High Marks for Civil Service Joh Satisfaction LETTERS

State (ISSN 0278-1859) (formerly the Department of State Newsletter) is published by the Shadel: a tribute From another retiree U.S. Department of State to acquaint its employees, at home and abroad, with developments that may affect Sequim, Wash. Southern Pines, N.C. operations or personnel. There are 11 monthly issues Dear Editor: Dear Editor: (none in August). Deadline for submitting material is in the first Regarding the obituary on Dr. Bill As a retiree who has lost contact with week of each month. Contributions (consisting of Shadel (see Page 58), we served with Bill some old colleagues, I would appreciate general information, feature articles, poems, and Tuyet in Nairobi in the mid-’TOs and having my name, address and phone photographs, drawings) are welcome. Double-space, continued our friendship for nearly two number in any listing you publish. I live spelling out job titles, names of offices and programs—acronyms are not acceptable. Send decades that included wildlife safaris to at 405 Hill Road, Southern Pines, N.C. contributions to State magazine, PER/ER/SMG, remote areas of Kenya and a birding 28337. My phone number is (919) SA-6, Room 433, Washington, DC. 20522-0602. expedition to Costa Rica with mutual 692-4931. Telephone: (703) 516-1667. Fax: (703) 516-1677. friends. Bill was a physician by vocation Yours truly, Contributions may also be dropped off in Room 3811 Main State. and an avid naturalist by avocation. Russell E. Olson □ Although intended for internal communication. Perhaps most important of all the things State is available to the public through the in life, he had a perennial sense of humor. Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Years after his retirement he continued to Not by the sea Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. entertain readers of the Nairobi Roar, the Washington Editor Sanford (Whitey) Watzman embassy’s news bulletin, with informative, Assistant editor Barbara Quirk but always hilarious, accounts of Kenya Dear Editor: Staff assistant Kim Banks □ safaris as “The Driving Doctor.” State Re the photo caption on Page 49 of readers who served in Nairobi in the ’80s the March issue: The capital of Chile is may remember the weekly episodes. not on the Pacific coast. By car, Santiago We last talked with Bill by phone is about 60 to 90 minutes’ driving time only three weeks before his death. Both from the ocean. we and he had known for some time that he was terminally ill. Even so, much of Sincerely, the phone conversation involved his hi¬ Patrick String larious account of the giant octopus he Bureau of Economic and had recently caught by accident in the Business Affairs ■ crab pot off the boat dock of his island home. Bill was a gentleman, a gentle man and a wonderful friend. Sincerely, Frank and Ruth Durfey □

Retiree checks in The grading was done by the U.S. Office of Personnel Fairfax Station, Va. Management. Lots of questions Dear Editor: were asked in this survey. See Regarding the letter of Jim Steeves in Page 2. the November issue re printing retiree home addresses, please include mine: 9716 Oak Bridge Place, Fairfax Station, Va. 22039-3400. Telephone: (703) 690-8112. Sincerely Joseph J. Kozlowski □ state

News Stories Feature Stories

2 How Civil Service officers at 5 Hector Morales: banished to State feel about their jobs a box in the Asia bureau

4 Construction to begin for 6 Ambassador paddies to child care center in safety—wouldn’t you? Columbia Plaza 7 A tribute to the “lost 4 There’s no business like U.S. hero’’ of the Holocaust business: envoy is honored for singing this refrain 13 It’s rat-a-tat-tough for Americans in Tajikstan 10 White House announces choices for 8 bureau 28 A game that’s never been chieftans raided

12 It’s still Boswell for the 41 Navigating in German: Office of Foreign Missions when in doubt, repeat

21 Open season for American Family Member Associates Program Photo Stories

40 One-year management 30 Post of the Month: training for 4 Civil Service Tegucigalpa officers

58 Dr. Willard Shadel, former regional medical officer, dies of cancer NEWS HIGHLIGHT

not included in the survey because they —57% (68%) of the respondents Job satisfaction have a separate pay plan. were married, with 78% of their spouses Questionnaires containing 184 sepa¬ being employed—45% (29%) of them by is scored high rate items were distributed to 57,000 the U.S. Government. employees selected at random, Govem- —Of the State Department house¬ in the Civil mentwide, with 56% replying. At State, holds, fewer—27% (41%)—had pre-tax more than 1,900 persons received the combined incomes between $26,000 and Service at State form, and 40% completed them. The $60,000 per year, but more—17% margin of error claimed for the State (10%)—were in the $76,000-to-$ 100,000 If you’re a white-collar Civil Service results was plus or minus 3.8% “at the bracket, and 14% (4%) had incomes employee at State, the odds are (outsiders 95% confidence level,” compared with exceeding $100,000. have documented this) that: 1.1% for the Government as a whole. —State had fewer full-time perma¬ —You’re happy with your job and The State Department respondents nent workers in the sample—83% (92%). you believe that the Government is “a included a higher proportion of females —As to education, 24% (22%) have great place to work.” (59% vs. 52%) than in the Government¬ bachelor’s degrees. But the State sample —You have confidence in your wide returns, fewer males (42% vs. 48%), showed a much higher proportion of bosses and you trust them. In fact, you fewer white employees (69% vs. 78%) persons—34% (21%)—who had gone regard them as skilled—as supervisors and more black employees (24% vs. beyond that. 10% (8%) had had some who are able to work well with people. 13%). In addition, those replying from graduate studies, 17% (10%) have mas¬ —You see State (much more so than State tended to be younger persons. Some ter’s degrees, 3% (1%) have law degrees your colleagues do as they view their own and 4% (2%) have doctorates. Only 34% agencies) as a place that attracts high- (43%) came to State from the private quality employees, including capable sector, while 23% (16%) arrived from a executives. college or university. —You’re better educated than your —33% (17%) had ascended to grades fellow workers in the other federal GS-13 through 15. agencies. —75% said they were satisfied with —You agree that the last perform¬ their jobs, with 70% adding they were ance rating you got was fair, but on the satisfied, too, with the balance they had other hand you’re not particularly moti¬ achieved between their work and family vated by the performance appraisal lives. Yet 82% (85%) said they generally system. lacked enough work to keep them busy, —You’re more interested than other even though three-fourths disagreed that Government workers in non-monetary their office could operate well with fewer forms of recognition and in getting special persons—and despite the fact that some assignments, though you would also like a two-thirds felt good use was being made promotion, an increase in base pay and an of their skills and abilities. 29% (21%) “outstanding” rating. said they spend too much time doing work —Training opportunities and paid 30% of them, as against 23% in the other below their grade level. 50% (44%) time off are not big priorities with you. agencies, were less than 35 years old. attached great value to the “use of my —You’re getting much less help from The report on the survey contained skills and abilities,” and 46% (39%) to the Department on childcare than the this caveat: “It is important to remember “challenging work.” employees at other agencies get, but—by than when data are reported on a Govem- —70% (63%) regarded their perform¬ a large margin—you’re satisfied with your mentwide and agencywide basis, results ance rating as fair and accurate, but nearly current childcare arrangements. can become deceiving. Data tend to two-thirds felt that some of their co¬ —You’re solving your childcare ‘regress to the mean’ when large organi¬ workers got higher ratings than they problems by relying more on schools and zations are surveyed. For example, if one deserved. 42% (48%) disagreed with the babysitters, and less on your wife or large component of (State) reports very statement that the appraisal system moti¬ husband, than is typical of Government high job satisfaction, but another large vated them to perform well. 54% (33%) workers. component reports very low job satisfac¬ had been given “outstanding” ratings in These are some of the findings that tion, the two get averaged when the their most recent appraisals. emerged from a survey of federal agency data are reported, and the results —One-third say they’re required to employees undertaken by the U.S. Office for the different components are lost.” get approval for decisions they could of Personnel Management a little more Here are some additional findings of make themselves. 61% (71%) saw their than a year ago. The breakout of the the survey, with percentages given first jobs as challenging. replies received from the State for the employees at State, followed by —When they found themselves re¬ Department—and how they compare with the Governmentwide percentages in paren¬ working something they had done, 44% attitudes expressed by the rest of the theses, where there appears to be a (35%) attributed this to suggestions for federal workforce—has just been made significant or otherwise interesting dif¬ improvements that had come from their available. Foreign Service employees were ference between the two groups: supervisors or others. 48% (54%) said this

2 State happened rarely, and 38% (33%) said it Employee Attitudes happens sometimes. —56% (63%) reported that personal About Their Organization computers had changed the way they had been doing their work in the previous two years. —Nearly 4 out of 5 said the people in their work unit cooperate to get things Treats Emps. Equally done and, further, that they’re expected to work hard. 49% (55%) did not regard training as having improved the perform¬ ance of employees in their unit. —In the section on supervisors, al¬ most three-fourths portrayed their bosses as having good technical skills, with 66% Attracts Quality Emps. (63%) adding they had confidence and trust in their immediate supervisors. About one-third reported the bosses dealt effec¬ tively with poor performers, roughly an¬ other one-third asserted the opposite and one-third were “neutral” on this proposi¬ Attracts Quality SES tion. 84% said their bosses were under¬ standing when they had to take time off because of family responsibilities. 66% (60%) were of the opinion that their supervisors worked well with people. —Many fewer persons at State— 48%—saw the Department as demonstrat¬ Manages HR Well ing concern for their safety and health. The comparable Governmentwide figure was 66%. Similarly, 45% (52%) believed the agency provides a good physical work environment. —67% (46%) said State is able to Education Level attract high-quality employees, while 46% (24%) added that the agency also attracts high-quality senior executives. —50% (54%) regarded the U.S. Government as “a great place to work,” HS or Less while only 16% (15%) disagreed. 34% (31%) indicated they were “neutral” on this. —On the need for training, 28% (38%) saw a lack of funds as interfering with this. A greater proportion, 41% Post HS/Associates (32%), said they were “too busy on the job” to arrange for training. —The preferred rewards for good work: “recognition, e.g., verbal praise, certificate”—61% (56%); “an outstanding performance rating”—85% (80%); “a Bachelors Degree promotion”—84% (77%); “a special as¬ signment. e.g., increased responsibility”— 50% (44%). —43% (33%) revealed they were planning to look for a new job in the year to come, with 62% (57%) saying they Advanced Degree were looking inside their own agency, 52% (50%) in another federal agency and 25% (30%) outside Government. 37%

April 1993 3 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

(22%) said they would be willing to take Plaza’s owner could not raise funds to could be left for the day. Parents would an overseas assignment. upgrade the plaza’s mechanical and electri¬ need to call the center before dropping —Childcare providers tended to be cal systems, Mr. Mack said. In October the children off and provide the center with “spouse/partners”—25% (37%); “older U.S. General Services Administration, innoculation records. children”—4% (10%); “school”—37% which leases the building for State, ac¬ An advisory board composed of vol¬ (32%); “other childcare center”—20% quired congressional approval to use $25 unteers is now forming to oversee the (17%); “babysitter in my home”—11% million in federal funds for the upgrade. center’s operations, Mr. Mack said. Its (5%). 79% (76%) expressed themselves as After mechanical and electrical im¬ duties will include hiring a daycare direc¬ being satisfied with their current childcare provements are made, 6,500 square feet on tor, approving instructional programs and arrangements. the first floor of plaza’s low-rise building raising funds to offset operating expenses. —4% (20%) said their agency offers will be cleared to make room for the The board will also try to offer scholar¬ on-site or a nearby childcare center. 1% center. Five classrooms will be built, as ships to parents who cannot afford the (7%) said their agency has made available well as an office, a kitchen, a laundry and center’s monthly fees, which are expected on-site or nearby childcare before or after bathrooms designed for small children. The to be competitive with the fees of such school. center will also include two fenced play facilities in the Washington area, which The U.S. Office of Personnel Manage¬ areas with playground equipment. range between $425 and $575 a month. To ment said: “Data from the survey will The center will be designed to accom¬ join, contact Donna Mavritte, (202) continue to be analyzed for evaluating and modate 62 children, and may eventually be 647-2955. □ developing federal personnel policies.” expanded to include 38 more. Spaces will The information has been shared with be provided for 12 infants, aged 3 to 13 Congress. □ months; 22 toddlers aged 14 to 35 months; Business-boosting and 28 preschoolers aged 3 to 5. It has been proposed that 75% of the openings ambassador is Work starts next will go to State employees; A.I.D. will get 23% and the Arms Control and Disarma¬ honored in Vienna ment Agency the rest. month on child The plan also calls for an emergency Roy M. Huffington, the departing drop-in center, where 10 to 12 youngsters U.S. ambassador to Austria, was honored care center in by the American Chamber of Commerce Columbia Plaza

Construction on a long-delayed child care center at State is scheduled to begin at Columbia Plaza next month, with comple¬ tion slated in about two years, according to Robert J. Mack, director of the Bureau of Administration’s Office of Real Property Management. “Ours is one of the few remaining cabinet-level agencies to get a child care center,” Mr. Mack told State. “Interest in a child care center is very high, and it’s been proven that daycare is a factor in where people decide to work. Having a center will be a way to attract and retain quality people.” The Department now offers only a “children’s waiting area,” on the second floor, where Foreign Service employees can leave their children for an hour or two while they undergo medical exams. The proposed child care center will be open to both Foreign and Civil Service employees and is expected to open earlier and close later than the official Department working hours, Mr. Mack said. Earlier plans had called for a center to open at Columbia Plaza last year, as part of Ambassador Roy M. Huffington, right, General Motors Austria and the top man in the Department’s long-term renovation at his farewell luncheon in Vienna, with the American Chamber of Commerce in the project. That fell through when Columbia Edwin S. Kiefer, who is managing director of capital.

State there and also by the Diplomatic Club of Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines— Vienna for his efforts to promote Ameri¬ a new position in the office. He was can business in central and eastern wondering just where he could find a Europe, which had culminated in two place to do his work—without lurching events dubbed the Danube Basin Con¬ from desk to desk whenever a colleague ferences, with participation by American temporarily abandoned one to go to lunch and European business representatives. or to attend a meeting—when one day the The Diplomatic Club named him deus ex machina arrived in the form of a “Ambassador of the Year,” making him sofa that was being delivered to the the third recipient of this award and the bureau. first one to head a bilateral mission. Mr. No, Mr. Morales did not end up on Huffington said in remarks: the sofa. Instead, his colleagues went to “The U.S. Government and U.S. work on the box the furniture had arrived Hector Morales, answering a summons, ambassadors will continue to assign a high in. They set it upright, carved out a couple looks up from his work. priority to promoting U.S. technology and know-how overseas.” He painted a bright future for Americans willing to invest in the area, and he stressed the linkage that he saw between being an American diplomat and a promoter of American business interests. □

Security agents from State aid N.Y. bomb probe

Agents of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security are assisting law enforcement authorities in the investigation of the World Trade Center bombing in New York, the Department’s spokesman said at a press briefing on March 2. “We are providing technical assist¬ ance, including the use of a bomb detector ... and we have checked out a number of possible leads in this case,” spokesman Richard Boucher said. “I’ll have to leave it at that for the moment, but we are involved.” □ Asia bureau builds a castle just for Hector Morales

They had to get Hector Morales out of the way in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He was standing there, hovering over his colleagues, with¬ out a desk of his own to sit down at. But they didn’t want to compromise his dignity. Mr. Morales had just arrived from his previous posting in Brasilia to take charge of post management for India, Brunei, Another view of the Asia bureau’s engineering marvel. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

of windows and a door for him, installed a desk in the 3 X 5-1/2-square-foot mod¬ Ambassador refuses Spokesman ends ule, and brought in a telephone, a calendar and a world map. to negotiate with up speechless With the sangfroid he is noted for, Mr. Morales insouciantly entered the aroused hippo From the March 3 daily news briefing cubbyhole and went to work. “I actually conducted by Department spokesman got a lot done.” he recalled in a recent Richard Boucher: interview. “I sorted some cable traffic Q—Is the State Department in charge and knocked off a couple of drafts of of flags at the Kennedy Center of the papers I had to work on. It wasn’t so various countries who are represented bad.” there? Be that as it may, they did ultimately A—Do you think we are? [Laughter] find a place for a regular desk for Mr. That’s one of the many wonderful things Morales, and today a grateful Mr. Morales that are done in the State Department that I Ambassador Lauralee Peters, canoe¬ says admiringly of his hospitable col¬ don’t know if we do it or not. ing in Sierra Leone with members of her leagues’ ingenuity: Q—But there was an allegation that staff, “narrowly escaped an attack by a “They may have hit upon a concept the Kennedy Center was a little late in hippopotamus,” the Associated Press re¬ that’s on the cutting edge of today’s putting up the correct flags of the various ported on February technology. The module was cost-effective republics— 23. and environmentally sound, and six of A—Your best source on that may be They were pad¬ these marvels would fit into a standard the Kennedy Center, not me. dling up the Great office. They’re biodegradable, recyclable Q—But the question is, why was the Searcies River when and easily transportable, weighing only State Department late when the flags here they found them¬ 27.36 pounds. I think this could be in this building were replaced in a timely selves within a half- standard issue for all Foreign and Civil way? mile of a baby Service personnel, and we ought to A—Again, why was the Kennedy hippo. Then the em¬ consider going into mass production. I Center late in changing flags? I think that’s bassy people saw an could add a personal testimonial—this is a a question to ask at the Kennedy Center, adult hippopotamus cramp-free environment.” not here. We are a few blocks away. □ heading for the —S.W. □ Ms. Peters three canoes they were riding in—“coming closer and A.LD, retirees closer.” New embassy “This wasn’t Disneyland—it wasn’t An A.I.D. retirees lunch will be held a mechanical hippo,” embassy spokesman Consulate General Bratislava has be¬ on May 7, in conjunction with Foreign Kiki Munshi was quoted as saying. come Embassy Bratislava, and the consul Service Day, at the Foreign Service Club. “When we saw the white of the hippo’s general there, Paul Hacker, has been Reservations may be made by calling eyes, we thought it was the best time to appointed charge pending the designation Joseph Kemper, (703) 370-0210. □ leave. We just shot up the river.” □ of an ambassador to Slovakia. ■

BONN, Germany—Participants in a fi¬ chenko (Tashkent), Lolita Dosaeva (Alma (Minsk), Aivar Kahre (Tallinn), Alexander nancial management course conducted here Ata), Evgeny Inasaridze (Baku), Albina Oganezov (Tbilisi), Boyd R. Doty (Bonn), include, left to right: Jean-Pierre DeBell Mamedova (Ashgahat), Rozeta Dhjaku Christianne De Moissac (Paris), Doug Har¬ (Brussels), Tinara Shaildayeva (Bishkek), (Tirana), Alexander Brinisler (Chisinau), Na¬ wood, Steve Wilkins (Brussels), Ron Miller Inna Sadovnkova (Moscow), Liliya Pan- ira Avakian (Yerevan), Alexander Avsievich (course manager).

6 State Memorial TO A Diplomat By Daniel A. Strasser

The author is now chief of the South American Division in the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters.

Getting a public square built in another country is not the job of a U.S. diplomat. Nonethe¬ less, as chief of the political section of the consulate general in Rio de Janeiro, I became involved in ac¬ tivities concerning Raoul Wallenberg, the “lost hero” of the Holocaust. I On September 21, Raoul Wallenberg Square was inaug¬ urated in Rio. It Mr. Strasser was the first me¬ morial to him in the southern hemisphere. Mr. Wallenberg, between July 1944 and January 1945, acting as a Swedish diplomat and secretly work¬ ing for the U.S. War Refugee Board, saved over 100,000 Jews of Budapest from the concentration camps where a half million other Hungarian Jews perished. For this service, he earned the title of “honorary citizen” of the United States, shared only with Winston Churchill and the direct de¬ scendants of the Marquis de Raoul Wallenberg Lafayette. The world still doesn’t know authorities still maintain that he died nate enough to have emigrated to the what happened to Mr. Wallenberg af¬ of a heart attack in prison in 1947. United States early in the century, I ter he was seized by the Red Army Some investigators believe he may identified with the plight of Jews who in Budapest. Reports of his being still be alive, and that the final chap¬ had remained in Hungary. I learned seen in Soviet prisons persisted ter has not yet been written. of the existence of the Wallenberg through the late 1970s. However, the I learned of the Wallenberg story Committee of the United States, and I through a 1985 television series. As sent a donation. the grandson of Hungarian Jews fortu¬

April 1993 7 MEMORIAL TO A DIPLOMAT

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A view of Wallenberg Square, before then that the idea of establishing a Meanwhile, I began a series of tbe plaque was installed. square or monument as a way of re¬ speaking engagements as a means of Later, in Brazil, I came to be¬ membering Mr. Wallenberg occurred building a constituency for the square. lieve that Mr. Wallenberg could be to me. The speeches began in May 1990, honored in any country which re¬ In Rio, I became friendly with when I was requested by the B’nai spects human dignity. My activities in Lars Berg, the previous Swedish con¬ B’rith of Sao Paulo to speak on “any this regard were totally a personal en¬ sul general there, who had retired in subject.’’ deavor. I wasn’t requested by anyone place with his American wife. He had In the audience were some 200 in the U.S. Government to pursue worked with Mr. Wallenberg in people. There is a Holocaust survivors them, though I did receive permission Budapest and had written and lectured association in Brazil. One B’nai to speak about Mr. Wallenberg and about him. He gave me many of his B’rith member declared he had been was given some official guidance on notes and materials, in support of my saved by Mr. Wallenberg at the age his case. I sought to honor further a efforts. of 9, and he gave dramatic testimony hero whose merit the United States But I did little to promote the about Mr. Wallenberg’s feats. had already recognized. idea of a square until I had been in In Rio, I gave two more talks, In my 24-year Foreign Service Rio almost three years. By that time, one to the local B’nai B’rith and one career, I have often gotten great satis¬ I had become known in the city. I before the Brazilian Lawyers Institute, faction from small, personal initiatives was personally close to many local and I appeared on two TV interviews. which had little to do with my job politicians, including the mayor and Rio has one Brazilian-born rabbi, description. U.S. representatives members of the city council. Nikon Bonder. I asked him if he had abroad do get such opportunities. One Jewish councilwoman, Neusa any suggestions as to where a Wal¬ I consider them positive: they can Amaral, heard me out and took up lenberg Square could be built. He re¬ enhance one’s performance in areas the cause of building the square. In plied: “We have just inaugurated a of professional concern. May 1990 she introduced legislation. new synagogue, and there is an I arrived in Rio de Janeiro in Mayor Marcello Alencar signed her empty lot in front of it. That could July 1987, after having served as the bill into law in August. Earlier, I be your Wallenberg Square.’’ I was last U.S. consul in Salvador da Bahia, was lunching with Lars Berg at one apprised that the lot was also the Brazil, closing down a U.S. post of Rio’s restaurants, when the mayor soccer playing ground of local re¬ which had existed since 1808. Elie walked by. I introduced Mr. Berg to sidents. These people, mostly middle- Weisel, who had won the Nobel him and told him the Wallenberg class professionals, wanted the land Peace Prize only nine months before, story. Later, I corresponded with the to be developed, but for sports. I sug¬ was visiting Brazil, and 1 traveled to mayor to seek his support. But get¬ gested that there was no conflict be¬ Sao Paulo to hear his speech. It was ting a law passed did not mean it tween building a square and a sports would be implemented immediately.

8 State ground; that Mr. Wallenberg would Rio City Councilwoman Neusa Amaral Bonder called me to consult on the have appreciated having his square of unveils the plaque. Sweden’s ambassador to plaque which was to be installed. use to youth, as he had saved so Brazil, Gunnar Hultner, is at right. Mayor I was unable to attend the dedi¬ Marcello Alencar, partially obscured, is be¬ cation ceremony. It was attended by many children. hind the plaque. Then, with Rabbi Bonder and the Mayor Alencar, the Swedish ambas¬ president of the local residents asso¬ sador to Brazil and the U.S. and ( ciation and Councilwoman Amaral, I Swedish consuls general, Donald Bra- called on the city secretary of public mante and Bernard Vaena. In his works to ask that the square be built speech. Mayor Alencar said: “It is by the city. Months went by, without good that here in this square is re¬ any word of how the city would fi¬ corded forever our recognition of this nance the construction. I had almost great man who, though not a Jew, given up when the end of my tour understood what is a human being.” in Rio came in the middle of 1991. The square is modest. It is set However, in one of my last meetings in a pleasant residential area, in the with the mayor, as I escorted a visit¬ midst of green hills. It is dedicated ing U.S. politician on an official call. to children’s activities and sports—a Mayor Alencar pulled me aside and playground in the foreground and said: “Don’t worry, we are going to a soccer playing field in back. The build your square.” Nonetheless, I plaque reads: left on reassignment to Washington “Raoul Wallenberg, 1912-?, without seeing work begun and doubt¬ Whose life was dedicated to the res¬ ing it would ever be started. cue of human dignity and the great¬ Then, during a brief visit to Bra¬ ness of diplomatic service. He served zil in March 1992, I was surprised to as a Swedish diplomat in Hungary at hear that the square was being built. the end of the 2nd Great War being My short visit did not permit me to responsible for saving thousands of \ visit the construction site. However, lives from the concentration and ex¬ I began to receive status reports from termination camps.” ■ Councilwoman Amaral. And Rabbi Mayor Marcello Alencar speaks at the dedication of the plaque.

