Word: gratae
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...matter which story is correct, she's persona non grata to much of her home state. Monday, a day after her arrests, prosecutors asked a federal court to deny bail, arguing that Barton couldn't stay around because the angry citizens of her community would make things uncomfortable. She was released Thursday on a $600,000 bail on the condition that she stay away from forested areas...
...dialogue than his Israeli counterparts, precisely because of the toll taken by the intifada on his domestic and international political standing. Arafat may have made more visits to the Clinton White House than any other foreign leader, but the onset of the intifada essentially made him persona non grata in Washington, and suicide bombing attacks emanating from areas under his control have sharply weakened his diplomatic support in the West. On the Palestinian street, the uprising has seen the political center of gravity shift away from Arafat and towards the radical Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and more importantly...
...Freeh was persona non grata around the Clinton White house for his support of an independent counsel on campaign fund-raising and his aggressive cultivation of Senate Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch and other key Republican leaders. Freeh and his circle made no secret of their active antipathy toward Bill Clinton personally and the Clinton White House. Yet, for the incoming administration, Freeh, as a Clinton appointee , retained Democratic party sanction that could lend a patina of bipartisanship to the Bush national security team...
Just to have brought the sides this close is an achievement. Twelve years ago, when Ross started working for Bush, Arafat was persona non grata to the U.S., a man whose sworn aim was to destroy Israel. Over the years, much of the progress was made by the parties themselves. The Oslo accords, reached in 1993 by Israel and the Palestinians, were achieved without the help of the U.S. But at key moments, especially in the past six months, the U.S. has brought agreement where none could be found by the sides alone. Every President and Secretary of State...
...hostages carries the danger of simply entrenching the problem. Mindful of the dangers, U.N. diplomats are attempting to isolate rebel leader Foday Sankoh from his comrades, suggesting they'll negotiate with other rebel leaders but that Sankoh's betrayal of last year's agreement makes him persona non grata. Ruling Sankoh out of the equation may help disorganize the rebels, but this war is about resources rather than politics, and as long as there are diamonds to be mined and powerful regional interests coveting them, there'll be guerrilla commanders willing to fight any attempts to restore government control over...