1.   Due to the Samper campaign-finance scandal, the Clinton administration has treated Colombia as a pariah nation over much of the past four years.

2.   For years, the United States has described Iran as a pariah nation that supports terrorism and egregiously violates human rights.

3.   Iraqi oil ministers agreed to a United Nations plan to allow the pariah nation to sell oil to feed its starving population.

4.   Iraqi oil ministers agreed to a United Nations plan allowing the pariah nation to sell oil to feed its starving population.

5.   Iraqi oil ministers accepted a United Nations plan to let the pariah nation sell oil to feed its starving population.

6.   The decision appeared to signal that as long as President Ernesto Samper remained in office, Colombia would remain on the United States list of pariah nations.

7.   Their activities are the reason why Pakistan was increasingly approaching the status of a failed state, a pariah nation the world was ready to give up on.

8.   Israel, a pariah nation under the Soviets, is now a trade partner and tourist destination, home of hundreds of thousands of ex-Soviet Jews.

9.   European nations have sharply rejected the US proposal to isolate pariah nations, insisting instead on critical dialogue.