11.   Billboards dot the countryside bearing huge portraits of him standing in a lush wheatfield or striding purposefully in a business suit.

12.   Mango and coconut groves dot the countryside, interspersed with small mango pulp processing plants and cottage industries such as coir rope, mat-weaving and jaggery units.

13.   Millions of Koreans take to the highways during major holidays to pay tribute to ancestral tombs dotting the countryside, causing bumper-to-bumper traffic jams throughout the nation.

14.   Roadblocks dotted the countryside.

15.   The government tightened security measures at airports and coastal resorts, army troops scoured the hills for guerrillas and roadblocks dotted the countryside.

16.   There were more in smaller hamlets that dot the countryside, but she said they were not reported because villagers were too weak to bring in the bodies.

17.   Indian army soldiers dotting the countryside made no attempt to intercept the Moslem guerrillas to prevent a shootout in the open, one source said in Srinagar.

18.   MAG is a British organisation assisting in the removal of the land mines that dot the countryside.