Word: protocol
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...week's end, however, it was still unclear whether the Senators would accept the "clarification" as sufficient. They could still demand that its language be worked into a protocol or into the treaty itself. That would involve an arduous renegotiation effort that would certainly consume much time and might well spur the Panamanians to demand even larger concessions from Washington. Argues U.S. Negotiator Sol Linowitz: "Everything we wanted is in that treaty now, in that language...
...Restrictions on the range of air-launched cruises will be omitted from the main body of a SALT II accord, but will appear in a separate protocol that will probably run for three years. Then the U.S., which opposed a drastic curb on cruise range, may have the right to upgrade its cruises, if necessary, to maintain their deterrent value (primarily their ability to penetrate Russian air defenses...
...there were enough petit fours and napoleons to pave the Inter-American Highway. Hamilton Jordan, the Carter troubleshooter charged with getting the treaty through the Senate, testified to the importance of the occasion by showing up in a jacket and tie at a reception following the treaty signing. U.S. Protocol Chief Evan Dobelle, who had to arrange more than a score of identical red-carpet receptions, was described by one sympathetic observer as "busier than a centipede on a treadmill...
...Diplomatic Protocol shows, Soviet officialdom is showing increasing interest in manners. A recent article in the Moscow Literary Gazette called for wide distribution of books on etiquette. It observed that in the U.S. and other countries, young members of "bourgeois" society "polish their manners carefully in the family and at elite universities," but in the Soviet Union, the traditional Russian concern for good form "was broken after the Revolution. Polite conventions were disdained as pretentious when vests, hats and ties became petit bourgeois. " Result: "Abroad, some of us are grossly ignorant of internationally accepted standards of etiquette...
...Constitution forbids the Government to bestow titles of nobility, and Americans have always cultivated a certain national breeziness. Democracy and mobility have conspired with a traveling salesman's protocol ("Call me Joe-here's what I've got!") to efface even the "Mr." from the way that Americans address one another. All the same, the Carters' interminable "Jimmying" in a White House so recently thought of as Imperial has turned informality into standard policy...