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in Africa, he became a personnel officer the Bureau of Personnel, 1977-80. Clinton names 8 in the Bureau of African Affairs in 1975. In 1980 Ms. Ryan became admin¬ He was a special assistant to the under istrative counselor in Abidjan. She held a for ranking secretary for management, 1977-81. In similar position in Khartoum, 1981-82. 1981 he became supervisory general serv¬ After an assignment as a Foreign Service posts at State ices officer in Paris. He was executive inspector, she became executive director director, then deputy executive secretary of the Bureau of European and Canadian President Clinton as of mid-March of the Executive Secretariat, 1985-90. He Affairs in 1983. She was an executive had announced his intention to nominate attended the Senior Seminar, 1990-91. assistant to the under secretary for man¬ eight more persons for high-ranking posi¬ Mr. Kennedy was born in Chicago on agement, 1985-88. In 1988 she was named tions in the Department. All the nomina¬ June 22, 1949. He received a bachelor’s ambassador to Swaziland. She became tions would require Senate confirmation. from Georgetown. His foreign language is principal deputy assistant secretary in the The eight are: French. He holds the Distinguished and Bureau of Consular Affairs in 1990. She —Administration—Patrick F. Ken¬ Superior Honor Awards, three senior served as director of the Kuwait task force nedy, administrative counselor in Cairo, to performance awards and has figured in a after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, then as succeed Arthur W. Fort as assistant group Superior Honor Award. He is director of operations of the United secretary. Nations’ special commission for the —Consular affairs—Mary A. Ryan, elimination of Iraqi weapons of mass deputy assistant secretary for European and destruction, 1990-91. Canadian affairs, to succeed Elizabeth Ms. Ryan was born in New York on Tamposi as assistant secretary. October 1, 1940. She received a bach¬ —Human rights and humanitarian elor’s and a master’s from St. John’s affairs—John Shattuck, vice president for University. Her foreign languages are government, community and public affairs Spanish, Italian and French. She holds the at Harvard University, to succeed Patricia rank of career minister and has received a Diaz Dennis as assistant secretary. Presidential Service Award, four senior —Inter-American affairs—Alexander performance pay awards and has figured F. Watson, deputy U.S. representative to in a group Superior Honor Award. the United Nations until recently, to suc¬ ceed Bernard W. Aronson as assistant Mr. Kennedy Ms. Ryan secretary. Human rights and —International organization affairs— Douglas J. Bennet Jr., president and chief humanitarian affairs executive officer of National Public Radio, John Shattuck has been vice president to succeed John R. Bolton as assistant secretary. for government, community and public —Legal adviser—Conrad Harper, a affairs at Harvard University since 1984. partner in the law firm of Simpson, He is also a lecturer at Harvard Law Thacher & Bartlett, to succeed Edwin J. School and a senior associate in the Williamson. science, technology and public policy program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy — Legislative affairs—Wendy Ruth Sherman, a partner in the consulting firm School of Government. Mr. Shattuck began his career in of Doak, Shrum, Harris & Sherman, to Mr. Shattuck Mr. Watson 1970 as a law clerk to Federal Judge succeed Janet G. Mullins as assistant secretary. Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District married to Mary E. Swope, a Foreign of New York. In 1971 he was appointed —Oceans and international environ¬ Service officer assigned to Cairo. national counsel to the American Civil mental and scientific affairs—Elinor Greer Liberties Union, where he tried cases Constable, a senior inspector in the Office involving privacy issues and freedom of of the Inspector General, to succeed E. U. Consular affairs speech. He served as director of the Curtis Bohlen as assistant secretary. Mary A. Ryan has been deputy Washington office of the American Civil Following are biographical sketches assistant secretary for European and Cana¬ Liberties Union, 1977-84. of the persons named. dian affairs since 1991. She entered the Mr. Shattuck has been a visiting Foreign Service in 1966 and was assigned lecturer at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson first to Naples. After serving as personnel School of Politics and has testified before Administration • officer in Tegucigalpa, she went to Congress on government and higher Monterrey as consular officer in 1971. education, communications policy, human Patrick F. Kennedy has been admin¬ She was a roving administrative officer, rights, civil liberties and constitutional istrative counselor in Cairo since 1991. He then a post management officer, in the law. He has also served as vice chairman joined the Foreign Service in 1973. After Bureau of African Affairs, 1973-77. Next, of the U.S. section of Amnesty Interna¬ serving as a regional administrative officer she was a career development officer in tional and as an executive committee

10 State member of the Leadership Conference on languages are Spanish and Portuguese. He for congressional relations at State, Civil Rights. His publications include holds a Senior Foreign Service Presiden¬ 1977-79. In the latter year he was named “The Changing University,” “Govern¬ tial Distinguished Service Award, a Presi¬ administator of A.l.D. He was president ment Information Controls,” “Freedom at dential Merit Award and the Luther R. and chief executive officer of the Roose¬ Risk,” “Privacy: Cases, Materials and Replogle Award for Management. He is velt Center for American Policy Studies, Questions,” “Endangered Rights,” “Con¬ married to Judith Dawson Tuttle; they 1981-83. stitutional Government in America,” have a daughter and a son. Mr. Bennet was bom in Lyme, Conn., “Rights of Privacy” and “Government on June 23, 1938. He holds a bachelor’s Secrecy in America.” from Wesleyan, a master’s from the Uni¬ Mr. Shattuck received a bachelor’s International organization versity of California at Berkeley and a magna cum laude from Yale and a affairs doctorate from Harvard. He is a director of master’s with first-class honors from the Carnegie Endowment for International Cambridge. He also earned a law degree Douglas J. Bennet Jr. has been presi¬ Peace, of Evergreen Holdings, Inc., of from Yale, where he was editor of the law dent and chief executive officer of Na¬ Independent Sector and of the Institute for journal. He holds the H. L. Mencken tional Public Radio, the organization that East-West Security Studies. He is an ad¬ Award from the Free Press Association, produces news and cultural programs for viser to the University of California’s In¬ the Yale Law School Public Service stitute of Environmental Studies, the Award and the Roger Baldwin Medal for Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship contributions to civil liberties. He is Foundation, the World Resources Institute married to Ellen Hume; they have four and Save the Children, and serves as chair¬ children. man of the advisory committee at the Asia Foundation Center for Asian Pacific Af¬ fairs. He is a tmstee of the International Inter'American affairs Development Conference, a past tmstee of Wesleyan, and a member of the Cosmos Alexander F. Watson was deputy Club and the Council on Foreign Relations. U.S. representative to the United Nations from 1989 until January. Before that, he Legal adviser was ambassador to Peru, 1986-89. He joined the Foreign Service in Mr. Bennet Mr. Harper Conrad K. Harper has been a partner 1962 and was assigned first to Santo in the New York law firm of Simpson, Domingo. He was consular officer in Thacher & Bartlett since 1974. Madrid, 1964-66, then an intelligence He began his career as an attorney at analyst in the Department, 1966-68. After the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educa¬ pursuing graduate studies at the University tional Fund in 1965. He was an associate at of Wisconsin, he became political officer Simpson. Thacker & Bartlett, 1971-74, and in Brasilia in 1969. He was principal has been a partner in litigation there since officer in Salvador da Bahia, 1970-73. In 1974. He was also a lecturer at Rutgers 1973 he returned to Washington as desk Law School, 1969-70, and at Yale Law officer for Brazil. Next, he was a special School, 1977-81. He served as a legal assistant to the assistant secretary for consultant to the Department of Health, economic and business affairs, 1975-77. Education and Welfare in 1977. He was deputy director, then director, of Ms. Sherman Ms. Constable Mr. Harper is a fellow of the Ameri¬ the Office of Development Finance, can College of Trial Lawyers, the Ameri¬ 1977-79. In 1979 he became deputy chief 430 public radio stations in the United can Bar Foundation, the New York Bar of mission in La Paz. He was deputy chief States, since 1983. Foundation and the American Academy of of mission in Bogota, 1981-84, and He began his career in 1963 as an Arts and Sciences. He serves as chairman Brasilia. 1984-86. assistant to C.E. Lindblom, an economic of the committee on admissions and griev¬ Mr. Watson was bom in Boston on adviser with A.l.D. in New Delhi. He was ances of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the August 8, 1939. He received a bachelor’s a special assistant to Ambassador Chester Second Circuit. He is a tmstee of the from Harvard and a master’s from the Bowles in New Delhi, 1964-66. In 1967 he Institute of International Education and on University of Wisconsin. His foreign became an assistant to Vice President the boards of numerous organizations, in¬ Hubert Humphrey. Next, he was admin¬ cluding the American Arbitration Associa¬ People at State istrative assistant to Senators Thomas F. tion, the American Association for the Eagleton (D.-Mo.), 1969-73, and Abraham International Commission of Jurists and Ribicoff (D.-Conn.), 1973-74. the New York Life Insurance Co. His Mark E. Mulvey has become the Mr. Bennet ran for Congress in Con¬ memberships include the American, Na¬ principal deputy assistant secretary for dip¬ necticut in 1974. He served as the first tional and New York State Bar Associa¬ lomatic security, as well as director of the staff director of the Senate Budget Com¬ tions, the Association of the Bar of the Diplomatic Security Service. □ mittee, 1974-77. He was assistant secretary City of New York, the Metropolitan Black

April 1993 11

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Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, ship and was named one of 40 young Foreign Service Institute, she was as¬ the Supreme Court Historical Society and leaders to attend the German Marshall signed to the Office of Trade in 1974. She the Council on Foreign Relations. Fund’s 40th anniversary Berlin con¬ served as deputy director of the Office of In addition, Mr. Harper has served as ference. Her foreign language is Spanish. Investment Affairs, 1975-77. In 1977 she president of the Association of the Bar of She is the author of publications on social went to Islamabad as a capital develop¬ the City of New York, vice president of the work and public policy. Her memberships ment officer with A.I.D. Next, she was Federal Bar Council, cochairman of the include the Center for National Policy director of the Office of Investment Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Un¬ board, the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, Affairs, 1978-80. In 1980 she became der Law, chancellor of the Episcopal Di¬ Emily’s List, the National Jewish Demo¬ deputy assistant secretary for economic ocese of New York, member of the cratic Committee and the National and business affairs. She was acting American Bar Association Journal’s board Women’s Law Center. She is married to assistant secretary, 1985. She served as of editors, and member of the boards of the Bruce Edward Stokes; they have a chief of mission in Nairobi, 1986-89. New York Urban League, New York Law¬ daughter. Ms. Constable was born in San Diego yers for the Public Interest and Volunteers on February 8, 1934. She earned a of Legal Service, Inc. Oceans and international bachelor’s from Wellesley. Her foreign Mr. Harper was born in Detroit on languages are Spanish, French and Urdu. December 2, 1940. He earned a bachelor’s, environmental and She has received two Presidential Mer¬ magna cum laude, from Howard and a law scientific affairs itorious Service Awards and four senior degree from Harvard. He is the author of performance pay awards. She is married numerous articles on legal subjects. He to Peter Constable, a retired Foreign Elinor Greer Constable has been a holds an honorary law degree from the Service officer who served as ambassador senior inspector in the Office of the City College of New York and the to Zaire. They have a daughter and two Inspector General since last year. She was Bishop’s Cross from the Episcopal Diocese sons. □ a diplomat-in-residence at Georgetown of New York. University, 1989-91. She began her Government career as Legislative affairs a summer intern in the office of Senator Boswell renamed Henry Jackson in 1954. She was an President Clinton has announced his Wendy Ruth Sherman has been a employee relations officer at the U.S. intention to nominate Eric James Boswell, partner at Doak, Shrum, Harris & Sher¬ Geological Survey in Washington, an executive assistant to the under secre¬ man, a consulting firm in Arlington, Va., 1955-57. She served as a Foreign Service tary for management, as director of the since 1991. She was executive director of officer in the Bureau of Economic and Office of Foreign Missions. Originally, Emily’s List, a fundraising group for Business Affairs, 1957-58. After accom¬ President Bush had nominated him for the female political candidates, 1989-91. panying her husband on an assignment to post (State, November). □ Ms. Sherman began her career in Spain, she taught English at the University 1977 as an associate at the University of of Honduras, 1962-64. In 1964 she joined Southern California’s Washington Public the Office of Economic Opportunity, Affairs Center. She was director of the where she helped organize Vista, the Correction Office of Child Welfare, Maryland De¬ domestic Peace Corps. partment of Human Resources, 1980-82. Ms. Constable returned to State in The assistant secretary-designee for In 1982 she became chief of staff to then- 1973. After economic training at the public affairs is Thomas E. Donilon. His Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski. She name was misspelled in the March issue. ■ was director of resource development at the Enterprise Foundation, 1985, then manager of Ms. Mikulski’s campaign for the Senate, 1985-87. Ms. Sherman served as special secre¬ tary for children and youth for the state of Maryland, 1987. She was director of Washington operations in the Dukakis presidential campaign, 1987-88, then di¬ rector of “Campaign ’88’’ of the Demo¬ cratic National Committee. She was a political and public policy consultant at the Center for National Policy and at Foreman & Heidepriem, 1988-89. Ms. Sherman was born in Baltimore VIENTIANE, Laos—Ambassador officer Gregory D. Chapman, administrative on June 7, 1949. She earned a bachelor’s Charles B. Salmon, center, as he presents his officer Robert W. Pons, deputy chief of cum laude from Boston University and a letters of credence to President Kaysone mission Frederick J. Vogel, American desk master’s from the University of Maryland. Phomvihan, on his left. (The president has officer Sayakane Sisouvong, deputy foreign She received a Woodrow Wilson fellow¬ since died.) Others, from left: consular minister Soubanh Srithirath.

12 State LIFE IN THE F O R E I G N SERVICE

Rat-a-tat-tat in Tajikstan; U.S. embassy people have to get out

By Ambassador Stanley T. Escudero

The author joined the Foreign Seiy- ice in 1967. He had been in this central Asian country (formerly a Soviet republic) only a few weeks when the events that he describes below took place.

We sat on the hotel balcony in Dushanbe, the capital, in the evenings, and looked to the southern hills for flash reflections from the battle. Occasionally we could hear the dull thump of mor¬ tars, or the pocketa- pocketa of the heavy machine guns mounted on the ar¬ mored personnel carriers. After dark, we could sometimes see tracer fire. The fighting was still two ridgelines Farewell to Dushanbe. Mr. Escudero away—too far to hear the exchanges of small-arms fire— ment or group wishing to become a streets and strategic sites of the capital. but it was moving closer every day to the government would see things that way— Unfortunately for the embassy, one of Hissar Valley, which cradles the city. It wouldn’t they? those strategic sites is the immediate was clear that the civil war would soon And yet my return to Dushanbe from neighbor of the Oktyarbarskaya Hotel, come to the capital itself. my August 17 swearing-in in Washington where we lived and worked. The qaziate, Eight Americans and 16 local hires— had been delayed three weeks by a death a mosque and administrative complex, is Tajiks, Russians and one Volga German— threat from a fundamentalist Muslim the headquarters of Qazi Kalon, the senior made up the embassy staff. What would group. We were as prepared to work with Muslim official in Tajikistan and a we do if the city were attacked? Ambas¬ an Islamic government in Tajikistan as member of the old Soviet-created Islamic sadors are supposed to know what to do with any other, but would the radical heiarchy in central Asia. A moderate and in all circumstances, but that must refer to fringe understand that? Or might it take very canny politician, who would strive to all those other guys. In “charm school,” advantage of the confusion of battle to adapt himself to any outcome of the civil the instructors had drilled into us repeat¬ attack the largely-undefended and indefen¬ war, the qazi had nevertheless become a edly that our primary responsibility is the sible embassy, either to assassinate or major focus of rebel enmity—largely, I security of our American staff. But the kidnap? suspect, due to the ambition of the violent coups in May and September The embassy had endured and sur¬ principal religious figure supporting the hadn’t driven us out, and we’d carefully vived the street fighting which accom¬ rebel cause, who hopes to replace the proclaimed our neutrality to ensure that panied the violent coups d’etat of May qazi. The qaziate was heavily defended. none of the fighting clans had any reason and September with no more than the Any serious fight for the qaziate would to see the U.S. embassy as an enemy usual precautions. But this would be involve armor on both sides and would institution. Awash in humanitarian catas¬ different. Instead of small-scale fighting probably result in heavy collateral damage trophe that was made worse by wide¬ between several hundred combatants with to neighboring buildings, including the spread domestic conflict and tides of automatic weapons supported by the occa¬ embassy. refugees, Tajikistan had every interest in sional armored car, a major rebel assault Fortunately, the probability of an sustaining the goodwill of a nation which on Dushanbe would match perhaps 20,000 attack was clear well in advance, giving had already provided a good deal of men with significant armored support— us an opportunity to make preparations. disaster relief assistance and stood ready armored fighting vehicles and T-72 main When I received news of the death threat to give more. Surely any national govern¬ battle tanks—in desperate battle for the against me, I was in Moscow and was

April 1993 13 LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

held up there until the threat was resolved. and the responsibility could only be mine. While there, I cut a side deal with the The government ruling Tajikistan at Russian foreign ministry for which I had the time had established itself through a no authorization whatever but which made two-phased coup. The first took place in sense to me. Following promises of March-May and the second in September. mutual cooperation between our embassies The coups replaced an elected government in Dushanbe, the Russians accepted my made up largely of representatives from request to provide protection for my Old Guard clans from Khojand in the embassy and assistance with evacuation, north and Kulyab in the southeast. As should that become necessary. They had putative communists, these clans and their the wherewithal to do this, as the 201st leaders had ruled Tajikistan for the Motorized Rifle Division, the only effec¬ Soviets for over 70 years. The coup tive military unit in Tajikistan, is head¬ government represented other clan quartered in Dushanbe. groups—in the south-central area of So, with some confidence that we Kurgan Tyube, the east-central region of could count on the Russians in a pinch, it Garm and the high Pamir mountains of fell to us to consult our draft emergency Gorno-Badakhshan. The coalition which action plan and decide when and under made up the coup government included what circumstances we would call for two “democratic” parties consisting help, under what circumstances we would largely of intellectuals, writers, academics evacuate all or part of the embassy staff and poets, with little or no national and where we would try to go. support base. But the largest and control¬ Kurt Amend, general services officer, On the grounds that everyone’s life ling element of the coup government was furls the flag as he prepares for the was on the line, decisions related to the Islamic Revival party, a group which evacuation. evacuation were taken, not by ambas¬ had operated clandestinely in several sadorial ukase, but following staff discus¬ central Asian republics before the breakup fundamentalist Afghan Mujaheddin group sions in which everyone participated and of the Soviet Union and which, in headed by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The which, in almost every case, reached September, enjoyed the support of the Islamics were suspicious of any American consensus. But, in the end, the decisions Iranians, some Saudi Wahhabis, and the presence in Tajikistan. They believed, though it was absolutely untrue, that we’d provided arms to their opponents in KAZAKHSTAN Kulyab. In fact, the chairman of the party, a soft-spoken mullah named Himmotzoda, once warned me not to visit Kulyab lest I be killed—by accident of course. A government so influenced was hardly a dependable source of security for the American mission, particularly when that government’s forces were losing battles in the field and its leadership was becoming increasingly concerned with its own political and physical survival. The actual civil war had begun soon after the May phase of the coup had CHINA ended. For a time—until the end of August—it appeared that the pro-Islamic side would win. But at the end of August

Dushanbe^ •KofirNiten there was a sudden reversal of fortunes as feissar VoHO’^urek Kulyabi units acquired a dozen or so pieces of armor, including some main battle tanks. Neither side had deployed serious armor before, and the Islamics were promptly swept from the field while the important city of Kurgan Tyube fell to the Kulyabis. AFGHANISTAN Of course the Kulyabis didn’t man¬ PAKISTAN ufacture their tanks from thin air. They obtained them from the arsenals of one or more of the regimental garrisons of the Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative 2254 3-93 STATE (INR/GE) 201st. Russian spokesmen claimed that the

14 State Ambassador Escudero, left, and political/ ture arrangements with Russian charge and Communicator Rich Barbetta establishes economic officer Alice Wells discuss depar¬ brigadier, right. suitcase contact with rescue craft.

armor was stolen from their arsenals with mission, Ed McWilliams, verified by the city with weapons. Additionally, we the connivance of traitorous officers and personal observation, had mysteriously learned that there were 4,000 more men. But these were extraordinary thieves abandoned their controlling positions at fighters supported by as many as 80 for, no matter how many tanks or armored the Chaharmagzab Pass. Now both south¬ pieces of armor to the west of Dushanbe, personnel carriers were put out of action, ern approaches to the capital lay open. preparing to join in the assault on the city others appeared in Kulyabi hands—always More important, we learned that 3,000 by advancing along that very road which with fuel, spare parts and ammo to keep irregulars from Khojand had disguised was to have been our evaucation route. them in the field. Later in the conflict, themselves as refugees and had infiltrated Clearly, another way out had to be found there were reports of Uzbek military before the city was engulfed in fire from assistance to the Old Guard forces as well. three sides. By mid-October, the Kulyabi forces There’s a road to the north, but it had advanced to within two ridgelines of crosses high mountain passes blocked by the Hissar Valley along one southern snow early each year. The road is narrow, approach route, and were only one moun¬ in places unpaved, and easily blocked by tain pass away from the valley along the a single broken-down vehicle (a common other southern route. That pass was condition among members of Tajikistan’s guarded by Russian armor as, at the automotive population). The road east into request of the government, the 201st had Garm was open, but this would have put agreed to protect strategic points such as us in the hands of Islamic forces who’d the pass, the dam/power plant at Nurek been showing decreasing levels of love which supplies Dushanbe with electricity, for the United States. And our choice of the airport, the train station, the radio and Garm would have been taken by some on TV center, etc. Meanwhile, we were what clearly was to be the winning side as proceeding according to our original American support for the pro-Islamic side. emergency plan: to leave Dushanbe, We’d been promised the use of a helicop¬ should need arise, by the western road, 40 ter under emergency conditions. But un¬ miles to the Uzbek border. But as events fortunately, the country was out of aircraft unfolded, this proved impossible. fuel. Once the fight for the city actually By October 20, our contacts had began, we were left with only one escape informed us of the Kulyabi battle plan for option: call in a U.S. military C-141 from the city. Two columns, with heavy ar¬ Europe. mored support, were to advance along the According to our information, the two southern routes into the Hissar Valley Deputy chief of mission Ed McWilliams rebels were to hit the city from three sides to the outskirts of Dushanbe. The Rus¬ records the scene. Minaret of the qaziate is on Tuesday, October 27. Once we in¬ sians, as my courageous deputy chief of in the background. formed the Department of this, it took

April 1993 15 LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

matters out of my hands and directed me to evacuate the entire American staff. Warned that the directive was coming, I requested evacuation. The two messages crossed. A two-person A.I.D. team had arrived the previous Thursday night with plans for a quick trip to the Pamir mountains. They were to investigate humanitarian assist¬ ance needs on Friday, hold a series of follow-on meetings on Saturday and de¬ part by commercial air Saturday night. A U.S. military C-141 was due to deliver a shipment of medicines and other medical supplies on Sunday, and we decided to try to leave on that plane. There remained the problem of what to do with our 16 locally-hired employees. After a great deal of soul-searching, I concluded that the violence about to strike the city would not have an anti-American character and that, so long as they stayed away from important public buildings, the local staff would be in little danger, save from stray rounds. Thus, they need not be evacuated. As it turned out, this was the right decision but, after leaving them behind, I had several sleepless nights. So, with all issues, we thought, resolved, it remained only to await our Two of the Americans’ Russian military Sunday departure, secure during the calm escorts. invaluable in helping to prepare for the before the storm. We were awakened evacuation. Wisely, the rest of our local before 6 on Friday morning by the out (not including the Iranians), and to staff heeded our telephoned instructions to deafening crash and concussion of cannon Canadian, British and other western cit¬ stay home. fire from Russian tanks defending several izens. In the event, two Indians resident in The fighting lapsed into periods of strategic points in the city, which had London came as well. But there was a relative quiet, with only a few gunshots, come under assault at first light. This was rub. The evac flight cost the Department but these periods would be punctuated by accompanied by the steady thud of smaller $250,000 and, to make up some of the seemingly much longer and certainly more armored-vehicle cannon and rocket- expenses, the Department estimated the intense moments filled with sheets of propelled grenades, by the now-familiar pro rata cost per evacuee at $10,000 per AK-47 fire and the reports of heavy pocketa-pocketa, and finally overtaken by head, with each non-U.S. Government weapons. It had become evident, from the a cascading scream of thousands of evacuee required to sign a promissory absence of the impact of bullets against AK-47’s on full automatic. The war had note for the money prior to departure. the walls of our hotel, that rounds weren’t come early to Dushanbe, and all of our Several persons who might otherwise have being directed against the embassy. At the careful evacuation plans had been blown come elected to remain behind because of suggestion of the general services officer, aside. the cost. I’m not aware that any of them Kurt Amend, we hung an American flag We got on the satellite phone to tell were harmed, but American nobility, in from one of our balconies. We hoped that Washington that the cotillion had some¬ my opinion, certainly diminished. Of this would lead the fighters not to fire on how gotten ahead of the dance card. The course the taxpayers might legitimately our building, but at the very least it would humanitarian medical delivery flight object to picking up the tab for the rescue tell us that any sustained firing in our scheduled for Sunday was canceled, as of foreigners, but still it took away the direction was intentional. were the planned meetings and the trip to beauty of the thing. John Wayne never Not knowing how soon our plane the Pamirs for the visiting A.I.D. team. billed the wagonmaster. would arrive, we were up all Friday night, We had already begun informing The day passed with the Americans shredding classified material, destroying non-official Americans in Dushanbe (there pinned in the embassy/hotel by the fero¬ certain types of equipment, packing the were about six) of our plans for departure, city of fighting all around the city. At two suitcases we could take aboard the advising them to come with us or to make great personal risk, two of our Foreign plane and packing the rest for storage in other plans to leave. In addition, we Service nationals, a political specialist and what passed for the secure area of our offered evacuation transport to other em¬ a driver, managed to dodge the bullets and embassy offices. bassies whose people might want to get make it to work. They were to prove The fighting continued in on-again.

