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State (ISSN 0278-1859) (formerly the Depart¬ ment of State Newsletter) is published by the U.S. Too generous? Senior women Department of State to acquaint its employees, at home and abroad, with developments that may Anderson, S.C. Mexico City affect operations or personnel. There are 11 month¬ ly issues (none in July). Dear Editor: Dear Editor: Deadline for submitting material is in the first Thank you for printing my letter in The October issue contains an article week of each month. Contributions (consisting of general information, feature articles, poems, photo¬ the May issue concerning the high number on Senior Foreign Service women. I com¬ graphs, drawings) are welcome. Double-space, spell¬ of Department employees who receive mend State for including this article. ing out job titles, names of offices and programs— monetary awards for outstanding service, The introduction states that the au¬ acronyms are not acceptable. Send contributions and the follow-up letter by Christine thor “has been tracking this subject for (anonymous submissions will not be published) to State magazine, PER/ER/SMG, SA-6, Room 433, Shurtleff, in the July-August issue, which some time.” Nevertheless, a bit more time Washington, D.C. 20522-0602. Telephone: (703) really put this out-of-control program into should have been spent researching the 516-1667. Fax: (703) 812-2475. Contributions may perspective. titles of these women. also be dropped off in Room 3811 Main State. The October 25 issue of U.S. News For example, the titles of the two Although intended for internal communication. State is available to the public through the Superin¬ and World Report contains an article on senior women in Embassy Mexico City tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing why rewards don’t work and how they are incorrect in the article. Patricia A. Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 (telephone can even sabotage desire and stifle creativ¬ Langford is m/nister-counselor for consu¬ 202-783-3238). ity. It states: “The more rewards are used, lar affairs, not “counselor” for consular Editor Sanford (Whitey) Watzman the more they are needed.” And it goes affairs. Kathleen J. Mullen is consul gen¬ Deputy editor Barbara Quirk on: “These programs are both insulting eral, not a “consular officer.” If the titles Staff assistant Kim Banks □ and destructive to high-quality work; they of the two senior women in Embassy betray a belief that workers need to be Mexico City are listed incorrectly, I won¬ controlled and coerced. Instead, workers der how many others are incorrect? One should be well compensated but not led to does not have to be a senior officer to be compete for bonuses or raises.” a “counselor” or “consular officer.” This excellent article, which should Credit should be given where credit is due. be required reading by all bureaucrats, Sincerely yours, refutes the long-held belief that monetary Delia Ozeta awards instill motivation among staff Foreign Service secretary □ members. I suggest that all Government policy-makers read it, then coordinate a More on senior women program to reduce the huge annual pay¬ out of monetary awards at all levels of the Arlington, Va. Government. I see no reason why taxpa¬ Dear Editor: yers’ money should be used to reward In the October issue Joan Plaisted Government workers for doing a job they THE COVER—The very best of the season writes that of the 772 women senior offic¬ were hired to do! to all of us (from every single one of us) in this ers in the Foreign Service, “several attend¬ Finally, if this suggestion to reduce great big family called State, Civil Service and ed the Senior Seminar.” The participation Foreign Service, wherever you find yourselves Government spending becomes policy, of women in the Senior Seminar and their during the holidays—at home or around the don’t you agree that the suggester deserves —(Continued on Page 69) globe. Our colleagues who greet us include serious consideration for a monetary (clockwise, from top): in Dublin, deputy chief of award himself? I can make myself avail¬ mission THOMAS TONKIN; in Dhaka, person¬ able for a Government-paid trip to Wash¬ nel officer SHARON NICHOLS; in Paris, eco¬ ington to accept my check in person nomic officer JOSEPH YUN; in Kathmandu, Sincerely, Foreign Service national INU K.C., a consular assistant; in Doha, Ambassador KENTON Gordon J. Bruegl KEITH; in Rangoon, communications program Retired communications officer □ officer MILLARD J. ROLLINS; in Ouagadou¬ gou, nurse practitioner DANA WASSERMAN; in Santiago, information management officer STEVEN J. VALZEZ; in Kingston, consular officer JOHN WECKER; in Washington, in the Office of Central European Affairs, secretary HEAYA SUMMY; in New York, passport clerk Yolanda Robertson; and, coming in for a land¬ ing near the North Pole, where he suspects there may be a plush post. State’s own SUPER- CRAT (disguised as Santa Claus). The draw¬ ings are adapted from photos selected at ran¬ dom from the files of the magazine. State

News Stories Feature Stories Departments and Features 4 Grand opening: State’s 6 The show goes on (and on) new training center 69 Anapestic Assignments 12 Moose, Moose, 9 Ambassadors: 7 more Hicks, Hicks 9 Appointments

22 The Yeltsin-parliament 11 Sievering named envoy 28 “Ask Dr. Kemp” to atomic energy agency showdown: eyewitness story 50 Bureau Notes 18 Equal opportunity award 25 Traumatic experience for goes to Phil Tinney a diplomatic courier 30 Education and Training

20 Management award 26 Civil Service man in a 30 Grievance Actions winner: Charles Brayshaw Foreign Service setting 18 Honors and Awards 27 Civil Service officers overseas: more than 25 68 Music at State

Photo Stories 4 News Highlights Stories of the Season 36 Post of the Month: 70 Obituaries Surabaya 13 A Christmas remembered 42 Personnel: Civil Service

14 Goodies for New Delhi 44 Personnel: Foreign Service

16 Holy Land consulate 35 Retirees’ Comer UK^^ ■*' ‘ “ v^'bbvAJ^^O^^tW OOf'9'JuJt. » (VjuSI^VM CJUxA:^e^>^

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Five Secretaries of State, from 5 Secretaries left: Cyrus Vance, Lawrence Eagleburger, Warren Christopher, William Rogers, George Shultz. (State Department photo by Ed An¬ of State attend derson) dedication The ceremony opened with music by the U.S. Marine Band and presentation of of State’s new the colors by the Marines. Lawrence Tay¬ lor, director of the center, introduced training center Secretary Christopher, who said in his remarks, among other things: “Our train¬ Secretary Christopher presided over ing and policy objectives will reflect a new the inauguration of the National Foreign focus on economic issues. Diplomacy for Affairs Training Center, successor to the global competitiveness will translate at the Foreign Service Institute, in an outdoor training center into courses and private- ceremony at the Arlington, Va., center on sector partnerships that deepen our under¬ October 13. The $63-million facility is at standing of the global economy. The men 4000 Arlington Boulevard on 72 acres. and women trained on this campus will Several hundred State employees and oth¬ emerge as export advocates. They will ers attended the event, including four learn to help promote not only our physi¬ former Secretaries of State—William Ro¬ cal security, but our intellectual property. Congressman Lee Hamilton, chairman of gers, Cyrus Vance, George Shultz and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, ad¬ “Training at the center will be struc¬ Lawrence Eagleburger—and two congress¬ dresses black-tie gathering in the National tured to reinforce the Clinton administra¬ men—James Moran (D.-Va.) and Frank Buildings Museum after the dedication. (State tion’s emphasis on cross-cutting global Wolf (R.-Va.). Department photo by Chip Beck) issues. The environment, population, refu- flWI^wPF'

gees, as well as narcotics, international ing Museum under the auspices of the crime and terrorism will all be an integral Association for Diplomatic Studies, the part of the curriculum. Confronting these American Academy of Diplomacy, the global issues will test our capacity to work American Foreign ^rvice Association, the with diverse international institutions and Business Council for International Under¬ cultures—and our ability to work in disci¬ standing, the Council of American Am¬ plines not always associated with foreign bassadors, the Una Chapman Cox Foun¬ affairs professionals.” dation, and Diplomatic and Consular After the Secretary’s address, Molly Officers, Retired. ■ Raiser, chief of protocol, administered the oath of office to 14 new Foreign Service employees—Linda Belton, who will be assigned to the Office of the Under Secre¬ tary for Management; Michael Bender, Lagos; Jeffrey Brokaw, A.I.D.’s Bureau of Latin America and Caribbean Affairs; Donna Chase, Paris; Catherine Elliott, Beirut; Courtney Johnson, U.S.I.A.; Kathleen Kriger, Budapest; William Midd¬ leton, U.S.I.A.; Manish Mishra, Muscat; Vandean Philpott, Burundi; Bounchanh Senthavong, Lao language broadcasting service; Brett Wantanabe, Bangladesh; Eric Wenberg, Moscow; and William Za- rit, Taipei. Employees and their guests then Lawrence Taylor, director of the training State Department old-timer Barney toured the facility. That evening, a black- center, arrives with Secretary Christopher. Lester with former Secretary Shultz. (State tie dinner was held at the National Build¬ (State Department photo by Chip Beck) Department photo by Chip Beck)

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The new training complex. (State Department photo by Chip Beck)

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For foreign service people, “The dynamite landed not in the it’s hardly all work and no play. In middle of the stage, as intended, but fact, the play is the thing at some posts hit Skip in the head. There was a as members of Foreign Service families smack loud enough to be picked up by find themselves performing in theatrical a video camera 25 feet away. Angier groups, reporting that they’re having a ran from the stage with her hands over great time. her mouth. Skip held his head in his Several of them have played parts hands, blood trickling through his fin¬ In Nouakchott, performing in “Our in “Don’t Drink the Water,’’ a Woody gers. Spider Miller, head of the Zaire- Country’s Good,’’ communicator Patrick Allen comedy with a Foreign Service American military cooperation team, McCumber, left, and economic, consular and slant. Says Christine Everhart, a secre¬ said: ‘He’s bleeding like a stuck pig!’ commercial officer Andrew Snow. tary in Yaounde, who appeared in the Meanwhile, our director, Elaine Lane, play in Kinshasa and Dakar and who’s the wife of an A.I.D. employee, didn’t “The cast was large—about 25— now thinking of bringing the produc¬ realize Skip had been hit. She kept yell¬ drawn from all over the expatriate tion to Cameroon: “The characters are ing: ‘Come on, folks—no interruptions! community. Some were natural hams, those we know and love—a political- Let’s continue straight through.’ But like University of Illinois professor appointee ambassador, his slavish depu¬ the actors ignored her. Marv Weinbaum and his wife, Fran- ty chief of mission, an inept junior of¬ “Seven stitches were required to cine, and deputy chief of mission Peter ficer, a bumbling family of American sew up poor Skip’s scalp. Yet in the Constable. Some were reviving theatri¬ tourists and an asylum-seeking priest.’’ true tradition of ‘the show must go cal interests that had lain dormant for Ms. Everhart’s “most memorable’’ on,’ he played his part that night. It years, and some were hitherto undis¬ moment took place during dress re¬ was a stellar performance. He ignored covered talent, like political counselor hearsal in Kinshasa. She recalls: “The what must have been a painful Howard Schaffer, who played a secret stage was set and all the props were in wound.’’ policeman. Inevitably, we found the place, including a bundle of sticks of Teresita Schaffer, the ambassador play taking over our lives for the six fake dynamite. Skip Watson of A.I.D. to Sri Lanka, played a mad chef in the weeks of rehearsal. My son, then 3, played the junior officer, and I was a same play while serving as economic protested: ‘Are you going to another tourist’s daughter. Angier Peavy, a officer in Islamabad. She says: “Our “reversal?’’ ’ U.S.I.A. trainee now in Barcelona, production was the brainchild of Arnie “The most remarkable thing about played the deputy chief of mission. It Raphel, our political officer who later the performance was how it lived on. was Angier’s job to toss the dynamite returned as ambassador and was killed Over the next few years, new editions on stage. in a plane crash with President Zia. of Arnie Raphel’s ‘Don’t Drink the Arnie had ambitious plans for ‘Don’t Drink the Water.’ Some Foreign Service players cite logistical difflculties. Jan Cohen, the community liaison officer in Kathman¬ du, recalls the challenge of coping with a transient crew. She says: “The lights don’t have to work and the set can fall

Water’ turned up around the globe. but to be cast in ‘You Can’t Take It A.I.D. officer Tom Mahoney, who With You.’ That small part was all it starred in the Islamabad production, took to whet my appetite. Later, I was put the play on again in Manila a cou¬ selected for a major role in ‘The Fo¬ ple of years later, with Islamabad veter¬ reigner.’ That’s when I met a real-life ans Steve and Monica Sinding. The bug.” Sindings, in Nairobi, put together yet Ms. Perry explains: “The show another production. Now, the Wein- was in progress, the moment hushed baums are rumored to be applying for and intense. My fellow thespian was a Fulbright grant. Could another caught up in his story, which he was ‘Don’t Drink the Water’ be on the ho¬ telling in a made-up language. I made a rizon? show of concentrating deeply, as if I “If it is, get your tickets now. You could understand the meaningless won’t be disappointed. You’ll laugh. words. Into this ‘moment’ zoomed a and you’ll see a side of your colleagues world-class-sized moth, hovering direct¬ you never suspected.” ly in the storyteller’s face. It’s hard to Charlene Perry, now a secretary in say whether it was the moth or my fel¬ down, but you do need people! What the Bureau of Personnel, until recently low actor’s attempts to encourage him happens when the anxious director is assigned to Seoul, concurs. She says: “I to retreat that caused my collapse into dying of nerves while her leading man never expected to be bitten by the act¬ uncontrollable laughter. All actors. I’ve is snowed in? Or when an actress ar¬ ing bug. But after repeated urgings since discovered, have unexpected rives late because she was at an official from friends, I decided to audition for things happen on stage.” function and couldn’t leave before the a comedy at the Yongsan Performing king did? Or an actor tells you he’s Arts Center. I was delighted not only sorry but he’s just been transferred to to survive the nerve-wracking audition Bhutan?

December 1993 AT A POST NEAR YOU

community that lacks a U.S.I.A. pres¬ ence or an American cultural center, our group played an important role in introducing Mauritanians to Americans. It was also instrumental in forging friendships in the wider expatriate com¬ munity. The Nouakchott International

Cast of a murder mystery in Kathmandu, seated, from left: Constance IVilkinson, Ca- gan Makar, Lee-Alison Sibley, wife of eco¬ nomic and political officer George Sibley. Standing: A.l.D. economist Neal Cohen and his wife, community liaison officer Jan Co¬ Angela Dickey in “Mademoiselle Julie,’’ hen, A mar Raj Singh, Mariam Sandhu, Bill produced in Nouakchott. Starr, George Sibley, Mike Coll, the defense operations coordinator, and Homi Jamshed Players includes Americans, Lebanese, of A.l.D. French, Germans, and Ukranians, as well as Mauritanians.” “Even when an actor is in town, Putting a show together draws the your problems aren’t necessarily over. embassy closer together, too, the actors Mark Larson, the assistant public af- say. Ms. Dickey says: “In February we fairs officer, played a wonderful—but Nouakchott players in “The Haberdash- produced ‘Our Country’s Good,’ a play yellow—Romeo. Stricken with hepati¬ ery,’’ from left: Anthea Daguerressar, Ser- about the founding of Australia by tis, he lay on mattresses in the dressing guei Kroutczenko and Olivia Brown, wife of British convicts. This was a large-scale the ambassador. room, consuming soft drinks until it production that involved a concerted was time to go on each night.” construction, costuming and publicity ficer, once tore her dress on a stray nail Then there’s the challenges of effort. The general services section went and slid halfway across the stage upon makeshift sets and the limitations of into high gear building the set and her entrance. life in the third world. Ms. Cohen says: stage, wiring the makeshift ‘theater un¬ “But I’ll wager no one adapts as “Our theater may be in a five-star ho¬ der the stars’ and providing everything well as the Nepalis. All I have to say is tel, but the stage still floods now and from nails to fishing nets. The French ‘yo—mero nattak ko-laagi ho—this is then. And because the room is being cultural center contributed lights and a my play—and my Nepali helper says no preserved as part of Nepal’s heritage, lighting director. Cast members and more about the charred baby doll, the we can’t hammer into the walls or their families hit the streets, selling ad¬ pistols, the empty liquor bottles or the floor. This makes our sets resemble a vertising and tickets and plastering riding boots in my front hallway.” slightly shaky house of cards. posters on storefront windows. The actors believe their experiences “Local carpenters, confused by “ ‘Our Country’s Good’ was a draw them closer to the people of the our need to build a room within a sell-out, bringing in about 400 theater¬ country and others there of other na¬ room, don’t see why nails can’t stick goers during a two-night run. Not bad, tionalities. Says Angela Dickey, the out in back. And local cleaners, despite considering there are only about 100 desk officer for Iran, until recently po¬ crazy expatriate pleas to the contrary, native English speakers in Mauritania. litical officer in Nouakchott: “In a know that hotel management wants the Our success was due in large part to stage floor waxed. Lee-Alison Sibley, the hard work of the entire embassy wife of the political and economic of¬ community. May the show go on!” —Barbara Quirk □

