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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS ... NASA PHOTOGRAPHS HUGE UFO IN SATURN'S RINGS When asked why NASA and other gov- dog food, followed by Kraft Cheese and ernmental agencies haven't released this Tip Top Bread; and the tenth most-pur- information before, Dr Bergrun answered chased brand was Benson & Hedges ciga- that the 1958 Space Act provides that space __rettes. data can be withheld if something is found However, the report also revealed that that may constitute a threat—and that a _ sales of vitamin brands have jumped 1,076 vehicle of this size would be considered a _ per cent to A$70million since 1985! threat and would be deemed to have great (Sources: The Sydney Morning Herald; military significance. As such, it would The Australian; 1 November 1996) fall under the "top black-budget military intelligence agencies". UK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS TO Dr Bergrun has presented his discoveries RECORD ALL NUMBERPLATES in a book, Ring-Makers of Saturn (1986), Police and security agencies are placing which contains the NASA Voyager photo- _ large orders for surveillance cameras that graph of this huge space vehicle orbiting in _ will track the movements of millions of dri- Saturn's rings. vers in the UK. (Casnans Dinhavd Daslan T nanh ad onft va tha nam dog food, followed by Kraft Cheese and Tip Top Bread; and the tenth most-pur- chased brand was Benson & Hedges ciga- rattas On 30 January 1996, the Alan Handlemann radio interview program on WREX-FM, Charlotte, North Carolina, fea- tured a former NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, now NASA) scientist, Dr Norman Bergrun, revealing that NASA's Voyager space probe took photographs of a cylindrical object, about 1-1/2 Earth diameters long, orbiting in the rings of Saturn. Dr Bergrun said that streamers could actually be seen along the length of the cylindrical object, implying the existence of exhaust ports. Now, independent confirmation has been published in Science News (February 1996, vol. 149, no. 5, p. 71), where the Hubble Space Telescope was reported to have pho- tographed a large, elongated non-satellite orbiting Saturn's rings in one photograph, but which disappeared from a follow-up photograph. Two other very big and very bright orbiting objects were photographed on 22 May '95 and 10 August '95, but they disappeared by 21 November '95. Dr Bergrun believes that the cylindrical object is intelligently controlled and has attributes qualifying it as a space vehicle. When asked why NASA had not managed to get a photograph of the huge vehicle before, Dr Bergrun said that "they have a tendency to hide in their own exhaust". The former NACA scientist said that exhaust from the length and ends of the vehicle appears as the material constituting the ring. UK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS TO RECORD ALL NUMBERPLATES Police and security agencies are placing large orders for surveillance cameras that will track the movements of millions of dri- vers in the UK. Using sophisticated software, the cam- eras will read the numberplate of every passing vehicle, and automatically check it against a police database of known or sus- pected offenders. As the network expands, it will be possi- ble to find or follow any vehicle in Britain simply by typing in the registration num- ber. The cameras will also be used to detect unregistered vehicles, enforce road laws and monitor traffic congestion. Starting in spring 1997, Customs-operat- ed cameras at ports will log the number- plates of every vehicle entering the UK. (Source: The Sunday Telegraph [UK], 15 September 1996) (Source: Richard Boylan, rich.boylan@ 24stex.com) COKE & CIGARETTES ARE TOPS AT AUSTRALIAN SUPERMARKETS Despite tough advertising restrictions, health warnings and falling tobacco con- sumption, the Marlboro brand of cigarettes has increased its sales value in Australia by 78 per cent over the past year. The annual brands report, compiled by A. C. Nielsen, ranks Australia's top 100 product names for the past financial year, based on the value of grocery store sales— and if brand names are anything to go by, Australia is a health fanatic's nightmare. Out of the five best-selling brands in Australian grocery stores, four were ciga- rettes. Number one position went to Coca- Cola. Number six position went to Nescafé instant coffee; seventh was Pedigree Pal WARNING ON GENETICALLY- MODIFIED FOODS The first deliveries of American geneti- cally-altered soya 'superbeans' are arriving in UK and Europe amid storms of protest. The soya beans come from soya plants bred by the Monsanto chemical company for resistance to its Roundup herbicide. Dr John Fagan, a professor of molecular biology from Fairfield, lowa, has spoken out against such genetically-modified foods, claiming that they are a "significant hazard to public health" and should be withdrawn until tests prove there are no unwelcome side-effects. Soya beans are particularly under fire, as approximately two-thirds of all British supermarket items, including breads, pas- tries, vegetable oils, ice cream, chocolate, cereals, margarine and processed meat products, contain soya. Dr Fagan said: "Introducing a gene into another organism is a Russian roulette process: the position the new gene occu- pies is not controllable. We are being asked to partake in a nutritional experiment DNnNADD ng nono ney nv Qonnng fou apo slp) 2900p O00I nbd t —)00 ONDND OD =f nn eR LAN sow tee | eS AE>] con P ODPADHD Oo 00900 8 = NEXUS DECEMBER 1996 - JANUARY 1997