16 State \

off-again fashion, but the absence of bardment. The coup government forces A call to 201st headquarters by the really heavy, sustained confrontations of were driven southeast to their stronghold very helpful Russian ambassador quickly armor indicated that something had gone at Kofir Nihon. By Christmas, that too produced a Russian brigadier, a 16-man wrong with the rebel battle plan. We had fallen, and the pro-lslamic fighters Spetznaz (Russian special forces) unit led learned later that the two southern attacks had been driven out of the Hissar Valley by an extremely efficient and formidable- never materialized, and the bulk of the into the eastern mountain fastness of looking captain, and three armored cars, armor massed in the west never struck the Garm, where fighting continues as of this After some consultation it was decided to city. The brunt of the fighting was borne writing. dedicate the three cars to our protection by the 3,000 infiltrators who were slowly But this was all in the future and, at but to return them to the nearby garrison overwhelmed by the 8,000-or-so Islamic the moment, in October, the Embassy to avoid drawing fire. During the day, fighters in the city who were loyal to the Dushanbe staff remained stuck in a city several pieces of Russian armor had come coup government. To avoid annihilation, under heavy attack. If we were to under fire from infiltrators trying to seize the surviving infiltrators surrendered—on evacuate safely, everything would now the armor to bolster their sagging military the 26th—to the Russians, and were depend on the Russian 201st Division position. We provided walkie-talkies to escorted through the battle lines that were living up to the commitments made by the the commander of the armored unit to established just west of the capital. Russian foreign ministry. help him avoid dependence on the local Things calmed down briefly after We checked on the local K.G.B. phone system—still working but who that. The coup government remained in guards provided for the embassy by the knew for how long? The Spetznaz captain power only until mid-December, when the coup government, through the intervention and his fire team settled in for the night, rebels, by then proclaimed the legitimate of our visiting regional security officer. We were busy finalizing arrange- government by a solid majority of the Scott Bultrowicz. The smell of cordite had ments for our departure. The fighting had national legislature meeting in the security whittled the 30-man contingent down to 2. scattered bodies, shot-up cars and some of Khojand, launched a heavier and better- Clearly it was time for the Russians—and, bumt-out armor at various flashpoints, coordinated attack on Dushanbe, preceded when the chips were down, the Russians Some streets were blocked by this sort of by considerable artillery and rocket bom- proved as good as their word. debris, and all were endangered by

April 1993 17 LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

frequent firefights. We couldn’t count on course, hadn’t found me there. The pilot getting to the airport unaided, and the knew that he wasn’t supposed to land Russians quickly agreed to take us there without assurances from me. But he also inside their armored vehicles. But they knew that, without his plane, we couldn’t wouldn’t move from their garrison until be evacuated. The Russian armor stationed they were sure that our plane would be around the airport was easily visible, and landing in Dushanbe. The U.S. Army was things seemed quiet. So the pilot made a prepared to send a C-141 on Sunday, the command decision—the right decision— 25th. But the military was quite properly and elected to land even without having unwilling to risk a crew and an expensive heard from me. The plane was still in the aircraft without the certainty that the air when I made it to the tower, but was airport was in friendly hands, and that we in its final approach glide prior to landing were there as scheduled. and the crew members were unable to talk A great deal of chicken-and-egg took with me. 1 raised the pilot just after he place over the next several hours. Finally, touched down and informed him that he the Russians assured me they had the could taxi up near to the main airport airfield under control, surrounded with building. He seemed reassured. troops and armor. They agreed to pick up The huge transport taxied up, opened American C-141 lands at the Dushanbe the non-embassy evacuees from the Taj¬ its rear cargo doors and disgorged an airport. Russian armored vehicle is in the Army Ranger team—very professional, ikistan Hotel, between the garrison and foreground. the embassy, pick us up with our luggage very sharp. Their commander and the and get us to the airport two hours in administrative officer Bernie Gross, did a plane’s loadmaster briefed us on evac advance of our plane. The plane crew was magnificent job of contact and persuasion. procedures, they checked our assembled unwilling to land unless assured by me There was no way to do the usual luggage for explosives and, almost before personally that conditions were safe. So it exchange of diplomatic notes to arrange we knew it, we were aloft—on our way to was agreed that I would be in the control aircraft clearances. It was necessary to Frankfurt, to a warm welcome from our tower to talk with the pilot when he came find foreign ministry officials at home or consul general and his staff, and to a safe within range, and only then would he wherever they had sought refuge, have haven in the United States. land. Easy, right? them contact the airport officials (if they For the American staff of Embassy Next morning we had our luggage could find them), offer the necessary Dushanbe, the Tajikistan civil war was downstairs on the hotel steps on time—but authorizations and have the airport offi¬ over—for the moment. But when the no Russians. It developed that the Tajik cials convey those authorizations to the Russians left the airport to return to their government had not yet given the Rus¬ Russian military in timely fashion. The garrison, their convoy, which had escorted sians notice of its permission for the plane trick was for someone to reach the airport us, was attacked and two fine young to land. This wasn’t surprising, since no deputy director. He knew his business, soldiers were shot. Happily, neither died. government personnel had come to work and would be willing to authorize our The Secretary later expressed to his for the past two days. But the Russians plane to land on the basis of telephoned Russian counterpart U.S. appreciation for were in a delicate position. They were foreign ministry assurances without bump¬ their sacrifice and for the vital assistance assuring the operation of the airport at the ing the decision upstairs, as most others offered us by the Russian military. request of the government, and couldn’t would have done. Now the capital is quiet, under the cooperate with our aircraft unless author¬ After several tense moments, the control of the new government. The same ized by that government to do so. Yet, for contacts were made, assurances given and is true, increasingly, for much of the rest all practical purposes, that government all was ready. The Russian armed vehicles of Tajikistan. But the country itself is in a had ceased to function. Several hours arrived, an hour and 45 minutes late shambles. Over 150,000 houses have been earlier, just before takeoff time for our because of the delay in obtaining landing destroyed, some 500,000 are homeless, plane in Frankfurt, our military had authorization, and we loaded up for the 20,000 to 40,000 are dead, and the insisted that we assure them that all trip to the airport. There were six persons economy has simply stopped working. arrangements had been made for their in two vehicles, eight in the third, and our The new authorities are trying, but a plane to land. In reply, we did the only luggage rode in a separate bus. As I number of battlefield commanders, includ¬ intelligent thing—we lied—confident that climbed into the lead vehicle, the heavy ing the major southern warlord, are we’d be able to work things out once we machine-gun operator handed me his hunting down men of military age from got to the airport. But the Russians AK-74 and pointed out a firing port. He the clans which supported the ousted weren’t willing to take us to the airport let me know I was to fire through that government, killing them out of hand. until they were sure everything was in port if we were attacked on the way to the There’s much, much to do and I’m eager place for the landing. The plane was in airport. to get back into the country and get the air, would enter Tajik airspace on But there was no attack. We made it started. After several frustrating months, schedule, but would abort the evacuation to the airport without incident, yet very the process of authorizing our return has if the crew hadn’t heard from me in the late. The C-141 had already overflown the finally been completed. I have hopes that tower before landing. airport twice, and the pilot had been in March 10 will see us back in Tajikistan— Here the embassy staff, particularly touch with the tower asking for me but, of permanently this time. ■

18 State “>nry>»g.nn'!sw

FOREIGN SERVICE F A M I L

Foreign Service kids in Dubai learn who they rniSIlMNI m are: Americans .f t By Elinor LeBaron The author is the wife of the consul general at this post in the United Arab Emirates. Remember when you were in school and you said the pledge of allegiance every day? 1 do. But now that I’m overseas with a school-age child, I realize that she’s not learning the pledge or many of those other bits of American culture that my husband and 1 learned, either formally or “by osmosis,” by virtue of our having grown up in the United States. Our daughter, Petra, does attend an “American” school. It’s- American in terms of its faculty and curriculum, but not A link is established: the flag, free elections. in terms of its enrollment, and therefore things American can’t really be taught. bumper stickers), the Pilgrims’ first Many children of American parents grow¬ Thanksgiving, the inauguration ceremony ing up overseas aren’t attending “Ameri¬ and Bill Clinton. Other programs planned can” schools at all; they’re attending are on black history. Presidents’ Day, international or Arab or other such schools, cowboys, life of the pioneers (for the or are being home-schooled. Unless the Oregon Trail sesquicentennial) and, of parents of all these children have made a course, American money again, before the conscientious effort to educate their off¬ children go off to the United States for spring, the children are unfamiliar with their summer vacation. many of those traditions, songs and histo¬ A typical program now begins with ries that help give us our American three or four scouts (Cubs or Brownies) identity. presenting the colors, giving the pledge of This lack facing overseas American allegiance and singing “The Star-Spangled children was an issue raised early last year Banner.” Then there’s an introduction to IP at our monthly American women’s tea. that day’s topic, a song related to the topic, Piecing together the pledge of allegiance. Many women agreed that it was a problem, a story or skit (performed by the children), so we asked for those interested in another song, an activity (a game or a volunteering to remedy the situation. Eight craft) related to the theme, and the Scouts themselves want to learn more about the of us got together to discuss what we might retiring the flag. United States and want to pass on their reasonably be able to do. The result: Attendance at “Americana for Chil¬ enthusiasm and knowledge to the children. “Americana for Children.” dren” is steadily growing. We now have We’re fortunate to have two music teachers “Americana for Children” is a 40 to 50 children (and quite a few parents), who provide the music and lead the monthly, hourlong program. We meet in and they love it! The skits, which we singing. Others of us come from various the late afternoon when all the children are usually write after researching the theme in backgrounds, and find ourselves doing out of school, focus on some aspect of the school library, are a favorite. The things we’ve never done before (including America such as a holiday or special event, children love to watch and to participate. writing skits), and we’re having a mar¬ sing relevant songs and have activities that We’ve invested in a small amount of velous time doing it. We’re saving ail our reinforce the theme. To date, we’ve done money in having some costumes (long materials, recycling them as needed. programs on the U.S. flag, the pledge of skirts) and props (scenery painted on Yes, it’s time consuming, but it’s allegiance, life in colonial (George Wash¬ sheets) made. getting easier. Best of ail, the kids keep ington’s) time, U.S. coins and dollar bills Who are the individuals organizing coming back for more, asking if they can (with a “store” replete with donated goods this program? Most, but not all, are be in the skits. They give advice to others on which the children spent their money), mothers. Some, but not many, are teachers. on showing proper respect for the flag. The the election (complete with posters and All are enthusiastic, interesting people who children are having fun and learning. There

April 1993 FOREIGN SERVICE FAMILIES

A lesson about their country. was a real gap in their education, and Foreign Service teenagers easier, we’re doing what we can to fill it. And My first encounter with Awal was what’s great is that we, the adults, through the monthly magazine it pub¬ Kristina Wippl crosses the water obstacle learning at the same time! □ lishes. I started subscribing to it while I at “Away Day,” a going-overseas training was still living in Australia. It was exercise for Foreign Service teens sponsored interesting to read about what was in and by the Family Liaison Office, the Overseas out, and what kids were doing back home. Briefing Center and the Foreign Service A report on the I also scanned its pages for any names I Youth Foundation. Foreign Service teen scene here in the States

By Roger Bock

Third culture kids. Foreign Service brats—whatever you want to call them. I’m one. I’ve spent 12 of my 15 years living outside of the United States. Just last summer, my father was posted to Washington, so I came back with him. My first few months were hectically spent unpacking, meeting old friends, and of course shopping. However, one of the first things I did was link up with Awal. Awal is an organization which I’m willing to bet few teens have ever heard of. It stands for Around the World in a Lifetime, and is a club for Foreign Service Assisting at the annual Bookfair in the Service Women, the author and fellow teens teenagers. It was started up a long time State Department, left to right: Sadie Good¬ Megan Pugh, Courtney Sherwood, Jennifer ago with the goal of making reentry for man of the Association of American Foreign Hamilton.

20 State applications may be referred to prospec¬ tive employers overseas and in Wash¬ ington. They retain their top-secret se¬ curity clearances and may be placed on leave without pay between jobs, enabling them to accrue service credit toward retirement. In addition, those with a year of Government experience overseas re¬ ceive certificates stating their eligibility for noncompetitive Civil Service positions. To join, send an SF-171 (application for federal employment), an SF-50s (Noti¬ fication of personnel action) documenting 52 weeks of service in an appropriated- fund position under a local-hire appoint¬ ment, a skills-bank form, a current per¬ formance appraisal report or employee evaluation, and a cover letter stating a commitment to long-term employment, to PER/ER/OEP, SA-6, Room 431, Wash¬ At Awal’s 10th annual “Getaway” Claire Johnson, Chris Parris, Trevan Nova ington, D.C. 20522-0602. For information, retreat, left to right: Courtney Sherwood, Bryant, Tricia Karjian. call Bob Regelman, (703) 516-1665, or Karen Lundahl, (202) 647-1076. □

recognized., and more than once I found common at different posts. an old friend’s name in one of the articles. Overall, I think any incoming teen¬ When I arrived in Washington, 1 agers should find out about Awal and, if Work for spouses went down to the State Department, where not actively participate in it, at least A work agreement with Cameroon and I attended one of the Awal newsletter subscribe to our magazine. Awal not only an informal de facto reciprocal work meetings. I was intrigued, and since then provides a way to soften the blow of arrangement with Portugal have been con¬ I’ve consistently helped in producing the coming home to a different place, it also cluded for members of Foreign Service newsletter. I was surprised to find that the is somewhere where third culture kids families, paving the way for them to seek newsletter was created entirely by the always know they’ll fit in. □ employment in those countries, the Family kids, with only minimal adult supervision. Liaison Office has announced. The Depart¬ The newsletter has a readership of well ment has similar agreements with 103 other over 100 different Foreign Service fam¬ Family member countries. □ ilies, most of whom live in and around Washington. program holds Awal does more than put out a Going overseas newsletter, though. About once a month open season we have some sort of an activity, such as A workshop, “Going Overseas: for ice skating or a party. One of our biggest The Department is holding an open Singles, Couples and Families,” address¬ events is a weekend retreat to Coolfont, season through May 31 for membership in ing the "emotional and practical aspects” Va., which a full busload of Awal-ers can the American Family Member Associates of preparing for an assignment abroad, has be expected to attend. There, besides Program, an employment program for the been scheduled for Saturday, June 5, 9 a.m. having a lot of fun, we learn about wives and husbands of direct-hire Govern¬ to 3:30 p.m., at the Foreign Service In¬ different aspects of reentry into the United ment employees at overseas posts. The stitute. To register, call (703) 875-5345. ■ States, and listen to what each of us has program, sponsored by the Office of to say. It’s things like this that enable us Employee Relations and the Family Liai¬ to cope with the culture shock of coming son Office, is designed to aid husbands home. and wives who want to work for the Virginia rivers One of the things that makes Awal so Government steadily, without breaks in special is the people who are in it. At service. Budget officer Ed Grove is the author school, many of my classmates have never The work histories of persons who of a new illustrated book, “Classic Vir¬ been outside of the United States, and join are entered in a computerized person¬ ginia Rivers: A Paddler’s Guide to Premier have no desire to learn about other nel system, where they are tracked by Whitewater and Scenic Float Trips in the countries. But in Awal everyone has employment counselors in the Department. Old Dominion.” Copies of the 352-page traveled, and much time at the meetings is Members receive individualized job coun¬ paperback are available at $18 postpaid spent discussing our different postings. A seling and recommendations for training from the author, 2420 North George Mason lot of times, we find we have friends in at the Foreign Service Institute, and their Drive, Arlington, Va. 22207. □

April 1993 21 FOREIGN SERVICE INQUISITION”

By Mirembe Nontongo-Goslin The exam is administered by the Government, so expect a lot of bu¬ The author is a survivor of the reaucracy when you arrive at 8. Re¬ process she describes here; she went member that if you’re not carrying on to take her orals last month, and two sharpened No. 2 pencils and an succeeded in passing them. She had eraser, you’ve already halved your been working on contract in the nar¬ cotics affairs section in Panama, where her husband, Charles Goslin, is head of the telecommunications unit.

THERE’S ONLY ONE reason why you should take the Foreign Service written exam at 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning. You know how you’re always rarin’ to go on the weekend, thinking: “Gosh, I wish I could go somewhere and spend five hours answering 300 obscure multiple- choice questions 'The application for that will really depress me.’’ the exam consists of Ms. Nantongo-Goslin Well, this is your chance. There are, however, a enough paper to few things you should know: build a small The application for the exam consists of enough paper to build a house' small house, if you’re into paper houses. Requirements include, but are chances of success. Leave all electric not limited to, an affidavit from your typewriters, personal computers and great-grandmother affirming the fact compact disc players outside the exam of your birth and continued existence. room. Disable all explosive devices Average application completion time you may be carrying before the exam is six months: five months and 30 starts. Do not tear your hair, shriek, days in which to continually put it stamp your feet or otherwise display off and worry about putting it off, emotion during the exam. and one unspeakable day during which to actually complete it.

State The exam has to be given in a B. Attila the Hun. Controlled Environment. This doesn’t C. Millard Fillmore. mean that you won’t be sitting in a D. This is a trick question, since room whose air-conditioning has been the Humboldt Current is nowhere near stuck on Very High for a week, or in Australia. one whose air-conditioning has been E. This is not a trick question, stuck on Broken for several weeks. since lots of U.S. Presidents like You probably will. A Controlled En¬ sailing. vironment simply means that ex¬ I won’t even discuss your feel¬ aminees must sit far enough apart ings by the time you’ve finished this from each other as to render the pos¬ section. session of a lunar telescope necessary The last section, consisting of to anyone who hopes to CHEAT. 120 questions and no doubt in gross What the Government tends to violation of every privacy law on the forget here, however, is that some books, calls itself Autobiographical Really Weird People take this exam Questionnaire. It wants you to evalu¬ (like that one guy wearing shorts and ate yourself, and gives you the choice red polka-dot socks, and the girl with of presenting yourself as either a con¬ two front teeth missing and a one- ceited bully or a spineless blockhead. eyed teddy bear on her desk), and Here’s a sample question: that you wouldn’t copy their answers Out of a group of 100 typical if they were served up to you on a persons in your situation in life, plate with parsley around them. your peers would rate you as: Although it does tend to get hair, shriek, stamp A. Among the top 2. obscured in the bureaucratic build-up, B. Among the bottom 98. the whole point of this lengthy proce¬ your feet or otherwise C. Subhuman. dure is, of course, to take the exam D. You don’t have any peers. itself. display emotion ♦ * * The first section is called English When you’ve completed this sec¬ Expression, and is, as you brilliantly during the exam' tion, you’ll probably go home to your surmise, aimed at eliminating anyone spouse or other partner and tell him who has made no/i-English expression The second section is called Job- or her that you don’t want to talk Related Knowledge. This 110-question the habit of a lifetime. Here is a about it, and that the next time he or governmental conspiracy aims at sample question: she has an idea for your career ad¬ eliminating all those people who don’t “Hullo” is: vancement, would he or she kindly spend at least 14 hours a day reading A. A shortish word. keep it to himself or herself? B. An ancient Celtic oath. fat books on international history, The other side of the coin, or a C. A mathematical formula. economics, politics, geography and so¬ point to remember: As you’ll have D. Spelled incorrectly. ciology. You’ll find that answering observed, a lot of those Really Weird E. A casual greeting used mainly the questions in this section will en¬ People actually do pass this exam. by nerds. tail unadulterated guesswork on your Remember that it’s your duty as a F. Most of the above. part (as opposed to the previous sec¬ Perfectly Normal American citizen to tion, where you could at least make a There are 70 questions in this try to dilute their influence abroad. pretense of evaluating the different section and, by the time you’ve an¬ Don’t be discouraged by their general answers). Here’s a sample question: swered them all, you’ll have pretty unappetizingness. Apply to take the much decided that English Expression The last U.S. President to sail Foreign Service exam today! ■ is for the birds, and you’ll just take across the Humboldt Current on his Regular, thanks. way to visit Australia to sign an important trade treaty was: A. George Bush.

April 1993 23 ASK DR. KEMP

nurses and teachers without differentiating crusted. There may be other children at their ages, whether they smoked or school who are super-susceptible to the whether they took birth control pills or virus because they’re on chemotherapy or hormones for postmenopausal symptoms. are immune-suppressed in some way. In the group that took aspirin, there was a Those children who are taking chemother¬ lower incidence of heart attacks. But apy drugs, or children with severe asthma many questions remain to be answered who are taking cortisone prescription before blanket recommendations regarding drugs, are particularly vulnerable to the aspirin can be made for women, par¬ chicken pox virus. I know you wouldn’t ticularly in view of the significant com¬ want your son to inadvertently expose plications of gastrointestinal bleeding that them. To repeat: do not return children This column by LaRae Kemp, M.D., can occur with the ingestion of aspirin. If with chicken pox to school or daycare too chief of the Department’s Office of Medi¬ you now ask, what about taking coated early, as the results could be devastating cal Services, appears monthly in State. aspirin, my answer is: “I don’t know.” for others. Whether you are serving overseas or at The data are not yet in. I eagerly wait the home, you are encouraged to get your results of the study. In the interim, be sure questions answered on these pages. Write you adhere to a regular exercise program, to the editor, or to Dr. Kemp directly. In maintain a normal weight for your height, Q ■ Northern Virginia either case, your privacy will be re¬ do not smoke, and, of course, use My husband is a Foreign Service officer, spected; your post will not be moderation in food and drink. very capable and hard-working, with a identified. □ responsible job which he seems to be doing very well. I don’t think any of his colleagues suspect that he has a drinking Q^0% ■ Rockville, Md. problem. He has at least two, usually Our son is in middle school and still three, stiff (double?) scotches every Q ■ Prince William County hasn’t had chicken pox. It seems each night. He doesn’t go on binges or black My husband and I are both 55 and in spring there is an outbreak in his school, out. Obviously, though, this must be pretty good health. His doctor advised but he’s never gotten it. Should I expose affecting his health, and it is certainly him to take one aspirin every other day him deliberately to get it over with? affecting our marriage. For his health to prevent heart trouble, since his father and future, I think I should “turn him and older brother had heart attacks in in” to your office so someone can talk to their 50s. I’m in good health, no high him about the implications of his be¬ blood pressure or anything. Should I be A. havior and get him on the road to taking an aspirin a day, too? Absolutely not! Chicken pox (caused by recovery. But I am reluctant to do so the varicella virus) isn’t a totally benign because I don’t know what you do with or innocuous childhood illness. A variety this information. I know it is privileged of life-threatening complications can occur and trust you to keep it confidential. But A. (albeit rarely) during or after an episode as a practical matter, how do you keep That’s a tough question. I’ve consulted of chicken pox, such as encephalitis, colleagues from finding out, if he has to with our cardiology consultant, who ad¬ meningitis, hepatitis, arthritis and Reye’s go for “treatment” for a few weeks? If vises there is currently a large, ongoing syndrome. So don’t tempt the statistics; if he denies there is a problem and refuses study investigating precisely that issue— he gets chicken pox, treat him with to try Alcoholics Anonymous or other should postmenopausal women take as¬ soothing (warm, not hot) oatmeal or treatment, would you block his next pirin prophylactically? And if so, what cornstarch baths, cool skin-compresses overseas assignment? He is being consid¬ about women who are taking hormones; and topical or oral anti-itch medications, ered for the Senior Foreign Service, and should they also take aspirin? Until the to prevent scratching and resultant scars. I don’t want to ruin his chances. final studies are in, I cannot say for Antihistamines such as Benadryl may also Naturally, I also do not want him to die certain. But I urge you to discuss this with help. If he has fever, you may give him or become ill. Can you describe how you your personal physician. Many facets of acetaminophen products (non-aspirin deal with cases like this? Please reply your medical history need to be known: Tylenol, Tempra and the like), but do not, through your column State. are you a smoker, do you have a family under any circumstances, give him aspirin history of heart disease, do you have a or aspirin-containing products. For regular exercise regime, are you taking chicken pox and other types of viral hormones to control hot flashes and/or infections, a correlation has been noted A. prevent osteoporosis, are you obese, do between the use of aspirin and the To write an anonymous letter seeking help you have a history of ulcers or intestinal development of Reye’s syndrome. for your husband shows that you are bleeding, do you have a history of liver or Another note of caution: should your obviously very distressed with your home kidney disease, do you have high blood pre-teen son get chicken pox this spring situation. I can understand your concern pressure, etc. season, don’t let him return to school until and frustration. I sense from your refer¬ I can tell you that one retrospective the sixth day after the eruption of the ences to blackouts, treatment programs study looked at a large cohort of female rash, when all of the tiny poxes have and the inevitable denial process that

24 State you’ve already been doing a great deal of you’ll find support and answers to the must also be used, such as ingestion of reading on alcoholism. You don’t elabo¬ questions you have. malarial suppressants (mefloquine or a rate on how your husband’s drinking is As for the possibility that your chloroquine/proguanil combination), wear¬ impacting your marriage, but I suspect husband might refuse or accept treatment, ing long-sleeved tops and bottoms, and there have already been frequent and whether this will impinge on his accept¬ using a Deet-containing mosquito re¬ unpleasant discussions about the fre¬ ance into the Senior Foreign Service and pellent on parts of the skin directly quency and amounts of his drinking, and what to do to keep colleagues from exposed (face, hands, cheeks and so on). no doubt his denial mechanisms are finding out, I can assure you that all The use of a clothing spray (containing already in place. contacts you and your husband have with permethrin) in conjunction with a Deet Let me give you several suggestions: our alcohol counselors are considered skin repellent is advisable. Bed and crib First, alcoholism is a progressive, terminal “medically privileged information.’’ We nets impregnated (by soaking or spraying) disease. However, with treatment, it can don’t share this confidential information with permethrin are also important be controlled and the progress arrested. with supervisors, selection boards or mosquito-repellent measures during sleep¬ My initial thought would be to have you inquisitive colleagues. ing hours. The use of treated bednets will contact your family doctor to enlist his or The key issues are prompt treatment obviate the need for the electric pyrethroid her support in confronting your husband. for your husband and your becoming heater in the bedroom. Contact your Your doctor can do testing which would involved with Al-Anon. The peripheral health unit, regional medical officer and/ provide graphic evidence of liver impair¬ issues of onward overseas assignments, or general services officer for assistance ment to present to your husband and what to tell friends, etc., can be discussed, in obtaining and using these repellent impress upon him the seriousness of the and details sorted out later. “First things items. situation. Another option for you is the first.’’ I urge you to act promptly. You’re For your new-bom, I would suggest Department’s Alcohol and Drug Aware¬ welcome to call me personally if you have the use of permethrin-treated crib netting ness Program. I suggest you promptly any further questions. Good luck. Please in the nursery, rather than an electric contact its counselor on (202) 647-1843. let me know how things turn out. heater. The infant should also receive the Ask your husband to join you; do be up appropriate dosage of antimalarial sup¬ front with him about your concerns with pressants. Please see your health unit staff his drinking patterns. for precise instructions on which medica¬ In the meantime, you should become Q. tion your new baby should take. Are those little electric units that use involved with an “Al-Anon” group. This foil-wrapped tablets safe and effective for is an organization for the family members repelling mosquitoes from bedrooms? My who are the “significant others’’ in the husband and / use them to avoid being life of an alcoholic. Alcoholism doesn’t Q. bitten at night, but with a new baby At a train station, I witnessed a middle- function in a vacuum. If you’re living coming, we wonder if they are safe for aged gentleman having a seizure. He was with an alcoholic, you’re affected by the an infant in a nursery. flailing around, and all of the bystanders disease in all aspects of your life—your were shouting and concerned. / felt so behavior, your thinking, your emotions. uncomfortable! Is there anything / could This phenomenon of co-dependency needs have done to shorten the convulsion, or attention and Al-Anon can give you to help the poor man before the para¬ guidance so that you maintain your own A. In essence, the electric heater base uses a medics arrived? rationality despite the pressures imposed synthetic form of pyrethrin (manufactured on you by your alcoholic family member. from two species of chrysanthemums) You’ll be pleased with the input you which is thought to be one of the least receive. You’ll find others in the group toxic insecticides. The heater vaporizes grappling with the same issues you’re A. the pyrethroid product in tablet form, thus There’s nothing that can be done to confronting—trying to urge a loved one emitting fumes which repel mosquitoes. shorten the duration of a convulsion. into treatment, wondering what to say to The Environmental Protection Agency Usually a seizure is brief, lasting less than others, worrying abut the health impact on considers this device to be safe. five minutes, though to the onlooker it your husband and the mental health However, the heater represents a seems to last an eternity. What you can do impact on your family, etc. In Al-Anon potential risk of electric shock and bums, is glance at your watch and note the time, as well as a potential fire hazard, so you can report the duration of the especially for children. I suggest, there¬ seizure to medical personnel when they fore, that you use the unit for up to one arrive. During the seizure, you should not Walker aids blind hour before bedtime, then turn it off. This attempt to force anything into the mouth should provide protection by repelling of the victim, as there’s a great risk of Retired Ambassador Julius W. Walker mosquitoes for children for the remainder serious injury to the teeth or mouth of the Jr. has been named a director of the of the night, and avoids unnecessary patient and to your fingers. Splashing the nonprofit International Eye Foundation, exposure to the generated fumes. It also person with water and/or trying to restrain which seeks to prevent and cure eliminates the risk of a child inadvertently the extremities are also inappropriate. blindness. □ becoming burned from touching the hot Objects should be moved away from the plate. Other malaria-prevention measures person’s flailing head and extremities; the

