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...year's stranger diplomatic episodes. Leaving the latest dollar crisis to subordinates for a while, U.S. Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz last week flew off on an urgent three-day trip to Moscow. He got Kissinger-like treatment: a minimum of protocol, a box at the Bolshoi for Giselle, and a three-hour meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Shultz came to talk trade in general, but he also had an unusual mission: to lobby for the Kremlin's help in a tough struggle that the White House faces with a testy U.S. Congress...
These aides examined patients with the aid of a medical flow chart known as a "protocol," which solicits information from the patient about his symptoms and prescribes tests depending on what the information is. The protocols are explicit in order to minimize the amount of judgement required on the part of the aide...
...hard struggle to organize people separated by language and competing for poor jobs. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union was forged out of a Jewish socialist tradition among the workers. Throughout its 73-year history, the I.L.G. has concentrated on establishing a 'protocol' for arbitration of future management-labor disputes, turning to strikes only as a last resort...
...neutral nation (India), there was almost never any unanimity. The new charter also calls for a unanimous vote in full-fledged reports, and the new commission is also split down the middle: Canada and Indonesia on the right and Poland and Hungary on the left. But the ICC protocol allows individual members to make their own reports in the absence of full ICC accord...
...because their privacy is violated or because they cannot find out who is in charge of their cases or what is to happen next. Aware of this discontent, the American Hospital Association is attempting a remedy. This week it is sending its 7,000 member hospitals a twelve-point protocol emphasizing what should be obvious even to the most imperious doctors and administrators: people do not lose their need for dignity at a hospital admissions desk...