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China's successful antisatellite-missle test Jan. 11 carries potential implications??for the international community, which has collectively placed at least 316 satellites within the missile's proven range (528 more orbiters, such as GPS and early-warning satellites, fly even higher). At issue are military surveillance satellites--the very ones that detected Beijing's test--which represent only 6% of the total number but almost all of which fly within reach. Until now, only Russia and the U.S. have downed space objects, and despite Beijing's assurances that the test was not adversarial, the U.S. sees a threat...
This has some fairly horrifying implications???till death do us part, for one?but it is so close to character that it is too bad that Whitaker, at 42 an acknowledged star among royal-watchers, did not really say it. The dapper Whitaker has concentrated on the royal family for 14 years?in the process, he says contentedly, traveling around the world several times and moving at increasingly fatter salaries from the Daily Mail to the Express to the Sun to the Star, and finally to the Mirror. He likes the royals. "They all mean a great deal...
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