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...Puerto Rican senator discussed new evidence incriminating the United States government in the recently reopened "Cerro Maravilla" case with 20 people in Cabot House yesterday...
...Calif., backed by special units, it raced to secure vital facilities at the Caribbean end of the canal, near Colon. It took over Madden Dam, which stores water used to raise and lower ships in the canal's locks, and seized control of the electrical distribution center at Cerro Tigre. The task force encountered stiff resistance from a P.D.F. naval infantry unit on the northern coast. This force also freed 48 P.D.F. prisoners at Gamboa prison...
Working at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile last February, Kirshner says his team was taking pictures of the light emitted from supernova Puppis A, a remnant discovered in the 1950s, which has been studied "off and on" ever since. Astronomers usually study the light spectra from all sorts of astronomical bodies to learn about their physical and chemical characteristics, Kirshner says...
Kirshner and his three co-workers, John P. Hughes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), Stephen R. Heathcote from the Cerro Tololo Observatory and Frank Winkler from Middlebury College, published these findings in the January 5 issue of Nature magazine. The cover of the famous periodical shows a picture created by Kirshner portraying his theory of the double supernova explosions in Puppis...
Early next month, Puppis A will be studied more extensively at Cerro Tololo. "We'll see if it stands up to closer scrutiny," Kirshner says, though he will not be in Chile for the continuing observation of his hypothesized double supernova, he says. Next semester he will be teaching the Core course, Science A-35, "Matter in the Universe," and says he needs to stay in town "for sectioning and stuff like that...