Word: protocolic
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...cool, punctilious world of international diplomacy, style is a key element, and nowhere more so than at the protocol-conscious Court of St. James's. When he served as U.S. Ambassador to Britain from 1961 to 1969, David K.E. Bruce was the very model of a professional diplomat: suave, brilliant and unusually well qualified. His successor in the Grosvenor Square embassy, the wealthy Philadelphia publisher and Nixon crony Walter H. Annenberg...
Specifically, McCarthy's proposals in Congress and in the book are that America should agree to the Geneva Protocol of 1925 which outlaws the first use of gas in wartime, and the British proposal at the Geneva disarmament convention last summer which outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of all biological weapons. McCarthy believes that signing these treaties would make the American policy unequivocal, and thus would force the military to abandon their CBW capabilities...
...VICE-PRESIDENCY Programmed Diplomacy He was the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, and he behaved accordingly. Never venturing beyond protocol, he was one of the few visitors who did not even attempt a peek at the famous erotic sculpture at Hanuman Doka temple. "It's not really his sort of thing," explained a member of his party. At one point, he praised Nepal's unique village-assembly system of government and what it could mean "for the future of India." But that geographic slip aside, Vice President Spiro Agnew...
Kissinger, who claims to be "a secret swinger," lavishes his attentions on plenty of other Washington ladies. By making a pact with White House Social Secretary Lucy Winchester, he has contrived to be seated next to the most beautiful women at presidential dinners, even though protocol would normally demand that he sit with the visiting dignitaries. At the state dinner for South Korea's President Chung Hee Park in San Francisco, Kissinger wound up beside Zsa Zsa Gabor. Occasionally, he turns up with Gloria Steinem, the smashing-looking Gucci liberal who writes for New York Magazine...
...long-range interests dictate that we not use any kind of gas in war, and that we seek an interpretation of the Geneva Protocol that forbids the use of all gas in war." Meselson said after the meeting...