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Since Marshall's speech, few have gained as much attention as Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who in 1978 denounced the whole of Western social values. University Marshall William G. Anderson, who is retiring this year after 17 years as Harvard's chief protocol officer, recalls Solzhemtsyn's speech as the most memorable that he has witnessed, although he adds that he mainly pays attention to dealing with the day's organized pandemonium...
...Stanford Oncology Day Care Clinic in Palo Alto, a computer program called ONCOCIN watches over 30 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It studies their test results, then proposes a complex treatment program called a protocol, which includes lab tests, X-ray studies and subtle changes in chemotherapy. Says ONCOCIN's chief programmer, Carli Scott: "We're not taking decisions away from the doctors, but helping with their calculations...
Guyana. In defiance of an 1899 arbitration agreement, Venezuela claims the mineral-rich Essequibo region of Guyana, which makes up two-thirds of the former British colony. Venezuela has refused to renew a soon-to-expire 1970 protocol shelving the dispute...
...accounts, Brezhnev collapsed moments later while still in the Tashkent airport. Other versions tell of a sudden mild stroke during the four-hour flight back to Moscow. The evidence: no film footage or newspaper photographs show his return to Moscow, a curious lapse from the ironclad rules of Kremlin protocol...
...yellow rain" that fell on Long Sa is the focus of a bitter dispute between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Since last fall, Administration officials have accused the Soviet Union and its allies of violating the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention-both treaties have been signed by Moscow-by engaging in chemical warfare. "With every passing day," charged Secretary of State Alexander Haig in February, "we get more incontrovertible evidence of the use of mycotoxins [fungal poisons] in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea [Cambodia] . . . There is no question in our minds that such...