Word: isolationism
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Al-Faruq confessed after three months of pressure, including sleep deprivation and isolation. But people who have been subjected to such conditions will often say almost anything their captors wish them to say. The information that has been gleaned from al-Faruq is likely to be horribly misleading and quite...
“By tension, I mean isolation,” he said. “A few not-so-friendly e-mails were exchanged.”
U.S. Rules of Inspection Worried that Saddam Hussein could be hiding weapons in his presidential com plexes or on mobile transporters, Washington insisted that U.N. rules on inspections be rewritten before personnel go to Iraq. Baghdad had refused to allow the surprise inspection of Saddam's 57 palaces. China and...
To this day, getting to Pai demands initiative. The Thai government widened and paved the endless series of hairpin bends in 1980, but the stomach-churning journey from Chiang Mai still takes two to three hours by private van. Adventurous budget travelers were the first foreigners attracted to Pai's...
Whether change will be deep or lasting remains unclear. The countryside of North Korea is a veneer of pastoral isolation masking severe poverty and privation. Small hamlets of white-washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a...