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...GUAM. Although this 212-sq.-mi. U.S. territory is located in the North Pacific, 6,000 miles from California, and has a population of just 120,000, it became the center of controversy last year after enacting what was then the nation's most restrictive antiabortion measure. It outlaws all abortions except when pregnancy endangers a woman's life; violators face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for obtaining an abortion or aiding a woman doing so; doctors performing the procedure may be jailed for up to five years. A federal district court found...
People tend to think only of truckers when they hear the word Teamster, but the union today embraces workers from all walks of life -- hospital and brewery laborers, librarians, schoolteachers, even state troopers and sheriff's deputies -- in more than 600 locals scattered as far as Guam and the Yukon Territory. Despite a membership erosion caused mostly by trucking deregulation (the Teamsters peaked in 1978 at 2.3 million), the union boasts the largest U.S. political-action committee. Last year it raised $10.5 million, nearly twice as much as the runner-up, the American Medical Association. That money buys plenty...
...expeditionary force will be increased to 50,000 soldiers and Marines and 200 aircraft, including F-16 ground-attack fighters and A-10 antitank planes. Marine units are being flown to the Persian Gulf from the U.S. There they will meet two prepositioned supply ships already under way from Guam and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. These ships contain everything necessary to fully equip a Marine brigade of 17,000 men. This includes 45 tanks, heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers and food, water and fuel for 30 days...
Idaho's politicians were not the only ones to tussle with abortion last week. The U.S. territory of Guam outlawed all abortions except to save the life of the mother, but a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure. In Maryland, after an eight-day filibuster, the state Senate passed two bills -- one allowing abortion, the other severely restricting it -- and encouraged the state's voters to decide in a referendum next fall. "That gives politicians license to say they're pro-choice to one person and antiabortion to the next," charges delegate Patricia Sher. It would have been a politician...
Clark is clearly more expendable than Subic. The Air Force increasingly operates its long-range bombers and advanced fighters out of Guam. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has offered to accept some air units from Clark in his country. Subic's facilities, on the other hand, cannot readily be replaced. They include extensive machine shops that maintain the U.S. fleet with low-cost labor unavailable at alternative sites in Singapore or Japan...