Word: pockmarked
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...where socialist Michele Bachelet now rules. As a result, pundits from Mexico City to Buenos Aires are sure to remark in their obituaries that the left wouldn't be enjoying such resilient support in the region if it were not for the reactionary excesses of figures like Pinochet that pockmark Latin American history like blood-soaked epaulettes...
...months burrowing through London's Imperial War Museum archives and the memoirs of British Special Branch officers stationed within the fractious International Settlement, Bradby has done for Shanghai what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles?created a stylish and cool genre-fiction tapestry. Bradby also conjures a crime boss, Pockmark Lu, to hover above this seething cauldron. "A man who makes Al Capone look like a social worker," Lu controls an army of 20,000 foot soldiers (based on the real-life Green Gang), hundreds of call girls and boys, imports opium from India and Pakistan and is ruthless...
...Sierra Leone, and Uganda. And the United States is eager to school Nigeria's military in the ways of peace-keeping, at least in part to reduce calls on the United States to send troops to keep the peace in conflict-stricken Sierra Leone and other ravaged nations that pockmark Africa. Last week - just in time for Clinton to announce it to a delighted Nigeria - the Pentagon sent the first dozen of hundreds of military trainers to the country. Over the next several months, they will train up to 4,000 Nigerian troops for peacekeeping missions in Africa. Clinton...
...relics of Uganda's bloody past are everywhere. Tanks rust along the roads, and shell holes pockmark buildings. In the villages north of Kampala, the capital, big plastic bags bulge with bright white human skulls, femurs and tibias, the grisly remains of some of the estimated 1 million victims of two decades of government atrocity, tribal conflict and civil war. Now the nearly four-year-old regime of President Yoweri Museveni is talking about preserving these bones, perhaps in a museum, as a memorial to a time that everyone in Uganda hopes is over...
Bullet holes pockmark the inside and outside walls of the post and liberally ventilate the veranda's tin roof. Some local folks insist that much of the damage was caused around 1916, when Pancho Villa's men rode in for supplies during the Mexican Revolution, though there is in fact no proof that Villa or any of his men actually visited the store. Ivey is amused by the idea. "I don't know about all the bullet holes," he says, "but I do know that the roof was ventilated a few years ago at a dance. A feller felt...