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...handling the detailed negotiations for people-to-people contacts that will come out of the visit, while the President and Kissinger direct overall policy. It is something of a slight for Rogers, who has not even been taken along to meet Mao, but he has been slighted in protocol terms so often that his role is different from what is commonly expected of a Secretary of State. He is a gentle, loyal man who serves Nixon and he accepts his role with grace and good humor-at least in public...
...landing at Peking's airport. Undramatic in itself, the event nonetheless had something of the excitement of the first landing on the moon. Would the Chinese roll out a red carpet? Would Chou ride in the President's car? The symbolism of these seemingly minor questions of protocol was obvious on the home screen, briefly lending the proceedings high suspense...
...readers' lives. While Sheed is intent on letting the novel speak for itself, his writing undercuts and bolsters his subject at appropriate turns: "But enough meaning is enough. The book can also be read simply as a fiendish compendium of exurban manners--the dinner party scenes, the protocol of adultery, the care and neglect of children..." And though Sheed's opinions are hard-edged, he is never pedantic, or in any other way academic...
Since the Berlin access issue was the key to a diplomatic breakthrough, the way now is open for further progress. The most immediate effect is that the Big Four now can sign the final Berlin protocol, which will incorporate the access and Wall-pass agreements. At Soviet insistence, West Germany is expected to ratify the renunciation-of-force agreements it negotiated in 1970 with Poland and the Soviet Union, so that they will go into effect at the same time the Berlin protocol is signed. The NATO countries, which have made Berlin a test of Soviet intentions, will then...
...decide to accord Brezhnev full head-of-state honors until the Russians dropped some very strong hints that he wanted it that way. When Brezhnev meets with President Nixon in the spring, he is certain to be painfully aware that he is receiving a man who holds the overwhelming protocol advantages of being at once a) party leader, b) government chief and c) head of state...