Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia accepted, in principle, the oft-proposed idea of a voluntary U.N. "rescue fund," to which it could contribute without directly supporting the operations it objects to. But the U.S. still insists that the Russians cannot have a voice in the Assembly before they make at least a token payment...
...Switzerland's bulging banks is secrecy, which the Swiss have shrewdly used to lure shy money from all over the world. Any threat to this hush-hush, confessional quality is therefore a blow at the very center of the multibillion-dollar Swiss banking industry. By the same token, a nation or group that sets out to track down the wealth of teetering tyrants or the merely discreet rich frequently looks with frustration to the Swiss banks, with their anonymous sanctuary and numbered accounts. Last week secrecy and the desire for disclosure clashed in the Swiss courts - and the Swiss...
...Token Aid. According to rumors filtering out of the Kremlin sessions, Chou had finally agreed to a conference of Communist parties. But the meeting, originally called by Khrushchev for Dec. 15, would now not take place until next spring, after a series of preliminary talks between Russian and Chinese ideologues. And instead of reading Peking out of the Communist movement, as Khrushchev had intended, the conclave will undoubtedly focus on restoring Red unity...
...return for the Chinese agreement to attend the meeting, however modified, there seemed to be at least token resumption of Russian aid to the Chinese. Tass reported that a 20,000-kw. turbine, built by the Russians for a Chinese hydroelectric project, would soon be delivered; Izvestia ran a photo of a Russian engineer supervising pro-Peking North Koreans building a technical school...
Other election results are almost as disappointing. The voters registered little protest against the Common-wealth's rotten system which gives away most elections below the top of the ticket by default to one party or the other. All of the state's 12 congressmen, for instance, who had token opposition at most, were easily re-elected. Some of them, like Representative Silvio O. Conte and Edward Boland, deserved re-election anyway, but it would do the others a lot of good if they had to campaign. Similarly, if the Republicans would nominate real candidates for the lower constitutional offices...