April 1993 25 ‘ASK DR. KEMP

person’s collar and belt can be loosened. begin fluid replacement immediately (oral importance of good hand-washing prac¬ After the seizure is over, privacy should rehydration salts, the rice-like gruel men¬ tices at home and at day care centers, to be provided while ambulance personnel tioned previously, tea, sodas, water), and prevent transmission of diarrheal illness take over. should avoid solid foods, except for from sick children to well children. □ saltines, rice, toast, bananas (a good source for potassium lost through the ■ Annandale, Va. diarrheal stool) and apples/applesauce. 4 noontime films We are going overseas this summer with Milk and dairy products should be two pre-schoolers. I don’t know if avoided during acute diarrhea. on mental health Ricelyte or Pedialyte will be available at Sometimes, antibiotics must be used our new post. Our pediatrician here has in conjunction with oral rehydration The Office of Medical Services is always told me to give one of these therapy, but in most instances, acute sponsoring four films on mental health, whenever the babies develop diarrhea or diarrhea episodes are self-limiting and will for employees and their families, on stomach flu. Are there any do-it-yourself resolve themselves on their own with Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. in Room 3243. tips for these products, in case the symptomatic treatment and rest for the The films are “Surviving Cancer,” children do get diarrhea? gastrointestinal tract. Infants and children April 15; “Understanding Young Chil¬ under age I with diarrhea should be seen dren,” April 29; “Abusive Relation¬ by a physician or nurse practitioner. Also, ships,” May 13; and “Legal Decisions for if high fever is present with the diarrhea Elderly Relatives,” May 27. or if there is blood or mucus in the stool, For information, call the Employee The World Health Organization has dis¬ symptomatic treatment should continue, Consolation Service, (202) 647-4929. □ tributed, worldwide, premixed packets of and a health care professional should be sugar and salts to be mixed with safe consulted. water for use in acute diarrheal episodes And, of course, when anyone in the for children. These are known as “oral Aids awareness family has an episode of diarrhea, all rehydration salts,” and are readily avail¬ family members must be conscious of An Aids Awareness Day was held able at stores or pharmacies in most good hand-washing techniques with soap recently at the U.S. embassy in Bangkok. developing countries. These should be and water after the bathroom is used and More then 500 embassy employees at¬ given to the children within 12 hours of after diapers are changed. The current tended a program which included being mixed (if at room temperature) or outbreak of E. Coli in several western speakers, and brochures and other mate¬ within 24 hours (if refrigeration is avail¬ American states illustrates the critical rials were made available. ■ able.) These are similar to Pedialyte. There’s a formula for the oral re¬ hydration solution, but the calculations must be precise so overdosage of salts doesn’t occur. Some public health au¬ thorities prefer that, if oral rehydration salt packets aren’t available, you make and use a starch-based hydration solution, instead of making a homemade oral rehydration salt solution. There are a number of formulas available. The simplest formula for a close equivalent to Ricelyte (the starch-based hydration solution) is made by combining one cup of cooked rice cereal with two cups of water and adding one-fourth of a teaspoon of salt. Measure this very carefully. The formula can also be made with a cup of mashed potatoes instead of rice cereal. This gruel-like mixture is then fed to the toddler by the spoonful every few minutes. The rapid fluid loss that occurs in actue gastrointestinal (diarrheal) infections can be particularly alarming with young children. You should be alert to symptoms ATHENS, Greece—Ambassador Michael regional medical officer here, covering south- of moderate dehydration: poor skin turgor, Sotirhos opens the renovated health unit in eastern Europe, Turkey, Tbilisi, Yerevan and a rapid pulse, no urine output, restless¬ this southern European embassy as Dr. Steven Baku. Others, from left: Vangelis Mark- ness, excessive thirst and lethargy. Adults Johnson, right, holds the ribbon. Dr. Johnson, omihalis, nurses Lisa Antonopoulos and and children with acute diarrhea should transferred from Belgrade, is the second Claudia Lolas. FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL

Appointments Polley Jr., William E., Frankfurt Foreign Service Institute, Pursel, Kelly, Moscow Anapestic Administrative Training Adams, Carol A., Malabo Quinn, Charlotte A., European Hebert, Mark L., Diplomatic Aldis, Dana, Beijing Affairs Assignments Security, Washington Field Allison, Sharleen S., Dhaka Reis, Katherine L., Tokyo Office to Diplomatic Se¬ Angell, James B., Diplomatic Remalia, Rhonda Renee, By EBP curity, Overseas Operations Courier Service Gaborone There was a person assigned to Huggins, Joseph, Near Eastern Belt, Michael Wayne, Cotonou Riley, Robert A., Lilongwe Nassau and South Asian Affairs, Bennett, Michelle, Havana Robertson, Antoinette S., Who thought the posting had one Post Management to Foreign Bodde, Tanya L., Copenhagen Budapest major flaw. Service Institute, Language Butler, Sheryl S., Quito Rodriguez, Rafael A., Nairobi For being a fair-skinned Training Cannaday, Deborah A., Lome Rowan, Eleanor, Muscat man Hughes Jr., Lawrence Robert, Cheng, Martha S., Cairo Roy, Marie L., Bangkok Who sunburned but would Office of UN Political Af¬ Chudzik, Faith E., Ulaanbaatar Rubino, Claire, Dhahran not tan. fairs to Foreign Service In¬ Clancy, Margaret Sheila, Salvetti, Gail S., Rome It gave him the worst rash you stitute. Language Training Buenos Aires Samar, Sutanma J., New Delhi ever saw. □ Jones, Barbara Lynn, Opera¬ Cole, Maria M., Brussels Schilling, Tracy J., Rome tions Center to Consular Af¬ Conroy, Bonnie MacPherson, Searls, Paul M., Beijing Foreign Service Institute, fairs, Citizens Emergency Frankfurt Sisson, Kara A., Kuala Lumpur University Training (long¬ Center Dorschner, Nilu Anj^li, Lagos Skotzko, Jennifer M., Rabat term) Katsoulos, Sotiris, Abidjan to Drain, Robert Wilder, Specialist Snyder, Patricia W., Cleveland, James L., Foreign African Affairs Intake Tegucigalpa Service Institute, Functional Kirby Jr., William A., Near Eachus, Sharon Ann, Kuwait Standerfer, Cynthia A., Riyadh Training to Politico-Military Eastern and South Asian Af¬ Edjang, Romona L., Malabo Thompson, Mark A., Khartoum Affairs fairs to Bureau of Personnel Finnen, Laila S., Frankfurt Vorce, Lynn R., Adana Cutright, Jacqueline N., Port-au- Konner, Calvin Michael, Fitzgerald, Judith C., Singapore Wan, Chui Lan, Beijing Prince to Inter-American Politico-Military Affairs to Fladland, Thomas R., Wasson, Gladys L., Beijing Affairs Pacific Island Affairs Antananarivo Weller, Shirley B., Riyadh Dieffenderfer, John H., Rome to Krehbiel, Albert D., Frankfurt to Foley, Andrea R., Kuala Lumpur Westling, Ronald Eugene, Office of International Con¬ European Affairs Girone, Theresa A., Warsaw Algiers ference Administration Labile, Damon Victor, Special Goertz, Robin Walters, Wing, Amparo C., Lima Dudley, James Lawrence, Intel¬ Domestic Assignment Pro¬ Mbabane ligence and Research to For¬ gram to Economic and Busi¬ Gray, Mary A., Sanaa eign Service Institute, ness Affairs, Office of Haines, Linda Marie, Muscat Transfers University Training, Cocom Affairs Haley, Myra A., Addis Ababa Economics Landis, Marlene M., Bureau of Hays, Ellen J., Bonn Abercrombie-Winstanley, G., Erath, John, Belgrade to Personnel, Senior Officer Di¬ Higgins, Odessa, Kuwait Office of the Deputy Secre¬ Bombay vision to Office of Under Holloway, Carolyn Diane, tary to Foreign Service In¬ Ewing, Raymond C., Dar es Sa¬ Secretary for Management Kinshasa stitute, Language Training laam to African Affairs Lantz, Rush D., Near Eastern Hosey, Earl D., Frankfurt Adams, Frank R., Muscat to Fajardo, Carol Marks, European and South Asian Affairs to Hurd, Mary Louise, Bangkok Malabo Affairs to Foreign Service Bureau of Administration, Jefferson, Sheila R., Sofia Arrizabalaga, Edward P., Institute, Language Training Information Management Johnson, Carol Ann, Pretoria Tegucigalpa to Visa Services Gillespie Jr., Charles A., Na¬ Macias, Sally K., Bureau of Per¬ Jones, Laura A., Rio de Janeiro Baldwin Jr., Frank B., Abidjan tional Security Council to sonnel to Diplomatic Se¬ Jones, Patricia P., Santo to Bureau of Administration, Bureau of Personnel curity, Criminal Investigation Domingo Information Management, Glaspie, April C., International McBryde, Doris Ruth, Port-of- Keller, Kevin B., Pre-Assignment Foreign Operations Organization Affairs to Bu¬ Spain to Inter-American Training Balek Jr., Arthur J., Diplomatic reau of Personnel Affairs Lane, Gerda, Port-au-Prince Security, Dignitary Protection Glatz Jr., Charles L., Human McClellan, Robin K., Foreign Laude, Margaret Denise, to Diplomatic Security, Rights and Humanitarian Af¬ Service Institute, Language Budapest Washington Field Office fairs to Foreign Service In¬ Training to Jakarta Livengood, Sherri Marie, Barrett, Frank J., Visa Services stitute, Language Training McKelvey, Jay W., Diplomatic Bangui to Bureau of Personnel Gundersen, Jon, Kiev to Euro¬ Security to Casablanca Mills II, Arthur H., Lagos to Lovaas, Frances Caroline, San Bell, Richard K., Pre- pean Affairs Intelligence and Research, Salvador Assignment Training to Tel Hafer, Robert Lee, Bureau of Office of Terrorism and Nar¬ Marx, Pamela R., Specialist Aviv Personnel to Office of For¬ cotics Analysis Intake Bellegarde, Daniel P., African eign Buildings, Construction Neuling, R Bruce, Economic and McKenna, Surin S.C., Dhaka Affairs to Foreign Service Security Management Business Affairs to African McKenzie, Connie, Caracas Institute, Economic- Division Affairs, Economic Policy Meredith, Thomas J., Islamabad Commercial Hall, Robert Allen, Tunis to Staff Montague, Rosa J., Addis Bradshaw, Kevin N., Bonn to Rangoon O'Brien, Linda K., East Asian Ababa Bureau of Administration, Hargrove, Maria C., Khartoum and Pacific Affairs to Muhhamad, Abdurrasheed S., Information Management, to African Affairs Oceans bureau. Office of Banjul Technical Operations Facili¬ Harrison, Carl D., Diplomatic Executive Director Nations, Marilyn K., Recife ties Branch Security to Rabat Orr, Pittman A., Diplomatic Se¬ Nelson, Mary Lynn, Brussels Burns III, Matthew James, Bu¬ Healy, Timothy Ryan, East curity to Amman Pinholt, Ellen Mary, Bangkok reau of Administration to Asian and Pacific Affairs to

April 1993 27 PERSONNEL: FOREIGN SERVICE

euphemism in referring to the as¬ cipally from the Near East bureau. Walsh, Timothy F., Diplomatic The blush is on semblage. They’ve been calling it A generation of pupils have Security, Overseas Opera¬ the flush; game the “Probability Seminar.” come and gone since then, testing tions to Diplomatic Security, But retired Ambassador the laws of probability once a Washington Field Office still blooms in Thomas Boyatt admits it’s poker. month, rotating from one semi¬ Whitehead, David Richard, Dip¬ its 26th year He’s a charter member of the, narian’s home to another. The big lomatic Security, Counterter¬ well, “seminar.” The game began loser ends up with something rorism Assistance to The oldest established floating in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1967 when called the “Bob Peck Memorial Diplomatic Security, Wash¬ poker [oops!] game in the Foreign the first deck was shuffled by Mr. Trophy for Major Contributions,” ington Field Office Service recently celebrated its 25th Boyatt and some other “students” which also rotates. By the way, an¬ Wilson, Brian William, Foreign anniversary. The “oops!” is for on the embassy staff. Then the other euphemism: those dealt a Service Institute, Language having called it what it is. All game floated to Washington with hand aren’t players—they’re Training to Office of For¬ these years, being diplomats, the Mr. Boyatt’s return here, and it “donors.” eign Buildings participants have employed a picked up some new recruits, prin- —S.W. □ Wilson, Brian William, Office of Foreign Buildings to For¬ eign Service Institute, Lan¬ guage Training

Resignations

Aubert, Kathleen D., Rabat Cheng, Martha S., Cairo Clancy, Margaret Sheila, Buenos Aires Darmiento, Mary Ann, Brussels Doherty, Nelita, Accra Duniya, Melvin C., Diplomatic Security, Miami Field Office Gelb, Bruce S,, Brussels Gommel, Rebecca Ann, Lagos Harris, Petra Helen, Kingston Hoch, Sally Ann, Phnom Penh Ibanez, Josephine T., Bogota Kessler, Josephine A,, Helsinki Krause, Daniel M., Guangzhou Lohre, Philip N., Franfurt Madrigal, Maria Carmen, Rio de Janeiro Murphy, Connie Mae, Bogota Nell, Barbara A., Asuncion Silver anniversary cele¬ Ken Torp, Scott Bush, Ed Peck. Ogden, Jack Miklos. Charlie Peterson, Teresa D,, Riyadh brants, in black tie, with deco¬ Rear: Tom Boyatt, Arnie Bray, Mike Sterner, Genta Recinos, Helen Greeley, rations, include from left, Schifferdecker, Jim Schumaker, Hawkins Holmes and Bill Har- Budapest front: Bill Lehfledt (with Bob Sheldon Keys, John Blaine, Al rop missed the party. Sheridan, Barbara M., Majuro Peck Trophy), Boh Wozniac, Fairchild, Bruce Flatin, Geoff Slattery, Alice M., Leave- without-pay status Topalian, Solinu’u P, Seoul Otis, Terrell Reid, Bureau of Pollard, Robert A., Economic to Administration, Informa¬ Walton, Charles D., Diplomatic Personnel, Office of Per¬ and Business Affairs to tion Management, Foreign Security, Counterintelligence formance Evaluation to For¬ Singapore Operations Programs eign Service Institute, Pommersheim, John M., Euro¬ Steele, Earl James, Foreign Williams, .Amanda B., Nairobi Language Training pean Affairs to Minsk Service Institute, Economic- Williams, Russell Hope, Moroni Paschyn, Bohdan Y., Kiev to Robinson, Jack D., Tegucigalpa Commercial to Bangkok Worsham, Jana Warrene, European Affairs to Foreign Service Institute, Stefan Jr., Carl E., New Delhi Leave-without-pay status Patterson Jr., Robert E., Euro¬ University Training (long¬ to Bureau of Admini.stration, Zimmerman, Carma Shera, pean Affairs to Intelligence term) Unclassified Pouch and Mail Mbabane and Research, Russia Scheer, Stuart C., Office of Branch Division Ecology, Health and Conser¬ Tighe, Thomas C., Bureau of Pelz, Kristine L., Office of vation to Medical Services Personnel, Policy Coordina¬ Chief Financial Officer to Smyth, Richard Henry, Intel¬ tion Staff to Bonn Retirements Office of the Under Secre¬ ligence and Research to Turley, Frank Craigo, Foreign tary for International Se¬ Peshawar Service Institute, Consular Arthurs, Robert E., Tijuana curity Affairs Specht, Craig W., Mexico City Training to Singapore Barr, Alfred R., Inter-American

28 State Affairs Adorno, Robin A. lacobucci, Nancy Phillips, Marylee F. Basek, Gary S., Visa Services Alley, James J. Jones, Kevin V. Pinzino, Christopher P. Borom, Jeraldine N., Office of Allison III, Henry J. Kane, Joan E. Rackley, Woody B. Protocol Andersen, Audrey J. Kane, Michael Ramirez, Sonia D. Chambers, Robert G., Paris Avent, Barbara J. Kapusciarz, Shirley E. Riccardelli, Margaret J. Cook, Laura N., Amman Barnes, Thomas Keating, Lawrence Rice, Dale R. Coronway, Gwendolyn, Bureau Bartsiotas, George Keeley, Leonora Robinson, Audrey R. of Personnel Booth, Gregory Kehoe, Audrey H. Rock, Myra Feeley, Mary T., Lisbon Bricker, Michael Alan Kenny, Joseph A. Roecks, Alan Hargrove, Maria C., African Brooks, Jeralyn P. Kerksiek, Dale A. Rogers, Kathryn E. Affairs Buenrostro, Kelly 1. Kirk, Diane Roof, Kathy T. Hohman, Ernest O., Frankfurt Campbell, Ross C. Kozubek, Claudette C. Ruiz, Edgar Howell Jr., W. Nathaniel, Carpenter, Jeffrey R. Krzeminski, Joachim Z. Sanders, Keith F. Diplomat-in-Residence Chalkley, John M. Larson, James R. Sanders, Monica Lauderdale, Clint A., Office of Clark, Gregory, T. Lee, Mary E. Schlegel, Jimmy L. Inspector General Convert!, Paul A. Leiker, David C. Selva, Elizabeth A. Lide, Frances T., Visa Services Corbett, Michael Leveskas, Marion D. Shatto, Rebecca A. Lovell 11, James A., Chile Corcoran, Rita M. Lieberman, Patricia A. Shields, Gloria J. Maffei, Victor E., Rabat De Melo, Antonette B. Lieberson, Donna P. Simmons, Barbara J. Moore, Kathleen R., European De Veyra, Maria T. Lyman, Thomas A. Smiley, Alfred Alan Affairs Douthit, David Lynch, Bradley C. Smith, Lorraine E. Pena, Yolanda R., Montevideo Dumont, Cedric Magnone, Gerald Snyder, Judy R. Peters, Betsy Ross, Cotonou Edwards, Patricia M. Maher, James C. Solis, Amparito T. Platt, Nicholas, Islamabad Feiser, David R. Mango, David Stevenson, Barbara K. Ruelas, Celia A., Tokyo Ferguson, Kevin L. McClure, Dexter L. Stiegler, James K. Schaumburg, Bernd W., Bureau Ford, Janelle Mclnturff, Sandra Strand, Rosita M. of Personnel Gardner, Gail L. Mealey, Loren Gay Street, Roger L. Schmidt, Judith Ann, Interna¬ Garner, Jeanette Meer, S. Ahmed Sundstrom, James L. tional Narcotics Matters Graham, Dianne H. Messner, Curtiss W. Teasdale, Janet L. Stout, Charles R., Bureau of Grasty, Eleanor L. Middlebrooks, Marion 1. Thompson, Kathleen C. Personnel □ Greene, James F. Middleton, Afired L. Tillery, James D. Grooms, James W. Miller, Bill A. Tolly, John W. Haley, William F. Mitchell, Sally J. Toms, Lowell, L. Hamilton, Cynthia Anne Murphy, Elizabeth P. Thurber, Milagros V. Specialist tenuring Hart, Patricia Anne Moore, Lucy B. Valdez, Eric Haskins, Dana Myrick, Dale L. Weber, Sharon Ann The Specialist Tenuring Helmick, Jerry D. Nash, Louise A. Weir, Gail R. Board has completed its review Hill, Jeffrey O’Neill, Geoffrey Werderman, Charles F. of the files of candidates eligible Hoffman, Doris Park, Maureen E. York, Elaine C. for tenure consideration at its Huff, Kent W. Pasowica, Joel M. Young, Michael L. September 1992 session. Granted Hughes, Cathy L. Pavin, Sherril Yun, Thomas W. career status: Hurlbert, Robert E. Perkins, Jeffrey B. Zimmerman, Lillian ■

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador— Ana Luz Figueroa, Roberto Gavidia, Hilda Rengifo, Jose Urbina, Vilma de Rivas, Ramiro Receiving a Certificate of Appreciation sent Murray, charge Peter F. Romero, deputy Perdomo. by former Secretary Eagleburger, from left: assistant secretary Robert Gelbard, Gladys de

April 1993 POST OF THE MONTH

TEGUCIGALPA

This embassy is in the capital of Honduras, a country in the isthmus between Mexico and South America. Tegucigalpa means “mountain of silver” ,,

An 18th-century church in Santa Lucia.

30 State At a park overlooking the city; assistant community liaison officer Liliana Ahring, second from right, and embassy newcomers, A woman sells clay pots at a roadside from left: Bertha Connors, Stephanie Bal- stand. (Photo by Jim Cason) naitis, Adrian Hull.

“Campensinos” with their handmade vehicles.

April 1993 31 POST OF THE MONTH: TEGUCIGALPA

Department of Agriculture employee Mario Beltran and wife Camelin, picnicking on banks of the Jicaturo River. (Photo by Loye Merwin)

At Lake Yojoa in the Honduran moun- The ministry of foreign relations, tains, from left: consular officer Suzanne DeMeerleer, secretary Florence Hall, economics officer Win Dayton, regional se¬ curity officer Nanette Krieger. (Photo by Loye Merwin)

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Economic officer Win Dayton and mother Dorothy at Mayan ruins at Copan. (Photo by Loye Merwin)

Judy Stevens, wife of an embassy con¬ tractor, cooks tortillas on a stone grill. POST OF THE MONTH: TEGUCIGALPA

A woman sorts pineapples for the market.

Embassy teens at a swimming competition.

On the Honduran coast: deputy chief of mission James Cason, right, with Carol Ann Kemenosh, U.S. Humane Society, and Larry Gragg, commander of the U.S. Military Group. (Photo by Win Dayton)

Embassy children on the soccer field.

34 State Visiting Fulbright scholars with Ambas¬ sador Cresencio S. Areas (standing, center) and staffers Karla Castaneda, left, and Shirley Stanton, right.

April 1993 35

CIVIL SERVICE PERSONNEL

Promotions Bureau of Administration Center Paolella. Mark J., Office of Kohlenbush Jr., William E., Daley, Charles C., Bureau of Inspector General European Affairs, Office of Administration. Information Pleasant, Marionette Hope, GG-7 Executive Director Management Passport Services Amaker, Tresa A., International Stack, Nancy B., Bureau of Daugherity, Reid A., Intelligence Thomas, Margaret Ann, Bureau Organization Affairs, Budget Administration, Information and Research, Office of of Administration, and Fiscal Section Management Executive Director Photographic Section Wise, David J., Office of George, Lorraine E., Bureau of Yepez Soberanis, Angelina, Inter- GG-8 Inspector General Administration, Graphics and American Affairs, San-Ysidro Gilliam, Adele, International Editorial Services Consular Affairs, San-Ysidro, Organization Affairs, Press GM-15 Pollard, Carol L., Politico- Calif and Public Affairs Parker, John W., Intelligence and Military Affairs Research, Eastern Republics Riabouchinsky, Jo Anne S., GG-11 GS-10 Division Office of Inspector General Kaeding, Darrell J., Passport Aboudou, Wabi Siaka, Foreign Riley, Tammy Deloris, Consular Services Service Institute, Romance GS-4 Affairs, General Services Languages Guerra, Catherine M., New Division Castellanos, Adelaida M., Foreign Orleans Passport Agency Rinaldi, John C., Office of GS-11 Hoffman, Tai Li, Bureau of Service Institute, Romance Hobbs, Jerilyn Assane, Bureau of Foreign Buildings, Financial Languages Administration, Information Management Administration, Small Purchasing Branch Casteuble, Philippe Camill, Management Towns, Deborah L., Consular Foreign Service Institute, Yang, Elain P., Houston Passport Affairs, General Services Meade, Regina M., Office of Romance Languages Agency Division Inspector General Cruciani, Renee M., Foreign Zellars, Rochelle L., Office of Petrie, Stella L., Office of Service Institute, Romance GS-5 Chief Financial Officer, Inspector General Ruppert, Maureen E., Languages Barber, Lynette L, Office of Chief Domestic Financial Department General Services De Luca, Silvana Matilde, Financial Officer, Payroll Management Division Foreign Service Institute, Operations Ryerson, Jennifer Lynn, Office of Romance Languages Blanks, Sherron Ali, Passport GS-8 Chief Financial Officer, Fiscal Nelson, Debra Jean, International Services Hart, Shauntia S., Office of the Requirements Division Organization Affairs Crehan, Timothy P., Operations Secretary, Office of Executive Siatis, Linda P., Office of Nicolai, Katryn S., Foreign Center Director Inspector General Service Institute, Romance Ford, Paige T., Central American Languages Affairs GS-9 Nowak, Elisabeth M., Foreign Greene, Lee F., Philadelphia Anderson, Edward T., Bureau of GS-12 Service Institute, Romance Passport Agency Administration, Photographic De Marcellus, Roland, Languages Hayman, Karen Anne, Bureau of Section Intelligence and Research, Administration, Information Beatty, Gwendolyn C., Oceans Office of Economic Analysis GM-13 Management and International Environ¬ Garcia, Franklin D., Office of Chesman, Barbara M., Passport Nickens, Eric Thomas, Office of mental and Scientific Affairs, Allowances, Measurement and Services Foreign Buildings, Planning Office of Advance Technology Development Division Duckett, Deborah A., Foreign and Programming Division Brooks, Doris Ann Slauer, Humphrey, Alfred Gregory, Service Institute, Personnel Spat, Temy Thi, Office of Chief International Communications Diplomatic Security, Industrial Office Financial Officer, Payroll and Information Policy Security Division Hostetler, James E., Bureau of Operations Brown, Renee, Bureau of Jones, Carol A., Office of Chief Personnel, Performance Burridge, Lisa Marie, Medical Administration, Information Financial Officer, Regional Evaluation Services Management Personnel and Functional Allotment Lewis, Celeste T., Passport Management Section Services GS-6 Dillon HI, Oscar E., Bureau of Jones, Gregory, Office of Chief Martin, Kathryn A., International Lomax, Bobbi Le Ette, Foreign Administration, Information Financial Officer, Accounting Communications and Service Institute, Economic Management Requirements Division Information Policy and Commercial Training Douglas, Kirk, Bureau of Lebherz, Patricia L., Foreign Savage, Jacqueline Dianne, McKee, Myrna A., Office of the Administration, Information Service Institute, Personnel Office of Chief Financial Secretary, Office of the Management Office Officer, Accounting Require¬ Executive Secretary Fagg, Fayette, Office of Under Martin, Charles W., Passport ments Division McGinnis, Leslie A., Office of Secretary for International Services Sutton, William R., Bureau of Protocol, Blair House Security Affairs, Office of Masciana, Leo Pierre. Diplomatic Administration, Information Simek, Zoltan, Paris Strategic Technology Policy Security, Policy Coordination Management Vanderpool, Tamatha P., New Gottshall, Jennifer L., Office of Staff Williams, John P., Intelligence York Passport Agency Foreign Buildings, Financial Morgan, Linda F., Office of Chief and Research, Russia Division Woodward, Laura D., Foreign Management Financial Officer. Regional Service Institute, Consular Mitchell, Margaret Theresa, and Functional Allotment GM-14 Training Intelligence and Research, Section Coble, Linda J., Foreign Service Office of Executive Director Porter, Shirley A., Office of Chief Institute, Management GS-7 Moore, Shawn T., Bureau of Financial Officer, Regional Information Systems Ahern, Katharine, Andean Affairs Administration, Photographic and Functional Allotment Halprin-Andreotta, Cynthia, Cameron, Mark M., Operations Section Section

