Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hotel, the three Presidents seemed to revert to form in their toasts. Carter talked of his personal relationship with Sadat. Ford spoke straightforwardly as a representative of the American people. Nixon gave one of his oblique rambling tributes to the banquet waiters and servants, those not famous or "infamous." Protocol had seated Kissinger next to 14-year-old Sam Brown. With a mixture of humor and wounded pride, the former Secretary of State remarked that he had not really traveled 13,000 miles to talk to,a kid, delightful as he might be. Kissinger was discreetly reseated...
...deputy to Haig noted last week that the use of toxins is a violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical and biological weapons and that their production is prohibited by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. Soviet technical journals, however, openly discuss methods for mass-producing mycotoxins. In a new book called Yellow Rain, Journalist Sterling Seagrave cites evidence that the Soviets first used T2 during the Yemen civil war in the early 1960s. Military officials in Egypt, which was then a Soviet client, confirm that biochemical warfare equipment was deployed during that conflict. Seagrave also says that a biochemical...
...Church of England approves a new divorce policy if Prince Charles were marrying Lady Diana Spencer in another day, there would be protocol problems aplenty. As late as the 1920s, divorced persons were never received socially by Britain's royal family, and Lady Di's parents are divorced and remarried. The reason for that barrier in social protocol: the British monarch is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which, like the Roman Catholic Church, refuses to recognize divorce or allow a second marriage while the original spouse is still living...
...applaud our countryman's excellence, we should keep in mind that he really isn't a very talented ambassador yet. Maybe he could take some lessons in protocol from elder statesmen Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe, men who never had McEnroe's talents but who nonetheless dominated the game for short periods with grace and good humor...
Moments after Prince Charles landed at Kennedy International Airport, he was whisked away in a twelve-passenger Sikorsky helicopter for a tour of Manhattan. Greeting him at the Wall Street heliport was Chief of Protocol Lee Annenberg. Bowing to criticism of her curtsy when the Prince visited Washington last month, she welcomed him this time with a modified...