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...half- milers are bad enough, but these giant ones pose a threat to the entire planet. It was such an asteroid (or an equivalent-size comet) that many scientists believe caused the extinction of dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The primary evidence, discovered by the late physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, a geologist, is a layer of the element iridium laid down in sedimentary rock at about the time the giant reptiles disappeared. Iridium is rare on the earth's surface but more common in asteroids...
...Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Alvarez del Castillo...
Retired General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, former head of the Honduran armed forces, left his fortress-like home in Tegucigalpa's posh Florencia Norte district just after 10 a.m. His driver was taking him to purchase a Bible and visit his brother. At an intersection three blocks away, as many as six guerrillas toting submachine guns sprayed Alvarez's car with bullets as he pleaded, "Don't do this to me!" The left-wing Popular Liberation Movement, known as the Cinchoneros, claimed responsibility for the deaths of Alvarez and his driver...
Some speculate that Alvarez, a staunch anti-Communist, was targeted for his role in turning sections of Honduras into bases for the U.S. military and the U.S.-backed contras, who have been fighting to topple the Sandinista regime next door in Nicaragua. Cinchoneros leaders indicated they were avenging Alvarez's brutal attempt to crush their movement in the early 1980s, as well as the former general's part in the disappearance of 120 alleged subversives. Whatever the motive, Hondurans fear that growing political violence could turn their once placid nation into the Lebanon of Latin America...