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...attempt to enforce a long-elusive Pax Syriana. Instead of calming the situation, the move at first brought Damascus into bloody conflict with its erstwhile ally, the Palestinian guerrilla movement, and forced it into an unwanted, possibly only temporary, compromise in which other Arab states are sending token forces into Lebanon...
...Arias Navarro also acknowledged that negotiations were under way for Juan Carlos' father, Don Juan, to renounce his claim to the throne. The traditional Victory Day, May 30, which celebrates the defeat of the Republican side in the civil war, was discreetly renamed Armed Forces Day. In another token of change, portraits of Franco are being removed from government offices...
Recovering Economies. The outcome represented a substantial victory for Saudi Arabia and its oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, who had vigorously opposed even a token price boost. The decision was also good news for the U.S. and other industrialized countries-although their problems with energy and OPEC are far from over, and may get considerably worse in the months ahead...
...token woman is a black Chicana fluent in Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
...THESE TOKEN ATTEMPTS at interaction with the world outside the scientific enclave serendipitously serve to bind the members of the Observatory together. The colloquia and tennis are among the few common rituals in this intensely pluralistic society. The Observatory buildings mark the intersection of an almost infinite number of lines of research. But there is little communication between them; each fraternity keeps to itself. Research projects are conceived and funded separately, and teams work as closed units. A group will have more contact with people doing similar work in Arizona, or the USSR, than it will with a group doing...