyover occurred minutes after Israel's Knesset formally approved a peace agreement with Jordan. The veteran pilot swooped low for the first time over Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, over which Jordan will soon resume its ancient caretaker role as part of the pact with the Jewish state. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin radioed his greetings to the King: "Your majesty, welcome to Israel, even though...
...planes carrying sightseers. The number of air passengers has doubled since 1987, to 800,000. On the busiest routes through the canyon, an aircraft streaks by about once every 90 seconds, which has created a noise level that harasses wildlife and threatens fragile cliff formations. Congress has restricted the flyover areas to about half the canyon, but the National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration are devising regulations to limit noise and air traffic even further...
Yasser Arafat's plane staged a flyover near -- but not too near -- disputed Jerusalem on the way to the PLO chairman's swearing-in as leader of his ancestral Palestinian homeland. In Jericho, Arafat led12 members of the Palestine National Authority in the oath of office for the self-rule government, despite complaints that Israeli officials had allowed Jewish militants to block thousands of Palestinians from the modest ceremony. Next stop for Arafat: Paris, where he'll receive a U.N. Peace Prize with Israeli leaders Wednesday. He's likely to use the platform to wangle slow-coming international financial...
...Wichita may never be quite the same. Tucked comfortably away in the middle of America's "flyover country," this conservative, image-conscious city (pop. 304,000) prefers to resolve its internal disputes -- which customarily involve school-board squabbles or debates over nude dancing in bars -- away from the glare of media attention. Thus there was some local discomfort in mid-July, when Operation Rescue, an aggressive antiabortion group based in Binghamton, N.Y., set up blockades outside three local clinics; one of them is among the few that perform late abortions. TV cameras soon followed, since the protests turned...
...tuxedo for an evening of Manhattan night life. Despite the pseudo-lower-middle- class realism of Roseanne and Married with Children, the implicit message in much of prime time remains almost effortless economic entitlement. For while most of the nation resides in what bicoastal types call "the great flyover," TV characters are never rooted in Toledo or Omaha; instead, most spring to life magically equipped with sprawling houses and apartments in glamorous cities like New York and Los Angeles...