Word: protocol
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...restraint was now gone Their faces were flushed, and the niceties of diplomatic language and protocol were stopped away. They had almost forgotten I was there, and there was nothing to distract me from recording this fascinating debate...
...international outcry. A chief culprit, U.S. State Department officials complain, is the U.N., which had been conspicuously reluctant to investigate the U.S. charges vigorously. In a speech in West Berlin last year, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged the Soviets and their allies with violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical warfare and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. One month after Haig's charge in West Berlin, the first U.N. team went to Thailand, but it visited only a handful of refugee camps during a brief eleven-day investigation...
...that her husband's eminence had nothing to do with her. She did not give press conferences. She refused to sit for her official White House portrait, and it had to be done from a photograph. Only intimate friends were allowed into the family quarters. She preserved every protocol and precedent established before her, not out of any instinctive formality but because she would not rock the boat...
...restraint was now gone. Their faces were flushed, and the niceties of diplomatic language and protocol were stripped away. Begin repeated that no Israeli leader could advocate dismantling of the Sinai settlements, and he added that other conditions would have to be met before the Sinai could be returned...
...differences were obvious, even in personal habits. Begin was the soul of propriety. He preferred to wear a tie and coat and strictly observed protocol, always reminding Sadat and me that he was not a head of state and therefore did not rank as an equal with us. When I wanted to see him, he insisted that he come to my cottage and not the other way around. He stayed up late, worked very hard, kept close to his aides and advisers, and walked to the dining area at Laurel Lodge to eat with all the other Israelis and with...