Word: protocolic
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...host, Lee mounted the rostrum at 8:15 and started the long round of dignitary introductions. Protocol demanded that all of the 102 plenipotentiaries be introduced. The loudspeakers were almost wholly ineffective, and by the time Daley -presented as "the greatest mayor of the greatest city in the world"-stepped up to speak, nearly half the crowd had departed. Daley confined his remarks to a few innocuous platitudes about his roots in labor and job security, then exited to a standing ovation. The biggest indoor feast in history was over...
...Geneva in 1925, representatives of 38 nations signed a protocol prohibiting chemical and biological warfare. For a complex of reasons, the U.S. Senate never ratified the agreement; but as the decades passed, more and more nations did. Today, 85 nations are parties to the Geneva Protocol-including Communist China, the Soviet Union, the other Warsaw Pact countries and every member of NATO except the U.S. To President Nixon's credit, he sent the Geneva Protocol back to Capitol Hill last year for ratification. There was just one hitch. With Nixon's message went a statement from Secretary...
...been using herbicides and CS, a tear-gas riot-control agent, in Viet Nam, and there is genuine legal confusion over whether Rogers' interpretation is correct. But why should the Geneva Protocol not be considered to forbid all forms of chemical and biological warfare? Harvard Biologist Matthew Meselson, who spent six weeks in Viet Nam last summer, argues that CS has been decreasingly useful because of enemy countermeasures that range from Soviet-made gas masks to face cloths soaked in urine; even Robert Komer, who ran the pacification program under Lyndon Johnson, concedes that defoliants and crop-destroying agents...
...Geneva Protocol of 1925 prohibits the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials, or devices" as well as "the use of bacteriological methods of warfare." In 1969 the General Assembly of the U. N. adopted a resolution recognizing that the Geneva Protocol prohibits "any chemical agents of warfare-chemical substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid-which might be employed because of their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants . . . , " thus including herbicides...
Professor Richard Baxter of Harvard Law School, who has written interpretations of the legal aspects of the Geneva Protocol, writes that "the evidence is by no means conclusive with regard to anti-plant chemicals," but that the weight of opinion in international legal circles is that use of herbicides in war, such as the American spraying in Vietnam, is prohibited by the Protocol...