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There are 11 monthly issues (none in August). Deadline for submitting material for publication is in the first week of each month. Contributions (consisting of general information, articles, poems, photographs, art work) are welcome. Di uble-space on typewriter, spelling out job titles, names of offices and programs—acronyms are not acceptable. Black-and-white, glossy- print photos reproduce best, but some color photos are acceptable. Each photo needs a cap¬ tion, double-spaced, identifying all persons left to right. Send contributions to STATE magazine, THE COVER—This is the TVeaty Room on the DGP/PA, Room B-266. The office telephone seventh floor, showing the entrance to the Secre¬ number is (202) 647-1649. tary’s office. This view and others, with commentary, will be part of a one-hour TV spe¬ Although primarily intended for internal com¬ cial, “America’s Heritage,” that will be munications, State is available to the public broadcast May 30 at 10:30 p.m. on Channel 26 through the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. in Washington. The show is being billed as “a Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. celebration of the remarkable collection of Amer¬ 20402. Second-class postage paid at Wash¬ ican fine arts and crafts on display in the ington, D.C., and additional mailing offices. Diplomatic Reception Rooms,” one that “evokes POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PA/ the history of early America and the unabashedly OAP, Room 58I5A, Department of State, patriotic culture of our young Republic.” The Washington, D.C. 20520. program will include interviews with Secretary Baker, former Secretary Shultz and classical Editor Sanford Watzman architect Allan Greenberg, who designed the Deputy editor Veda Engel Treaty Room and other phases of State’s “Amer¬ Assistant editor Barbara Noyer icana Project.” “America’s Heritage” will be Staff Assistant Gregg Gibson □ seen first on WTTW/Chicago, May 23, then on other public TV stations across the country. A videotape will be available for purchase or rental. (Photo by Richard Cheek) May 1990 state No. 333

News stories Feature stories 2 Update on Foggy Bottom 4 The dragon boat races renovation project 19 The diplomatic environment: 8 Inspector general identifies Mongolia “best managed” embassies 23 Interdepartment seminar; A 9 The Bulletin dies review by a second student 10 Manila girl wins contest with her security poster Photo Stories 10 Cultural series for State 30 Post of the Month; Krakow employees is launched 10 Annual U.S. savings bond Special campaign gets underway 20 From the Director General 10 Drug education begins 13 2 “Secretaries of the Year” Department and features 15 Secretaries in Europe confer; 18 Appointments 13 Honors, Awards proposals sent to Department 21 "Ask Dr. Goff” 8 News Highlights 18 Ambassadors named for 42 Bureau Notes 58 Obituaries 54 Diplo-Crostic 27 Personnel: Barbados, Guinea 55 ebp Foreign Service 24 Information management 23 Education 36 Civil Service classes and Training 12,14 Verse Letters to the Editor

A vote by supportively while secretaries’ rights, Singapore promotions, etc., have been discussed and Dear Editor; battled over with intensity these past two to Please chalk up one vote for Jim three years. Many, if not most of us, sup¬ Sampas’ perfectly reasonable statement on port secretaries’ requests for increased the glamorizing of guns (January issue) vs. recognition, a greater percentage of promo¬ the hysterical replies thus far printed tions, new titles, etc. (March issue) in STATE. However, I for one do not support the Sincerely, recent trend to compare secretary skill lev¬ Janet White □ els to those required in other skill areas. I refer in particular to Ms. Tracy’s letter A communicator responds which first cited promotional comparisons London, England between FP-07 communications specialists Dear Editor: and secretaries, then added: “Given the I would like to comment on the Laurie similarities in skill levels between com¬ Tracy letter in the March issue. munications specialists and secretaries ... Most of us communicators have stood —(Continued on Page 55)

May 1990 1 The Wiashington Workplace

Long-term State renovation project is outlined at meeting Offices to start moving late next year

Details on the moving of offices out of Main State to Columbia Plaza were disclosed in a meeting here on April 12, followed by a STATE interview with project staff members. Medical Services offices in the 2900 corridor are scheduled to make the shift in the winter of 1991-92 to the ground floor and the entire second floor of the plaza’s seven-story lowrise building. Employee services offices in the 1200 corridor— including the Foreign Service Lounge, the travel offices, the cashier’s office, the retirement office and the ID photo unit— will follow a year later, moving to the plaza’s adjoining 15-story highrise. The space that is vacated at Main State will not be filled—not until later phases are reached in the $210-mitlion project (STATE, August/September). During the period of vacancy, reconfiguration and refurbishing of those Main State offices will begin, as part of a far-reaching renovation that is expected to continue for the rest of this dec¬ ade. Deputy assistant secretary Jerome F. Tolson One, about 1,800 square feet, will be on a Joining Medical Services on the presides. AID’S Michael Doyle is on his right. promenade facing the Kennedy Center and Tom Andrews, interior design firm official, is ground floor of the lowrise will be a Watergate. The other, 4,600 square feet, on his left. (State Department photo by Robert daycare facility and a physical fitness center will be in a courtyard at the third-floor E. Kaiser) for employees of State, AID and the Arms level. Control and Disarmament Agency. Work on the arms agency. The fitness center, occupying 4,000 Vince Chaverini, Department project square feet, will be coed. When it opens, Color scheme: camel—plus plum, director, and John Helm of his staff told the smaller separate workout and locker blue, beige State they wanted the daycare facility to rooms for men and women in the basement the lowrise to pave the way for these tenants begin operations in December next year, but at Main State will remain in operation, per¬ is slated to begin in August. they sounded a note of caution. The facility haps until 1994, as parallel facilities. Then The color scheme that will pervade the might not be ready that soon, they said, if they would be closed “for the minimum entire project in the plaza is to be based on construction work in the adjoining highrise time necessary for the general renovation,” camel as the primary color, with plum, blue creates an unsafe environment for children. the project director said. and beige as accessory and accent colors. But they added they considered the facility All the offices now in the plaza high- These selections were made by an outside to be a priority, and they would try to have rise will move permanently to the lowrise, interior design firm. it completed “on schedule or as just as added Mr. Chaverini, except for the inspec¬ “All of this is going to create a much close to that as we can.” tor general’s offices there, which will be more pleasant and productive working An interim board of directors for the environment for the people here,’’ said daycare facility, headed by Elizabeth Elliott Fitness center at Columbia Plaza Jerome F. Tolson, presiding at the meeting. Kimmel and Patricia Pittarelli, has been will be coed Mr. Tolson, who is deputy assistant secre¬ formed by the Department. The board has shifted to a new leased annex building that tary for operations, added: “GSA (the U.S. been working with an outside consultant has not yet been identified. General Services Administration, which is since last August. In the meantime, the AID will take over the entire third footing about three-quarters of the cost of General Services Administration has com¬ floor of the lowrise, the Bureau for Refugee the project) sees this as one of its very top pleted a conceptual design that would Programs the fifth floor, and visa operations priorities in Washington.” accommodate some 62 children. the sixth and seventh floors. On the fourth Officials of that agency were at the The facility will be on the south side of floor will be more refugee and Consular meeting, as were members of a project the first floor at the plaza. It will include a Affairs systems staff offices, a central com¬ steering group that includes representatives kitchen, laundry, storage areas, toilets, a puter room and the Office of the Historian. of the Bureau of Administration, the Bureau conference/lounge room, offices, a play Mr. Chaverini stressed that the transfer of Diplomatic Security, the Bureau of area, four classrooms and a nursery. of the 1200-corridor employee services to Finance and Management Policy, AID and Two outdoor play areas are planned. the plaza “will actually make it easier for MAIN STATE - COLUMBIA PLAZA PROJECT COLUMBIA PLAZA SPACE ALLOCATION - PHASE I

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John Helm of State Department project staff Chistolini of U.S. General Services Admin- 2 MEDICAL DIVISION makes presentation. Project director Vince istration on Mr. Chaverini’s right. (State Chaverini is seated on his right, with Paul Department photo by Robert E. Kaiser) FITNESS BLD. CENTER CAFETERIA MNGR. Objectives of Department renovation project (From a signboard displayed at the meeting): our people—and their families—to avail —Improve utilization of space by State. —State-of-art office environments. themselves of those services.” —Improve efficiency of State operations —Child care center. He explained: "Right now, there’s through consolidation. —Fitness facilities. limited access to these offices because of —Improve security of State Department —Food service facilities. security considerations. But once we get facilities. —Reduce energy costs. them out of this building to a place where —Provide State with quality workspace that —Improve communication efficiency. the security requirements are less stringent, promotes efficiency: —Lower communication cost. □ the spouses and the children of our employees won't have to go through all that redtape. Of course, that goes for the Medi¬ PRESENT STATUS PROJECTED STATUS cal Services offices as well.” MAIN STATE ANNEXES MAIN STATE ANNEXES NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION The State Department occupies space (DC, VA AND MD) (DC, VA AND MD) 1990 2000 in 39 separate locations in the metropolitan o OHAGCnSTOWN area. Once the entire project is completed, HAGERSTOWN WAREHOUSE MLTSVH.LE WAREHOUSE this will be reduced to 17. The plaza high- rise is to be used as a "staging area,” where offices that are moved out of Main State will be relocated. In some cases they will remain in the plaza, and in others they ultimately will return to Main State in re¬ configured space. Who will move where and when during this phase is not yet known, Mr. Chaverini said. He added: “There’s no point in getting ’way ahead of ourselves.” Mr. Tolson recalled that at one junc¬ ture, Ivan Selin, the under secretary for management, asked: "Why not just build one large new building and move everyone into that one?” The answer he got was that this would cost $940 million, compared with the $210 million that is the estimated price tag of the current project. ■

May 1990 3 Life in the Foreign Service

The short, unhappy (?) career of a ‘great - helmsman' He was impeached by his peers in the dragon boat r^es

BY Paul Stephenson dragon’s head on the prow, and grabbed the throughout Southeast Asia, on the fifth day green buoy to hold us in position. I tried to of the fifth lunar month, with dragon boat The author, then 33, now retired from relax, picking a spot on the shore to steer races. dragon boat racing, was a political officer towards so that our course would be as Our consulate team, composed largely in Hong Kong on this historic occasion. straight as possible. of aging diplomats, but fortified by the Nervously, I gripped the steering Our team, composed of 20 staff mem¬ presence of four of our young and fit oar of our boat more tightly. We were bers of the American consulate general in Marine guards,* was about to compete with making a difficult turn across the swells in Hong Kong, was about to compete (this was other expatriate and Chinese teams in a our final approach to the starting line. With seven years ago) in the first heat of the series of races throughout the day. Our 30- -only about three annual dragon boat races in Stanley Harbor, foot boat was crammed with 18 nervous inches of freeboard, on the south coast of the island of Hong rowers sitting two abreast and a drummer a large swell could Kong. The spring races are a tradition in standing amidships over a three-foot-high easily swamp our China, reaching back nearly 2,500 years to drum used to keep cadence. He was about craft before the race the warring states period (402-221 B.C.). to beat on it with two foot-long sticks, each had even begun. According to legend, the festival commem¬ about an inch thick. 1 was in the stern, This would negate orates the death of the learned and upright clutching the steering oar. On the bow the weeks of prac¬ minister of state, Chu Yuan. Chu, the tale rested an enormous dragon’s head, the tice we’d sweated goes, was a wise and dedicated adviser to bright reds and blues of its neck glistening through, embarrass¬ the king of Ch’u. Other advisers, jealous of in the morning sun. Its eyes burned red ing us before the his influence, conspired to turn the king from the colored drops placed in them thousands of specta- against him. Chu Yuan was so disgusted earlier by organizers of the race. This cere¬ Mr. Stephenson tors crowded around with the intrigue and deceit of the court mony, described by some of the local cog¬ the bay. And we would jam the junks in the noscenti as “dotting the eyes,” inaugurated harbor. ‘Dropping rice dumplings, the day’s festivities by “reawakening” the Waiting for a relative lull in the rising wrapped in bamboo leaves, slumbering dragons. I and falling of the ocean’s surface, 1 jammed on the water’ Our group had practiced together m#re the oar hard over and brought the boat than a dozen times in the preceding weeks, about. Our “coxswain” stopped beating his that, in despair, he threw himself into the in an effort to perfect the rhythm we would Mi-lo River (in what is today Hunan use in the race. Though the course was only T/ie lead rower reached around province) and drowned. The people *Some of the team members were political mourned the loss of their upright statesman, the mighty dragon’s head’ officer Hal Meinheit, economic officers Marshall and rowed up and down the river dropping Adair, Francis Shea and Matt Chin; consular cadence on the large drum amidships, and rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves officers Kevin Maher and Michael Guest; Marine ordered the crew to back-paddle as we on the water to nourish his spirit. In the John White; the USlA’s David Miller and Mike slipped up to the starting line. One of the years since Chu’s death in 288 B.C., his Yaki; schoolteacher Herb Tobias; and Matt Yaki, lead rowers reached around the mighty memory has been commemorated from a Foreign Service family.

STATE about 500 yards long, with a race expected druitimer’s cadence was smooth and pre¬ to last about three-and-a-half minutes, dictable; our helmsman’s moves sure and To prove that Americans, training was deemed essential since the steady—so long as he remembered to push while admittedly well-fed, uncoordinated movements of so many the steering oar in the direction opposite could hold their own’_ novice paddlers in such close confines that he hoped the bow of the boat would go. The fourth boat, with a group of Australians invariably resulted in a great clashing of We had drawn Lane 3 in the four-lane aboard drawn from the local expatriate com¬ paddles, splashing of water and smashing of opening heat of the day. In Lane 1 was a munity, was just making its turn across the knuckles. Through the weeks of evening boat recruited from one of the local treacherous swells outside the harbor practice, we had smoothed out most of the branches of a major multinational bank. We entrance, in preparation for sliding into the rough spots, balanced rowers sitting abreast were hoping to beat it, to prove once and fourth lane on our immediate left. The Aus- for all that American diplomats, while sies, however, had different plans, and ‘A great clashing of paddles, admittedly well-fed, could hold their own slipped into a spot to our immediate right, against the private sector. In Lane 2 directly smashing of knuckles’ halfway between our boat and that of the to our right was a British-manned boat, Brits in Lane 2, thus squeezing three boats by weight and ability, and agreed upon a intent on humiliating the “colonials” and into what should have been space for two. and stay there. Our demonstrating that Yorktown was a fluke. (Several of my colleagues later remarked that this maneuver had been prompted by the effects of several bottles of strong Aus¬ tralian beer on the helmsman, it being fully 8 a.m. in Hong Kong—well into the after¬ noon somewhere in Australia. Our official spokesman refused either to confirm or deny this theory.) The drummer in our boat protested immediately to the starter that the Aus¬ tralian boat was positioned incorrectly. These comments were met with mutterings from the Australian boat, now only two ‘The effects of several bottles of strong Australian beer’_ paddles-length away, to the effect that these “Yanks should quit yer complaining and get on with the rice” (it sounded like rice, but then 1 don’t speak “Strain,” the Aussie name for their peculiarly melodious lan¬ guage). The starter concurred, and raised his pistol. Our rowers leaned forward in their seats, paddles vertical, blades just above the water, straining for the sound of our drum indicating the cadence we would follow. Our drummer stood over his drum, sticks in hand, poised, ready to strike the first beat—while I checked my reference point on shore and wondered if the Aus¬ tralians were too close. The gun banged, 4 drummers pounded 4 drums, 80 rowers grunted out their first strokes, 18 whirlpools of foamy green water ‘4 drummers pounded 4 drums, 80 rowers grunted_ swirled around the sides of our boat, the crowd roared its approval—and the race was underway. Drummer Ed Quinn, a part- timer at the post, set a brisk but sustainable ‘Our consulate team (was) pace as our paddlers moved forward and composed largely of aging backward in near-perfect synchronicity. After three strokes, the boat began to gain diplomats’_ momentum. Suddenly, it surged ahead as its

May 1990 5 LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

the enemy approaching at a right angle, The dragonhead bore who can bring none to bear on you. This is ominously down on our what Lord Nelson had done at Trafalgar to drummer’ defeat the French and save the British empire; we were about to do it again, but with paddles rather than 16-pound cannon. Drummer Quinn saw the impending disaster and urged his rowers on to even more heroic efforts, but in vain. The Aussie dragonhead struck us on the starboard side, just behind the drummer. The final four double rows of paddlers dropped flat as best they could in the crowded confines of the boat, to avoid being impaled on the dragon’s fiery nostrils. 1 too threw myself down on the seat as the Aussie boat bumped its way down our hull, forcing our stern sideways in the water towards Lane 4 as the bow swung about to starboard. 1 pulled myself back to a sitting position, as the

‘The Aussie dragonhead struck us on the starboard side’_

Australian dragon made its final impact on our vessel, to assess the situation. But I had forgotten that my six-foot steering oar pro¬ jected well into the water behind our sturdy craft, and so I was startled when it too was struck by the errant boat from Down Under. 1 grabbed the T-shaped handle strongly with both hands, felt the lurch as the prow hit my oar, and looked back just in time to see the shaft of the steering oar slip out of the boat. I glanced down at the now-empty handle in my hands, up at the drummer who was star¬ ing, horrified, as our only means of steering floated away. 1 made a wild lunge for the oar drifting off the stem, and snagged it. 1 hurriedly hammered the T handle back on with the edge of my hand, and looked up for the first time in some while to check our course. But disaster was about to strike again. When I at last again faced forward, oar in hand, 1 was greeted by the combined screams of my distraught crew who, having faced forward throughout the unfolding

7 was greeted by the combined screams of my distraught crew” initial resistance to movement was over¬ the quiche-eating Americans and their fish- come. Within seconds, we were leading the and-chips brethren from the United King¬ drama, were largely unaware that we’d been pack, already fully a half boat-length ahead dom. Seeing daylight to port, he swung the rammed and driven off course. They of our competitors. oar over, and the dragonhead on his boat attributed our sudden change of direction to But then disaster struck. bore ominously down on our drummer. Our an attack of nerves experienced by me, their The Australian helmsman, perhaps naval attache noted later to me that we’d great helmsman. Their unhappiness was seeking to guide his craft by the Southern completed the classic maneuver in naval compounded, however, by the fact that our Cross (or maybe having espied a cooler of warfare; crossing the T. This is the move boat was bearing down rapidly on our Brit¬ suds on the beach), suddenly decided that that commanders of all sailing vessels ish colleagues in Lane 2. The collision with the vacant space in Lane 4 was in fact more dream of executing successfully: bring all the Australian boat had driven the bow desirable then being sandwiched between the guns of your ships to bear broadside on around to starboard and, as I looked up for

6 STATE the first time after retrieving my oar, I was greeted with the sight of the British helms¬ man arcing gracefully through the air and into the drink, as the dragonhead on our boat blind-sided him neatly in the solar plexus and sent him sailing. As 1 admired his form, I put the oar hard over in an attempt to avoid crossing behind the British boat, which was now dangerously off-course due to the lack of anyone to steer it. The front two rowers in my own boat, normally the leaders who respond to the beat of the drum and who in turn are followed by the other paddlers, were sprawled over the bow, holding our boat’s dragonhead out of the water, where it had been sent during our unfortunate encounter with the British steersman. Still attached to the prow but dragging in the water, it was pushing us further off course and greatly slowing our progress. I spotted the beach, decided that any¬ thing with sand on it was close enough, and steered us in. Our resourceful rowers rose to the occasion, gamely pursuing the bankers in Lane 1, but their effort was too late. We finished—to this day, a “best” for the American team—a strong second, while the Brits drifted between the junks as they waited for their leader to be rescued by the

‘The dragonhead on our boat blind-sided him neatly in the solar plexus’_ protest against us, and I to lodge one organizers’ boat. I’m not sure what hap¬ against the Australians. The officials, to 7 was slandered and libeled in pened to the Aussies, but I suspect they their credit, did what officials do every¬ the most vile terms’ located a nice pub on the way in and where when they’re confronted with irate stopped in for a couple of cold ones. members of the public babbling conflicting hope. They were nearly unanimous, Once on the beach, I was slandered and confusing stories of illegal starts, lost however, in demanding my resignation as and libeled in the most vile terms by my fel¬ oars and flying helmsmen—they did great helmsman, despite some recognition low crew members, who were convinced I nothing. Our protests in vain, we were that the day’s earlier events in no way had cracked under the pressure. Finally, I informed that the American boat, having reflected upon my competence. Some even was able to convince them that in fact we finished second in the heat, would move on suggested I follow Chu Yuan’s lead and had been rammed (those in the front of the to the consolation round, while the Aussies hurl myself into the polluted water of the boat found this particularly difficult to and Brits would be eliminated from the bay, a suggestion I politely declined. Reluc¬ believe). My story was corroborated by the day’s competition. tantly, I abdicated. Ed Quinn took over the last few rows of paddlers, who had seen the My consulate colleagues greeted this helm in the following events. whole incident. news coolly, but after reflecting that we Suffice it to say that even without me Having survived the wrath of my own were unlikely to win or even place in the as the great helmsman but only as another teammates, I then was confronted by a very main competition, given the 15-year, 20- paddler we were triumphant that day. We wet and upset British helmsman, who gave pound-per-man difference (and I’m being won each of the remaining heats in a walk¬ new meaning to the expression “mad as a generous here) between our team and some over, surging away from our opponents and wet hen.” I blamed the whole incident on of the younger contestants, they decided lengthening our lead all the way into the the Australians, whose country, after all, that the consolation bracket did offer some beach. In the end, we were awarded the had started out as a penal colony of Britain, Stanley Village Consolation Division Win¬ and so such behavior was not without prece¬ ‘Some even suggested I hurl ner’s Plate; it rests proudly today in the dent. My British colleague failed to see the myself into the polluted water... American consulate’s trophy case—proof logic of my argument, and together we positive of the truth of this tale, if not of my headed for the officials’ tent, he to lodge a I politely declined’_ ability as great helmsman. ■

May 1990 7 News Highlights

‘Best managed’ posts: Libreville, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Nicosia Inspector general cites them; Secretary adds his praise

The office of the Inspector General says Libreville, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Nicosia were the “best man¬ aged” posts it inspected in the preceding fiscal year. Secretary Baker sent letters on March 12 to the four persons who were ambas¬ sadors there, congratulating them on their posts being selected. The Secretary also commended the mission staffs, including the Foreign Service nationals, remarking they had “set an example to be emulated by . . others throughout the Foreign Service.” Mr. Clark Mr. Wolfowitz Mr.Mr, Moiyo Mr. Perriner The respective chiefs of mission, who open atmosphere developed, not sur-sur¬ crowded. Despite this handicap, )the ade¬ have since moved on to other assignments, prisingly, high morale, despite the fact that quately staffed, well-led administraladministrative sec¬ were Warren Clark Jr., Paul Wolfowitz, the embassy occupies an overcrowded, tion performed exceptionally well. John C. Monjo and William K. Perrin. The unattractive compound. Resources were used wisely. Man:Management deputy chiefs of mission, also praised in the “Management controls were taken controls were included in all appappropriate inspection reports, were in order: Kenneth seriously. Inspectors found that even often- work requirements statements, and the dep¬ M. Scott Jr., Michael V. Connors, Thomas overlooked areas were well-controlled, uty chief of mission personally oversawove an C. Hubbard and John U. Nix. e.g., reporting and representation plans active program to implement them. Reporting on the selections, inspector were well-managed, and consular equip-equip¬ “The attention to manamanagement general Sherman M. Funk provided these ment and supplies were controlled appropri¬appropri- extended to constituent posts in MeMedan and portraits of the posts: ately. The new American administrative Surabaya, with an active, planned program staff set a priority to correct previous weak¬ of visits to these posts by all embassy staff Libreville: ‘Excellent, balanced nesses in general services operations, and with a capacity to assist them, including the reporting’ had largely succeeded.” administrative staff. A major continuing factor was the high professionalism and “Embassy Libreville (in Gabon, a Jakarta: ‘Administrative section experience of the Foreign Service national West African nation on the eastern coast of performed exceptionaily well’ staff.” the Gulf of Guinea; inspected in November 1988) manages relations with two sovereign Embassy Jakarta (in Indonesia, on the Kuala Lumpur: ‘Innovative use of nations—Gabon, and Sao Tome and Prin¬ island of Java; inspected April-May 1989) automation’ cipe—and has made significant advances was an exceptionally well-led mission. The with both. The post had an ambitious but country team was one of the most cohesive “Embassy Kuala Lumpur (in Malaysia well-established goals and workplan. The observed by inspectors. Focusing primarily in Southeast Asia; inspected May-June plan was well understood by all staff and on the implementation of policy toward a 1989) used its goals and workplan as a served as a constant reference point. large, complex nation, the ambassador del¬ management map to outline tasks to be “Although the United States does not egated major management authority to the done, and to coordinate the work of the have large aid or assistance programs in deputy chief of mission, who used the goals U.S. agencies present in the mission. Under either country, the embassy staff skillfully and workplan process as a policy and man¬ the direction of the ambassador and the built a wide range of contacts in both agement tool to weld the coumry team deputy chief of mission, all agencies par¬ societies. This was reflected in an excellent together. Unlike that at many posts ticipated in preparing the document, and and balanced reporting program. inspected last year, the workplan provided used it to the degree that the heads of agen¬ “Inspectors attributed much of the the basis for other mission planning—post cies were able to quote not only their own, post’s quality to the open, collegial man¬ reporting, representation and travel plans but also some of the goals tasked to other agement style of an ambassador and deputy were all tied to the goals and workplan, and agencies. The result was a tightly-knit chief of mission who readily delegated the heads of several agencies reported they effort to advance U.S. mutual interests with authority. The relatively small embassy had also adjusted their internal planning to Malaysia. staff was used creatively, e.g., by having match the embassy’s. “U.S.-Malaysian relations are occa¬ the officer and Foreign Service national “Relations with Indonesian officials sionally sensitive, but the embassy man¬ who manage a half-time consular workload and citizens were conducted with energy aged relationships very well. Embassy also manage the growing number of pro¬ and imagination. The embassy had excel¬ reporting was highly praised for its incisive grams of U.S.-Gabonese military coopera¬ lent contacts throughout the country, balance. The forward-looking, analytical tion. Everyone was familiar with the work including through the well-run consulates. nature of reporting reflected the sound plan¬ of other personnel, and everyone partici¬ Reporting was superior. ning reflected in the embassy’s goals and pated in mission management. A busy. “The chancery compound is old and workplan.

8 STATE “The administration of the embassy Bulletin duplicates official documentation featured the innovative use of automation to Average per diem is up published elsewhere (e.g., the Weekly develop work planning and tracking sys¬ The Department’s Allowances Staff Compilation of Presidential Documents and tems. reported that, as of March, the average archival materials produced by the Depart¬ “Maintenance was not a continual worldwide foreign travel per diem ment’s Historical Office.)” Tlie December effort to repair recurring problems, but a allowance was $110.21. This represents a issue was the last. □ truly preventative program. Automation 0.7% increase over the February average, was also used creatively to develop and a 5.4% increase over the past 12 resource and work controls, resulting in an months. □ Art Buchwald says: ‘Cool excellent implementation of overall man¬ It!’ Will he be heeded? agement controls. by the embassy, and tests of these controls “The State Department,” said humor¬ “Morale throughout the embassy was by inspectors did not reveal any significant ist Art Buchwald in an April 5 appearance high, as might be expected of a weaknesses.” at the Secretary’s Open Forum, “is a good thoughtfully-planned effort to implement friend to the United States.” Not one to meaningful policies, in a well-administered General observations speak loosely, he explained to rank-and-file mission, with a highly competent staff of During the fiscal year, Mr. Funk’s State employees: Americans and Malaysians.” staff inspected 39 embassies, 36 consulates “I don’t know how much credit you and consulates general and 4 other U.S. can take for it, but the fall of Berlin, the Nicosia: ‘Management controis diplomatic missions. The inspector general democratic rise in Poland, Czechoslovakia, are taken seriousiy’ noted that, while the “best managed’’ Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany, as embassies differed from the others in many well as free elections in Central America, “Embassy Nicosia (on Cyprus, at the ways, the managers of the four posts shared show what you at the State Department can eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; several common characteristics. do when you’re motivated.” inspected June-July 1989) operates in an Mr. Funk said: “Post management at Then he added: “I’m here today to tell unusually tense situation, but has done a all four embassies created an open, col¬ you knock it off. We don’t have any money fine job of advancing U.S. mutual interests legial atmosphere, with conscious efforts by left to support free governments!” with both communities within the divided the ambassadors and deputy chiefs of mis¬ The audience responded politely, with nation of Cyprus. The ambassador and the sion to forge teams across all embassy sec¬ obligatory laughter. But there was no embassy have made significant contribu¬ tions and other agencies. U.S. policy indication that Mr. Buchwald’s plea to cool tions to the defusing of some of the more objectives were effectively laid out through it would be heeded. □ serious developments, including playing a the goals and workplan process, used to constructive role in the resumption of inter- good end through the crafting of measur¬ Sit up in your harness communal talks. Embassy officers partici¬ able objectives with clear taskings, holding pated actively in the policy process through periodic reviews, and ensuring wide dis¬ and be counted! mechanisms created by the chief of mis¬ semination and discussion. Although all The Safety Office will survey cars sion. four missions operate in difficult, some¬ entering the C Street garage. May 21-28, to “Inspectors noted that one key to the times delicate, political situations requiring ascertain how many drivers are wearing excellence of management at Embassy Nic¬ careful attention to the implementation of safety belts, as part of State’s observance of osia was the statement of policy and man¬ policy, chiefs of mission, deputy chiefs of a safety promotion known as “ ‘Buckle Up, agement objectives laid out in a sound goals mission and other post management offi¬ America!’ Week.” and workplan. The plan included forward cials stressed effective management by vis¬ A Safety Office staffer will be with the planning, periodic reviews and a wide dis¬ ible and continuing personal commitment. guards inspecting cars as they enter the semination to obtain good staff understand¬ All were also actively involved in strength¬ garage. At random, they will award har¬ nessed drivers key chains, pens and tire ing of the post’s objectives. The small staff, ening management controls over gauges, in an effort to promote safety belt including members of other U.S. Govern¬ resources.” □ ment agencies, operated as a cohesive unit. awareness, Eileen Verity of the Safety Other agency heads commented favorably Office said. on the degree to which they were integrated The Bulletin is no more: She added that most employees aren’t into the mission. done in by the deficit aware that a Department regulation (6 FAM “Nicosia carried out an ambitious After 50 years, the monthly Depart¬ 617.4-3) requires all employees on official reporting program. It was praised by end- ment of State Bulletin has ceased publica¬ business to wear safety belts—in both gov¬ users in Washington. tion—“in the face of diminishing fiscal ernment and private vehicles. Still, surveys “Despite a heavy workload. Embassy resources,’’ according to a Department conducted by the Safety Office last May Nicosia had a sound administrative pro¬ Notice of March 16. and October found that 70% of drivers gram, stemming from a clear concept of The official periodical had provided entering the building were wearing safety requirements and good planning to meet subscribers, many of them in libraries and belts, she said. □ those needs, and the support of a strong other study centers around the country, the Foreign Service national contingent. Con¬ texts of speeches made by Department prin¬ Federal Employees Buckle Up struction of a new chancery, to be com¬ cipals, texts of their congressional testi¬ pleted in 1990, will solve the existing mony and transcripts of press conferences, problem of a dowdy, crowded facility. among other materials. Management controls were taken seriously The Department Notice added: “The C 1 May 1990 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Foreign Service daughter 5:30 p.m. in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. said. In addition, each piece of classified He will play selections by Mozart, Rossini, mail (envelope, package or other outer in Maniia wins contest Chopin and others. cover) must be registered by use of a Form Inaugurating the association’s “State OF-120, Diplomatic Pouch Mail Registra¬ of the Arts” series on April 18 was pianist tion (5 FAM 962.5-4). Roderic C. Walter, who performed works Classified material mailed to the by Chopin, Scriabin and Villa-Lobos in the Department for transmission via the classi¬ East Auditorium at noon. More chamber fied pouch must be via registered mail, in music and dance recitals will be offered, the an outer envelope addressed to Chief, Clas¬ association said in a Department Notice. (A sified Pouch and Mail Branch, Department review of the Roderic Walter recital will of State, Washington, D.C. 20520-0528. appiear in the June issue.) □ The outer envelope must not indicate that it contains classified material, the notice U.S. savings bond drive said. □ is on at State E)epartment employees will be able this Be careful with State’s month to join the Payroll Savings Plan for property, notice warns U.S. savings bonds, or to increase their cur¬ Employees were warned they are rent allotments. responsible for all Government property The bonds now have a new education issued or loaned to them, and they could be benefit. Interest earned on new bonds may held liable for items they damage or lose, in be tax-exempt, if the bonds are used to pay a March 7 Department Notice. for higher education. To qualify for the ben¬ Chester Kuzhno of the Property Man¬ Victoria Spiers efit, bonds must be purchased by parents in agement Branch, Bureau of Administration, their own names, and certain income limita¬ explained: “The items include typewriters, Victoria Spiers, 11, has won a world¬ tions must be met at the time of redemption. computers, tape recorders, radios, wide poster contest from the Alert Overseas Details will be available from Department weapons, automobiles and residential furni¬ Kids (A-OK) Program sponsored by the canvassers. □ ture at post. Some employees have a tend¬ Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Over¬ ency to take Government property for seas Security Advisory Council and the Drug education program granted. When equipment they’ve been Family Liaison Office. begins at State assigned needs to be repaired or turns up The prize is a home computer, which A series of educational programs on a missing, they have an obligation to report she’ll receive at a ceremony in Manila, drug-free workplace began in the Depart¬ this to their custodial officer. Also, many where she and her family live. ment on April 24 and will be repeated on employees aren’t aware that they should Victoria is the daughter of Foreign Serv¬ June 19, August 14, October 16 and turn in a personal custody property receipt ice secretary Victoria Q. Spiers and Gary December 4. for any equipment they use for work out¬ O. Spiers. The family has lived in Bolivia The 90-minute program covers the side the office.” and Beijing, as well as Manila. She is an types, symptoms, effect and impact on the He said the custodial officer is the per¬ honor student and enjoys sports and music, job of drug use. Information is distributed son in each office assigned to keep track of as well as drawing and making posters. □ on the confidential counseling services office equipment and to report changes in available in the Department. inventory. Bureau executive directors then Lyric soprano, pianist Sheldon Yuspeh, the Department’s report damage or losses over $500 to a drug program manager, said supervisors and committee made up of three members from to perform at State managers are attending more intensive sem¬ the Bureaus of Administration and Finance Lyric soprano Donna Tavani and inars, “to enable them where necessary to and Management Policy. This committee pianist Andre-Luis Rangel will be the sec¬ recognize the problem and advise their assesses liability. ond and third performers this month in a employees on how to get help.” □ Liability would flow from malicious new cultural series at the Department spon¬ intent or obvious neglect, such as leaving sored by the Foreign Affairs Recreation Classified material: put equipment in an unlocked car, Mr. Kuzhno Association. State employees are welcome said. Conversely, an employee who without charge to the recitals. it in the correct pouch damages a computer because he or she Ms. Tavani, who has traveled in A cautionary Department Notice of didn’t understand it probably wouldn’t be Europe and the United States as a soloist March 9 says there have been incidents of held accountable, he added. For informa¬ and who has had roles in musical theater classified material being put inadvertently tion, contact Mr. Kuzhno, 875-6097. and opera, will be heard on May 9 at noon into an unclassified pouch, because the □ in the East Auditorium, above the 21st sender didn’t properly mark the outer envel¬ Street entrance. ope containing the material. Entrance on 23rd Street Mr. Rangel, who holds a doctorate in All envelopes delivered to the Pouch The 23rd Street lobby, staffed with music from Catholic University and who Room which contain classified material two receptionists from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., won first prize in the national Chopin com¬ must be marked on both sides with the clas¬ is now open for all visitors. The entrance is petition in 1986, will perform on May 23 at sification of the material in them, the notice open for employees 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. □ i