8 State APPOINTMENTS

Envoys are named for 7 countries

President Clinton as of mid-Novem¬ ber had named ambassadors for seven more countries. The nominations would require Senate confirmation. The posts and the persons named are: —Bahamas—Sidney Williams, a sales consultant to Mercedes Benz, to succeed Chic Hecht. —Denmark—Edward Elliott Elsen, a professor of government and foreign af¬ Mr. Williams Mr. Elson Mr. Ginsberg fairs at the University of Virginia, to ment Agency, 1976-79. Council of Atlanta and the Fulton County succeed Richard B. Stone. Mr. Williams was born in Shreve¬ public schools, 1976-79, member of the —Morocco—Marc Charles Ginsberg, port, La., on March 24, 1942. He earned board of directors of National Public Washington attorney, to succeed Frede¬ a bachelor’s from Southern University, Radio, 1977-80, member of the delegation rick Vreeland. which he attended on an athletic scholar¬ on the return of the crown of St. Stephen —Nepal—Sandra Louise Vogelge- ship, and a master’s from Pepperdine. He to Hungary, 1978, and chairman of the sang, senior policy adviser to the adminis¬ served in the National Guard, 1964-65, Gordon County Bank in Georgia, 1979- trator of A.I.D., to succeed Julia Chang and in the Reserves until 1970. He is a 83. In 1983 he became chairman of W. H. Bloch. member of Southern’s athletic hall of Smith Holdings, U.S.A. He was a mem¬ —Netherlands—K. Terry Dornbush, fame, the board of directors of Southwest ber of the board of visitors. University of a private investor, to succeed C. Howard Community College Foundation, Alpha Virginia, 1984-92, then rector of the uni¬ Wilkins Jr. Phi Omega- fraternity and the National versity, 1990-92. —Sweden—Thomas L. Siebert, a Association for the Advancement of Col¬ Mr. Elson is a trustee of Brown Washington attorney, to succeed Charles ored People. He is married to Maxine E. Redman. University, Talledega College, Hampton Walters, a Democratic congresswoman University, Hebrew Union College, Spel- —Switzerland—M. Larry Lawrence, from California, and has two stepchil¬ man College, the American Federation of chairman and chief executive officer of dren. Arts executive committee, the American the Hotel del Coronado Corp., to succeed Joseph B. Gildenhorn. Jewish Committee, the Jewish Museum, Following are biographical sketches Denmark Glyndebourne Association of America, of the persons named. Inc., the John Carter Brown Library and Edward Elliot Elson has been a pro¬ the National Symphony Orchestra. He is fessor of government and foreign aff^airs trustee and secretary of the board of Bahamas at the University of Virginia since earlier Brenau University; trustee and chairman this year. He has also been director of the of the Jeffersonian Restoration Advisory Sidney Williams has been a sales RF&P Corp. of the Virginia state retire¬ Board and the Jewish Publication Society; consultant to Mercedes Benz in Holly¬ ment system since last year. trustee and vice president of the American wood, Calif., since 1979. He has also Mr. Elson began his career in 1959 as Jewish Historical Society and the National been a speaker and mentor to youth executive vice president of the Airport Foundation for Jewish Culture; and a groups, on events such as Martin Luther News Corp. and Atlanta News Agency, member of the trustee’s council of the King Day, career days and Black History Inc. He later served as president and National Gallery. Month, since 1983. chairman of both organizations until Mr. Elson also serves as chairman of Mr. Williams began his career in 1985. He was also president, then chair¬ Brown University’s parents council, the 1964 as a professional football player. He man, of Elson’s, Atlanta, l%3-85. While National Public Radio Foundation, Com¬ played for the Cleveland Browns (where serving in those capacities, he was active mentary magazine’s publication commit¬ he was a member of the 1%5 National as well as a member of the President’s tee, chairman emeritus of the Carlos Mu¬ Football League championship team), the Commission on Obscenity and Pornogra¬ seum of Art and Archeology and vice Washington Redskins, the Baltimore Colts phy, 1967-71, a member of Atlanta’s fund chairman of the Jewish Educational Loan and the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 1966 he appeals review board, 1971-73, vice chair¬ Fund. In addition, he is a member of the became a business developer for the Black man of the Atlanta-Fulton County Recre¬ University of Virginia Real Estate Foun¬ Economic Union in Los Angeles. He was ation Association, 1975-80, chairman of dation, the Southern Regional Council, a legislative aide in the Los Angeles City the Georgia advisory committee to the the Academy for Corporate Governance Council, 1974-76, then project manager of U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1975-81, and the White Burkett Miller Center for the Los Angeles Community Redevelop- treasurer of the Public Broadcasting Public Affairs, and a member of the

December 1993 9 APPOINTMENTS

boards of Emory University, the Universi¬ Awards, presidential and senior Foreign ty of Virginia alumni association, Phillips Service performance awards and the Envi¬ Academy, Brandeis University, Reading is ronmental Protection Agency’s Interna¬ Fundamental, the Appeal of Conscience tional Award. She has written articles for Foundation and the Association of Gov¬ the New York Times, International Stud¬ erning Boards of Universities and Colleg¬ ies Quarterly, Foreign Affairs and Current es. Economic Developments. She is a member Mr. Elson was born in New York on of the American Foreign Service Associa¬ March 8, 1934. He received a bachelor’s tion, the Council on Foreign Relations, from the University of Virginia and a law the advisory committee of the Americas degree from Emory. His foreign language Society and the Cornell and Fletcher is French. He holds awards from National alumni associations. She is married to Ms. Vogelgesang Mr. Dombush Public Radio, the University of Virginia, Geoffrey Ernest Wolfe and has a daughter the University of Illinois, the American senior policy adviser to the administrator and a son. Jewish Committee, Brandeis University, of A.I.D. since earlier this year. Before Omicron Delta Kappa and Pi Delta Epsi¬ that, she was a key author of the “State Netherlands lon. He is married to Suzanne Goodman 2000” report that became a model for the Elson and has two sons. Department’s reorganization. K. Terry Dornbush has been a pri¬ Ms. Vogelgesang began her career in vate investor in Atlanta since 1989. Since 1%7 as administrator of the U.S. educa¬ 1970 he has also been director of the New Morocco tion exchange program at the embassy in York Venture Fund and subsequently Helsinki in 1%7. She earned a doctorate formed or acquired Retirement Planning Marc Charles Ginsberg has been an and wrote a book, “The Long Dark Funds of America, Inc., Venture Income attorney at the Washington law firm of Night of the Soul; the American Intellec¬ Plus, Inc., and Venture Muni Plus in Galland, Kharasch, Morse & Garfinkle tual Left and the Vietnam War,” 1%9-71. Santa Fe and New York. In addition, he since 1987. He began his career in 1973 as In 1971 she became a Nordic analyst in is proprietor of the Dornbush Co. and a a legislative assistant to Senator Edward the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. general partner in Dorn Associates, KTR M. Kennedy in the senator’s capacity as She served as chairwoman of the Secre¬ Ltd., Stephens Woods Associates, Yulee chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commit¬ tary’s Open Forum, 1973-74, and as an Limited Partnership in Atlanta, and Tri¬ tee’s subcommittee on refugees. He served economist in the Bureau of Economic and angle Investment Limited Partnership in as special assistant to the under secretary Business Affairs, 1973-75. Nassau County, Fla. for management at State, 1977-80. In Ms. Vogelgesang was a member of Mr. Dornbush began his career in 1980 he became deputy senior adviser to the Policy Planning Staff under Secretar¬ 1955 as a partner in the corporate finance the President for Middle East affairs. He ies Kissinger and Vance, 1975-77. In 1977 department of Courts & Co., Atlanta. He was an attorney at Surrey & Morse in she became an international affairs fellow was a consultant and a member of the Washington, 1981-87. at the Council on Foreign Relations, executive committee and board of direc¬ Mr. Ginsberg was born in New York where she wrote a book, “American tors of the Hickory Furniture Co., 1%8- on October 18, 1950. He earned a bache¬ Dream/Global Nightmare: The Dilemma 74. Next, he was founder, director and lor’s from American and a law degree of U.S. Human Rights Policy.” Next, she chairman of the audit and finance com¬ from Georgetown. His foreign languages was deputy for policy planning in the mittees of First Women’s Bank, 1975-80, are French, Hebrew and Arabic. He re¬ Bureau of European and Canadian Af¬ and director of Southeastern Bonded ceived Fox Connecticut State and Ameri¬ fairs, 1978-81. In 1981 she became direc¬ Warehouses, Inc., 1976-90. In 1978 he can and Georgetown University scholar¬ tor of the Europe bureau’s Office of became chairman of the board of the ships. He has published articles on legal Regional Political-Economic Affairs. She Thermo-Materials Corp. He served as issues, international trade and foreign pol¬ served as economic minister in Ottawa, president of the Egmont Investment Co., icy. He is a member of the Washington 1982-86, and deputy assistant secretary for 1978-86, and chairman and chief executive officer of the Dixie Bag Co., 1980-89. Foreign Affairs Council, the American international organization affairs, 1986- 89. She W21S principal deputy assistant In 1981 Mr. Dornbush became presi¬ Bar Association, the District of Columbia dent of DOAG U.S.A., Inc. He served as Bar Association, Temple Har Shalom in administrator for international activities at the Environmental Protection Agency, director of WFI Transport, Inc., 1981-90, Potomac, Md., the National Jewish Dem¬ 1989-92. Knight Transportation Co., Inc., 1983-90, ocratic Council and Georgetown Univer¬ Ms. Vogelgesang was born in Can¬ and the Dornbush Group System, 1988- sity’s South African Legal Resource Cen¬ ton, O., on July 27, 1942. She holds a 90. He was director and chairman of the ter. He is married to Janet Louise bachelor’s from Cornell and two master’s board of Dornbush Group, Inc., and vice Ginsberg and has two sons. degrees and a doctorate from the Fletcher chairman of the board of American West¬ School of Law and Diplomacy. Her for¬ ern Corp., 1988-90. Nepal eign languages are German, Swedish and Mr. Dornbush was born in Atlanta French. She has received the Distin¬ on October 31, 1933. He received a bache¬ Sandra Louise Vogelgesang has been guished, Superior and Meritorious Honor lor’s from Vanderbilt and attended the

10 State Emory School of Law and the New York University of Arizona, the Beta Gamma Institute of Finance. His foreign language Sigma Honor Society, San Diego State is German. He served in the Army Re¬ University, United Way, the Israel Bonds serve, 1957-65. He is a member of the Prime Minister’s Club, St. Vincent de Capital City Club, the Episcopal Cathe- Paul Village and the Russian Federation. dr^ of St. Phillip, the Skin Cancer Foun¬ He has been listed in “who’s whos’’ of dation Advisory Council and the Vander¬ America, of California and of Jewry. bilt University alumni board of directors. Mr. Lawrence was bom in Chicago He is married to Marilyn Pierce Dornbush on August 16, 1926. He served in the and has three children. Merchant Marine, 1944-45, and attended the University of Arizona, 1945-47. He is Sweden married to Shelia Davis Lawrence and has Mr. Siebert Mr. Lawrence three daughters and a son. □

Thomas L. Siebert has been of coun¬ served as chairman, president and chief sel at Besozzi, Gavin & Craven in Wash¬ executive officer of Del Properties, Inc., ington since earlier this year. He had been l%3-86. Sievering chosen of counsel at Besozzi & Gavin since 1987. Mr. Lawrence is chairman of the Mr. Siebert began his career in 1%5 Economic Advisory Board of San Diego as representative as an intern in the office of then Ohio County and a member of the Center for Congressman Robert E. Sweeney. He was National Policy advisory board, the Cali¬ to atomic agency a volunteer in the office of Senator Ro¬ fornia Senate Commission on Efficiency bert F. Kennedy, 1966-68. In 1%8 he and Cost Control in State Government, President Clinton has named Nelson became an aide in the office of Senator the Guardians, the San Diego University F. Sievering Jr., senior fellow and director Carl Hayden. He was an associate at the History Research Center, the University of the nuclear nonproliferation program law firm Pittman, Lovett, Ford & Hen¬ of San Diego’s President Club and the at the Atlantic Council since 1988, as U.S. nessey, Washington, D.C., 1971-78, then board of the John F. Kennedy Library representative to the a partner at Lovett, Ford, Hennessey, Foundation. International Atom- Stambler & Siebert, 1985-87. His past affiliations include the Navy Energy Agency. Mr. Siebert was born in Cleveland on League of the United States, the Israel H He would succeed May 2, 1946. He earned a bachelor’s and Bond Campaign, the Greater San Diego w- Richard T. Ken- a law degree from Georgetown University, Sports Association, the Vietnam Veterans k nomina- where he served on the law review. His Leadership Program of San Diego, Inc., B V tion would require foreign language is French. He is a mem¬ the Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Com¬ Senate confirma- ber of the board of regents at Catholic mission, the Scripps Clinic and Research University, the board of visitors at St. Foundation, the American Israel Public Mr. Sievering be- John’s College, the U.S. Naval Academy Affairs Committee, the International Cen¬ career in midshipmen program, the Naval Academy ter for Development Policy, the Wellness Catholic Church, St. Mary’s Catholic Community Advisory, the American Mer¬ Mr. Sievering Atomic Energy Church, Maryland Hall for the Creative chant Marine Veterans Association and Commission. After holding various posi¬ Arts, the Annapolis Association, the Dis¬ the Joan Kroc Hospice Center. tions there, he became deputy for Eura- trict of Columbia Bar Association, the Mr. Lawrence holds many awards, tom affairs at the Brussels U.S. mission to American Bar Association and the Federal including honors from Rotary, the city of the European Community and the U.S. Communications Bar Association. He is Coronado and county of San Diego, the Atomic Energy Commission in 1959. He married to Deborah Simpson Siebert and was associate director for advanced sys¬ has two daughters and two sons. tems at the commission, l%l-65. In 1%5 People at State he became senior technical adviser in the Switzerland Bureau of International Scientific and Edward G. Abington has been desig¬ Technological Affairs at State. M. Larry Lawrence has been chair¬ nated as consul general in Jerusalem . . . Mr. Sievering served as deputy direc¬ man and chief executive officer of the Peter E. Bass has been named a senior tor of the Bureau of Oceans and Interna¬ Hotel del Coronado Corp., Coronado, adviser to the assistant secretary for public tional Environmental and Scientific Af¬ Calif., since 1986. He began his career in affairs . . . Michael O’Brien is executive fairs, 1972-75. In 1975 he was named 1948 as president of Century, Inc., a director. Bureau of International Org2mi- assistant administrator for international carpentry company. He was vice president zation Affairs . . . James B. Steinberg is affairs at the Energy Research and Devel¬ of Great American Homes, 1950-54, and deputy assistant secretary for intelligence opment Administration. He was deputy Tri-W Builders, 1954-60. In 1960 he be¬ and research . . . Awilda R. Marquez has assistant secretary of energy for interna¬ came owner and chief executive officer of been named director of the White House tional programs, 1977-78. Next, he was M. Larry Lawrence & Associates. He Liaison Office. □ principal consultant at International Ener- APPOINTMENTS

gy AsscKiates Ltd., 1978-80, then deputy Under Mr. Dobbins is the Somalia It replaces the Somalia Monitoring director general for administration at the Coordination Staff, headed by Mr. Shinn. Group. David Pierce is deputy director. ■ International Atomic Energy Agency, 1980-87. He was personal representative of the director general of the agency to the United Nations from 1991 until earlier Department of Un-Alikes this year. Memo from the editor: This is a magazine about people, and therefore you Mr. Sievering was born in Newark, should know who the people are at State, especially if they’ve got rank. Right? To be¬ N.J., on December 8, 1924. He earned a gin with, then, get this straight: George Moose is not Richard Moose, and John Hicks bachelor’s from Yale and a master’s from is not Irv Hicks. Never mind that all four are identified with African affairs. Knowing Columbia. He served in the Navy, 1943- this just makes it confusing. It’s better to sort them out. 46. His foreign languages are German and Let’s start with Richard Moose. Forget for a minute that he used to be assistant French. He holds a Superior Honor secretary for African affairs. Why? That’s because George Moose has that job now. Award, two Distinguished Service Awards and the Outstanding Young Engineer award of the Atomic Energy Commission. He is a member of the American Foreign Service Association; Diplomatic and Con¬ sular Officers, Retired; the Yale Club of Washington; the Yale Scientific and Engi¬ neering Association; the American Associ¬ ation for the Advancement of Science; and the American Nuclear Academy. He is married to Dorothy R. Sievering and has two sons. □

Several senior Mr. Moose (Richard) Mr. Moose (George) officers assigned It’s better to think of Richard Moose as under secretary for management, which is what he has just become—for a second time. The first time was in the Carter administration, roles that relate when he held the management job briefly, only to shift over to the Africa bureau. This time around, Brian Atwood held the management job briefly, then shifted to A.I.D., to Somalia which is where John Hicks is now. John Hicks heads the Africa bureau at A.I.D. He’s a Foreign Service officer. So is Robert B. Oakley, Richard W. Bogo- Irv Hicks. Irv Hicks was deputy assistant secretary for African affairs—but at State, not sian, James F. Dobbins and David H. Shinn have taken up duties in connection with the troubled situation in Somalia, at the Horn of Africa. The United States has a liaison office but no embassy there. Mr. Oakley, who was special envoy to the country under President Bush, has been reappointed by President Clinton and is acting as special envoy for political reconciliation, operating both in Washing¬ ton and in the field. Mr. Bogosian is in Mogadishu as special envoy to Somalia. In the Department, James F. Dob¬ bins has been named special Somalia co¬ ordinator and is advising the Secretary Mr. Hicks (Irv) Mr. Hicks (John) and other Department principals on all issues relating to the nation. He and A.I.D. George Moose is a Foreign Service officer, too. As for Richard Moose, he used Richard Clarke, special assistant to the to be a Foreign Service officer. President, are co-chairing an interagency Irv Hicks is back in the Africa bureau—which is to say at State, not A.I.D. Both group on development and implementa¬ George Moose, but not Richard Moose, and Irv Hicks, but not John Hicks, used to be tion of U.S. policy toward Somalia that at the United Nations. All four of them live in Washington now, but they’re not related. reports to the. Interagency Deputies Com¬ Do you need any more help? □ mittee.

