AFSA announces long-term hospital insurance protection for all members under age 69! Now, to meet the increasing expense of hos¬ • Benefits paid directly to you, your hospital pitalization, AFSA offers all members under age or your doctor, as you choose. 69 a low cost hospital indemnity plan that • Even covers you for as long as 30 days keeps paying benefits after most plans stop. for mental disorders. PAYS $15.00 a day for as long as 365 days. • Few exceptions: Policy does not cover: • Benefits are payable in addition to the childbirth, pregnancy or complications; loss Federal Employees Benefits Program or other in¬ caused by war or military service; workmen’s surance you may have. compensation or employer's liability cases; • No waiting period for sickness—covers services provided by or paid for by the US sickness contracted after the policy date. Government; alcoholism. • No waiting period for accidents—covers And, because of the group purchasing power injuries received after the policy date. of your Association, this outstanding plan is • You, spouse and dependent children, who available at low rates that save you money. are eligible, may also be covered under the For further details, complete and mail the plan. coupon below today. UNDERWRITTEN BY AFSA Insurance Program Joseph E. Jones, Administrator 1666 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Mutual dT\ Washington, D. C. 20009 Please rush me complete details on AFSA’s new Hospital ^maha.vL/ Indemnity Plan. The Company that pays Name age Life Insurance Affiliate: United of Omaha Address MUTUAL OF OMAHA INSURANCE COMPANY State ZIP HOME OFFICE: OMAHA, NEBRASKA City The Foreign Service JOURNAL, is the professional journal of the American Foreign Service and is published monthly by the Foreign Service Association, a non-profit private organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and is not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for International Development or the Foreign Service as a whole. THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION is composed of active and retired personnel who are or have been serving at home or abroad under the authority of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. It groups together people who have a common responsibility for the implementation of foreign policy. It seeks to encourage the development of a career service of maximum effective¬ ness, and to advance the welfare of its members. The dues for Active and Associate Members are either $15 or $12: For FSOs in Class V and above the rate is $15 and is the same for FSRs, Staff officers and Civil Service personnel in corresponding grades. For active Members in lower grades the dues are $12. The annual dues for retired members and others who are not Active Members are $12. Each membership includes a subscription to the FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL. For subscriptions to the JOURNAL, one year (12 issues), $6.00; two years, $10.00. For subscriptions going abroad, except Canada, add $1.00 annually for overseas postage. ©American Foreign Service Association, 1968. The Foreign Service Journal is published monthly, by the American Foreign Service Association. 2101 E St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20037. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Printed by Monumental Printing Co., Baltimore. AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION CONTENTS: July 1968 Volume 45, No. 1 President, PHILIP HABIB First Vice President, HARRY K. LENNON 14 THE ART OF NEGOTIATION Second Vice President, JOHN E. REINHARDT General Manager, GARDNER E. PALMER by Winthrop G. Brown Executive Secretary, MARGARET S. TURKEL 18 THE TURNING POINT Educational Consultant, CLARKE SLADE by Frederick E. Nolting Personal Purchases, JEAN M. CHISHOLM 21 ON MANIFEST DESTINY, FOI.KLORE, AND THE GLORIOUS FOURTH BOARD OF DIRECTORS by Tristram Coffin Chairman, LANNON WALKER 22 DIEN BIEN PHU . NOTES FROM A DISTANT BATTLE Vice Chairman, THEODORE L. ELIOT, JR. by Howard R. Simpson Secretary-Treasurer, ROBERT T. CURRAN 30 Ho HIDES IN THE MOUNTAINS AND MAO’S BONES WHITEN Asst. Secretary-Treasurer, ROBERT BLACKBURN CHARLES W. BRAY by George G. Wynne MARTIN F. HERZ 31 C-RATIONS FOR BABY SAN ROBERT G. HOUDEK by William Crisp THOMAS W. MCELHINEY CHARLES E. RUSHING 33 WHAT—BASEBALL AS AN INSTRUMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY? FRANK S. WILE by John P. McKnight LARRY C. WILLIAMSON JOSEPH C. SATTERTHWAITE 34 REPORT FROM VIENNA Ambassador, Retired by James A. Ramsey OTHER FEATURES: What We Need at the UN, by William R. Frye, page 6; Parable II, by Charles Stuart, page 8; Argument with Three JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD Alps, by Katie Louchheim, page 8; What’s the Price of Pottle, by Chairman, DANIEL NEWBERRY Betty Kalish, page 10. Vice Chairman, S. I. NADLER CURTIS C. CUTTER ARCHIE BOLSTER Departments CONSTANCE V. STUCK FREDERICK F. SIMMONS 2 WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS 36 SERVICE