Word: pariahs
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...There was a lot of sympathy outside Liberia for change," says a civilian member of the new government. "But we destroyed most of it with the executions." Indeed, the brutal seaside killings made Liberia a pariah to its African neighbors. Doe was barred from attending a summit of the Economic Community of West African States in Togo last May. He subsequently refused to attend the July meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Sierra Leone after rejecting the precondition set by some of the O.A.U.'s most influential members: the immediate release of the late President...
...stigma of herpes, often more painful than the illness. It affects performance on the job, disrupts personal relationships and in not a few cases has resulted in cancellations of weddings when one of the partners is told the other has herpes. It also makes the victim something of a pariah. After being told by a doctor that he had herpes, Ray, 29, a reading instructor, turned on departure to shake hands. The doctor would not extend...
...firm seldom ignores administrative guidance because other companies would consider that firm a pariah, and the government can easily tie up an offender's business in red tape. The whole system is made smoother because Japanese business and government chiefs understand one another: the flick of an eyebrow, the yes that is not really a yes, the small nuance of conversation that can never be written down. Comprehension comes because these leaders usually have the same roots of culture and class. Often, they have gone to the same elite schools and universities. Says Norishige Hasegawa, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical...
There is a sensible rule in human affairs: Never make a paranoid feel like a pariah; it renders him more dangerous. The rule may apply to the Soviets. On the other hand, they have often in the past worked in a point and counterpoint: they followed their Czech invasion with the beginning of the détente process, for example, and the Cuban missile crisis with the test ban treaty...
Begin and Sadat may see eye to eye about the problems of the region, but there was no detailed discussion at Aswan about Israeli-Egyptian military or strategic cooperation-which would make Sadat even more of a pariah to his Arab colleagues than he already is. Besides, noted a senior Egyptian official, "we must concentrate on solving the Palestinian problem before thinking about military strategy." The Israelis insist that autonomy means only a limited measure of self-rule for the Palestinians; the Egyptians argue that there must be steps of substance toward the ultimate goal of independence for the West...