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side door which opened into a narrow An ‘extra-speciar passageway. Groping our way through the darkness, I fancied we were in a James Christmas is Bond movie. But in place of a director to yell “Cut!” at the end of the passage, remembered there might be a militant Libyan to yell: “Cut off their heads!” By Anne Marie Gabor We emerged from the side door of the embassy, blinking in the sudden strong sunlight. Mr. Eagleton and Mr. The author is now a secretary in the Dieffenderfer were the last to leave the Career Development and Training Divi¬ beleaguered embassy. They’d been face- sion of the Bureau of Personnel. to-face with the militants, doing every¬ thing possible to hold them at bay. This season is a time for remember¬ We walked quickly along the busy ing special Christmases of the past—when street, trying to blend in with the natives the holiday held even more warmth for wearing angle-length chadors. Like Lot’s me because of an unexpected occurrence. wife in the bible, I looked back. I didn’t An extra-special Christmas, that will al¬ turn into a pillar of salt, but I saw a ways shine as bright as the star atop the terrifying sight—a mob was pushing into tree, was the Christmas of 1979. the embassy and crawling up the walls to I had recently joined the Department The author with John Dieffenderfer to¬ the second-floor windows. Smashed furni¬ day. He’s now in the Bureau of International and was assigned as a Foreign Service ture was being thrown outside. Organization Affairs. secretary to the American embassy in The honking of a car horn distracted Tripoli, Libya. On my arrival there in me. It was our embassy driver, and he November, my thoughts focused on how I As he spoke, we heard chanting outside— beckoned us inside the vehicle. With his would be spending the yuletide in this louder and louder. The closed-circuit tele¬ passengers safely inside, he careened Arabic land which was devoid of snow vision monitor showed hundreds of people through the narrow streets of the city, and Santa. There wouldn’t even be a in front of the embassy. They were shout¬ barely missing trucks carrying armed Lib¬ Marine ball, as Libya’s leader, Muammar ing anti-American slogans. yan soldiers. We arrived at the British Qadaffi, had made absence of the Ma¬ The shouts became mingled with loud residence on the outskirts of the city, rines a condition of the American pres¬ knocking at the embassy door. It had where we were given a gracious welcome. ence in Libya. So the line from the been only a month since Embassy Tehran It seemed ironic to have just escaped an Marine anthem which goes “...from the was overrun by supporters of Ayatollah hysterical mob and to now find ourselves halls of Montezuma to the shores of Khomeini, with U.S. hostages taken. It being served tea in elegant demitasse cups Tripoli’’ did not apply this year. had been only days since Embassy Islama¬ by a smiling uniformed butler. On the morning of December 2, as I bad was burned. Night fell, and we were transported walked the dusty blocks from my apart¬ Suddenly, we heard a jarring under cover of darkness back to our ment to the embassy, I decided that, since sound—the splintering of wood as a bat¬ apartments. We were only a stone’s throw the very first Christmas had been in a tering ram penetrated the embassy door. from our fire-gutted embassy. I pushed a Middle Eastern land, 1 would have a The same thought sprang to the minds of large upholstered chair against my bed¬ Christmas party for my colleagues, those all 21 of us inside. We were going to be room door and tried to sleep. following both American and Middle taken hostage! Visions of Christmas sug¬ At 8 a.m. the phone rang. The caller Eastern traditions. With this plan in arplums were replaced by the thought of was Mr. Dieffenderfer, who said we were mind, 1 arrived at the massive wooden spending the holidays confined in a Liby¬ to be ready to evacuate in one hour, with door of the embassy and glanced at the an prison. one suitcase. I hurriedly perused my clos¬ lone Libyan sentry who “guarded” us. The moment seemed frozen in time. ets, trying to decide which clothes to take. Usually of pleasant countenance, he avert¬ Then charge Eagleton and Mr. Dieffen¬ When the embassy van pulled up outside ed his eyes. This sm2dl sign didn’t bode derfer sprang into action. The alarm was my apartment, I was ready. We were well, I thought, but 1 entered the four- activated, sending a wailing siren signify¬ taken to the airport to board an Air Libya story building and proceeded to my third- ing terrorist attack throughout the build¬ flight to our safehaven in France. It floor office. ing. Thanks to an evacuation drill which seemed like an eternity as airport officials The day’s activities were under way Mr. Eagleton had led a few days earlier, scrutinized our passports. Finally, they when John Dieffenderfer, the administra¬ we knew what to do next. Classified waved us onto the plane. As the plane tive officer, entered with an urgent mes¬ material had been disposed of previously. lifted off of Libyan soil, a cheer went up sage for charge William Eagleton Jr. He As we hurried down the marble stairs and from us. informed Mr. Eagleton that a massive entered the vault in the communications The plane seemed like a magic carpet demonstration was taking place in Green room, my heart was pounding. Everyone Square, a few blocks from the embassy. accounted for, we left the vault through a —(Continued on Page 69)

December 1993 13 AT POSTS OVERSEAS

But I couldn’t find an owner for the resolved a few days later. The political Santa’s sleigh, shipment. A check of purchase orders section had been waiting for the equip¬ showed the equipment wasn’t ordered by ment to arrive, but it hadn’t realized it with gifts for the embassy. Perhaps it belonged to one would be labeled “MAGGIE.” I hadn’t of the organizations closely associated contacted that section because it seldom all, lands in with us. I tried the nearby American received unclassified equipment. It turned Embassy School as well as several agen¬ out that Delhi was the second embassy to New Delhi cies that had offices in New Delhi—the receive a Maggie, Manila being the first, Library of Congress, U.S. and Foreign and that Riyadh would receive one within By Alan Roecks Commercial Service and the Department a few months. of Agriculture. “Not ours,” they replied, Maggie is supposed to be short for Santa Claus has already come to this “but could you loan us the materials?” “learning magnet.” Its purpose is to help American embassy in India. He came in Several people wanted to borrow the overseas Americans keep in touch with February, when I took delivery of 16 books discussing the care of aging par¬ U.S. events and trends. Many of Maggie’s boxes valued at $50,000, labeled “Com¬ ents; a local employee asked for the vid¬ materials are intended to be checked out puter equipment for eos on “Coping with Difficult People”; and taken home by the embassy people. MAGGIE.” Being and a parent of three students requested Maggie provides opportunities for em¬ systems manager at the science series. The American school ployees to become better-trained profes¬ a large embassy, I offered to take immediate possession of sionally and aims to improve their morale receive all kinds of the interactive learning disk, Exito, for and that of their families. For instance, electronic equip¬ individual learning of Spanish. spouses can strengthen skills or develop ment. Sbiteen box¬ We had some great learning materi¬ new ones in such areas as management es, however, repre¬ als. But what to do with them? My best and computer applications, to help them sented the biggest guess was that the equipment was shipped stay competitive for their return to the shipment to date. incorrectly to Delhi and, with regret, I U.S. job market. Maggie also includes Three of the boxes asked our shipping department to check materials on area culture, eldercare, stress held computer with the originator, who had a northern management and personal development. Mr. Roecks equipment better Virginia address, to verify that Delhi was Family members may find resources that than anything we had on hand—a state- the correct addressee. will help in preparing for college. Soft¬ of-the-art advanced 486 personal comput¬ The ownership of the materials was ware on world geography, typing and er, a CD-ROM drive, an interactive laser disk, a laser printer—plus a new VCR. It was Christmas in February! The remaining 13 boxes contained educational materials, including 105 books, 110 videos, 10 CD-ROMs, six audiotapes and three laser disks. Accord¬ ing to the packing list, here were materials on computer literacy, economics, family support, interpersonal skills, management development, preparing for college and science and technology. As an example of the goodies in those boxes, consider the economics and science-and-technology packages. Economics materials included the “Economics U.S.A.” series (book, audio and 26 videos) and three CD-ROMs (“Compton’s Multimedia Encyclopedia,” “Countries of the World” and “U.S. History”). The science-and-technology wrappings included 16 videos on the nu¬ clear age, 26 on the world of chemistry, a basic electronic course consisting of six videos, the “Mechanical Universe” book and video series, beginning with “Static Electricity” and ending, some 12 videos later, with “From Atoms to Quarks” and the “McGraw-Hill Science and Technical Maggie’s friends, from left: Dolores Reference Set” on CD-ROM. Graham, Randi Brown, Millie Crites.

14 State building math skills also is available. As summer neared, more people be¬ Randi now share coordinator responsibili¬ Where to locate Maggie was the first gan using Maggie. We needed more help, ties and are paid from local sources, order of business. We had intended to put and I asked if any American at the though we’re expecting funding from oth¬ it at the American school or, if necessary, American school wanted to work the sum¬ er sources, too. Just over half of the the community liaison office, but neither mer at the Maggie center. An elementary- visitors to Maggie come to use the com¬ place had the requisite security safeguards. grade teacher, Dolores Graham, volun¬ puter equipment, and the others check out Because the materials touched on nuclear teered. She planned to remain in Delhi for or preview books, videos or tapes. proliferation and other politically-sensitive the summer (many leave due to the heat), Maggie’s services have expanded to areas, it was required that (1) only Ameri¬ wanted to brush up on her computer skills meet the post’s needs. In addition to their cans with picture badges could have unsu¬ and learn more about multimedia before regular duties, Randi and Millie have pervised access to Maggie materials, and she and her husband, the A.l.D. control¬ taken on special projects. Randi is using (2) the Maggie center be placed in an area ler, were transferred to Swaziland. She Maggie computer equipment to design a where the equipment and educational ma¬ added an important educational dimen¬ briefing book for our new ambassador. terials could be closely supervised. So we sion to Maggie. She simplified learning Millie has started organizing classes for put it in a secure area adjacent to the materials, critiqued and improved com¬ the many spouses who want to learn more systems office and, because I had a back¬ puter classes (taught locally according to a about computers; the registration fee for ground in educational technology, I was British-style curriculum) and her outgoing, each class is quite low, and the classes are asked to oversee its operation. pleasant personality helped make the off to a good start. Still, who would run the Maggie Maggie center a permanent stopping place Maggie has become an integral part center? Money hadn’t been budgeted to for persons new to post. of our day-to-day embassy functioning. If staff it because management had planned Dolores left at the end of the summer your embassy could use a Maggie, please for Maggie to become integrated into the for Swaziland (where we hope she is contact your political section for details. library in the American school. Since setting up a Maggie center of her own), Perhaps you too will get lucky and have putting it at the school wasn’t possible, and Millie (returning from Puerto Rico Maggie gift boxes arrive at your the embassy had to staff it. We placed an with a great tan) succeeded her. Millie and doorstep. □ advertisement in the post newsletter for a volunteer and quickly identified a capable one, Millie Crites. Millie, wife of the defense attache, had been a computer 'VdE Horn dLUES programmer for the Federal Aviation Agency in the early ’80s. Millie instantly became known as “Maggie,” and her organizational ability helped get the Mag¬ gie center moving. She cataloged all learn¬ ing materials, designed signout sheets and got things rolling. Millie/Maggie was in¬ valuable. But, also, she had to leave for three months for sunny Puerto Rico. Several users had become interested in Maggie, and Millie successfully recruit¬ ed one of them, Randi Brown. Randi and her husband. Will, a contractor for A.I.D., were new to the post and overseas life. Randi, a free-lance science writer, felt working at Maggie would give her a better understanding of embassy operations, though she did continue her work as aerobic instructor and nutrition consultant at the medical unit. Like Millie, she was talented and enthusiastic, and the embassy was quick to capitalize on her writing and advertising skills. Randi designed posters and wrote articles about the Maggie center for the post newsletter, India Ink. When the editor was out of country, Randi produced India Ink using Maggie’s laser printer and computer—the first time the newsletter had been printed on a laser printer. It looked great!

December 1993 15 AT POSTS OVERSEAS

In the Holy Land: a refurbished consulate

By PeckjY Zabriskie

The author, until recently the admin¬ istrative officer in Jerusalem, is now on a one-year assignment in the Washington area to Litton Industries.

The renovation of the historic consu¬ late general in Jerusalem has been com¬ pleted by the consulate administrative staff, working with the Department’s For¬ eign Building Office. The consulate resi¬ dence, an Ottoman Turkish-style house, was built over a cen¬ tury ago by Fredrick Vester, whose family established an Amer¬ ican religious colony in Jerusalem. The re¬ sidence/office build¬ ing and adjacent an- Ms. Zabriskie nex, which houses the administrative offices, feature cross¬ Distinctive cross-vault arch ceilings in the walls, distinctive to the Middle East. vault arch ceilings and four-foot-thick refurbished living room of the residence. The project in the Holy Land, cost¬ ing more than $3 million, consisted of three phases. First, the interior of the consul general’s residence was renovated and refurbished. The residence/office building then underwent a construction phase which provided for expansion of the third floor and addition of a new fourth floor to house the political, eco¬ nomic and communication offices, as well as the front office. Then the administra¬ tive annex phase was completed, provid¬ ing a functional, aesthetically-pleasing of¬ fice space and a much-needed second cleared-access area. Despite interruptions caused by the Gulf war, during which scud missiles flew overhead, the project was completed on schedule. 1 attribute this to the support we received from the Foreign Buildings Offi¬ ce’s John Sinnicki and Guido del Prado, and to the efforts of the administrative

The completed residence overlooking the rose garden dedicated to the late Philip Ha¬ bib, who was the special envoy of the Presi¬ dent of the Middle East.

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At an upper hallway landing in the intifada, the frequent closures of the West residence, the grace and beauty of the arches Bank (home of local construction crews), are maintained and strengthened. Furnishings the interruptions caused by the war during are representative of the Middle East. which cleared American construction crews were evacuated, the buildings that Staff. It would be difficult to imagine this were so old and untended that no one proceeding under more difficult circum¬ The view through a four-foot-thick, knew where the miles and miles of cables stances. We had the high-threat security earth-filled wall at the renovated administra¬ and wires led, or of what the interiors of tive annex. situation resulting from the Palestinian walls and floors were constructed. In addition, our need for both space and additional secure areas grew exponen¬ tially in a single year as a large A.I.D. program was suddenly added to the mis¬ sion, and as the post supported 12 Secre¬ tary of State visits in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East. The administrative staff had to endure three years with record-breaking snows, housed in a tem¬ porary trailer during the renovation project. Key support was provided by untiring communications program officer Hal Spake and security officer Neil Mac- Neal. This project has got to stand out as an example of those little miracles that can be achieved when a mission’s adminis¬ trative staff and the Foreign Building Office’s area experts work hand-in-hand. The numerous meetings held between Secretaries Baker and Christopher and Palestinian delegates took place at Consu¬ late General Jerusalem and helped lay the foundation for the current peace talks. And, the now-spacious, secure and exquis¬ itely beautiful consulate buildings exhibit a sense of history and good taste. They are buildings in which the U.S. Govern¬ The entry foyer on the ground floor of ment can function efficiently and entertain the residence. with pride. ■

December 1993 HONORS & AWARDS

cerned Employees Group”—Gerald Best, tives were changing rapidly due to the Phil Tinney takes Norman Brown, Christopher Crawford, introduction of sophisticated technologies. Rochelle Dobbins, Gary Galloway, Ken¬ Mr. Tinney recognized that what was the $5,000 equal neth Harris and Charles Mansfield Jr. needed was not new employees but simply These individuals received letters of appre¬ new skills. He then embarked on a jour¬ opportunity award ciation. ney that would change the work of an Thomas Jefferson Jr., associate di¬ entire office. rector, Office of Equal Employment Op¬ “His program took dozens of em¬ portunity and Civil Rights, chaired the ployees—individuals without basic typing award panel, which included Patrick Ken¬ skills—and taught them to type. Next, nedy, assistant secretary for administra¬ classes were held to teach computer skills. tion; Roger P. Gamble, ambassador to Employees who only months before had Suriname; Dr. LaRae Kemp, director. Of¬ learned the home-row keys of the type¬ fice of Medical Services; Alex De La writer were now building skills with word Garza, director of the personnel bureau’s processors and imaging systems. He Office of Resource Management and Or¬ rounded out the learning process by ar¬ ganization Analysis; and Catherine W. ranging courses on management skills. He Brown, assistant legal adviser for consular also brought instructors to the office to affairs. expose all levels of his workforce to new Deputy Secretary Clifton R. Wharton concepts. This concept trained over 200 Jr. congratulated Mr. Tinney and the employees in a single year.” others for their efforts. He said: “Amer¬ Mr. Tinney was credited with other ican values and common sense dictate that innovations, including short-term overseas our leading foreign affairs agency reflect assignments for Civil Service employees. the full range of American diversity, both “He had many employees who had in our embassies abroad and in our work¬ worked all of their careers in embassy force here. This is the American image we support (services) but had never seen an Philip M. Tinney, his wife Susie and should present to the world.” Evelyn embassy,” the nomination said. “He fig¬ their new grandchildren. Day, the new deputy assistant secretary ured out how to team these individuals Philip M. Tinney, managing director for equal employment opportunity and with the records management staff so they of the Bureau of Administration’s Office civil rights, also spoke. could accompany them overseas. Selected of Information Services, is the latest win¬ members spent two weeks in records man¬ ner of the Department’s Equal Employ¬ Tinney: praised by agement training, briefed the embassies on their own activities and how they fit into ment Opportunity Award. He received his own staffers $5,000 and a certificate signed by Secre¬ the Department’s support plan and made tary Christopher at a ceremony in the Loy a contribution to the records management Henderson Conference Room, October Mr. Tinney was nominated by 30 of mission. Exposure to the ‘customer’ on 21. his subordinates: Edward B. Wilson, the other end was extremely positive.” Two runners-up were honored with Frank N. Sass, Mae R. Whitehead, Pau¬ Mr. Tinney was praised for promot¬ certificates of appreciation—Ollie P. An¬ line J. Hughes, Charles W. Davis, Charles ing women and minorities. “Through a derson Jr., charge in St. George’s, and S. Cunningham, Mary E. Paschall, Ken¬ series of seminars and training sessions, Janet M. McGhee, personnel officer in neth F. Rossman, Larry Harris, Elmer E. and with the support of Blacks in Govern¬ Bonn. And 12 others were nominated for Lee, Larry W. Weiser, Johnny Lewis, ment [an organization], Mr. Tinney devel¬ the award: Claudia Bacon, Robert W. Hess, Brenda oped a core of talented women and mi¬ Ann R. Berry, former economic of¬ M. DuBose, Natalie H. Lee, Rodger norities for leadership positions,” the ficer in London, now in Paris; Robert S. White, Theresa Farrell, Richard Modrak, nomination said. “He nominated and Gelbard, assistant secretary-designate for Casper Smith Jr., Jannie O. Curry, Wes¬ won approval for one of his staff to international narcotics matters; Susan M. ley L. Williams, Gregory B. Liverpool, attend the yearlong Women’s Executive Selbin, former personnel officer in Ri¬ Timothy Egert, Richard E. Florence, Rose Leadership Program. Four of the six lead¬ yadh, now in Freetown; Dane F. Smith Grover, Aaron Jackson, Willie Gee, Da¬ ership positions in the information servic¬ Jr., former ambassador to Conakry, now vid W. Frampton and Vera Rice. es family are now led by women or diplomat-in-residence at Howard Universi¬ The nominators said: “In the opin¬ minorities. Key positions throughout those ty; Donald K. Steinberg, former economic ion of this group, Mr. Tinney has been divisions are now occupied by a broad and commercial officer in Pretoria, now nothing less than an outstanding support¬ spectrum [of employees]—the same group deputy director for public affairs at the er of the cause of equal employment of people who prior to Mr. Tinney’s National Security Council; and seven em¬ opportunity since joining the organization arrival had not been given a chance to ployees in the Bureau of Finance and in 1989. The operations of records man¬ show the talent they possessed. New pro¬ Management Policy who comprise the agement, library services, information ac¬ grams have rolled off the production belt steering committee of the bureau’s “Con¬ quisition, publishing services and direc¬ at an astounding rate. They are the bypro-