Reminder: restrictions reports of gifts received toward the end of Smith and Denis Spelman—who had been the calendar year should be forwarded to the appointed by the court as special deputy on receiving gifts Office of the Chief of Protocol prior to Jan¬ marshals. One defendant pleaded guilty, A reminder Department Notice on uary 31. and action was pending against the others. April 3 said U.S. Government employees As to decorations, the notice said: In the second case, the president of a (as well as spouses and dependents) are pro¬ “Approval for the acceptance and retention company under contract to the Department hibited from requesting or otherwise of foreign decorations must be requested to provide pilot training and related services encouraging the tender of a gift or decora¬ through the supervising assistant secretary was discovered, according to the inspector tion from a foreign government. Also, of state or comparable official, except that, general, submitting fraudulent bills to State under the Foreign Gifts and Decorations in the case of a decoration awarded to an for services and supplies that were not Act, employees may not accept and retain a assistant secretary or other officer of com¬ provided. The businessman has been in¬ gift tendered by a foreign government if it parable or higher rank, the decision shall be dicted. has a retail value in the United States of made by the Office of Protocol.” □ The claims, against the Fishermen’s more than minimal value, which was raised Guaranty Fund, which is administered by on January 1 to $200. Unsolicited gifts of State, were for losses incurred when three minimal value tendered as souvenirs or Inspector general makes shrimp trawlers were seized by Brazil. The marks of courtesy may be accepted and 3 criminal court cases inspector general, in the wake of an inves¬ retained, the notice said, but employees Federal criminal court action against tigation by one of his special agents, Carol “rpust be aware of the standards of conduct individuals outside the Department has Ann Brown, charged that the claims were regulations contained in 22 CFR, Part 10, resulted from three cases investigated by based on documents that had been altered with respect to possible conflicts of interest State’s inspector general, two of them by the president of the trawler company. arising from the receipt of gifts, whether or involving contracts administered by the Both the company and the president entered not from a foreign government source.” Bureau of International Narcotics Matters plea agreements in which they admitted and the third stemming from claims handled It continued: “Gifts of more than mini¬ making false claims. Restitution of by the Bureau of Oceans and International mal value may be accepted only when it $250,000 was ordered, and sentencing was Environmental and Scientific Affairs. appears that to refuse the gift would likely pending. □ cause offense or embarrassment or other¬ In one of the narcotics cases, helicop¬ wise adversely affect the foreign relations of ter parts were stolen in Florida from a State 30 new security officers the United States. Such gifts become the contractor. Five persons were arrested by Thirty members of the first new property of the United States and must be special agents of the inspector general— security officer class since 1988 have reported to the Department’s Office of Pro¬ Edward Austin, James Connolly, David reported for duty. ■ tocol within 60 days of acceptance. (Gifts of travel of more than minimal value should be reported within 30 days unless specifi¬ cally authorized by instructions from the Department.) Noncompliance can result in a civil action. Forms for the reporting and surrender of gifts are available from the Office of Protocol, 647-4169. “Approval for the retention of foreign gifts of more than minimal value for official use at a designated location in the employ¬ ing agency or at a specified Foreign Service post must be requested through the Office of Protocol. “Because the Secretary of State is required by law to publish in the Federal Register a comprehensive listing filed dur¬ ing the preceding year by employees of all agencies, employees are reminded that

Sessions on safety The Safety Office will sponsor noon sessions on safety on and off the job, in Room 1206. Safety specialist Eileen Verity will show a video and answer questions SUGGESTION AWARD PROGRAM— before cost problems developed. With her are about back injury prevention, June 6. A Patricia PitareUi, center, receives a plaque Theresa A. Manly, right, her supervisor in session on avoiding chemical hazards is and a check for $75. She reported that a tele¬ the Office of Civil Service Personnel Manage¬ scheduled for September 12. For informa¬ phone in a second-floor hallway, outside a ment, and Suggestion Program coordinator tion, call her on 647-4302. □ vacated office, was being used by individuals Rita Corcoran. passing by. The phone was disconnected

May 1990 11 Verse

One lucky day at State Today I must congratulate All the items here at State: Nothing’s driven me insane. This day may never come again! My Wang worked right. The screen was bright! The printer printed Dark—not light! The ribbon typed. No staples stuck— I still cannot believe such luck! All phone calls transferred. Lunch was good. Fax sent—received. Just as it should! Our office had the right supplies. Long-distance calls Took just two tries... Such happiness I felt today. If only things could stay this way! But I am just a GS-7, Today’s as close as it gets to heaven! And back to normal tomorrow shall be. And NOTHING will work. At least for ME! —DfiE E. Webber Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs □

Dream to be a poet I will say words from a conscious mind International hotel I will write stories of those who find the Heavy-metal at brealfast: the waiters don’t You might ask one day If I want to be a poet way ... mind. To let my soul weave patterns of colors But... But I do, and block it as well as Tm able. To let my rhymes resound streams of music Hiding myself in my free New York Times, The war is on in my mind’s corner To fill the air with harmonious beats And straining to hear whether, at the next Voice of my song Then ... table, Seems to sleep deep in my heart Portuguese, English, or Sanskrit is spoken. My answer is: Yes, I want to be a poet And as feeble as sound of an old man’s flute Now it’s the lobby, the bar or the street: But not because of my wandering soul Trying to raise the truth by Lake Leman I can’t go upstairs yet, the maids will have But not because of the happy song sound That I feel alone broken Or because of the dreamy days around And ... Into my room for the towels and sheets. 1.. . Useless. The desk clerk, the bellhop, they’re all I want to be a poet And so ... deferential: Because on other side of the ocean When will I ever become a poet? Their English is good, though they don’t There is still a piece of land know your name. —Bic Tran Watered with tears and grief, yours Here you’re well cared-for, with all the Programmer analyst and mine essentials. Bureau for Refugee Programs ■ 50.. . And each night your room looks exactly the same. I want to be a poet Looking for a sure thing? Let the —Kelley Dupuis Use words as arms destroying grief Payroll Savings Plan be your ace in the hole. There’s never a gamble with U.S. Communicator, temporary duty, And commiserate with people in times Sao Paulo □ savings bonds. Just a good deal for you of need and your country. □ I will speak of the struggling dreams

12 STATE Honors and Awards

‘Secretaries of the Year’: Sylvester Satcher, Helen Ellis Runners-up are Carol Mills, Carol Lawson

Sylvester satcher, a Foreign Service secretary now at the embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, has been named “Foreign Service Secretary of the Year,” and Helen Ellis of the Policy Planning Staff is the “Civil Service Secretary of the Year.” Each will receive a check for $5,000 and a certificate signed by Secretary Baker. Their names will be engraved on a plaque in the Foreign Service Lounge. Carol Mills, a Foreign Service secre¬ tary assigned to Budapest, and Carol Lawson, a Civil Service secretary in the Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for

Sylvester Satcher, center, with Larry Williamson, deputy assistant secretary for personnel, and Ambassador John M^arthy. (State Department photo by Robert E. Kaiser)

McCarthy said, in the path of gunfire. He Carol Mills Carol Lawson wrote: “Frequently, outgoing and incoming shells required him to vacate his bedroom Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, have and spend the rest of the evening camped been named runners-up. A selection com¬ out on a chair in the lobby of his building. mittee recommended that each receive Satch never missed a day despite the dan¬ $2,000 and a Meritorious Honor Award. gers and fatigue of this mode of life.” Mr. McCarthy praised him for his Sylvester Satcher efforts in the hours before the embassy was Mr. Satcher was nominated for the evacuated last year: “Between 9 p.m. on Foreign Service honor by Ambassador John September 5 and helicopter liftoff at 7 a.m. McCarthy for his performance last year in on September 6, all sensitive material was war-tom Beimt. “Satch (as he prefers to be destroyed. (Then) Satch offered his assist¬ known) never ceased to amaze me by the ance to our communicators in rendering quality and quantity of work he was able to inoperable our cryptographic equipment. produce in what is unquestionably the E>espite the constant threat to his own life Foreign Service’s most dangerous environ¬ Helen Ellis. (State Department photo by Robert E. Kaiser) and myriad daily inconveniences, he found ment,” Mr. McCarthy wrote. “No appoint¬ the strength to turn in a performance of ment could be made over the phone because stantly searched out ways to include them in unusual excellence.” of security risks. But Satch used trusted our daily contacts. His concern for them Foreign Service nationals to convey re¬ was a major factor in their willingness to Helen Ellis quests for meetings in person, and had to work for us in a substandard physical Ms. Ellis was nominated for the Civil coordinate with our security staff to make plant.” Service honor by Dennis Ross, director of sure all sites were checked out in pierson. Mr. McCarthy also praised Mr. the Policy Planning Staff. He commended Arrangements could be extremely time- Satcher for performing the work of two sec¬ her for managing a heavy clericrl workload consuming.” retaries after violence in Beirut forced a when the office expanded its duties and Mr. McCarthy lauded Mr. Satcher for reduction in staff: “Satch found a way, by staff, and for bolstering office morale. improving relations with Foreign Service adding an hour or two to his already “Shortly after my arrival,” he wrote, nationals at the post: “All nationals are extremely long day, to maintain the same “the size of the Planning Policy Staff was housed some distance away (from the level of service to the Americans remaining doubled to reflect the Secretary’s needs. American compound). Satch was aware that at post.” The office was charged with managing this could lead to a real mental as well as Mr. Satcher’s apartment was near a some three dozen Department policy physical separation between us, and con- Lebanese army gun emplacement, Mr. reviews, as well as a dozen reviews man-

1 HONORS AND AWARDS

colleagues and subordinates. Her perform¬ Nominees for the ‘Secretary of the Year’ titles ance, just simply, was the best work I have The winners and the runners-up for the Foreign Service ever seen a secretary do. Helen’s profes¬ secretarial honors were selected from two Linda Adams, Khartoum. sionalism and sheer hard work were the lists of nominees that included also the fol¬ Pam Aulton, Tunis. glue which held the Planning Policy Staff lowing: Margaret Barnett, Florence. together.” Leslie Brock, Lilongwe. Civil Service Annemarie Brooks, Sanaa. Biographies Ruby Berry, Finance and Management Carol Duffy, Mbabane. Mr. Satcher Joined the Foreign Service Policy. Martha Fallin, Bureau of Personnel. in 1971. He served in Amman, Sanaa, Dana Carrico, Office of Information Hortencia Gencalp, Vienna. Phnom Penh, Damascus, Leningrad, Khar¬ Management. Maria Hargrove, Khartoum. toum, Jerusalem and Bogota before his Nancy Case, Foreign Service Institute. Dorothy Hecht, Panama. assignment to Beirut. He has won the Mer¬ Rita Corcoran, Bureau of Personnel. Rosalie Kahn, Santiago. itorious Honor Award and twice received Lenora Goldring, Office of the Secretary. Gloria Laguna, Paris. pay step increases. Joanne Healey, Diplomatic Security. Fortunata-Maria Lo Conte, Rome. Ms. Ellis joined the Department in Tanya Linton, European and Canadian Marilyn Mattke, Bamako. 1965. She has served in the Bureau of Affairs. Donna Millet, Algiers. Economic and Business Affairs, 1965-72, Julie Phipps, Executive Secretariat. Betty Pappas, Jakarta. the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Mary Silva, Legal Adviser’s Office. Charlene Peterson, Panama. Affairs, 1972-74, and the Executive Secre¬ Russell Stormont, Near Eastern and South Dona Fay Richard, Baghdad. tariat, 1974-76. She joined the Policy Plan¬ Asian Affairs. Elizabeth Roberts, Berlin. ning Staff in 1976. She has won a Superior Mary Stuckey, Politico-Military Affairs. Claudia Romeo, Canberra. Honor Award, two pay step increases and June Tuten, Office of Information Kay Thomas, Moscow. two cash awards. Management. Dianne Wampler, Bangkok. Ms. Mills began her Foreign Service Patricia Weaver, Near Eastern and South Valorie Williams, Malabo. career at the Department in 1972. She was Asian Affairs. Rebecca Wright, Mogadishu. □ assigned to Managua, Sydney, the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, the dated by the White House. This occurred when the staff was undergoing large-scale Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian against the backdrop of some of the most personnel changes, Helen was an invaluable Affairs, and the Bureau of East Asian and dramatic shifts in international affairs in this guide for new members—many with no Pacific Affairs before going to Budapest in century. It is hard to conceive of a stiffer Government experience at all—to the some¬ 1988. She has won a pay step increase and test of any secretary’s abilities.” times arcane workings of the Department. a Meritorious Honor Award, and has fig¬ Mr. Ross commended Ms. Ellis for She served as an enormously reassuring ured in a group Meritorious Honor Award. working long hours under deadline pres¬ influence for staff members carrying over Ms. Lawson joined the Department in sures. “Helen routinely worked 12-hour from the last administration. Her sensitivity 1981. She worked for the Bureau of African days, maintaining the same standards of and sound instincts expressed themselves in Affairs, 1981-86, and the Bureau of East efficiency and humor at the end of the day quiet encouragement and advice. More than East Asian and Pacific Affairs before com¬ as the beginning, then coming back for any management textbook I know, those ing to the Bureau of Near Eastern and South more the next day,” he said. instincts offered an example of how to sus¬ Asian Affairs in 1987. She has won a Mer¬ He praised Ms. Ellis for fostering team tain an efficient organization. itorious Honor Award, a pay step increase spirit among the office staff: “At a time “I do not easily bestow praise on my and cash awards. ■

Cherry blossom brevity Delicate blossoms now unfold. Beautiful in pastel hues. Intertwined with verdant leaves To decorate the avenues.

Trimmed with diamond drops of rain. Flowers against the azure sky Cast a waft of fragrancy And mesmerize each passerby.

While it lasts, enjoy the sight; Suddenly you’ll realize In the captivating night. The blooms have gone to their demise. —ANN R. BalacH Secretary, Bureau of MILAN, Italy—At safe-driving award cere¬ Giordano Polesello, consul general John A. Inter-American Affairs □ mony, from left: Francesco Geronimo, Boyle. Giuseppe Missora, Alan Barr, Waiter Maghini,

14 STATE Foreign Service Careers

Here^ what happened at the first-ever conference of secretaries Meeting in Brussels culminates in proposals to Washington and the posts

By Carol MacLeod and Cathy Lawson to European Communities) and a large joint administrative section. There were col¬ S THERE nothing left to do but talk? leagues and resources to draw upon in sup¬ This was the question on the minds of port of our efforts. many Foreign Service secretaries all last After some consideration, we decided year as the wires glowed red with yet that the political section, with its four secre¬ another commentary on our hopes—and dis¬ tarial positions, allowed the most room for appointments about our careers. innovation in developing new work require¬ It wasn’t that there was nothing to say. ments. Accordingly, thoughts for a pilot The year saw dozens of telegrams between project soon became centered there. Sup¬ Washington and the field, stimulated by the ported by the political adviser, Craig Dun- Bonn secretarial group. One can only guess Ms. MacLeod Ms. Lawson kerley, the political secretaries—Cathy at the number of animated discussions— Lawson, Noel Harrington-Aydin, Carol with colleagues and bosses—which must Emery and Adda Million—got together and have preceded the telegrams. Rumors soon Who we are came up with a plan that would separate our started flying about drafts being smuggled Our diplomatic post is a combined responsibilities into “specializations” with out of some posts whose leaders wouldn’t Department of State/Department of Defense new working titles—office manager, con¬ send them—and of wholesale changes in mission, with some 110 emp’oyees. The ference assistant, information assistant, secretarial prospects brought about by a mission’s primary emphasis is on negotia¬ operations assistant. similar debate in Washington. tions and consultations among 16 allies. As The project also allowed for a natural But if there were lots of comments, a result, we have lots of meetings and lots progression of responsibility, with the coun¬ were they doing any good? We suspected of visitors—over 8,000 official visitors a selor’s secretarial position at the FP-6 level that most secretaries were skeptical. There year, including visits by the President, the being designated as office manager. This Vice President, the Secretaries of State and structure was designed to fit our specific Defense, congressional delegations and oth¬ ‘Couid the Department keep up needs. We recognized that not all missions ers. with our needs in the fieid?’ would be able to adopt an identical organi- Our mission is divided into normal have been many commissions and studies embassy sections and a large defense We had a post management over the years, with little result. And adviser’s office. On the State side, there are changes in office technology were having a a total of eight Foreign Service secretarial that supported our efforts’ revolutionary effect on our work. With even positions—one each for the ambassador and zation, but we hoped they might get ideas the best intentions, could the Department the deputy chief of mission, four in the for their own revisions. keep up with our needs in the field? Pessi¬ political section and one each in the We began by describing our ideas in a economics and administrative sections. mists among us doubted that all the talk detailed cable that we sent to the Depart¬ We seemed to be well situated to try would result in much. Optimists hoped the ment last summer. Once given the go- something new. We weren’t too large, and pessimists were wrong. ahead, we designed new job descriptions we did have a representative complement of At the U.S. mission to the North and began the pilot project in November. Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) in officers and secretaries. Secondly, our work It’s intended that the project continue is highly operational, thus lending itself Brussels, we were lucky to be a bit ahead of approximately one year, after which we’ll more easily to restructuring. Finally, the others. Not only had we been discussing do an evaluation. We’ll send that to the Brussels is also home to two other Foreign issues among ourselves for some time, but Department for its study. we also had a post management that Service posts (the embassy and the mission actively supported our efforts. Following a The secretarial conference series of meetings with our deputy chief of ‘Secretaries Week’ Then came the second action phase—a mission, John Komblum, we decided to do Professional Secretaries Week, April secretarial conference at Nato headquarters. more than just talk. 23-27, was slated for observance in the With effective lobbying from post manage¬ We identified two areas for action: (a) Department via a noontime panel discussion ment, a conference was originally scheduled a pilot project at our own post which would on April 23, “Secretaries in the Year for last August. But as the time approached, revise work requirements to meet changing 2000.’’ The panelists were to be Lauralee it became apparent that the Washington par¬ needs, and (b) an effort to bring responsible Peters, deputy assistant secretary for per¬ ticipants’ schedules had too many conflicts persons from Washington to discuss practi¬ sonnel, and Donald Leidel, dean, S hool of to allow for their travel at that time. So we cal solutions. We decided that both projects Professional Studies, Foreign Service regrouped and came up with January 10-12 would be an excellent subject for a con¬ Institute. The history of the week was out¬ for a rescheduled conference. The authors ference of secretaries from Europe. Our lined in a Department Notice prepared by and Thomas Mears were the main points of hope was to refine our own project and to the Office of Equal Employment Oppor¬ contact for the hectic planning period that expand dialogue beyond the cable channels. tunity and Civil Rights. □ followed—hectic because the conference Our goal was to actually get things done. planning took place right at the time of the i

North Atlantic Council heads-of-state meet¬ ing, a visit by President Bush and visits by Proposals that emerged from the conference the Secretaries of State and Defense. But we got together with our colleagues at the For Washington action —Create an office at State in addition two other Brussels missions, put our heads —Create a definitive career track with to the secretarial assignment office, to deal together, came up with agenda items and secondary skill codes which would allow more effectively with the professional secre¬ engaged in other planning. for specialization in areas such as research tarial corps. We had hoped for a conference that assistant, consular assistant, systems man¬ —The American Foreign Service would include participants from every Euro¬ agement, etc., with the eventual opportunity Association should greatly improve its pean post, but unfortunately, forced by for possible lateral movement into other efforts on behalf of secretaries. budget constraints to keep the numbers specialist fields if desired. —Consider a merit pay program for pared down, we were unable to invite our —Compensate via step increases for senior-level secretaries. colleagues elsewhere in the region. specialized skills such as languages, back¬ —Retain the current employee evalua¬ Although we were concerned with the nega¬ up communications and shorthand. tion form so as to avoid further division tive effects a smaller conference might —Give more detailed information on between the officer and staff corps. have, we voted to go ahead with what we Foreign Service careers at the time of could manage, rather than forego it application, including information on career For post action altogether. development, benefits and responsibilities. —Create new working titles. —Revise Foreign Service Institute lan¬ —Revise work requirement statements. ‘\Ne voted to go ahead with guage courses, and allow for language train¬ —Revise jxjsition descriptions. what we could manage’ ing as an automatic part of the assignment —Look at individual positions for pos¬ process—not a benefit requiring negotia¬ sible upgrades. As the date of the conference tion. —Posts should ensure that secretaries approached, however, the true nature of —Expand training opportunities for receive adequate training, such as language Foreign Service employees—their initiative secretaries, including management and training, before coming to post. When spe¬ and teamwork—showed itself as we heard assertiveness training. Consular, administra¬ cial training is required, the post should that colleagues were planning to come by tive general services and personnel training renegotiate arrival dates to allow for that hook or by crook. Embassy Bonn sent six should be given to secretaries following a training. secretaries, accompanied by the administra¬ secondary skill code, with assignment to a —Secretaries should ensure that tive officer, Harold Geisel. The Hague was position requiring that training. they’re included on post committees (hous¬ represented by three colleagues, Paris by —Revise present bidding tools and ing, awards, dependent hire, employee two and London and Lisbon by one each. give career development officers further evaluation report review, etc.), and should Some took up collections for airfare; others training in counseling and career manage¬ attend regularly-held meetings wherever drove. We tri-mission secretaries helped ment before they are assigned to positions. possible. with housing needs. —Revise the current upward mobility —Deputy chiefs of mission should So the first-ever Foreign Service secre¬ and Mustang programs. Those employees have the responsibility for enhancing secre¬ tarial conference finally was held at Nato who have the talent and desire to enter other tarial careers, similar to responsibilities they headquarters those three days in January, cones should be encouraged and developed. have for junior officers. and it was a complete success. We found —c. macl. and C.L.D that our colleagues came to the conference with positive ideas and attitudes, allowing sion and at Embassy Bonn. for open discussion of problems and, even along. For instance, she noted that her com¬ Ambassador William H. Taft IV, more important, solutions to those prob¬ pany expected their secretaries to have the Nato, opened the conference by noting that lems. skills of a manager, to be able to act on “the involvement of secretaries in manag¬ The Washington participants included behalf of their supervisors and to be respon¬ ing their own careers is where tnis con¬ Lauralee Peters, deputy assistant secretary sible for the work of the office. for personnel; Donald Leidel, dean of pro- ference began and where it will lead.’’ Lively discussions throughout the first Highlights of this jam-packed period day led to in-depth studies by working ‘Our colleagues were planning included a presentation by Beverly Roches¬ groups on four main topics—career to come by hook or by crook’ ter, representing the Bonn secretarial group, development, attitudes and perceptions, who brought us up to speed on the innova¬ recruitment and retention, and employee fessional studies at the Foreign Service tions underway at that embassy. The views evaluation reports and promotion. Although Institute, who had chaired a Department provided by Ms. Peters, Mr. Leidel and we (and our colleagues worldwide) have committee on secretarial issues; and Vir¬ Ms. Taylor gave us a much-needed frame of many concerns, these were the four areas ginia Taylor, coordinator of management reference for our questions and concerns. that came into focus in the cable dialogue training at the institute. The secretarial par¬ We were also fortunate to have two last year. The working groups provided an ticipants included representatives from speakers from the private sector, Alison excellent forum for us to debate our individ¬ Embassy Brussels, the missions to Nato and Maret of Levi-Strauss Europe, and Linda ual ideas with colleagues from other mis¬ the European Communities, Bonn, The Cloots of Upjohn Europe. It was gratifying sions, and eventually to come up with Hague, Lisbon, London and Paris. We were to hear Ms. Maret, who is director of concrete proposals for Washington action also very pleased to have active participa¬ human resources at Levi-Strauss, back up and post action. It became evident that this tion from officers at all levels in the tri-mis- what we as secretaries have been saying all type of discussion was exactly what we and

16 STATE our colleagues worldwide had been looking sent worldwide; it received kudos from col¬ for—the opportunity for an open dialogue leagues and management in Washington and between us and management. The intensity overseas. Several posts have asked us for of the members of the working groups specific information about establishing their became evident when those in the group for own pilot programs, and others have stated evaluations and promotions showed their their intention to hold their own regional reluctance to wind up their daylong session conferences. The American Foreign Service so they could attend a social event. Talk about dedication and loyalty to the cause! 7t^ up to us to take On the last day, we reassembled as a responsibility for our somewhat exhausted and bedraggled group. But when the working groups presented own careers’ their proposals for Washington and post action, the adrenaline started pumping, and Association has appointed a secretarial advocate, and has taken a stronger and more ‘The majority of us walked definitive action on our behalf. We also away feeling good about have high hopes for eventual action from management in Washington. the accomplishments’ But the action taken by Bonn, the we took part in a long and lively discussion. Brussels tri-mission and other posts world¬ A small amount of compromise was wide has proven to us that it’s up to us to required to finalize the proposals, but in the take responsibility for our own careers. We end the majority of us walked away feeling must be willing to take action on an individ¬ good about the accomplishments we had ual, post-by-post basis—to change those made. things that can be changed. The time is past to allow others to come up with solutions to Epilogue our problems—we know the problems and We at Nato are heartened to see some we’ve come up with many of the solutions. of the results that have come out of our pilot Now we just have to be courageous enough project and the Brussels conference. Our to work with post management and Wash¬ Beverly Rochester of the Bonn secretarial reporting cable from the conference was ington in establishing lem. ■ group.

Secretarial conference participants, seated Joanne Edwards, Alice Weaver, Margaret Tin¬ Murphy, Barbara McRae, Barbara Maloney, (left to right): Virginia Taylor, Lauralee dall, Carol MacLeod, Dorothy Stegensek, Joanne Holliday, Jean Atkinson, Adda Million, Peters, Ambassador William H. Taft IV, Don¬ Jocelyn Baskey, Amy Hackworth, Cathy Law- Barbara Murray. Third row: Mary Teirlynck, ald Leidel, Susan Kosinski, Elizabeth Franke. son, Louise James, Diane Poche. Second row: Henry Reed, Harold Geisel, Thomas Meats, First row: Elizabeth Krause, Rebecca Smith, Nicholas Baskey, Margaret McDermott, Car¬ Ruth Horrel, Joanne Jenkins, Kathleen Klei- Lucy Tom, Carol Emery, Arnold Munoz, Bev¬ olyn Smith, Noel Harrington-Aydin, Doris man, Carol Hilley, Astri Sleeper, Kim Carlin, erly Rochester, Ingrid Pfanzelt, Eileen Farrell, Cabral, Judith Lutz, Louis Hebert, Hilda Jeanie Olton.

