Nelson Rockefeller did not have much standing at the convention, and was the symbol of the slippage of the control of the Eastern wing of the Republican Party.

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But, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the historic town of Timbuktu - an important symbol which has also been under Islamist control for most of the last year - should also soon be retaken.

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Along with a stock symbol comes the demand to turn a profit, to control costs.

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The symbol of the crescent embracing the cross was the banner of the 1919 revolution against British control of Egypt, and became the badge of the nationalist Wafd party which dominated Egyptian politics until the early 1950s.

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