Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WORLD, April 2], may indeed be a dreadful dragon lady. On the other hand, having made the decision that war was necessary to eliminate a greater evil in her country, Astorga may have demonstrated considerable moral and patriotic responsibility by luring General Reinaldo Pérez-Vega to her room and then killing...
...widow of General Reinaldo Pérez-Vega. My husband's throat was not slashed as you say. He was tortured for hours until he died, an act in which Astorga was an active participant. She is a murderess. Her nomination as the ambassador from Nicaragua is evidence of the type of leaders that form the Communist Sandinista government...
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...
...explain these readings? Unlike the 4.6 billion-year-old sun, Vega is a veritable infant. It is less than a billion years old. At that age, it is probably still surrounded by an envelope of the cosmic debris, consisting of dust and gases, out of which all stars as well as their families of planets are apparently formed. IRAS'S sensors indicated that the temperature of this free-floating matter was a chilly -300° F, about the same as that of Saturn's innermost rings, which are made of small chunks of matter. Further calculations showed that...
Many of these conclusions, of course, are purely speculative. The infrared eyes of IRAS, as remarkably sensitive as they are, are not sharp enough to pick out any separate objects at such a great distance. Still, indications are that in the cosmic debris swirling around Vega there is a solar system in the making. Now it will be up to more powerful eyes, either on earth or in orbit, to get a better look at this new world...