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...emerged to drive off to the OAS meeting. In Santa Cruz, a huge crowd mobbed his car when he drove to place a floral wreath at the monument of Bolivia's national hero, Ignacio Warnes. Bolivian President Hugo Banzer, in fact, paid Kissinger the ultimate tribute: prevented by protocol from greeting the Secretary on his arrival in the country, Banzer nonetheless donned civilian clothes, drove to the airport, and watched incognito as his famous visitor passed by in a motorcade to town...
...erect, blue-eyed Queen, who will celebrate her 67th birthday this week, was drilled from earliest childhood in the three tenets of monarchy as defined by Queen Victoria: protocol, public service and duty. The royal motto: Je main-tiendrai (I shall maintain). Juliana studied law, literature, economics and Islamic history at Leiden University. Queen since 1948, she has kept extremely well informed about Dutch and world affairs and enjoys close relations with Socialist Premier Joop den Uyl. "Her understanding of her task," the Premier has observed, "has won the Dutch monarchy a new and acceptable tenure in our modern democracy...
...evening, while attending an ice-skating show in Ottawa with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Wife Margaret, Hussein turned toward the crowd to give a royal wave. Not until newspapers published photos of the incident did anyone notice the handgun tucked into his belt, apparently in violation of Canadian protocol against firearms on foreign dignitaries. "Visitors aren't supposed to do this, but what can you do?" grumbled a Trudeau aide after the pistol-packing monarch had left for home. "You can hardly frisk a King...
Engaged. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, 29, whose motto is "For Sweden-In Keeping With The Times"; and West German-Brazilian Commoner Silvia Renate Sommerlath, 32, a protocol official for the Olympic Games...
Director Michael Rubbo has one too, low-keyed but keen and honest. He accompanied Sterling and Smallwood, waited with them in Protocol Residence No. 9 (identified as "the former residence of an American textile tycoon") for the greatest event of the trip to happen: an audience with the Premier himself. Sterling and Smallwood had been promised some time with Fidel, perhaps even a whole day. Smallwood prepares yellow pads full of questions for Castro. Sterling stays looser, anticipates the meeting less as an ideological confrontation than as a social coup...