18 State ducts of Mr. Tinney’s special investment program be proposed which would in¬ in his people.” clude Bonn, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich—over 8(X) American and 9(X) Foreign Service national employees. Janet Anderson is choice of McGhee drafted the plan, which included Thursday Luncheon Group coordinating efforts with equal employ¬ ment opportunity counselors, administra¬ Mr. Anderson was nominated by sev¬ tive and personnel officers at four posts.” Ms. McGhee was praised for launch¬ en members of the Thursday Luncheon ing training efforts. “She began by sur¬ Group, an organization that monitors is¬ veying posts about the extent of their sues for minorities at the foreign affairs equal employment opportunity knowl¬ agencies. They were Charles Hughes Jr., Mr. Anderson Mr. McGhee edge,” the ambassador wrote. “Few peo¬ Edward J. Perkins, Johnny Young, James ple had received training but many wel¬ Washington, Samuel President, Harry K. comed the opportunity. The Office of Thomas Jr. and Ada Adler. The nomina¬ tary for African affairs, the sponsors of Personnel Management offered a three- tion said: “Ollie Anderson led the fight to the program said the agenda was out¬ day course, ‘Role of Managers and Super¬ obtain statistics on minorities in the For¬ standing, and expanded students’ knowl¬ visors.’ Ms. McGhee stimulated interest in eign Service from the former director of edge of career opportunities. Ollie has the training and enrolled 12 officers from the equal employment opportunity office. organized similar programs for other 5 posts. Their evaluations of the course After his written request for data did not schools in the Washington area. The in¬ were all positive. She contracted an equal produce positive results, he raised the creasing number of students who express employment opportunity manager through issue at a meeting of the Equal Employ¬ an interest in studying foreign affairs and the Office of Personnel Management to ment Opportunity and Civil Rights Advi¬ taking the Foreign Service exam is evi¬ present a three-day course in Bonn. Elev¬ sory Council, chaired by the deputy secre¬ dence that these outreach programs are en people participated and, as a result of tary and attended by the under secretary touching hundreds of students.” Mr. Anderson was also praised for the training, one volunteered to become for management and the director general. his role as counselor to other employees. an equal employment opportunity counse¬ A directive was (issued) that these data are “His diplomatic but effective intervention lor. She also worked with the office to public information and should be re¬ with management on their behalf avoided design a four-hour briefing aimed at su¬ leased. formal grievances,” the nomination said. pervisors. This session proved highly suc¬ “In the course of meetings in the “Ollie counseled a Foreign Service secre¬ cessful, and 30 managers from Bonn and Africa bureau, Ollie Anderson again took tary who believed she had been denied an Frankfurt completed the training.” the lead in informing the assistant secre¬ assignment because of her husband’s life¬ She was lauded for organizing a film tary of the absence of enforcement of style. He helped another draft a response series at the embassy. “Employees were equal employment opportunity guidelines to her former post, which she felt had invited to watch the films either at lunch in assignments and treatment of minori¬ unfairly accused her of violating Service or late afternoon,” the nomination said. ties. As the officer responsible for the regulations. The secretary received an “Films to date include ‘Valuing Ethnic assignment of personnel in the West Afri¬ apology from the deputy chief of mission. Diversity—Managing Differences and ca region, he ensured that the guidelines There are other examples, too numerous Communicating Across Cultures’ and ‘A were scrupulously observed, making more to detail, of disgruntled persons who have Working Relationship Across Cultures.’ than 50 assignments over the past two come to Ollie regarding mistreatment in Two series on sexual harassment are years. When informed that a below-grade the bid process, unfair evaluations and planned. Lists of films on loan from the minority candidate could not be assigned denial of opportunities for training and Office of Equal Employment Opportunity to a desk officer position, he appealed to advancement. In each instance, he has and Civil Rights have been sent to our the director general and obtained an ex¬ responded with a willingness to risk his jxjsts so they, too, can take advantage of ception to achieve diversity in the office.” reputation to ensure fairness and further these films.” Mr. Anderson was recognized, too, the achievement of affirmative action Ms. McGhee was also cited for pro¬ for recruiting and outreach efforts. The goals.” moting awareness of events which honor nomination said: “In March 1992 he or¬ minorities. “Previously, these celebrations ganized a program in the Department for were not well-publiciz^,” the nomination students from the Bell Multicultural High McGhee is nominee said. “Articles announcing the celebra¬ School, as part of the Thursday Luncheon tions are being included in post newslet¬ Group’s outreach program. The program of envoy in Germany ters. In Bonn, the American Community was attended by 25 students and included Library has been making displays and briefings on foreign affairs issues, atten¬ Ms. McGhee was nominated by Ro¬ dedicating booklists to commemorate Wo¬ dance at the constituency for Africa pro¬ bert M. Kimmitt, former ambassador to men’s History, Black History and Asian/ gram in the Loy Henderson Conference Germany. He said: “Before 1992, Germa¬ Pacific American Month. Similar promo¬ Room and a video on Foreign Service ny did not have an active equal employ¬ tions are planned for National Hispanic careers. In a letter to the assistant secre- ment opportunity program. I asked that a Heritage, Disability Employment Aware-

December 1993 19 HONORS AND AWARDS

ness and American Indian Heritage case’ he had ever handled. Mr. Brayshaw Month. withstood the pressure and succeeded in “While Bonn does not have the re¬ seeing the cutbacks begin to take hold, sources to do everything we would like in reducing our vulnerability to attacks. the equal employment opportunity field, I “At the same time, he battled to believe our efforts have made excellent repeal Lima’s outmoded authorized depar¬ inroads. To date, over 55 managers and ture status, which had prevented staff equal employment opportunity counselors from bringing their dependents to post, from five posts have benefited from train¬ long after the temporary threat which had ing, and hundreds more have benefited given rise to it had receded. By default, from the public relations drive Ms. Mc¬ Lima was shifting to ‘unaccompanied’ Ghee spearheaded.” status, with grave implications for morale. But charge Brayshaw earned respect for Others honored quietly persevering until he had won oth¬ ers over to his view.” On his efforts to bolster democracy Among the other nominees, Ms. Ber¬ in Peru, the nominators wrote: “Since ry was cited for aiding junior officers in September Peru has held two elections, London; Mr. Gelbard for assisting women largely in response to U.S. pressure. This at State in furthering their ct^eers; Ms. required day-to-day involvement by the Selbin for increasing benefits for female charge with the government, political par¬ Foreign Service national employees in Ri¬ ties and observer missions. He also re¬ yadh; Mr. Smith for mentoring and rota¬ stored our contact with the palace by tional training programs, among other developing a relationship with the presi¬ initiatives, in Conakry; Mr. Steinberg for dent’s brother and closest confidant.” promoting affirmative action efforts in Charles H. Brayshaw Mr. Brayshaw was also hailed for Pretoria; and the “Concerned Employees antinarcotics efforts and for strengthening Members were Lynn Noah, staff director Group” for strengthening equal employ¬ human rights in Peru. “He earned wide ment opportunity in the Bureau of Fi¬ of U.S.I.A.’s resource management com¬ mittee, and James A. Hradsky, deputy praise for persuading American and Peru¬ nance and Management Policy. □ vian business leaders to back human director of A.I.D.’s Latin American de¬ rights groups,” the nomination said. “He velopment resource office. Mr. Brayshaw was nominated by proposed a panel of distinguished jurists Charles Brayshaw four employees who worked with him in to review Peru’s system of ‘anonymous’ Lima and Beirut, where he served as judges, which had sparked criticism in wins the $5,000 deputy chief of mission. The four are international circles. He forcefully remind¬ Anne Patterson, director. Office of An¬ ed the government of the centrality of Replogle award dean Affairs; David Satterfield, National human rights to U.S. policy, despite Security Council staff; Donald Hamilton, strong criticism from high-ranking figures. U.S.I.A.; and Joseph McBride, National Lastly, he became a friend to many hu¬ Charles H. Brayshaw, charge in War College. The nomination was en¬ man rights workers, lending them an in¬ Lima, is this year’s winner of the $5,000 dorsed by Bernard W. Aronson, former creased protection that came from per¬ Luther 1. Replogle Award for Manage¬ assistant secretary for inter-American af¬ ceived closeness to the American charge.” ment Improvement. In addition to the fairs. On Mr. Brayshaw’s performance in check, he will receive a certificate signed On Mr. Brayshaw’s performance in war-torn Beirut, the nominators wrote: by Secretary Christopher. Peru, the nominators wrote: “Lima is “Seventeen days after taking over as dep¬ Five others were nominated—Rudy clearly our most difficult post in South uty chief of mission, he was evacuated Hall, a former director of the Bureau of America. U.S. policy confronts a danger¬ and assumed sole charge of the liaison Diplomatic Security’s Office of Resource ous mix of terrorism, narcotics traffick¬ office in Nicosia, where he was responsi¬ Management, who is now in Somalia; ing, human rights abuses, challenges to ble for all Government assets in Lebanon. John Pielemeier, an A.I.D. officer in democracy and grinding poverty. Mr. In the next two years, he transformed Brasilia; Philip M. Tinney, managing di¬ Brayshaw balanced these competing de¬ Nicosia from an ‘admin closet’ to a fully rector of the Bureau of Administration’s mands deftly and, despite the odds, made functioning embassy in exile. He pio¬ Office of Information Services; Patrick J. significant progress. neered the concept of running a mission Truhn, administrative officer in Sofia; “He unflappably insisted on a bal¬ at a long distance in the middle of a war. and Ruth A. Whiteside, deputy assistant anced approach to staff drawdowns that In doing so, he developed systems to secretary for personnel. were triggered by attacks on the mission. support a large Foreign Service national The selection committee was chaired High-level resistance from Washington staff, while paring it from 500 to half that by Anita Booth, deputy executive direc¬ agencies transformed the drawdowns into number. Moreover, he did so while sus¬ tor, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. what one veteran termed the ‘nastiest taining the respect of those who worked

20 State for him.” $20,{X)0 Presidential Distinguished Service This charge was credited with a num¬ 5 Senior Foreign Award. Twenty-five others were named ber of administrative improvements, de¬ for the $10,(X)0 Presidential Meritorious spite his off-site management. The nomi¬ Service officers win Service Award. nation said: “Mr. Brayshaw produced The awards will be reduced by the major cost savings by canceling or renego¬ $20,000 awards amounts that any of the 30 may have tiating leases wholesale. He tightened fis¬ received already in the form of Depart¬ cal management and initiated an investiga¬ James F. Collins, Timothy E. Deal, ment performance pay awards. The names tion which culminated in the firing of a Warren A. Lavorel, Princeton Lyman and of the 25 and of 16 others who are senior mission employee. As a result of Kenneth M. Quinn—all members of the current recipients of performance pay his aggressive management, we had a Senior Foreign Service—have won the awards are listed on Page 46. ■ more effective handle on fiscal issues from Cyprus than when we were administering the post from on the ground.” Mr. Brayshaw was praised, too, for strengthening political and economic re¬ porting. “He personally initiated a daily situation report to Washington, drawing on phone and fax messages and visits from local Beirut staffers,” the nomina¬ tion said. “He scoured Lebanese political circles in Paris to develop contacts who would offer revealing comments on the day’s happenings in time for his widely- read reports. “The war destroyed Beirut’s land lines to the outside world. But Mr. Bray¬ shaw discovered that the Nicosia cellular phone system worked inside Beirut and was heavily used by the people who counted. Showing his ingenuity, he devel¬ oped a list of key phone numbers for the Government to contact and monitor.” □

DURBAN, South Africa—At award cer- Myrich vice consul Cyril Sartor, Elizabeth emony, from left; consul general Bismarck Vorster, Iris Sartor. Name an awardee

The American Foreign Service Asso¬ ciation is seeking nominations for its an¬ nual awards conferred on a senior, mid¬ level and junior officer and a Foreign Service secretary or group of secretaries. In addition, a Foreign Service family member is honored for volunteer service and awards are given for achievement in the study of hard languages. The deadline for nominations is January 31. For infor¬ mation, call Richard Thompson, (202) 338-4045. □

Alumnus award

Thomas E. Donilon, assistant secre¬ tary for public affairs, has received the Catholic University of America alumni INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS—5fl- retired with more than 30 years of federal association award for achievement in gov¬ muel Lewis (right) presents John Jacob Ro¬ service. With them is his wife, Esteiie Ruben¬ ernment and politics. □ gers Award to A. Irwin Rubenstein, who stein.