May 1990 17 Appointments

Hughes for Barbados, Then he was deputy assistant secretary for and an international economist in the D.F. Smith for Guinea politico-military affairs at State, until 1988. Bureau of African Affairs, 1977-79. Mr. Mr. Hughes was born in Dayton, O., Smith became chief of the Food Policy on September 7, 1953. He received a bach¬ Division in the Bureau of Economic and elor’s in political science from the Univer¬ Business Affairs, 1979-81. His next assign¬ sity of Dayton in 1972. He has a master’s in ment was as economic counselor in law and diplomacy from Tufts and a mas¬ Monrovia, 1982-84. He was deputy chief of ter’s in public administration from Harvard, mission in Gaborone, 1984-86, and Khar¬ where he is pursuing a doctorate in political toum, 1986-89. economy and government. His foreign lan¬ Mr. Smith was bom in Albuquerque on guages are Spanish and French. He has pub¬ December 14, 1940. He was graduated with lished articles on political and arms control a bachelor’s from Harvard in 1962, and issues. He is married to the former Victoria received a master’s in 1972 and a doctorate Knipper. in 1973 from Tufts. Before his tenure at Mr. Smith Mr. Hughes * * * State, he was a Peace Corps volunteer and trainer. He speaks six foreign languages— Guinea President Bush has announced his French, Arabic, German, Spanish, Urdu Dane Farnsworth Smith Jr., a career intention to nominate G. Philip Hughes and Italian. He received a Presidential Mer¬ Foreign Service officer, has been director as his ambassador to Barbados (and, con¬ itorious Honor Award last year. He is mar¬ of the Economic Policy Staff at the currently, to Dominica, to Saint Lucia, ried to the former Judith Rose Armayor; and to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Bureau of African Affairs since last year. they have three daughters and a son. □ and Dane Farnsworth Smith Jr. as his He joined the Service in 1967 as an envoy to Guinea. The nominations would international relations officer in the Office require Senate confirmation. Following of West African Affairs, then served as a New embassy in Namibia are biographical sketches of the two. consular officer in Dakar, 1969-71, and The U.S. liaison office in Windhoek, economic and commercial officer in Islama¬ Namibia, has been elevated to embassy sta¬ ♦ ♦ + bad, 1972-74. He was a senior economist in tus. Roger A. McGuire is the charge Barbados; Dominica; Saint Lucia; Saint the Office of Japanese Affairs, 1975-77, d'affaires there. ■ Vincent and the Grenadines G. Phillip Hughes has been executive secretary of the National Security Council since last year. Before that, he was first assistant secretary for export enforcement at the Department of Commerce, 1988-89. Mr. Hughes began his career in 1975 as an assistant analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and a casewriter at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Gov¬ ernment, 1978-79. He became assistant director for intelligence policy at the Department of Defense, 1979-81, and Vice President Bush’s deputy assistant for national security affairs, 1981-85. He served as director for Latin American affairs at the National Security Council, 1985-86. People at State Richard J. Smith, principal deputy assistant secretary for oceans and interna¬ tional environmental and scientific affairs, has been accorded the personal rank of ambassador in his capacity as special nego¬ tiator for acid rain talks with Canada ... Russell A. Lamantia Jr. has assumed duties as director of the Secretariat Staff ... Nelson C. Ledsky has been accorded the rank of ambassador during his tenure as special Cyprus coordinator ... James H. Holmes is now deputy director of the Policy EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS— Manila from Assistant Secretary Richard Planning Staff. □ Ambassador Nicholas Platt, left, accepts Solomon. Superior Honor Award on behalf of Embassy

18 STATE Life in the Foreign Service

Here^ to Mongolia! (a toast with mare^ milk) Still, ‘its fun living here,’ the charge says

The following article by Nicholas D. cems have expressed interest in importing Kristof appeared in the New York Times on Mongolian vo^a, in processing Mongolian April 2. yak and camel hair into textiles, and in exploring for various natural resources. ULAN BATOR, Mongolia—One of Mr. Senko is charge d’affaires because America’s newest and tiniest the ambassador, Richard L. Williams, is embassies occupies one of this city’s drab based in Washington. Mr. Williams is com¬ apartment buildings, distinguished by an pleting his assignment, and his successor is American flag that flutters outside even expected to be confirmed later this year and when Siberian temperatures have sent the to take up residence in Ulan Bator. Mr. yaks searching for shelter and the hardy Williams and Mr. Senko do not speak Mongolians have retreated to their felt tents. Mongolian—nor does the other resident dip¬ If Paris or London are dream diplo¬ lomat, Theodore A. Nist—but the State matic assignments, sophisticated cities with Department is planning to train Mongolian- every convenience, then Mongolia is, well, speakers for the future. at the other end of the spectrum. A Foreign Service officer who has a The State Department regards China Ph.D. in Mongolian studies, Alicia J. and Mongolia as hardship posts, but the dif¬ A children’s library in the Mongolian capital. Campi, is temporarily living in Ulan Bator ference is that the two American diplomats (Photo by Judith Deane) to brush up on her Mongolian and to help stationed here revel in their trips every arrange a language-training program for month or two to carry the courier bag to Mongolia. other American diplomats. Beijing, which by comparison with Ulan While Mongolia is unquestionably a She said one hazard of daily life for a Bator is a sybaritic pleasure haven. hardship post, the Americans here brim white person is being mistaken for a Rus¬ with enthusiasm about life in the place. “Beijing is their hardship post, but it’s sian. Aggravated by decades of Soviet dom¬ our R & R,’’ said Michael J. Senko, the “It’s fun living here, and the ination, anti-Soviet feeling here is strong. Mongolians are a very hospitable people,” charge d’affaires here. While Mongolia normally would be a Mr. Senko said. “To be an American, Brit¬ The United States Embassy opened quiet posting, the country has attracted ish or Japanese here is really to be loved.” year round in Mongolia only last June, and international interest lately as rising pro¬ The British and Japanese are the only ^ diplomacy has proved to have its quirks democracy protests threatened the leader¬ other traditionally non-Communist nations when conducted in one of the world’s most ship and finally in March led to the ouster with embassies here, and each of the three remote capitals. of the entire Politburo and a pledge of a embassies is enjoying growing interest from The telex machine frequently scram¬ new constitution and free elections. Mongolians. Just a few years ago, 98 per¬ bles messages, but that is not code, it is For the Americans and Mongolians on garble. Likewise, there is no point in cent of trade was with the Soviet Union and the embassy staff, that has meant long hours arranging a confidential telephone chat with other Communist countries, but Mongolia is trying to sort out events and constant mid¬ now trying to do more business with Japan, Washington. An international call not only night phone calls and telexes from foreign Europe and North America. often takes hours to arrange, but the con¬ reporters trying to find out about the day’s Aside from the diplomats, there are no nection is usually bad enough that one mu'st news. bellow so loudly that eavesdroppers have no other Americans living in Mongolia, and For all the headaches of Ulan Bator, it the last prominent American to visit was need for bu^s; most of the neighbors can has some advantages over other third-world Associate Justice William O. Douglas in overhear everything that is said. countries. Health standards are good, tap 1961. There are only about eight visa There are diplomatic dinner parties, of water is drinkable and power failures are requests for the embassy to process each course. But when visiting Mongolians, a rare. The embassy has good access to Gov¬ month, and trade between the United States I toast is less likely to be made with Cham- ernment officials, and since February diplo¬ and Mongolia amounts to only about $1.5 i pagne than with a local specialty, fermented mats have been allowed to travel million a year. I mare’s milk. unrestricted throughout the country. Wedged between China and the Soviet Still, that may increase. American con- Mr. Senko’s 17-year-old daughter, 1 Union, Mongolia has only two million Faye, said she initially despaired at the inhabitants in a vast and beautiful territory Mongolian is the latest thought of a teen-ager’s social life in Ulan ■ three times the size of France. Long under incentive language Bator, but later became hooked. “At first I thought I’d be bored,” she i Moscow’s dominance, Mongolia does not Mongolian was added to the incentive I normally attract much attention. It declared said. “I said, ‘I don’t want to go to language list on March 25, a Department I its independence in 1921, but the United Mongolia. I won’t have anything to do.’ Notice said. Those tested at the 3/3 level or States did not get around to recognizing it But it’s a lot of fun. Now I don’t want to go higher may qualify for within-grade salary until 1987. Part of the reason was that the home.” ■ increases. Incentive benefits are not retroac¬ Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan, longtime tive. □ (Copyright 1990 by the New York Times Com¬ American allies, still assert sovereignty over pany. Reprinted by permission.)

May 1990 19 From the Director General

‘Would you advise someone to join the Foreign Service?’ The answer is yes—and here are reasons why

All of us in the Foreign Service have Service now so thinly and broadly spread foreign policy with diplomacy_(but) the been asked at one time or another: that its ability to influence, to manage and two are different. A nation can have a per¬ “Would you advise someone to join the to lead is beginning to suffer?” fectly legitimate foreign policy, but that Service today?” This is a very serious ques¬ The number of Foreign Service officers policy is of little effect if the diplomat’s tion. Usually, the “someone” is the today is roughly the same as in 1955. Yet implementation is faulty.” In diplomacy, as speaker, or that person’s son or daughter or we have to staff more overseas posts in football, great plays won’t help if a team other relative. Our answers do matter. Most (roughly 250 vs. 210), while addressing can’t execute well. We no longer have that Foreign Service examinees (37%) had such new responsibilities as counter-terror¬ vast margin of superiority we had after learned of the Service from a friend, an ism, diplomatic security, development World War II, which tended to make our acquaintance or a Foreign Service officer. I administration, institution-building, en¬ wishes come true—with or without diplo¬ myself learned of it from two Foreign Serv¬ vironmental and scientific affairs, interna¬ macy. Henceforth, we’ll need to be even ice officers visiting my high school. tional narcotics matters, international better diplomats to promote and protect the To such a question. I’d hope that you, communications and information, human interests of our nation and our frllow cit¬ like me, would look your interlocutor in the rights and humanitarian affairs, foreign mis¬ izens overseas. For perhaps the first time in sions ... and more. our history since the Revolution, “process” ‘You shouldn’t draw a veil Given a little bit of time. I’d answer will become essential to the achievement of over the discipline of these questions this way: I’d tell my lis¬ our national objectives. Foreign Service life’ teners of the importance of Foreign Service —Our country will need Foreign Serv¬ work, and of the opportunities for U.S. ice officers proficient in those new respon¬ eye and answer: “Yes. Absolutely.” And diplomacy. I’d also say something about the sibilities / mentioned above. We must have that you’d speak firmly and emphatically, in excellence of those who have recently officers who can meet the challenges of a voice that can be heard around the room. weighed the above questions and still international development and institution¬ Then, time permitting, expand in an decided to join our “all-volunteer” force. building in the wake of societal changes, honest and objective way on your reply. The capability of an institution can be among others. It is in these areas that we’ve You shouldn’t draw a veil over the disci¬ gauged by the capability of its members. had, and will continue to have, our greatest pline and challenges of Foreign Service life. What is true of the U.S. Marines is true of impact on the world as agents of change. Two thirds of our careers are “foreign,” us also. Foreign Service officers must be able to and they involve “service” to the Republic. I’d say: weigh and manipulate a greater number of We can state, as matters of fact, that: —We Americans face the most impor¬ variables. —Foreign Service persons and their tant peacetime opportunities in the history —Foreign Service officers will have families are expected to be available for of our foreign relations. Does it smack too greater need—and opportunities—to lead assignment anywhere and anytime that our much of American “particularlism” to say and to manage than before. It’s to prepare country needs them. we face the most important opportunities in them better for this role that management —More than half of our 250-odd posts the history of democracy? What a time to has taken steps to strengthen implementa- are classified as “hardship” assignments— serve one’s country! Everywhere, the com¬ they can be isolated, uncomfortable and munist ice cap recedes. The jury is in: a ‘What a time to serve, dangerous. 2,500-year-old controversy over the nature one’s country!’ —Overseas duty can make it very dif¬ of political life has been decided in our ficult for a dependent spouse to develop favor. In years to come, as mankind in all tion of the 1980 Foreign Service Act. I’ve career skills and status for the domestic its variety searches for a political and ide¬ discussed management’s proposals in earlier U.S. market; parents must tend with special ological model—to whom can it better look issues of State, and I outlined them in a care the education of their children. than to us Americans, who have established cable to our ambassadors and principal These challenges are familiar to us, a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, constitu¬ officers. The proposals are now before the and perhaps even to the informed public. tional democracy of continental propor¬ American Foreign Service Association for The Department leadership tries to address tions? The promise advanced by our discussion and negotiation, as appropriate. and mitigate these challenges; some it can¬ Constitution is still fresh, still unfolding. These proposals, plus others that have to do not. In every case, moreover, the solution Woodrow Wilson started out to “make the with a functional needs study, the secre¬ will assume our members’ resourcefulness, world safe for democracy.” Today’s gener¬ tarial function, recruiting and Foreign Serv¬ adaptability and willingness to serve as ation of Foreign Service leaders, and the ice specialists, will help to produce a better- highly-respected members of our Govern¬ next, may have a chance to do so. The trained, more representative and more effec¬ ment. world, however, will still be a competitive tive Service. There is another challenge in our pro¬ place. Accordingly: —It’s the quality of your colleagues, fession, however, that colleagues have —Our country will continue to need more than anything else, that determines raised with me, and which we should also diplomats skilled at “traditional” policy whether you like your job or not—and the consider before recommending the Foreign analysis, support and advocation. A former quality of Foreign Service people is very Service to the public, or to our friends or Secretary of State has written: “Govern¬ high. When the revised written exam is their children. It is this: “Is the Foreign ments and their officials continue to confuse —(Continued on Page 26)

20 This column by Paul Goff, M.D., chief of the Department’s Office of Medi¬ Africa cal Services, appears monthly in STATE. A. My wife is going to be *‘medevaced” to Whether you are serving overseas or at The development of diabetes is probably have a baby in a few months. Will the home, you are encouraged to get your due in part to genetics. Whether or not these travel orders cover a car rental, since she questions answered on these pages. Write genetic traits are expressed as diabetes is is going to have many doctor’s appoint¬ to the editor, or to Dr. Goff directly. In believed to be due to a number of factors. ments? either case, your privacy will be respected; While you can’t control your genetic your post wiU not be identified. □_ ‘You can delay... diabetes A. gery. What is your opinion? Why not go for years...’ No. Car rental expenses aren’t covered for it? makeup, you can control these other fac¬ under medical-evacuation travel orders, tors. By doing so, you can delay the possi¬ whether for obstetrical, dental, medical, ble onset of diabetes for years, and surgical or other reasons. A. minimize any complications which may For the present, this new procedure isn’t occur. To reduce your chance of developing considered standard treatment for myopia diabetes and its complications, the primary ■ West Africa (near-sightedness), and therefore isn’t cov¬ factor under your control is your body An administrator at my post smokes in his ered by insurance carriers. The data aren’t weight. It’s important to achieve your ide^ office and through the hallways. Several of yet in on the results of the surgery five and body weight. Aim for a mid-range value— my co-workers and / realize that we are ten years after the fact and, until well-con¬ not the upper limit of the weight tables. being harmed by the exposure to his trolled scientific studies can confirm the Also, follow a low-fat diet that helps to smoke. Is there anything you can suggest efficacy of this procedure, it’s still consid¬ reduce the likelihood of developing harden¬ to resolve this situation? ered experimental cosmetic surgery. ing of the arteries. In addition, it’s impor¬ tant to exercise on a regular basis. So to answer your question; No, I don’t think you need to worry excessively about developing A. ■ Washington this disease if one of your parents has it, but We in the Office of Medical Services have / noticed some diabetes literature being you do need to know that the possibility promoted educational efforts and encour¬ handed out near the cafeteria recently. exists. aged a smoke-free workplace for several Why is this condition so large a concern? years. Much progress has been made, but

‘Walking through the halls A. Europe with a lit tobacco product Diabetes mellitus is a disease in which the Precisely what kind of a doctor is a medi¬ is a policy violation’_ body doesn’t properly utilize or produce cal oncologist? sufficient insulin. Insulin is a hormone the final goal hasn’t been achieved. Walk¬ essential to properly metabolize sugar ing through the halls with a lit tobacco (glucose), and to maintain the proper blood product is a policy violation; supervisors sugar level. An insufficiency of insulin A. aren’t exempt. I realize that confrontation is results in an inability of the body to metabo¬ One who specializes in the medical or non- uncomfortable, but I suggest that the issue lize glucose (sugar) in a normal, efficient surgical treatment of cancer. Today, oncol¬ be discussed with the individual. If the way. To put it simplistically, when glucose ogy encompasses a wide range of problem continues, send him a memo ask¬ isn’t properly handled by the body, there chemotherapeutic approaches, both conven¬ ing that his smoking be isolated to his office are adverse effects on it, including changes tional and investigative. There are surgical (which is still allowed under the current pol¬ in the blood vessels, which make them oncologists and radiation oncologists as icy). Also, a copy of the Department more susceptible to damage. Thus, the well. Among them are doctors who investi¬ smoking policy should be recirculated at eyes, kidney, extremities and heart may be gate the biochemical processes involved in your embassy. We will continue our efforts affected. People with diabetes have a cancer formation, study abnormal genes to provide, in both domestic and overseas greater occurrence of eye problems, kidney (oncogenes) associated with cancer, and offices, a smoke-free workplace. disease and atherosclerosis (hardening of analyze the frequency and distribution of the arteries). In addition, poor circulation in different types of cancer. To help with these the feet and legs may lead to gangrene and studies, most large medical centers have an amputation. Diabetes can never be cured, oncology recordkeeping center called a Asia but it can be controlled. “tumor registry’’ that shares its information My husband wants to have eye surgery so and experience with other centers. These he can throw away the thick-lens glasses groups combine their efforts in cancer treat¬ he has been wearing for the past 20 years. ment, and include larger numbers of The surgery is called radial keratotomy. ■ Washington patients in research programs, thereby We were surprised to find that the embassy What causes diabetes? Do / need to worry speeding the evaluation of treatment nurse practitioner was against this sur- if one of my parents has it? regimes.

May 1990 21 MEDICAL SERVICES

discomfort or fever control. Aspirin or sali¬ food was something beer would go well cylates are absolutely contraindicated in with (was there any other kind?), just when Q. chickenpox (because of an increased inci¬ 1 was tired, etc. But after a short spell, there Once again our eight-year-old twins are dence of Reye syndrome, a devastating was always the return to daily or almost exposed to chickenpox. What is the complication) or in any type of viral ill¬ daily drinking. incubation period? Should / expose them ness. □ Sometimes I would drink before going to make sure they get chickenpox, and get out to dinner or to a party. I would drink Alcohol Awareness Program it over with? while I was out and continue when I came ‘Necessary’: sneaking home. I quit for Lent for several years run¬ alcohol into the house ning, but always counted off the days until Easter, and was always drunk before dinner A. BY A Civil Service ofhcer on Easter. First of all, the incubation period is usually My daughter became a member of 14 to 16 days; some cases have occurred as (While this magazine does not publish Alcoholics Anonymous in the summer of early as 11 and as late as 20 days after con¬ anonymous articles, the following is an 1988. I was mildly interested, but didn’t tact. Patients are probably contagious for exception.) feel A.A. was for me. After all, I was only one tc two days t^fore, and can be con¬ a ‘‘maintenance drinker,” and certainly tagious for S days after the onset of the I had my first drink when I was 21. It alcohol had never been a real problem for rash. No: you don’t want to expose your was a beer. I drank it alone and, with it, I me. I went to a few Al-Anon meetings, but children purposely to chickenpox. It’s not a thought I’d found the answer to life’s prob¬ totally iniKKUous childhood disease. A vari¬ lems. didn’t really see the point. Perhaps this was ety of life-threatening complications can For the next 25 years I drank, usually because I’d always had a couple of drinks occur during or after chickenpox, including alone. Beer, wine, sometimes hard liquor. before going. encephalitis, meningitis, hepatitis, Mostly in the basement, working on some As I said, I didn’t like the way I drank, glomerulonephritis (a serious kidney condi¬ project. I had many projects. but I couldn’t see living without alcohol. tion), arthritis and Reye syndrome. A ques¬ When I drank, I wasn’t sociable. Mine Also, I feel that, if I could quit for Lent, tion you didn’t ask is how long to keep your was usually morose and sullen drinking. that showed I wasn’t an alcoholic and could children out of school. Children with Besides projects, I liked to travel. quit whenever I wanted to. If I wanted to: uncomplicated chickenpox may return on Trips usually meant unrestrained drinking that was the key. But I just didn’t want to. the sixth day after the onset of the rash. In for me. On one of these trips, after having The day came, 15 months ago, when I mild cases, with only a few lesions and “a few beers,” I ran into a tree while run¬ did want to. I sincerely wanted to. And 1 rapid clearing of them, your children may ning across a busy street. That really both¬ knew I couldn’t. Not on my own, anyway. return sooner. After all the lesions have ered me, but it didn’t in any way cause me At the same time I realized I either had to crusted and dried, your child may return to to consider altering my pattern of drinking. quit then, for good, or accept the fact that I school. It’s important that you not return 1 was embarrassed to buy alcohol at the would never be able to quit. At first, both your child to school or daycare early, since same store more than once a week; I often alternatives seemed impossible. there may be other students at school who found it necessary to alternate liquor stores. Somehow, I was at a turning point and are immunocompromised—that is, extra I also found it necessary to sneak alcohol 1 knew it. Then I surrendered. I told my susceptible. For example, there may be into the house, hide it in the garage, lie to wife that I was going to Alcoholics Anony¬ children in school who are being treated for my wife and children about how much I mous. Two days later, I went to my first leukemia; chickenpox infection can be dev¬ was drinking, and so on. A.A. meeting, alone. astating for them. Other children who are I can’t say that I ever really enjoyed That was over 15 months ago. I severe asthmatics or who have diseases drinking, but for me it was the only way I haven’t had a drink since, nor anything like which require taking cortisone drugs are could see to get through life. a strong desire to have a drink. I have also particularly vulnerable. One final cau¬ I had a good job, a good wife and fam¬ learned that life cannot only be lived with¬ tion: It’s imperative that children with ily. 1 never was involved in an automobile out alcohol, but also that life is better than I chickenpox not be given aspirin or any accident, got into any problems with the ever imagined it could be. aspirin products. Acetaminophen (Tylenol law or felt my drinking was a problem. There are bad days, of course. But and similar products) should be given for However, I was becoming increasingly that’s life, too. My relationships with oth¬ unhappy with my drinking. It meant way ers, with my wife, my children, myself and too much to me and, when something inter¬ with the God of my understanding improve Help for cancer patients fered with my drinking, I became impatient, daily. Life is a growth process today. I love The Office of Medical Services has irritable. At a community or school func¬ it and am eternally grateful for the program formed a support group for employees who tion, if the thing went on a little too long, I of Alcoholics Anonymous, and that I am a have been diagnosed in the last two years as became nervous. I wanted it to end so I member of A. A. having cancer. The group is exploring ways could go home and start drinking. If you think you have a problem with to work effectively while coping with the There were many times I stopped alcohol, get in touch with the Alcohol illness. Participants meet every second and drinking because 1 didn’t like the way 1 Awareness Program, Department of State, fourth Monday in Room 3242, from 12:15 drank. 647-1843 or 647-8804. Regulations require to 1:15. For a prior individual consultation, But I never stayed stopped. 1 tried that all contacts with the program be han¬ which is suggested, call 647-4929. □ drinking just on weekends (including Fri¬ dled on the basis of strict medical con¬ days), just after 9:30 at night, just when the fidentiality. ■ Education and Training

Point of view Schedule of courses at the Foreign Service Institute Interdepartment seminar Program June July Aug. Length lacks State students Area studies BY David Stewart Africa, sub-Sahara (AR 210) 6 2 weeks The author is on the Policy and Coor¬ — Canada (AR 129) 11 — 1 week dination Staff in the Bureau of Consular East Asia (AR 2^) — — 6 2 weeks Affairs. Latin America (AR 230) — — 6 2 weeks Near East and North Africa (AR 240) — — 6 2 weeks In last month’s issue of STATE, a class¬ South Asia (AR 260) — — 6 2 weeks mate of mine at the February Foreign Southeast Asia (AR 270) — — 6 2 weeks Affairs Interdepartmentai Seminar, Douglas USSR/eastem Europe (AR 280) 11 — 6 2 weeks N. Watson of the Air Force, praised the Western Europe (AR 290) — — 6 2 weeks seminar for giving Language and advanced area courses him added under¬ Afrikaans (LAA 100) 20 23 weeks standing of the for¬ Amharic (LAC 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks eign policy process. Arabic (modem standard) (LAD 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks He described the cur¬ — Arabic (field school; Tunis) (LAD 950) — 13 44 weeks riculum, listed the — — 23/44 weeks Arabic (Egyptian) (LAE 100) 20 outstanding speakers Arabic (western) (LOW 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks and mentioned the Bengali (LBN 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks value of the two- Bulgarian (LBU 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks Burmese (LBY 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks week course in his Chinese (Cantonese) (LCC 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks office. I wish to add Chinese (standard) (LCM 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks my perspective as a Chinese (field school: Taipei) (LCM 950) — — 13 44 weeks Mr. Stewart Foreign Service Czech (LCX 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks officer. The seminar was super. My only Danish (LDA 100) — — 20 23 weeks disappointment concerned the small number — Dutch/Flemish (LLU 100) — 20 23 weeks of State officers attending. Defense person¬ Finnish (LFJ 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks nel and others from various Government French (LFR 100) 25 23 20 24 weeks agencies, all with foreign affairs duties, German (LGM 100) 25 — 20 24 weeks Greek (LGR 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks greatly outnumbered participants from the Hebrew (LHE 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks foreign affairs agencies. Hindi (LHJ 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks More Department of State officers Hungarian (LHU 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks should attend. Attending the seminar bene¬ Icelandic (UC 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks fits you, the office you represent and the Indonesian (UN 100) — — 20 23/32 weeks Department itself. Italian (UT 100) 25 — 20 24 weeks Our jobs are typically very opera¬ — — 23/44 weeks Japanese (UA 100) 20 tionally oriented. The seminar offers a brief Japanese (field school: Yokohama) (UA 950) — — 13 44 weeks hiatus from the immediate demands of your Korean (LKP 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks in-box. It’s a rare opportunity for you—to Korean (field school: Seoul) (LKP 950) — — 27 44 weeks step back, think and speculate on the world Lao (LLC 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks Malay (LML 100) — — 20 23/32 weeks around us. The provocative speakers and Nepali/Nepalese (LNE 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks challenging classmates added to my profes¬ Nonwegian (LNR 100) — — 20 23 weeks sional breadth. The course turned out to be Persian/Farsi (LPF 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks for me the most intellectually stimulating Persian/Dari (LPG 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks period during my current Department Philipino/Tagalog (LTA 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks assigmnent. It is an ideal tonic to help you — — 20 23/44 weeks Polish (LPL 100) avoid “burnout.” Portuguese (LPY 100) 25 — 20 24 weeks State offices appear far less willing to Romanian (LRQ 100) — — 20 23 weeks release employees for training than those at Russian (LRU 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks E>efense. Maybe we’re staffed more thinly, Russian (advanced) (LRU 101)* — — 20 23/44 weeks or we simply are all indispensable. Offices Russian (refresher) (LRU 201) — 2 — 6 weeks Serbo-Croatian (LSC 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks do survive when employees take annual Singhalese (LSJ 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks leave. Discouraging an employee from Spanish (LQB 100) 25 23 20 24 weeks training appears shortsighted to me, an Swahili/Kiswahili (LSW 100) — — 20 23 weeks unwillingness to invest in the employee’s Swedish (LSY 100) — — 20 23 weeks professional development. My boss was Thai (LTH 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks certainly busier during my absence. I Turkish (LTU 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks returned, though, with a new vigor and a 20 23/44 weeks Ukrainian (LUK 100) — — wider perspective that will enhance my job 'Prerequisite: strong 2+/2+ or 313 proficiency in Russian and in-country experience. performance.