April 1993 37 PERSONNEL: CIVIL SERVICE

Rasmussen, Nicholas James, Assistant Secretary Public Affairs, Office of Public Affairs, Office of As¬ Politico-Military Affairs Goodwin, Robert F., International Assistant Secretary sistant Secretary Scully, Richard A., Visa Services Joint Commission Schumacher, Sara, San Francisco Ammons-Barnett, Delores, A., Seaborn, Joyce M., Office of Gurney, Yvonne M., Pre- Passport Agency Bureau of Administration Chief Financial Officer, Assignment Training Silverman, Peter Alex, Office of Anderson, Andre M., Office of Regional and Functional Hailu, Wondwossen, Foreign the Secretary Chief Financial Officer, Do¬ Allotment Section Service Institute, Asian and Smith, James A., Pre-Assignment mestic Financial Operations Snyder, Susan L., Office of the African Languages Training Atkins, Matthew D., Politico- Secretary, Policy, Planning Hayden Jr., Michael V., Pre- Soeharjono, Dewita H., Foreign Military Affairs and Evaluation Staff Assignment Training Service Institute, Asian and Ayres, Priscilla R., Office of the Touch, Stacey Brown, Department Hohman, Ernest O., Diplomatic African Languages Deputy Secretary, Office of Buildings Services Security Steven, Robert S., Office of Eurasian Assistance Tidings, Ellen Marie, African Inderfurth, Karl F., Office of U.S. Inspector General Ballard, April K., Bureau of Ad¬ Affairs, Office of Executive Ambassador to United Nations Suggs, Edmenson L., Pre- ministration, Information Director Jackson, Mary Y., Pre-Assignment Assignment Training Management Training Tarver, Joseph E., Office of the Barnes, Lynetta Rose, Bureau of GS-13 Johnson, Lionel C., Office of the Secretary Administration, Information Rose, John D., Department Office Secretary Vasquez, Martha R., Pre- Management of Acquisitions Kahn, Simon Peter, Office of the Assignment Training Bay, Franklin R„ Office of Legal Sweeney, Mary F., Politico- Secretary Wharton Jr., Clifton R., Deputy Adviser Military Affairs Kakabadze, Iraklis, Foreign Secretary of State Belsches, Kathy D., Bureau of Talak, Ronald, Bureau of Service Institute, North and Whitted, Rosa O., Office of Chief Administration, Information Administration East European Languages Financial Officer, Fiscal Management Kane, Whitney E., Nuclear Risk Operations Bobbitt, Philip Chase, Office of Reduction Center Wickwire, Susan T., Presidential Legal Adviser Keiles, Jason Ari, Office of the Management Intern Program Bolin, Evelyn E., Office of the Appointments Secretary Williamson, Wendy, Economic and Chief Financial Officer, Kem, Ivan Lee, Bureau of Business Affairs, Office of Budget and Program Execu¬ Ackerman, Carlene, G., Office of Administration, Information Executive Director tion, International Programs the Secretary Management, Foreign Wirth, Timothy E., Office of the Division Albright, Madeleine K., Operations Secretary Bolton, John R., International Or¬ International Organization Kem, Jeffrey R., Pre-Assignment Yuan, Margarida Maria, San ganization Affairs Affairs Training Francisco Passport Agency Bragg, Brendan C., Office of Allen, Kethleen L., Office of the Lara, Elva R., Foreign Service Chief Financial Officer, Do¬ Secretary Institute, Office Management mestic Financial Operations Atwood, J. Brian, Office of the Training Reassignments Brasacchio, Barbara A., Intel¬ Secretary, Transition Team Lauderdale, Clint A., Office of ligence and Research, Office Babbitt, Harriet C., Inter- Inspector General Ahern, Katharine, Consular of Executive Director American Affairs, Office of Limbert, Parvaneh, Foreign Affairs to Inter-American Brennan, John Michael, Consular Assistant Secretary Service Institute, Language Affairs Affairs, Public Affairs Staff Basek, Gary S., Consular Affairs, Studies, Testing Unit Barber, Tracy B., Office of Chief Bridgeman, Reginald S., Bureau Office of Executive Director Long, Darryl L., International Financial Officer to National of Administration, Information Bloomfield Jr, Lincoln P., Near Narcotics Matters Passport Center, N.H. Management Eastern and South Asia Affairs Lord, Winston, Office of the Gurski, Alma R., Bureau of Brooks, TYoy Spencer, Bureau of Bourgeois, Catherine A., Pre- Secretary, Transition Team Personnel to Near Eastern and Administration, Information Assignment Training Mudge, Jennifer Anne, Dhaka South Asian Affairs Management Brumley, Betsy L., Abu Dhabi Nations, Marilyn K., Recife Middleton, Adrienne R., European Butler, Marcellus J., Office of Cain, Maria T., San Francisco Ottke, Barbara R., Bureau of Affairs to Inter-American Chief Financial Officer, Do¬ Passport Agency Administration, Information Affairs mestic Financial Operations Cheatham, Donald, Bureau of Management Sanders, Theolyn Anise, Bureau of Cantor, Joshua Seth, Politico- Administration, Printing Park, Christopher J., Office of Personnel to Foreign Service Military Affairs Services United Nations System Institute, Personnel Office Chessin, Laure, Office of Cooper¬ Croft, Caroline J., Office of U.S. Budgets St. Clair, Amey Rowe, Security ative Science and Technology Ambassador to United Nations Pearson, Zania M., Pre- Inspections Division Office of Programs Davidson, James B., Foreign Assignment Training Inspector General to Inter- Clemons, Lenwood Ray, Diplo¬ Service Institute, Perez, Luis Andres, Foreign American Affairs matic Security, Office of Se¬ Administrative Services Service Institute, Romance Strouse Jr., William H., Office of curity Administration, Global Davis, Lynn E., Office of the Languages Inspector General to Office of Support Branch Secretary Rucker, Michelle R., Office of Foreign Buildings Coburn, Natalie G., Pre- Feifer, Sonia N., Foreign Service Chief Financial Officer, Office Assignment Training Institute, Asian and African of Executive Director Cole, Bernard A., Passport Languages Ruddick, Terrence Lee, Diplomatic Resignations Services Ford, Kiyona Y., Office of Chief Security, Security Technology, Cox Jr., Cody L., Bureau of Ad¬ Financial Officer, Office of Overseas Support Services Abrams, Crystal S., Bureau of ministration, Information Executive Director Scheffer, David J., Office of U.S. Administration, Information Management Glynn, Mary Ellen, Bureau of Ambassador to United Nations Management Davidow, Gwen M., Politico- Public Affairs, Office of Schulhof, R. Mark, Bureau of Allison III, James N., Bureau of Military Affairs

38 State •V

Davis, Yolanda J., Bureau of Ad¬ Management Patterson, Crishana L., Bureau of Management ministration, Information Joseph, Elsie G., Office of Inspec¬ Administration, Information Tolson, Erin K., Politico-Military Management tor General Management Affairs Dennis. Patricia Diaz, Human Juster, Kenneth L, Office of the Pickens, Mark William, Politico- Valentine, II Thomas L., Foreign Rights and Humanitarian Deputy Secretary Military Affairs Service Institute, Language Affairs Kaufman, Stephen E., Politico- Pines, Robert H., European Af¬ Studies Fallon, Susan K., Bureau of Ad¬ Military Affairs fairs, Office of Assistant Wacker, Bret S., Passport Services ministration, Information Kent, Jill E., Chief Financial Secretary Wapensky. Russell A., Office of Management, Cryptographic Officer Pollach, Samuel K., Summer Under Secretary for Economic Systems Branch Khdair, Nihad, Inter-American Clerical Program Affairs Gathers, Dwayne A., African Af¬ Affairs Price, Kelly Elizabeth, Summer Wasylyk, Myron W., Office of fairs, Office of Assistant Kim, Jina, Bureau of Administra¬ Clerical Program Coordinator for Refugee Secretary tion, Information Management Prince, Lashawn A., Summer Affairs Gilley, Kristen F., Office of Under Kish, Kathleen C., Politico- Clerical Program Williamson, Edwin D., Office of Secretary for Management Military Affairs Raboin, Michael F., Office of Le¬ Legal Adviser Gonzalez, Rene A., Bureau of Ad¬ Kohlenbush, Gretchen A., Sum¬ gal Adviser Wright, Christian C., Bureau of ministration, Information mer Clerical Program Rawles, Eric B., Bureau of Ad¬ Administration, Information Management Kusrow, Daniel C., Bureau of Ad¬ ministration, Information Management Hamilton, Jean J., Executive ministration, Information Management Young, Lori A., Bureau of Admin¬ Secretariat Management Reed, Lucy F., Office of Legal istration, Information Hardesty, Elizabeth W., Execu¬ La Penta, John Joseph, Bureau of Adviser, International Claims Management tive Secretariat Public Affairs and Investment Disputes Zenon, Elsie M., Houston Passport Harmon, Elisabeth M., Bureau of Lafontant-Mankarious, Jewel, Rich, Michael D., Bureau of Ad¬ Agency Public Affairs, Office of As¬ Coordinator for Refugee ministration, Information sistant Secretary Affairs Management Harrison Jr., Lloyd, Office of Lewis, Scott C., Bureau of Ad¬ Richards, Nocole Marie, Politico- Retirements Foreign Buildings, Planning ministration, Information Military Affairs and Programming Division Management Robertson, Renee R., Bureau of Bruchesi, Marguerite A., Lan¬ Head, Mary F., Office of Inspec¬ Lyles, Richard, Office of Chief Administration, Information guages Services, Translating tor General Financial Officer, Vendor Management Division Hearst, Edward D., Office of Co¬ Claims Section Robinson, Keith Gerald, Summer Costigan, Marilyn L., Boston ordinator for Refugee Affairs MacAdam, Andrew C., Bureau of Clerical Program Passport Agency Henrique, Donald J., Office of Administration, Information Rogers, John F.W., Under Secre¬ Denino, Concetta E., Chinese Inspector General Management tary for Management Affairs Hill, Martha F.M., Office of Le¬ Manning, Robert A., East Asian Romagnoli, Nicole M., Summer Mattis, George J., Bureau of gal Adviser and Pacific Affairs, Office of Clerical Program Administration Hitselberger. Kathleen M., Bu¬ Assistant Secretary Roots, Michael V., Visa Services Smallwood, Dorothy M., Passport reau of Administration, Infor¬ Martino, Rae Ann S., New Or¬ Scales, Latoya D., Summer Cleri¬ Services ■ mation Management leans Passport Agency cal Program Hoehn, Walter Timothy, Diplo¬ Mattis, Christopher G., Bureau of Sheldrick, Heather C., Bureau of Money quiz matic Security Administration, Information Administration, Information O—What about U.S. sav¬ Hoover, Christopher A., Bureau Management Management ings bonds held less than five of Administration, Information May, Clyde R., Diplomatic Se¬ Shipp, Mary Claire, Office of years? Management curity, Overseas Operations Protocol, Ceremonials A—They earn interest at a Humbert, Cynthia G., Medical Mayo, Gerrod Alan, Politico- Division fixed, graduated rate based on Services Military Affairs Skinner, Tasha, Inter-American the time a bond has been held. Hynes, Amy S., Bureau of Admin¬ McLennan, Juliette C., Interna¬ Affairs Bonds may be redeemed at any istration, Information Manage¬ tional Organization Affairs, Smith, Meghan L., Politico- time after being held six ment, Personnel Office of Human Rights and Military Affairs months. Jackson, Robyn R., Office of Women’s Affairs St. Aubin, Rene-Enrico, Beltsville Q—Where can my U.S. Chief Financial Officer, Do¬ Miller, Pamela Denise, Bureau of Communications Center savings bonds be redeemed? mestic Financial Operations Administration, Information Stalls, Anita Lancaster, Bureau of A—They can be redeemed Jackson, Sheri G., Office of Chief Management Personnel at most commercial banks and Financial Officer, Domestic Murphy, Patrick W., Office of the Stewart, Yolanda Y., Bureau of many savings banks. Financial Operations Secretary, Nonproliferation Administration, Information Q—How can I replace Jackson, Stephanie L., Bureau of Nell, Sheryl N., Bureau of Admin¬ Management U.S. savings bonds that I’ve Administration, Information istration, Information Styles, Scott B., Legislative lost? Management Management Affairs A—Write to the Bond Con¬ Jackson, Tannia J., Politico- Nichols, Daniel Arthur, Diplo¬ Sykes, Trade J., Summer Clerical sultant Branch, Bureau of the Military Affairs matic Security, Emergency Program Public Debt, Parkersburg, W\/ Jett, Tammy Maria, New Orleans Plans and Counterterrorism Symonds, Jonathan T., Legisla¬ 26106-1328, for help. Provide Passport Agency O’Bryant, Kimberly M., Bureau tive Affairs as much information as possi¬ Johnston, Martha Rita, Office of of Administration, Information Thomas, Damon L., Bureau of ble. It is always wise to keep Under Secretary for Management Administration, Information a record of the issue date and Management Oliphant, Eric B., Bureau of Ad¬ Management serial numbers in a safe place Jones, Dayna S., Bureau of Ad¬ ministration, Information Thompson, Dionne, Bureau of separate from the bonds. □ ministration, Information Management Administration, Information

April 1993 39 EDUCATION & TRAINING

4 Civil Service officers picked for yearlong training program

Four Civil Service employees have been selected for a yearlong managerial training program sponsored by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. They are Cheryl DeVol, program analyst. Bu¬ reau of Finance and Management Policy; Yvonne Jefferson, supervisory accountant in that bureau; Jeffrey Maclure, foreign affairs officer. Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; and Terri Staub, telecommunica¬ tions specialist. Office of Information Management. The four were nominated by their supervisors for the program, which is open to GS/GM-14 employees and the Civil Service managerial trainees in- Jeffrey Maclure. (State Department photo by Foreign Service equivalents. Their train¬ elude, Cheryl DeVol, left, Terri Staub and Ann Thomas) ing, which began last month, includes a 60-day rotation in another office or agency and several weeklong seminars on Schedule of courses at the Foreign Service Institute management topics such as negotiating Program April May June Length skills, team-building, managing change and leadership styles. They will interview AREA STUDIES: INTENSIVE COURSES top executives, spend a week with a Africa, sub-Sahara (AR 210) 24 2 weeks senior official and prepare speeches on Canada (AR 129) — — 15 2V2 days issues facing managers in the federal East Asia (AR 220) — 24 — 2 weeks workforce. □ Latin America/Caribbean (AR 230) — 24 — 2 weeks Near East/North Africa (AR 240) — 24 — 2 weeks China (AR 250) 5 — — 2 weeks South Asia (AR 260) — 24 — 2 weeks Capitol wisdom Southeast Asia (AR 270) — 24 — 2 weeks Central, East Europe/successor states to the An “Executive-Congressional Rela¬ Soviet Union (AR 280) 24 2 weeks tions” seminar will be offered at the Western Europe (AR 290) — 24 — 2 weeks Foreign Service Institute, April 12-16. The AREA STUDIES: ADVANCED COURSES course is designed to aid participants in Andean (AR 533) These courses are integrated responding to congressional requests, Arabian Peninsula/Gulf (AR 541) with the corresponding languages drafting testimony for hearings and work¬ Balkans (AR 583) and are scheduled weekly ing with congressional staffers. For infor¬ Baltic states (AR 584) for three hours. Starting dates mation, call (703) 875-5140. □ Benelux (Netherlands) (AR 595) correspond with language Brazil (AR 535) starting dates. The Caribbean (AR 538) Central America (AR 539) Arms treaties Central Asia (AR 586) China (AR 521) A five-day “National Security and Eastern Africa (AR 511) Arms Control” course will be offered at Fertile Crescent (AR 542) the Foreign Service Institute, April 26-30. Francophone Africa (AR 513) Participants will examine arms control French-speaking Europe (AR 592) treaty texts in detail. Applicants should German-speaking Europe (AR 593) enroll by April 19 to receive advance Greece/Cyprus (AR 589) reading materials. A “secret” security Haiti (AR 536) clearance is required. For information, call —(Continued on next page) (703) 875-5140. □

40 State Hungary, Czechoslovakia (AR 582) Iberia (AR 591) Indonesia (AR 571) Italy (AR 594) Japan (AR 522) Korea (AR 523) Lusophone Africa (AR 514) Malaysia (AR 575) Mexico (AR 531) FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE— Mongolia (AR 524) Winners of the Una Chapman Cox Award Netherlands (AR 595) for Excellence in Language Teaching: Indo¬ Northern Africa (AR 515) nesian instructor Andang S. Poeraatmadja, The Philippines (AR 574) left, and Bengali instructor Minati Roy. Poland (AR 587) Francis Y. Park of the institute’s field school Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (AR 581) in Seoul also is an awardee. Scandinavia (Nordic countries) (AR 596) South Asia (AR 560) South Caucasus (AR 585) Southern Cone (AR 534) You think YOU Southern Africa (AR 512) Thailand, Burma, Laos (AR 572) have foreign Turkey (AR 543) Vietnam/Cambodia (AR 573) language problems? LANGUAGE AND ADVANCED AREA COURSES French (LFR 100) 19 7 24 weeks By Albert Cizauskas German (LGM 100) 19 — 7 24 weeks Italian (UT 100) 19 — 7 24 weeks The recent death of Willy Brandt, Portuguese (Brazilian) (LPY 100) 19 — 7 24 weeks former chancellor of Germany, recalled a Spanish (LQB 100) 19 — 7 24 weeks brief encounter my wife had with him over FAMILIARIZATION AND SHORT-TERM (FAST) COURSES 30 years ago. It happened in 1960, shortly Albanian (LAB 200) — — 7 8 weeks after our arrival at the embassy in Bonn, Bulgarian (LBU 200) — — 7 8 weeks where I was assigned as assistant financial French (LFR 200) 19* — 7 8 weeks attache. Our economic minister-counselor, German (LGM 200) — — 7 8 weeks 7 8 weeks Henry Tasca, was leaving for another Hungarian (LHU 200) — — Icelandic (LJC 200) — — 7 6 weeks assignment, and our ambassador, Walter C. Italian (UT 200) 19 — — 8 weeks Dowling, hosted a farewell reception for Norwegian (LNR 200) 19 — — 6 weeks the minister, who was a popular figure in Polish (LPL 200) — — 7 8 weeks the West German capital. Among the Portuguese (Brazilian) (LPY 200) 19 — — 8 weeks guests were the two top persons in the Romanian (LRQ 200) — — 7 8 weeks West German government. Chancellor Russian (LRU 200) — — 7 8 weeks Konrad Adenauer and economics minister Serbo-Croatian (LSC 200) — — 7 8 weeks Ludwig Erhard. Slovak (LSK 200) — — 7 8 weeks Spanish (LQB 200) 19* — 7 8 weeks While I had received intensive training *7 weeks only for this date in German, my wife. Gene, had no such preparation. So I gave her a few simple ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING _ phrases which she might use during the Appropriation law (PA 133) 25 4 days 21 6 weeks evening as a conversational gambit with Budget and financial management (PA 211) 19 — C.O.R. training for equipment procurement the German guests. Husbands and wives (PA 126) — — 14 1 week were never to be seen together at such C.O.R. training for nonpersonal services functions but each was to circulate individ¬ contracts (PA 127) 20 - - 3 days ually to see to it that the citizens of the C.F.M.S. miscellaneous obligations (PA 154) host country were made to feel welcome. (prerequisite: PA 150) — 20 — 2 days Those were the days when the Department C.F.M.S. requisition documents (PA 153) was getting two persons for the price of (prerequisite: PA 150) - 17 - 2 days one. C.F.M.S. system overview and orientation — 13 — 1 day So my wife, dutifully but apprehen¬ (PA 150) — 14 — 1 day sively, began to work the crowd. She saw —{Continued on next page) —{Continued on next page) EDUCATION AND TRAINING

—(Continued from preceding page) —(Continued from preceding page) close by a handsome, distinguished-looking Length Program April May June German standing alone, sipping a cocktail. Undaunted, she went up to him and said Customer service (PA 143) — 20 — 2 days F.S.N. classification and compensation (PA 232) — 17 — 2 weeks bravely: “Ich bin gerade aus Amerika General services operations (PA 221) 5 17 7 12 weeks gekommen." Loosely translated, this 12 24 14 12 weeks means: “I have just recently arrived from 19 31 28 12 weeks America.” The phrase was meant to help How F.A.A.S. works at overseas posts (PA 213) — 19 — 3 days in two ways. It would break the social ice How to be a certifying officer (PA 291) Correspondence course with the guest and warn him that, as a new How to be a contracting officer’s arrival, she was still a neophyte in the host representative (PA t30) Correspondence course language. The guest would then, it was How to write a statement of work (PA 134) Correspondence course hoped, switch into English, in which most Nepa training, domestic operations (PA 129) — 3 — 1 week Management control workshop (PA 137) — — 21 3 days of the official German community in Bonn Overseas cashier’s training (PA 293) Correspondence course was proficient. Overseas cashier’s supervisor’s training (PA 294) Correspondence course The guest my wife addressed smiled Personnel course (PA 231) 26 28 7 weeks graciously but then, to her consternation, Property management training for custodiai proceeded to speak in rapid-fire German. officers (PA 135) — 20 — 2 days She developed a bad case of linguistic CONSULAR TRAINING jitters and couldn’t remember the one or ConGenRosslyn basic consular course (PC 530) Continuous enrollment: 26 days two other phrases to indicate she didn’t as Consular orientation program (PC 105) Continuous enroilment: 6 days yet speak the language of the country. Immigration law and visa operations (PC 102) Correspondence course Instead, she kept repeating: "Ich bin Nationality law and consular procedures gerade aus Amerika gekommen," while the (PC 103) Correspondence course guest continued to jabber away in German. Overseas citizens services (PC 104) Correspondence course After every minute or so, he would pause Passport examiners (PC 110) Correspondence course to look meaningfully at her, as if expecting CURRICULUM AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT TRAINING a response in German. But again, all she Advanced training of instructors (PD 510) 21 — — 3 days could say was the fact that she had just Basic facilitation and delivery workshop (PD 513) 14 5 — 3 days arrived from America. Design and evaluation workshop (PD 511) 7 26 — 3 days After about five minutes of this ECONOMIC TRAINING painful, one-sided exchange, the guest’s Economic tradecraft (PE 124) 1 2 weeks face broke out into a huge smile and he — — 21 2 weeks said: “Please excuse me. 1 do speak Export promotion (PE 125) — — 14 1 week English. But 1 was so attracted by the Lotus for economists (PE 126) — — 28 1 week charming way you informed me, in Science, technology and foreign policy (PG 562) — — 7 1 week perfectly-accented German, that you had Senior commercial course (PE 290) — — 30 2 days just arrived from America, that 1 couldn’t EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT resist the impulse to string you along. I Deputy chiefs of mission (PT 102) 13 2.2 weeks - - apologize for my rudeness. I am the mayor E.E.O. awareness for managers and supervisors of West Berlin, Willy Brandt. And to tell (PT 107) — 20 — 2 days you the truth, I had been bored stiff by this Foreign affairs leadership seminar (PT 119) 25 — — 11 days Introduction to management skills (PT 207) — 10 — 4 days crowd of Christian Democrats until you Performance management seminar (PT 205) 5 — — 2 days came along. Now that we have established 19* — — 2 days the fact that you’ve recently arrived from Washington tradecraft (PT 203) — 3 — 2 weeks America, I hope you’ll stay a while. And * For Bureau of Administration only when you visit Berlin, be sure to say hello INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TRAINING to us Social Democrats. You’ll find us Information management seminar (PS 144) 14 8 weeks much less stuffy than these bureaucrats in Introduction to Lotus 1-2-3 (PS 118) 15 — 17 2 days Bonn.” Introduction to PC and MS-DOS (PS 111) 12 — 14 3 days With that, Willy Brandt kissed by OFFICE MANAGEMENT COURSES wife’s hand in the accepted European Advanced word processing (PK 103) 12 14 2 days manner while she remained rooted to the Advanced WP+ (PK 154) 26 25 21 2 days spot, repeating to herself: "Ich bin gerade Basic WP (PK 129) 1 3 1 2 days aus Amerika gekommen.” □ Basic WP+ (PK 155) 5 5 3 2 days 19 — 7 2 days Better office English (orai) (PK 226) 5 — 7 30 hours Better office English (written) (PK 225) — 3 21 40 hours Safe savvy

