Word: pariahize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agents were not in place to watch dictator Manuel Noriega. There was, however, a spy the U.S. could turn to -- in this case a young man, the son of European immigrants, who passed himself off as an international merchant willing to do business with the pariah regime. Noriega had him over for dinner and intimate talks. (The spy had ingratiated himself by presenting the general with a bust of his hero, Napoleon Bonaparte.) As proficient as he was, the American agent did not work for the CIA. He was a U.S. Army sergeant posted to a top-secret military unit...
...first visit to South Africa in 48 years, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the Order of Merit on President Nelson Mandela--thus offering the former pariah nation a further sign of its readmission to the world community. South Africa's white right wing said it would ignore the visit of "Mrs. Elizabeth Windsor...
Fluent in Latin and Greek, Vienna is a Northerner who lands in the small town of Winsville to marry a man who will never appreciate her intensity or intellect. Like some fiercely independent Victorian heroines, Vienna is doomed to the life of a pariah by the narrow-mindedness of others. She is betrayed and abandoned by friends and lovers; her children remain outcasts by association; she is destroyed by the death of those dearest to her. Vienna is, above all, a woman for whom brilliance and sensuality provide a painfully meager shield against the truculence of fate...
...least one major question remains unanswered: Who financed Yousef on his wide-ranging travels? Speculation has centered on the usual pariah states, particularly Iraq and Iran. But experts in and out of the various intelligence services warn against jumping to conclusions. Says Steven Emerson, the director of the PBS documentary Jihad in America: ``He is not high maintenance. The World Trade Center bomb cost less than $3,000, so the monies involved in carrying out these kinds of plots are not extensive.'' He adds that a lot of money was raised during the anti-Soviet jihad--or holy war-- movement...
Although Riefenstahl was not a member of the National Socialist Party, she did make "Triumph of the Will." This has made her forever a pariah of the filmmaking world...