December 1993 21 LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

The day Russia’s White House became the ‘Black House’—as seen by a communicator

By Kelley Dupuis

When 1 emerged from the Barrikhad- naya subway station at S:30 p.m. Sunday, October 3, my first hopeful thought was that the entire affair had been amicably settled. The gauntlet of helmeted, shield¬ carrying riot troops that I had to run S The White House becomes the “Black pack a sack lunch and gather together earlier in the day House. some blankets, pillows and other essen¬ was gone. But it was tials. As we were in our apartment doing a bit eerie. Since did, however, he made a most unwelcome all this, an excited Marine guard rang our President Boris Yelt¬ pronouncement. “You all have to go to doorbell 9 or 10 times—rapidly. This was sin had dissolved the the gym,” he said. to tell us to get moving. As a Marine was Russian parliament “Going to the gym” meant trouble. escorting us down to the elevator at the on September 21, The embassy gymnasium lies mostly un¬ end of our apartment block, I heard the the area around the derground; for that reason it had already crackle of small-arms fire beyond the west Mr. Dupuis O.S. embassy had been designated as a safehaven, should we wall of the compound. been the scene of nonstop activity. There need it. But if I was anticipating a night of were police and riot-troop movements. “Why?” I asked. “What’s going just telling ghost stories in the gym, 1 had And noise. Lots of noise. But now every¬ on?” another thing coming. Within an hour, thing was strangely quiet. “They’ve started shooting,” the one of my coworkers, Jorge Viscal, was Moreover, as I came over the hill and guard replied. “Four people are dead.” dashing about trying to round up all the headed down toward the north gate of the What had happened, I learned later, communicators. embassy compound, I noticed that all the was that the supporters of the Russian “Terry [Branstner, our information barricades on the street to the west were parliament and its leaders had taken ad¬ programs officer] wants us all in the deserted. They’d been loaded with interior vantage of the lovely, mild fall day we office,” Jorge said. ministry troops earlier. Now a few ourselves had been enjoying up until then. “This entire area’s been overrun by curiosity-seekers were standing around on While most of Moscow was peacefully the pro-parliament forces,” Terry said the hill, looking toward the parliament going about its business, a crowd of some when we got there. And that meant a building. 10,000 parliament supporters had overrun “precautionary destruct.” “Anybody speak Russian?” I said to the police and interior ministry troops in I’ve been in Information Manage¬ some friends who were with me. “We can front of the parliament building, and were ment since back when it was still called ask one of these folks what’s going on.” at that moment on their way to stage Communications, but I’d never been Sophia Parker, the wife of consular what turned into a bloody assault on the through an operation like this before. officer John Parker, didn’t speak Rus¬ Ostankino television facility. Monday, Oc¬ And my first time would have to be in sian, but she did speak the universal tober 4, had been President Yeltsin’s latest Moscow, one of the largest embassies and language of shrugs. “What’s up?” She deadline for those inside the building to therefore, one of the largest paper- shrugged this to a man standing there. lay down their arms and come out peace¬ collectors. We had to get busy quickly “Who knows?” He shrugged back. fully. They had now pre-empted that pos¬ and start shredding and crunching as “Maybe it is all over,” I said. sibility. many classified documents as we could lay But a surprise awaited us at the My wife, Chris, who was with me, our hands on, or in this case, as people embassy gate: it was locked. and I now went to our ap2irtment in the could haul down to us in boxes. The Russian militia man in the guard compound—a two-minute walk from the There were many boxes, and it went booth beside the gate was helpful; he gym. There, it took us half an hour to on all night. Bob Fregon, a communicator motioned for the contract guard to unlock on his first tour, proved to be a regular {Photos by Bob and Kris Fregon) the gate and let us in. When the guard hero during this drill. They stuck Bob in

State watch tanks fire shells on TV, then feel the thud yourself as they impacted their target a quarter of a mile from where you sat. It got to be late Monday afternoon, and I hadn’t slept since Saturday night. “Guys, I’m going to disappear for a few hours,” I said. A TV set had been moved into the gym so everyone there could watch what was going on outside. As kids romped around playing, I joined Chris and every¬ one else who wasn’t napping, in time to see the columns of resistance fighters com¬ ing out of the White House, many with hands over their heads. “It looks like a general surrender,” said CNN in one of its less analytical moments. “That’s it. I’m going to get some sleep,” I said, and went to set up my cot With the weather still warm and mild, someone had been hit. It turned out to be in the only quiet, dark place I could find, anti-Yeltsin demonstrators crowd in front of McLain Bell, another of our Marines the typing room down the hall from the the White House. who, in securing ^he new office building communications room. area, had passed an open window. A stray I was back at work by 9 p.m., and front of a disintegrating machine and bullet went through his neck. Later, we once again we pulled traffic all night. said: “Crunch, Bob.” And how Bob learned that he was expected to be okay, Ambassador Tom Pickering and the re¬ crunched! With only short breaks, he though the bullet had come dangerously gional security officer. Bob Franks, deed¬ crunched documents for the next 10 close to an artery. ed everyone had to stay in the gymnasium hours. On one of those breaks he wan¬ Monday was a long day. Whenever I a second night, because reportedly there dered back into the office, covered with could steal a few minutes, I slipped down were still snipers in the area. document-dust from head to toe. “Bob, to the political section where they had the Though it was now all over, includ¬ you took like the abominable snowman,” Cable News Network (CNN) on. It was ing the shouting, the entire on-compound I told him. an interesting twist on “virtual reality,” to community was going to spend a second In fact, we were all elbow-deep in night on those basketball court and pool- crunching, from myself, technician Dave side floors. Facing that prospect, and Simmons and Seabee Dean Ledee, all the Armed riot police and troop carriers having just had a nap, anyway, I told my way up to our new information manage¬ parked just outside the embassy compound walls. supervisor I would stay in the office and ment officer, Leo Duncan. By 7 on Monday morning, we were punchy. Unfortunately, it was at that moment that the army troops loyal to Mr. Yeltsin and their opponents in the White House started shooting at each other in earnest. I went out to the concourse and stepped outside for a moment to chat with the security guards. In the frosty, clear October morning air, I could hear the pop-pop-pop of small-arms fire and the rat-a-tat-tat of AK-47s. Armored columns had entered Moscow; soon there would be tanks in front of the White House, rough¬ ly 300 yards, as the crow flies, from where 1 stood. I went back and tried to nap on a cot. But someone had left a hand-held radio on and, just a few minutes later, I heard a Marine shouting through it that

December 1993 23 LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

Even during an emergency, there’s time for a quick family snapshot: communicator Mike Dugan with son Thomas and daughter Erin.

gees from the parliament building in their living rooms. Then we were gradually told we could all go home, providing we stayed indoors and kept our drapes shut until all the reports of sniper activity had ceased. By this time, many in the gym, including Chris and me, were worried Russian militia troops after the violence black windbreakers, prudence dictated about pets who hadn’t been fed since was over. that we crawl on our bellies. I had tucked Sunday. Our cats were glad to see us, of a pair of borrowed binoculars under my course. Remembering how they reacted to work all night. Actually, until around jacket. thunderstorms in Abidjan, my last post, I midnight or so, we in the communications There I saw a sight I’ll never forget. could imagine the effect that tank fire less unit treated ourselves to a little “all (al¬ Although the shelling had stopped a good than half a mile away had on them. most) clear” party: telephone technician 11 hours earlier, the parliament building Wednesday’s Moscow Times (and all Charlie Hall brought in some beer and was still on fire. Flames were quietly the Russian press as well) would re-dub some munchies, and we 2dl relaxed for a engulfing the entire east end of the build¬ the White House “the Black House.” In while. Then, around midnight, everyone ing, shooting out the windows and occa¬ Russian that’s “Chorni’y Dom,” and dur¬ cleared out, and I spent a few hours sionally sending forth a loud pop or ing the next few days, before repair and alone, xeroxing traffic, listening to music CTackle. Those were the only sounds. If renovation work could be started on it, and reflecting on what a dizzy day-and-a- there were firefighters at work, they were the Chorni’y Dom became a major tourist half it had been. on the other side of the building. All we attraction. I myself joined the camera- Getting on toward dawn, my col¬ could see from where we were was the waving mob the following Saturday, on league Jeff Hoover came in, and said he building itself, center of more than two the bridge that had but lately served for was going up to the eighth-story roof of weeks’ tension, empty now and going up the arrival of the T-72 tanks, to snap a the new office building to reset a piece of in flames. Not anticipating such a sight, I few pictures of the charred building, the communications equipment. I decided to hadn’t bothered bringing my camera. I’ll lingering troop carriers and the broken go along in case he needed a hand, and to forget the sight itself long before I stop glass. These pictures were no substitute see if there was anything to see. The kicking myself for that. for not having had my camera with me Marine at Post 1 asked us if we wanted Jeff took care of his chore, and we when I climbed up to the roof on Tuesday an escort; it was dark, but according to beat it back down off the roof in a hurry, morning, but nothing will take away the the experts, still a bit dangerous out there. though I paused halfway down the ladder memory of that moment, when I peeked We declined the offer; the Marines al¬ to take one last look at the awesome over the rooftop wall and saw the funeral ready had plenty to do and, anyway, we spectacle of the silent, burning parliament. pyre of Soviet socialism quietly lighting up had taken the precaution of putting on At midmorning on Tuesday, the Ma¬ the night sky. It had bwn a long week, the darkest clothes we could grab. So we rines performed a sweep of the area, topped off with a long weekend. It was crept up to the roof where despite our checking to make sure nobody had refu time to go to bed. ■

24 STATE PEOPLE AT Diplomatic courier Beth grafts to prepare her for a prosthesis. Daugharty has met her share of Ms. Daugharty credits the kindness challenges delivering packages from of fellow employees with getting her Frankfurt to posts all over Europe and STATE through her ordeal. She received 14 flower the former Soviet Union, as well as arrangements from couriers all over the parts of Africa and the Middle East. world and 700 hours of leave donations, She’s dealt with difficult customs offi¬ many from people she’d never met. She cials, worked 20-hour shifts and en¬ says: “So many helped me in so many dured 18-day trips. But all this pales ways. Dr. Austin Moede, the regional medical officer, held my hand and com¬ before a recent incident—she was at¬ forted me. John Durbin, the acting direc¬ tacked by a lion at a zoo in Brazzaville. tor of the Courier Service in Frankfurt, Ms. Daugharty, now recovering in personally informed my husband, Jim, Washington, relates what happened: “I and put Jim on a plane to Johannes¬ had a six-day layover before I could burg.” catch the next flight from the Congo, When Ms. Daugherty’s husband ar¬ so I decided to go to the zoo with rived at the hospital, he had less than $30 Anne Molyneaux, the support commu¬ in his pocket. She says: “A courier named nications officer. We both love ani¬ Doug Hosey handed him $100 in South mals, and we wanted to feed them.” African rand and gave him his AT&T Beth Daugharty. (State Department pho¬ (With Brazzaville on the brink of war, calling card so we could call our families. to by Ann Thomas) there’d been little food to go around, He said: ‘Don’t worry about money; we’ll for humans or for animals.) talk about that later.’ Ford delivered sterile supplies from the When Ms. Daugharty approached “And Mick Miller, the director of embassy’s medical kit. Administrative of¬ the lion’s cage, she noted that his ribs the Courier Service, called me every day,” ficer Sally Slocum gave blood, and region¬ were showing, evidently from lack of Ms. Daugharty relates. “I asked him: ‘Do al security officer Jim Ennis coordinated a nourishment. “I felt sorry for him,” I still have a job with the State Depart¬ blood drive among other employees. she says. ment?’ He said yes, so I said: “Well, do I Two French doctors debated Ms. But not for long. As she held out still a job as a courier?” He said: ‘I Daugharty’s fate. One wanted to ampu¬ a fish toward the lion, Ms. Molyneaux guarantee it.’ I felt a tremendous sense of tate her arm, while the other recommend¬ called her name, and Ms. Daugharty relief. ed a medical evacuation to Johannesburg. turned to face her. The starving beast Ms. Daugharty adds: “When I joined Meanwhile, then-ambassador James Phil¬ the Courier Service, they told me it was lunged with its paw through the bars of lips telephoned the Congo President, who one big family. At the time, I thought: the cage, dragging Ms. Daugharty’s granted permission to open the airport, ‘Yeah—right.’ But now I feel it’s true.” right arm inside. The lion tore at and closed because of a curfew. A mihtary bit her trapped arm, rupturing an ar¬ transport escorted Ms. Daugharty to the Her recovery hasn’t been easy. She tery. “This is a nightmare,” she tarmac, where, she says: “Wouldn’t you has painstakingly learned to write with her thought, “and in a minute I’m going to know it—the plane was late. That’s the left hand and to perform other basic wake up.” story of my life as a courier!” functions with it. She’ll receive a prosthe¬ Her companion shouted for help She was accompanied on the four- sis and undergo several weeks of physical therapy to learn to use it. and called the embassy on her portable hour flight by the communicator who radio. A man who worked as a volun¬ helped save her life. “I asked Anne to go Five months after the incident, her teer at the zoo began beating the ani¬ with me,” Ms. Daugharty says. “I’d only attitude is one of tough determination. “I’m stubborn, and I don’t want to be mal with a stick. “After what seemed known her for 48 hours, but I felt 1 told I can’t do something,” she says. One like an eternity, the lion let go,” Ms. needed her support.” of the Marines in Brazzaville sent me a Daugharty says. The man tore off his A team of doctors at the hospital in South Africa tried to save her arm but, card saying: ‘You’re taking it like a Mari¬ shirt and made her a tourniquet. Her more than 20 hours after the attack, could ne.’ I want to go back to work, which I adrenalin was pumping so hard, she not. Her right arm was amputated three plan to do in mid-January. 1 expect to do says, she felt little pain. inches from her shoulder. For the next everything I did before, except left heavy A taxi transported Ms. Daugharty two weeks she also endured painful skin packages. Believe it or not, I even want to to a hospital, where embassy nurse go back to Brazzaville.” Marie Deybach and other employees —Barbara Quirk ■ arrived to offer help. Marine Johnnie

December 1993 25 THE CIVIL SERVICE SCENE

Foreign Service Institute, testing out al English-speaking Jews who live in Se¬ A Civil Service French at nearly the required 2-2 level, negal—U.S. Government officials. Peace receiving medical clearance—and after the Corps volunteers, workers with nongov¬ officer tries birth of our youngest, Eric—I found my¬ ernmental organizations, etc.—quickly self experiencing the trepidation that discovered that 1 was a coreligionist, and the Foreign comes from taking a giant step into the they made a point of inviting us to Pass- unknown, alone, as I boarded the Air over seders and other Jewish holiday get- Service life Afrique flight from New York to Dakar. togethers. The small local French-speaking This was mid-April, 1989, and Sharon Jewish community held services jointly By Bob Regelman had chosen to stay behind so that Mat¬ with us on occasion. I thus found myself thew and Jennifer could complete the quite unexpectedly more in touch with my “Who would have thought, as little school year. religious roots than I had been back in the as eight months ago, that we’d be living in From the time I stepped off the plane States! The Senegalese were, by and large, Africa?” I asked my wife this when she at Dakar-Yoff Airport, I knew that the very friendly and open. The country is and the kids joined me, bringing our Civil next three years would be like nothing I’d about 90% Muslim, though the Senega¬ Service family to Dakar. I had arrived ever experienced before. In fact, apart lese version of Islam is generally tolerant two-and-a-half months earlier. of other religions, and relations between It was an unexpected turn of events the majority Muslims and minority Chris¬ for someone who had been working in the tians and others are usually quite good. Department for three years. I was in the Many Senegalese were especially interested Office of Foreign Service National Per¬ when they learned that 1 was Jewish, and sonnel and, from the comfort of my desk we discovered many parallels in each in Washington, I’d had the opportunity to other’s religious observances. deal directly with many posts. And I had Another aspect of Foreign Service life begun to get a sense of what the Foreign that impressed me was how much like Service lifestyle was like. Still, as I was living in a small town this life can be. soon to learn, visiting a post for a week Everyone works and socializes, and every¬ (as I had done in Paris) is a far cry from one learns about everyone else’s personal actually living at one for two or three life. Being a big-city New Yorker by birth years. and temperament, I found this way of life When another Civil Service staffer in charming but also somewhat intrusive. my office began an overseas developmen¬ For the career members of the Service, tal assignment with the Foreign Service, this must be even more true. It seems that The author and his family in Dakar. my interest was piqued, and soon an the same Foreign Service families cross opportunity opened up to fill a position as from my visit to Paris, Canada was the paths over and over. the regional personnel officer at the em¬ most exotic locale I had ever visited prior After a while, I made a point of bassy in Senegal. I jumped at the chance. to my arrival in Dakfir. meeting people outside the official Ameri¬ Dakar had been one of the posts about I was met at the airport, not by a can community. One of the best vehicles which I was most hopeful when day¬ State Depjutment official, but by the em¬ for this is that traditionally-British institu¬ dreaming about the chance to serve over¬ bassy’s security assistance officer. Major tion—the Hash House Harriers. It’s a seas. It had a fine reputation among the Bill Ellis. So it was, before I’d even set loosely-organized group of folks who Foreign Service cognoscenti as a place to foot in the embassy, that I witnessed meet at different locations once a week to live and work, and I already had a smat¬ firsthand the cooperation among agencies run for about 30 to 50 minutes and drink tering of French, which was a necessity in represented at an overseas mission. In my beer (or soda pop, for the teetotalers). this former French colony on the west entire three years at Dakar, I was struck The group has been described as a bunch coast of Africa. My wife, Sharon, sup¬ by how much all the mission members, of beer-drinkers with a running problem. ported me in seeking the Dakar assign¬ regardless of agency, saw their individual In addition to our weekly runs, we got ment, downplaying any misgivings she roles in terms of the overall goal of together for weekend extravaganzas at had about going to live in Africa with our representing the United States. resort hotels, for what was known as a 7-year-old son, Matthew, and an as-yet Virtually everyone I met in the offi¬ “Hash Bash.” Although the Hash certain¬ unborn son, as well as her anxiety over cial American community was extremely ly is not an official organization, the U.S. the fact that there was no high school at friendly, going out of their way to lend a embassy showed its support of it by pub¬ post for our 15-year-old daughter, Jen¬ hand. Although I’m not a particularly lishing news of it in the “Hash Trash,” a nifer, to attend. We had to em-oll her in religious individual, 1 had thought that, regular feature in the embassy’s newslet¬ boarding school in Pennsylvania for her by going to Dakar, I’d be giving up what ter. Meeting so many interesting people junior and senior years. little Jewish observance I do participate from other countries through the Hash, Some five months later, after being in. One of the surprises for me, though, many of whom we still keep in touch accepted for the assignment, completing in Dakar was how involved I became with with, was one of the more satisfying the personnel management course at the the Jewish part of my heritage. The sever¬ aspects of life at an overseas post.