—(Continued on next page) The Diplomatic Security Training

42 State Center will offer a course for employees —(Continued from preceding page) who are responsible for changing com¬ Program April May June Length binations on locks. The classes will be on April 15, May Civil Service secretarial training for entering 20, June 17, July 15, August 19, Septem¬ personnel (C.S.-Step) (PK 104) 26 2 weeks ber 16, October 21, November 18 and Decision-processing (PK 152) — 27 — 1 day Effective speaking and listening skills December 16. For information call (703) (PK 240) _ 24 _ 18 hours 204-6100. □ Employee relations (PK 246) 29 — — 2 days Foreign Sen/ice secretarial training (PK 102) — 18 — 13 days Contract courses Glossary (PK 151) 15 13 17 1 day Level 3 Foreign Service secretarial training (PK 302) _ 7 2 weeks are offered Proofreading (PA 143) 22 — — 2 days State Department knowledge, information and The Foreign Service Institute is offer¬ learning for secretaries (Skils) (PK 132) _ 21 4 days ing two classes for employees who have Senior secretarial seminar (PK 111) — 12 — 3 days been designated contracting officers’ Supervisory studies seminar (PK 245) — 17 — 4 days representatives. T.A.T.E.L. (PK 140) 16 7 18 1 day The courses provide training on 21 14 25 1 day nonpersonal services contracts, April 23 28 28 1 day 30 — 29 1 day 20-22, covering small purchases, and Wang office (PK 161) — 21 30 1 day some other procurement actions, and on WP+ transition (PK 153) 7 10 9 1 day equipment procurement, June 14-18, 22 24 23 1 day covering large purchases and dollar ORIENTATION contracts. Department officers (PN 105) 19 18 29 3 days To enroll, send Form DS-755, “Re¬ Foreign Service officers (PG 101) — — 7 9 weeks quest for Training,” to the registrar. Foreign Sen/ice specialists (PN 106) 22 27 — 17 days Foreign Service Institute, B-level, SA-3, Orientation for designated posts (PN 112) 13 — 1 4 days at least one week before the class. For — — 29 4 days information, call (703) 875-5121. □ OVERSEAS BRIEFING CENTER American studies (MQ 115) 13 2 days Safety classes Documenting mobile experiences (MQ 701) — 19 — 1 day Encouraging resilience in the Foreign Service child (MQ 500) 28 _ The Office of Safety/Health and En¬ 1 day English-teaching seminar (MQ 107) 21 — — 3 days vironmental Management is continuing Going overseas (families, singles, couples) lunchtime sessions on video display termi¬ (MQ 200) _ _ 5 1 day nals, chemical hazards, electrical safety, Introduction to effective training skills for the off-the-job hazards and other topics. The Foreign Service spouse (MQ 111) 26 _ _ 1 week classes are limited to 30 participants. To Introduction to Foreign Service life (MQ 100) — 3 — 1 week register, call 647-4302. Life after the Foreign Senrice (MQ 600) — 4 — 2 days Future classes include; June 9— Marketing spouse talents (MQ 702) 1 20 — 1 day electrical safety, September 8—office Post options for employment and training (MQ 703) _ 21 _ 1 day safety, December 8—common chemical Protocol and representational entertaining hazards. ■ (MQ 116) 7 12 _ 1 day Security overseas seminar (MQ 911) 12 10 7 2 days 26 24 14 2 days State-ing the facts — — 21 2 days — — 28 2 days By Barbara Quirk Understanding regulations, allowances and finances in the Foreign Sen/ice context —Has a U.S. attorney general ever (MQ 104) _ 9 3 days served as the acting secretary of state? —This mission’s post report states: PQLITICAL TRAINING Executive-congressional relations (PP 204) 12 _ _ 1 week “Don’t kill lizards in the house. These Foreign affairs interdepartmental seminar welcome guests eat insects.” Which post (PP 101) _ 10 _ 2 weeks is it? Human rights reporting (PP 506) — — 21 1 day —This envoy began his career at State National security and arms control as a communications clerk. Who is the (PP 203) 26 _ _ 1 week ambassador? Negotiating art and skills (PP 501) — 10 21 1 week Political tradecraft (PP 202) — — 7 3 weeks (Answers on Page 59) □ Workers’ rights reporting (PP 504) — — 14 2 days ■ BUREAU NOTES

mission JAMES COLLINS; BARRY Mc- the princess of Thailand and the foreign minister THE SEVENTH CAFFREY, Joint Chiefs of Staff; National of Belgium. Security Council staff member MARTIN IN- Protocol officer CHRISTINE HATHA¬ FLOOR DYK; and GEMAL HELAL, Language Services WAY, with the assistance of program specialist Division. □ TANYA TURNER-SANDERS, handled arrange¬ Office of the Secretary ments for the modified official working visit of the prime minister of Canada, which was the Nuclear Risk first official visit from a foreign official during SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER traveled to the Clinton administration ... Ms. Hathaway was Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Riyadh, Kuwait, Tel Reduction Center also responsible for work on the private visits of Aviv, Jerusalem, Geneva and Brussels, February the president of Turkey, and the foreign 17-26, to meet with participants in the Middle Deputy staff director RON WILLIAMS, ministers of Canada, Japan and Israel. East peace talks, to meet with the Russian accompanied by senior staff officer RICH Press officer MARY MASSCRINI coordi¬ foreign minister in Geneva, and to attend the STEPHENSON and systems administrator NED nated press arrangements with the White Hou.se North Atlantic Council ministerial session in WILLIAMS, led a delegation to The Hague, for the visit of the foreign minister of Germany, Brussels. Accompanying him were his executive January 21-22, to discuss technical issues the prime minister of Canada, the president of assistant, ELIZABETH JONES; special assistant concerning the communications network which Turkey, the foreign minister of Japan, and the CARLENE ACKERMAN; his senior adviser on links all members of the Conference on Security prime minister of the United Kingdom ... Gifts the Middle East, DENNIS ROSS, and personal and Cooperation in Europe for arms control officer CONSTANCE DIERMAN prepared offi¬ assistant LIZ LINEBERRY; deputy executive notifications. The center is playing a role in cial gifts for the visits of the Canadian and secretary ROSS WILSON; SAMUEL LEWIS, securing international agreement on U.S. pro¬ British prime ministers ... In addition, she consultant to the Secretary, and a member of the posals for standard operating procedures essen¬ prepared all official gifts for SECRETARY Policy Planning Staff, AARON MILLER; the tial to improve the network reliability. □ CHRISTOPHER’S trip to the Middle East and executive director. Executive Secretariat LYN¬ Europe. WOOD M. DENT; Secretariat Staff officer Protocol Office The following events were coordinated by EUGENE TADIE and line assistant AMY the ceremonials division: A luncheon hosted by LINDSEY; LYNN SWEENEY, computer sys¬ Protocol officer RANDY BUMGARDNER Secretary Christopher in the James Madison tems speciali.st; the acting assistant secretary for was resjxinsible for work on the private visits of Room in honor of H.E. KLAUS KINKEL, public affairs, RICHARD BOUCHER, and the prime minister of Barbados, the foreign minister of foreign affairs of Germany, a members of his staff, MARY ELLEN GLYNN minister of Germany, the president of Haiti, the luncheon hosted by the Secretary in honor of and JUDITH WEBSTER; a consultant to the Prince of Wales, the foreign minister of H.E. MICHIO WATANABE, minister of foreign Secretary, THOMAS DONILON; the assistant Denmark and the prime minister of the United affairs of Japan, and the diplomatic corps secretary for European affairs, THOMAS Kingdom ... Protocol officer PATRICK DALY attendance at the President’s address to the joint NILES; the assistant secretary for Near Eastern was responsible for work on the private visits of session of Congress. These events were coordi¬ and South Asian affairs and his deputy, nated by APRIL GUICE, KIM TOWNSEND, DANIEL KURTZER; Moscow deputy chief of DEE LILLY, RICHARD PAULUS and JOHNNA WRIGHT. Working with the presidential inaugural committee. Protocol staff members RICHARD GOOKIN, LAWRENCE DUNHAM, LYNNE MILLER, BARBARA ADAMS and JILL SYKES headed Protocol teams which coordi¬ nated participation of foreign diplomats in the principal inaugural events ... Mr. Daly accom¬ panied the family and the remains of the late ambassador of the Philippines to Manila, aboard a special U.S. Air Force flight. The ambassador died at post in Washington on January 25 ... Visits officers Daly, Hathaway and Bumgardner made arrangements for visits of the first high- ranking leaders to be invited by the new administration, including those of the Canadian and British prime ministers. □ ADMINISTRATION Office of Operations

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY— Executive Secretariat, for their directing of a Office of Allowances: On February 4 Executive Secretary W. Robert Pearson, support staff which is reported to have educational allowance specialist LAVERNE second from right, presents group Superior received, recorded, proofed, edited and dis¬ WHITE gave a presentation on education Honor Award to Samuel McElhaney, Charles tributed some 32,591 pieces of official corre¬ allowances at a seminar for parents of children Jackson and Harlee Wood, shift supervisors spondence for the Secretary and other with special learning needs ... The chief of the in the Records Management Division of the principal officers in the Department. Measurement and Development Division,

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Clinton publicly commended Ms. Wolter on television for her performance as interpreter ... GAMAL HELAL and PETER AFANASENKO accompanied Secretary Christopher to the Mid¬ dle East and Geneva ... GISELA MARCUSE assisted Mr. Clinton and Mr. Christopher during a visit by the German foreign minister. Office of Safety, Health and Environmen¬ tal Management: DAVID NEEDHAM attended the quarterly meeting of the interagency commit¬ tee on indoor air quality, to discuss the recent Environmental Protection Agency report on environmental tobacco smoke ... He also attended a symposium on health hazards associ¬ ated with extremely low-ffequency radiation ... KEN DOOLAN provided assistance to the government of Ecuador concerning lead hazards and regulations ... The office hosted the February meeting of the Federal Safety and Health Council, attended by over 50 representa¬ BUREAU OF ADMINISTRATION— itorious Honor Award to Nicholas Fotinos tives from various federal agencies ... STEVE The director of the Office of Facilities (center, left) and Calvin Dubose for their URMAN briefed Bureau of Near Eastern and Management and Support Services, Richard performance on development and implemen¬ South Asian Affairs post management officers Iselin (left) and State Department building tation of the vehicle licensing and inspection on safety, health, and environmental initiatives manager Frank Bright (right) present Mer- program. and assistance projects. Office of Supply and Transportation: BEN SMITH, director of supply and transportation, JUANITA STOKES, and special projects officer Office of Language Services: PRESIDENT has received a Superior Honor Award for his BETTY STEWART met with officials of the CLINTON’S address to Congress on February 17 administrative management. □ Canadian government to discuss the methodol¬ was interpreted into six languages on live ogy used in establishing worldwide per diem television, by DIMITRI ARENSBURGER, Information Management rates for U.S. Government iravelers. MARCEL BOUQUET and DIMITRY Office of Facilities Management and Sup¬ ZARECHNAK ... RUTH CLINE, JAMES Systems Operations: Deputy assistant secre¬ port Services: CALVIN DUBOSE and NICK FEENEY, MARISE LASHLEY and JOSEPH tary WARREN E. LITTREL traveled to Bonn, FOTINOS received Meritorious Honor Awards MAZZA translated letters from leaders around Paris, Brussels and Rabat on consultations ... for their development and implementation of the the world for President Clinton and SECRE¬ JOHN DIXON traveled to San Diego to vehicle licensing and inspection program. The TARY CHRISTOPHER ... PATSY ARIZU, participate in a recruitment job fair ... ROBERT program, designed to reduce damage to the MARCEL BOUQUET, HARRY OBST, STE¬ HEATER attended a telephone course in San building resulting from the careless operation of PHANIE VAN REIGERSBERG, CAROL WOL- Diego ... ANDREW HOFF and JOHN WOOD- carts and vehicles, has resulted in substantial TER and DIMITRY ZARECHNAK assisted the LEY provided technical support during the savings to the Government, the bureau reported. President with calls to foreign leaders. Mr. Secretary’s Middle East trip ... Foreign Opera¬ tions director SIDNEY REEVES traveled to

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE—At Blankenship, Karachi; Brad Summers, Nai- Military Affairs; Carey SorrelL Riyadh; Pete graduation of the information systems man- robi; Mac McMillian, Frankfurt; Jeff Hill, Maher, Seoul; Gayle Goodwin, Taipei; Pat agement training class, left to right: B.T. Bangkok; Larry Lopez, Tegucigalpa; Cheri Meagher, Miami; Mark Wheatley, Steve Marking; Jerome Patterson, Beijing; Bob Stephan, Warsaw; Jim Cleveland, Politico- Williams.

April 1993 BUREAU NOTES

Cairo, Amman, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to review information management issues with post and information management personnel ... The following were detailed in support of the Secretary’s trip to the Middle East and Europe: SANDRA K. SMITH, DOUGLAS J. GOOD- GION, CARL J. GIAMPIETRO, ROBERT WEBB, DOUGLAS RENO, GLYNN WILHELM, LUCELOUS BETTS JR., GRELL T. BUSHELLE, JEFFREY L. ECKERT, TIM BYRD, ROBERT M. LAKE, ARTHUR DAY, WILLIAM T. McMANUS, MICHAEL L. NELSON, STEVEN M. WILSON, JOSEPH DONAHAY, WILLIAM R. PRESPARE, AN¬ DREW C. HOFF, JOHN B. YEAGER, LEE GODFREY, JOHN D. WOODLEY, SHANE KROHNE, JOEL KLEIMAN, JIMMY WOG- CIECHEWKSI, ANDY HARVEY, DAVID CHINN, LEO PENN and WILLIAM HORN. NIAMEY, Niger—David Litt, deputy Information Services: PHILIP TINNEY chief of mission, receives Meritorious Honor traveled to San Francisco and Arizona to attend Award from Ambassador Jennifer C. Ward. information systems .seminars. Planning and Development: STEVE HOLMBERG traveled to Brussels and Moscow for equipment installations. □ BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau—General serv¬ students at Georgetown on “The Challenge in ices officer Penelope Rogers receives Mer¬ Africa Facing the New Administration ... itorious Honor Award from Ambassador Deputy assistant .secretary ROBERT HOUDEK Roger McGuire. participated in a February 11 conference on AFRICAN AFFAIRS Somalia sponsored by the Foreign Service Institute and, later that evening, attended the Office of the Assistant Secretary: Assistant Secretary CHESTER CROCKER ... On Febru¬ Djiboutian ambassador’s dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Secretary HERMAN J. COHEN attended the ary 17 he flew to Atlanta to attend the Carter Cohen ... On February 17 he testified on Center’s International Negotiation Network Con¬ African Development Foundation’s annual Somalia before the House foreign affairs sub¬ awards dinner, February 1 ... On February 3-8 ference ... On February 22-25 he traveled to committee on Africa ... Deputy assistant secre¬ he traveled to Brussels and Paris ... He attended London and Lisbon. tary JOHN BYERLY attended a briefing at the a farewell dinner for the Nigerian ambassador, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretaries: National War College, February 8 ... On February 10 ... He spoke at the National War Principal deputy assi.stant secretary JEFFREY February 9 he attended a reception hosted by the College and addressed a conference at the DAVIDOW attended a meeting of the Africa Guinean ambassador. Foreign Service Institute, on Somalia, February Business Council, February 3 ... On February 11 Office of Central African Affairs: Director 11 ... Later, Mr. Cohen and his wife were the he attended the Portuguese ambassador’s dinner ROBERT M. PRINGLE visited Brussels, Paris, guests of honor at a dinner hosted by the in honor of Mr. Cohen ... Mr. Davidow attended Malabo, Douala, Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Portuguese ambassador ... On February 12 Mr. a luncheon in honor of Mozambican Bishop Ndjamena, February 3-19 ... On January 14 and Mrs. Cohen were honored at a dinner hosted DON JAIME GONCALVES, February 17 ... On desk officers BILL JACKSON (Mozambique) by the Djiboutian ambassador ... On February February 19 he traveled to Carlisle, Pa., to and CAROL FULLER (Rwanda) briefed stu¬ 16 he attended a luncheon hosted by the south address a class at the Army War College ... On dents from Potomac School who were represent¬ February 23 he spoke to second-year graduate African ambassador in honor of former Assistant ing those countries at the model United Nations program. Office of Southern African Affairs: ALAN YU, country officer for Namibia and South Africa, traveled in the region on his orientation trip, January 27-February 20 ... ANDREW PARKER, country officer for Zimbabwe, escorted two Zimbabwe officials, February 16-17, for Foreign Service Institute briefings. They are planning the expansion of Zimbabwe’s diplomatic training program. Honors and awards: Mr. Cohen hosted award ceremonies on January 27 and February 19, honoring the following employees: Superior Honor Award to JOHN GILMORE FOX, political officer, Mogadishu, Somalia, for his reporting “under one of the most difficult circumstances in the Foreign Service”; for support of the air movement of LUANDA, Angola—At award ceremony Morse, Mary Speer, Jeffrey Millington, As¬ U.S. security forces into Mogadishu; for contri¬ in this southern African country on the west sistant Secretary Herman Cohen; Edmund butions to ‘Operation Provide Relief to save coast of the continent, left to right: Steven Dejarnette, Anthony Newton. Somalia from starvation, and for efforts to

46 State promote Somali reconciliation. Association .,. Mr. Holmes traveled to Superior Honor Award to ALISON P. Strasbourg, France, for a March 3-4 meeting on ROSENBERG, now assistant administrator for visa practices, sponsored by the Vienna Group African affairs, A.I.D. She was honored for her of the Council of Europe ... He followed up previous performance as deputy assistant secre¬ with a visit to the U.S. embassy in Paris to tary for African affairs. The award said; “She review visa operations ... CORNELIUS D. married foreign policy objectives and U.S. SCULLY, director. Office of Legislation, Reg¬ assistance programs to provide technical, finan¬ ulations and Advisory Opinions, participated in cial and moral support for evolving African a Capitol Hill panel organized by the Commis¬ democracies. Through leadership, intellect and sion on Immigration Reform, February 26, exemplary teamwork, Ms. Rosenberg put the concerning unskilled alien workers, including United States in the forefront in fostering nannies and home health care workers .., On democratic change in Afnca, significantly alter¬ March 1 he traveled to New York to participate ing U.S. foreign assistance to advance American V in a dinner meeting sponsored by the New policy and values.” U York chapter of the American Immigration Superior Honor Award to ALAN R. Lawyers Association ... On March 10 DAVID McKEE for his service as director. Office of BLOCH, director. Office of Public and Diplo¬ Anglophone and Lusophone West African Af¬ matic Liaison, traveled to Artesia, N.M., to fairs, 1991-93, during which he “advanced” participate in an Immigration and Naturaliza¬ U.S. policy objectives in support of conflict tion Service training program for new immigra¬ resolution in Liberia.” LJUBLJANA, Slovenia—The minister of tion information officers. He discussed the role Superior Honor Award to CHARLES foreign affairs, Dmitri Rupel, receives the of the Department in worldwide visa services GURNEY for his service as country officer for first visa from the American embassy from ... STEPHEN K. FISCHEL, director. Legisla¬ Liberia, 1991-93, and for “advancing U.S. David Ball, consul, left, (Photo by Srdan tion and Regulations Division, was in Miami, interests and generating significant American Zivulovic) February 25-26, to speak at the Florida Bar support for West African peace-keeping and Association’s 14th annual immigration law conflict resolution efforts.” update session ... On March 9 he traveled to Superior Honor Award to KARL OLSON Following the conference, Mr. Adams partici¬ San Jose for an American Immigration Lawyers for his performance as country officer for Sierra pated in a national seminar sponsored by the Association chapter conference ... EDWARD Leone and The Gambia and assistant country American Immigration Lawyers Association, FAJARDO has joined the staff of the Advisory officer for Nigeria, 1991-93, and on the February 19-20, then visited Tijuana to review Opinions Division ... TROY PEDERSON has Department task force that managed the depar¬ visa operations ... On February 24-25 he joined the staff of the Legislation and Regula¬ ture of 438 U.S. nationals from Sierra Leone returned to Los Angeles for meetings with tions Division. following a coup d’etat. World Cup soccer officials. Passport Services: In February the Stam¬ Before leaving the Department, former Visa Services: On February 24 BROOKE ford Passport Agency completed the installation Secretary Eagleburger approved Certificates of C. HOLMES, associate director, and EDWARD and training of personnel on a new travel Appreciation for Embassies Kishasa, Luanda and ODOM, Advisory Opinions Division, partici¬ documents-issuing computer system, for issuing Monrovia. pated in a panel sponsored by the Washington machine-readable passports ... HANS A group Superior Honor Award went to the chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers MAURER, fraud program coordinator there, U.S. liaison office in Luanda, Angola, for a was guest speaker at an area meeting of performance “under unusually dangerous cir¬ probate court judges to discuss mutual concerns cumstances during October 31-November 13, and updates on passport services ... Stamford which required exceptional personal bravery and perseverance to complete an assignment.” □

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Front Office: JAMES L. WARD, acting assistant secretary, traveled to Los Angeles, February 16-18, to host a miniconsular con¬ ference with section chiefs from Pacific Rim posts. Attending from the Department were DAVID HOBBS, deputy assistant secretary for overseas citizens services; DONNA HAMILTON, the bureau’s deputy executive director; JOHN ADAMS, deputy assistant secretary for visa .services; and EDWARD ODOM, Advisory Opinions Division, Visa HOUSTON—Passport agency regional Office. Other participants were BERNADETTE TIJUANA, Mexico—Da/e Rumbarger, director William G. Malcomson, left, and ALLEN from Guangzhou, BRUCE center, chief of the immigrant visa unit, fraud program coordinator Sylvia Eisele, BEARDSLEY from Manila, JOHN NAY from receives Superior Honor Award from Edwin right, present Certificate of Appreciation to Taipei, JOHN RATIGAN from Seoul and Cubbison, consul general. With them is the former Federal Bureau of Investigation RICHARD WILLIAMS from Hong Kong ,.. Robin Rumbarger. liaison officer, Nancy Voltz Lessig. BUREAU NOTES

welcomed its new assistant regional director, VICKIE HUSS, formerly in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security ... JEFF NAJARIAN, regional director in Stamford, attended an observance of Black History Month hosted by the Connecticut Federal Executive Association in Hartford ... In February the Los Angeles Passport Agency welcomed new passport ex¬ aminers BILL PENN, KATHY SAMESHIMA, and MICHELLE ZAGER ... In February BARBARA BROPHY, acceptance agents’ co¬ ordinator Los Angeles, conducted a half-day training class in passport acceptance procedures for new acceptance agents at the Alhambra Post Office in Alhambra, Calif... She traveled to the main post office in El Monte to observe and discuss passport acceptance procedures with acceptance agents at that postal facility. Fraud Prevention Programs: On February SINGAPORE—Dudley DeMornay, cen- L. Boyce Jr., left, and Ambassador Jon M. 9-10 ROBERT TSUKAYAMA taught two ter, retires after 36 years in the budget and Huntsman Jr. Standing, left to right: Sharon classes of inspectors from the Immigration and fiscal ofTice of this South Asian embassy. Toh, Jyah Lachami, James Basso, Caren Naturalization Service at Artesia, N.M... With him are deputy chief of mission Ralph Chern, Simon Teo, Siti Roseri. ANNE AGUILERA traveled to San Salvador, February 22-26, to conduct a joint State Department/Immigration and Naturalization assistant secretary of the bureau on March 1. Service antifraud and antismuggling con¬ He replaced CLARK M. DITTMER ... ference, for posts in Central America ... FLETCHER DAVIS, branch chief for the Following the conference, Ms. Aguilera con¬ clearance/readjudications section, traveled to ducted crisis management training in conjunc¬ Richmond to participate in an interagency tion with the Foreign Service Institute. review of the Defense Security Institute curric¬ Office of the Executive Director: From ulum, for potential use in all U.S. Government February 2-10 FRANCES JONES, management security personnel training ... LARRY Mc- analyst, attended a consular conference in CULLEN SR. is the new chief of the applicant Warsaw and visited U.S. embassies in Prague branch in the Personnel Security/Suitability and Bratislava. □ Division ... KEVIN HUSKA, JUSTINE SIN- CAVAGE and AURELIA FEDENISN, from the Special Investigations Branch, attended a sex crimes investigations course at the Prince DIPLOMATIC George’s County (Md.) Police Department ... MARLA TOLBERT has joined the staff of the SECURITY Counterterrorism Division. Emergency Plans and Exercises: BEN¬ Diplomatic Security Service: MARK E. JAMIN C. RUNNER JR., chief. Crisis Man¬ MULVEY became the new Diplomatic Security agement Exercise Division, was awarded the Service director and the principal deputy Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, in a ceremony at the Pen¬ tagon. He received the award for serving as special assistant for combatting terrorism from July 1989 to last August. Resource Management: RUDY HALL is the new director of the Office of Security Administration. He replaced JOHN COLLINS, who has left for training prior to his assign¬ ment in Pretoria ... MARGIE OZIER is the CANBERRA, Australia—Deputy chief new chief of the Personnel Management of mission Marilyn E. Meyers is presented a Division. She replaced CLARA ALEXANDER, group Meritorious Honor Award by Ambas¬ who retired in December. □ sador Melvin Sembler, on behalf of the employees of the embassy. EAST ASIAN AND relations ... BRIAN WOO, Australia desk PACIFIC AFFAIRS officer, traveled to Honolulu as a member of DUBLIN, Ireland—Ambassador William the U.S. delegation to the annual U.S.-Australia H.G. FitzGerald presents meritorious service Deputy assistant secretary KENNETH M. politico-military talks, February 18-19 ... On increase to regional security officer Todd M. QUINN attended a conference sponsored by the February 16 the deputy director of the Office Keil. Aspen Institute, in Hawaii, on U.S.-Vietnam of Freely Associated States, BILL BARKELL,

