Word: pariahization
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SOPHOMORE year I became involved in attempting to reinvigorate the Conservative Club along tolerant, reasonable lines. But while I struggled to find acceptance and a way to express my views without becoming a pariah, the Mather Incident occurred, and political discourse on campus has not been the same since...
...message to conservatives: We reject your way of thinking. We demand that you say nothing against us. If you do, we (and the Politically Correct ideological machine that backs our agenda) will make you a pariah...
...Klerk's meeting with President Bush this week -- the first such visit by a South African leader in 45 years -- is the latest measure of how far he has brought his pariah nation. Bush invited De Klerk as a gesture to encourage reform; De Klerk welcomed the chance to put his best case forward, knowing that sanctions will not be lifted until he finally meets the various congressional requirements for doing...
SYRIA. Damascus' support of Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war had virtually consigned Syria to the role of regional pariah. Moscow's economic pullback from the region threatened only to deepen Syria's isolation. By honoring the U.N. embargo and casting its lot with the pan-Arab force, Syria aims to reintegrate into the Arab and international fold. President Hafez Assad has not taken a front role in the current drama, but he did issue an early condemnation of Iraq's action, warning that if other nations pursued a similar course, "the world would resemble a jungle...
...Government is ready to negotiate with Iran, discuss political and economic cooperation and assist the pariah state to return to the community of responsible nations. That message has been delivered for months to Tehran through Swiss officials, other third-country diplomats and private citizens. But the price for such a new beginning is not negotiable: all seven of the American hostages still held in Lebanon must first be freed unconditionally...