Word: isolationism
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On Wednesday the first confirmed case of cholera appeared; within 24 hours 800 people were dead; then it became too hard to keep count. Aid workers set up isolation tents to control the epidemic, but know they cannot. Every minute another patient arrives, calling for help, for water, and then...
Though Simpson resides in the most populated jail in the country (about 6,200 prisoners, with more than 1,000 newcomers a day), he lives, paradoxically, in complete, not-so-splendid isolation. He is assigned to "7000," the second-floor ward of the hospital section, reserved for severe mental cases...
Outside of China and North Korea, only Fidel Castro, another octogenarian dictator, still reigns with the ultimate power of a charismatic tyrant. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba's isolation became complete. Castro has not been grooming a successor as obviously as Kim did, nor does he have...
Kozyrev: Yes, of course. It's a peculiar situation: on the one hand, the need to include Russia is understood ((by the G-7 partners)), because it is in the best interests of both Russia and the West. The alternative would be awful: the isolation of Russia and confrontation with...
Rows of cheering diplomats welcomed South Africa back to the United Nations as the country regained its seat after 20 years of banishment because of its policy of apartheid. "The long night of diplomatic isolation has finally come to an end," South African Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo said.