Word: protocol
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...Montreal Protocol is aimed at reducing CFCs, which are used as coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners and are an important ingredient in aerosols and plastic foams. The pact would limit the use of an ozone- destroying group of fire-suppressant chemicals called halons, which some scientists believe cause as much as 20 times the damage of CFCs. Scientists estimate that overall as much as 7% of the ozone belt, which stretches six to 30 miles above the earth, has already been destroyed. Moreover, researchers have found evidence of "holes" in the shield, including one above Antarctica that approaches...
...list of Soviet minorities testing glasnost grew by three last week as demonstrators in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia openly marked the 48th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet secret protocol that led to Soviet annexation of the three independent Baltic nations in 1940. Altogether, several thousand people took to the street to chant freedom slogans and sing patriotic songs...
...whether Cuba's athletes will be allowed to travel to Indianapolis on a Cuban airliner, which would technically violate a 27-year-old U.S. boycott on commerce with Havana. However, Castro knows that, as host of the games in 1991, Cuba will be in a position to handle any protocol complaints with a certain reciprocity...
This emphasis on protocol seems strange for a program designed to safeguard the security of embassies. The six-week course is given five times a year to unmarried volunteers who have served for at least two years in the Marines with an unblemished record. The flunk-out rate at Marshall Hall is 27%, including those who don't survive a final joint Marine-State Department screening board. Oddly enough, freshly minted Marine guards are generally sent to hardship posts like Moscow. The theory is that congenial embassies like Paris should be reserved for Marines who have completed an initial...
Bickering continued over construction details until a final protocol was signed in 1977. Jimmy Carter's CIA director, Stansfield Turner, wanted the Moscow embassy to be built only by U.S. citizens who would be subject to lie- detector tests upon their return home. Carter approved the idea, says Turner, but the departments of State and Defense blocked the plan. "I gave them money out of the CIA budget for security checks and polygraphs," says he, "and they never properly used it." Turner believes the U.S. has a "cultural problem" with Soviet espionage. "Americans just can't get it through their...