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For more information and an application, please call 1 (800) 821-2828 and identify yourself as a member of the American Foreign Service Protective Association. .AMERICAN FOREIGN PROTECTIVE W worldwide assistance ASSOCIATION services, inc. 1716 N Street, NW a member of the europ assistance group Washington, DC 20036-2907 CONTENTS November 1994 ■ Vol. 71, No. 11 C OVER FEATURES Focus ON US TRADE RECALLING THE TERROR OF TEHRAN / 22 32 / STATE OPENS FOR BUSINESS On 15th Anniversary, After 2 Years, US Trade A Former Hostage Finally Becomes a Priority Reflects on the Revolution By Jim Anderson By L. Bruce Laingen 35 / UP CLOSE WITH JOAN SPERO STUFFY, SERIOUS AND SUPERCILIOUS / 26 By Jim Anderson The Foreign Service Officer Goes to the Movies 38 / COURTING THE BIG 10 By Michael Canning Globe’s Emerging Markets Seen Key for US Exports FINALLY, ONE-STOP SHOPPING/ 48 By John Sweeney Russia Project to Aid Grocers, Entrepreneurs, Consumers 41 / How NAFTA CHANGED AN EMBASSY By John Norris By Ted Wilkinson 44 / WHY MFN WON IN CHINA Business Bloc’s Power Felt in Washington Policy-Making By Anne Stevenson-Yang COLUMNS 5 / PRESIDENT’S VIEWS Page 32 Feedback from tbe Field: Hands Off Hardship Pay By FA. “Tex” Harris D E P ARTM E N T S 17/ SPEAKING OUT LETTERS/7 At AID South Africa, Does CLIPPINGS / 12 American-Style Apartheid Beign? AFSA NEWS / Center Pullout Section By Paul Neifert BOOKS / 51 60 / POSTCARD FROM ABROAD IN MEMORY / 55 Through Letters, A Mother Rediscovers a Daughter — and Herself INDEX TO ADVERTISERS / 59 By Louise Belanger Cover illustration by Michael David Brown FOREIGNQERVICE TIIE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS I 0 l; II N A I. Foreign Service Journal (ISSN 0015-7279), 2101 E Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 is published monthly by the American Foreign Service Association, a private, non-profit organization. Material appearing Chairman Editor herein represents the opinions of the writers and does not necessarily represent the views of AFSA or the KAREN KREBSBACH SHELDON J. KRYS Journal. Writer queries are invited. Journal subscription: AFSA Members - $9.50 included in annual dues; Managing Editor PHYLLIS DICHTER-FORBES others - $40. For foreign surface mail, add $18 per year; foreign airmail, $36 per year. Second-class postage NANCY A. JOHNSON JOHN ERIKSSON paid at Merrifield, Va., and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Foreign Service Journal, 2101 E Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. Indexed by Public Affairs Information Service DAVID I. HITCHCOCK Assistant Editor (PAIS). The Journal is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photos or illustrations. Advertising Liz ALLAN DOYLE MCMANUS inquiries invited. The appearance of advertisements herein does not imply the endorsement of the services or DANIEL O. NEWBERRY goods offered. FAX: 202/338-8244 or 202/338-6820. TELEPHONE: 202/338-4045. © American Foreign Advertising 6- Circulation Manager DONALD R. NORLAND Service Association 1994. Printed in the U.S.A. Send address changes for the Foreign Service Journal to JANET G. EMERY ANNE SIGMUND AFSA, 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. NOVEMBER 1994/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 3 For Those Of \bu In Washington Who Want Shorter Terms Fully Furnished Apartments 1 Bedroom or Large Executive Suites Starting from $1050 Available for 30 days or more/Pro-rates available • Security Underground Parking • Roof Top Pool • 25” Color T.V. • Fitness Room • Aerobics Classes Barton • Daily Newspaper Delivery U/\|1CA • 2 Telephones and Answering Machine 2525 N. loth street • Welcome Gifts North Art metomVA (703)525-2600 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY PRESIDENT’S VIEWS Feedback from the Field: Hands Off Hardship Pay BY F. A. “TEX” HARRIS AFSAs recent cable to overseas not willing to bear. How about a 5 per¬ posts on the State Departments cent pay cut for assistant secretaries? intention to reduce pay differentials at Flow about a 5 How about a cut for members of the most hardship posts by 5 percent Senior Foreign Service?’ released an avalanche of outrage and percent pay cutfor — U.S. Embassy Kuwait a flood of proposals for dealing more “Employees at posts that presently equitably and more realistically with assistant secretaries?’ have no differential should be the foreign affairs agencies’ budget required to reimburse 5 percent of crisis. The estimated 50 responses their salaries to die department as a were submitted to management to voluntary contribution toward meet¬ support AFSAs strong opposition to ing the budget deficit. ... Otherwise, the re-grading proposal, which man¬ “It is incredible that our superiors can the burden falls on those privileged to agement says will “save” $5 million to recognize that Washington and other serve in the Monrovias of tliis world $8 million a year. Following are some major U.S. cities need ‘locality pay to — a duty that employees in Paris of the choicest raspberries: attract and retain the best people and at would surely wish to share.” “The primary feeling at this post is the same time tiiink die best way to save — U.S. Embassy Mogadishu one of betrayal. It is not often that we a small amount of money is to make serv¬ “It is not fair that overseas people observe an institution in the very act ing in our most difficult posts even less in the least desirable places are target¬ of breaking die bonds of trust with its attractive.” ed. The U.S. Agency for International employees. ... If die proposed reduc¬ — U.S. AID Kathmandu Development is being hit hardest, as tions are implemented, tiieir impact “The conditions tiiat created dif¬ most of its posts are hardship posts.... will ripple through die ranks of all ferentials — critical crime and securi¬ To panic, to cut witii little compre¬ government employees eligible for ty problems, isolation, unhealthy con¬ hensive tiiought and witiiout consul¬ overseas service for years to come.” ditions and difficult family environ¬ tation, and to single out categories of — U.S. Embassy Abidjan ments — still exist. The following are personnel to target demonstrates bad “What the department Inis done is a few of the illnesses that our employ¬ management and bad faith.” nothing short of a breach of contract. ees have had in the last year: typhus, — U.S Embassy Dhaka Foreign Service employees bid on diis typhoid, malaria, lead in our childrens “We have been heartened over the assignment widi die enticement of a 20 blood, dengue fever, hepatitis A&B, past several years to see AFSA take a percent hardship allowance. Now that we meningococcal septicemia, giardia, harder line against management.
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