May 1990 23 EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Lastly, the Department could benefit —{Continued from preceding page) more from the informal interagency exchange at the seminar. There are unfortu¬ Program June July Aug. Length nate stereotypes of people at different agen¬ cies that are easily overcome in this Urdu (LUR 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks cooperative seminar setting. Our low atten¬ Vietnamese (LVS 100) — — 20 23/44 weeks dance rate by itself unfortunately could rein¬ Familiarization and short-term (FAST) courses force some of these misunderstandings. It’s Arabic (formal spoken) (LAD 200) — 2* 20 8 weeks particularly important for Foreign Service Arabic (Egyptian) (LAE 200) — 2* 20 8 weeks officers back in Washington to broaden Arabic (North African) (LOW 200) — 2* 20 8 weeks their exposure outside the Department and Bengali (LBN 200) — 2* 20 8 weeks their narrow job needs. The seminar Bulgarian (LBU 200) 25* — 20 8 weeks provides an excellent opportunity. Burmese (LBY 200) — 2 — 7 weeks — — 7 weeks The Foreign Service Institute conducts Chinese (LCM 200) 2 Czech (LCX 200) 25* — 20 8 weeks the seminar, and it prefers participants at French (metropolitan) (LFR 200) 25 — 20 8 weeks the FS-2 and GS-I3 ranks and above. The French (sub-Sahara) (LFR 201) 25 — 20 8 weeks next course dates are May 14-25 and Sep¬ German (LGM 200) 25 — 20 8 weeks tember 10-21. Unless you really know Hebrew (LHE 200) — 2 20 7 weeks everything about foreign affairs, you should Hindi/Urdu (LHJ 200) — — 20 8 weeks try to attend. □ Hungarian (LHU 200) 25* — 20 8 weeks Icelandic (UC 200) 25 — 20 6 weeks Indonesian (UN 200) — 2* 20 8 weeks Defense U. information Italian (UT 200) 25 — — 8 weeks Japanese (UA 200) — 2 — 7 weeks class starts in fall Korean (LKP 200) — 2 — 7 weeks The Information Resources Manage¬ Malay (LML 200) — 2* 20 8 weeks ment College of National Defense Univer¬ Polish (LPL 200) 25* — 20 8 weeks sity says its new advanced management Portuguese (Brazilian) (LPY 200) 25 — — 8 weeks program will begin in September. The pro¬ Portuguese (European) (LPY 201) 25 — — 8 weeks gram is a four-month graduate-level course Romanian (LRQ 200) 25* — 20 8 weeks that will cover the financial, technical, Russian (LRU 200) 25* — 20 8 weeks — 8 weeks operational and managerial areas of infor¬ Serbo-Croatian (LSC 200) 25* 20 Spanish (LQB 200) 25 — 20 8 weeks mation resources management. It provides Thai (LTH 200) — 2 — 7 weeks intensive in-depth education and training in Turkish (LTU 200) 2 — 7 weeks all areas of systems program management ‘7 weeks in length that have proven to be problematic, and Administrative training gives participants the expertise necessary to Administrative officer (PA 242) 4 — — 2 weeks manage those variables that have been Advanced disbursing officer (PA 251) — — 6 3 weeks responsible for serious information Budget and financial management (PA 211) 25 — 6 27 days resources management problems, a press Contracting officer’s representative (PA 130) Correspondence course release said. Financial management center seminar It added: “The program will use inter¬ (PA 281) — 16 — 3 weeks 11 weeks disciplinary seminars, case studies and sim¬ General senrices operations (PA 221)* 4 2 13 11 9 20 11 weeks ulations to provide program participants 18 16 27 11 weeks with a complete and thorough understanding 25 23 — 11 weeks of all elements of information resource — 30 — 11 weeks management, including information man¬ How to write a statement of work (PA 134) Correspondence course agement, technical management, procure¬ Personnel management training (PA 231) 18 — 7 6 weeks ment management, financial management, Property management for cust^ial officers national security policy management, proj¬ (PA 135) — — 16 2 days ect management, and the automated infor¬ Training for overseas cashiers (PA 293) Correspondence course Training for overseas cashier supervisors mation systems life cycle management (PA 294) Correspondence course process. The program’s multidisciplinary Travel voudier examiners workshop (PA 138) — — 6 4 days and interdisciplinary curriculum will also Vendor claims voucher examiner workshop include the study of current policy issues, (PA 140) 4 — — 3 days regulatory and ethical standards, strategy ‘Weekty ermUmem. Registration required. development and implementation, and deci¬ Consular training sion-making and problem-solving options Advanced consular/functional intensive (PC 531) — 2 — 3 weeks and alternatives. ConGenRosslyn basic consular (PC 530) Continuous enrollment 26 days “The program is for systems program Consular orientation program (PC 105) Continuous enrollment 6 days managers and prospective program man- Immigration law and visa operations Correspondence course Nationality law and consular procedure Correspondence course —(Continued on next page) —(Continued on next page)

24 State —{Continued from preceding page) —(Continued from preceding page) agers, and for senior civilian and military Program June July Aug. Length executives who make and influence critical Overseas citizens services Correspondence course information decisions. The program is for Passport examiners Correspondence course GS/M 14-15s. Applicants who are not members of the Senior Executive Service Curriculum and staff development Training of trainers (PD 510) 20 — — 6 days should hold an M.A. or M.B.A. degree or have equivalent executive development Economic and commercial studies education.” * — — 1 week Ad hoc petroleum training (PE 102) A second course will begin in Febru¬ Advanc^ economic review seminar (PE 501) — 16 — 5 weeks ary. □ Applied economics for foreign affairs (PE 503) — 2 — 6 weeks Contemporary economics (PE 502) — 16 — 5 weeks Export promotion (PE 125) — 9 — 1 week Bonnie Anderson joins Orientation for overseas economics (PE 124) 25 23 — 2 weeks Regional resource officer training (PE 103) — 23 — 2 weeks Overseas Briefing Center Science, technology and foreign policy Bonnie Anderson is the new deputy (PG 562) 11 _ 1 week director of the Overseas Briefing Center at 'To be announced the Foreign Service Institute. Executive development Ms. Anderson received her bachelor- Deputy chiefs of mission (PT 102) 17 — 5 11 days of-arts degree from Executive media training (PT 101) 6 — — 1 day Stanford, and a Mas¬ Introduction to management skills (PT 207) 11 — — 4 days ter’s in international Program director management seminar (PT 106) — 18 — 3 days affairs from Colum¬ Washington tradecraft (PT 203) — 16 20 2 weeks bia’s Russian In¬ Information management training stitute. Her studies Information Systems Operations (PS 108) — 9 — 4 weeks also include a year at Introduction to the personal computer (PS 111) 25 — 20 1 week the University of Grenoble, France, Office management courses Advanced word processing (PK 103) 5 11 7 3 days and language train¬ Advanced WP Plus (PK 154) 19 24 21 1 day ing in Arabic, Rus¬ Civil Service clerical/secretarial (PK 104) 18 16 20 1 week sian, Ukrainian and Ms. Anderson Decision-processing (PK 152) 21 26 23 1 day Bulgarian at the For¬ Drafting correspondence (PK 159) 18 — — 1 week eign Service institute in Beirut and Wash¬ Effective speaking and listening (PK 240) — 23 — 1 week ington, as well as at the U.S. Army Institute Employee relations (PK 246) — 12 — 2 days for Advanced Russian Studies in Garmisch. Foreign Service secretarial training (PK 102) — 30 — 1.5 weeks She has accompanied her husband, G. Glossary (PK 151) 20 25 22 1 day Norman Anderson, to posts in Beirut, Supervisory studies seminar (GS 5-9) (PK 243) 4 — 13 4 days Moscow, Rabat, Sofia, Tunis and Khar¬ Orientation toum, where he served as ambassador. She Department officers (PN 105) 12 10 7 2 days has worked at various foreign affairs agen¬ Foreign Service officers (PG 101) — 23 — 9 weeks cies, including service as director of the Foreign Service specialists (PN 106) — 5 9 3 weeks Foreign Service Institute field school for Soviet and East European posts (PN 111) 18 30 13 1 week Arabic in Tunis. □ Overseas Briefing Center American studies/cross-cultural training (MQ 101) 11 — — 2 weeks Getting the most Deputy chief of mission spouse seminar (MQ 110) 25 23 _ 4 days out of your Wang Going overseas (families, singles, couples) The Foreign Service Institute is offer¬ (MG 200) 9 7 _ 1 day ing Wang instruction courses at various lev¬ Introduction to cross-cultural training (MQ 112) — — 8 3 days els of difficulty: Introduction to effective training skills for the _ _ —Basic Word Processing, Basic WP-I- Foreign Service spouse (MQ 111) 25 1 week and WP-I- Transition—on elementary func¬ 4 9 6 2 days Security overseas seminar (MQ 911) tions. Contact the Wang Education Center, 11 16 13 2 days 243-4700, for course dates. 18 23 20 2 days 25 30 27 2 days —Advanced Word Processing, a three- Understanding regulations, allowances and day course covering advanced features, finances in the Foreign Service context including formatting, sorting and index (MQ 104) 6 11 _ 3 days generation, June 5-7. —Glossary, May 16 and June 20, to Political training teach users to create, retrieve and store Advanced political course (PP 502) 18 — — 3 weeks glossaries.

—(Conimued on next page) —Decision-processing, May 17 and EDUCATION AND TRAINING

June 21, on advanced glossary techniques, —(Continued from preceding page) including testing, looping and prompting. Program June Jul. Aug. Length —Advanced WP+, May 15 and June 19, on how to merge, woric-wrap, column, Human rights in the foreign poiicy process block-edit and mark hinctions. (PP 507) _ 17 14 1 day For information, contact the Manage¬ Human rights reporting from abroad (PP 506) — 16 13 1 day ment Training Division, 875-7325. For reg¬ Labor officer functions (PL 103) 4 — — 8 weeks — 10 7 3 days istration, call 875-5370. ■ Multilateral diplomacy (PP 211) Political tradecraft (PP 202) 25 23 — 3 weeks Political-military affairs (PP 505) — — 27 1 week TUNIS, Tunisia—^At the Foreign Service Workers’ rights reporting (PP 504) 11 9 — 2 days ■ Institute language school here, back row, left to right: David Ruiutell, James Vail, PhUo Dibble, David Hale, William Jordan, John Kincannon, Peter Skrmetti, Ricky Roberts, Rick Olson, Ziad Kayyal, Juliana Peck, Mohamed Ben Salah, Hashmi Essaghir. Mid¬ dle row: Sari Ansari, AU Ben Saad Ben Alt, Khaldiyye Ansari, Deborah Jones, Elizabeth Hayes, Yin Rundell, Sally Debbagh, Noura Essaghir, Essia Blaghui, Anne O’Leary. Front row: William Granara, Janean Mann, Dubravka Trklja, Ahmed Tajouri, Mouldi Ayari, Ahmed Cherif.

YOKOHAMA, Japan—Foreign Service Institute teachers and students, front row (kneeling): Tomoko Ichikawa, Patricia Jimbo- Oishi, Judith Corbett. Second row (sitting): Terry and Prapim Greenberg, Bill Corbett, Sabumi Ota, Yukio Konno. Third row (stand¬ ing): Jay Wakamatsu, Alexander Almasov, Michael and Linda Beardsley, Phil^ Kosnett, Daniel Paul, Jerome Ryan, Ann Kambara, Larissa Blavatska, Evelyn Killick. From the Director General —(Continued from Page 20) given this fall, as many as 25,000 may take it. From this total, we will be recruiting 150 to 250 new officers. Perhaps 1 in a 100 will ultimately be sworn in as a Foreign Service career candidate. The new officers increasingly will be representative of all aspects of our popula¬ tion. I expect that the minority applicant pool will be widened by our intensified out¬ reach program. TTie men and women who survive our rigorous screening will have exceptional ability, experience and potential—just as other junior officer classes have had. A recent class of 46 career candidates included 34 master’s, doctoral or law degrees; vir¬ tually all of them have significant skill in one or more foreign languages; virtually all have had overseas experience (academic travel. Peace Corps, the military). —Finally, that the Foreign Service offers what the right kind of candidate is looking for: adventure, exotic climes, a life¬ time of education, the spice of danger, mak¬ ing and seeing bits of history, the challenges of leadership and responsibility, and also the pride of representing our coun¬ try and manifesting what it stands for. ■ Personnel: Foreign Service

Appointments Didem, Maurice, Addis Ababa Security Self, Brian K., Pre-Assignment Dow, Teresa, La Paz Mason, Lee Y., Diplomatic Adams, Richard Hugh, Pre- Training Security Assignment Training Droge, Martha J., Diplomatic Sendi, Andrea Rose, Diplomatic McCann, Tim L, Diplomatic Akahloun, Ahmed, Montevideo Security, Washington Field Security Security, Information Aman, Aspen Loree, Pre-Assign¬ Office Sherman, Andrea L.P., Colombo Management ment Training Dym, Jordana, Pre-Assignment SiegwaM, Peter A., Port-au-Prince McCulla, William Lewis III, Pre- Andrews, Joan L., Diplomatic Training Smith Jr., Nicholas A., Diplo¬ Assignment Training Security Elliot, Susan M., Pre-Assignment matic Security McDonald, Michael L., Diplo¬ Ang, Wende, Lau-Wan, B^hdad Training Smith, Sophie E., Kuwait matic Security, Information Auldridge, Wendy Jane, Kinshasa Ellison, Ollie, Diplomatic Security, Spannagel, David Bryan, Diplo¬ Management Bachman, Brian, Pre-Assignment Washington Field Office matic Security Meagher, Zita E., Mexico Training Erickson, Andrew S.E., Pre- Stone, Angela D., Diplomatic Baird, Tamara K., Pre-Assign¬ Assignment Training Melcher, Glenn, Pre-Assignment Security, New York ment Training Ezelle, Lesly Marion, Port-au- Training Stuckart, Matthew W., Diplo¬ Barker, Brent A., Diplomatic Prince Mellott, William L, Diplomatic matic Security Security, Washington Field Ferrarone, Veronica, La Paz Security Sullivan, Linda S., Panama Oftice Fletcher, Michael S., Diplomatic Meriwether, John W., Pre-Assign¬ Thom, Judith A., Cairo Barkley, Clare A., Pre-Assignment Security, Information ment Training Ticknor, Scott Brian, Pre-Assign¬ ment Training Training Management Merrill, Philip, Nato Toronto, Sharman Farrell, Barnes, Mary M., Wellington Forbes, Heisook, Jakarta Meurs, Douglas J., Pre-Assign¬ Montevideo Barnhart, Jack Lee, Diplomatic Forsyth, Timothy L., Pre-Assign¬ ment Training Security, Washington Field ment Training Miley, Stephanie, Pre-Assignment Urs, Denise Ann, Pre-Assignment Training Office Freerksen, Beth M., Beijing Training Baron, Sabrina A., Bern Gayol, Vicki, San Salvador Mims, John Anthony, Diplomatic Wahl, Barbara Joann, Sanaa Becker, Rita Ann, Koror Gerity, Veronica M., Diplomatic Security Webster, Jessica, Pre-Assignment Beilis, William D., Pre-Assignment Security Moore, Barbara J., Bucharest Training Training Gibbons, Peter G., Diplomatic Moore, Elizabeth, Pre-Assignment Wellman, James T,, Specialist Bennett, Inga W., Rio de Janeiro Security Training Intake Bires, Francis M., Diplomatic Goldberger, Eden Buchman, Moran, Brian R., Pre-Assignment West, Terrence, Pre-Assignment Security, New York Riyadh Training Training Boy, Donald, Pre-Assignment Goodrich, Victoria Jean, Nicholas, Susan B., Maseru Wiener, Andrew T., Specialist Training Bridgetown Nicholls, Kevin C., Diplomatic Intake Bradley, Olivia Magdalena, Greig, Barbara J., Quito Security Wilkinson, Anita L., Canberra Asuncion Gudjonsson, Mary T., Pre-Assign¬ Opdyke, Mona, Pre-Assignment Williams Jr., John G., Khartoum Bray Jr., Francis John, Diplo¬ ment Training Training Williams, Russell Hope, Malabo matic Security Harms, Glenn E., Diplomatic Page, Susan, Pre-Assignment Word, George, Diplomatic Breslar, Bonita S., Bamako Security Training Security Brown, Ethelean S., Nairobi Hicks, Howard A,, Diplomatic Pascoe, Diana L., Beijing Yackley, Elizabeth A., Cairo Brown, Jeffrey T., Diplomatic Security Petrin, Ardith E., Casablanca Yen, Michael K., Pre-Assignment Security, Washington Field Hodak, Robert Michael, Diplo¬ Phipps, Brian, Pre-Assignment Foreign Service Officer Office matic Security Training Training Brown, Peggy H., Sofia Hollingsworth, Louis R., Diplo¬ Plummer, William, Pre-Assign¬ Brumbaugh, Paula J,, Chengdu matic Security ment Training Buttross, David Anthony, Dar es Hornbeck, Robert R., Diplomatic Popchak, Robert J., Specialist Transfers Salaam Security Intake Alarid, David A., Mexico to Caltrider, Amy L., Diplomatic Hutson, Thomas R., East Asian Powers, Margie, Mogadishu Melbourne Security, Washington Field and Pacific Affairs Pratt, Elizabeth, Pre-Assignment Albright, Wendell I C., Haiti to Office Jackson, Babette, Harare Training Economic and Business Affairs Campbell, Allison Kone, Warsaw Jackson, Keith E., New Delhi Rafferty, Jeani L., Moscow Austin, James G., Saudi Arabia to Canon, Kaye Anne, Moscow Johnson, Natalie A., Pre-Assign¬ Rank, David H., Pre-Assignment Information Management Carlson, Peter M., Diplomatic ment Training Training Programs Security Johnson, Richard S,, Specialist Realuyo, Celina B., Pre-Assign¬ Bates III, Frank, Turkey to Diplo¬ Caroscio, Martha L., Caracas Intake ment Training matic Security Cecil, Kelly S., Pre-Assignment Kay, Lawrence J., Pre-Assignment Reed, Joyce Ann, Abidjan Beall, David Russell, Inter-Ameri¬ Training Training Regan, Michael Bemai^, London can Affairs to Panama Click, Steven R., Diplomatic Krohne, Shane W., Diplomatic Reviere Jr., John A., Sofia Bebout, Kay Diane, Foreign Serv¬ Security Security, Information Ries, John Neil, Pre-Assignment ice Career Development and Cook, Brian K., Diplomatic Management Training Assignments to Medical Security, New York Lanos, William, Diplomatic Robinson, Melissa C., Diplomatic Services Davis, Jason L., Pre-Assignment Security, New York Security Bolton, W.A. Peter, Liberia to Training Lew, Anthony P., Diplomatic Rochelle, Jennifer L., Beijing Bangkok Davison, Kees C., Pre-Assignment Security, New York Rogers, Paul, Specialist Intake Brownlee, Ian G., Foreign Service Training Linderer, Dinh Thi, Kinshasa Ross, Daniel, Pre-Assignment Institute, Language Training to Dawson, Susana C., Panama Liston, Stephen M., Pre-Assign¬ Training Matamoros Deichler, William Wesley, ment Training Sanchez, Laura A., Santo Bushnell, John A., Management Yaounde Mack, Celeste P., Warsaw Domingo Policy to Panama Delorme Perkins, Carol J., Malone, David Thomas, Diplo¬ Saumell, Susan L, Majuro Byrne, Patricia M., International Calgary matic Security Schilling, Tracy J., Tokyo Organization Affairs to Bureau Dickson, Mary B., Durban Marshall, Carol D., Diplomatic Schofield, Patricia F., Kingston of Personnel

May 1990 27 PERSONNEL: FOREIGN SERVICE

Campbell, William M., Israel to Hammond, Bette-Jeanne, the Geographer to Foreign Affairs j Brussels Madagascar to African Affairs Service Institute, Language Sullivan, Thomas J., Near Eastern Carver, Vincent Paul, El Salvador Heckman, Scott Randall, Swazi- Training and South Asian Affairs to to Paris land to Managua Natoli, Jolene C., Brazil to Bureau Karachi Cato, Charles M., San Salvador to Heintzman, Christopher A., South of Personnel Swedberg, Dale J., Specialist Buenos Aires Africa to African Affairs Navarre, J. Warren, Managua to Intake to Maputo Chalkley, John Mark, Specialist Henning, John N., Belgium to Panama Terry Jr., Prince Albert, 1 Intake to Brussels Diplomatic Security, Informa- O’Brien, J. Michael, Dakar to Nouakchott to Luxembourg ' Chinn, David Ross, China to Bonn tion Management Hong Kong Thomson, Scott D., Dominican Cobum, Harry L., Consular Himes, Thomas E., Brazil to Dip- O’Brien, Linda, Dakar to Hong Republic to London Affairs to Bureau of Personnel lomatic Security Kong Towns, Valerie Jackson, Foreign Cooper, David F., Inter-American Hoffer, Patricia A., Liberia to Ogburn, Clarence Edward, Inter- Service Career Development Affairs to Karachi Tunis American Affairs to Bogota and Assignments to Rabat Daly, Kanikar N., Botswana to Johnson, Cassius C., China to Pahigian, Anthony A., Colombia Trudeau, Maria C., Specialist Bujumbura Vienna to Politico-Military Affairs Intake to Harare Daniel, Nancy E.K., Togo to Afri- Kelly, Gary Kent, Congo to Parish, Frances C., Agentina to Van Treeck, Marie-Elena T., Pol- can Affairs Bureau of Personnel Tegucigalpa itico-Military Affairs to Delaney Jr., Joseph M., Diplo- Kilday, Lowell C., Bureau of Per- Peake, Susan S., United Kingdom Niamey matic Security to Mexico sonnel to International to Bureau of Administration Vann, Stephen A., Executive Sec- Diamond, David H.H., Mexico to Narcotics Matters Pelto, John A., Diplomatic retariat to Oceans and Diplomatic Security, Informa- Kirkpatrick, Alexander T., Security, Information Manage- International Environmental tion Management Madagascar to Bureau of ment to Inter-American Affairs and Scientific Affairs Dillard, Diane, Consular Affairs to Administration Peterson, Charlene M., Panama to Voorhees, Jacqueline V., Euro- Paris Kozlowski, Patricia S., African Bonn pean Affairs to Warsaw Egger, Philip Hughes, Lusaka to Affairs to Windhoek Praster, Thomas A., Jamaica to Wagner III, William P., Austria Foreign Service institute, Lan- Kushner, Todd Andrew, Berlin to European Affairs guage Training Yugoslavia to Bureau of Intel- Proctor, Tony Angelo, Diplomatic Walker, Constance S., Greece to Emmons, Kathleen J., African ligence and Research Security to Ankara Diplomatic Security, Informa- Affairs to Diplomatic Security, L’Heureux, David E., Bureau of Pugh, Robert L., African Affairs tion Management Information Management Personnel to Foreign Service to Office of Management Washington, Gilder, Japan to Escobar, Amanda Delapaz, China Institute, Administrative Policy Copenhagen to Cairo Training Rafferty, Rueben Michael, Ger- Wax, Jean Catherine, Mexico to Everhart, Christine E., African Langan, Douglas, Diplomatic many to Moscow Calgary Affairs to Yaounde Security to European Affairs Raymer, Robert Thomas, India to Way, David L., Addis Ababa to Farago, Natalie, Martinique to Lienhart, Theodore M., United Panama Kinshasa Monterrey Kingdom to San Salvador Recht, Linda Susan, East Asian Weidmann, Michael J., Nicaragua Fierke, Patricia Ann, Kenya to Loguidice, Joseph G.A., Milan to and Pacific Affairs to to Diplomatic Security, Infor- Afncan Affairs Bureau of Personnel Economic and Business Affairs mation Management Figueroa, Richard A., Executive Lowe, Carol D., Bureau of Person- Rector, Henry M., Foreign Service Wilson, Mary Frances, China to Secretariat to Soviet Union nel to Senior Seminar Institute, Language Training to Moscow Affairs Luftig, Laura R., Office of the Cophenhagen Worden, Michael K., Diplomatic Fischer 11, Ernest J., Inter-Ameri- Secretary to Colombo Redd, William H., Thailand to Security, Information Manage- can Affairs to Bureau of Lundy, Walter A., African Affairs Diplomatic Security, Informa- ment to Warsaw Personnel, Policy and Coordi- to Bureau of Personnel tion Management Yang, Donald Jay, China to Diplo- nation Staff Lyles, Joanne Rainey, Harare to Rodgers Jr., H. Clarke, European matic Security Fitzpatrick, Kathleen M., Foreign African Affairs Affairs to Foreign Service Young Jr., Harry E., Cameroon Service Institute, Language Lynch Jr., Gregory V., Mexico to Institute, Language Training to Berlin Training to International Orga- Diplomatic Security Rundell, David H., Near Eastern Zak, Michael James, Inter-Ameri- nization Affairs Maholchic, Thomas J., France to and South Asian Affairs to can Affairs to Intelligence and Fleenor, Charles E., Diplomatic European Affairs Jeddah Research Security, Information Manage- Marcott, Lauren Hueher, Turkey Ryan, Vincent Joseph, Inter- ment to New Delhi to Intelligence and Research American Affairs to Buenos Resignations Fletcher, James B., Venezuela to Margulies, Alexander H., Inter- Aires Bannon, Linda A., Singapore Bissau American Affairs to Panama Savage, Stephen L., Bureau of Barron, Susan H., Monrovia Gehring, Robert A., Bureau of McCray, Jimmie L., Iraq to Oslo Personnel to Economic and Blanton, Evelyn, Moscow Personnel to Economic and McGehee, Scott M., Saudi Arabia Business Affairs Bower, Ronald D., Moscow Business Affairs to Sanaa Schensted, David Patrick, Foreign Briggs, Sally J., Moscow Classman, Deborah, France to McGrath, Angelika, Barbados to Service Institute, Language Cascio, Deborah Marie, The Executive Secretariat African Affairs Training to Santiago Hague Gleeson, James Dennis, Switzer- Millan, William W., Bureau of Siletzky, Robert, Specialist Intake Chesteen, Eva L., Bonn land to Prague Public Affairs to Caracas to Inter-American Affairs Cordova, Priscilla, Guadalajara Graham, Christopher P., Japan to Montagne, Elizabeth A., Foreign Stein, Jacalyn M., Office of the Cowart, Michelle T., Santo New Delhi Service Institute, Language Secretary, Arms Control to Domingo Greeley, Robert M., Mexico to Training to Inter-American Executive Secretariat Davis Jr., Arthur Ikirace, Panama Prague Affairs Stephens, Doris Kathleen, Korea Del Principe, Mara Angela, Gygi, Mark T., South Africa to Muncy, Linda Howard, to Foreign Service Institute, Moscow African Affairs Bangladesh to Finance and University Training Ditchkus, David W., New Delhi Hall, Robert Allen, Specialist Management Policy Sullivan, Margot A., Pre-Assign- Farrell, Patricia A., I^ris Intake to Tunis Murphy, Terrence M., Office of ment Training to European Fesmire, Anne H., Mad'id

28 State Furbush, Matthew J., The Hague Pawlicki, Alice A., La Management Gottlieb, Hinda E. Garcia, Gloria, Mexico Rikard, Peggy A., Mogadishu Sera, Mkhiko Jean, Tokyo □ Hadley, Warren D. Govatski, Sondra E., Moscow Rios, Rita Isabel, Barcelona Harger, Raymond H. Houston, Kevin E., Paris Santiago, Rafaelina G., Madrid Specialist Hipp, Mark J. Humbel, Kathryne J., Moscow Tiffany, Joy A., Cairo tenuring Hodes, Jay Mark Humes, Patrick D., Diplomatic WakeReld, Carol A., Moscow The Specialist Tenuring Board Hurley U, John A. Security, Chicago Ward, Peter Benjamin, Moscow has completed its review of candi¬ Korpi, Ryan F. Janes, Margaret L., Brussels Williams, Charlotte S., Jeddah dates eligible for consideration at its Levin, Gregary J. Jones, Carl F., Bucharest Zawistowski Jr., Leonard A., December session. Granted career Longenecker, Jane Jones, Sharon D., Islamabad Diplomatic Security status; Lubow, Rkhard E. Kearns, Kevin Lawrence, Politico- Barton, Robert D. McGrath, Edward P. Military Affairs Berman, Jane Faye MUey, James R. Krull, Karen Berger, Bucharest Retirements Broadwater, Lloyd Oman, Gerry C. Lisle, Karen B., Cairo Blacken, John D., African Affairs Carper, John F. Pelphry, James D. Loftis, Elizabeth G., Wellington Brennan, Patrick W., Manila Chelune, Rkhard Poehlitz, Michael Mallory, Kevin P., Diplomatic Finnerty, Dennis, Economic and Polnick, Stephan D. Security, Washington Field Business Affairs Darmiento, Michael Pounds, Williams Office Ortiz Jr., Frank V., Bureau of Donahue, Joan C. Sincavage, Justine Meininger, Laurie Jeanne, Majuro Personnel Fedak, Janice J. Soler, Richard P. Miller, Virginia E., Madrid Rakht, Lawrence R., Bureau of Fletcher, Gregory Monroe, Stephanie, B,, Paris ftrsonnel Fogarty, Mark T. Ulrkh, Jeffrey J. Morales, Tamara Lee, Bonn Reddy, Leo J., Foreign Service Folensbee, Lester Webb, Glenn E. Weitzel, Robert W. Mosley, Debra J., Cairo Institute Freeman, Patrick T. Niemiec, Debra L., Belgrade Rosenthal, James D., Office of the Gibson, WUbur G. Wohiman, Merrill C. Nunnally, David M., Mexico Under Secretary for Gifford, Robert B. Yates, Raymond Lee I

ROME, Italy—Members of the information Left to right: Alan Eidenberg, Mark Buske, John Dieffenderfer, Catherine Voipe, James management staff meet with the ambassador. Brad Ham, Ambassador Peter F. Secchia, F. Prosser.

May 1990 29

POST OF THE MONTH: KRAKOW

Cathedral and castle overlooking the Vistula River.

A raft trip on the Duniyec River. Seated, Park and vice consul Laurence E. Tobey. from left: Americans Charles Siewert, Lisa

32 STATE Consul general Michael Bony, right, holds the inaugural hatchet. With him is Polish Highlanders Alliance chairman Franek Bach- leda, at the opening of the cultural center in Zakopane.

A traditional music ensemble in the Podhale region.

The leased house of a Foreign Service family. The structure was designed as a ship.

May 1990 33 POST OF THE MONTH: KRAKOW

I

Inspecting the premises: vice consuls Law¬ rence Tobey, left, and Douglas Berry, with consul general Michael Barry.

Consul general Michael Barry, second from I right, inaugurating the new cultural center of the Polish Highlanders Alliance, in Zakopane.

Visa applicants outside the consulate general.

Foreign Service national Beata Otfinowska in the reception area, near a poster for the Pol¬ ish film “Konsul.”

34 State

! i Consul Michael Kirby, swearing in a new U.S. citizen.

Visa section employees, back row: Lawrence Tobey, Douglas Berry, David Morris. Middle row: Alicja Smolik, Anna Palica, Anna Czar- necka, Ewa Bielicka. Front: Beata Otfinowska, Anne Feryok, Marek Guzik. Personnel: Civil Service (

Promotions Selections under State’s Merit Promotion Program GG-5 The following persons have been selected under the Merit Promotion Program for the positions indicated: Che, Leanna, International Announce- Series/ Bureau or Organization Affairs Selectee ment No. Position title grade office Peter Carskaddan 89-1132A Intelligence research specialist GS-132-5 Intelligence and GM-13 Research Adams, Janice Eastman, W. Judson Dorman 89-II32A Intelligence research specialist GS-132-5 Intelligence and Diplomatic Security, Research Information Management Intelligence research specialist GS-132-5 Intelligence and Chu, Kevin Charles, Marine Gina Goodbread 89-1132A Research Science and Polar Affairs Noyon, Jennifer C., Intelligence Mark Levitch 89-II32A Intelligence research specialist GS-I32-5 Intelligence and and Research Research Thomas, Cheryl Kathleen, Bureau Jennifer Scotti 89-1132A Intelligence research specialist GS-I32-5 Intelligence and of Personnel Research Angela Tomaino 89-1132A Intelligence research specialist GS-132-5 Intelligence and GM-14 1 Research Kimmel, Elizabeth Elliott, Bureau Diane Abood 89-1132A Intelligence research specialist GS-I32-7 Intelligence and of Administration Research Ontko, Ronald Steve, Diplomatic William Chipman 89-1132A Intelligence research specialist GS-132-7 Intelligence and Security, Information Research Management Paul Kurtz 89-1132A Intelligence research specialist GS-I32-7 Intelligence and Seale, Donnie G., Office of Research Foreign Buildings Neai O’Loughlin 89-1132A Intelligence research specialist GS-132-7 Intelligence and Research GM-15 Gladys Boggs 90-31 Public affairs specialist GS-I035-9 Bureau of Pub¬ Bobhy, Wayne S., Foreign Service lic Affairs Institute, Management Richard Ristaino 90-79 Intelligence research specialist GM-I32-I5 ' Intelligence and Carter, Nancy O., Office of Research Coordinator for Population Wayne White 90-80 Intelligence research specialist GM-I32-I5 Intelligence and Affairs Research Deaner, Stephanie, International Thomas Bash 90-113 Audio-visual production officer GM-I07I-I3 Foreign Service Narcotics Matters Institute Evans, Alan K., Finance and Rachelle Essandoh 90-209 Secretary (typing) GS-318-7 Bureau of Public Management Policy Affairs □ Gannon, Dominick R., Office for Counter-Terrorism Mazon, Wendy E., Citizens Thompson, Alesia R., Foreign Development Consular Services Service Institute, Professional Stebbings, Marlene J., Office of GS-3 McGee, Renee M., Executive Studies Legal Adviser, Management Blanks, Sherron Ali, Consular Secretariat Williams, Clifton Tyrone, Affairs GS-7 Murphy, Bernard C., Executive Diplomatic Security, Jackson, Gary Beldon, Consular Armfield, Gloria J., Office of the Secretariat Information Management Affairs Legal Adviser, International Purohit, Lopa U., Economic and Claims and Investment Business Affairs GS-8 GS-4 Disputes Semakis, Katherine, Intelligence Farmer, Tanya M., Office of Castillo, Diana, Northeast Passport Arvizu, Eunhee, Office of Korean and Research Management Policy Processing Center Affairs Whitten, Gloria J., Seattle Moore, Alexis A., Office of Floyd, Monique D., Bureau of Brooks, Angela Michelle, Passport Agency Chinese Affairs Administration Diplomatic Security, Morrison, Madeline L., Office of Henderson, Michael A., Executive G&« Information Management Nonproliferation Secretariat Carper, Mary Evelyn, Diplomatic Coates, Yvonne E., Consular Prather, Sandra Elizabeth, Office Hillman, Lisa L., International Security Fraud Prevention Program of Legal Adviser Organization Affairs Green, Karen Geraldine, Office Cook, Connie Ruth, Bureau of Pullen Jr., Howard Douglas, McCannon, Gloria F., Finance of Policy, Planning and Personnel Diplomatic Security, and Management Policy Management Cueto-Jamison, Alice, Los Information Management Proudfoot, Ann, Miami Passport Hall, Russell Eugene, Diplomatic Angeles Passport Agency Smith, Carolyn Juanita, Office of Agency Security, Information Fiegel, Mark A., Finance and Coordinator for Population Stinson, Karen D., Northeast Management Management Policy Affairs Passport Processing Center Hobson, Dean L., European and Houston, Brenda, Diplomatic Willis, Rosalind Denise, Office of Canadian Affairs Security, Chicago Inspector General GS-5 Howard, Norita Elaine, Bureau of Lane, Mirinda M., Office of Buckner, Ellen M., Intelligence Administration Inspections GS-9 and Research Levitch, Mark Jason, Intelligence Lee, Donald M., Diplomatic Barbour, Kathryn A., European Catlett, Mia A., Bureau of and Research, Secretary's Security and Canadian Affairs Personnel Morning Summary Staff McCoy, Janet L., Diplomatic Boggs, Gladys Doretha, Bureau of Cook, Gertrude, Executive Libby, Nola, International Security, Information I^blic Affairs, Office of Press Secretariat Narcotics Matters Management Relations Mallory, Janice M., Diplomatic McCarter, Lisa A., Consular Metz, Carol Jane, Diplomatic Clark, Cookie C., International Security Affairs Security, Professional Organization Affairs

