Word: protocolic
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They have threatened to kill their hostages--20 foreign diplomats, two Colombian foreign ministry protocol officers and an undetermined number of others--and blow up the embassy if their demands are not met. They say they are willing to wait as long as two months for a settlement...
...provides 16% of U.S. oil imports. To see how the ruling House of Baud is coping with the country's external and internal crises, TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak visited the desert kingdom last week. His report: s is our democracy," explained Saudi Arabia's royal chief of protocol, Ahmed Abdul Wahab, as he led his guests through the opulent marble palace in Riyadh to a thickly carpeted reception hall. Inside, about a hundred supplicants from various Bedouin tribes clustered beneath a huge crystal chandelier, awaiting their turn to approach Crown Prince Fahd. One by one they knelt before...
Juliana's abdication followed a precedent set by her strong-willed mother, Queen Wilhelmina, who passed the crown on to her in 1948. From the beginning of her popular reign, Juliana combined a deep-seated sense of royal duty with an instinctive dislike of pomp and protocol. More matronly than regal in bearing, she would ride a bicycle and shop at open markets like any Dutch housewife. But she also took her job as constitutional monarch seriously, and occasionally even played an active political role. In 1977 she reportedly delayed the formation of a new coalition government by insisting...
...Deputy Foreign Secretary. "It means the end of the war." So it seemed. Moments earlier, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, had entered a gilded room in London's Foreign Office to add their signatures to a twelve-page protocol that had already been initialed by representatives of Britain and the now defunct Salisbury government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa. The document: a three-sided agreement for a complete cease-fire in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's increasingly bloody seven-year civil...
Strauss, 61, becomes the third proprietor of that trouble-ridden business in less than a year: Evan Dobelle, 34, former U.S. Chief of Protocol, headed the re-election committee for six months after it was formed last March, then was judged too lightweight; Tim Kraft, 38, Carter's assistant for political affairs, took over in September, then was judged too abrasive. Both will remain with the committee, Dobelle as a fund raiser and Kraft as director of field operations...