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...poor people and blacks (El Dorado has only a few) deprived of their rightful unemployment benefits. The complaints are utterly earnest, sincere, not negligible-yet not major, either. One feels that much of the confrontation in this community is still symbolic-repression still more verbal than actual, dissent still token and vague. It is perhaps significant that most of these dissenters have come to El Dorado-in a rather touching desire to help-from other communities. El Dorado has to import its rebels. But this does not mean that it fails to be troubled, indeed tortured, by the same fears...
McCormack has faced only token opposition in his district in recent years. He said that the opposition which has developed this year in his traditionally safe district did not affect his decision to retire...
...member Lowry Hemphill '72 described the action as "token." She added that the picket line's lack of militancy was due to "intimidation...
...antiaircraft batteries in firing position. In the first hours of the assault, one ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) airborne unit set down right on top of a North Vietnamese regimental base area. The North Vietnamese were so flabbergasted that they put up only token resistance and withdrew hastily, leaving heavy casualties behind...
...Needed Thaw. As expected, the Nationalists won last week's elections handily, and will have a two-to-one majority in the new Parliament. But they lost nine seats-not to the verkramptes but to the English-oriented United Party, a timid, ideologically sterile organization that favors token African representation. The tiny, anti-apartheid Progressive Party increased its total vote by one-third, and its lone member of Parliament, the spirited and courageous Helen Suzman, nearly tripled her 1966 lead. By contrast, Hertzog's party failed to win a single seat; all four of its M.P.s were defeated...