48 State director of the office, chaired the U.S. delega¬ tion in civil aviation consultations with Argen¬ tina, in Washington ... TOM MARTIN chaired the U.S. delegation in the second round of negotiations with Russia, in London. The deputy director of the Office of Maritime and Land Transport, BRUCE CAR¬ TER, participated in negotiations to revise the U.S.-Mexico charter/tour bus memorandum of understanding, in Washington ... STEPHEN M. MILLER, same office, represented the United States at a meeting in Paris between member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and officials from eastern Europe and republics of the former Soviet Union. The participants dis¬ cussed a proposed framework of common shipping policies. Ms. Corbett chaired consultations with the European Community commission in Brussels on computer reservation systems, and other technical issues ... She chaired talks with Spain to renegotiate the agreement on the Federal Aviation Administration assistance pro¬ gram in Spain. SYDNEY, Australia—At award cere¬ Denise Kelly Slocombe, Diana Armstrong, LARRY ROEDER, chief of licensing. mony for U.S. Travel and Tourism Admin¬ consul general Greg Bujac, Monique Roos, Office of East-west Trade, gave a speech, istration personnel, from left: Jan Rook, Dan Young. March 1, to Commerce Department licensing officials. The purpose was to explain how the economic bureau manages economic sanctions for State. Mr. Roeder supervises the licensing portion of the sanctions, and is frequently ECONOMIC called upon to provide policy advice on the development of sanctions, such as the UN AND BUSINESS embargo on Iraq, the bureau said. Covered were Commerce and Treasury Department AFFAIRS licensing regimes, where the law requires a State Department review, i.e. Libya, Iran, Iraq, The deputy assistant secretary for trans¬ Serbia, Vietnam, Haiti, human rights. South portation affairs, JAMES R. TARRANT, met Africa, Syria and Cuba. A sharp distinction with PIERRE GOURGEON, director general of was drawn between these sanctions and se¬ French civil aviation, February 9, and curity controls restricting trade in civil indus¬ LOTHAR IBRUGGER, a .senior member of trial products useful in proliferation and missile German parliament transport committee, Febru¬ development. Considerable discussion was also ary 23, to discuss civil aviation issues ... The directed at using computer technology in special negotiator for transportation affairs, licensing and policy development. At one point CARL C. CUNDIFF, chaired interagency talks Mr. Roeder explained an East-West Trade TOKYO, Japan—At retirement cere¬ in Tokyo on the U.S.-Japanese bilateral avia¬ experiment with a new relational database mony, from left: Walter H. Sargent, regional tion relationship, including discussions on software package called "Access.” The office security officer; Hideo Takamoto, security United Airlines’ unfair competition complaint hopes to develop a system of computer¬ investigator who is retiring after 40 years; against the Japanese government ... Mr. generated reports that quickly show policy¬ Ambassador Michael H. Armacost. Cundiff and PAUL SCHLAMM, deputy direc¬ makers where weaknesses exist in sanctions tor, Office of Aviation Programs and Policy, management. traveled on short notice to Kwajalein Island in participated in an Asian-Pacific Economic STEPHEN R. GIBSON, director. Office of the Marshall Islands to coordinate U.S. Gov¬ Cooperation working group meeting in Wash¬ Investment Affairs, and CHRIS BEEDE, finan¬ ernment activities leading to the repatriation of ington, February 18-19 ... Mr. Cundiff chaired cial economist, met with a Mongolian govern¬ over 500 Chinese migrants to China. U.S.-Japanese talks in Wa.shington, February ment delegation, February 26, to review issues On January 27 the China/Mongolia Office 25, to discuss United’s competition complaint. in the bilateral investment treaty negotiations paid tribute to CONNIE DENINO, whose JOAN CORBETT, director. Office of ... Deputy office director JACK CRODDY led career spans many Secretaries and ambas¬ Aviation Programs and Policy, chaired an the U.S. delegation to the February 1-6 sadors. Former Secretary Eagleburger summed interagency delegation which held consultations Working Group II negotiations on the Euro¬ it up in the inscription on his autographed with the United Kingdom, February 25-26, on pean energy charter basic agreement, in photo, which was presented to her: “Congrat¬ airport fees ... On February 8-9 THOMAS H. Brussels ... He participated in the February ulations on over 40 years—You even beat MARTIN, director. Office of Aviation Negotia¬ 22-26 negotiations in Brussels on the invest¬ me.” ... Former office director HARRY tions, led the U.S. delegation in civil aviation ment provisions of the agreement. THAYER presided over a reception in her consultations in Sydney, Australia ... On HOWARD LANGE, director, and CURT honor. □ February 23-25 SAMUEL V. SMITH, deputy STONE, deputy director. Office of Intellectual

April 1993 49 Property and Competition, traveled to the west program, departed for Miami for liaison with NINGHAM, CD-ROM project manager, and coast to discuss protection of copyrighted the foreign consular community there and to their staff are assisting in this project. They material with several sound-recording, motion advance compliance with the Department’s said they hope to make post and cultural picture and computer software firms ... In late vehicle registration and insurance standards. information available to all foreign affairs February Mr. Lange participated in consulta¬ Accompanying him were DORIS CARTER, employees and their family members around tions on intellectual property protection with BLAIR TOWNSEND and TIMOTHY BECK- the world. government officials in Rome and in Madrid ... LER ... On February 24-25 Chicago regional School of Language Studies: Three Indo¬ In Brussels he took part in discussions with 12 director DENISE DUCLON visited Washington nesian students, PHIL ANTWEILER, NORM other countries on possible new international for consultations and training ... On March 2 HASTINGS and ED FENDLEY, and instructor agreements on copyrights ... STEPHEN KEAT, ELLEN RICE, financial management analyst JIJIS CHADRAN went to an offsite program same office, was part of the U.S. delegation to and, recently, project manager for the Unisys sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, the February meetings of the Organization for Corp., was presented an award as “Quality January 27-29. Activities included discussions Economic Cooperation and Development com¬ Employee of the Month,” for her contributions of current events, Indonesian-U.S. relations, mittee on competition law and policy. to the Office of Foreign Missions over the trade, political developments and cultural WILLIAM PLUMMER has joined the years. She is departing to take up a position for topics. Special Trade Activities Division. □ Unisys in Australia. □ School of Area Studies: Dean RICHARD JACKSON was accompanied by institute direc¬ tor LARRY TAYLOR, deputy director JOHN SPROTT and CANDICE HUNT of the School FOREIGN of Language Studies to a February 16 offsite FOREIGN conference at Camp Perry, Va., with the intelligence community training consortium ... MISSIONS SERVICE MARGARET SARLES, chairwoman for Latin America and the Caribbean, gave a presentation OFFICE INSTITUTE on democratization in Brazil, at the Army War College, Carlisle, Pa., February 3 ... KEN¬ The acting director, HARRY W. PORTER Overseas Briefing Center: An initiative by DALL MYERS, coordinator of European stud¬ III, traveled to New York, February 18, for the center is leading to the digitization of ies, co-hosted with the Central Intelligence routine liaison with the regional office and information in the center’s culture guide Agency an all-day conference on France, related meetings at the U.S. mission to the collection. This automation project, led by February 19 ... HANNAH BALDWIN, deputy United Nations ... JACKIE ROBINSON, dep¬ information specialist JEAN FRAN WEBB, is Africa chairwoman, departed February 17 as an uty director of the diplomatic motor vehicle targeted at transferring the culture guide official National Democracy Institute observer program, traveled to Los Angeles and San information to CD-ROM disks. This is a joint for the Senegalese presidential elections, and Francisco, February 7-14, for consultations project between the center and the Office of was to attend a March 15-20 conference in with the regional offices there and to provide Information Management. The CD-ROM disks Bamako, Mali ... PETER BECHTOLD, Near training in the automated system ... On would join existing Infoexpress CD-ROM East/North Africa chairman, attended a Febru¬ February 20 a task force headed by JOSEPH products, which include the post reports. ary 19 symposium on narcotics patterns and WARNER, director of the motor vehicle LINDA COBLE, director of management infor¬ control in the Middle East, at Meridian House. mation systems, and CHARLES CUN¬ School of Professional Studies: A two-

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE—At sional Studies, left to right: James Marino; Neiberger; Ronald Tate; Brad Updegrove; ceremony that is held to honor adjunct Paula Lettice; Charles Lyons; Carol Bennett; Charles Massie; Eileen Verity; Azucena Vas- faculty members in the Administrative Daniel Webber; Gloria Kirk; Lawrence Tay- quez; JoAnne Wright; David Bleyle, director Training Division of the School of Profes- lor, director of the institute; Joseph of the division.

50 State week training program for 30 Albanian diplo¬ C. LOVELADY, participated in an “Ethics, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Additional field mats, in basic diplomatic tradecraft, was Security and the New World Order” con¬ offices and resident agent offices are scheduled conducted by DAWN FRICK and JIM MOR¬ ference. It was sponsored by the Carnegie for upcoming visits ... For an ongoing audit of TON in Tirana, Albania. Ten of the partici¬ Council on Ethics and International Affairs and technical security, a team visited Beijing, pants subsequently enrolled in the five-week the Ethics Training Roundtable, an ad hoc, Taipei and Seoul. Another team working on the pilot training program for foreign diplomats interagency group of individuals from the same audit traveled to Havana, Buenos Aires, given at the institute. The program is part of national security establishment who have re¬ Pretoria, Johannesburg and Windhoek ... The the eastern European democratic initiative sponsibilities for ethics education and training. division issued reports on special protective program funded by A.I.D... The director of The conference was held at National Defense equipment, counterintelligence and domestic orientation, JOHN LIMBERT, attended a con¬ University, Fort McNair, Washington, February telephone security ... Other audits, concerning ference on “Ethics, Security and the New 11-12 ... Mr. Funk spoke at the university’s the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, se¬ World Order,” at National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Febru¬ curity costs at low and medium-threat posts February 11-12 ... On January 25 ary 25, on ethics in government. and the Local Guard Program, are in the THOMASINE HURD joined the office man¬ JOHN DEERING, director. Financial Man¬ works. □ agement training unit as the Civil Service agement Division, Office of Audits, attended secretarial instructor. She will direct all secre¬ the foreign affairs leadership seminar spon¬ tarial courses ... On February 7 ELVA LARA sored by the Foreign Service Institute, in joined the unit as an office assistant. □ Hedgesville, W.Va... STEVEN R. PINARD of INTELLIGENCE the division spoke to the budget and fiscal officer training class at the institute in Febru¬ AND RESEARCH ary. He discussed past and ongoing audits, as HUMAN RIGHTS well as the role of the inspector general in the Office of Intelligence Uaison: On January Department ... The Office of Audits has 12 deputy director JON M. GIBNEY was AND published a report on U.S. efforts to reduce awarded the National Intelligence Medal of heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia and a Achievement by the director of central intel¬ HUMANITARIAN report on the Foreign Service national retire¬ ligence, ROBERT GATES, for his work on ment system ... MICHAEL J. KOPECKY was intelligence coordination issues. AFFAIRS awarded the designation of certified internal Office of Analysis for the Commonwealth auditor in February, by the Institute of Internal and Eastern Europe: MARTHA MAUTNER, Deputy assistant secretary NANCY ELY- Auditots, a professional association represent¬ deputy director, addressed the Presidential Class¬ RAPHEL addressed the Presidential Classroom, ing auditors in business, industry, government room Assembly, on the making of foreign February 18, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium, and education in more than 100 countries. policy, February 21, and the board of the on the Department’s role in foreign policy. The The Special Operations Review Team National Council of Catholic Women, on U.S. address was followed by a question-and-answer performed special reviews of management policy toward the former Soviet Union, January period ... Senior policy adviser GEORGE controls at Embassy Beirut, the Foreign Affairs 25 ... JOHN PARKER, division chief, spoke at LISTER met with 35 Latin American evangeli¬ Recreation Association and the Los Angeles National Defense University on central Asia and cal political leaders, February 18, to discuss and Miami Passport Agencies. Azerbaijan, February 9 ... JOHN WESTERN, U.S. human rights policy. The meeting was Division directors WILLIAM N. CRANE analyst, addressed Foreign Service Institute’s requested by the Institute on Religion and and DENIS SPELLMAN, Office of Investiga¬ European area studies course, on Polish develop¬ Democracy ... The director of the Office of tions, attended a seminar sponsored by the ments, February 10. Bilateral Affairs, YVONNE THAYER, spoke Federal Computer Investigations Committee in Office of Economic Analysis: TERENCE on U.S. human rights policy at the U.S.I.A. Cocoa Beach, Ra. The seminar included BYRNE, deputy director, attended annual meet¬ junior officers training program. She discussed presentations by representatives of the Victoria, ings of the American Economic Association in human rights developments in Georgia and Australia, state police on their experiences with Anaheim, Calif., January 5-7. Hungary, on Voice of America and local radio computer fraud ... Criminal investigator Office of Analysis for East Asia and the programs ... KAREN KRUEGER, deputy DAVID B. SMITH coached new special agents Pacific: Indo-China analyst STEPHEN director. Office of Multilateral Affairs, was in in the inspector general basic training program JOHNSON and Thailand analyst RICHARD Geneva, February 1-March 12, as a member of at the Federal Law Enforcement Training APPLETON lectured before the Foreign Service the U.S. delegation to the UN Human Rights Center in Glynco, Ga. Mr. Funk was the Institute area studies class, on the situations in Commission. □ speaker at the graduation ceremony. Indochina and Thailand, February 3 and 5, The assistant inspector general for security respectively ... Deputy director JOHN KELLEY oversight, TERENCE SHEA, and deputy assist¬ and Japan/Russia analyst RICHARD DE VIL- ant inspector general DON NORMAN gave a LAFRANCA participated in a Japan roundtable INSPECTOR presentation on the organization and functions symposium on U.S. and Japanese policies of the Office of Inspector General to a class of toward the former Soviet Union, February 25, at GENERAL’S new Civil Service employees ... Mr. Norman, the Brookings Institution ... Mr. Kelley set up accompanied by Inspections Division chief an impromptu exchange of views, January 28, at OFFICE DENNIS O’HARE, gave a similar presentation the Department, on the Southeast Asia security to the Foreign Service specialist orientation environment, with National Bureau of Asian Inspector general SHERMAN M. FUNK class ... Security oversight inspections were Research director RICHARD ELLINGS and and deputy inspector general ROSCOE S. conducted in February and March at the Professors DONALD EMMERSON (University SUDDARTH attended the third annual con¬ embassies in N’Djamena, Dar es Salaam, of Wisconsin), WILLIAM TURLEY (University ference of inspectors general of the United Kingston and Georgetown, and a compliance of Southern Illinois) and SHELDON SIMON States, at Annapolis, February 17-19 .,. Mr. followup review was conducted of Embassy (University of Arizona) ... East Asia bureau Suddarth, with the assistant inspectors general Seoul ... Audits Division staffers are conduct¬ deputy assistant secretaries KENNETH QUINN for inspections, CLYDE TAYLOR, and for ing an audit of Diplomatic Security field and DONALD WESTMORE and several East plans, programs, and management, BEVERLY offices, visiting field offices in Miami, Boston, Asia bureau office directors participated, with

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BUREAU NOTES

Intelligence and Research East Asia and Pacific acting office director PAULA CAUSEY and analysts REX-MARC PATTERSON, DORO¬ THY AVERY and KATHERINE KERR, in a wide-ranging discussion ... China analyst CHRISTOPHER CLARKE spoke on Chinese leadership, to the 1993 forecast meeting of the U.S.-China Business Council, January 26 ... Northeast Asia Division chief ROBERT CAR¬ LIN and analysts JOHN MERRILL and STE¬ PHEN FLEISCHMANN received intelligence community awards, January 12, for their analysis on North Korea ... Korea analyst AMY HYATT participated in a conference on East Asia at Penn State, with policy-makers and scholars from Korea, Taiwan, Russia and the United States ... Japan analyst WILLIAM BROOKS traveled to Seoul, Korea, January 6-10, to participate in a Center for Su-ategic International Studies-sponsored trilateral conference on prob¬ MEXICO CITY—At award ceremony, lems in Northeast Asia security relations with left to right: Regina Degnan, Gregory academic figures from the United States, Japan Frenzel, Ambassador John D. Negroponte, and South Korea ... Indochina analyst Avery Lulu Hernandez, Raul Hernandez Reynoso. attended a talk on Vietnam’s economic reforms, by Vietnamese economic adviser LE DANG ciOANH, at the School of Advanced Interna¬ ASUNCION, Paraguay—Ambassador tional Studies, January 14 ... China analyst Jon D. Classman (left) presents Superior MICHAEL FINEGAN attended a panel discus¬ Honor Award to political officer Jeffrey M. sion on “Democracy on Taiwan,” at the Hovenier. Heritage Foundation, January 18. Office of Politico-Military analysis: GARY traveled to Belize, February 18-21, for a meeting CROCKER, chief. Theater Forces Division, with Central American presidents. □ addressed a Congressional Youth Leadership Council group on the Department’s role in foreign policy, March 3 ... CRAIG McKEE, INTERNATIONAL Regional Military Forces Division analyst, par¬ ticipated in a briefing on the challenges of UN COMMUNICATIONS peace-keeping, at the Georgetown University private sector ... The bureau led the U.S. “Dinner and Discourse” program, February 24 AND INFORMATION delegation to the first World Telecommunica¬ ... ELIZABETH MANDEL, Theater Military tions Standardization Conference of the Interna¬ Forces Division analyst, participated in a panel POLICY tional Telecommunication Union, in Helsinki, at the Georgetown University master-of-science- Finland, March 1-12. Officers attending were in-foreign service program, February 3. □ RICHARD C. BEAIRD, acting U.S. coordi¬ MICHAEL RTCH, EARL BARBELY, KATH¬ nator and director, chaired the 23rd session of RYN MARTIN and GARY FERENO ... The the committee for information, computer and bureau welcomed MARC AUSTIN as its first communications policy of the Organization for presidential management intern. He has served at INTER-AMERICAN Economic Development and Cooperation, in the Federal Communications Commission. □ Paris, March 17-19. GARY D. DeVIGHT, the AFFAIRS Bureau’s director for bilateral relations, chaired the U.S. delegation to the meeting ... WILLIAM Assistant Secretary BERNARD W. ARON¬ JAHN, director for telecommunication policy for INTERNATIONAL SON addressed an audience of Salvadoran and Mexico and Micronesia, led the U.S. team in international guests at a conference on “Recon¬ meetings of the Joint Telecommunication Board NARCOTICS ciliation in Times of Transition,” January 11. with the ministers of transportation and com¬ His remarks were carried live from Washington munications of Micronesia and the Marshall MATTERS via U.S.I.A.’s “Worldnet” television system to Islands ... He also led the team in consultations San Salvador ... On February 3 he participated with the U.S. commander-in-chief for the Pacific Assistant Secretary MELVYN LEVITSKY in a discussion on Haiti sponsored by the Inter- and the U.S. Army in Kwajalein Atoll, January led the U.S. delegation to the fourth U.S.- American Dialogue ... On February 10 he 22-February 5. Indian joint narcotics working group meeting, addressed business leaders at a World Bank The director of Radio Spectrum policy, in Washington, February 17. Other members of conference in New York on “Uniting the RICHARD SHRUM, participated as the U.S. the U.S. team included deputy assistant secre¬ Markets of the Americas.” representative to the voluntary group of experts, tary R. GRANT SMITH, program officers Deputy Assistant Secretary ROBERT S. February 15-24, in Geneva, Switzerland. The TOM BIDDICK, LYNNE PLATT and GELBARD traveled to El Salvador, February group is working on simplication and improve¬ CANDIS CUNNINGHAM; and, from the of¬ 4-7, for the graduation at the National Police ment of the International Telecommunication fice of Transnational issues, THOMAS Academy and a meeting with Salvadoran lYesi- Union’s radio regulations. He led an eight- BROWNE and ARTHUR MUIRHEAD. dent ALFREDO CRISTIANl ... Mr. Gelbard person team from Government agencies and the ROBERT HYAMS and the Drug Enforcement

52 State Administration’s MICHAEL FREDERICKS, of a.ssistant legal adviser for educational, cultural On February 3 Mr. Djerejian gave an on- Embassy New Delhi, traveled to Washington office, traveled to Dallas to meet with auditors the-record briefing on the peace talks to Arab for the meeting. and review reports and documents at Bell journalists in Washington ... Principal deputy Mr. Smith attended the Central American Helicopter. assistant secretary MARK R. PARRIS spoke antinarcotics summit, February 19-21, in Belize People: KELLY CARLSON, attorney- on the Middle East to students participating in ... He then continued to Guatemala, to review adviser, has been reassigned to the Office of the U.S. Senate Youth Program, February 5 ... the counternarcotics program there ... On Law Enforcement and Intelligence ... JAMES Deputy assistant secretary DAVID L. MACK March 2-3 he headed the U.S. delegation to a E. BAKER, attorney-adviser, has been reas¬ addressed National War College faculty and preparatory meeting on new strategies for the signed to the Office of Oceans, International students, February 3, on Gulf security. Organization of American States drug abuse Environmental and Scientific Affairs ... Joining Office of the Public Affairs Adviser: control commission, in Mexico City. the bureau was KENNETH MACK, a legal Public affairs adviser WENDY CHAMBERLIN ROBERT PERRY, director. Office of extern working with the Offices of Ethics and spoke on the Middle East to students in the Program Management, traveled to Belize to Personnel and Law Enforcement and Intel¬ Foreign Service Institute’s area studies class, participate in the February 12 planning meeting ligence ... LAVAUNE MARKON has joined February 12. for the Central American antidrug summit, the Bureau of Oceans and International En¬ Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs; February 19 ... LUIS MORENO participated in vironmental and Scientific Affairs. □ Director RICHARD McKEE spoke on the a refugee-processing task force in Haiti, Middle East to Marine officers participating in January 24-February 23 ... The Office of the command and controls system course at Transnational Issues' Air Wing Division wel¬ Quantico’s communication officers school, comed DARRYL L. LONG. He is assigned as NEAR EASTERN February 5. the administrative officer at Patrick Air Force Office of Egyptian Affairs: Embassy Base, Melbourne, Fla. □ AFFAIRS Cairo consul general BETTY SWOPE was in the Department in mid-February for consulta¬ Office of the Assistant Secretary: Assist¬ tions ... SAMMY ELDIN, a student intern, ant Secretary EDWARD P. DJEREJIAN ac¬ joined the office in late February for a six- LEGAL ADVISER’S companied SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER on week assignment. his first overseas trip, February 17-26. The Office of Israel and Arab-lsraeli Affairs: OFFICE party made stops in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Director THOMAS J. MILLER represented the Riyadh, Kuwait, Cyprus, Beirut and Jerusalem. United States at the preparatory meeting of BRUCE C. RASHKOW, assistant legal The trip had four principal purposes: to eight nations participating in the multilateral adviser for UN affairs, traveled to New York to reinvigorate the Arab-lsraeli peace talks; to working group on the environment, in London, participate in a meeting regarding the commis¬ reassure U.S. allies on Iraq; to promote human February 1 ... On February 19 he spoke on sion on sustainable development procedures ... rights in the region; and to recognize what was peace efforts and U.S.-Israeli relations before DAVID P. STEWART, assistant legal adviser regarded as progress in Lebanon ... The party the new leadership conference of the State of for human rights and refugees, traveled to then traveled to Geneva to meet with the Israel Bonds Corp... He lectured students in Chicago to participate in a symposium on U.S. foreign minister of Russia, which is cosponsor the Foreign Service Institute’s Washington ratification of the international covenant on of the peace talks, and Brus.sels, to consult with tradecraft course, on the interagency process, civil and political rights, at the DePaul the Nato allies. Deputy assistant secretary February 25... Economic officer JAKE University law school ... ELY MAURER, DANIEL C. KURTZER was a member of the WALLES held consultations in Copenhagen, delegation accompanying the Secretary. and public affairs, traveled to Rome to attend the UN International Institute for the Unifica¬ tion of Private Law conference, to draft a convention on the return of stolen and illegally exported cultural property ... JAMES O’BRIEN, attorney-adviser. Office of the As¬ sistant Legal Adviser for Politico-Military Affairs, traveled to Brussels for consultations on war crimes. PAULA J. BARTON, attorney-adviser. Office of Buildings and Acquisitions, traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, to assist the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations planning team in advising the American Institute about possible options for replacing its headquarters building ... Captain DANIEL ROTTINGHAUS, attorney-adviser on detail from the Army, assigned to the Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes, traveled to Nashville, Tex., Huntsville, Tex., and Denver, for research concerning foreign military sales matters re¬ lated to Case B1 (Claims 2 and 3). He was accompanied by CHRIS MUCCIARONE, an auditor detailed from the Defense Contract Audit Agency, and Army Sergeant Major REGIS RAGAN ... Lieutenant Colonel DOHA, Qatar—At award ceremony, Mohamood Kandathil, Abdulla Kutty, Allister MILTON SMITH, an attorney in the same from left: Ambassador Kenton Keith, Boog.

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Amman, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Cairo regard¬ PRESIDENT bush’s signature and transmittal ing the multilateral working group on economic to Congress. Required by law and coordinated PERSONNEL development, January 25-February 2. among 19 executive agencies and 25 U.S. Office of Northern Gulf Affairs; Director embassies, the report is the central annual RONALD NEUMANN spoke to students in the reference on U.S. Government international Family Liaison Office A-100 course ... On February 5 Iran desk science and technology activities and officer MICHELLE BERNIER-TOTH spoke to agreements. Education counselor KAY BRANAMAN students “representing” Iran in Georgetown Office of Fisheries Affairs director EAKIN organized the annual workshop for University’s model United Nations conference LARRY SNEAD and DAVID BALTON, Of¬ Foreign Service parents of children with special ... PETER TINSLEY has completed his fice of the Legal Adviser, participated in a needs, February 4. Deputy assistant secretary assignment as political adviser with Combined meeting of Government experts on flagging of PETER BURLEIGH opened the program, Task Force Provide Comfort. He has joined the fishing vessels, at the UN Food and Agriculture which featured JAMIE RUPPMAN, an advo¬ office to assist with the Iraq portfolio... Organization, in Rome, February 1-5 ... cate for special needs children. Representatives Secretary ROBIN TURCO has left the office Deputy director BRIAN S. HALLMAN led a from the Offices of Overseas Schools and for an assignment in New Delhi. DALE U.S. delegation to Port Moresby, Papua New Allowances and the Employee Consultation DOUGHERTY is assisting the office in Ms. Guinea, and Honiara, Solomon Islands, Febru¬ Service joined the family office in discussing Turco’s absence. ary 8-12, to negotiate fishing access agree¬ services within the Department available to Office of the Executive Director: ALMA ments with those nations ... Deputy assistant personnel from all foreign affairs agencies ... GURSKl has Joined the office as the new secretary DAVID A. COLSON led the U.S. Support services officer JO-ANNE VAUGHN personnel management specialist for the delegation, and Pacific fisheries officer JAY attended a quarterly meeting of the U.S. bureau. □ FINNEGAN participated, in meetings to re¬ interagency task force on child abuse and negotiate the agreement establishing the U.S./ neglect. The purpose of the meeting was to Canada Pacific Salmon Commission, in Belle¬ coordinate information on investigations and vue, Wash., February 8-17 ... Senior Pacific related issues ... Employment program assist¬ OCEANS AND fisheries officer WILLIAM DILDAY repre¬ ant ERIN ROONEY participated on a panel at sented the United States at the fisheries work Georgetown, “International Job Search: Who INTERNATIONAL group meeting of the Asian Pacific Economic Will Succeed?” She di.scussed relocation, Cooperation Organization, in Bangkok, Febru¬ culture shock and security issues. Many of the ENVIRONMENTAL ary 10-12 ... Mr. Snead led the U.S. delegation student participants indicated they plan to take at the fisheries committee meeting of the the Foreign Service exam. AND SCIENTIFIC Organization for Economic Cooperation and The office coordinated a special presenta¬ Development, in Paris, February 21-25 ... tion by DAVID POLLOCK, an intercultural AFFAIRS Atlantic fisheries officer DAVID C. CHANG trainer and spokesman for “Trans-Cultural participated in the third international zebra Kids,” to the security overseas seminar at the On January 8-10 GEORGE DAVATELIS, mussel conference in Toronto, February Foreign Service Institute ... Mr. Pollock also senior biotechnology officer, and SHARON 23-26. □ was guest speaker at a luncheon hosted by HEMOND, American Association for the Ad¬ Family Liaison Office director MARYANN vancement of Science fellow, from the Office of Ecology, Health and Con.servation, traveled to San Antonio to attend a bioremediation workshop sponsored by the Department of Energy and the American Society of Microbiol¬ ogy. The workshop sought recommendations from scientific experts on the possibility of using microorganisms to clean up toxic waste sites ... EVELYN WHEELER, multilateral affairs officer. Office of Ecology, Health and Conservation, attended a two-day seminar on environmental impact assessment law, in Seat¬ tle, January 27-28. Transboundary issues and international application of U.S. laws and regulations were among the issues addressed ... PAUL BLAKEBURN, director of the office, led an interagency delegation to the United Nations in New York, January 26-29, to begin the negotiation of an intematinal convention on combatting desertification. Based on “Agenda 2rs” emphasis on local action, the convention is intended to promote efforts to deal with man-made land degradation in drylands. On January 8 THOMAS LONGO, chief. Science and Technology Support Division of the office, and his staff, STEPHEN KENNEDY and SANDRA PITTS-MALONE, finished and BUREAU OF PERSONNEL—In the Department bureaus, and Margaret T. delivered the executive branch’s annual “Title Office of Career Development and Assign¬ Morris, right, received a like amount for V” report on science, technology and Ameri¬ ments, Helen R. Loftus, left, was given a processing travel orders to republics of the can diplomacy to the White House, for $750 cash award for her work on staffing former Soviet Union.

