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That could account for the fact that the heads of the army, navy and air force have also dropped out of sight -and did not even reappear last week to greet their visiting Pakistani counterparts, an occasion when protocol absolutely demanded the presence of Peking's military chiefs. Still, the only certain judgment was that, whatever the nature of the struggle, Premier Chou En-lai was not likely to come up a loser. The abundance of Chou protégés on the delegation due in Manhattan this week seems proof that the agile Chou has not lost...
...veterans of the swings that Chou frequently made through the Third World. The only woman delegate, Wang Hai-yung, 34, has never been outside the Middle Kingdom. But then, Miss Wang has special qualifications: she speaks English, she has been deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry's protocol department and she is reputed to be the niece of none other than Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...French, who perfected protocol and politesse, faced a delicate situation. How should they welcome Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, arriving in Paris last week for a six-day visit? Since the bulky, heavy-browed Brezhnev, 64, holds neither state nor governmental station, technically he was not entitled to official honors. But he made it plain that he wanted full red-carpet treatment, and he knew that the French saw his first trip to Western Europe since succeeding Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 as an opportunity to improve relations...
Eventually Brezhnev had his way. President Georges Pompidou smashed protocol by ordering him treated as a chief of state. As a result, when the Soviet leader's Ilyushin-62 came to a stop at Orly last week, it was met by Pompidou, a red carpet, a 101-gun salute and clattering escorts of the mounted Garde Republicaine. Brezhnev and Wife Viktoria Petrovna were lodged in such a vast suite at the Grand Trianon in Versailles that Brezhnev jok ingly complained: "It takes me so long to go from my bedroom to the dining room that...
...made it his policy to counter the "overpowering presence" of the U.S. by underscoring Ottawa's political independence, particularly in foreign affairs. Last year he cut Canada's NATO contingent in Europe in half and established diplomatic relations with Peking, and last May he signed a protocol in Moscow providing for annual consultation with the Soviet Union...