Word: pariah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corporate withdrawal and increasing political ostracism would clearly make South Africa a pariah to the world community. The sense of security that the white South African government derives from its connection with the West would be lost, once that connection is severed. The South African masses will in our lifetimes rise up against their oppressive minority rules. If the confidence of that minority rule has been shaken, if the supports of that rule have been removed, than the amount of bloodshed will be lessened, the chances for peaceful transition increased, the days of suffering reduced...
...captured, almost stop-action fashion, in a series of speeches and interviews, followed by clarifying re-interviews. By far the most explosive ran in the Los Angeles Times. In it, Jackson rekindled his smoldering feud with the Jewish community by accusing its leaders of trying "to make me a pariah and isolate our support...
...learning. Finally, school prayer violates a fundamental assumption of American life, one that has something to do with privacy, something with freedom of speech, and something less codified and explicit: that one ought to be able to retain one's humanity without being made to feel a pariah in one's own country...
Maas offers no happy fadeout with right restored and virtue intact. Marie Ragghianti today is a political pariah; no politician wants to hire the woman who brought down a Governor. She is a teacher of criminology at a Florida community college, consoling herself with the meditations of a stoic: "Have I done something for the general interest? Well, then, I have had my reward." Maas' forensic style and vigorous tempo are ideally suited to Marie's story. The author makes clear that his knowledge of feminine determination is derived from experience. His late wife, Audrey Gellen Maas...
...Vietnamese forces in Kampuchea that remains a key stumbling block for the restoration of relations between Hanoi and Washington. Besides supporting a United Nations resolution that calls for the withdrawal of foreign troops, the Reagan Administration seems intent on keeping Viet Nam in the position of an international pariah. The U.S. prohibits American companies from doing business with Hanoi. Washington also lobbies against United Nations development grants for the country and discourages other nations from offering aid. "Basically, Viet Nam has isolated itself by its actions," contended Secretary of State George Shultz during a Far Eastern swing last February...