36 STATE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE—Clerical/ Ortiz. Second row: Patricia Doll, Judy Green, Butler, Tracy Seward. Third row: Ron Gam- secretarial orientation class, first row (left to Patricia Freeman, Angela Blume, Tracy bill, Price Floyd, Velma Lakins, Linda Toole right): Samantha Smith, Lillie Davis, Carole Beeson, Dorothy Moody, Theolyn Sanders, (chairwoman). (State Department photo by Blake, Tammy Furr, Shireen Valli, Maria Marquita Powers, Doretta Willingham, Donna Lloyd McKenzie)

Cooper, Tracy Y., Diplomatic and Pacific Affairs Passport Agency Jackson, Sheila J., Diplomatic Security, Information O’Brien, Helen Irene, New York Security, Information GS-10 Management Passport Agency Management Haneles, Ellen Gail, New York Davis, Deborah Herman, Ricketts, Wilhelmina A., Lacombe, Patrick Gerard, Passport Agency Diplomatic Security Diplomatic Security Intelligence and Research Fredlund, Norma R., Finance and GS-11 Scott, Barbara Lynn, Bureau of Linder, Susan M,, Office of Management Policy Cooper, Glendena C., Miami Administration Audits Grant, Sigrid D., Economic and Passport Agency Swankowski, Steve T., Diplomatic Poindexter, Willie Donald, Bureau Business Affairs Dade, Michelle Denise, Diplomatic Security of Personnel Previti, Barbara J., Diplomatic Security Wellington, Martin A., Price, Janet L., Diplomatic Security, Information Eickman, Diane E., Office of Intelligence and Research Security Management Inspector General Zoetis, Phyllis Ann, Diplomatic Proper, Virginia A., Office of Pryor, Carlene B., Intelligence Johnson, Etheleen Rice, Finance Security, Information Under Secretary for and Research and Management Policy Management Management Ross, Yolanda G., Bureau of Kazyak, Adina Elizabeth, Stewart, Betty A„ Bureau of Administration Consular Affairs GS-12 Administration, Allowances Thibodeau, Alfred Bryan, McHale, Ellen-Marie, European Dickerson, Marian W., Bureau of Staff Diplomatic Security, and Canadian Affairs Personnel Wolridge, Dianna P., Office of Information Management Miller, Patricia A., Office of the Duckett, Deborah A., Bureau of Policy, Planning and Tydings, Ellen Marie, African Under Secretary for Administration Management Affairs Management Gonzales, Rebecca E., Diplomatic Wood, Harlee E., Executive Woody, Jennifer M., East Asian Money, Brenda M,, Philadelphia Security Secretariat

May 1990 37 PERSONNEL: CIVIL SERVICE

Appointments Affairs of Administration Philadelphia Passport Agency Bryant, Jerald Everette, Consular Deming, Stuart H., Bureau of Hagel, Charles T., Bureau of Alex^os, Betty W., Civil Service Affairs Administration Administration Personnel Management Butterfield, William J., Bureau of Devoe, Dawn M., Bureau of Hastie, Barbara A., Executive Alsalihi, Linda A., Boston Secretariat Administration Administration Passport Agency S., Bureau of Camacho, Maria D., Philadelphia Dore, Marjorie A., Bureau of Hatcher, Lloyd Alvarez, Livier, San Francisco Administration Passport Agency Administration Passport Agency Hering, Karen Marie, Philadelphia Chin, Laura, San Francisco Douglas, Richard, Bureau of Ballard, Susan M., Bureau of Passport Agency Passport Agency Administration Administration Hernandez, Alfredo A., Boston Clemons, Charles Allen, Los Dunhar, Judith L., Family Liaison Barton, Paula J., Office of Legal Passport Agency Angeles Passport Agency Office Adviser Hernandez, Hady, Bureau of Finlayson, Patricia Glenn, Office Beck, Enid, Northeast Passport Cleveland, Hilary P., International Administration of Foreign Buildings Processing Center Joint Commission Hirsch, Paul J., Bureau of Finnerty, Dennis, Office of Bergman, Evelyn E., European Cole, Yvonne, Philadelphia Administration Panamanian Affairs and Canadian Affairs Passport Agency Hobson, Paula Ann, Office of Galer, Mary E., Office of Foreign Blandford, Kamaria Abeo, Culbreth, Rhoda Paula, Los Protocol Buildings Consular Affairs Angeles Passport Agency Jackson, Margaret L., European Gardella, Daniel S., Consular Blankstein, Charles S., Davis Jr., Arthur Horace, Inter- and Canadian Affairs Affairs International Narcotics Matters American Affairs Jiang, Sandy S., Los Angeles Bloomfield Jr., Lincoln P., Davis, Terry, Politico-Military Gardner, Pamela K., Bureau of Passport Agency Marquan Dam Negotiations Affairs Administration Johnson, Barbara Jem, Los Bongatu, Leila Velasco, San Deaver, Carolyn, Office of Gihbons-Fly, William H., Angeles Passport Agency Francisco Passport Agency Protocol Fisheries Affairs Kerr, Lee Starling, Bureau of Brown, Aiyenine C., Consular Delgigante, Renee Teresa, Bureau Gibson, Charlene Lyn-Nita, Administration

MANAGEMENT—^Under Secre- Meritorious Honor Award to as chief of the Administrative Office of the Under Secretary, tary Ivan Selin, right, presents Jesse Dobbs for his performance Services Division in the Executive Kucharczyk, Suzanne M., Finance Inspector General European Affairs Buza, Marlene S., Pre-Assignment and Management Policy Taylor, James E., Bureau of Kidd, Patricia E., Washington Training Lamothe, Marie Y., Miami Administration Passport Agency to Refugee Carroll Jr., Francis X., Passport Agency Tooke, Cynthia C., Bureau of Programs Philadelphia Passport Agency Landy, Isabelle J., Los Angeles Administration Lopez, Carmen, Pre-Assignment Conaway, Mary K., Inter- Passport Agency Touey, Daniel P., Philadelphia Training to Inter-American American Affairs Leader, Judith K., Office of Passport Agency Affairs Conner, Virginia L., Office of Inspector General Van Dorn, Joan Stanley, Consular Monley, Wanda Teresa, Pre- Overseas Schools Lehrer, Sandra L., Bureau of Affairs Assignment Training to Oceans Crean, Anna H., International Administration Vasankari, Eric R., San Francisco and International Environmen¬ Organization Affairs, Political Mangan, Shawn Joseph, Houston Passport Agency tal and Scientific Affairs Affairs Passport Agency Ward, Don Juan, Office of the Onley, Paulette L., Intelligence Dement, Terryleen K., East Asian Medley, Keacha Dwan, Inspector General and Research to International and Pacific Affairs Philadelphia Passport Agency Weech-House, Gilda T., Organization Affairs Demuth, Stephen C., Finance and Moore, Tikii Toyaa, Los Angeles Diplomatic Security, Owens, Anna Mae, Diplomatic Management Policy Passport Agency Information Management Security to Finance and Man¬ Drew, Kena D., Refugee Programs Muradian, Armen, Bureau of Wells, Daisy Mae, Los Angeles agement Policy Duddey, John F., Diplomatic Administration Passport Agency Powers, Marquita J., Pre-Assign¬ Security, Information Murphy, Dennis P., Inter- Wheless, Robert S., Los Angeles ment Training to Bureau of Management American Affairs Passport Agency Personnel Office of Civil Serv¬ Evans Jr., Willie, Bureau of Murphy, Jonita Ann, Los Angeles Whitworth, William R., Office of ice Personnel Management Administration Passport Agency Foreign Buildings Roselli, Joan M., Geneva Arms Gonzalez, Wilfredo John, Equal Nelson, Rosa M., Philadelphia Williams, Garcia G., Los Angeles Negotiations to Intelligence Employment Opportunity Passport Agency Passport Agency and Research Haaga, Mary R., Diplomatic Oliver, Margaret E., Houston Yeh, Sue-Fen Chen, Houston Simpson, Diane R., Bureau of Per¬ Security. Information Passport Agency Passport Agency sonnel to International Management Ortiz Jr., Frank V., Finance and Young, Charles William, Los Organization Affairs Hernandez, Hady, Bureau of Management Policy Angeles Passport Agency Sohn, June Mejung, Pre-Assign¬ Administration Parks, Candance E., Soviet Union ment Training to Executive Hoyle, Brian J., Oceans and Affairs Reassignments Secretariat International Environmental Ramirez, David Angel, Los Boyd, David J., Diplomatic Spiegel, Lonni Hope, Finance and and Scientific Affairs Angeles Passport Agency Security, Information Manage¬ Management Policy to Diplo¬ Kamelgam, Rose, Northeast Ray, Dee, Tel Aviv ment to Finance and matic Security, Information Passport Processing Center Riddick, Mary E., Consular Management Policy Management Leblanc, Diana R., Bureau of Affairs Burtnette, Linda S., Politico-Mili¬ Tolbert, Colette Nitcheu, Office of Administration Roh, Sigmund S., Office of tary Affairs to Office of Legal Protocol to African Affairs, Ludden, Kenneth Martin, Foreign Buildings Adviser Economic Policy Staff Diplomatic Security Ruppert, Maureen Evelyn, Pre- Corbett, Kathy, Foreign Service Warner, Ricardo M., Medical Prado, Armando D., Mexico Assignment Training Institute, Professional Studies Services to Refugee Programs Reagan, Maureen E., International Winstead, June A., Consular Samuel, Shani Elizabeth, to Office of Foreign Buildings Organization Affairs Affairs to Foreign Service Philadelphia Passport Agency Dangelo, Rosalie M., Office of Riffle, Patricia S., Bureau of Institute, Management Santiago-Bunch, Providenci, Inspector General to Office of Administration Roots, Darren Thomas, Medical Nassau Civil Service Ombudsman Wrenn, Margurite F., European Sappington, Ethel W., Bureau of Dickerson, Dewaiter, Office of and Canadian Affairs to Services Ruppert, Maureen Evelyn, Pre- Administration Foreign Buildings to Diplo¬ Bureau of Personnel Wright, Rachael E., Office of Assignment Training Sasine, Ronald Damen, Inter- matic Security, Information Legal Adviser to Consular Smith, Deshaun R., Executive American Affairs Management Affairs Secretariat Schuler, Janet K., Bureau of Faltz, Deborah Ann, Pre-Assign¬ Smith, Stephanie C., Pre- Administration ment Training to Bureau of Resignations Assignment Training Schuster, Gretchen A., Chicago Public Affairs Akiin, Deneen, Northeast Passport Straub, Jacqueline Ann, Passport Agency Fields, Helen D., Bureau of Processing Center Diplomatic Security Shill, Sarah H., Bureau of Administration to Geneva Arnett, Michelle P., Pre- Walker, Elizabeth Regan, Office Administration Arms Negotiations Assignment Training of Under Secretary for Sisti, Benjamin V., Boston Grohs, Margaret A., Pre-Assign¬ Bailey, Rhondra F., Consular Political Affairs Passport Agency ment Training to Near Eastern Affairs Wang, Patricia H. L., Seattle Smith, Beth Eilers, Boston and South Asian Affairs Bernthal, Frederick M., Oceans Passport Agency Passport Agency Gross, Helen Louise, Office of and International Washington, Holly E., Citizens Smith, Clairessa Theresa, New Foreign Buildings to Diplo¬ Emergency Center Orleans Passport Agency matic Security, Information Environmental and Scientific Wilkinson, James Andrew, Smith, Shunta W., Los Angeles Management Affairs Bureau of Administration Passport Agency Holmes, Corlis A., Intelligence Borisch, Tamara, Tel Aviv Woronka, Theodore, Finance and Snell, Naomi A., Office of and Research to Executive Brown, Yvonne Deloris, Management Policy Inspector General Secretariat Diplomatic Security, Stewart, Donald E. J., Inter- Hill, Donna G., Civil Service Per¬ Information Management Retirements American Affairs sonnel Management to African Bryant, Dana, Northeast Passport Houston, Ethel V., Consular Stickels Jr., Richard G., Bureau Affairs Processing Center Affairs of Administration Juola, Laurel Helene, Pre-Assign¬ Bryant, Ivy N., Los Angeles Hunter, Gladys, D., Los Angeles Strouse Jr., William H., Office of ment Training to Eastern Passport Agency Passport Agency ■

May 1990 39 \

Honors and Awards

KUWAIT—Ambassador W. Nathaniel Howell presents Meritorious Honor Award and step increase to James Alderman, budget and flscal officer (left).

DOHA, Qatar—At award ceremony, left to right, first row: Ambassador Mark Hamhley, Michelle Bemier-Toth, Assistant Secretary •John H. Kelly, Ohaila Attaya, Mohamood Kandathil. Second row: Jamil Abed, T.P. Lakshamanan, Abdulla Kutty, E.V. Moiedeen, MADRH), Spain—^Mail room employee Jose Honor Award from conununications officers SiraJ Nalakath, Martin Quinn, Edward Maria Castro (center) receives Meritorious WUliam Mills (left) and James Farrell. Gnehm, Jiryis Khoury. ■ f

ANTANANANRIVO, Madagascar—Ambas¬ sador Howard K. Walker presents award for 28 years of safe driving to driver Albert Rakotondramora, left. (Photo by Irvina Wallace) Superior Honor Awards Fernandez, Francisco J., FP-04, La Biz ThKy, Marlin, FP-06, Conakry Hester, Donald V., PO-02, Washington IMtes, William S., FP-02, Washington* (March) Hodes, Jay Mark, FP-04, Washington* Wohlman, Merrill C., FP-04, Washington* Andersen, Walter K., FP-02, New Delhi Hortoland, Elka, C., FP-04, Antananarivo Ziegler, Janet De Long, FP-04, Tijuana Brown, Timothy C., FO-01, Tegucigalpa Hutton, Joseph A., FP-04, Washington* —(*Denotes group awards) □ Furey, Thomas P., FO-OI, Johannesburg Kansas, Thomas P., FP-04, Conakry Kam, Geraldine L., FP-OS, San Salvador Kearney Jr., John L., FP-04, Washington* Note from the Bureau ef Personnel Awards Karlen, Dale A., FP-02, La Paz Kimmel, Stephen C., FP-04, Dubai Office: This is a reminder to post awards com¬ Seasword, Mary S., GM-15, Washington □ Liebengood, Paul C., FP-02, Washington* mittees to send nomination-for-incentive-award Mahoney, Mary J., ^-02, Washington fonns (DS-1577) as quickly as possible to Meritorious Honor Awards Mazel, Louis, 10-03, Lome bureau executive offices. Please check the form hfeehan, Dai^l F., 17-05, Washington* to ensure it is completed properly, especially (March) Meehan, Niali, FP-05, Washington* Rage 3, But II—Action Taken by Joint Country Alderman, James M., PO-03, Kuwait Mikel, Dean, FP-05, Washington* Awards Conunittee, and Bui III—Action Taken Bareng, Linda C., FP-09, Bangkok Moore, Roderick, FP-04, Pcnt-au-Prince by Chief of Mission. Incomplete forms require Barnard, Thomas A., FP-05, Washington* Mott, Arthur H., FP-05, Washington* Verification of the award, causing lengthy ^lays Bayer, Michael D., FP-05, Washington* Nelson, Michael, FP-05, San Francisco in processing. All DS-1577s should iiKlude the Becker, David C., FO-03, Ouagadougou Nemeth, Winkle W., FP-04, Kingston individual’s name, grade, rank, social security Bentley, Robert N., PO-03, Dar es Salaam Pawlkki, Anthony S., FP-06, La Paz number, position title, name of post/bureau and Beyers, William W., FP-05, Washington* Piculas, Hilda B., FP-07, Lagos type of award. For a group awa^, a copy of the Billman, Cindy K., FP-07, Stockholm Prasompetch, Jessica, FP-05, La nomination must be submitted for each individ¬ Borisch, Thomas C., 17-04, Tel Aviv Rath, Martin J., FP-05, Washington* ual including the above information. Bradshaw, Alvin R., FP-03, Miami Samuel, Edward Bryan, FP-02, Ottawa Bureaus and posts are reminded once again Chiu, Judith, GS-04, San Francisco Schimmel, Mkhael R., FP-04, Havana that meritorious service increases (MSI) should Churchill, I^ul G., PO-03, Kathmandu Shields, Brenda A., GS-09, Washington not be submitted on the DS-1577 as an accom¬ Clark-Bourne, Kathryn, FO-01, Washington Standi^, Robert E., GS-t3, Washington paniment to an honor award. The format for Collins Jr., Bernhard, FP-02, Washington* Stewart, Scott T., FP-06, Washington* submitting MSls is in 3 FAM 224, Exhibit Darmiento, Michael J., FP-04, Washington* Swinehart, Keith A., FP-05, Washington* 224.8.3. Individuals at Step 14 are not eligible Duffy, Carol A., FP-05, Mbabane Tun, Linda, GS-07, San Fiancisco fw an MSI. They should be recommended Feldman, Michael, PO-04, Washington Tinney, Melissa S., FP-05, Washington* instead for a cash performance award. ■

NIAMEY, Niger—^At an award ceremony in Donald J. Connolly, Patricia J. Duffy, Ambas¬ Robert Lacock. The four received Meritorious this central African country, left to right: sador Carl C. Cundiff, Bernie A. Sylawa, Honor Awards from the ambassador.

May 1990 41 Bureau Notes

ant secretary for European affairs, JAMES DOB¬ preparation for the Houston economic summit in The Seventh Floor BINS. □ July, to be hosted by the United States. Accom¬ panying him were executive assistant SAMUEL Office of the Secretary Office of the Deputy Secretary M. HOSKINSON and senior economic adviser PAUL WONNACOTT. SECRETARY BAKER traveled to Wind¬ Deputy Secretary LAWRENCE S. □ hoek, Namibia, to participate in the Namibian EAGLEBURGER traveled to Sheperdstown independence ceremonies, and to Capetown and W.Va., March 24, to participate in the Republi¬ Office of the U.S. Coordinator Johannesburg, South Africa, and Kinshasa, can senators conference. Accompanying him was for Refugee Affairs Coordinator JEWEL S. LAFONTANT trav¬ Zaire, for bilateral meetings, March 18-24. the assistant secretary for legislative affairs, Accompanying him and serving as advance/plane JANET MULLINS. □ eled to eastern and southern Africa to assess the team members were special assistants CARON refugee situation in Malawi, Mozambique, Zim¬ babwe, Swaziland, Kenya and South Africa. JACKSON and KAREN GROOMES CASTLE- Office of the Under Secretary MAN; staff assistant ARDIS JOHNSON (Wind¬ During her four-week visit she visited major refu¬ for Political Affairs gee camps throughout the region. She met with hoek advance); ELIZABETH McKUNE, deputy Under Secretary ROBERT M. KIMMITT executive secretary. Executive Secretariat; government officials and presented letters from traveled to Fort Benning, Ga., March 13, to PRESIDENT BUSH to the president of Malawi PATRICK F. KENNEDY, executive director. address the Army Ranger graduation class ... He and the king of Swaziland. Executive Secretariat; Secretariat Staff officers traveled to San Francisco, March 22-23, to chair En route to Africa, she spent several days in JUDY GARBER (Kinshasa advance); HELENE the annual meeting of the group of seven political London, where she had meetings with govern¬ KESSLER (plane team); Secretariat Staff line directors. Accompanying him were MICHAEL ment officials on the refugee situation in Africa assistants JILL DOUGLASS (Windhoek GUEST, deputy director for political affairs. and the Vietnamese boat people in Hong advance); KAREN EMERSON (Kinshasa Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs; Kong ... Prior to returning to Washington, she advance); and KATHERINE McGOWEN (plane ALEJANDRO WOLFF, special assistant to Mr. stopped in Geneva, where she briefed the UN team); computer systems analyst JOHN Kimmitt; CORNELLA CARTER-TAYLOR, sec¬ high commissioner for refugees, THORVALD BENTEL; the director of the Policy Planning retary; and two members of the Executive Office, STOLTENBERG, on her African visit. □ Staff, DENNIS ROSS, and his personal assistant. MARY HAINES and KEVIN WICKER. HELEN ELLIS; the director general of the For¬ People: CONSTANCE BRAXTON, for¬ Protocol Office eign Service and director of personnel, merly of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, has The chief of protocol, JOSEPH VERNER EDWARD PERKINS; the assistant secretary for joined the staff ... Departures included those of REED, accompanied PRESIDENT BUSH to public affairs and Department spokeswoman, ELIZABETH WALKER, who joined the staff of Palm Springs to meet with the prime minister of MARGARET TUTWILER, and her deputy, KIM HARRIET JENKINS in the Office of Equal Japan. Assisting with the visit were MARY HOGGARD; the assistant secretary for African Opportunity Programs, National Aeronautics and MASSERINI and RANDY BUMGARDNER ... affairs, HENRY COHEN; the deputy assistant Space Administration; ERIC EDELMAN, who SECRETARY BAKER hosted luncheons in secretary for European and Canadian affairs, departed for his new assignment as assistant dep¬ honor of the prime minister of Italy and the CURTIS KAMMAN; National Security Council uty under secretary of defense for Soviet and East Soviet minister of finance ... The deputy secre¬ staff member DAVID MILLER; and JAMES European affairs, at the Department of Defense; tary, in his capacity as acting secretary, hosted a W(X)DS, Department of Defense. and BARBARA PACE, who departed for a new luncheon in honor of the prime minister of Secretary Baker addressed the World Affairs assignment in the Bureau of European and Poland ... The diplomatic corps attended a joint Council in Dallas, March 30-April 1 ... On April Canadian Affairs, to work for BRUNSON session of Congress addressed by the prime min¬ 10 he traveled to Toronto with PRESIDENT McKinley. □ BUSH to participate in bilateral meetings. ister of Italy. Assisting with these events were Accompanying Mr. Baker was the deputy assist- Office of the Under Secretary CAROLYN DEAVER, NANCY THOMPSON, for Economic Affairs APRIL GUICE, KIM MIDDLETON, JOHNNA Under Secretary RICHARD T. Mc- WRIGHT, RICHARD GOOKIN and SEVENTH FLOOR—Meritorious Honor CORMACK traveled to Paris, March 10-11, for LAWRENCE DUNHAM. First lady BARBARA BUSH attended a per¬ Awards go to officers who served in Madrid negotiations concerning the European Bank for when Under Secretary Reginald Bartholomew, Reconstruction and Development ... He traveled formance of the Vienna Boys Choir with the dip¬ left, was ambassador there. From right: Al to San Francisco, to chair the Sherpa meetings in lomatic corps, at Blair House. Assisting with the Perez, Carol Perez, Charisse Phillips. event were BENEDICTE VALENTINER, SAM CASTLEMAN, LINDA BARRERA, DEE LILLY, MARIA SOTIROPOULOS and LYNN KEITH ... During March, 11 foreign dignitaries visited Washington. Arrangements for the visits were coordinated by DANIEL GROWNEY, JESSIE JOHNSON; JOHN LA PENTA, AGNES WARHELD, TANYA TURNER-SANDERS and LILA BRENT ... MARY ANN SINNOTT has joined the diplomatic and consular liaison sec¬ tion. □

Administration Foreign Buildings Operations Deputy assistant secretary RICHARD N. DERTADIAN met with Ambassador SOL POLANSKY of Sofia to review design/con¬ struction.scheduling for the Foreign Service national annex office building and the general

42 STATE maritime talks at Kings Point, N.Y., and a mili¬ tary meeting in Florida ... BILL HOPKINS trav¬ eled to London and Vienna for trade talks with the Soviets ... GALINA TUNIK went to Helsinki for talks on Afghanistan ... SIM SMILEY was in Tampa for a conference on crime and drugs ... Military meetings were staffed by GISELA MARCUSE in Huntsville, ELIZA BURNHAM at Picatinny Arsenal, and BARBARA PHILLIPS at Randolph Air Force Base. Supply and Transportation: Commissary and Recreational Affairs: The office has begun negotiations with a software manufacturer who has developed an inventory control software package for post associations which is capable of handling dual currency, and is compatible with Department-recommended accounting software. The Office of the Inspector General is assisting the office in developing a pilot program to iden¬ tify accountants capable of conducting the required audits of employee associations. Efforts DOHA, Qatar—Inspecting land on which include identification of dependents, with construction of new embassy will begin later accounting degrees, to participate in this this year, from left: Deputy assistant secre¬ program. tary Edward W. Gnehm, Ambassador Mark Overseas Schools: In response to political Hambley, administrative officer Christa Griffin, Assistant Secretary John H. Kelly, unrest in Haiti. Union School in Port-au-Prince deputy chief of mission Don Roberts. was closed for several days. The school has reopened, and all staff members have returned to work. Chief interpreter STEPHANIE VAN Safety Office: STEVE URMAN, safety REIGERSBERG and BARBARA PHILLIPS director, and EILEEN VERITY participated in accompanied VICE PRESIDENT QUAYLE on the Bureau of Near East Asian Affairs' manage¬ his trip to Latin America ... DIMITRY ment workshops in New Delhi and Cyprus ... ZARECHNAK and ALEC TOUMAYAN inter¬ Safety and Health Program Assessments were preted for SECRETARY BAKER during his visit conducted in London and Madrid in conjunction to Africa ... FRANCES SEEDS was assigned to with previous workshop trips. DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia—Consul general the Japanese summit meeting in Palm Springs ... Facilities Management and Support Serv¬ Kenneth Stammerman plants two palm trees PETER AFANASENKO covered U S.-Soviet in front of the chancery, in celebration of ices: Office of Real Property: MARK BUTOWSKY, architect, attended the General “National Tree Week.” PARAMARIBO, Suriname—Then van de Services Administration furniture commodity Laar, commissary manager, named “Man¬ conference in Williamsburg, Va., to assist the ager of the Year” in the worldwide office in managing the design and priKurement of services/warehouse facility ... Mr. Dertadian competition sponsored by the Department’s furniture, furnishings and equipment for the new provided a briefing for recently-appointed Commissary and Recreation Affairs Staff, national foreign affairs training center at Ambassador CHARLES THOMAS of Budapest, receives a check for $1,000 from Ambassador Arlington Hall. D in which plans for design and construction of a Richard C. Howland. new chancery building and annex were reviewed ... Three division directors for the Office of Pro¬ gram Planning and Post Support gave presenta¬ tions to members and staffs of the House of African Affairs Representatives subcommittee on international Office of the Assistant Secretary: Assistant operations, as well as other staff members from Secretary HERMAN J. COHEN accompanied the Committee on Appropriations and its subcom¬ SECRETARY BAKER to Namibia’s independ¬ mittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, ence ceremony, March 21. The Secretary also State, the judiciary and related agencies ... traveled to South Africa and Zaire ... At the JAMES SCHOONOVER (facilities manage¬ request of the Foreign Press Center, Mr. Cohen ment), GAY MOUNT (planning and program¬ briefed international journalists, March 26. on ming) and WILLIAM HYDE, Real Estate African issues ... Mr. Cohen participated in a Division, were the presenters. □ trade and investment conference on Africa, in Dallas. March 29. This annual event, .sprmsored Office of Operations jointly by State and Commerce, drew 250 partici¬ Language Services: CAROL WOLTER, pants. African Development Bank president newly-appointed chief of the European branch. BABACAR NDIAYE was the luncheon speaker. Interpreting Division, attended a two-week man¬ Thirty-one members of his roundtable for busi¬ agement course in Lancaster, Pa ... Director nessmen accompanied him to the United States, HARRY OBST traveled to Houston to inspect the where they met with businessman in Washington, sites for the summit of industrialized nations ... Atlanta. Dallas and New York. Other bureau par-

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passport matters ... GUS SZLOSEK, acceptance agent coordinator at the San Francisco agency, conducted an acceptance agents seminar in Sacra¬ mento, March 1, and another in San Francisco, March 15 ... On February 28, GLADYS HUNTER, data transcriber, Los Angeles Passport Agency, retired after six years of service ... In March, Mexican passport officials visited and toured the Los Angeles agency. They met with SAKAE M. HAWLEY, regional director, and VINCENT R. MOORE, assistant, on passport processing and machine-readable passports ... Ms. Hawley participated in a travel show at the Los Angeles Convention Center, March 17-18. At the show, passport and travel information were provided to the public by BARBARA BROPHY, ANTHONY CHAN, MARGARET DOYLE, GARY VALLEY and ANITA WILLIAMS, all of the Los Angeles agency ... LOME, Togo—At award ceremony for com¬ On March 14, DON TREMBLAY, passport bureau. He replaces Mr. Clark. municator Diane Peterson, left to right: John examiner, Los Angeles, represented the agency at Economic Policy Staff: Director DANE Lange, Ambassador Rush Taylor Jr., Einar a career day at the University of Southern Cal¬ Jarvinen. SMITH and senior commercial coordinator ifornia. He provided information to students on GARY D. DeVIGHT attended the annual con¬ Civil Service and Foreign Service careers with ference on trade and investment in Africa, in the Department ... In February he represented Dallas, March 29-30 ... Deputy director LLOYD the agency at a travel show at the University of R. GEORGE represented the Department at the California at Los Angeles, where he provided Zambia consultative group meeting in Paris, passport and travel information to students ... April 9-11. BARBARA BROPHY, acceptance agents coordi¬ Office of Southern African Affairs: nator, Los Angeles, conducted a training seminar GERRY GALLUCCl, South Africa desk officer, at the agency, March 22, for 17 passport accept- participated in the South African Lawyers Pro¬ gram sessions at Georgetown University, March — Myles 28. SAO PAULO, Brazil Consul general R.R. Frechette Office of Regional Affairs: JOHN COOK, presents Meritorious Honor Anne Hall deputy director, briefed 14 members of a Merid¬ Award to economics officer for her ian House international visitors group, April 5. work at Consulate Baranquilla in Colombia. The group then met with desk officers. □

Consular Affairs

On March 9 ELIZABETH TAMPOSI, DAKAR, Senegal—Ambassador George E. assistant secretary for consular affairs, and Moose, left, at inauguration of the new com¬ WILLIAM CAMP, associate director for passport mercial section. With him are Madeleine services, visited the Chicago Passport Agency, to Kane, secretary, and Harold D. Foster, com¬ present certificates of appreciation to the staff for mercial officer. their service to the traveling American public of the Chicago region ... From July 1989 through ticipants included ALISON ROSENBERG, dep¬ last February, the Chicago agency carried out its uty assistant secretary; DANE SMITH, Economic responsibilities despite key supervisory and oper¬ Policy Staff director; GARY DeVIGHT, com¬ ational vacancies when the agency was experi¬ mercial coordinator. Economic Policy Staff; encing a very heavy workload. TOM NIBLOCK, South Africa desk officer; Visa Services: On March 28 RICHARD MARY JO WILLS, Nigeria desk officer; and WILLIAMS, associate director, spoke at MARY SWANN, public affairs officer ... While Fordham Law School in New York on immigra¬ in Dallas, Mr. Cohen participated in a Dallas tion matters ... From March 8-27 KARL World Affairs Council meeting, March 29, to OLSON, Field Support and Liaison Division, discuss African issues ... On March 30 he trav¬ traveled to Guadalajara, Mazatlan, Mexico City eled to Chicago, where he met with members of and Guatemala, to provide training for the com¬ the Mid-America Committee, before returning to puter-assisted nomimmigrant visa processing sys¬ Washington. tems at those posts ... From March 14-18 Deputy assistant secretary WARREN STEPHEN FISCHEL, chief. Legislation and CLARK addressed the International Club of Regulations Division, traveled to London, to Annapolis, March 7, where he discussed southern speak on the U.S. free trade agreement. Africa ... JEFFREY DAVIDOW, formerly Passport Services: On March 1 JACK M. ambassador to Zambia, returned to Washington COLBOURN, regional director, San Francisco to become senior deputy assistant secretary in tbe Passport Agency, briefed congressional aides on