26 State Of course, life at an embassy is not the danger is that the Department may son, consular officer in Vladivostok; and all fun and games. The work was extreme¬ lose a certain percentage of its Civil Ser¬ John Williams, intelligence research spe¬ ly demanding, often requiring extra hours vice staff to the Foreign Service once cialist in Moscow. to complete. I soon recognized the imme¬ they’ve had a taste of the overseas life. Most of these employees got where diate impact of my job on embassy opera¬ While my family and I are happy to be they are by answering Department Notices tions and morale, and 1 could quickly see back, close to old friends and relatives, that advertised overseas jobs which the results of my efforts. It also became the call of the exotic has been implanted couldn’t be filled by Foreign Service staff¬ clear that I could be called upon for in our hearts. Who knows if we will ers. A few were recruited by their bureaus special duty at any time of day or night. decide to heed that call again? □ because of their specialties. TOs is expected as a normal part of the The employees who responded to the job overseas, and I was happy to accom¬ notices were selected under a program modate. I discovered the importance of that places Civil Service people abroad. the “care and feeding” of my colleagues More than 25 Civil Although the program has existed since and their family members to post morale, 1983, management decided last year to and it’s a lesson I’ve carried forward to Service officers expand it by advertising more jobs. Ms. my current job on the overseas employ¬ Sprott says this expansion will help the ment programs staff in the Bureau of are overseas Department as well as the employees. Personnel. “It makes sense for management to Because I had a regional role, sup¬ More than 25 Civil Service employees tap into the talents of people who are porting our small embassies in Banjul, are now serving overseas in temporary already on board, instead of going outside The Gambia; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; and, assignments normally filled by their For¬ the Department,” she says. “And Civil Praia, Cape Verde, I visited each of those eign Service colleagues, says Jeanne Service people who work overseas gain a posts regularly and learned a lot about the Sprott, chief of the Bureau of Personnel’s real sense of what’s happening in the host countries. I also learned that, in a career development branch. Some possess field. They see firsthand how their work very small embassy, everyone, from senior special skills, such as fluency in difficult in Washington affects people at post.” American post management to the nation¬ languages or expertise in negotiating con¬ The notices for overseas slots are al staff, must wear many hats, holding tracts, and others are working in hard-to- circulated as vacancies occur, she adds. down two, three or more jobs at once. It fill positions at remote posts, according to Employees who apply are screened for seemed to me to be really demanding to Ms. Sprott. They are serving two and eligibility. “To be selected, you must have work at these very small posts, and I was three-year tours. had comparable experience in Washing¬ gratiHed to see that my advice and guid¬ Among the employees so assigned are ton,” Ms. Sprott says, explaining: “The ance contributed to improving operations William Brooks, a translator in Tokyo; program isn’t for someone who wants to there. Nazih Daher, director of the language change careers or just get out of Washing¬ Now that I’ve had time to reflect in school in Tunis; Joanne Graves, regional ton. It’s for people who’ve demonstrated Washington on my experience, I can say personnel officer in Bonn; Adrian Har- an expertise in their field.” that it was worthwhile, both personally mata, intelligence research specialist in After the employees are selected, they and professionally. On a professional lev¬ Bratislava; Jessica Holmes, attorney- undergo medical clearances and training el, the new perspective I have of life on adviser in Bonn; William Miracle, lan¬ at the National Foreign Affairs Training the other end of the cables I draft helps guage instructor in Taipei; Mark Steinitz, Center. “We try to offer them as many me to understand the issues faced by our intelligence analyst in Guatemala City; courses as possible, although posts some¬ Foreign Service overseas. I’m sure it helps James Trum, administrative officer in times need people quickly,” Ms. Sprott me to do my job better, especially to Riga; James Tyckoski, contract specialist says. The civil servants participate in a understand the importance of family em¬ in Singapore; George Witt, administrative three-week Foreign Service specialist ori¬ ployment issues to spouses of Foreign officer in Tajikistan; Ralph Johnson, con¬ entation program, where they get an over¬ Service career employees. On a personal sular officer in Georgetown; Maria Guido view of Foreign Service life, followed by level, it was gratifying to live in a culture Jones, disbursing officer in Mexico City; specialized courses in their fields. If time quite different from our own, to experi¬ Charles Slater, budget and fiscal officer in permits, they pursue area studies and ence the common humanity that binds us Freetown; Nicholas Dinkel, contract spe¬ language training. rather than the differences that can divide cialist in Bonn; Jonita Whitaker, person¬ Ms. Sprott says the employees say us. nel officer in Khartoum (who has been they gain personal benefits, in addition to The only problem with having lived evacuated to Addis Ababa); John a greater understanding of life at post. overseas is that it may have whetted our Thomas, personnel officer in Kampala; “They like being part of a mission team,” appetite for the Foreign Service life a little Valerie Kayatin, general services officer in Ms. Sprott adds. “They also enjoy work¬ too much. Although the developmental Kinshasa; Phil Anstead, budget and fiscal ing in a different culture and being ex¬ assignment program is designed to benefit officer in Barbados; Natalie Jaresko, eco¬ posed to people they might otherwise the Department by making Civil Service nomic officer in Kiev; Loretta Kennedy, never have met.” employees more aware of Foreign Service secretary in Paris; Alvomia Ashby, gener¬ For information on developmental issues while filling in staffing gaps at al services officer in Moscow; Arlette tours, contact Ms. Sprott, (202) 647- overseas posts, which it definitely does. Sulak, secretary in Vienna; Janie Peter¬ 7306. ■

December 1993 27 ASK DR. KEMP

and cold—at or below 40°F. The same is true for processed, vacuum-packed or canned products labeled “keep refrigerat¬ A. ed.” The container should feel cool to the Our ear, nose and throat consultants tell touch when removed from the package us it’s impossible to rupture your eardrum and protective wrappings. Some highly- from blowing your nose. You can, howev¬ salted smoked fish doesn’t need refrigera¬ er, in rare instances, rupture the tiny tion. capillaries, or blood vessels, in your nos¬ Baked hams, except for dry-cured trils and cause a bloody nose. When your hams, should arrive cool. Cheese child has a cold and is producing heavy shouldn’t have a mold unless it’s sup¬ This column by LaRae Kemp, M.D., nasal drainage, vigorously blowing his posed to like Roquefort. If mold has chief of the Department’s Office of Medi¬ nose may send bacteria from the nose to developed, cut it off, along with a wide cal Services, appears monthly in State. his ears and thus contribute to an ear swath of uncontaminated cheese. With a Whether you are serving overseas or at infection. So I suggest you teach your wee few simple precautions, you’ll be able to home, you are encouraged to get your one to blow gently. enjoy your gourmet holiday baskets. questions answered on these pages. Write to the editor, or to Dr. Kemp directly. In either case, your privacy will be respected; your post will not be identified. Q. Q. We’re back in the United States after How will the Clinton health care plan seven years and three posts, and are affect Foreign Service personnel md their amazed at the number of folks wearing families? Q. bicycle helmets. Is it mandatory now? During the holidays, we often receive mail-order food gifts. Since some of these foods (hams, fish, cheeses) are perishable, A. how can you be certain they’re safe when A. It’s too early to provide specifics, but There’ve been terrific technological ad¬ you pick them up at the A.P.O. or pouch we’re keeping up with the various propos¬ vances in the past years, and today’s room? als being discussed. As a Foreign Service helmets are less heavy and bulky, more employee, you’re probably interested in affordable, comfortable and effective. Ex¬ this specific question. “Will my insurance perts recommend that everyone wear hel¬ cover me when I’m overseas?” I’m confi¬ A. mets—riders of all ages. The National dent that any policy the Department of¬ Holiday gifts of foodstuffs are a billion- Head Injury Foundation tells me that fers its Foreign Service employees will dollar industry, with most companies us¬ head injuries and trauma account for a provide overseas coverage. The Office of ing sophisticated packaging systems to third of the deaths resulting from bicycle Medical Services will continue to operate a keep food products from spoiling. People accidents. program that provides its employees and who receive questionable food sometimes In some jurisdictions, it’s mandatory their dependents access to health care just throw them out without checking. for children to wear helmets when biking, wherever they’re assigned. Employees will Obviously, if a pungent odor emanates and the American Academy of Pediatrics use their health insurance when possible, from the parcel, that is the correct action. strongly endorses the use of helmets at all and the Office of Medical Services will However, most companies have customer- times for children. Helmets should be negotiate with overseas health-care provid¬ service telephone numbers and money- adjusted for a snug fit, touching the head ers to accept U.S. insurance payments. back guarantees. It might be worth a on top and all sides. And with children, We’re keeping abreast of plans as they’re phone call or a letter before you discard a you should remember that, as they grow, formulated and, when specifics are avail¬ questionable item. The U.S. Department they may need to be refitted with a new able, we’ll apprise you of them. of Agriculture’s meat and poultry hotline, helmet. Bicycling is a great way to exercise 800-535-4555, has valuable information, and enjoy the outdoors, but do be sure to but probably it’s not feasible for you to wear your helmet all the time. call from overseas. Here are some useful recommendations from our environmental Q. health staff. Agriculture and the market¬ Why is there so much emphasis on T.B. ing experts: Q. skin testing in the Office of Medical When you receive a gift that was Our pre-schooler tends to blow his nose Services and at overseas posts? I don’t shipped frozen, the meat, poultry or fish vigorously when he has a cold. Cm he recall being tested during previous exams I should arrive frozen or at least hard in the rupture m eardrum when he blows his had in the early ’80s. Is this something middle. If never frozen, it should be firm nose? new?

28 STATE ria is a key element of our health pro¬ gram. In general, T.B. skin-testing is car¬ How to enjoy the season overseas ried out at the time of a physical examination undertaken to determine a By Rita Siebenaler So instead of trying to duplicate your medical clearance. In some instances, dream of a perfect holiday season, make a when there is great risk of exposure to The author is a clinical social worker dramatic departure. Sticking with old fa¬ tuberculosis, screening is carried out annu¬ in the Office of Medical Services’ Em¬ miliar rituals may give comfort to some, ally. ployee Consultation Service. but might only encourage others to focus A tuberculin skin test indicates possi¬ on who or what is missing. Consider ble infection with a tuberculosis organism. getting together a group of others in the If you have a positive reaction (an elevat¬ The holiday season can be a time of same boat as you for a potluck meal and ed, hardened area on the forearm), it goodwill, nostalgia and family together¬ an afternoon of games, or escape to a indicates T.B. bacteria have entered your ness. But for many, the holidays can be resort for an alternative holiday celebra¬ body at some point in your life. It doesn’t lonely and dreadful. You may be separat¬ tion with others who are far from home. mean that you have an active infection or ed from your family and friends, in a new that you can infect others. Oftentimes, Some have found that, by freeing community far from your special relation¬ medication is prescribed at the time it’s themselves from the pressure to have a ships. You may find the season stressful, determined you’re infected, in order to “perfect” holiday, they actually enjoy the due to added responsibilities or unrealistic prevent the occurrence of active tuberculo¬ season more than expected. expectations. Anytime you add extra re¬ sis later in life. sponsibilities to a busy schedule without As always when undergoing a stress¬ A reminder: tuberculosis is usually adjusting it accordingly, you add stress. ful period, follow these tried and true hard to catch. The T.B. bug is spread by Still, many people in the Foreign maxims for reducing stress: increase the invisible airborne particles that spread Service enhance their enjoyment of the number of your relaxation breaks; in¬ when a person with an active case coughs, season overseas by taking advantage of crease your exercise; decrease consump¬ sneezes, spits or speaks. T.B. is not spread the opportunity to free themselves from tion of alcohol, caffeine and nicotine; by handling the infected person’s belong¬ tradition by substituting a more casual decrease empty calories; be kind to your¬ ings, desk materials or using the same and relaxed new holiday plan. self; and limit financial overextension. □ eating implements. It’s transmitted over a period of prolonged, close contact. Our T.B. skin testing program is a keystone of change in the health-care infrastructure our preventive medicine program. I en¬ A. and increase in the number of cases courage you to continue to have the T.B. Since 1984 there’s been a significant in¬ among foreign-bom persons. The recent skin test (called a P.P.D. test for adults, a crease in reported cases of tuberculosis emergence of dmg-resistance T.B. also Tine test for children) when recommended (T.B.) in the United States; the incidence has become a serious national concern. It by your health-care professional, and to is reported to be an increase of 18%. The logically follows that prevention of active ensure that the results of your test are excess number of cases is due to many T.B. by screening people to determine if correctly recorded in your yellow immuni¬ factors, including the H.I.V. epidemic, a they have bwn infected by the T.B. bacte¬ zation record. ■

QUITO, Ecuador—At nurses’ confer- Estrada (Lima), Maria Fernandez (Asuncion), Irene Gomezjurado (Guayaquil), Sheila ence, from left; Candace Moore of the em- Doreen Doyle (Quito), Adriana Calvo- Clancy (Buenos Aires), Bety Olmedo (Quito), bassy here, who organized the event; Connie Palenque (La Paz), Grace Marillo (Bogota), Kathy Pray (Brasilia).

December 1993 29 EDUCATION & TRAINING

Courses: National Foreign Affairs Training Center Administrative Program Dec. Jan. Feb. Length seminar is set AREA STUDIES: INTENSIVE COURSES Canada (AR 129) 7 2 1/2 days for next year Africa, sub-Sahara (AR 210) — 31 — 2 weeks East Asia (AR 220) — 31 — 2 weeks The National Foreign Affairs Train¬ Latin America/Caribbean (AR 230) — 31 — 2 weeks ing Center will offer a three-part adminis¬ Pacific islands (AR 238) 7 — — 2 1/2 days trative officer seminar, January 10-15, Near East/North Africa (AR 240) — 31 — 2 weeks February 14-18 and March 21-25, for South Asia (AR 260) — 31 — 2 weeks administrative officers at GS-12 or FS-03 Southeast Asia (AR 270) — 31 — 2 weeks and above in Washington. Successor states to the Soviet Union (AR 280) — 31 — 2 weeks Europe (AR 290) — 31 — 2 weeks Participants will learn “who’s who and what’s what’’ in the Department; how AREA STUDIES: ADVANCED COURSES to conduct a management controls review; Andean (AR 533) These courses are integrated with Arabian Peninisula/Gutf (AR 541) the corresponding languages and how to manage conflict and change in the Balkans (AR 583) are scheduled weekly for three office; edit the work of others; work with Baltic states (AR 584) hours. Starting dates correspond both the Civil and Foreign Service person¬ Benelux (Netherlands) (AR 595) with language starting dates. nel systems; and acquire the basics of Brazil (AR 535) budgeting, personnel and procurement re¬ The Carribean (AR 538) source systems. Emphasis will be on prac¬ Central America (AR 539) tical exercises, role-playing and coaching Central Asia (AR 586) from peers and instructors. About 20 China (AR 521) Eastern Africa (AR 511) hours of reading is required prior to the Fertile Crescent (AR 542) first class. Francophone Africa (AR 513) Applicants should send Form DS- Francophone east/central Africa (AR 517) 755, “Request for Training,’’ with a brief Francophone west Africa (AR 516) endorsement by their supervisors, to Of¬ French-speaking Europe (AR 592) fice of the Registrar, F Building, SA-42. German-speaking Europe (AR 593) For information, contact Sarah See Siegel, Greece/Cyprus (AR 589) (703) 302-6978. □ Haiti (AR 536) Hungry, Czechoslovakia (AR 582) Iberia (AR 591) Indonesia (AR 571) Italy (AR 594) GRIEVANCE Japan (AR 522) Korea (AR 523) ACTIONS Lusophone west Africa (AR 514) Malaysia (AR 575) The articles in this section are sum¬ Mexico (AR 531) maries of Foreign Service Grievance Mongolia (AR 524) Board decisions, in cases brought by em¬ Netherlands (AR 595) ployees of State, A.I.D. and U.S.I.A. The Northern Africa (AR 515) board, in issuing the summaries, has tak¬ The Philippines (AR 574) en care to protect the identity of grievants. Poland (AR 587) For example, the employing agency and Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (AR 581) Scandinavia (Nordic countries) (AR 596) overseas posts are not identified except South Asia (AR 560) where sense demands it. Also, as a rule, South Caucasus (AR 585) only the masculine pronoun is used. The Southern Cone (AR 534) numbers are sequential, assigned to each Southern Africa (AR 512) case as it was received. □ Thailand, Burma, Laos (AR 572) Turkey (AR 543) Vietnam/Combodia (AR 573) Time-in-class LANGUAGE AND ADVANCED AREA COURSES Afrikaans (LAA 100) 14 23 weeks Albania (LAB 100) 14 23 weeks appeal fails Amharic (LAC 100) 14 23 weeks G-002(9)—The grievant was sched¬ Arabic (modern standard) (LAD 100) 14 23 weeks uled to be mandatorily retired for expira- —(Continued on next pege) —(Continued on next page)

