Word: protocolic
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...loves polo; she prefers the pool. Yet they do appear to be in love. Assorted smooches in the woods and snuggles on the polo field are the public sparks of what seems a private passion. Their public displays of affection are thawing out the normally frozen reserve of royal protocol. Charles and Diana try to spend as much time together as possible. The breakfast hour is kept sacred; during their stay at the embassy, for example, they will probably not be intruded upon much before 8 and will take breakfast in their homey, three-room suite...
...most put-upon worker of all at the anniversary bash may be the U.N.'s chief of protocol, Aly Teymour. Most of his time is spent not hobnobbing at elegant dinners but stuck in traffic on the way to Kennedy Airport to welcome visiting statesmen who jet in at all hours of the day and night. Last week the tall, cultivated Egyptian greeted 120 foreign ministers, but that was merely a warm-up. Still to come are 92 heads of state. Or is it 93? The total changes daily...
...Gandhi's Kremlin apartment ten minutes before they were to begin talks in another part of the Kremlin. He threw an arm around Gandhi and said, "Spring is here. I suggest we skip the limousines and walk to our meeting. You and I can take care of the protocol boys." The two later signed economic agreements providing an immediate Soviet credit of $1.2 billion to India and paving the way for scientific and technical cooperation through the year...
...TASS announced that Gorbachev had increased the membership of the Central Committee's policymaking organ, the Politburo, from ten to 13. In the process, he diluted the influence of the Kremlin's Old Guard, which now constitutes less than half of the Politburo membership. He also mildly flouted Kremlin protocol by leapfrogging two of his nominees to full Politburo status without benefit of an interval of nonvoting candidate membership. Finally, in his plenum speech, Gorbachev reaffirmed that the infusion of new blood at the top was part and parcel of his highest priority, the revamping of the Soviet Union...
...about 50 Iranian soldiers flown to their medical centers for treatment had been exposed to mustard gas. In Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly informed Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz of U.S. objections to the use of chemical weapons, noting that Iraq is a signatory of the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which prohibits them...