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Nora Astorga seemed perfectly cast as the Mata Hari of the Sandinista revolution, and she played the game of seduction and betrayal with deadly ease. First, she caught the roving eye of General Reynaldo ("the Dog") Pérez Vega, second ranking officer in Nicaragua's notorious National Guard. Then, one night in March 1978, Astorga lured the smitten general to her home. After sending his bodyguard off to buy rum, she drew Peérez into her bedroom and disarmed him. The general undoubtedly thought he was in for a special night; he was. At that moment, five...
...letter, Alex wrote that Beirut, with its shanties and vivid street life, reminded him of Juárez, his border-town birthplace. The family left Juárez when Alex was five; but his mother remembers that as a baby there he would throw a fit whenever she washed his hair. That does not seem long ago to his parents. Says Jesus Muñoz: "He was still like...
...come from fellow Hispanics. "The average Hispanic understands," Lamm says, "that there are only so many jobs." In a recent poll of 457 registered Hispanic voters in southern Texas, 54% said they favored stricter enforcement of the immigration laws. "They're destroying this country," complains Juan Ramírez, laid-off master electrician from the Brownsville area. "Are you going to hire me when you can get someone else for $3.50 an hour...
Iraq was clearly on the defensive, though, and appealed last week to United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar for help in arranging a truce. Having provoked the fighting in September 1980 to regain what he claimed was lost territory, Saddam Hussein now wants out of the war on almost any terms that could be described as honorable. Iran so far has rejected all offers. Even before the present worldwide oil glut, Iraq's petroleum production was down from a peak of about 4 million bbl. per day to about 1 million bbl. per day. Iraqi...
...bizarre rebellion ended as suddenly as it had begun. But when Lieut. Colonel Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez gave up his six-day mutiny against Salvadoran Minister of Defense General José Guillermo Garcia last week, the damage had been done. The incident highlighted what many analysts feel is a troubling obstacle to U.S. aims in the embattled Central American nation: a lack of discipline on the part of the Salvadoran military. All too often, its leaders seem to be more concerned with internal rivalries than with fighting left-wing guerrillas united under the banner of the Farabundo Mart...