30 State tion of time-in-class when he submitted Program Dec. Jan. Feb. Length his. grievance to his agency. He claimed that (1) the agency improperly limited him Arabic (Egyptian) (LAE 100) — — 14 23 weeks Arabic (western) (LOW 100) — — to a one-time option to compete for 14 23 weeks Armenian (LRE 100) — — 14 23 weeks promotion into the Senior Foreign Ser¬ Azerbaijani (LAX 100) — — 14 23 weeks vice; (2) it failed to notify him in writing Bengali (LBN 100) — — 14 23 weeks as soon as his retirement date was set; and Bulgarian (LBU 100) — — 14 23 weeks (3) agency procedural errors in his termi¬ Burmese (LBY 100) — — 14 23 weeks nation and proposed conversion to the Byelorussian (LBL 100) — — 14 23 weeks Civil Service deprived him of employment Chinese (Cantonese) (LCC 100) — — 14 23 weeks rights. As remedy, he requested the board Chinese (standard) (LCM 100) — — 14 23 weeks — to extend his time to permit efficient Croatian — 14 23 weeks Danish (LDA 100) — — 14 processing of his retirement from the Ser¬ 23 weeks Dutch/Flemish (LDU 100) — — 14 23 weeks vice and conversion to the Civil Service. Estonian (LES 100) — — 14 23 weeks The board found that the grievant Finnish (LFJ 100) — — 14 23 weeks withdrew his candidacy for the senior French (LFR 100) 3 — 14 24 weeks service, then sought to again compete for Georgian (LGG 100) — — 14 23 weeks entry. It pointed out that the agency had German (LGM 100) — — 14 24 weeks acted properly because Section 601(c)(1) Greek (LGR 100) — — 14 24 weeks of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 pre¬ Hebrew (LHE 100) — — 14 23 weeks cludes a member from again competing Hindi (LHJ 100) — — 14 23 weeks Hungarian (LHU 100) — — 14 23 weeks for the senior service after withdrawing a Icelandic (UC 100) — — 14 23 weeks previous request to compete. The board Indonesian (UN 100) — — 14 23 weeks stated that the grievant had been informed Italian (UT 100) — — 14 24 weeks orally more than a year before the date he Japanese (UA 100) — — 14 23 weeks left the Service that he would be mandato- Kazakh (LKE 100) — — 14 23 weeks rily retired, and that he was subsequently Korean (LKP 100) — — 14 23 weeks rehired in the Civil Service without a Khmer (LCA 100) — — 14 23 weeks break in employment. It found that the Kyrgyz (LKM 100) — — 14 23 weeks grievant had not shown that he had been Lao (LLC 100) — — 14 23 weeks Latvian (LLE 100) — — 14 23 weeks harmed in any way in the process. Lithuanian (LLT 100) — — 14 23 weeks The board also dismissed the grie- Malay (LML 100) — — 14 23 weeks vant’s complaints about alleged agency Nepali/Nepalese (LNE 100) — — 14 23 weeks errors in processing him for Civil Service Norwegian (LNR 100) — — 14 23 weeks employment. It stated that it had no Persian/Dari (LPG 100) — — 14 23 weeks authority to become involved in the grie- Persian/Farsi (LPF 100) — — 14 23 weeks vant’s negotiations with his agency on his Polish (LPL 100) — — 14 23 weeks future employment status outside of the Portuguese (LPY 100) — — 14 24 weeks Portuguese (European) (LPY 101) — — 14 24 weeks Foreign Service. □ Romanian (LRQ 100) — — 14 23 weeks Russian (LRU 100) — — 14 23 weeks Russian (advanced) (LRU 101) — — 14 23 weeks Both rater, rated Serbian — — 14 23 weeks Singhalese (LSJ 100) — — 14 23 weeks Slovak (LSK 100) — — 14 23 weeks lacked patience, Spanish (LQB 100) — 3 14 24 weeks Swahili/Kiswahili (LSW 100) — — 14 23 weeks board finds Swedish (LSY 100) — — 14 23 weeks Tagalog/Pilipino (LTA 100) — — 14 23 weeks G-010(7)—The grievant complained Tajik (LTB 100) — — 14 23 weeks of two evalution reports which he said Thai (LTH 100) — — 14 23 weeks — — 14 23 weeks had cost him promotion and the extension Turkish (LTU 100) Turkmen (LUB 100) — — 14 23 weeks of his overseas assignment, and had de¬ Ukrainian (LUK 100) — — 14 23 weeks layed his tenuring. Urdu (LUR 100) — — 14 23 weeks The board found that the first of the Uzbek (LUX 100) — — 14 23 weeks two ratings lacked explanatory detail, and Vietnamese (LVS 100) — — 14 23 weeks made only perfunctory references to the FAMILIARIZATION AND SHORT-TERM (FAST) COURSES grievant’s achievements. After a selection Albanian (LAB 200) — _ 14 8 weeks board had criticized the report as “super —(Continued on next page) —(Continued on next page)

December 1993 31 EDUCATION AND TRAINING / GRIEVANCE ACTIONS

—(Continued from preceding page) —(Continued from preceding page) ficial” and “inadequate,” the rater and Program Dec. Jan. Feb. Length reviewer had revised it; they expanded on Arabic (modern standard) (LAD 200) — — 14 8 weeks their criticism without crediting accom¬ Arabic (Egyptian) (LAE 200) — — 14 8 weeks plishments. Their evaluation contrasted Arabic (North Africa) (LOW 200) — — 14 8 weeks with affidavits submitted by the grievant — — 14 Armenian (LRE 200) 8 weeks which revealed considerable appreciation Azerbaijani (LAX 200) — — 14 8 weeks for his work on the part of Washington Bengali (LBN 200) — — 14 8 weeks end-users. Bulgarian (LBU 200) — — 14 8 weeks Chinese (LCM 200) — — 14 8 weeks The board perceived evident strain Estonian (LES 200) — — 14 8 weeks between the grievant and his Washington French (LFR 200) — — 14 8 weeks supervisor. It said that tact and patience Georgian (LGG 200) — — 14 8 weeks were not the grievant’s strong suits, and German (LGM 200) — — 14 8 weeks that his testiness nurtured his communica¬ — Hindi (LHJ 200) — 14 8 weeks tions problems with the Washington of¬ — — 14 6 weeks Icelandic (UC 200) fice, but that patience was not the stron¬ Indonesian (UN 200) — — 14 8 weeks gest suit of his rater either. The grievant’s Italian (UT 200) — — 14 8 weeks propensity to complain was a key strand Japanese (UA 200) — — 14 8 weeks Kazakh (LKE 200) — — 14 8 weeks in the negative evaluation, but the board Korean (LKP 200) — — 14 8 weeks found a sound basis for many of his Kyrgyz (LKM 200) — — 14 8 weeks complaints. The omission of a mid-period Latvian (LLE 200) — — 14 8 weeks review was considered a significant con¬ Lithuanian (LLT 200) — — 14 8 weeks tributing factor in the report’s flaws. The Malay (LML 200) — — 14 8 weeks board judged that the frequent, brief — — 14 6 weeks Norwegian (LNR 200) comments on performance that come in Polish (LPL 200) — — 14 8 weeks the course of day-to-day supervision are Portuguese (LPY 200) — — 14 8 weeks too episodic and fragmented to substitute Romanian (LRQ 200) — — 14 8 weeks Russian (LRU 200) — 10 — 8 weeks for a comprehensive mid-period review. It Serbo-Croatian (LSC 200) — — 14 8 weeks directed that the report be expunged. Slovak (LSK 200) — — 14 8 weeks The second rating was found accept¬ Spanish (LQB 200) — — 14 8 weeks able except for one comment by the re¬ Tajik (LTB 200) — — 14 8 weeks viewing officer, which the board judged Thai (LTH 200) — — 14 8 weeks too speculative to be fair in an evaluation, Urdu (LUR 200) 14 8 weeks — — and deleted it. EARLY-MORNING LANGUAGE COURSES The board was convinced that, ab¬ Arabic (modern standard) (LAD 300) 28 17 weeks sent the errors, the grievant would have Chinese (standard) (LCM 300) — — 28 17 weeks been promoted the year of the second French (LFR 300) — — 28 17 weeks report, and recommended that a promo¬ German (LGM 300) — — 28 17 weeks tion take effect retroactively. It was not Italian (UT 300) — — 28 17 weeks persuaded that he would have been te¬ Japanese (UA 300) — — 28 17 weeks nured any earlier. It said the fact that his Portuguese (Brazilian 300) — — 28 17 weeks Russian (LRU 300) — — 28 17 weeks overseas assignment was not extended was

Spanish (LQB 300) — — 28 17 weeks not grievable, since there was no evidence that it violated law or regulation. □ ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING Budget and financial management (PA 211) 21 6 weeks C.F.M.S. budget execution (PA 151) (prerequisite PA 150) — 24 2 days C.F.M.S. financial planning (PA 152) (prerequisite Family held not PA 150) 28 1 day C.F.M.S. miscellaneous obligations (PA 154) to be entitled (prerequisite PA 150) 26 2 days C.F.M.S. requisition documents (PA 153) (pre¬ to per diem requisite: PA 150) _ 20 2 days C.F.M.S. system overview and orientation (PA G-0I6(9)—The grievant complained 150) 11 1 day that he was unfairly deprived of per diem — 12 — 1 day for his family while he was in extended C.F.M.S. travel orders (PA 155) (prerequisite 150) — 13 — 2 days training in Washington. He maintained C.O.R. training for construction projects (PA 125) — 26 — 3 days Customer service (PA 143) 2 — 24 2 days that the per diem was due him on the basis of what he was told prior to joining

32 State the Service and the information received Program Dec. Jan. Feb. Length in his pre-employment package. He ex¬ plained that, when he finally arrived at his Domestic administrative officers (PA 160) _ 10 _ 3 weeks F.S.N. classification and compensation (PA 232) — — first overseas post and submitted his travel 24 2 weeks General sen/ices operations (PA 221) 13 3 7 12 weeks vouchers, more than $2,000 in per diem — 10 14 12 weeks for his family was disallowed, and he was — — 21 12 weeks reimbursed only for the five-day period — — 28 12 weeks his family was with him in Washington How F.A.A.S. works at overseas posts (PA 213) — — 9 3 days during his consultation. How to be a certifying officer (PA 291) Correspondence course The grievant stated that his orders How to be a contracting officer’s representative did not permit the shipment of his house¬ (PA 130) Correspondence course hold effects to Washington, and it was his How to write a statement of work (PA 134) Correspondence course understanding they allowed him and his Management controls workshop (PA 137) — 10 23 3 days family to travel to Washington where Overseas cashier training (PA 293) Correspondence course Overseas cashier’s supervisor’s training (PA 294) Correspondence course actual living costs would be defrayed. He Payroll clerk training (PA 145) — — 14 4 days also contended that other members in his Personnel course (PA 231) — 3 28 7 weeks class were allowed per diem for their Property management training for custodial offic- families while they were in training. ers (PA 135) — — 3 2 days The board denied the grievance. It Training for overseas voucher examiners (PA 200) Correspondence course explained that the record showed there CONSULAR TRAINING was nothing in the material sent to the Advanced consular course (PC 532) 10 3 weeks grievant before he entered the Service to ConGenRosslyn basic consular course (PC 530) Continuous enrollment; 26 days lead him to believe his family was entitled Consular orientation program (PC 105) Continuous enrollment; 6 days to any per diem other than for the five Immigration law and visa operations (PC 102) Correspondence course days wher he was on consultation. More Nationality law and consular procedures (PC 103) Correspondence course importantly, his travel orders also made Overseas citizens services (PC 104) Correspondence course this clear. Although the grievant believed Passport examiners (PC 110) Correspondence course that his family expenses for the training CURRICULUM AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT TRAINING period would be reimbursed, and he kept Basic facilitation and delivery workshop (PD 513) — — 16 3 days careful records of these costs, the griev¬ Design and evaluation workshop (PD 511) 8 — — 3 days ance board agreed with the agency that he ECONOMIC TRAINING had the responsibility to determine what Economic tradecraft (PE 124) 18 2 weeks reimbursements he was entitled to under Export promotion (PE 125) — 31 — 1 week agency regulations and policy, even EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT though he was new to the agency. The E.E.O. awareness for managers and supervisors grievance board noted that during his (PT 107) 9 — — 2 days lengthy period of training he drew travel Effective public speaking (PT 113) — — 16 2 days advances, but never sought clarification Foreign affairs leadership seminar (PT 119) — 30 — 2.2 weeks from any responsible person about his Introduction to management skills (PT 207) — 10 — 4 days family’s per diem. The grievance board Performance management seminar (PT 205) 1 2 days also checked the sanitized records of other Supervision for the experienced supervisor trainees in the class and found that none (PT 121) — 20 — 3 1/2 days of them received per diem for their fami¬ Washington tradecraft (PT 203) — — 21 2 weeks lies for the period of training. □ INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TRAINING Introduction to Lotus 1-2-3 (PS 118) 10 2 days Introduction to PC and MS DOS (PS 111) — — 7 3 days OFFICE MANAGEMENT COURSES Grievant loses Advanced WP (PK 154) 2 — 16 2 days Basic WP+ (PK 155) 7 20 8 2 days home leave case Better office English (oral) (PK 226) — 24 — 30 hours Better office English (written) (PK 225) 13 — 7 40 hours Civil service secretarial training for entering per¬ G-029(9)—The grievant complained sonnel (C.S.-step) (PK 104) — — 11 11 days that his home leave was unjustifiably and Drafting correspondence (PK 159) — — 22 1 week arbitrarily restricted in previous years. He Employee relations (PK 246) — 20 — 2 days explained that he agreed to a direct trans¬ Glossary (PK 151) 9 — 10 1 day 13 1 2 days fer and deferred his leave, only to be told Introduction to Word Perfect 5.1 (PK 510) 13 Mid-level Foreign Sen/ice secretarial (PK 302) 24 — 2 weeks later that he could not use more than sbc — —(Continued on next page) —{Continued on next pege)

December 1993 33 EDUCATION AND TRAINING / GRIEVANCE ACTIONS

weeks of his accumulated home leave. that the annual leave he used when his vice. The board also found that neither Further, when he was subsequently trans- home leave was restricted be restored. law nor regulation permit the transfer of fered to Washington, he was informed The board denied the grievance, stat¬ home leave to annual leave. □ that he was not eligible for home leave ing that the record showed that the grie- because he had not served abroad for 18 vant’s direct transfer was required by the months since his last home leave. He needs of the Service. It stated that the maintained that the direct transfer which regulations require that a minimum of 20 Junior officer altered his home leave schedule was un¬ days’ home leave be granted and that, necessary and the later decision to limit while up to 45 days may be authorized, an denied extension his leave was arbitrary. As remedy he agency may use its discretion when grant¬ asked that his unused home leave be ing more than a minimum, taking into as candidate transferred to his annual leave account, or consideration the needs of the Ser¬ G-053(8)—T)\e grievant, a Foreign —{Continued from preceding page) Service career candidate, complained that his junior-officer rotational program dur¬ Program Dec. Jan. Feb. Length ing his first overseas assignment had been mismanaged, and that three of his perfor¬ Proofreading (PK 143) — 13 — 2 days mance evaluations for this period were State Department knowledge, information and — — 7 1 week learning for secretaries (PK 132) falsely prejudicial. As remedy, he asked Supervisory studies seminar (PK 245) — 10 — 4 days that two of the reports be expunged from T.A.T.E.L. (PK 140) 1 11 3 1 day his file and certain statements be deleted Wang office (PK 161) — 19 — 1 day from the third evaluation. He also re¬ WP+ transition (PK 153) — 12 — 1 day quested that his scheduled separation Writing effective letters and memos (PK 241) — 10 — 1 week from the Service be suspended, and that ORIENTATION he be granted another year as a career candidate to permit two additional reviews Department officers (PN 105) — 11 8 3 days Foreign Service officers (PG 101) — 3 — 9 weeks by the Commissioning and Tenure Board. Foreign Service specialists (PN 106) — 13 — 17 days The grievance board found that the Designated posts (PN 112) — 4 — 4 days record proceeding in this case showed that — 27 — 2 days the grievant was intelligent and hard¬ — — 10 2 days working, but that he consistently failed to — — 24 2 days meet deadlines in completing his work OVERSEAS BREIFING CENTER* assignments, that he did not always follow American studies (MO 115) 9 — — 2 days through and that he caused problems by Documenting Foreign Service experiences acting on this own without first informing (MO 701) — 19 19 1 day his supervisors. The board found that the English teaching (MO 107) — — 9 3 days grievant’s submissions had concentrated Introduction to effective training skills for the on the personalities and circumstances he Foreign Service spouse (MO 111) — 24 — 1 week encountered at the time his work perfor¬ Introduction to Foreign Service life (MO 100) — — 14 1 week mance was criticized, but he had not Life after the Foreign Service (MO 600) — — 1 2 days shown by convincing evidence that the Marketing Foreign Service spouse talents criticisms as reflected in the three reports (MO 702) — 20 — 1 day were inaccurate, unfounded or falsely Post options for employment and training over- prejudicial. The grievance was denied. ■ seas (MO 703) — 18 — 1 day Protocol (MO 116) 8 — — 1 day Security overseas seminar (MO 911) 6 10 14 2 days — 24 28 2 days Tax seminar (MO 117) — — 25 1 day Use it or lose it Understanding regulations, allowances and 12 3 days finances in the Foreign Service context (MO 104) Employees and supervisors were re¬ * Advance Te^tratUm required for all courses minded in an October 14 Department Notice that they should consider schedul¬ POLITICAL TRAINING ing annual leave that may otherwise be Foreign affairs interdepartment seminar (PP 101) — 24 — 2 weeks forfeited. The leave year ends January 8. Intelligence and foreign policy (PP 212) — — 21 3 days Both management and employees have Multilateral diplomacy (PP 211) — — 7 3 days responsibility for scheduling leave to avoid Political tradecraft (PP 202) — 3 — 3 weeks ■ forfeiture the notice said. □

