Word: pariah
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...expelling the guerrillas from Jordan, the plucky little King (or P.L.K., as he is fondly known in some quarters) became an Arab pariah. Hussein was ignored at conferences, slighted when oil subsidies were handed out, finally humiliated at the Rabat summit of 1974, where he was stripped of the right to represent West Bank Palestinians (who still hold Jordanian citizenship) in future peace negotiations with Israel. Instead the Palestinians were given the right to negotiate over the status of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and in Gaza. Arafat meanwhile was lionized. He took his "guns and olive branch" liberation...
...will have serious consequences. The government cannot allow organizations, whoever they are, to take the law into their own hands." Unofficially, however, the government is leery of taking on the Catholic Church, particularly after the international uproar about the Soweto rioting. Said one government official: "We're a pariah as it is. We don't want a quarrel with the Pope as well...
...William Gordon of Nebraska, who declines to give her own first name, wastes no time in getting to the point. Rockefeller and Kissinger are at the top of many delegates' pariah lists and she is no exception. Rocky, she says, is running the country and the world through his international Zionist organization that operates in cahoots with the Rothschilds in France and royalty in the Netherlands. "They meet once a year in unknown places." Agents include Kissinger and Carter, and now that Reagan has joined the Council on Foreign Relations, Mrs. Gordon is not so sure about him. Furthermore...
...final court of appeals at West Point is Berry. As superintendent, he has the power to overturn the findings of the review board and decide that a cadet is innocent. But even then, the absolved cadet's classmates may shun him as a pariah. To some zealots who swear by the honor code, the very fact that a cadet is accused of wrongdoing is reason enough to condemn him -a situation that shows how a system designed to develop honor can be warped to foster dishonor...
...Republican delegates, basically the same kind of conservatives who nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964 and only grudgingly accepted Richard Nixon in 1968, would give their nomination to a Democratic turncoat. It seemed far more unlikely that the Republican Convention would move to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, still a pariah to the party's dominant right wing. Yet Rockefeller will control most of the huge New York delegation (154 delegates, making up 7% of the convention's votes), and he might even be able to determine the outcome. No one knows what he might ask for in return...