GLIMPSES CHARLES A. KENNEDY 25 ASSOCIATION NEWS Contributing Editor, REED HARRIS 38 THE BOOKSHELF 29 EDITORIALS: 47 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO JOURNAL Robert F. Kennedy by Henry B. Day Editor, LOREN CARROLL A Welcome Guest Executive Editor, SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL 50 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Circulation, MARGARET B. CATON The End is not Yet Art Direction, in Sight 52 COOK’S TOUR MCIVER ART & PUBLICATIONS INC. Return to Reality by Helen K. Behrens ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Photographs and Illustrations SASMOR AND GUCK, INC., 295 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017 (212) 532-6230 Lilian Eisenberg, “Rice Harvest, Vietnam,” cover; USIS, photograph, ALBERT D. SHONK CO., 681 Market St., San page 18; USIA photographs pages 22, 23 and 24, photographs at top Francisco, Calif. 94105 (415) 392-7144 of 22 and 23 by Howard R. Simpson; Walter J. Mueller, photograph, CHARLES B. STEARNS, JR., 35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. 60601 (312) ANdover 3-2241 page 41; S. I. Nadler, “Life and Love in the Foreign Service, page 51. Ambassadorial Nominations Beirut. Since her retirement she had been with the Insti¬ WILLIAM H. CROOK, to Australia tute of Government and Public Affairs at UCLA. UCLA has set up a memorial fund in Miss Howe’s name to ac¬ DAVID S. KING, to Mauritius quire books on history and biography for the Institute. HENRY CABOT LODGE, to the Federal Republic of Germany MARTIN. Jane D. Martin, FSS-retired, died on May 13, in GEORGE W. MCGHEE, as Ambassador at Large Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. Martin served at Athens and To¬ GEORGE W. RENCHARD, to the Republic of Burundi kyo, in addition to the Department. She retired in 1958. ROBERT F. WAGNER, to Spain Mrs. Martin is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Douglas Hunt, of Lafayette, Ga. Awards With Our Contributors CHARLES E. BOHLEN, Deputy Under Secretary of State for LILIAN EISENBERG, who sets the scene for our July issue Political Affairs, the first annual James Biddle Eustis award. with her cover, has been in Saigon with her husband, FSO Robert Eisenberg, for some months. Mr. Eisenberg was on Marriages an assignment for the International Monetary Fund. CARNEY-MOTZER. Susan Carney was married to John Frank HOWARD R. SIMPSON, USIA, has served four years in Viet¬ Motzer, on June 15, in St. Therese Church, Altoona, Pa. nam, on two separate tours, including a period as a war correspondent during the Franco-Vietminh war. His notes EARLE-HECKMANN. Elizabeth R. Earle, FSCR, was married to from that period begin on page 22 of this issue. Mr. Simpson Hans J. Heokmann, on March 1, at the Union Church, recently graduated from the Naval War College where he will Mexico City. Mrs. Heckmann is Educational Exchange spend the next academic year as a faculty consultant and in¬ Officer at the American Embassy. structor. HUGHES-MUCHUKOT. Ann Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of AMBASSADOR WINTHROP G. BROWN’S first major experience Richard M. Hughes, was married to Charles J. Muchukot, in international negotiations was when he was put in charge on November 24, in Detroit. Mr. Hughes is Assistant of the preparation for and conduct of the first multilateral Cultural Affairs Officer in Vientiane. tariff negotiation which resulted in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947. In 1954 he was the Births active head of the US Delegation at Geneva which resulted in revision of the GATT. As Ambassador to Laos he was DILLON. A son, Thomas Carter, born to FSO and Mrs. Robert very active in the negotiations which led to the Geneva Agree¬ S. Dillon on April 28, in Washington. ment on Laos in 1962. He has participated in a wide variety FOUCHE. A son, David Carroll, born to FSO and Mrs. Robert of bilateral negotiations as DCM in India and as Ambassador M. Fouche, on April 5, in Dadeville, Alabama. to Korea. These experiences are distilled for the benefit of JOURNAL readers in “The Art of Negotiation” on page 14. Deaths TRISTRAM COFFIN, White House and Capitol Hill corre¬ spondent, is the author of biographies of President Truman BYINGTON. Mrs. Homer Byington, Sr., widow of FSO-retired and Senator Fulbright. He has discontinued his syndicated Homer Byington, died on June 3, in Norwalk, Conn. Mrs. column. “Devil’s Advocate,” in favor of other writing pur¬ Byington is survived by several children. One son, Homer suits. Mr. Coffin is currently prominent as publicist for Busi¬ Byington, Jr., is Consul General at Naples. ness Executives for Vietnam Peace. “On Manifest Destiny, COLYAR. Dorothy L. Colyar, FSS, died on May 23, in Arling¬ Folklore and the Glorious Fourth” appears on page 21. ton, Virginia. Miss Colyar is survived by her parents, Mr. “C-Rations for Baby San,” page 31, is a short story from and Mrs. Granville B. Colyar, 2940 Bougainvillea St., the pen of WILLIAM CRISP, who served as Rifle Platoon leader, Sarasota, Fla.