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...content to settle back and allow the vaguest possible economic declaration to emerge from the Williamsburg conference, mainly because any detailed document would probably have dwelt on the problems caused by high U.S. budget deficits and interest rates. Reagan was offered some protection from criticism by the implicit protocol of such conferences, in which members refrain from trying to dictate specific internal policies to other participants. Neither West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl nor Mitterrand pressed for any direct steps to tackle the problem of high interest rates. "I'm not here to give anyone lessons," said Mitterrand diplomatically...
...royal family itself comes under a scathingly iconoclastic attack that makes Joan Rivers look like a Buckingham Palace press agent. The palace protocol contingent, which readies the hospital for the Queen Mother's visit, consist of a midget (Marcus Powell) and a very prim and proper transvestite named Lady Felicity (John Bett). Yet, as the British humor magazine Punch noted in defense of the movie. Anderson ultimately remains just this side of decorum: when the Queen Mother finally does arrive--admittedly in a stretcher and ambulance to get her past the left-wing mobs protesting the fascist African dictator being...
...they got what they wanted: a central strip of 27 seats between the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats. Then came the new session's opening speech, given by former Chancellor Willy Brandt. A Bundestag tradition, such speeches are strictly ceremonial. Greens' Deputy Eckard Stratmann broke protocol, however, by demanding equal time, claiming that "the extraparliamentary movement has been given a new voice." He was roundly rejected...
...Anglophiles who lined the route of the Queen's motorcade after she arrived in Mexico did not care a shred for the buttoned-up English protocol of proper dress. Bare-bellied American and Canadian tourists in bathing suits and bikinis, their well-smeared bodies glistening in the sun and 85° heat, shouted as the royal pair, accompanied by Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, motored by en route to Acapulco. President De la Madrid was gracious and warm, and in their respective remarks, both the Queen and the President agreed to let bygones of the Falklands...
...list of maladies he was suspected of having included leukemia, cancer of the jaw, gout, emphysema and circulatory ailments. Several times during the past eight years, rumors of his death had swept through Western capitals after a faltering appearance or an unexpected absence from a meeting demanded by protocol. But in recent months he kept to a rigorous schedule of events. He even braved freezing temperatures for two hours early last week to review a Red Square parade. Thus the official announcement of his death three days later took Kremlin watchers by surprise...