Robert
E. Harkavy, in Orbis (Fall 1977), 3508 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
For various historical and ideological reasons, Israel, South Africa, Taiwan, and South Korea now share the peculiar attributes of "pariahtude" marked extreme diplomatic isolation and "wide- spread, obsessive, and unrelenting global opprobrium."
As "pariah states," all four nations are militarily exposed, lack legitimacy in the eyes of much of the Third World, have weak diplo- matic...
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he battle over the desolate ~estetn~aharacontinues to escalate militarily anddiplomatically,pitting MoroccoadMauritania against the Polisario~thePopularFront for theLiberationolSaguietel-Hamra andRiodeOro.
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nine of the more radical OAU members (including Angola, Mozambique and Togo).
Meanwhile, neither Moscow nor Washington has encouraged its tra- ditional ally (Algeria and Morocco, respectively); Algeria has tried in vain to curry favor with the Russians condemning the peace initia- tives of Egypt's Anwar Sadat and seeking to reintroduce the Soviet Union into the Middle East peace negotiations. Mortimer argues that Washington should encourage "self-determination" for West Sahara for the...
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