Word: tokenisms
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...taking this into account," Reagan said in his statement, "all of the shipments of the token amounts of defensive arms and parts that I have authorized or condoned, taken in total, could be placed aboard a single cargo aircraft. Any other shipments by third countries were not authorized by the U.S. government...
...foreigners held hostage by Shi'ite extremists in Lebanon. As he has in the past when it served his purposes, notably in the release of TWA passengers hijacked to Beirut in 1985, Assad asserted his authority with the Shi'ite groups and apparently arranged for at least a token hostage release. Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria, made a secret visit to Damascus on Saturday, evidently to arrange the details of Jacobsen's release. "This is very typical of the Syrians," said a high-ranking observer in Israel. "They realized that they...
...jury considering charges under the much publicized handgun ban in Oak Park, Ill., acquitted a frequently robbed gas-station owner who used a pistol to shoot at armed thieves as they fled. Earlier this year a New York City judge dismissed weapon-possession charges against a subway token clerk who had killed a mugger with an unlicensed...
Indeed, the symbolic and political nature of the Euromissile issue has made it possible for both sides to edge toward a proposed compromise that will reduce INF arsenals to "token" forces of 100 warheads each. Such an agreement could provide a centerpiece for a full-fledged summit in the U.S. if Reagan and Gorbachev can iron out the remaining issues this weekend. Among them: the Soviets want only a short-term agreement in order to avoid being locked into a deal if modernization of the French and British independent arsenals commences in the next decade; the Americans want strict verification...
...Geneva, Soviet and American negotiators are close to filling in some key numbers. The emerging deal: the Soviets would drop their insistence that any INF accord be linked to ones involving long-range strategic arms and space- based defensive weapons; INF warheads in Europe would be slashed to a "token" 100 on each side, representing a cut of more than 85% in the number of Soviet SS-20s now threatening U.S. allies...