54 State MINUTILLO, attended by the director general VAN DIEPEN, STEVEN AOKI and BAR¬ and representatives of State’s medical office, POLITICO- BARA TOBIAS were Department delegates at A.l.D., U.S.I.A., the U.S. and Foreign Com¬ those talks. mercial Service, the Marine Corps, the Ameri¬ MILITARY Office of the Executive Director: JIM can Foreign Service Association, the Associa¬ CLEVELAND, a recent graduate of the sys¬ tion of American Foreign Service Women and AFFAIRS tems manager course at the Foreign Service the Foreign Service Youth Foundation. Institute, has joined the bureau as systems Staff members briefed several groups and The deputy assistant secretary for security manager. individuals in February, including A-100 class assistance and defense trade, RAND BEERS, Office of Defense Trade Controls: Deputy members, Marine security guard spouses. For¬ has departed the bureau to join the National directors MICHAEL T. DIXON and ROSE eign Service specialist class members, spouses Security Council. MICHAEL NEWLIN, direc¬ BIANCANIELLO participated in plenary and of newly-hired employees at A.I.D., security tor, Office of Defense Trade Policy, will take working group sessions of the Defense Trade overseas seminar participants and the director over as acting deputy assistant secretary. Advisory Group, February 2, in the Loy of the family liaison office of the Australian Office of Defense Trade Policy: At the Henderson Conference Room. The meetings department of foreign affairs. □ February 2 plenary meeting of the Defense were to discuss export-related issues of concern Trade Advisory Group, Assistant Secretary to the Department and the U.S. defense ROBERT L. GALLUCCl made opening re¬ industry ... Mr. Dixon and Ms. Biancaniello Medical Services marks and introduced the under secretary- also attended briefings at the Department, designate for international security affairs, February 11 and 25, for industry representa¬ On January 22-23 Dr. TOM VALK LYNN DAVIS, to the advisory committee tives, concerning the restructuring of the attended the annual meeting of the Academy of members. Mr. Gallucci discussed U.S. Govern¬ Department’s export control process and pro¬ Organizational and Occupational Psychiatrists, ment assistance to U.S. defen.se exporters and liferation concerns ... CHARLES RAY, special in San Antonio. He presented a paper, “Man¬ the Clinton administration’s nuclear arms non¬ assistant to the director, addressed defense agement Consultation within the U.S. Depart¬ proliferation objectives ... Mr. Beers and Mr. export procedures, with industry representa¬ ment of State.” ... Dr. DOUG PROOFS Newlin were present. LINDA LUM served as tives, at a seminar on export controls and attended two conferences in early February: rapporteur ... BETH SHARPE has joined the licensing in Springfield, Va., February 18. The “Environmental Aluminum and Alzheimer’s office as an intern ... JAMES A. LEWIS, seminar was cosponsored by the Small Busi¬ Disease” and a second conference with U.S. deputy director, has taken the position of acting ness Administration and the Arlington and Army environmental experts concerning the director. Alexandria public school systems ... EVA O. Kuwait oil fires.... On February 12 he Office of Arms Control Policy for Com¬ TYLER and MARTHA WRIGHT, compliance accompanied the Peace Corps medical director pliance and Implementation: ERIC RUNNING officers. Compliance Analysis Division, repre¬ and Dr. TOM ENG, Centers for Disease traveled to Minsk, Belarus, as a member of the sented the office at the missile technology Control epidemiologist, for a two-week medical U.S. delegation to the intermediate-range nu¬ advisory group meetings in Washington, Febru¬ briefing mission to Beijing, Chengdu and clear forces treaty special verification commis¬ ary 4 and 18 ... The following individuals Shanghai ... In the first two weeks of sion, for consultations with the other treaty visited the National Security Agency for an February, former regional medical officer ART parties. The U.S. goal was to seek agreement orientation, February 2: SAM CAPINO, ROLLINS directed the medical clearance sec¬ on the operation of the special verification SANDI SNYDER, MARTIN O’MARA, DAN tion during Dr. KEN BABCOCK’S leave. commission as a multilateral body to oversee COOK, CALVIN CHIN, DANIEL BUZBY, Having been .selected for a budget analyst continued implementation of the treaty ... CHRIS ELDER and electronics and combat position in the Near East bureau, CHRISTINA Deputy director JAMES G. DAVIS has trans¬ systems branch chief ALAN SUCHINSKY. SOMMA transferred from the Medical Services ferred to Portuguese language training at the Office of the Senior Coordinator: Senior executive office in mid-February ... LISA Foreign Service Institute in preparation for an coordinator ELIZABETH G. VERVILLE deliv¬ BURRIDGE, who worked on medical claims, assignment to Lisbon. ered a speech at a February 5 symposium. She accepted a position with a company working on Office of Defense Relations and Security discussed Rus.sian “brain drain” issues and diplomatic security, in February ... Nurse Assistance: JOHN HEFFERN coordinated the efforts to establish science and technology practitioner KAREN McGUlRE-RUGH, assist¬ bilateral U.S./Australia political-military talks centers in Moscow and Kiev ... Senior science ant director of medical clearances, is on leave hosted by Assistant Secretary Gallucci in adviser EDWARD J. DOWDY led the U.S. for several months ... The position of BILLIE Honolulu, February 18-19 ... The special delegation to a meeting of the preparatory WILDS has been upgraded to that of staff assistant for the bureau, JACQUELINE SHIRE, committee at the International Science and assistant to the medical director. and BRIAN WOO, Bureau of East Asian and Technology Center in Moscow. Accompanying Attending an electronic medical record and Pacific Affairs, were also Department repre¬ him was JAMES C. O’BRIEN of State’s legal education systems computer seminar in Boston sentatives at the bilaterals ... JOSEPH office (political/military section) ... CAROL on February 3 were Dr. LARAE KEMP, Dr. BOWAB attended the Central Command train¬ KESSLER, coordinator for reactor safety as¬ FRANK KEARY, LARRY BIRO, NILS ing conference in Tampa, February 22-24, to sistance, headed a U.S. team visit to Russia and SWANSON and SUZANNE COOPER from review the international military education and Ukraine, February 1-5, to discuss reactor safety Medical Services, and Dr. ELMORE training program ... PETER SCHMEELK assistance efforts and priorities for fiscal year RIGAMER from Boston, where he is on taught the foreign policy segment of a seminar 1993 assistance. continuing medical education ... Dr. MI¬ at the Department of Defense’s Division of Office of International Security Opera¬ CHAEL NESEMANN and Dr. MARTY International Security Management, in Dayton, tions: The director. Colonel JOHN PIAZZA, WOLFE were the Medical Services delegates February I... He represented the Department at has been serving since December as acting to an interagency meeting on malaria, the first the Pacific-Asian Command security assistance deputy assi.stant secretary during the transition part of February ... Regional medical officers conference, in Honolulu, February 7-11 ... period ... Deputy director BARBRO CEDRIC DUMONT and THOMAS YUN have MARC CHEEK coordinated the U.S./Canada KIRKPATRICK has left the office to assume a been tenured by the September specialist political-military talks hosted by Mr. Gallucci position on the National Security Council staff, tenuring board. They are completing their first in Washington, February 25 ... CHARLES for Latin American Affairs ... The deputy tours in Brazzaville/Kinshasa and Dhaka, DUELFER, MICHAEL LEKSON, PETER director. Lieutenant Colonel FRANK RAY, respectively. □ BOYNTON, BRUCE EHRNMAN, VANN participated in a security exercise in Turkey in

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GENEVA, Switzerland—Ambassador that hosts a number of international organi¬ secretaries Marti Szramek, Stephanie Richer, Morris Abram, center, presents awards to the zations and foreign delegations. From left: executive director Patricia Fullerton, deputy arms control staff in this European nation deputy chief of mission H. Clarke Rodgers, Mark Biedlingmaier.

February ... Commander STEVE INGLESBE has been a coordinator for the Department’s Humanitarian Affairs refugee assistance pro¬ humanitarian assistance relief programs in the REFUGEE grams ... ALBERT A. THIBAULT JR., direc¬ former Yugoslavia and other countries ... tor, Office of European, Near Eastern and Latin Additionally, he participated in a security PROGRAMS American Refugee Assistance, participated in a exercise in Italy ... Commander HOWARD humanitarian assessment team visit to Zagreb SIDMAN and ALEX MARGUILIES orches¬ As part of the Department’s proposed and Bosnia ... JAN De WILDE, director. trated the U.S. Government worldwide appeal reorganization, the bureau will assume policy Office of Asian Refugee Assistance, consulted for other countries to participate in the Unified coordination for population issues and become with demining experts in New York and Task Force (the U.S.-led coalition of military part of a new Bureau for Population, Refugee Charlottesville, Va ... ANITA L. BOTTI, forces in Somalia) ... They also had the lead in and Migration Affairs ... The bureau’s senior director. Office of Refugee Reception and contacting countries to urge their participation staff has received briefings from A.I.D.’s Placement, and KAHERINE K. PERKINS, in the UN-led follow-on military program for Office of Population. program officer, monitored refugee reception the Unified Task Force in Somalia ... ANN WARREN ZIMMERMANN, director of and placement in North Carolina. WRIGHT participated for five weeks in the the bureau, attended the Lutheran Immigration Visiting the bureau was CHARLES weekly talks at the United Nations concerning and Refugee Service board of directors meeting TWINING, U.S. representative in Phnom Penh, the transition from the Unified Task Force to in Greensboro, N.C., and accompanied board Cambodia. □ the UN-led follow-on military program for the members on visits to refugees ... He met with Unified Task Force, and on discussions pertain¬ PARI KARADAGHI of the Kurdish Human ing to the interim auxiliary police forces in Rights Watch to discuss funding of Kurdish Somalia ... KATY SOLON was on a two- refugee projects ... The acting chairwoman of SOUTH ASIAN month temporary-duty assignment to Somalia, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women serving as a political officer with the U.S. and Children, JUDITH MAYOTTE, with staff AFFAIRS liaison office ... DAVID GOUDY is compiling director MARY ANNE SCHWALBE and Indo¬ a worldwide survey on land mines, identifying china Resource Action Center representative Office of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka the problems caused by the mines and the DIANA BUI, met with Mr. Zimmermann to Affairs: From February 12-March 2, ALISON ability or inability of nations to solve the discuss refugee issues in the former KRUPNICK, Sri Lanka desk officer, traveled problem ... In an effort to focus U.S. Yugoslavia, Cambodia and the Horn of Africa. to Sri Lanka, India and Nepal for consultations Government attention on the extent of prob¬ SARAH E. MOTEN, deputy assistant secretary and orientation ... On February 17 director lems caused by land mines, Mr. Goudy has for international refugee assistance, and GEORGE GRIFFIN, joined by India desk held interagency meetings and discussions with KELLY T. CLEMENTS, program officer. officer STEVE BLAKE and Regional Affairs congressional staffers. He has also met with Office of Multilateral Organizations and Migra¬ economic officer BRIAN RINK, attended the UN demining officials ... STACY BERNARD tion Policy, participated. fourth U.S.-India joint narcotics working group has joined the office, transferring from the PRISCILLA A. CLAPP, senior deputy meeting in the Department. Office of Policy Analysis, to work on issues assistant secretary, consulted with interaction in Office of Regional Affairs: Director concerning the former Yugoslavia, including New York ... Ms. Moten traveled to New York MIKE LEMMON participated in the Henry L. the airdrop of humanitarian assistance materials for a meeting/luncheon with the Women’s Stimson Center’s South Asia nuclear policy in Bosnia ... Lieutenant ED PIERSON, a Commission for Refugee Women and Children working group meeting, February 5 ... Deputy specialist in crisis management activities, was a ... While there, she met with JAN ELIASSON, director LEN SCENSNY has returned from an participant in the Somalia and the Bosnia UN under secretary general for humanitarian eight-week temporary assignment to the U.S. airdrop task forces. □ assistance, to discuss UN Department of liaison office in Mogadishu, Somalia. ■

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Laszio Antal, 62, a Hungarian in¬ Norma J. Bofinger, 59, wife of Deyman, died of complications from a structor at the Foreign Service Institute, retired Foreign Service officer Paul C. stroke she suffered last April, at Mesabi died of a heart attack at his home in Bofinger, who is working temporarily in Regional Medical Center in Hibbing, Manassas, Va., on January 23. the Office of Foreign Buildings Opera¬ Minn., on November 12. Mr. Antal tions, died of cancer at the Hospice of Beginning in 1943, Ms. Deyman started as a teacher Northern Virginia on February 7. accompanied her husband on overseas in 1990. He earned Ms. Bofinger had accompanied her postings to Guayaquil, Milan, Palermo, a performance husband on assignments to Ottawa, Belgrade, Athens and Rabat. In Ecuador award for his work Bangkok and Dusseldorf. She was a she worked for the U.S. Government in last year. He has native of Rochester, N.Y., who earned a procuring cinchona tree bark, which was helped develop the nursing degree from the St. Mary’s used to make the anti-malarial dmg, school’s Hungarian Hospital nursing school. She was a quinine, for soldiers during World War 11. program while hospital nurse in Ottawa and at a U.S. In Morocco she performed volunteer work working as a con¬ Army hospital in Bangkok. She had for the Red Cross. ifi; tractor for the in¬ worked at Fairfax Hospital in Falls Ms. Deyman was born in Hancock, stitute, 1986-89. Mich., on August 4, 1909. She was Mr. Antal Church, Va., 1975-1991. Besides her Mr. Antal was husband, she leaves her mother, two graduated from Hibbing Junior College. a native of Hungary who held a doctorate daughters, two sisters and a brother. Her Before her marriage, she worked for the from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. family suggests contributions to the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Before State, he was a linguistics pro¬ Hospice of Northern Virginia, 4715 N. Compensation Commission. fessor in Budapest and a language con¬ 15th Street, Arlington, Va. 22205. □ In addition to her husband, of Hib¬ sultant in Reno, Nev. His coworkers held bing, she leaves a son, a sister, a brother a memorial service for him at the Foreign James Cowles Hart Bonbright, 90, and two grandsons. □ Service Institute on February 3. His a former ambassador to Portugal and survivors include his wife, Susan Antal, Sweden, died in Nantucket, Mass., on Thomas P. Doubleday Jr., 50, polit¬ and a son. □ February 10. ical counselor in Monrovia, died of a Mr. Bonbright heart attack there on February 8. Rodwell R. Bishop, 55, a retired entered the Foreign Mr. Doubleday joined the Foreign computer specialist at State, died of a Service in 1927 and Service in 1965. Af¬ heart attack at Malcolm Grow Hospital, became vice consul ter an assignment in Andrews Air Force Base, on February 9. in Canton the fol¬ Bangkok, he went He was the father of lowing year. He was to Saigon with Robyn A. Bishop, a third secretary in A.I.D. in 1968. In secretary in the Bu¬ Ottawa, 1930-34. 1971 he became a reau of Diplomatic After an assignment political analyst in Security. in the Department, the Bureau of Intel¬ Mr. Bishop be¬ he was posted to ligence and Re¬ search. After a tour gan his career as a Mr. Bonbright (1958) Brussels and Lux¬ teletypist in the Bu¬ embourg in 1939. in the Bureau of reau of Administra¬ He served as second secretary in Mr. Doubleday International Orga¬ tion in 1958. He Belgrade, then consul in Budapest, during nization Affairs, he became a communi- World War II. After Hungary entered the became economic and commercial officer Mr. Bishop cations relay equip¬ war, he returned to Washington as assist¬ in Luanda in 1975. He served as an ment operator in ant chief of the old Division of European international relations officer in the Bu¬ 1962, and a communications supervisor Affairs in 1942. He went to Paris as reau of African Affairs before becoming the following year. He assisted in the counselor of the embassy in 1946. He was political officer in Mogadishu in 1979. In design and construction of the Beltsville deputy assistant secretary for European 1982 he returned to Bangkok as visa (Md.) Communications Center, and later affairs, 1950-54. In 1955 he was named officer. Next, he was assigned to the served as project manager for the con¬ chief of mission in Lisbon. He served as Bureau of Personnel, 1985-86, and the struction of the Beltsville Information chief of mission in Stockholm before Bureau for Refugee Programs, 1986-89. In Management Center. He retired in January retiring in 1961. 1989 he became labor officer in Lagos. as a supervisory computer specialist at the Mr. Bonbright was bom in Rochester, He began his final assignment in 1991. Office of Information Management. N.Y., on January 19, 1903. He was Mr. Doubleday was bom in New Mr. Bishop was born in Hancock, graduated from Harvard. He leaves his York on October 22, 1942. He earned a Md., on September 11, 1937. Before wife, Letitia Ord Bonbright of Nantucket bachelor’s from Yale and a master’s from State, he served in the Navy, 1955-58. In and Washington, a stepdaughter, a stepson the Fletcher School of Law and addition to his daughter, he leaves his and a sister. □ Diplomacy. wife, Gail Bishop of Forestville, Md., He held the Meritorious Honor another daughter, a son, his parents and a Caroline Tappero Dayman, 83, wife Award. He leaves a brother, Malcolm sister. □ of retired Foreign Service officer Philbert Doubleday of Stonybrook, N.Y. □

April 1993 57 OBITUARIES

T. Carole Elmore, 54, who was a Ms. McLaughlin began her career at Dr. Shadel was born in Lansing, retired Foreign Service secretary, died of a State as a financial economist in 1947. In Mich., on May 25, 1928. He earned a heart attack in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sep¬ 1955 she joined the Foreign Service. After bachelor’s from Emmanuel College and a tember 28. serving as an international economist in medical degree from Temple. Before Ms. Elmore joined the Service in 1964 the Bureau of European and Canadian State, he served in the Army in Japan and and was assigned to Bogota. After a tour in Affairs, she was posted to Paris as second Korea, 1954-59. He leaves his wife, Tuyet Bankgok, she was assigned to the Bureau secretary in 1962. She retired in 1966. B. Shadel of Oak Harbor, his parents and of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Ms. McLaughlin was born in the a brother. □ 1968-70. She was posted to Athens, state of Washington on February 12, 1919. 1970-73, Santiago, 1973-75, and Monter¬ She earned a bachelor’s from the Univer¬ Walter G. Walcavich, 83, a retired rey, 1977. In 1977 she returned to Wash¬ sity of Washington. She did graduate Foreign Service officer and Civil Service ington. She served in the Bureaus of Inter- work at American University and George¬ employee at State, died at the Hermitage American Affairs, European and Canadian town. Before State, she was an economist Health Center in Alexandria, Va., on Affairs and for Refugee Programs before at the Department of Commerce and the December 11. going to Milan in 1982. She held a final Office of Price Administration. She leaves Mr. Walcavich began his career in assignment in the Europe bureau before a sister, Frances Barnard of Edmonds, the Department in 1931. After working as retiring in 1984. Wash. □ a disbursing officer and budget and fiscal Ms. Elmore was bom in Michigan on analyst, he became a foreign affairs October 21, 1937. Before joining the Serv¬ Virginia K. Moody, 84, a retired specialist in 1949. He joined the Foreign ice, she worked as a secretary in Oak Foreign Service employee, died in Denver Service in 1954. He was assigned first to Ridge, Tenn. After State, she was a secre¬ on February 10. Warsaw, where he was political officer tary in Monroe, Mich. She held the Mer¬ Ms. Moody joined the Service in 1943 and consul, 1955-57. After training at the itorious Honor Award. She leaves her and went to Madrid Foreign Service Institute, he became mother, a sister and a brother. □ as a clerk later that principal officer and consul in Cardiff in year. She was posted 1958. He was posted to Frankfurt, Anne J. Gordon, 72, wife of retired to Praha in 1946 and 1962-63. He served as consul in Stock¬ Foreign Service officer William Gordon Rome in 1949. After holm before retiring in 1964. Sr., died of complications from diabetes in a tour in Trieste, she Mr. Walcavich was born in Jersey Silver Spring, Md., on Febmary 8. became a mail and City on April 19, 1909. He earned a Beginning in records supervisor in bachelor’s from Benjamin Franklin Uni¬ 1960, Ms. Gordon Tehran in 1954. She versity and a law degree from Catholic. accompanied her was posted to Mex¬ After State, he served as an Arlington husband on postings ico City, 1956-57, County (Va.) special justice, 1964-69. His to Ghana, Nigeria, and Ciudad Juarez, survivors include his wife, Margaret B. Ms. Moody (1943) Sweden and the 1957-59. She was Walcavich of Arlington. □ Netherlands. She mail and records. then communications was a native of supervisor, in Singapore, 1959-61. After a Thomas Eliot Weil, 86, a retired Memphis who final tour in Ottawa, she retired in 1962. Foreign Service officer, died in Wash¬ earned a bachelor’s Ms. Moody was born in Shattuck, ington on February 7. from LeMoyne Col¬ Okla., on December 29, 1908. She attended Mr. Weil joined the Service in 1935. After an assignment Ms. Gordon lege. Before joining the University of Oklahoma. She served as her husband over¬ a code clerk at the War Department during in Marseille, he be¬ seas, she worked as an elementary-school World War II. Her survivors include a came vice consul in teacher and as a clerk at the War cousin, Frank A. Exum of Denver, a Canton in 1936. Department during World War II. She was nephew and a niece. □ While holding simi¬ a 30-year member of the Association of lar positions in American Foreign Service women and a Dr. Willard F. Shadel Jr., 64, a Nanking and Shang¬ founding member of the organization’s retired medical officer, died of cancer in hai, he was interned writer’s group. She wrote articles on Oak Harbor, Wash., on February 19. for seven months by Foreign Service life and on her ex¬ Dr. Shadel joined the Foreign Service the Japanese during periences growing up as a black Ameri¬ in 1959 and was assigned to Vientiane. World War II. Later can, for the Milwaukee Journal, Foreign After serving as medical officer in Saigon, Mr. Weil »" ‘he war, he Service Journal and Guidepost magazine. he returned to Washington as assistant served as vice con¬ In addition to her husband of 48 years, medical director for foreign programs in sul in Wellington and U.S. liaison officer she leaves three sons and three 1965. In 1967 he became regional medical to the United Kingdom delegation to the grandchildren. □ officer in Bangkok. He was posted to founding conference of the United Nations Bogota in 1972 and Nairobi in 1977. He in San Francisco. He was consular officer Charlotte M. McLaughlin, 74, a retired in 1980, but held temporary in New Delhi, 1945-48, and Kabul, retired Foreign Service officer, died in assignments in Abidjan, Sinai, Bangkok 1948-49. In 1949 he became assistant Washington on January 30. and Lagos until 1984. chief of the Office of South Asian Affairs

58 State and officer-in-charge of Pakistan and author and editor of books on Latin Honor Awards. Afghanistan affairs. Next, he was acting America and the Caribbean, in connection Ms. Westbrook was bom in Billings, officer-in-charge of India, Nepal and with the American field studies program Mont., on October 28, 1915. She received Ceylon affairs, 1950-51, then deputy at American University. He leaves his a bachelor’s from Stanford. Before State, director of the Office of South Asian wife, Joan Patricia Weil of Washington, a she worked as a teacher and as assistant to Affairs, 1951-52. daughter, two sons and five the dean of women at Stanford. She is After attending the National War grandchildren. □ survived by two nephews and three College, Mr. Weil returned to New Delhi as political counselor in 1953. He also Alice D. Westbrook, 76, a retired served as consul general at the post and as personnel officer at State, has died in political counselor in Nepal. He was Tucson. Here are the facts consul general in Tokyo, 1956, and deputy Ms. Westbrook joined the Foreign (See Page 43) chief of mission in Seoul, 1956-58. In Service as a clerk in 1945. After an —Yes. Five U.S. attorneys general 1958 he returned to Washington as a assignment in Berlin, she went to Stuttgart have served as acting secretaries while also senior Foreign Service inspector. He was in 1946. She was a personnel technician serving at the Justice Department: Charles director of the Office of South Asian in Manila, 1950, and Rangoon, 1950-52. Lee, May 13-June 5, 1800; Levi Lincoln, Affairs, 1960-62. He served as consul In 1953 she became a personnel officer in March 5-May 1, 1801; Richard Rush, general in London before retiring in 1964. Buenos Aires. She returned to Manila in March 10-September 22, 1817; Hugh Mr. Weil was born in Chicago on 1956, then served as a supervisory place¬ Legare, May 9-June 20, 1843; and John June 23, 1906. He earned a bachelor’s ment specialist in Washington, 1960-62. Nelson, February 29, 1844-March 31, 1844. from Bowdoin College and pursued gradu¬ She was personnel officer in London, —Bamako, Mali. ate studies at the University of Illinois. 1962-65, and Rome, 1968-73. After a —Irvin Hicks, deputy representative to After State, he worked as a consultant to final posting to Bangkok, she retired in the UN Security Council. □ the Stanford Research Institute and as an 1975. She had earned two Meritorious

NAPLES, Italy—A Meritorious Honor recipients, left to right: Domenico Chiarello, senter), Domenico Addezio, Salvatore Fele, Award is presented to members of the Salvatore Vitiello, Mario Sorvillo, Myriam Del Antonio Saetta, Gennaro Marino, Vincenzo administrative section in the U.S. consulate Monte, Renato Panniello, Antonio Marino, Del Grosso, Antonio Longo, administrative general in this southern metropolis. The consul general Richard Dertadian (pre- officer William Rada.

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