Word: pariahs
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...next century. Up to now he hasn't defined the terms of that connection very well, Republicans and many Democrats have formed a China-bashing alliance, and groups with a host of complaints about issues from human rights to trade browbeat the Administration to treat China as a pariah. Like Jiang, Clinton has to persuade his countrymen that the People's Republic is less communist than they fear and more benign than they think if he is to pursue an effective policy of engagement. As Clinton said in a speech last week, "For good or ill," China will shape...
...President Clinton stranded in a political minefield of his own. According to TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, Clinton's unhappy dilemma is this: On the one hand, he would love to be seen signing a widely popular (and Princess Di-endorsed) pact and to avoid being lumped with such pariah states as China and Libya. On the other hand, he faces intense Pentagon hostility to the agreement...
...world is, as usual, willing to provide humanitarian help, but no one is making it easy. Cruel games are being played on all sides as competing political interests use the famine to their own ends. When it comes to a pariah state like North Korea, there is no such thing as simple humanitarian concern...
PNOMH PENH: As gunfire echoed through the streets of the capital, Cambodia began to descend once more into the isolated international pariah state it had been under the Khmer Rouge. Three days after Second Prime Minister Hun Sen took over in a bloody coup, troops went door-to-door through Phnom Penh's largest hotel today, hunting down opposition legislators and arresting them. At least one of Hun Sen's vocal critics was shot and killed while in police custody. "He was arrested by the government troops and he has died," said General Khieu Sopheak. The blithe efficiency...
...next decade. Many Republicans fear signing such a pact would leave America weak as countries around the world secretly build chemical weapons. But failure to pass the treaty would be seen as a serious setback for U.S. foreign policy, notes TIME's Doug Waller. "The U.S. would join pariah states like Iraq, Iran and North Korea that have refused to ratify." Signed by 164 nations thus far, and ratified by 75, the pact will take effect April 29 regardless of whether it is ratified...