Word: scarred
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...could make not just one but two trips to the ballot box. Opposition voters could be dealt with in several ways. The manual suggested "dividing the opposition by buying off their leaders," and "arresting elements considered as pro-Communist." Then again, one could always "blackmail a person with a scar"-meaning a person with an unsavory background as a smuggler, say, or a habitue of brothels...
...Minh's supporters, showed how the election was being rigged. The main item was a 17-page memo to province chiefs; among other things, it told how to fix ballot cards to enable Thieu partisans to vote twice and how to discourage Thieu opponents by finding "a scar"-Vietnamese parlance for a past crime or anything else that might make a man vulnerable to blackmail...
...even longer for the bedeviled people of East Pakistan. Last week, as fresh waves of refugees poured across the Indian border at the rate of 100,000 a day, they brought tales of pogrom against Hindus by the predominantly Moslem Pakistanis. And over the stinking, teeming refugee camps that scar the border areas of five Indian states hovered the growing threat of famine and pestilence...
...Ugly Scar. Ulbricht took a poor, unstable part of Germany and turned it into a relatively prosperous, tightly ruled state. Having spent World War II in Russia, he and a handful of aides, including Leonhard, were flown to Berlin during the last days of the war as part of a Soviet plan to impose Communism on defeated Germany. Ulbricht succeeded only in that area where Soviet troops could enforce his orders. Even then, the East Germans in 1953 staged the East bloc's first abortive rebellion. In 1956, as the Soviet bloc was swept by the wave of destalinization...
...decade later, it still remains-an ugly, 25-mile scar across the face of Berlin. But the Wall stanched the drain of talented people, enabling him to stabilize and develop East Germany into the world's ninth largest industrial power, with a gross national income of $29.5 billion. That, in turn, gave Ulbricht great leverage within the East bloc. He shared none of the Soviet desire for technological help from the West; he has access to West German aid anyhow through various trade arrangements. Ulbricht's consuming fear was that closer ties with the West could undermine Communist...