Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dick Thompson, who covered a NASA meeting on 1987A at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who flew to northern Chile, where astrophysicists first sighted 1987A. Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who specializes in science, canvassed supernova experts from Cambridge, Mass., to Santa Cruz, Calif. Says Nash: "I had heard of supernovas, of course, but was only dimly aware of their importance." After a few interviews, she became an aficionado. "The energy released by a supernova makes Mount St. Helens or Krakatoa look absolutely puny in comparison," she declares. "The explosive death...
Support for the House bill was spurred by the resignation of Arturo Cruz from the triumvirate that heads the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the contras' political arm. Cruz, a onetime Sandinista who has been a consistent advocate of democratic reforms within the rebel movement, never had much power, but his presence was a symbol that the contras were more than just a collection of embittered former supporters of deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Cruz's absence creates greater doubts about the caliber of the contra leadership. Elliott Abrams, the State Department's point man on the contra issue, disagrees. "The reform...
...says Astronomer Stan Woosley of the University of California at Santa Cruz, "everyone with anything to look with is looking at it." Every optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is trained on 1987A; a newly launched Japanese satellite is scanning it for X rays emitted by the supernova's hot gases; the Solar Max satellite is looking for the gamma rays characteristic of very energetic explosions; and another spacecraft, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, has already made observations of the explosion's ultraviolet radiation. These indicate that the star's atmosphere, which astronomers have determined is exploding outward at a speed...
Given what she did for North, Hall seems entitled to those 15 minutes, but she owes part of her instant fame to revelations about her romantic life. From mid-1985 to late last year, Hall dated Arturo Cruz Jr., 33, son of Contra Leader Arturo Cruz. Like his father, Cruz was a dedicated Sandinista before growing disenchanted with Managua; in the early 1980s he served in Nicaragua's Washington embassy. Rumors floated around the capital that "Arturito" was a Cuban intelligence agent, though the State Department later concluded the stories were unfounded. North tried to persuade Hall...
...their little libraries or laboratories and eventually do make a contribution to mankind through a lifetime of uninterrupted self-application can make all of us at Harvard look good, just as a Harvard championship team makes even senior Jay D. Katzman of Lowell House look good. Baltasar D. Cruz...