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...Matter of Protocol: "Kissinger [during negotiations on withdrawal in the Golan Heights] told [Israeli Defense Minister Moshe] Dayan to make the map and threw it across the table at him. He kept shouting, 'Write on the map whatever you want. I no longer care!' There was complete silence. Dayan did not touch the map lying in the middle of the table; he only looked straight ahead with his one penetrating eye. Just then an American security man entered the room with Kissinger's glasses, which he had left behind at the hotel. He marched directly to Kissinger...
After eleven days in the hot climes of Latin America, Margaret Trudeau faced some heat at home last week. Margaret, 27, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 56, had offended sticklers for protocol by wearing one of her husband's old campaign T shirts in Cuba, by toasting the women's movement during a state banquet in Mexico, and by singing a song she had written for the wife of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez in Caracas. When Margaret heard fans of an Ottawa ra dio show complaining of her conduct over the air, she placed...
Margaret, who blamed the strains of politics for her psychiatric hospitalization in 1974, said protocol officers had tried to make "us an elite, separate from the people. And that...
...obligatory. Many hostesses no longer worry about having equal numbers of men and women at a dinner party. It is regarded as awkward, if not rude, to pair men and women at such occasions or to insist on "boy-girl" seating at the table. The 19th century after-dinner protocol of sexual segregation-at least where initiated by men-has long been fading. Such formality persists in some Washington circles. But last August, when she was asked to "join the ladies" after dinner at a party given by Averell Harriman, Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn stalked out of the house...
...Coto de Doñana habitat for rare and endangered species: the imperial and short-toed eagles, great bustard, bee eater, azure-winged magpie and, in migration at least, the great flamingo. Those who want to view this ornithological paradise firsthand should be aware of the customary protocol: visitors must get permits from the director of the local biological station to feast their eyes on its plumed riches. This sumptuous pictorial tour cannot compare with a real excursion; on the other hand, it is about one-hundredth the price-and almost as beautiful...