Word: protocol
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...yellow rain" that fell on Long Sa is the focus of a bitter dispute between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Since last fall, Administration officials have accused the Soviet Union and its allies of violating the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention-both treaties have been signed by Moscow-by engaging in chemical warfare. "With every passing day," charged Secretary of State Alexander Haig in February, "we get more incontrovertible evidence of the use of mycotoxins [fungal poisons] in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea [Cambodia] . . . There is no question in our minds that such...
...waiting to greet Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski, they noticed a subtle, but possibly important, change. Konstantin Chernenko, 70, a burly, longtime crony of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's, occupied the No. 3 position in the receiving line. Only Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, whose presence was required by protocol, stood closer to the ailing Soviet leader. The white-maned Chernenko's commanding position set off speculation that he had won a round or two in the behind-the-scenes struggle to succeed the 75-year-old Brezhnev. At the same time, there were other indications last week...
Though Clark had been pressed upon Haig by the Reagan circle, the two developed a solid relationship. Haig, while ever anxious to protect his own turf, has even shown some deference to his recent subordinate. Officials calling on Clark get an instant reminder of why such protocol is prudent. The first ornament striking a visitor's eye is a large photograph dating from 1968 of three smiling men on horseback: Clark, his father and Ronald Reagan...
...Godfather films and Apocalypse Now; and the hall was the 6,000-seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands...
...their jobs. There are 17 members of the Cabinet, four of whom are, in a sense, ministers without portfolio: Counsellor Edwin Meese, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Trade Representative Bill Brock and CIA Director William Casey. The following assessment of the men who have departmental responsibilities, listed in order of protocol, is based on the reporting of correspondents in TIME's Washington bureau...