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Thousands of political opponents died in his secret police dungeons, mysterious "auto accidents" and "suicides." There were electric chairs for slow electrocution, another many-armed electrical device attached by tiny screws inserted into the skull, a rubber collar that could be tightened to sever a man's head, plus nail extractors, scissors for castration, leather-thonged whips and small rubber hammers. P.A. systems in the torture rooms carried every blood-curdling scream to other prisoners waiting their turn. If Trujillo favored variety, he also favored volume. One October night in 1937, he ordered his army to eliminate all Haitian...
...STORY THUS FAR: Biff Bundie, University Police undercover agent disguised as graduate student Kevin Stoddard Heath, found a small package in his cost pocket after a strange, foreign man "accidently" bumped into him outside of Sever Hall. Upon opening it, Bundle discovered a pouch of greenish tobacco and a white card on which was printed a Roman numeral seven enclosed in a circle. Realizing the importance of his discoveries, Bundle started back to police headquarters. Meanwhile, in the midst of a fire in the Chem 20 lab in Mallinckrodt, a mutilated, decapitated body has been discovered in a fire blanket...
...passed in front of Emerson Hall, the Memorial Church bells chimed noon. Bundie quickened his pace in order to avoid the crowd which was soon to pour out of Sever's west door. He fingered the lapels of his new Coop sports jacket and lit his Leavitt and Peirce pipe thus completing his disguise...
...worry about it," said Biff. "It could happen to any..." But the stranger had turned and was gone, swallowed up by the hordes pouring out of Sever. Bundie sighed and changed his course. Before he knew it, he had arrived at the University Restaurant and was sitting over a cup of coffee...
...sever the supply lines that carry Hanoi's men and arms into the battle for South Viet Nam. After U.S. Thunderchiefs and Skyraiders cut the bridges at Thanhhoa, above Vinh and at Dong Phuong Thuong (see map), roving jets prowled highways and rail lines, shooting up trucks and destroying the North Vietnamese's scanty rolling stock. Though the Communists could still cross their unbridged rivers by arranging makeshift spans of wicker boats at night, they were being forced more and more to avoid the roads...