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Cameron noted that there was a precedent for American aid to North Vietnam. "Sometime last year the U.S. sent a token amount of aid-under $100,000-through UNICEF to help children in North Vietnam, and Hanoi accepted it," he said...
...Radcliffe students got a lot of flak back from women now at Harvard about being treated as token females,"Genevieve Austin, Radcliffe dean of Residence, said yesterday, when asked why more women did not apply for Harvard Houses...
...troops on bases from Thailand to Japan; under the new withdrawals announced last week by President Nixon (see THE NATION), the total will fall below 420,000 by June 30. By year's end, moreover, the British Far East Command will have shrunk to a token presence of 4,000 men and a few ships based in Malaysia and Singapore, plus three or four Gurkha battalions elsewhere...
...Doctrine and declining U.S. aid have persuaded the Thais that the times are changing. Thus they have announced their intention to withdraw their 11,558 combat troops from Viet Nam. Bangkok has established trade with ten Communist countries. Recently it signed a trade agreement with Moscow and even made token purchases of $10,000 worth of dried squid and medicinal herbs from Hanoi and Pyongyang. Meanwhile, the Thais are "studying" the question of better relations with China...
Slick Maneuvering. By the same token, the A.B.A., which tried to get the jump on the N.B.A. by holding its draft four months ago, ignored All-America Sidney Wicks of U.C.L.A. in its first round. Rumor had it that Wicks was already committed to the N.B.A.'s Portland Trail Blazers. The battle for the bodies has become so intense this season that the hordes of agents descending on campuses almost have to stand in line. Says Norman Blass, a hard-sell recruiter for Athletics Advisory Group Inc.: "There are more agents than there are players to represent...