Word: pariah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a sensible rule in human affairs: Never make a paranoid feel like a pariah; it renders him more dangerous. The rule may apply to the Soviets. On the other hand, they have often in the past worked in a point and counterpoint: they followed their Czech invasion with the beginning of the détente process, for example, and the Cuban missile crisis with the test ban treaty...
Begin and Sadat may see eye to eye about the problems of the region, but there was no detailed discussion at Aswan about Israeli-Egyptian military or strategic cooperation-which would make Sadat even more of a pariah to his Arab colleagues than he already is. Besides, noted a senior Egyptian official, "we must concentrate on solving the Palestinian problem before thinking about military strategy." The Israelis insist that autonomy means only a limited measure of self-rule for the Palestinians; the Egyptians argue that there must be steps of substance toward the ultimate goal of independence for the West...
...says a U.S. State Department 'official grudgingly, "is a casebook study in sound economic management." Chile? The country where two months ago the Catholic Church demanded an investigation into the identities of more than 300 bodies found crammed into unmarked coffins in a Santiago cemetery? Chile? The international pariah that refuses to extradite to the U.S. the former head of the Chilean secret service and two other army officers indicted for murder by a federal grand jury? Yes, Chile, where Military Dictator Augusto Pinochet is simultaneously tightening his grip on the government and freeing up the economy...