44 State ance agents from local post offices, city clerk's General’s DONALD NORMAN and WILLIAM offices and military facilities ... GLORIA CHIPLIS. A total of 34 regional security officers, GREEN, acting fraud program coordinator, security engineering officers and selected assist¬ provided information on passport fraud to partici¬ ant regional security officers attended the two pants at the seminar ... On March 15-16 LYNNE sessions of the workshop. COX, acceptance agents coordinator, Houston, Office of Administration: The bureau’s Per¬ held training seminars on fraud recognition and sonnel Management Division sponsored an acceptance agents' procedures, in Austin, Tex., employee evaluation report training seminar, for 35 postal clerks, military representatives and April 3-4. Speakers included the deputy assistant district clerks of court ... On March 27 secretary for resource management. RALPH JOLANDA C. WOOD, regional director, FRANK; administration director BRENDA Houston Passport Agency, accompanied by Ms. SPRAGUE; regional diplomatic officer AL Cox, participated in an annual congressional liai¬ VERRIER; Criminal Investigations Division son breakfast ... On February 12 BRENDA chief JERRY LOPEZ; Counterterrorism Pro¬ MONEY became the acceptance agents coordina¬ grams director CHRIS DISNEY; the Bureau of tor at the Philadelphia Passport Agency. She Personnel’s career development (security) staff replaced SHEILA MEEHAN, who is now members JIM McWHIRTER and GEORGE adjudication supervisor at the Philadelphia GAINES; and that bureau’s Office of Perform¬ agency ... On March 20 KAREN A. PALLAS, BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A Meritorious ance Evaluation staff members HARMON assistant regional director, Seattle, participated in Honor Award is presented by Ambassador KIRBY and JACKIE SMITH. a Federal Women’s Program conference on Terence A. Todman to Natalia Nis Icardi, The seminar was attended by special assist¬ career dynamics. security office secretary. ant ALLEGRA SENSENIG; Personnel Manage¬ Office of the Executive Director; KEVIN ment Division chief CLARA ALEXANDER; HERBERT participated in a consular training personnel management specialists CARYN workshop sponsored by the Foreign Service DANIELE, BITSY UNKLE, BRENDA EVAN- Institute, in Guadalajara, Mexico, February 24- SKI, GLORIA DAWKINS. MARY KELLEY, March 9. MARY RUCKER and TERRI PARKER; Coordi¬ Public Affairs: KAROLINA WALKIN has nation Center chief RICHARD KLINGEN- left the bureau for a new assignment as a public MAIER; counterintelligence staff member affairs specialist in the Bureau of East Asian and HENRY COHEN; diplomatic courier FRANK Pacific Affairs. □ GREEN; Development and Training Division staff members ROBERT BOOTH and MARK LEFLER; overseas operations staff members Diplomatic Security DAVID MANLEY, WILLIAM LAMB. BRUCE TULLY, PETER GALLANT and TIM STEIN; Office of the Assistant Secretary; Assistant residential security chief BRAD UPDEGROVE; Secretary SHELDON J. KRYS traveled to Facilities Protection Division chief JAMES BER- Charleston, S.C., February 19, to review protec¬ MINGHAM; and Joint Special Projects Staff tive security operations during the visit of chief LUCIUS JACKSON. PRINCE CHARLES. Mr. Krys was accompanied LOME, Togo—At award ceremony for Office of Policy Coordination: LEN by Dignitary Protection Division deputy chief regionai security officer Kevin O’Neill (cen¬ ZAWISTOWSKI resigned from the Policy Plan¬ DOUG ROBERTS ... On March 20 Mr. Krys, ter), Tibor Nagy, left, and Ambassador Rush ning Division to accept a position with the Fed¬ special assistant SIDNEY REEVES and Bureau Taylor Jr. eral Reserve’s Office of the Inspector General. of Inter-American Affairs executive director Information Management: Mr. Krys EUGENE SCASSA traveled to Miami, to attend attended the communication program officers/ the communications program officers/systems Diplomatic Security Service director CLARK M. systems managers conference in Miami, March managers conference, March 19 ... The three DITTMER and a deputy assistant secretary for 19-23, accompanied by the deputy assistant sec¬ continued on to the U.S. embassy in San Sal¬ personnel, LAURALEE PETERS, attended the retary for systems operations. ROBERT L. vador, where they met with personnel and ceremony. CAFFREY; the acting deputy assistant secretary reviewed security operations ... They traveled to Office of Overseas Operations: The office for planning and development, JOSEPH San Jose, March 23, where Mr. Krys addressed hosted a regional security officer/security engi¬ ACQUAVELLA; the director for interagency two sessions of the regional security officer/ neering officer workshop in San Jose, Costa affairs, ARTHUR FREEMAN; Defense liaison security engineering officer workshop ... They Rica, March 20-30. Mr. Krys led the Depart¬ officer HOWARD MILLS; resource management then traveled to Bogota. March 27, where they ment’s delegation, accompanied by Office of director TOM McQUILLAN; chief of foreign met with personnel at post and reviewed security Operations director LANCE PUTNEY; the operations THOMAS F. PAOLOZZI; the director operations ... The trip concluded in Miami on regional operations director for Latin America, for information management training. WILLIAM March 29, where Mr. Krys met with the assistant STEVE CRAIGO; regional operations officer PARKS; the director for information services, special agent-in-charge of the Miami Field JEFF PURSELL; physical security programs PHILIP M. TINNEY; Beltsville Communications Office, DAN MCCARTHY, and reviewed field director MARV DOIG; Security Technology Center networks manager ROBERT J. BERGER; office operations. Operations Office director DARRYL DAHARB; computer systems analyst TRACY Y. CCXJPER; Mr. Krys accompanied the congressional Diplomatic Security’s legal staff member DEAN Foreign Division Systems staff member H. JUNE delegation from the House Permanent Select W(X)DEN; Office of Professional Development DANIELS; Latin American operations officer Committee on Intelligence, led by Congressman staff member ANN BARRETT; and counterin¬ HAL HUTSON; records management branch ANTHONY C. BEILENSON (D.-Calif.), to telligence representatives RAY WASSOM, chief KATHLEEN LANNON; Latin American Munich, Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Dubrovnik MARY BRYSON and ED WOOD. Other systems manager JOHN P. MARKEY; indexing and Belgrade, April 6-17 ... The assistant secre¬ attendees included the Marine Security Guard branch chief JOSEPH R. MODRAK; computer tary swore in 30 new Diplomatic Security Service company commander, the Marine Security Guard systems analyst ANTHONY MUSE; acting Infor¬ special agents, March 14, in the Treaty Room. operations officer, and Office of the Inspector mation Security Division chief THOMAS B. BUREAU NOTES

NIGHTENGALE; Personnel Management Divi¬ and the U.S. relationship with Japan ... On Feb¬ sion staff member JAN Z. CX3DEN; applied tech¬ ruary 27 deputy assistant secretary MARILYN nology staff member MARY E. REES: informa¬ MEYERS briefed the U.S. Pacific island gover¬ tion programs officer DAVID W. SMITH; the nors, including the governor of the Common¬ Bureau of Personnel’s career development officer wealth of the Northern Marianas and the MANUEL VALDEZ; and resource management governor of American Samoa, on issues in the staff member MARY WIENDORF □ Pacific, in response to the governors’ request that they be offered such foreign policy updates when visiting Washington ... During a mid-February East Asian and visit to Thailand, Ms. Meyers, as the deputy overseeing narcotics issues in this bureau, con¬ Pacific Affairs_ sulted with Embassy Bangkok and Consulate Assistant Secretary RICHARD H. SOL¬ General Chiengmai on the narcotics problem in OMON traveled to New York, February 11-13, Burma and Thailand ... DAVID WALKER, act¬ for preliminary meetings on Cambodia with UN ing director for regional affairs, attended the officials. He was accompanied by deputy assist¬ U.S.-Soviet East Asia experts meeting in Paris, ant secretary DAVID F. LAMBERTSON and March 14-lS ... He then represented the Depart¬ CHARLES H. TWINING, director. Office of ment at the Nato South and East Asia experts Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia ... Mr. Solomon meeting in Brussels, March 20-21. □ and principal deputy assistant secretary DESAIX DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania—Economic ANDERSON traveled to Palm Springs for the and commercial officer Gayleatha Brown is talks between the President and the prime minis¬ Economic and inducted into the Rotary Club by president ter of Japan ... On March 10-16 Mr. Solomon Business Affairs Hasmukh Shah, becoming the first female met with representatives of the five permanent Rotarian in history here. members of the UN Security Council, in Paris, Assistant Secretary EUGENE J. McALLIS- and had talks with Soviet experts. Mr. Lam- TER led a delegation to Poland, March 6-10, to bertson, Mr. Twining and special assistants negotiate a business and economic treaty. The pated ... ROBERT H. STERN, deputy director MATTHEW P. DALEY and ROBERT MAN¬ negotiations continued in Washington, resulting for aviation negotiations, led aviation talks with NING accompanied him on the trip ... Mr. Sol¬ in a U.S.-Poland treaty signed by the President Indonesia, in Washington March 5-7. RONALD omon and Mr. Daley returned through London, on March 21 ... In Washington, March 12-14, K. KIRKPATRICK of that office participated ... for one-day consultations with the British foreign Mr. McAllister hosted a delegation from the JAMES R. TARRANT, special negotiator for office. Soviet Union for negotiations on a bilateral transportation affairs, led aviation talks with the Mr. Anderson accompanied the Secretary of investment treaty ... On March 23 and 28 he tes¬ Netherlands, in Washington, March 28-29. Mr. Defense to Hololulu, Korea, Hong Kong, Manila tified before the Senate Committee on Small Kirkpatrick participated. and Tokyo, February 10-24 ... He traveled to Business and the Foreign Relations Committee On March 29 LARRY W. ROEDER JR., Brussels, March 19-21, to address the Nato allies subcommittee on European affairs, respectively, Office of East-West Trade, led State/Commerce on the importance of the trialogue, as well as on concerning events in eastern Europe and the team to Richmond, Va., to meet with the presi¬ events in China, the East Asian strategy initiative implications for U.S. business. dents, general managers and selected staff CHARLES ANGEVINE, deputy assistant officers of various divisions of Albright & secretary for transportation affairs, traveled to Wilson Americas, Inc. (a Tenneco company). ADELAIDE, Australia—Consular agent Paris, France, March 26-28, to attend shipbuild¬ The purpose was to discuss U.S. chemical William J. McGovern, second from left, ing subsidies meetings with the Japanese and weapons-related export controls, and to cooperate receives the Meritorious Honor Award after Koreans ... THOMAS WAJDA, director. Office with the company in an antiproliferation effort. 38 years of service. Others, from left: Albright & Wilson submits more export license Ambassador Melvin Sembler, Mrs. McGovern, of Maritime and Land Transport Affairs, partici- consul general Richard Bock. requests for chemicals regulated by those controls than any other U.S. firm. In addition, the team discussed ongoing negotiations in Geneva to develop a treaty outlawing chemical weapons, as well as efforts by the United States and friendly governments to enlist the aid of industry in fight¬ ing chemical warfare proliferation. Mr. Roeder coordinates the foreign policy review of requests for commodities regulated under foreign policy controls. WILLIAM SKOK, Office of Business Prac¬ tices, was a member of the U.S. Government intellectual property experts delegation that met in Beijing, April 1-3, to discuss bilateral copyright, patent and trademark issues. The deputy assistant secretary for energy, resources and food policy, WILLIAM C. RAM¬ SAY, represented the United States at the meet¬ ing of the governing board and management committee of the International Energy Agency, March 6. STUART ALLAN, director. Office of Energy Consumer-Country Affairs, was a mem¬ ber of the U.S. contingent at the meeting ... Mr. Ramsay later presided at the meeting of the

46 State standing group on long-term cooperation of the security adviser. In addition to receiving briefings energy agency, in Paris, March 13-14. The Finance and by the U.S. ambassadors, the seminar met with a agenda included review of U.S. energy policy by panel of German journalists and had a luncheon the 21-country organization. Deputy assistant Management Policy discussion with American and German experts on secretary of energy THAD GRUNDY JR. On March 6 chief financial officer JILL the economic and monetary union issue ... In responded to questions from the secretariat and KENT participated in the opening program of West Berlin, the seminar had the opportunity to member countries. Other participants on the U.S. Women’s History Week, at which MARILYN T. hear views on German unification from officials delegation included GEOFFREY WOLFE, Office QUAYLE was the keynote speaker ... From across the political spectrum. They included the of Energy Consumer-Country Affairs ... Mr. March 19-23 GARY GALLOWAY, financial mayor of Berlin, the chairman of the Christian Allan headed an interagency U.S. delegation to management, traveled to Thailand, to review Democratic Party in Berlin and a member of the the meeting of the standing group on emergency interim disbursing and accounting by telecom¬ Berlin “Greens.” ... A visit to Potsdam gave the questions of the energy agency, which met at the munications with participants from the regional seminar a chance to walk through a corridor of headquarters of the agency in Paris, March 23. administrative management centers in Bangkok, history, albeit briefly, when members visited The standing group considers plans for response Mexico and Paris. □ Cecilienhof, site of the 1945 Potsdam conference to energy emergencies, and evaluates the ade¬ ... In Potsdam, the seminar participated in an quacy of emergency reserves of petroleum, informal discussion of German and European among other tasks ... RALPH ANSKE, Office Foreign Missions Office issues, at the Institute for International Relations, of Energy Consumer-Country Affairs, partici¬ with students and members of the faculty of this pated in an interagency review and rewrite of the DAVID C. FIELDS was confirmed as direc¬ former East German equivalent of the Foreign Department of Energy's interim national energy tor of the office, March 12 ... He and his execu¬ Service Institute, which hopes to become a think strategy, February 27-28 and March 2 ... He par¬ tive assistant, MICHAEL McQUADE, visited the tank in a united Germany ... In East Berlin, the ticipated in a symposium organized by the Center New York regional office, March 8-9 ... They seminar met with an East German economist, for Strategic and International Studies and the met with representatives of the U.S. mission to representatives of the East and West German and East-West Center, on “Exploding Pacific Basin the United Nations, and of the Mayor's Commis¬ American press corps, the diplomatic corps and sion for the United States and the Consular Corps Energy Demand and Dependence,” March 15-16 the Institute for International Politics and ... He subsequently briefed graduate students ... JACKIE ROBINSON, chief of the diplomatic Economics. A few members attended a football and instructors at the “Close Up” Foundation, motor vehicle office’s registrations and titling (soccer) match between the East German and on Asian/Pacific policy issues. unit, attended an American Association of Motor U.S. national teams. People: Recent arrival: KATHRYN Vehicle Administrators conference in Orlando, JAMES BERNHARDT, language training Fla., March 4-7 ... JANICE PEMBERTON, CABRAL, Special Trade Activities Division. □ supervisor for Russian studies, published a administrative officer, and CYNTHIA HULL, review of Ohio State individualized instruction Unisys Corp. project manager, visited the Chi¬ materials in the spring issue of the Modem Lan¬ Family Liaison Office_ cago and San Francisco field offices, April 2-4, guage Journal ... THOMAS GARZA, language to meet new office personnel and to advise the training supervisor, Serbo-Croatian presented a The following community liaison office office directors of upcoming developments. paper at the International Teachers of English to coordinators visited the office in February and Civil Service awards were given to Speakers of Other Languages conference, in San March: JOANNE ANDREWS (Brazzaville), SUZANNE NORSWORTHY, GEOFFREY Francisco, March 6. His copresenter was ALEK¬ JUDITH BRADLEY (Istanbul), LINDA LYNCH PLANT, YVONNE SMITH, CAROL TRUES- SANDR BARCHENKOV of the Maurice Thorez (Nairobi), SUSAN MESSITER (Brasilia), DALE and SAHON WOOD ... Quality step Foreign Language Institute in Moscow. The OPHELIA CARTER (Tel Aviv) and TRACY increases were given to JACQUELINE ROBIN¬ paper was an update on the progress of the first RENNIE (Khartoum). □ SON and VONDELL MAYO ... KATHY Soviet-American textbook on American English NAGLE, Property Program, and ROBERTA ... PRAWET JANTHARAT, Department of FAMILY LIAISON OFFICE-^/wie Daly, PETRIN, diplomatic motor vehicles, were Asian and African Languages, was coordinator of former community liaison officer in Manila, selected as the “Quality Employees of the a course for the Smithsonian Resident Associate receives Meritorious Honor Award and a cash Month” for March and April, respectively ... Program. “The Exotic Cuisine of Thailand: A bonus from Ambassador Nicholas Platt. The office will initiate a formal inhouse quality Culinary Adventure.” ... FREDERICK H. training program soon. JACKSON, Center for Research, Evaluation and SCOTT GREGORY replaced TONY DEL Development, spoke on the relationship of Thai MORAL in the customs program ... JIM cultural traditions to Thai cuisine during the pro¬ McKINSTRY Joined the Program Support Staff gram. ... MICHAEL SANDERS and DUKE KELLY More than 100 faculty members of the joined the Systems Staff ... HADRIAN HAT¬ School of Language Studies attended the annual FIELD, who wore several hats in the office, has Georgetown University roundtable on languages departed to start a new legal career with Hyatt and linguistics. The conference title this year was Legal Services. □ “Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition: The Interdependence of Theory, Practice and Research.” MADELINE EHR- Foreign Service Institute MAN, THOMAS GARZA and VIKTOR LIT- The Senior Seminar spent the week of WINSKI, School of Language Studies, were March 25 in Bonn, Berlin and East Germany, among the presenters at the roundtable. Ms. Ehr- getting firsthand briefings from U.S. embassies man’s presentation was on “Owls and Doves: in Bonn and East Berlin, as well as from German Cognition, Personality and Learning Success.” officials, politicians and experts on German uni¬ PETER SKAER, language training super¬ fication. The director of the Foreign Service visor, Korean, gave a lecture, “Innovative Com¬ Institute, BRANDON GROVE JR., accompanied puter-assisted Pronunciation Ideas at the Foreign the group ... In Bonn, the seminar met with the Service Institute,” as part of the “Innovations in acting foreign minister, the chief of staff of the Language Learning and Teaching” series at chancellor’s office and the chancellor’s national George Mason University ... BOB WILSON and BUREAU NOTES

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE—Gradu¬ ates of the information systems class, left to senting the institute on the Rosslyn focus team, ration of President PATRICIO AYLWIN in San¬ right: Mohammad Zahid, Karachi; Hela which is looking at the community’s future tiago, Chile ... Multilateral affairs officer Rezouga, Tunis; Dot Chan, Sydney; Mark development, n ROSEMARY O’NEILL traveled to Moscow, Wheatley (faculty), Naima Sefiane, Rabat; March 4-9, to consult with Soviet officials con¬ Mohammad FaUire Atom, Riyadh; Linda cerning humanitarian cooperation on the elderly Rickards, Kingston; Myriam Pol, Amsterdam; and disabled. □ Paula Ferreira, Lisbon; Maria Jesus Maeso, Human Rights and Madrid; Larry Lopez, Tyuana; CaHa Humanitarian Affairs Cisneros, Lima; Judy Goff, Pretoria. (State Inspector General’s Office Department photo by Lloyd McKenzie) Assistant Secretary RICHARD SCHIFTER addressed participants at a breakfast meeting of Senior executive officers of the office the Committee on Law and National Security of attended a planning conference, April 2-3, in SOUKSOMBOUN SAYASITHSENA gave a the District of Columbia Bar Association, March Annapolis ... On March 28-30 inspector general presentation at the computer-assisted Language 7. His theme was “New Blood for the Interna¬ SHERMAN FUNK and the assistant inspector Instruction Consortium, in Baltimore, in early tional Human Rights Movement.” ... In the eve¬ general for investigations, RANDOLPH M. April. ning, he was a speaker at a community forum of WEST, addressed the Association of Directors of ANNE E. IMAMURA, School of Area the Washington chapter of the American Jewish Investigation, at the Federal Law Enforcement Studies, spoke on “Intercultural Marriage” at the Committee, addressing “The Turmoil in the Training Center, Glynco, Ga. Mr. Funk, who is International Monetary Fund Visitors Center, Eastern Bloc: What Does the Future Hold for vice chairman of the President’s Council on February 13 ... On March 6 she moderated a Jews in the Soviet Union?” ... He spoke at a Integrity and Efficiency, spoke on the role of the panel in the public affairs series of the Japan- luncheon at the Center for Human Rights and council, and Mr. West spoke on quality standards America Society of Washington. The topic was Humanitarian Law, American University, March for investigations ... As part of the ongoing “Japanese Career Women: Two Alternatives.” 8 ... He spoke on “A New Beginning for Office of Inspector General outreach program, ... PETER BECHTOLD, chairman. Near Eastern Europe,” March 16, to students at KATHLEEN CHARLES, assistant inspector gen¬ Eastern and North Asian studies, has published a National Cathedral School, Washington. eral for policy, planning and management, chapter in “Political Leaders of the Contempo¬ Deputy assistant secretary PAULA addressed senior staff members of the Bureau of rary Middle East and North Africa” (Greenwood DOBRIANSKY traveled to Vienna, Austria, Public Affairs, March 29. Other bureaus in the Press, 1990) ... He gave a presentation on “The March 7-10, to participate in a seminar on demo¬ Department have requested similar briefings. Current Crisis in the Sudan,” at the Defense cratic movements in eastern Europe ... On April Office of Audits: On March 29 the assistant Intelligence College, February li ... EUSEBIO 4 she spoke on “Human Rights and U.S. Foreign inspector general for audits, JOHN PAYNE, MUJAL-LEON, associate professor of govern¬ Policy,” before Georgetown University’s “Issues spoke to the Federal Audit Executive Council on ment, Georgetown, and contract chairman for the of modern diplomacy” seminar ... Deputy the organization and operation of the State Iberian Peninsula in the School of Area Studies, assistant secretary NANCY ELY-RAPHEL trav¬ Department Office of Inspector General and its was awarded its highest decoration, naming him eled to Moscow and Leningrad, March 18-25, to Office of Audits ... On March 13 the deputy a “Caballero de la Orden de Isabela la Catolica,” participate in “rule of law” seminars, conducted assistant inspector general for audits, MILTON at the embassy of Spain in Washington, in March jointly by U.S. and Soviet legal experts. The MacDONALD; the director for Department sup¬ ... The March 5-16 Latin America and Carib¬ U.S. delegation was cochaired by deputy attorney port programs, FRED GEDRICH; and the direc¬ bean intensive seminar participants attended an general DONALD B. AYER and JOHN NOR¬ tor for consular affairs and international all-day conference on “Global Conservation and TON MOORE, chairman, board of directors, programs, CARL SPANN, met with VINOD Latin American Economic Development.” March U.S. Institute of Peace ... Following the semi¬ SAHGAL, principal director of external affairs. 6, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and nars, Ms. Ely-Raphel traveled to Strasbourg, Office of the Auditor General, Canada. Mr. Sah- the American ^iety. Speakers included Senator France, March 25-28, to attend the Afro-Euro- gal was briefed on Office of Inspector General ALBERT GORE JR. (D.-Tenn.); JAMES pean conference on “The Legal System of organization and operations, particularly the audit RILEY, administrator. Environmental Protection Human Rights in Africa and in Europe,” spon¬ planning process and the types of audits done by Agency; LESTER BROWN, president. World- sored by the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation ... State ... JOHN DEERING, audit manager. Con¬ watch Institute, and others ... School of Area Senior policy adviser GEORGE LISTER sular Affairs and International Programs Divi¬ Studies dean JACK SHELLENBERGER is repre¬ attended, by invitation, the March 11-13 inaugu¬ sion, has been selected as the “honor graduate”

48 State at the Office of Personnel Management’s man¬ agement development seminar in Oak Ridge, Tenn. ... MATTHEW JADACKl, PETER KOECHLEY, MICHAEL KOPECKY and MARK McLACHLAN received a group Mer¬ itorious Honor Award for their work on the audit of the Department’s overseas financial manage¬ ment operations ... In March the office issued reports on advisory and assistance services for fiscal year 1989, on recruitment of Foreign Serv¬ ice specialists, and on improper administration of the residential furniture program. Opce of Counsel: JUDITH K. LEADER has joined the office, from the General Services Administration. Office of Inspections: The assistant inspec¬ MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—At award cere¬ tor general for inspections, CLINT LAUDER¬ mony, from left: Michael J. Jacobsen, James DALE, briefed a class of new Foreign Service P. Walsh, Renee Tuboras, Ambassador Mal¬ specialists, on Office of Inspector General opera¬ colm R. Wilkey, Marlene K. Thompson, John tions, at the Foreign Service Institute, March 28 P. Jurecky, John J. Fennerty. ... On March 23 inspector RICHARD SKINNER addressed a class in the Mustang program, which is a vehicle for Department employees who wish to become Foreign Service officers ... The dep¬ uty assistant inspector general for inspections, JAMES BLUBAUGH, assisted by senior inspec¬ tor PAUL KAUFMAN, conducted a special domestic inspection in March ... Mr. Kaufman headed a compliance followup review inspection of posts in Mexico ... The planned summer inspections of Austria, the delegation to the nego¬ tiations of conventional armed forces in Europe, the delegation to the negotiations on confidence and security-building measures and the U.S. mis¬ sion to the UN organizations in Vienna were postponed to fiscal year 1991, to conserve travel funds ... Inspector JOHN DANIELS has BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A Meritorious departed the Office of Inspector General to Honor Award is presented by Ambassador GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador—Consul general become executive director of the Foreign Service Terence A. Todman to Edgardo Jorge Lifart, Ralph Jones presents carpenter Angel Villon, Institute ... Inspector BEN SMITH was to leave computer manager. left, a cash award. in April, for an assignment in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations, Bureau of Administration. Office of Security Oversight: The Audits Division issued a report, “Audit of the Local Guard Program.’’ ... DON NORMAN, director. Security Audits Division, gave a presentation on the role of the Office of Inspector General in security, to the regional security officer con¬ ference in San Jose, Costa Rica, March 28 ... The Security Inspections Division issued security oversight reports on Embassies Moscow and Manila ... Security inspection teams were at Embassies Vienna, Tel Aviv, Amman and Cairo ... The next group of security inspections, planned to begin late this month, will take place at Embassies Mexico City, Athens, Brussels and Helsinki ... During the time frame, a compliance followup review will take place at Embassy Bogota, on the security oversight report issued on that post in March last year. □ BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—At safe-driving award ceremony, left to right, first row: tina and Brazil, March 9-15 ... The Vice Presi¬ Bautista Brogna, Traci Judd, Vicente Inter-American Affairs dent led the U.S. delegation to the inaugurations Dominguez, Jorge A. Paz, Horacio Di Matteo, Assistant Secretary BERNARD W. ARON¬ of Presidents PATRICIO AYLWIN of Chile and Horacio R. Lopez, Angel Mateo. Second row: SON accompanied VICE PRESIDENT QUAYLE FERNANDO COLLOR DE MELLO of Brazil. Norberto Pellegrini, Alberto Dallier, Hector J. to Barbados, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Argen- The Office of Policy Planning and Coordina- Reeves, Norberto Guido, Norberto Tilve.

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tion deputy director, reLIX VARGAS, traveled briefed on Turkey’s control efforts, and visited to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay, the licit opium production facility managed by March 26-April 4, to discuss civil-military rela¬ the Turkish government. Accompanying him tions with U.S. embassy and local officials ... were GENE MARSHALL, program officer in the PAUL MOLINEAUX represented the Depart¬ bureau, and RICH LAMAGNA, National ment at the Nato Latin America experts meeting Security Council staff. in Brussels, April 19-20. The seventh session of the Inter-American JOSEPH SULLIVAN, deputy assistant sec¬ Drug Abuse Control Commission, Organization retary led a team from State, AID, Treasury and of American States, was held in Buenos Aires, Agriculture, on an economic assessment visit to Argentina, March 27-30. Former Senator Managua, March 21-24. The State team included PAULA HAWKINS (R.-Fla.) headed the U.S. JOHN HARRINGTON, director. Regional delegation. The bureau was represented by pro¬ Economic Policy Office ... EDWARD gram officer ELIZABETH CARROLL. The WILLIAMS, deputy director of the office, served meetings included preparatory sessions for the as a member of the U.S. delegation to the 31st Organization of American States meeting of min¬ annual meeting of the Inter-American Develop¬ isters on narcotics, scheduled for Ixtapa, Mexico, ment Bank, in Montreal. April 17-20. Attorney General DICK THORN¬ KEITH SMITH, director. Office of South¬ BURGH was to lead the U.S. delegation to INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ern Cone Affairs, traveled to Paraguay, Uruguay, Ixtapa; Mr. Levitsky was to attend as alternative AFFAIRS—On her retirement, Doris E. Chile and Argentina, March 27-April 6 ... representative. Austin, director. Office of UN System Coordi¬ CHARLES E. BENNETT joined the Office of On April S deputy assistant secretary (act¬ nation, receives John Jacob Rogers Award Southern Cone Affairs, April 4. He had been at ing) PARKER W. BORG met with SAID ISSAQ from Assistant Secretary John R. Bolton, in the Foreign Service Institute, in language training SAID, deputy to Afghan interim government recognition of 38 years of service. ... CARMEN LOPEZ Joined the Office of security chief ABDUL HAQ, to discuss possible Southern Cone Affairs in March ... Ambassador training assistance to the Afghan interim govern¬ TERENCE TODMAN was in Washington for ment for narcotics enforcement, as well as the consultations, March S-9. impact of humanitarian assistance on poppy Resolution 3379 (“Zionism is racism”) ... He EUGENE L. SCASSA, executive director elimination in Afghanistan ... On April S Mr. addressed a luncheon of B’nai B’rith in for the bureau, accompanied the assistant secre¬ Borg received C. CHAKRBARTY, deputy direc¬ Washington ... He met with a delegation from tary for administration, ARTHUR FORT, to tor, Indian narcotics control board, to discuss the Canadian ministries of external affairs and Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Costa Rica, El Indian enforcement activities, as well as the agriculture and the Canadian international Salvador and Honduras, February 2S-March 10 recent visit to India of Mr. Levitsky. Mr. development agency, April 12, to discuss issues ... During March 20-29 he accompanied the Chakrbarty was accompanied by Drug Enforce¬ and objectives in UN agricultural and food assistant secretary for diplomatic security, ment Administration country attach^ GARY agencies. The daylong consultations were SHELDON KRYS, to Miami, El Salvador, Costa CARTER. cochaired by deputy assistant secretary JANE E. Rica and Colombia. □ ROBERT MYERS, Program Office direc¬ BECKER. tor, with MANUEL GALLARDO, spoke on GERALD J. MONROE, U.S. permanent March 14 to a group participating in a program representative to the Rome-based UN food and International Narcotics sponsored by the Presbyterian Church in the agriculture agencies, met with members of the Matters U.S.A., called “Washington Scene Through executive and legislative branches of the Theology.” ... From April 2-3 Mr. Myers Government, in Washington, March 15-22, to Assistant Secretary MELVYN LEVITSKY engaged in consultations at Colorado Springs ... review broad-based approaches to the Food and appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Com¬ Transnational issues director ANDREW G. Agriculture Organization and other UN mittee task force on international narcotics con¬ THOMS visited Kingston, March 26-27, to agricultural and food agencies ... He traveled to trol, March 6, 8, 13 and IS, to testify on the observe helicopter marijuana eradication flights New York for similar discussions at the U.S. international narcotics control strategy report ... and to discuss the possibility of aerial spray oper¬ mission to the United Nations ... JACKIE He appeared before the House Select Committee ations with the minister of national security, K. WOLCOTT, deputy assistant secretary for on Narcotics Abuse and Control, March 7, to tes¬ D. KNIGHT ... Transnational issues program international organization affairs, and tify on the Andean summit... During March, he officer DIANNE GRAHAM served as executive CHARLOTTE PONTICELLI, Policy and appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations secretary of the U.S. delegation to the April 9-11 Planning Staff director, traveled to Geneva to Committee subcommittee on East Asia and London demand reduction conference. The dele¬ participate in the meeting of the UN Human Pacific affairs and the subcommittee on terrorism gation was chaired by Health and Human Serv¬ Rights Commission, January 29-March 9 ... and narcotics, as well as the House Appropria¬ ices Secretary LOUIS SULLIVAN, and included BEVERLY ZWEIBEN, deputy director. Office of tions Committee subcommittee on foreign opera¬ Mr. Levitsky as one of its members ... Transna¬ Human Rights and Women’s Affairs, served as tions ... He traveled to Thailand, Laos, India, tional issues aviation officer LLOYD alternate head of the delegation to the sessions ... Pakistan and Turkey, for talks with officials and ARMSTEAD visited Islamabad, March 7-14, to JULIETTE CLAGETT McLENNAN, U.S. rep¬ embassy personnel, March 23-April 7. In Thai¬ provide technical assistance to the survey of resentative to the UN Commission on the Status land he met with Thai officials concerned with Pakistan for an aerial view of opium-growing of Women, and SHARON KOTOK, officer-in- drug control, and discussed initiatives and prob¬ regions in Northwest Frontier Province. □ charge of international women's programs, lem areas in Joint U.S.-Thai programs. During traveled to Vienna for the 34th session of the his visit to Laos, he discussed expanded coopera¬ Commission on the Status of Women, starting tion for enforcement activities, with Laos offi¬ International Organization February 26. cials and foreign representatives ... In both India Affairs MICHAEL J. McCAMMAN, Office of UN and Pakistan, in addition to embassy briefings Social and Refugee Affairs, attended as an and meetings with host-country drug officials, he Assistant Secretary JOHN R. BOLTON observer the 1 Ith session of the intergovernmental attended sessions of the annual Indian-U.S. and testified before the Senate Foreign Relations council for the International Program for the Pakistan-U.S. Joint working groups on narcotics subcommittee on South Asia and the Middle Development of Communications, in Paris, control. During his stop in Turkey, he was East, on the repeal of UN General Assembly March 19-25.

