Word: protocolic
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Kissinger continued to display good cheer for the photographers, but his optimism finally began to fade when Le Duc Tho gave him Hanoi's long-delayed protocol governing the I.C.C. on "the night before I was to leave Paris, six weeks after we had stated what our aim was, five weeks after the ceasefire was supposed to be signed." To the U.S. the proposal was a joke; it called for a force of 250 men to handle a task the U.S. thought would require a force of some...
Diplomatic protocol required that the announcement of Moynihan's appointment await New Delhi's official approval...
Fortunately, an unstated but strict protocol helps ease Rogers' schedule, which is arranged according to the im portance which the U.S. attaches to each foreign minister's country. Thus, in the first bilateral sessions held between U.S. and Chinese diplomats since President Nixon made his journey to Peking, China's Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua dined in Rogers' private apartment last week (and discussed broadening trade and cultural ties). Rogers also dined with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and lunched with his close friend, Britain's Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and with France...
...then, governments were in motion everywhere, but there was more protocol than practical effect in most of their communications. An exception was Willy Brandt; after a special Cabinet meeting in Bonn, he headed for Munich to guide the decision-making personally. Mrs. Meir, in a ten-minute address to the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, asked that the Games be suspended-and they were, at 3:45 p.m. She also seemed to hint that Israel was still debating whether or not to release its Arab prisoners, though the decision had already been made not to do so. President Nixon, awakening...
...mother grabbed Oufkir. "Listen, I've had enough of this army that has frightened me twice already," she said. Oufkir moved on into the children's room, nervously smoking one cigarette after another. "I'll go get His Majesty," said the King's protocol chief. "Wait," said Oufkir. "Has His Majesty seen Kouera?" The aide made no reply...