Word: isolationism
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Khadaffy's isolation in the world community was broken only by a congratulatory telegram from Cambridge City Councilor Al Velluci.
A legal challenge on immunity could also lead to a protracted court battle. Poindexter, North and Hakim testified before Congress under grants of limited immunity, preventing Walsh from using any of their testimony against them. All but one of the 29 attorneys on Walsh's team avoided TV, the radio...
Every society facing rampant disease has feared social disorder, he said. "Invariably this leads to the ostracism and isolation of victims and scapegoating of Jews, witches, or gays, which restores a false sense of social cohesion," he said.
Others say the isolation makes off-campus living attractive. "There's nothing like coming home at the end of the day to your own house," Welch says. Nadir agrees, saying, "Personally, at the end of the day I like to leave campus and just change atmospheres."
Yet the Reagan Administration remains convinced that Panama's increasing political and economic isolation will eventually force the general to step down. "Noriega can hang on for a long time," says a U.S. official, "but sooner or later the country is going to start paying very dearly for keeping him...