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T People: Transfers: ANN L. HOLLICK from Affairs, traveled to New York to attend a Colombo, Singapore and Manila in early April, the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs to conference on eastern European reform ... to meet with post nurse practitioners and to the Washington office of the permanent rep¬ SUSAN BINIAZ, attorney-adviser. Office of review health unit activities and educational prac¬ resentative to the United Nations ... PAULETTE Oceans, Environmental and Scientific Affairs, tices ... Dr. ELMORE RIGAMER, assistant L. ONLEY from the Bureau of Intelligence and traveled to Rome, to attend the Siena forum on medical director for mental health services, and Research to the Office of Multilateral Program international environmental law. Dr. NEIL SCHIFF, consultant in family therapy, Coordination ... DIANE R. SIMPSON from the People: Joining the bureau recently was traveled to New Delhi, Islamabad and Karachi, to Bureau of Bsrsonnel to the Office of International LINDA S. BURTNETTE, paralegal specialist. conduct workshops and seminars on family Development Assistance ... JUDITH BUNCHER Office of Law Enforcement and Intelligence ... therapy with Foreign Service families. from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to the Office of MILDRED J. DONAHUE, assistant editor. Law Nurse practitioner CAROL DORSEY con¬ Technical Specialized Agency Affairs ... Digest, has retired. □ sulted in t: office after completing her assign¬ KATHLEEN M. FITZPATRICK from the Foreign ment in Khartoum. Following home leave and Service Institute to the Office of UN Pblitical French language training, she and her family Affairs ... LYNETTE W. YOUNG from the Legislative Affairs_ were to travel to Nouakchott to begin their next Bureau of African Affairs to the Office of assignment ... Nurse practitioner RITA International Development Assistance ... VEDA Deputy assistant secretary RICHARD W. DANIELS completed her year-long continuing L. DAVIS has resigned from the Office of MUELLER accompanied a 13-member congres¬ education program and is in the midst of Spanish Administrative Services. □ sional staff delegation to Moscow, March 22-26, language training. In June she will travel to San to gather information concerning the Depart¬ Salvador to begin her new assignment. □ ment’s request for funding for a new secure chan¬ Legal Adviser’s Office cery in Moscow ... The director of legislative operations, STEPHEN DEL ROSSO, addressed a Near Eastern and ABRAHAM D. SOFAER, legal adviser, Foreign Service orientation class, April 2, on leg¬ South Asian Affairs traveled to New York to address the New York islative affairs and foreign policy ... City Bar Association. He was accompanied by ANTOINETTE BOYD has departed Legislative On March 21 deputy assistant secretary MARTHA M. HILL, special assistant ... He Affairs’ legislative management unit to work in DAN KURTZER spoke on peace efforts at the presented the introductory speech before the 84th the Director General’s Office. □ annual conference of the Union of Orthodox Jew¬ annual meeting of the American Society of ish Congregations of America ... On March 22 International Law ... MICHAEL J. he spoke on the Middle East to 45 foreign mili¬ MATHESON, deputy legal adviser, traveled to tary officers participating in a program at the Colorado Springs, to attend a conference on Medical Services_ Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif ... national security activities in outer space. Also Dr. JACK SMITH, regional medical officer/ On March 26 he addressed members of the attending was DAVID S. ABRAMOWITZ, psychiatry in Hong Kong, attended the Harvard American Jewish Committee board of governors. attorney-adviser. Office of Politico-Military Psychiatric Review meeting in mid-March, and He spoke on U.S.-Israeli relations, focusing on Affairs ... MICHAEL K. YOUNG, deputy legal stopped in at the Office of Medical Services the strategic relationship and peace efforts. adviser, traveled to Strasbourg to attend a briefly, for consultations prior to traveling to On March 6 deputy public affairs adviser meeting of the Council of Europe’s committee on Boston ... GEORGE SWEENEY, director of the GEORGE MALLECK spoke to the Washington public international law ... ANDRE M. Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program, was tradecraft class, on the State Department and the SURENA, assistant legal adviser, accompanied State’s nominee for the 1989 Government media ... On March 27 public affairs adviser by MICHAEL P. SCHARF, attorney-adviser. Employees Insurance Company public service DAVID GOOD spoke on India to students from Office of Law Enforcement and Intelligence, award ... CHERYL WAGNER, nurse practi¬ traveled to London, for mutual legal assistance tioner in Manila, consulted briefly in the foreign treaty and extradition negotiations ... Mr. Surena programs section of the office, after accompany¬ CAIRO, Egypt—At award ceremony, left to traveled to Canberra, for Australian mutual legal ing a patient to the United States in early April right: Ahmed Ramadan, Hala Kamel, Ambas¬ assistance treaty negotiations. ... ARLYNE HEERLEIN, director of nursing, sador Frank Wisner, Arafat Yehia, Somaya DAVID P. STEWART, assistant legal traveled to Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Abdel Hamid, Adel Youssef, Samir Salib, adviser for human rights and refugees, traveled to Under Secretary Ivan Selin, Laila Latif. New York to speak before the New York City Bar Association on the ratification of human rights treaties, and to attend the conference on international human rights instruments ... JAMISON M. SELBY, assistant legal adviser. East Asian and Pacific affairs; JOHN R. CROOK assistant legal adviser, treaty affairs; and DAVID P. STEWART, assistant legal adviser, human rights and refugees, traveled to Charlottesville, to attend the I Ith Sokol colloquium on factfinding before international tribunals ... EDWARD R. CUMMINGS, assistant legal adviser, politico- military affairs, and MICHELE KLEIN, attorney-adviser. Office of Law Enforcement and Intelligence, traveled to Honolulu, to attend the annual U.S. Pacific Command legal conference ... Mr. Cummings traveled to Charlottesville, to attend a seminar on “Just Cause,’’ at the Judge Advocate General’s School of the U.S. Army ... PAUL F. CLAYMAN, attorney-adviser. Office of Economic, Business and Communication

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the College of William and Mary ... THOMAS spoke on how increased attention to the environ¬ J. MILLER, director. Office of Morocco, ment will influence U.S. foreign policy ... The Algeria, Tunisia and Libyan Affairs, attended the acting deputy assistant secretary for environment, January 27-30 Hans Seidel Foundation con¬ health and natural resources, RICHARD J. ference, in Stockholm, on threats to democracy SMITH, headed the U.S. delegation to the March ... On February 15 he addressed 200 officers at 5-9 preparatory committee meeting in Geneva for the Marine Corps Command Staff College, on the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s U.S. policy in North Africa ... Tunisian country ministerial environmental conference this month officer JOHN KUNSTADTER accompanied dep¬ at Bergen, Norway, on sustainable development. uty assistant secretary BILL PERRIN on a March He was accompanied by CHARLES CECIL, 24-April 11 trip to Tunisia. Algeria, Morocco deputy director. Office of Ecology, Health and and Rome ... Palestinian affairs officer JUDY Conservation ... DEBORAH ODELL, same JONES addressed students from Wesley College, office, was a member of the U.S. delegation to March 21. She gave them an overview of U.S. the organizing session for the 1992 UN policy in the Middle East ... On March 28 she Conference on Environment and Development. spoke to students in the University of Southern Office director ELEANOR SAVAGE also took California's Washington semester program. Her part in the March 5-16 meeting in New York ... topic was an historical outline of events concer¬ A senior medical adviser. Dr. PETER WEST, ning Israel and the Palestinians, and U.S. policy attended the extraordinary meeting of the in the region. International Aids Society in Frankfurt, March 9, DAVID RANSOM, director. Office of Ara¬ to explain U.S. immigration policy in regard to Aids. bian Peninsula Affairs, spoke, February 27, to OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ANDREW SENS, director. Office of Georgetown University students, about careers in ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC Environmental Protection, attended a meeting of the Foreign Service ... He traveled to Hawaii to AFFAIRS—Frederick M. Bernihal, right, donor countries convened by the World Bank, in address a conference sponsored by the American- presents Meritorious Honor Award to Craig Arab Affairs Council and the University of Paris, March 19-20. The meeting addressed the L. Johnson for his performance in support Hawaii, at Manoa, March 22-23 ... His topic structure of a possible “green fund” to finance of the ciimate change conference. was “Middle East Peace and the United States.’’ developing-country participation in responses to ... MARGUERITA RAGSDALE, country global environmental issues. PATRICK COADY, U.S. executive director at the World officer for Oman and the United Arab Emirates, same office, participated in a meeting in Vienna, Bank, chaired the U.S. delegation ... RICHARD traveled to Muscat, March 7, to participate in March 12-16, of the international thermonuclear access renewal negotiations ... She also visited E. BENEDICK, on detail as senior fellow of the World Wildlife Fund/Conservation Foundation, experimental reactor project, to continue work on Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sanaa and Kuwait, for con¬ developing a conceptual design for a fusion participated in a meeting of the high-level expert sultations ... MELINDA KIMBLE, director of reactor. Egyptian affairs, participated in a panel discus¬ group on ecology and the global economy, sion on the 10th anniversary of the Camp David sponsored by the InterAction Council in EDWARD E. WOLFE, deputy assistant accords, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University, Amsterdam, February 9-11 ... On February 22 secretary for oceans and fisheries affairs, headed March 26. he spoke before the Harvard Negotiations the U.S. delegation to negotiations on a South On March 19 Israeli desk officer GEN¬ Roundtable, and also addressed the forum at the Pacific albacore tuna management regime, in EVIEVE PRATT spoke on the Middle East to Kennedy School of Government... On March 18 Honiara, Solomon Islands, March 1-6. He was Hadassah of Southern New Jersey ... On March he addressed the American Bar Association accompanied by BRIAN HALLMAN, deputy 27 KAREN STEWART, also of the Israel desk, conference on environmental law, in Keystone, director. Office of Fisheries Affairs ... Mr. spoke to Hadassah of Northern New Jersey ... Colo ... On March 29 he spioke at the National Wolfe headed the U.S. delegation to fisheries W. SCOTT BUTCHER, director. Office of Conference on Demographic Change and Public talks, March 16-23, with Soviet representatives. India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan, Policy, in Washington ... ROGER E. SOLES, The two sides developed a joint draft text for a visited posts in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Sri executive director, U.S. Man and the Biosphere new Pacific salmon convention which seeks to Lanka, on consultations, February 18-March 9 Program, traveled to Ventura, Calif., March 3-5, prohibit high-seas fishing for Pacific salmon. ... THOMAS KRAJESKI, Office of India, to participate in the dedication ceremonies of the Joining Mr. Wolfe in the talks were LARRY L. Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan, led a Channel Islands Biosphere Reserve, as part of the SNEAD, director. Office of Fisheries Affairs; discussion of U.S.-India relations at a National 10th anniversary of Channel Islands National GEORGE HERRFURTH, same office; and Defense University seminar, March 15 ... He Park ... On March 11-14 he traveled to the DONNA DARM, Legal Adviser’s Office ... On spoke on the new Indian govemments’s foreign University of Washington, Seattle, to meet with March 31 Mr. Wolfe initialed an ad referendum policy, at a Bureau of Intelligence and Research- scientists developing the core research program driftnet agreement with Canada and Japan, in sponsored seminar, March 8. □ of the man and the biosphere program directorate Tokyo. This one-year agreement will provide, on temperate ecosystems. among other things, for the placement of 57 RICHARD J.K. STRATFORD, deputy as¬ North American and 41 Japanese scientific Oceans and International sistant secretary for nuclear energy and energy observers on separate Japanese squid and large- technology affairs, addressed the nuclear defense mesh driftnet vessels. All such vessels will also Environmental and industry study group on nuclear proliferation, at be required to carry satellite transmitters by the Scientific Affairs the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, end of this year. Mr. Snead; JAMES March 14 ... CAROL EBERHARD, Office of SALISBURY, regional fisheries attache, and Ms. PETER JON DE VOS, acting assistant Nuclear Technology and Safeguards, traveled to Darm participated in the negotiations ... BRIAN secretary, addressed the AID Advisory Moscow, March 12-16, as a member of an J. HOYLE, director. Office of Ocean Law and Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, March 13, interagency delegation, to discuss bilateral Policy, resigned to join the law firm of Patton, at the National Press Club. The committee is a cooperation on operational safety of civilian Boggs, & Blow ... MAUREEN WALKER 24-member citizens board that provides analysis nuclear power plants. The delegation was led by served as the bureau’s representative in talks on and advice to the AID administrator. Mr. de Vos the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for deep-seabed mining, March 2, in New York ...

52 STATE ROBERT BLUMBERG attended meetings of the annual security assistance conference in Gar- HAMSCOM, action officer for the negotiation on International Maritime Organization’s Marine misch. West Germany ... Executive director conventional armed forces in Europe, attended Environment Protection Committee, in London, THEODORE E. STICKLER spoke, February 1, the meetings of the high-level task force and the the week of March 12 ... DAVID A. COLSON, at the Washington International School’s “Career “green team,” on verification, in Brussels ... assistant legal adviser for Latin American affairs Day” program, about career opportunities in the DAVID APPLETON was serving as a member of and U.S. commissioner on the Pacific Salmon Foreign Service ... EDWARD IFFT of the stra¬ the U.S. delegation to the talks in Vienna ... Commission, led a U.S. delegation to tegic arms reduction talks delegation addressed ALFREDA MEYERS was a member of a U.S. Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, for negotiations the Norwegian Atlantic Committee, in Oslo, Feb¬ technical experts team on intermediate-range with Canada on Yukon River salmon. The two ruary 7, on the prospects for the talks. nuclear forces; members traveled to Votkinsk in sides are seeking to establish a Yukon panel Office of Defense Relations and Security the Soviet Union, in March ... PAUL under the Pacific salmon treaty, to coordinate Assistance: MICHAEL CEURVORST traveled WOHLERS served as the State representative on management of joint stocks and to discuss the to Colombia, Peru and Bolivia in support of the the U.S. delegation to a Nato disarmament division of catch between fishermen on the U.S. President’s international drug control initiative, experts meeting, in Brussels, March 27-28. □ and Canadian portions of the river. The next February 3-10 and 19-24 ... STEVEN ALAN round of negotiations was scheduled for April HONLEY attended the U.S.-United Kingdom 23-25 in Juneau, Alaska. JEFF MIOTKE, Office conference in London on the Caribbean regional Public Affairs of Fisheries Affairs, participated in the security .system, February 26-March I ... Lieu¬ The assistant secretary and department negotiations. tenant Colonel DENNIS MURPHY represented spokesman, MARGARET DEB. TUTWILER, JOHN P. BORIGHT, acting deputy assistant the Department at the Central Command training and senior deputy assistant secretary V. KIM secretary for science and technology, headed the conference in Tampa, February 26-March 1. H(X3GARD traveled with the Secretary, March U.S. delegation to the meeting of the Office of Defense Relations and Security 18, to Namibia, for the independence cere¬ Organization for Economic Cooperation and Assistance: MICHAEL COTTER was welcomed monies. While in Namibia, the Secretary held Development’s Committee for Science and as principal deputy director for office manage¬ bilateral meetings with numerous heads of state Technological Policy (53d session), March ment, and for directing the security assistance and foreign ministers who were in attendance at 20-22, in Paris ... Mr. Boright attended the third process, April 2. the ceremonies ... On March 22 the party con¬ session of the U.S./Polish Science and Office of Weapons Proliferation Policy: tinued on to Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Technology Joint Commission, in Washington, Deputy director BOB DUBOSE traveled to Africa, for meetings with the president and for¬ April 2-6, to review research project activities London, Geneva and Bonn for talks with allies eign minister. While there, the Secretary and his and discuss funding for new projects in 1990 ... and the Soviets on chemical and biological party visited Soweto Township ... They then GERALD J. WHITMAN, director. Office of weapons, in February ... FRED VOGEL and proceeded to Kinshasa, Zaire, for meetings with Advanced Technology, traveled to the Air Force MIKE WEINGARTEN were State representa¬ the president and JONAS SAVIMBl, returning to Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, tives at the conference on disarmament in Geneva Washington March 25. Colorado Springs, March 19, to attend a ... MIKE RATNEY participated in the chemical ANTHONY A. DAS, director. Office of conference on law relating to outer space ... production facility national trial inspections ... Public Communications, traveled to Provo, Ut., KEN HODGKINS, same office, served as Lieutenant Colonel ED CAIN has departed for where he spoke to Brigham Young University alternate U.S. representative to the 27th session his next assignment—Korea ... Lieutenant Colo¬ faculty members and students on the role of pub¬ of the scientific and technical subcommittee of nel STEVE WAUGH joined the bureau March lic communication in the formation of foreign the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer 15. policy ... He also addressed private groups such Space, in New York, February 26-March 9 ... Office of Munitions Control: The office has as the Mormon Missionaries Society ... JEN¬ He was the Department’s representative at been renamed the Office of Defense Trade Con¬ NIFER KOLPACOFF, a history major from “Space Conference of the Americas: Prospects trols; WILLIAM B. ROBINSON remains as Washington University, traveled across the coun¬ for Cooperation and Development,” in San Jose, director ... Augmented staffing by State and the try to serve as the Department’s intern coordina¬ Costa Rica, March 12-16 ... MARTIN Departments of Defense and Treasury includes tor for this semester. Her selection as a PROCHNIK, director. Office of Cooperative assignment to the office of deputy directors Department intern was based on her academic Science and Technology Programs, and DIANE RICHARD A. LEVY and MICHAEL T. DIXON record, civic reputation and recommendations of BELLIS, program officer for Latin America, ... The Office of Defense Trade Controls and its the Seattle community. She set up an intern brief¬ traveled to Mexico City to meet with the director sister office, the Office of Defense Trade Policy, ing schedule that featured Mr. Das as the princi¬ general for international technical cooperation, comprise the Center for Defense Trade, headed pal speaker of the season ... DAVID RAUL ONDARZA, and other officials, at the by director CHARLES A. DUELFER and his ETTINGER has accepted an assignment as spe¬ embassy science office, in preparation for the deputy, PAMELA FRAZIER. cial assistant to the ambassador at the U.S. mis¬ seventh U.S./Mexico science and technology Office of Defense Trade Controls: Nine sion to the United Nations. meeting scheduled for June 26-27 in San Diego. new licensing officers have joined the staff, Office of Public Liaison: On March 28 JANET L’HEUREUX, management analyst, including six military officers. They are Lieuten¬ approximately 40 senior business executives bureau executive office, traveled to Mexico City, ant Commanders WILLIAM MASSIE and attended the executive-diplomat seminar cospon¬ March 25-29, for an evaluation of the science NELSON HINES (Navy), Majors MARTIN sored by the Bureaus of Public Affairs and section, its resources, operation and grade MAIER and GARY ONCALE (Air Force), Economic and Business Affairs. KENNETH structure, in connection with science cone Majors MARSHA F. FILTRANTE and JUSTER, senior adviser to the deputy secretary, development and the science resource package. □ MICHAEL VAN ATTA (Army); and DAN moderated a morning panel discussion on eastern CCX)K, CAROL BASDEN and TERRY DAVIS Europe. Panel members included AID assistant from Commerce and MICHELE BECKER, administrator CAROL ADELMAN; Agriculture Politico Military Affairs detailed from U.S. Customs. Under Secretary RICHARD CROWDER; Export- Office for Defense Trade Policy: ROBERT Import Bank vice president THOMAS MORAN; Principal deputy assistant secretary PACE is now director ... BRENDA K. BAKER and Overseas Private Investment Corp. vice pres¬ WILLIAM F. ROPE participated in a national joined the office April 2. ident JAMES BERG. The assistant secretary for security project dinner discussion sponsored by Office of Strategic Theater Policy: PETER economic and business affairs, EUGENE the Scientists’ Institute for Public Information, SCHOETTLE, deputy director, served as State McAllister, discussed U.S. economic rela¬ March 12 ... Deputy assistant secretary SANDY representative to the open skies conference in tions with Europe, at lunch at the Foreign Service MARTEL was attending the European Command Ottawa, in February ... PATRICIA Club. Participants also heard from the under sec- BUREAU NOTES

retary for economic and agricultural affairs, JANZER arranged for CURTIS KAMMAN, dep¬ DARIUS BAYANDOR, deputy director of the RICHARD McCORMACK, who discussed the uty assistant secretary for European and Canadian UN refugee office of Asia and Oceania; PHILIP upcoming Houston economic summit. Con¬ affairs, to address the Baltic American Freedom SARGISSON, director of that office’s technical ference officer EILEEN McCORMICK PLACE League, March 24 ... She facilitated the support services; the Turkish ambassador to the and MARY ANN DIXON managed the daylong appearance of ROBERT PINES, deputy assistant United States, NUZHET KANDEMIR; General meeting. secretary for European and Canadian affairs, and SOMKIT CHONGPAYUHA, deputy chief of Organization liaison officer YVONNE PETER BURELEIGH, deputy assistant secretary staff, Thai armed forces; RITA FAN, member of O’BRIEN assisted the Office of Intergovernmen¬ for intelligence and research, to travel to Stanford the Hong Kong legislature; and NEIL tal Affairs in arranging a special briefing for the University and speak to the Executive Council on BOOTHBY, Duke University psychologist and National League of Cities, March S. Approx¬ Foreign Diplomats’ third annual conference, specialist on refugee children ... Ambassadors imately 40 members, including mayors and coun¬ March 18. JOHN C. MONJO (Indonesia) and DANIEL A. cil members, heard discussions on eastern On March 27 regional program officer O’DONOHUE (Thailand) met with Mr. Lyman. Europe, the Far East and the environment... She CONSTANCE DUNAWAY arranged for ALEX¬ Mr. Funseth represented the Department and facilitated the American Legion commanders’ ANDER VERSHBOW, director. Office of Soviet was the keynote speaker at the symposium on visit to Mexico, March 1-9, and visits of Vet¬ Union Affairs, to address a luncheon meeting at Vietnamese former political prisoners, in San erans of Foreign Wars representatives to Europe the Russian Research Institute of Harvard; to con¬ Jose, Calif., and at the meeting of the National and the Middle East, March 8-21 ... Ms. duct an editorial backgrounder at the Boston Association for the Education and Advancement O’Brien organized special briefings for a number Globe; and to address the Forum Lecture Series of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese of Jewish organizations during the month: the at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Americans, in Portland, Ore ... Mr. Funseth Anti-Defamation League at its 12th annual Boston, on “The Soviet Union: Gorbachev and addressed a conference on Amerasian children, national leadership conference, March 20; the Beyond.” ... On April 3 Ms. Dunaway sponsored by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of organized a business luncheon in Boston for IJepartment of Health and Human Services. The America, March 21; and the American Jewish Ambassador ROBERT L. BARRY, special conference, on “Enhancing the Homecoming,” Committee, March 26 ... Approximately 45 non¬ adviser to the deputy secretary for eastern Europe was attended by bureau staff members ANITA L. governmental organization representatives assistance ... Mr. Barry then met with editorial BOTTI, JAMES G. WILLIARD, RICHARD C. attended the monthly meeting to discuss interna¬ writers of the Christian Science Monitor and BEER and PAMELA H. LEWIS ... Mr. Funseth tional terrorism, March 22. spoke at the Kennedy library lecture series on and PRISCILLA CLAPP, deputy assistant Briefings officer JUDY WENK arranged a “Eastern Europe: Emerging from the Legacy of secretary for refugee admissions, met with briefing on the Soviet Union for high school World II.” ... Ms. Dunaway arranged for a final DAVID WHITTLESEY, chief. Division for Asia teachers from across the country, March 13, and speaker for the Kennedy library series, for April and Oceania, International Organization for a program for the Ohio Farm Bureau county pres¬ 11 ... KENT M. WIEDEMANN, director. Migration, and GARY MICHALAK, chief of its idents, to discuss the situation in eastern Europe, Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, Budget Division ... JAMES P. KELLEY, March 15 ... Program officer JOHNETTA addressed the forum on “The People’s Republic director. Office of International Refugee WORMLEY arranged a number of foreign policy of China: Tianamen and After.” Organizations, Emergencies and Solutions, and briefings in the Department for the Presidential Office of Press Relations: CYNTHIA MARY E. KAVALIUNAS, Office of Policy and Classroom for Young Americans, and for Amer¬ RUOCCHIO has joined the office as a press rela¬ Budget Coordination, attended ... Ms. Clapp ican University’s Washington Semester Program tions assistant ... Press officer ADAM SHUB traveled to Moscow to review transportation and students. addressed foreign policy and journalism classes medical screening arrangements for Soviet Regional programs officer MONICA of American University, Juniata College and refugees and parolees traveling to the United Kobe University in March, and spoke to USIA- States in this fiscal year. Solution to Diplo- sponsored groups of visiting journalists from SARAH E. MOTEN, deputy assistant Indonesia and Poland ... Office of Press Rela¬ secretary for international refugee assistance, Crostic No. 56 tions director MARK DILLEN hosted a luncheon attended a symposium, “Refugees: Facing Crisis (See April issue) for a Polish journalists’ group, and addressed the in the 1990s,” sponsored by the Allard K. O. B. Hardison. [Disappearing Through the Foreign Service Institute’s Washington tradecraft Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Skylight:] Culture [and] Technology [in the course. □ Twentieth Century]. Project at Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn. “There is nothing in the sweeping curves ... ANN MORGAN, director, Office of Refugee and intricately woven trusses of the Eiffel Refugee Programs Training, delivered a presentation on English as a Tower to suggest the French Revolution it pre¬ second language and on cultural orientation, and sumably commemorates. It is a work of pure PRINCETON N. LYMAN, bureau director, attended liaison committee meetings in San engineering, a magnificent representation of testified before the Senate subcommittee on Francisco. She was accompanied by her deputy, itself. Its sole function is to join its base to its foreign operations of the Committee on EDWARD W. GEIBEL ... MARGARET J. pinnacle.” Appropriations (PATRICK J. LEAHY (D.-Vt.), McKELVEY, director. Office of African chairman) regarding the status of the A Owing O. Unfit Refugee Assistance, monitored refugee assistance comprehensive plan of action for Indochinese B Burp Gun P. Raffles programs in Sudan, and participated in C Harness Q. Eighteen Fifteen refugees, and the House Committee on interagency relief planning for 1990, in Appropriations’ subcommittee on foreign D Auntie Marne R. Tom Jones Geneva ... KAREN L. MCCARTHY, program E. Refines S. Estimates operations (DAVID R. OBEY (D.-Wisc.), officer, monitored refugee resettlement in San F. Down Staircase T. Chinatown chairman) on the 1990 Supplemental and the Jose, and attended the refugee conference in San G Ipcress File U. Henri 1991 budget ... JAMES N. PURCELL JR., Francisco ... DIANA M. ESPOSITO, program H Some Like It Hot V. Nitti director general. International Organization for officer. Office of African Refugee Assistance, I. Ocelot W. Oliver Migration, met with Mr. Lyman and ROBERT monitored the relief and protection programs for J. Nine To Five X. Liver Spots L. FUNSETH, senior deputy assistant secretary, refugees in Kenya and Uganda. K. Cotton Y. Occupies and bureau staff members ... Mr. Lyman met Visiting the refugee bureau headquarters L. Up The Z. Great Gatsby with Soviet charge SERGEY B. were DAVID E. REUTHER, refugee coordinator M Litters a. Youngsters □ CHETVERIKKOV to review the Soviet refugee (Khartoum, Sudan), and MARGERY LEMB N. Towering Inferno programs; ALEXANDRIA CASELLA, the UN (Orderly Departure Program, Bangkok, refugees public information coordinator; Thailand). ■

