FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL OCTOBER 1972 60 CENTS AFSA W: « VOTE-VOTE ■ 1. Independent Foreign Service. First and foremost, 3. A Professional Foreign Service. AFSA will remain AFSA supports a separate, unified Foreign Service, a professional association concerned with the na¬ serving as a professional corps responsible for the tion’s overseas interests and devoted to the expert conduct of our country’s foreign affairs. We reject performance of foreign policy responsibilities. A uni¬ efforts to place Foreign Service people in separate fied Foreign Service of high competence should be categories either by rank or by agency. It is our shared matched by progress toward a single foreign affairs experiences in living and working overseas, often budget. We seek effective interagency leadership in under difficult or dangerous circumstances, that give foreign affairs for the Secretary of State and the us uniqueness and a special common spirit. We are unified Foreign Service with full regard for the es¬ proud of our Foreign Service traditions, of our com¬ sential contributions each of the foreign affairs agen¬ petitive system, and of our record of professional serv¬ cies must continue to make, particularly in cross- ice to the nation. AFSA will oppose any effort to meld cultural communication and human development. the Foreign Service into the Civil Service either from AFSA will continue to sponsor programs designed to above (the Magnuson Bill or the Oliver Committee increase communication and interaction among recommendations) or from below, through the efforts Foreign Service professionals and leaders in Con¬ of a Civil Service union such as AFGE with different gress, business, other government agencies and the values and an overwhelmingly GS membership. academic world. We believe the unified Foreign Serv¬ 2. Co-determination. AFSA is committed to co-deter¬ ice should be responsible for coordinating all the mination of employment conditions and personnel nation’s varied programs overseas. systems by management and Foreign Service people 4. Pay Comparability. Foreign Service people of all themselves acting through their exclusive representa¬ grades and ranks do not have comparability either tive. As the elected exclusive representative, AFSA in pay or allowances with their Civil Service col¬ pledges to be the aggressive advocate of the men leagues. AFSA is determined to press for the correc¬ and women of the entire Foreign Service and to make tion of existing pay scales so that Foreign Service the system responsive to their needs. That AFSA will salaries will be comparable to Civil Service salaries mean ACTION in the future is demonstrated by these at the same level. Our studies indicate that at the specific examples of AFSA getting ACTION in the middle and lower grades equitable salaries would past. mean increases for our people of around $2,000 an¬ —Payment of Transfer Allowance up to $950. nually. —Government shipment of foreign-made automobiles. —Retroactive payment of allowance increases de¬ 5. Staff Corps. AFSA insists that the Staff Corps is nied during pay freeze. an integral part of the professional Foreign Service. —Expansion of tax deductions for official business, Our goal is complete equality of privilege for Staff training and home leave expenses. Corps people. If agreement—for example, on free —Travel on foreign flag airlines. entry of automobiles—cannot be obtained from host —Mandatory payment of overtime when due. countries, then it is our position that the US Gov¬ —Payment of supplementary post allowance upon ernment should pay whatever extra costs are re¬ departure from post. quired to ensure equality of treatment. AFSA has —Strong support for USIA career legislation adopted been working and will continue to work to remove in 1968. (Continued on inside back cover) ☆VOTE AFSA FOR EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE ☆ American Foreign Service Association DAVID H. McKILLOP, President PRINCETON LYMAN, First Vice President HORACE G. DAWSON, JR., Second Vice President Board of Directors WILLIAM C. HARROP, Chairman THOMAS D. BOYATT, Vice Chairman BARBARA J. GOOD, Second Vice Chairman DAVID W. LOVING, Secretary-Treasurer JOHN J. TUOHEY, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer HERMAN J. COHEN JAMES L. HOLMES, JR. F. ALLEN HARRIS WILLIAM R. LENDERKING, JR. LINDA LOWENSTEIN W. A. WHITTEN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Staff OCTOBER 1972: VOLUME 49, NO. 10 GERALD BUSHNELL, Executive Director MARGARET S. TURKEL, Executive Secretary CLARKE SLADE, Educational Consultant HELEN VOGEL, Committee Coordinator Journal Editorial Board SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE TERESITA C. SCHAFFER, Chairman AMBLER MOSS FREDERICK QUINN RALPH S. SMITH EDWARD M. 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Some of LETTERS IQ [=C; | tive which has accompanied and us down here are getting a little been prompted by the drop in pro¬ impatient with all this Mickey motion rates (the “How Can I Get Mouse. Praise for a Cogent Study Joe Promoted” syndrome) has just VICTOR WOLF, JR. ■ I have read with much interest as steadily reduced the value of Copenhagen •and satisfaction Edward M. Cohen’s these reports as useful tools in the article entitled “Rank Injustice” assignment process. Assignment REPLY FROM THE BOARD: which appeared in the August issue officers are not, after all, seeking With respect to AFSA’s actions of the JOURNAL. Mr. Cohen has supermen when they try to fill most on overseas allowances and the pay presented a crystal-clear and con¬ 0-4 positions. They are looking for freeze, let us just describe what we cise exposition of the argument for officers with particular skills and did in chronological order. semiautomatic promotion of middle interests. If they must choose among When the pay freeze went into grade officers. a large array of officers all of whom effect on August 15, 1971, the De¬ As you know, Task Force II on combine the political insights of partment immediately suspended all Performance Appraisal and Promo¬ Cardinal Richelieu with the man¬ increases in overseas allowances tion Policy was extremely attracted agement prowess of Harold Geneen, which were due to go into effect to the concept of semiautomatic or the drafting skill of William Shake¬ after that date. phased promotions for the middle speare, and the ability to get along AFSA immediately protested this grades of the Service (0-6 to 0-3) with foreigners and Americans char¬ action, claiming that overseas al¬ and strongly urged further study of acteristic of Shirley Temple Black, lowances are not salaries or wages the feasibility of such a system and they can be forgiven if they occa¬ within the meaning of the Presiden¬ of the most effective method for its sionally give more credit than other¬ tial pay freeze order. Furthermore, implementation. The Task Force wise to corridor reputations. we determined that the Defense De¬ would have itself urged implemen¬ HOWARD B. SCHAFFER partment, which employs 50% of tation except that it recognized that Washington US Government civilians abroad, further study was required to see if had decided to ignore the pay freeze this proposal would fit in with other as far as overseas allowances were Butterflies and Pachyderms plans regarding future size of the concerned. Despite the fact that Service, distribution of officer ■ May I comment on AFSA both DOD and Foreign Service al¬ grades, use of FSRU and the need News, Volume 2, No.