Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victims; former parliamentarians and army officers have been tortured, as well as suspect leftist terrorists. Recounts Carlos Pérez Tobar, once a lieutenant in the Chilean army arrested by the junta after he tried to resign his commission: "I was tortured with electric shock, forced to live in underground dungeons so small that in one I could only stand up and in the other only lie down. I was beaten incessantly, dragged before a mock firing squad, and regularly told that my wife and child and relatives were suffering the same fate...
Then, as mysteriously as it had appeared, this strain of virus disappeared, or at least went underground. Apparently, perhaps with some minor mutation, it found its refuge among hogs -hence the appellation of "swine flu" given to the recent emergence of a similar flu strain at Fort...
Dune was written in 1965, won the Hugo and Nebula awards as best science fiction novel of the year, and rapidly became an underground cult classic. In 1969, a sequel appeared, Dune Messiah, the further adventures of Paul Atreides, Muad'Dib, and Emperor of the Fremen. Now Herbert has presented us with another, final tale of Arrakis, the Dune planet--a sort of a sequel to a sequel. Like most sequels, Children of Dune recalls the worst things about the first two books...
...Rock & Gravel Co., site of the quarry where the mass abduction ended. On his estate, 29 miles distant, police found a virtual junkyard-100 vehicles, including several wrecked police cars, a fire engine, assorted trucks and vans, and a tractor that could have been used to tow around the underground trailer; apparently the younger Woods liked to collect and restore the wrecks. His father's only public comment: "I was told by the sheriffs office not to say whether I have one son or ten sons...
...taken a full two weeks. Driving vans, they transported their equipment, including six torches, 27 oxyacetylene bottles and several heavy hydraulic jacks, to Nice's Palais des Expositions, roughly a mile from the Place Massena, the town center. There they dismantled crash barriers that blocked access to an underground roadway built for sewermen alongside the River Paillon, which runs below street level through the middle of town. Following the road to a point near the Place Massena, they connected with a sewerage line that led about 440 yds. to a point 30 ft. from the bank's strong...