" As they were getting close to their goal, a rumbling inside one of the great pits revealed a sand mound filled with a great swarm of flesh-eatingscarabs, that crawled under the skin of many of the diggers - devouring and killing them.That I was willing to finance a Kryptonian deterrent, but a certain junior Senator from Kentucky decided to block it.It told of a ""Vietnamese-style"" heroic conflict on a distant colony betweeen heavily-armed Marines and a unbeatable enemy alien.Waldman.The scene at Waldman""s office at the College, already in progress, shows a row of skulls positioned on one of the shelves of his bookcases.In a series of confrontational closeups, he tells them of the cattle rustling and implies in a subtle exchange that his duty as newly-appointed Marshal is to find his brother""s murderers.