54 STATE Letters to the Editor

—(Continued from Page I) ‘Harmful... divisive..! it is difficult to explain the rationale for the Anapestic Assignments by ebp Washington Department’s promotion policies for secre¬ Dear Editor: taries.” I am happy Ms. Tracy had the There was a man assigned to Washington I was disappointed to see that director good grace to sign her letter as a “political Who said: ‘ 7 think that they are putting general Ed Perkins had dredged up the officer.” me on. McBer report for his discussion of Firstly, I am disappointed that STATE I asked to be transferred overseas. employee evaluations in the April issue. would publish a letter from someone who Which could have been accomplished While I believe that it is important to obviously possesses so little real knowl¬ with ease. review previous studies and mine them for edge of conununications vis-a-vis secretary Someone must have confused this with all the “gold” they possess, the McBer position requirements. Secondly, the com¬ Wellington.”d study is a very thin vein. The study was munications world (now information flawed in both methodology and its final management) has gotten so complex that need to be knowledgable about the word product, and the Department wisely made only continuous training, including after- processor—not just for themselves but to only limited use of the findings. hours home study, allows most of us to explain in detail how to manage it to For¬ stay anywhere near the learning curve with eign Service staff members who get The study’s emphasis on individualis¬ transferred to Washington. In reality, a tic qualities and its invidious comparisons respect to sophisticated computer, multi- Civil Service secretary is more an admin¬ between conal groups renders it not only V don’t like comparisons, but if istrative assistant than a secretary. Many incorrect but also harmful and divisive. they’re to be made..! times the supervisors of these secretaries What the Department requires of its peo¬ do not realize just what the jobs entail, ple, as other studies have clearly shown, is plexing, satellite, cryptographic, secure because no interest has been shown in this an emphasis on participation and develop¬ voice and other digital equipment required area. Of course, there are always excep¬ ment. The Department’s strength is in modem information management. tions to the case. talented, mature individuals working as a Many of us feel our positions are These secretaries should also be given team. The study did take note of the need undergraded, too. For example, my FP-03 the opportunity to take courses at the For¬ for counseling and coaching skills, but communications center officer position eign Service Institute, to further their even here the focus was on a paternalistic manages four different embassy sub-units knowledge in these areas, as well as other approach. The strong-willed toughness cel¬ which jointly employ 34 American and courses that are of interest. In the past, it ebrated by the McBer report harkens back British staff, and is ni^terially responsible has always been said that the secretaries to the Department’s and the Foreign Serv¬ for several hundred thousand dollars of can’t be spared from the office, but the ice’s old-style elitism and isolation. very sophisticated equipment. I do not like Foreign Service secretaries are given these The director general’s welcome comparisons, but if they are to be made by opportunities between assignments. The remarks about equal employment oppor¬ others, where in the Foreign Service is courses at the institute are not supposed to tunity being a part of all good performance there a comparable secretarial position at only reinforces the need for a personnel the functional level? ‘In reality, a Civil Service system which places an emphasis on par¬ Perhaps for the sake of the secretarial secreiary is more than a secretary’ ticipation and development, not lone-eagle corps, comparisons of the type put forward operators. The mechanistic and largely be just for Foreign Service employees but in Ms. Tracy’s letter should not be made at superficial McBer competencies should for all. all—certainly not by those whose drum continue to be consigned to the archives. We keep hearing how better-qualified resounds from a totally different world. Instead, the Department should invest its a Foreign Service secretary is. I beg to dif¬ Your respectfully, energies in developing people who under¬ fer on that; they are given more Raymond L. Norris stand how to develop people and policies, opportunities, and the attitude towards Communications center officer □ and how to work as part of an effective them is completely different. They are team. Views of a secretary regarded as part of the team and as profes¬ Sincerely, Washington sionals. That attitude should be shown to Gay William Mount Dear Editor: all secretaries, whether they are Wash¬ Office of Foreign Buildings □ Recently, I have seen quite a few let¬ ington-based or overseas. ters about changing job descriptions for Sincerely, Some comments on the system Foreign Service secretaries, but I have not Patricia a. Broe Rome, Italy seen any about the Civil Service secre¬ Bureau of Inter-American Affairs □ Dear Editor: taries. The job descriptions for these I wish to address three points with secretaries are way outdated as well, and Anapestic Assignments regard to director general Perkins’ articles much thought should be given to these. By Penne Laingen on fine-tuning the Foreign Service person¬ The senior-level Civil Service secre¬ (With apologies to ebp) nel system, in recent editions of STATE tary who works in Washington does a great There was a young man sent to Prague, Magazine. deal. By this, I don’t mean typing and Who mornings would go for a jog. (1) Language proficiency: I joined the answering the phone, especially now with But meeting Ms. Black, Foreign Service in 1969. Then, a Foreign word processing equipment. The secre¬ His boss, on the track. Service officer had to attain a 3/3 level in a taries’ jobs more often than not include He feigned to be walking his dog. □ world language in order to be tenured. The administrative matters, drafting and the fact that this same requirement is in force_

May 1990 55 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

for officers competing for entry into the correct in the assumption that traijiing is an Barrett is for real Senior Foreign ^rvice would indicate a overall detriment, or at least no great help Washington total relaxation of the rules for tenure over to their careers. I recommend that all spe¬ Dear Editor: the years by the Service. What happened? cialists and secretaries be required to Thank you for spreading the word In my opinion, any officer in the Foreign successfully complete specific job-related about the Department’s new pouch and Service who hasn’t yet attained a 3/3 level training courses to be considered for pro¬ mail facility at in a foreign language by the end of his/her motion to FS-6 (junior-level), FS-4 (mid¬ Dulles Airport, in first five years of service should consider a level) and FS-2 (senior-level). Foreign the April issue. Lest Civil Service job. He/she certainly has no Service generalists should be required to your readers think place representing the United States fulfill a similar obligation to attain tenure, that Chris Barrett of overseas. FS-1 and the Senior Foreign Service. my staff is a figment Another issue regarding language pro¬ These courses would necessarily have to be of our collective ficiency is the award of a salary step developed by the appropriate specialist imagination (he was increase for newly-hired employees who organization in the Department, and the named in the cap¬ can attain a Foreign Service Institute-tested Foreign Service Institute. tion, but cropped out 2/2 level in a foreign language upon hire. I (3) Delinquent efficiency reports: of the picture), have no problem with this incentive at all. Let’s get really tough on this issue. During please find the The problem lies in the fact that there is no the last rating cycle in 1989, Embassy enclosed photo. automatically-awarded salary increase for Rome submitted 100% of its employee Our correct telephone number is employees already in the Service who efficiency reports to the Department by 632-2442. The fax number is 632-0470. have, on their own initiative, and at no May 10. It can be done. It only requires Sincerely, cost to the Government, become proficient individual leadership on the part of rating Carl Edwin Lovett Jr. to at least the 2/2 level in a language. This and reviewing officers, review committees, Chief, Diplomatic Pouch deputy chiefs of mission, executive direc¬ and Mail Division □ ‘Department needs to offer real tors and individual personnel officers. It incentives to learn languages. appears from the statistics offered in the Goons? Aw, go on! recent article on the subject in STATE mag¬ I suggest a step increase ’ Bucharest, Romania azine that Embassy Rome is an exception Dear Editor: reflects the Department’s lack of real com¬ to the rule. As a consular officer serving for the mitment to encourage officers and staff I offer a suggestion that will get past two years in Bucharest, I was amazed alike to team a foreign language, and is an miraculous results in assuring the timely to read in your February issue about the example of discrimination against submission of efficiency reports to the 24-hour goon squad armed with AK-47s employees already in the Service with Department. That is, real punitive meas¬ here, whose sole purpose was intimidation regard to language incentive awards. The ures, i.e., if a rating or reviewing officer is Department needs to offer real incentives responsible for the delinquency in submis¬ of the consulate and its visitors. to learn languages. I would suggest a step sion of an efficiency report on one or more Could the writer possibly have been increase for anyone, newly-hired or other¬ employees, that rating or reviewing referring to the country-boy conscript Mili¬ wise, who can attain a 3/3 level in a officer’s own performance file should not tia—two at the consulate’s front gate, two foreign language, and a double step be reviewed by the promotion panel for the at the back and three spaced along the increase for anyone who can attain a 3/3 same rating year as the employee, and that extensive perimeter fence, whose custom¬ level in a recognized hard language. The file should be so annotated. If a rating/ ary greeting to us when we nod is and was: same should be true for each additional reviewing officer commits a second offense “I kiss your hand”? Nobody else around language an employee learns to the same within three years, he/she should be here has AK-47s. level of proficiency, with or without the relieved of duty, without pay, until the Only twice did I see the AK-47s at institute or other formal Government- report is submitted. If three offenses occur the ready: the day the revolution started funded training. within six years, that rating/reviewing (and I for one was very glad they were (2) Training: Training has not officer should be considered for separation here), and December 24 when, crouched appeared to have had any positive effect on from the Service, or permanently removed on one knee, they gave us cover against my promotability at all throughout my from any consideration during his/her snipers as we left the embassy. One of career. As a specialist, 1 have taken advan¬ career for entry into the Senior Foreign them whose face I knew grinned at me and tage of many short-term training courses Service. Why am 1 so tough on this sub¬ gave the thumbs-up sign. offered by the institute and the information ject? Because I have been writing Yours sincerely, management training division. Comparing efficiency reports since 1975 and have never Eleanor Ridge □ myself with other individuals known to been late once. Delinquent submission of me, with whom I compete for promotion, employee evaluation reports demonstrates So there! revealed that my personnel audit report lack of concern for employee welfare and Bangkok, Thailand (par) looked impressive with the long list well-being, inadequate supervisory skills, Dear Editor: of short-term, job-related training courses and casts doubt on that officer’s ability to Re Diplo-Crostic No. 55 (STATE, completed, but there was little difference in assume greater responsibility. December): time-in-class for those with and those with¬ Sincerely, A critic faults me for spelling titilate out in-service training. This leads me to Bradford W. Ham with one /, and for defining a paddlefish as believe that Foreign Service employees are Communications supervisor □ a spoonbill, and a paternoster as a rosary.

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I find myself in distinguished company, Mary Butler remembered Soviets a serious mn for their rubles. like the editors of the second edition of the Washington Cheers, Oxford English Dictionary and the Webs¬ Dear Editor: BRUCE Wharton ter’s Third New International Dictionary. I heard only recently of the death in Information officer ■ On Page 142 (of the volume with all the December 1988 of Mary W. Butler, who Ts, for the benefit of the faultfinder), our had been the receptionist to six Secretaries Women’s History Month Sassenach brethren concur in the spelling of State. Ms. Butler began her work at the of ‘titilate’ with one 1. On Page 2205 of Department with Secretary James Byrnes is observed at State Webster’s Third New International, one during World War II, and also served as As part of National Women’s History notes the entry: .. spoonbill n.: pad- receptionist to George Marshall, Dean Month, panelists spoke here in the Dean dlefish.” On Page 1654, one finds the Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Christian Acheson Auditorium, March 21. Lauralee entry: “paternoster ... 2b(2): Rosary.’’ Herter and Dean Rusk. Peters of the Bureau of Personnel, Stephen M’Lord, I rest my case. In a feature article on her in your Ryner of AID and Patricia Paige of the Sincerely, magazine, July 1962, she was quoted as U.S. Office of Personnel Management dis¬ Richard McDonough saying: “I’m only a small cog in a big cussed future trends, which they said will Puzzle author □ wheel ... trying to keep things moving include increased automation, more women smoothly.” She did that with grace and in the workforce and a greater need for spe¬ Congestion cialized training. Washington style, as all the people who knew her over the years remember. Kathleen Charles, Office of Inspector Dear Editor: Sincerely, General, served as moderator. The event The number of cars and commuter Lillian royston □ was cosponsored by State’s Office of Equal buses crowding the shuttle bus lane at the Employment Opportunity and Civil Rights, D Street entrance has reached hazardous AID and the Women’s Action Organiza¬ proportions. I am constantly amazed at the tion. □ number of unauthorized vehicles parked at Real summitry the curb, under signs which clearly say no La Paz, Bolivia Dear Editor: Asian Pacific Americans parking. There are apparently no peak hours, as this situation exists in the morn¬ The staff here recently hosted a vol¬ in the U.S. workforce The third annual training conference of ing, noon and evening rush hours with leyball game and picnic for our counter¬ the Federal Asian Pacific American Coun¬ equal magnitude. These vehicles slow the parts from the Soviet embassy. The event, cil, an interagency group that represents the entry and exit of the shuttle buses, and fre¬ at the residence of Ambassador Robert S. interests of that minority in the federal quently discharge passengers directly into Gelbard, was billed as the “First Ameri¬ workforce, will be held May 30-June 1 in the street, causing dangerous situations. can-Soviet Volleyball Friendship Cup.” the Bethesda Marriott Hotel. Registration Additionally, this lane is understandably Played at an altitude of about 12,000 feet, forms are available at State in the Office of used by the U.S. mail trucks and vendors. it was certainly one of the most breath-tak¬ Equal Employment Opportunity and Civil 1 think that something must be done ing volleyball games ever, and we believe that it helped lift U.S.-Soviet relations to a Rights. The registration fee is $300. immediately to relieve this situation. As an Workshop topics will include health example, on a recent Monday, during the new high. The competition was fierce and and mental health issues; the federal work¬ evening rush hour, two cars stalled and the Americans valiant, but the Soviets were in very good form and offered no quarter. force: advancement and challenges; required assistance. Meanwhile, commuter However, as Ambassador Gelbard said: developing individual and collective strat¬ buses, car pools and the mail truck were in “The Soviets may have won the volleyball egies for advancement in American organi¬ competition with the Rosslyn and Passport game, but we won the picnic.” zations; and improving understanding of Office shuttles for parking. A rematch is being planned, to be Asian Pacific Americans and their relations May I suggest that we restrict entry on held at the Soviet embassy. Our team is with other ethnic and racial groups. □ D Street to authorized vehicles only, and practicing diligently in hopes of giving the enforce it with tickets if necessary until the situation improves? Additionally, with the opening of the 23rd Street entrance, can commuter buses and carpools be directed to pick up and discharge passengers at that entrance instead? Sincerely, Stephanie a. Gillespie Bureau of Personnel □

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security replies: The Department cannot restrict access to D Street as the District of Columbia has jurisdiction over it. However, the bureau has requested addi¬ tional patrolling and increased ticketing of the area by the metropolitan police. □ In foreground: the Soviet team.

May 1990 57 Obituaries

Rosamond Brister, 77, a retired For¬ Madeline M. Ferrari, 60, a retired She had accompanied her husband on eign Service secretar/, died on March 22 of Foreign Service nurse, died of ovarian can¬ tours to Guatemala City, Barranquila, heart failure, STATE has learned. cer in Merced, Calif., on March 30. Vienna, Tegucigalpa, La Paz and Caracas. She began her career in the Department Ms. Ferrari joined the Service in La Prior to her marriage, she was a registered in 1945 and served in Bern, 1945-48; Port- Paz in 1962. She nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, au-Prince, 1948-50; and Paris, 1950-55. In held assignments in 1943-47, and head nurse at Centro Medico 1956-57 she worked in Damascus, then was New Delhi, 1964-66, in Guatemala City, 1947-49. transferred to Warsaw in 1958. Her last post Monrovia, 1966-69, Ms. Fisher was bom on June 7, 1921, before retiring in 1962 was Buenos Aires. and Jeddah, 1969- in Concord, Mass. She was graduated from Ms. Brister was bom in Yazoo City, Miss. 71. She established the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing in 1943. After her husband’s She is survived by her niece, Loretta the health unit in retirement in 1984, she volunteered at the McMahan of Greenwood, Miss. □ Phnom Penh in 1971, staying until Bozeman Public Library. Besides her hus¬ Gori P. Bruno, 73, a retired Foreign 1973. She became band, she leaves a daughter; two sons; a Service officer, died in El Paso on director of nursing brother; four sisters; and three grand¬ January 4. Ms. Ferrari that year for the children. □ Mr. Bruno joined the Service in 1954 Office of Medical Myron Fink, 54, general services as an investigator in Palmero. He then Services, where she began an educational officer in Ankara, died of heart failure on served as an investigator in Salzburg, 1955, program for nurses. Her next posting was October 30, STATE learned recently. and Hong Kong, 1956-62, where he was Jakarta, 1977-79, followed by two tours in Mr. Fink joined the Service as a com¬ also vice consul. His next assignments were Rome, 1979-83. She went to Bucharest, munications techni¬ as consular officer in Puerto La Cruz, 1983-84, then returned to Washington in cian in Tokyo in 1962-68, and economic and commercial 1985 to serve as deputy director of nursing 1973. He became a officer in Ciudad Juarez, l%9-73. He was and editor of the Foreign Service Medical consul general in Genoa, 1973-76. He Bulletin. She retired in 1988. general services retired in 1976 but continued to work as a Ms. Ferrari was born in Turlock, officer in Seoul, contract employee assigned to the Bureau of Calif., on July 4, 1929. She earned a nurs¬ 1976-78. He was Inter-American Affairs, until 1978. ing diploma from St. Joseph’s and a bach¬ assigned to Mon¬ Mr. Bmno was bom in Flushing, N.Y. elor’s from Dominican College. She rovia, 1978-80; on July 4, 1916. He was graduated from the received two Meritorious Honor Awards for Athens, 1980-82; City College of New York in 1939. He her work at State. Her survivors include a and Bonn, 1982-84. served in the Army, 1939-46, attaining the brother, niece and nephew. Memorial con¬ He served in Beirut, rank of lieutenant colonel. He leaves his tributions may be made in her name to the 1984-86, and Hong wife, Toni Bmno of El Paso, a son and four Ferrari Scholarship Fund, American Foreign Kong, 1986-88, be¬ daughters. □ Service Association Scholarship Program, fore his last assignment. 2101 E Street N.W., Washington, D.C. Mr. Fink was born in Milwaukee on Patricia Corcoran, 60, a Foreign 20016. n August 27, 1935. He leaves his wife, Kathy Service secretary assigned to Harare, died Fink of St. Petersburg, three daughters and of cancer in Everett, Wash., on January 4. Arjun R. Chakrawarti, 30, a Foreign a son. □ Ms. Corcoran joined the Service in Service officer receiving Russian language 1978 in Tegucigalpa. training at the Foreign Service Institute, Harold W. Glidden, 79, a supervisory She was assigned to died of a pulmonary embolism in Wash¬ intelligence research officer at the time of the Office of Law of ington on March 9. his retirement in 1970, died March 10 at the the Sea Negotiations, Mr. Chakrawarti joined the Service in Hospice of Northern Virginia. 1978-80. She served 1984 and was assigned to Frankfurt as a Mr. Glidden joined the Foreign Service in Hong Kong, consular and antifraud officer. He next was in 1944 and served in Cairo, 1944-45. He 1980-82, and Can¬ vice consul and political officer in Sin¬ worked for the Library of Congress, where ton, 1982-84. She gapore, 1986-88. He worked as an opera¬ he set up the Near East section, 1945-47, worked in the Office tions officer in the Executive Secretariat before returning to Egypt for State in 1947, of Latin American from 1988 until last August. as a publications procurement officer. He Diplomacy, 1984, Mr. Chakrawarti was born in New transferred from the Foreign to the Civil Ms. Corcoran and served a second York on June 7, 1959. He attended Rutgers, Service in 1949, becoming a foreign affairs tour in Tegucigalpa, 1978-80, and received a bachelor’s in his¬ specialist in the Bureau of Near Eastern and 1985-87. She was detailed to the National tory from the University of New Orleans in South Asian Affairs. He became an intel¬ Security Council, 1987, before serving her 1983. His survivors include his wife, Sus- ligence research specialist there in 1957. last tour. anne Chakrawarti of Washington, his His last assignment was as office director in Ms. Corcoran was bom in Ellensburg, mother, Adele Chakrawarti, and a sister, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Wash., on December 7, 1929. Before join¬ Sita Chakrawarti. □ 1967-70. ing the Service, she worked for 20 years at Mr. Glidden was born in Rochester, the Boeing Aerospace Corp. as a secretary Dorothy H. Fisher, 68, wife of re¬ N.Y., on September 29, 1910. He received and assistant buyer. She leaves two daugh¬ tired Foreign Service officer John W. Fisher, a bachelor’s in semantics from the Univer¬ ters and a son. □ died in Bozeman, Mont., on March 14. sity of Rochester in 1932, a doctorate in Arabic studies from Princeton in 1936. In Social Security Board and Federal Security sity of Wisconsin, 1952-55. He leaves his retirement, he continued to work for State Agency. He served as a colonel in the Army wife, Joyce Menard Rothin of Titusville, as a translator and consultant. He is sur¬ during World War II. He leaves his wife, his mother and a brother. □ vived by his wife of 52 years, Virginia Dorothy Martin of Winston-Salem, and Glidden; two daughters; a son; a sister; and three children. □ William A. Rudolph, 54, a diplomatic six grandchildren. □ courier, died of cancer in Cape Co^, Fla., Henry C. Ramsey, 79, a retired For¬ on December 9, STATE has learned. Milton Lee Herndon, 54, a retired eign Service officer who was consul general Mr. Rudolph began his career at State Foreign Service communications officer, in Karachi before he retired in 1970, died of in 1965 as a passport died of cancer in Reidsville, N.C., on emphysema in San Francisco in April last examiner in State’s March 17. year, STATE has New York regional Mr. Herndon joined the Service in office. He joined the Bonn in 1978. He served in Tel Aviv, Diplomatic Courier t joined the Service in 1981-83, Brussels, 1983-85, and Mexico Service the following City, 1985-87. He was assigned to Juarez in 1944 as a special year. He served tours 1988 and retired later that year. assistant in La Paz. in Washington, Mr. Herndon was born in Hamlet, He became an assist¬ Frankfurt and, most N.C., on July 4, 1935. He was a commu¬ ant commercial at- recently, Bangkok. nicator in the Air Force for 23 years before tachd in Madrid, Mr. Rudolph joining State. He leaves his wife, Kathleen 1946-47, and War¬ Mr. Rudolph was born in Lans- Herndon of Reidsville; two daughters; a saw, 1947-49. He downe. Pa., on May son; his mofher; a sister; and four Mr. Ramsey (1970) was a political of¬ 22, 1935. He received a bachelor’s from brothers. □ ficer in Frankfurt, LaSalle in 1964. He had served in the Army 1950-52, then attended the National War in West Germany, 1954-57. Besides his Graham A. Martin, 78, the last U.S. College, 1952-53. He became consul gen¬ wife, Renata Rudolph of Cape Coral, he ambassador to South Vietnam, died in eral in Madras, 1953-57. In 1958 he leaves three sisters and a brother. □ Winston-Salem, N.C., on March 13. returned to the Department, where he served on the Policy Planning Staff until Mr. Martin joined the Foreign Service Virginia Vazquez, 31, wife of com¬ 1966, before his final assignment in - as an administrative munications specialist Xavier Vazquez, died Karachi. officer in 1947. He of pneumonia on January 2. Mr. Ramsey was born in Seminole, served on the faculty Ms. Vazques accompanied her hus¬ Tex., on Febmary 26, 1910. He received a of the Air War Col¬ band on tours to bachelor’s from Stanford in 1932 and a law lege, 1955-57, and Malta, 1982-84; degree from the University of California in was assigned to the Bern, 1984-87; and 1938. Before joining State, he worked as a Department, 1957- most recently, Wash¬ tax attorney with the State Board of Equal¬ 59, before becoming ington, where her ization in Los Angeles, and for the old consul general in husband was as¬ Board of Economic Warfare, where he Geneva in 1960. He signed to the Office helped freeze German assets in South became ambassador of Information Man¬ America during World War 11. Mr. Ramsey Mr. Martin (1960) to Thailand, 1963- agement. Ms. Vaz¬ leaves a daughter, a sister and two grand¬ 67, then returned to quez worked as a children. □ the Department as a special assistant for ref¬ contract employee at ugee and migration affairs, 1967-68. He Ms. Vazquez State—for the Com¬ served as chief of mission in Rome, Phillip C. Rothin, 55, a retired For¬ bined Airlines Ticket 1969-73. eign Service specialist, died of heart failure Office—in 1988, and for the Bureau of Dip¬ President Nixon appointed him ambas¬ in Titusville, Fla., on March 18. lomatic Security, from last June until her sador to Vietnam in 1973. In April 1975 he Mr. Rothin joined the Service as a death. coordinated the airlift which carried the communications officer in Istanbul in 1960. She was bom in Gary, Ind., on April remaining Americans and about 140,000 He was assigned to Leopoldville, 1963; 5, 1958, and attended Indiana State, Vietnamese out of Saigon, as the city fell to Freetown, 1963-65; Luxembourg; l%5-67; 1978-80. Besides her husband, she leaves a the North Vietnamese. President Ford com¬ and Budapest, l%7-68. He later held post¬ daughter, Candace, 7; her parents; three mended him for his “courage and steadi¬ ings in Hong Kong, 1970-72; Bamako, brothers; and a sister. □ ness” during the evacuation. He returned to 1973-75; Jerusalem; 1975-77; Bonn, the Department as a special assistant before 1977-78; and Port-of-Spain, 1978-80. He Berta Agnes Warwick, 93, a retired retiring in 1977. returned to Washington, where he was clerk, died in Palatka, Fla., on March 30. Mr. Martin was bom on September 22, assigned to the Bureau of Administration, Ms. Warwick worked as a telegrapher 1912, in Mars Hills, N.C. He received a 1980-82, before serving his last assignment and teletypist in the old Traffic and Relay bachelor’s from Wake Forest in 1932. in Brussels, 1983-84. Unit from 1943 until she retired in 1963. Before his tenure at State, he worked as a Mr. Rothin was bom in Westville, Ill., She held similar positions at the U.S. newspaper correspondent and held positions on June 26, 1934, and grew up in Racine, Department of Agriculture, 1929-43. She at the National Recovery Administration, Wise. He studied engineering at the Univer¬ leaves no known survivors. ■

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General Boston, Porter Sargent, 1989. $30.00. and Cabinet Members of Foreign Govern¬ American Medical Association Family Medical Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory, ments. Washington, bimonthly. Request from Guide. Rev. ed. New Ymk, Random House, 1989-90. 3 vols. New York, Bowker, 1989. INR/EX/DCB. 1987. $29.45. GSA price. $279.00. U.S. Department of State. Office of the Legal AXTELL, Roger E., ed. Do’s and Taboos Around U.S. Department of State. Office of Overseas Adviser. Treaties in Force: a List of Treaties the World. New York, Wiley, 1985. $9.95. Schools. Overseas Schools Attended by U.S. and Other International Agreements of the Baldridge, Letitia. Letitia Baldridge’s Com¬ Government Dependent Children, (micro¬ U.S. in Force. Washington, U.S. Govt. plete Guide to the New Manners for the 90’s. fiche) Washington, annual. Request from Print. Off, annual. Automatic distribution to New York, Rawson, 1990. $24.95. A/OS. posts. Bartlett, John. Familiar Quotations. 15th ed. World of Learning, 1990. London, Europa, 1990. Boston, Little, Brown, 1980. $29.95. United States $290.00. Devlin, Joseph. Dictionary of Antonyms & Syn¬ Bailey, Thomas A. Diplomatic History of the Worldwide Government Directory with Interna¬ onyms. New York, Warner Books, 1990. American People. 10th ed. Englewood tional Organizations. Bethesda, MD, $3.50 Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1980. $50.67. Cambridge Publications, 1989. $275.00. ■ Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury, CT, Grolier Barone, Michael, ed. Almanac of American Pol¬ Inc., 1989. $529.00. itics: 1990 Edition. Washington, National McCaffree, Maryjane. Protocol: the Complete Journal, 1989. $56.95. New publication: memos Handbook of Diplomatic, Official & Social Politics in America 1990. Washington, Congres¬ of the Secretary, 1949-51 sional Quarterly, 1989. $59.95. Usage. Washington, Devon Publishing, The Department has released the microfiche U.S. Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract 1985. $20.00. publication, “Memoranda of the Secretary of New York Times Atlas of the World. 2nd, rev. ed. of the United States, 1989. Washington, State, 1949-1951, and Meetings and Visits of New York, Random Jfouse, 1987. $49.95. U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1989. $26.00 Foreign Dignitaries, 1949-1952,” a supplement Physicians’ Desk Reference. 44th ed. Oradell, NJ, U.S. Congress. Official Congressional Direc¬ to the “Foreign Relations of the United States" Medical Economics, 1990. $44.95. tory, 1989-1990. Washington, U.S. Govt. series. This publication presents a chronological Random House Dictionary of the English Lan¬ Print. Off., 1989. $20.00. record of memoranda by Secretary Acheson or guage. 2nd ed., unabridged. New York, Ran¬ U.S. Department of State. Office of the Histo¬ one of his deputies from 1949 through 1951, and dom House, 1987. $79.95. rian. Principal Officers of the Department of additional material relating to meetings between U.S. Government Printing Office. Style Man¬ State and United States Chiefs of Mission, senior U.S. and foreign officials from 1949 ual. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1778-1988. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. through 1952. 1984. $11.00. Off., 1988. Automatic distribution to posts. The documents were maintained by the Webster’s Compact Dictionary of Synonyms. U.S. Office of the Federal Register. United Executive Secretariat of the Department. The Springfield, MA, Merriam-Webster Inc., States Government Manual, 1989/90. Wash¬ Secretary’s memoranda are presented chronologi¬ 1987. $4.95. ington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1989. cally, as filed by officers of the secretariat, fol¬ World Almanac and Book of Facts. 122nd ed. $21.00. lowed by the documents on the meetings and New York, Pharos Books, 1989. $6.95. Washington Information Directory, 1989-90. visits. All related documents, including routing World Bank Atlas. Washington, World Bank, Washington Congressional Quarterly, 1989. slips and notes, follow the papers to which they 1989. $5.95. $59.95. were originally attached. Washington Representatives, 1989. 13th ed. New All material in these two collections has Directories York, Columbia Books, 1989. $55.00. been reproduced, except for a few papers that College Handbook, 1989-90. 27th ed. New York, Who’s Who in America, 1988-1989. 45th, rev. ed. could not be declassified in whole or in part College Board, 1989. $17.95. Chicago, Marquis, 1988. $335.00. because of continued sensitivity on national Directory of American Firms Operating in For¬ security or privacy grounds. This microfiche pub¬ eign Countries. 3 vols. 11th ed. New York, International affairs lication was said to be part of the Department’s World Trade Academy Press, 1987. Copley, Gregory, ed. Defense & Foreign Affairs effort to make the official foreign affairs record $175.00. Handbook: 1988-89. Washington, Interna¬ more widely available to scholars and other Encyclopedia of Associations. 24th ed. Detroit, tional Media, 1988. $197.00. Gale, 1989. Vol. 1, National Organizations, Day, Alan J., ed. Political Parties of the World. users. “These publications reproduce significant $295.00; Vol. 2, Geographic and Executive 2nd ed. Detroit, Gale, 1984. $90.(X). and unique collections of historical documents, Indexes, $240.00; Intertuttional Organiza¬ Degengardt, Henry, ed. Treaties & Alliances of only a small part of which can be printed in ‘For¬ eign Relations’ volumes,” the Department said. tions and Supplement, $410.00. the World. 4th ed. Detroit, Gale, 1987. Gale Directory of Publications. 2 vols. 122nd ed. $95.00. The two collections in this publication, com¬ Detroit, Gale, 1989. $165.00. Europa World Yearbook. 2 vols. London, Europa prising 3,471 manuscript pages on 39 microfiche Handbook of Private Schools. 70th ed. Boston, Publications, 1989. $400.00. cards and accompanied by a 66-page printed Porter Sargent, 1989. $57.10. International Who’s Who 1989-90. 53rd ed. guide containing a comprehensive index, were Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. 8 vols., Detroit, Gale, 1989. $230.00. prepared by the Office of the Historian, Bureau 122nd ed. Summit, NJ, Martindale-Hubbell, Statesman’s Yearbook 1989/90. 126th ed. New of Public Affairs. Copies (Department of State 1990. $255.00. York, St. Martin’s Press, 1989. $65.00. Publication No. 9672; GPO Stock No. 044-(XX)- National Directory of Addresses & Telephone UNESCO Statistical Yearbook 1987. Paris, 02240-1) may be purchased for $20 from Super¬ Numbers. Kirkland, WA, General Informa¬ UNESCO, 1987. $82.00. intendent of Documents, U.S. Government Print¬ tion Inc., 1989. $49.95. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. World Fact- ing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Checks or Peterson’s Guide to Independent Secondary book. Washington, annual. Request from money orders should be made out to the superin¬ Schools. 11th ed. Princeton, NJ, Peterson's INR/EX/DCB. tendent. Guides, 1990. $36.95. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. National For information, contact John P. Glennon, Schools Abroad of Interest to Americans. 7th ed. Foreign Assessment Center. Chiefs of State (202) 663-1144. □

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