Word: protocolic
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Decked out in bright candy-striped shirts, Bush has stormed the protocol-conscious circle of U.N. diplomats since his arrival last March like-well, like a Texas politician rounding up supporters. He is lobbying for complicated parliamentary measures that would invite Peking in without throwing Taiwan out. Says Bush: "The idea here is to get the votes. If we have the votes, it's going to happen. If we don't, it won't. It's this simple, so I say don't bother me with the technicalities...
Their slim draft of about a dozen pages, a so-called "umbrella agreement," will probably be worked over for months before the Big Four Foreign Ministers finally sign a Berlin Protocol. The ambassadors will meet once again early this week. Then, barring a last-minute hitch, they will dispatch the draft document to their governments for approval. Once that is secured, officials of the two Germanys and the two Berlins must hammer out the final details concerning access to the city and travel between West Berlin and East Berlin and between West Berlin and East Germany. The whole fragile structure...
...Buddies. In her eight months in the House, she has made that presence felt with a characteristic indifference to protocol, notably the tacit understanding that a freshman Congressman ranks slightly above a page boy. It is already part of Capitol Hill mythology that when the courtly House doorkeeper, Mississippian William ("Fish Bait") Miller, asked her not to wear one of her trademark broadbrim hats onto the House floor, she briskly replied, "Go f -yourself." Actually, Fish Bait says, the exchange was jocular; they are "big buddies...
...draft treaty mentions "the important significance" of the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning the use of gases and bacteriological agents. As it happens, the U.S. never ratified that treaty. The Nixon Administration resubmitted the protocol to the Senate in late 1969, but stated that it did not interpret it to include irritant gases and herbicides. Since this directly contradicted a 1969 United Nations resolution, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this year asked the Administration to restudy the herbicide and tear gas question. There the matter rests...
...Premier Chou. Because China's presidency is vacant-no successor has been named for Liu Shao-chi, angrily deposed by Mao as a "revisionist" in 1967-Chou is the top man in the Chinese government, and the man with whom Richard Nixon will deal under the rules of protocol. Mao may still be the Chairman, but Chou has emerged as China's unquestioned chief executive officer, ruling the country through what amounts to a working coalition of old-line-and old-aged-party bureaucrats and army officers. In Peking, Chou works in tandem with Army Chief Huang Yung...