Word: protocolic
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...also buttering up politicians from Cairo to Damascus. The Soviet-Egypt treaty of friendship, which will be formally signed this week, has been followed by lesser concordats elsewhere. One was signed in Damascus last week, obliging the Russians to provide more economic aid for Syria. In Baghdad, a protocol was signed pledging Russian aid in developing Iraq's North Rumaila oilfields and improving irrigation on the Euphrates River...
...Department building. President Nixon, who had personally worked out the preliminary agreement for the treaty with Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in 1969, was not present. The official explanation was that while Sato is merely head of government, Nixon is head of government and state as well. Protocol thus dictated that he not attend unless Emperor Hirohito put in an appearance in Tokyo. After Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi signed for Japan, Sato said that he was "happy beyond words" and hailed the treaty as the beginning of "a new Pacific...
...only does Bok have at least two vice-presidencies yet to fill, but he must also complete his staff of administrative assistants (of which there are exactly two at present). Beyond this, Bok must decide how to handle the resignation of the University's deans as required by protocol whenever a new President takes office...
...Nixons, for their side of the aisle, are asking mostly old, close friends: Los Angeles Businessman Jack Drown and his wife, Industrialist Robert Abplanalp, Bebe Rebozo, PepsiCo President Donald Kendall. Other guests: Chief of Protocol Emil Mosbacher Jr., Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns and Paul Keyes, a former writer for TV's Laugh-In. The President's brothers, Donald and Edward Nixon, will attend, as will Mrs. Nixon's brothers. William and Thomas Ryan, and her half brother, Matthew Bender. At one point, Mrs. Nixon suggested throwing all the names in the air and inviting the ones that landed...
...countryside. Suddenly the caravan halted and Il Duce got out and walked to a wall, apparently to gaze at the scene. Everybody else respectfully went over to share the leader's bucolic vision, only to discover that Mussolini was simply relieving himself. Too late to retreat, the entourage followed protocol...