34 State RETIREES’ CORNER

equipment, the Career Transition Center’s that most positions are filled through ‘Buyout’ status personal computer training center proved networking. Those who have been success¬ to be very popular. The addition of 10 ful in making the transition to a second is uncertain as new terminals improved the situation. We career may be able to advise new retirees expect to have state-of-the-art computers and point them toward job opportunities. recess nears at each work station for the next job search class, which starts January 31. As of mid-November, Congress still Several members of the October class Regional groups was considering the administration’s pro¬ already have negotiated future jobs. These posals for a Government-wide $25,000 include director for English-teaching pro¬ Some Foreign Service retirees may be “buyout” to encourage early retirements. grams for foreign students, personal unaware of the existence of regional retir¬ Most of those contemplating retiring soon awareness counselor for a nonprofit or¬ ee organizations. On file are addresses and understandably seemed to put their plans ganization, part-time work in the Depart¬ names of contact persons for 10 retiree on hold pending clarification of the situa¬ ment’s Medical Division, computer com¬ organizations in central and northern Ari¬ tion. If Congress gives early approval, we pany senior systems engineer and vice zona, southern Arizona, northern Califor¬ expect the 90-day “window” to take ad¬ president or an A.I.D. contract in one of nia, southern California, Florida, Minne¬ vantage of the buyout to be somewhere the new states of the former Soviet Union. sota and Wisconsin, New England, New toward the end of this month to late Another participant is lining up profes¬ Mexico, central North Carolina and the March. Some categories of both Foreign sional singing engagements. Job offers state of Washington. If other such organi¬ Service and Civil Service employees with seemed very close for a regional director zations exist, or if there have been chang¬ highly-specialized skills may be ineligible for a contract in Kiev, Pennsylvania Den¬ es in contact persons or addresses, the for the buyout due to the difficulty in tal Association executive director, a posi¬ Retirement Division (Room 1251 Main recruiting replacements. Some positions tion with the Conservation of Natural State, (202) 647-9315) or the Career Tran¬ will be abolished in the wake of the Resources in Jamaica program and direc¬ sition Center would appreciate being noti¬ buyout, and some temporary vacancies tor of the Fulbright Commission in Ger¬ fied. Any regional organization wishing to are bound to occur. many. publicize the name and address of its Each senior retirement will have to be Plans of others include returning to contact person should write in. approved by the agency head, according school to study jazz, a trip to Mexico to to the draft legislation. (At State, this will evaluate export/import business prospects Annuity checks apply to the Senior Foreign Service as well and full-time work on a book to be as the Senior Executive Service.) We have published next year. Still others are inves¬ no basis on which to make accurate pre¬ tigating small-business prospects, includ¬ Retirees and survivor annuitants are dictions of the extent to which employees ing low-cost housing, diamond importing reminded not to be surprised if their will take advantage of the buyout offer. and selling antiques. Most State Depart¬ annuity checks due on February 1 are Some Foreign Service personnel seem in¬ ment Foreign Service members of the slightly lower than in the preceding hibited by the provision in the draft legis¬ October class are joining the Foreign Af¬ month. Health insurance premiums are lation prohibiting U.S. Government reem¬ fairs Reserve Corps, which now includes adjusted in the annuity payment dated ployment for two or more years after over 400 annuitants. Another 130 are February 1, and most insurance premiums accepting a voluntary separation incentive awaiting updating or renewal of their will be increasing moderately next year. (i.e., “buyout”). Many former Foreign security clearances. Hopefully, the difference in health premi¬ Service employees, especially those settled um payments will be compensated for, in the Washington area, work part-time at Stay in touch and at least a small increase in the total the Department or on temporary assign¬ annuity will appear in the April 1 checks, ments abroad. when the annual cost-of-living increase We encourage retirees to remain in (delayed for three months by Congress) Job search scene touch. Retired foreign affairs people often kicks in. Those who retired under the are important sources of information on “old” Foreign Service and Civil Service employment opportunities for retirees re¬ retirement plans will receive a 2.6% raise After the addition of one late arrival, entering the job market. Surveys show in April. Those who retired under the a total of 72 participants comprised the “new” Foreign Service and Civil Service October job search class, which finished plans will receive a 2% increase on the its four weeks of intensive training on The material in this new s^tion is “new” portion of their annuity, and the October 29. The class included 15 A.I.D. contributed by the Office of Retirement same 2.6% on the “old” part (if any). employees and 17 from U.S.I.A. The and Career Transition. Suggestions for Anyone whose annuity began on or after remaining 40 are retiring from State (34 what might be included should be ad¬ January 1, 1993, will receive a prorated Foreign Service, 6 Civil Service). The Oc¬ dressed to the Career Transition Center, cost-of-living raise equal to 1/12 for each tober class was the same size as the July, 3330 North Washington Boulevard, Suite month in which annuity was payable be¬ which was the largest since the job search 350, Arlington, Va. 22201. Or telephone fore December 1, 1993. program began nearly 10 years ago. Al¬ (703) 235-4240. though somewhat cramped due to lack of —(Continued on Page 69)

December 1993 35 ^rnmmmmk

SURABAYA

This consulate general, in the second- largest city in Indonesia, is on Java, one of the 3,000 islands in this archipelago nation northwest of Australia. U.S. For¬ eign Service people there are featured as part of STATE’S continuing series.

1 Consular officer Ed Fendley, left, with men at an apple orchard.

Consul general Peter Spalding atop Mt. Rinjani, the second highest mountain in Indonesia.

A street scene in Yogyakarta.

December 1993 POST OF THE MONTH: SURABAYA

38 State Marlene Hurley, wife of public affairs officer Mike Hurley, with orangutangs in Kalimantan, formerly Borneo.

A becak, the local means of transporta¬ tion.

Guard chief Pak Halim, second row, center, with consulate staffers at his retire¬ ment ceremony.

December 1993 POST OF THE MONTH: SURABAYA

Consul general Peter Spalding, second from left, with Javanese men at a waterfall Carole Spalding, wife of the consul gen- that allegedly restores youth. economic officer Richard Me- Crensky, shopping for antiques. (W

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Consul general Peter Spalding, seated, center, and wife Carole at ceremony marking the 700th anniversary of Surabaya’s found¬ ing, with consuls from other nations, seated, and a delegation from Seattle, standing. A volcano in East Java.

40 State 1

Cashier Pak Suky, center, “Employee of the Month,” with administrative and consu¬ lar officer Matt Johnson, left, and consul A Javanese statue. general Peter Spalding.

Economic officer Andy Rothman, with wife Robin, receives Meritorious Honor Award from consul general Peter Spalding.

Economic officer Richard McCrensky, right, at a Bali temple. ■

December 1993 41 CIVIL SERVICE PERSONNEL

Promotions Chief Financial Officer, Services Foreign Buildings, Real Vendor Claims Barcas, Catherine H., Bureau of Estate Division Martin, Suzanne, Office of Administration, Personnel Mazza, Joseph P., Language GG-14 Inspector General Management Services, Translating Kirschner, Bruce A., Parris, Lisa G., Office of Foreign Cole, Bernadette S., Bureau of Van Buskirk, Michael J., International Joint Buildings, Building Design Administration, Personnel Diplomatic Security, Commission and Engineering Management Protective Liaison Division Rogers, Sharon E., Economic Sepucha, Laura E., GM-13 and Business Affairs, Politico-Military Affairs Frechette, Alicia A., Bureau of Developed Country Trade Shelton, Theran J., Diplomatic Personnel Division Security, Applicant Appointments Shire, Jacqueline W., Smith, Elizabeth A., Andean Investigation Section Affairs Stewart, Joan E., Visa Services Politico-Military Affairs Anders, Gerald D., Bureau of Swain, Durron C., Miami Taylor, Linda A., Office of Small Administration Passport Agency and Disadvantaged Business Aronsohn, Paul Stuart, GM-14 Utilization Staub, Terri L., Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Yee, Carolyn B., Bureau of Administration, Data/Voice GS-7 Office of Assistant Secretary Public Affairs, Office of Telecommunications Bohannon, Lisa R., Houston Chitre, Nanda, Politico-Military Historian Velazquez, Daisy Marie, Office Passport Agency Affairs, Office of Assistant of Foreign Buildings, Bullock, Imogene, Passport Secretary Contractors Branch Services GS-12 Day, Evelyn M., Office of Equal White, Victor A., Diplomatic Coleman, Alisa, Intelligence and Bottom, Angela Marie, Office of Employment Opportunity Telecommunications Service Research, Office of the Geographer and Civil Rights Economic Analysis Geyer, David C., Bureau of Dillery, C. Edward, Office of GM-15 Gombis, Albert T., West African Public Affairs, Office of Under Secretary for Affairs Historian Bird, Judith Ann, Intelligence Management Malcolm, Diane A., Seattle Harms, John C., Intelligence and and Research, Office of Ely, Helen Karen, Language Passport Agency Research, Office of Terrorism and Narcotics Services, Translating Redmond, Saynora D., Citizens Executive Director Collins, Patrick W., Office of Evans,' Bennie M., Passport Consular Services, European Henderson, Tracy L., European Foreign Buildings, Services Services Division Affairs, Budget Branch Architectural Branch Garofano, Michael P., Consular Rooney, Erin E., Family Liaison Hensley, Joan B., Office of Chief Retherford Jr., Robert M., Office Affairs, National Passport Office Financial Officer, Systems of Foreign Buildings, Operations Support Branch European and Canadian Harris, Martha Caldwell, Hite, John M., Office of Foreign Area GS-8 Politico-Military Affairs, Buildings, Contracts Branch Sheedy, Thomas Brian, Office of Catlin Jr., Robert J., Bureau of Office of Assistant Secretary East Foreign Buildings, Near East Administration, Classified Kouts, Jodi Lynn, Passport Keen, Erica A., Office of and South Asian Area Pouch and Mail Branch Services Coordinator for Population Silver Jr., Ezel, Office of Foreign Lyles, Wanda Maria, Office of Manatt, Michele Anne, Affairs Buildings, Latin America Overseas Schools Inter-American Affairs, Minor, Gwendolyn E., Area Mayo, iris J., Southern European Office of Assistant Secretary Affairs Intelligence and Research, Massie, Brian D., Economic and Pemell, Delores H., Visa Services Office of Intelligence Liaison Business Affairs, Office of GS-4 Mounts, Jeffrey C., Office of Executive Director Burton, Karen A., Passport Chief Financial Officer, GS-9 McElroy, Larry L., Bureau of Services Financial System Administration, Information Evans, Julia A., Bureau of Requirements Management, Domestic Administration, Information GS-5 Robinson, Juanita M., Bureau of Installations Branch Management, Personnel Abbey Jr., Jose Tyrone, Passport Administration, Office of Moten Jr., William G., Passport Management ^rvices Freedom of Information Services Herd, Beverly N., Diplomatic Deaner, Nicole A., Bureau of Robinson, Vernon M., Beltsville Smith, Terri L., Passport Services Security, Global Support Public Affairs, Office of Communications Center Steinberg, James B., Intelligence Branch Historian and Research, Regional Richter, Kim Beverly, Visa Finley, Netina C., Foreign Service Analysis Services GS-13 Institute, Office of the Bassett, Andrew J., Office of Wasiewicz, Monika Anna, Smith, Robin Lynn, African Registrar Chief Financial Officer, Legislative Affairs Affairs, Office of Executive McCaffrey, James L., Office of Domestic Functional Bureaus White Jr., William H., Director Chief Financial Officer, Division International Organization Travel Voucher Section Chen, Johnnie J., Bureau of Affairs Morina, Tiea L., Bureau of GS-10 Administration, Information Wilcox, David E., Office of Personnel, Office of Motes, Roger D., Beltsville Management, Software Inspector General Executive Director Communications Center Engineering Witten, Samuel M., Office of Donald, Terry T., Diplomatic Legal Adviser, Economic, GS-6 GS-11 Security, Domestic Facilities Business and Goodine, Kritrina R., Office of Baer-Basek, Simone, Visa Elmo, David S., Office of Communications Affairs

42 State Reassignments International Organization Viksne, Diane, Bureau of Legal Adviser, Office of Affairs Administration to Foreign Executive Director Hart, Shauntia S., Office of Service Institute, Romance Lawson, Zeno T., Passport Abraham, Luberta, Office of Under Secretary for Languages Services Chief Financial Officer to Management to Politico- Lewis, Scott C., Bureau of Bureau of Administration, Military Affairs Resignations Administration, Information Office of Information Hobson, Dean L., Office of Management Administration Under Secretary for Lycett, Stephen E., Diplomatic Amoroso, James A., Office of Management to Office of Security, Personnel Addison, Joanne E., Visa Inspector General Foreign Buildings, Management Services to Eastern European Barker, Deborah A., Office of Administrative Management Mayo, Gerrod Alan, Affairs Protocol, Accreditation Jones, Cornelius D., Visa Politico-Military Affairs Candelario, Fern M., Office of Section Services to Foreign Service Mead, Raymond A. L., Bureau Chief Financial Officer to Belsches, Kathy D., Bureau of Institute, Office of Registrar of Administration, Bureau of Administration, Administration, Office of Lee, Gloria J., Office of Under Information Management Office of Executive Director Freedom of Information Secretary for Management to Moyer, Alicia M., Summer Casebeer, Jeffery J., San Bremer, Amanda E., Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs Clerical Program Francisco Passport Agency Personnel Patton, Linda Giuliano, Office of Palmer Jr., Stephen E., Human to National Passport Cantor, Joshua Seth, Foreign Buildings to Foreign Rights and Humanitarian Operations Politico-Military Affairs Service Institute, Language Affairs Doyle, Jaso’j P., Operations Davis, Carla A., Executive Studies, Testing Unit Parsons, Craig Alexander, Secretariat Center to European Affairs Peters, John C., New Orleans Politico-Military Affairs Dinoia, Peter Anthony, Ellis, Rhonda J., European Passport Agency to National Powell, Octavia D., Passport Diplomatic Security, Affairs to African Affairs Passport Operations Services Personnel Management Farmer, Tanya M., Office of Smith, Karen L., Office of Under Queen, Manh-Tran, Economic Downing, Suzanne L., Bureau of Chief Financial Officer to Secretary for Management to and Business Affairs, Special Administration, Personnel Bureau of Administration, Politico-Military Affairs Trade Activities Management Information Management Southerland, Deedee Ann, Los Scaglione, Tina Louise, Dumaine, Pierre G., Miami Greer, Colleen A., Angeles Passport Agency to Politico-Military Affairs Passport Agency Pre-Assignment Training to National Passport Operations Shelton, Michelle L^tte, Duncan, Catherine Ann, Diplomatic Security, Politico-Military Affairs Personnel Management Eichelberger, Kimberly T., Office Stephens, Holly L., of Foreign Buildings, Pre-Assignment Training Administrative Management Stevens, Genevieve, Office of Ellison, Non! L., Bureau of Foreign Buildings, Resource Administration, Information Management Management, User Training Sutton, William Keith, Office of Fura, Jason W., Bureau of Inspector General Administration, Office of Tolson, Erin K., Politico-Military Freedom of Information Affairs Gillcrist, Micbelle B., Visa Turkel, David Andrew, Services Politico-Military Affairs Gonzalez, Reni A., Bureau of Vasankari, Eric R., Passport Administration, Information Services Management Vasquez, Diane Lynn, Kingston Hynes, Amy S., Bureau of Waters, Mary Robin, Medical Administration Services Jackson, Kimberly A., Williams, Paul R., Office of Operations Center Legal Adviser, European and Kaufman, Stephen E., Canadian Affairs Politico-Military Affairs Kenneybrew, Neuftearia A., Office of Foreign Buildings, Retirements Resource Management Kish, Kathleen C., Coggs, Alma P., West African Politico-Military Affairs, Affairs Office of Assistant Secretary Feltault, Richard A., Diplomatic Knight, Susan L., Office of Security, Domestic Facilities Inspector General Floyd, Blackburn, Bureau of Kurth, Timothy, African Affairs, Personnel, Office of Many employees believe rate. Calls are billed as if to a Office of Executive Director Executive Director that Government telephone home phone. So use of office Kusrow, Daniel C., Bureau of Mautner, Martba C., Intelligence sen/ice is free; they’re wrong. phones for personal Administration, Office of and Research Government long-distance long-distance calls adds to Freedom of Information Williams, Angelina B. W., Seattle service isn’t covered by a flat State’s phone bills. □ Lamotte, Kenneth R., Office of Passport Agency ■

December 1993 43 FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL

Appointments Burroughs Jr. John A., Administration, Information Assignment Program Diplomat-in-Residence to Management to Bogota Kaminski, George Francis, African Affairs Fleming, Walter L., San Salvador Bureau of Administration, Anzalone, Paula T., Specialist Chamberlin, Wendy, Near to New Delhi Information Management to Intake Eastern and South Asian Frechette, Myles R. Rene, Office Peshawar Bernstein, Betty A., Affairs, Public Affairs to of Special Representative for Kavanagh, Christopher, Pre-Assignment Training, Kuala Lumpur Trade Negotiations to Montevideo to Economic and Burger, David John, Clements, Gary A., Quito to Executive Secretariat, Office Business Affairs, Office of Pre-Assignment Training Policy Planning Staff of Executive Secretary Cocom Affairs Chaplin, Bruce R., Specialist Cooper IV, H. Field, Beijing to Fuhrer, John W,, Tegucigalpa to Keller, Patricia Barron, Near Intake Diplomatic Security, Office Monrovia Eastern and South Asian Doyle, Francis James, Vatican of Security Technology Goldberg, Mina. S., Brasilia to Affairs to East Asian and Ellis, Clarke N., Economic and Cooper, Jennifer F., Beijing to Auckland Pacific Affairs, Office of Business Affairs Bureau of African Affairs, Goldberg, Robert, Hong Kong to Assistant Secretary Escobar, Gabriel, Pre-Assignment Office of Executive Director Office of Special Kelly, Sally L., East Asian and Training Crocker, Ryan Clark, Beirut to Representative for Trade Pacific Affairs to Manila Fleita, Louis G., Specialist Intake Near Eastern and South Negotiations Kilgore, Hulya, Ankara to Ford, Jerry M., Specialist Intake Asian Affairs Gotoh, Kay E., Politico-Military Refugee Programs Hughes, Sue A., Athens Curley II, Albert, Foreign Service Affairs to Tokyo Kinn, Charles N., Nouakchott to Hullinger, Susan L., Specialist Institute, Administrative Grandfield, Mary E., Guatemala Bucharest Intake Training to Office of Chief to Central African Affairs Klingenmaier, Richard H., Krc, Jan, Pre-Assignment Financial Officer, Fiscal Grant, William Kevin, Foreign Kinshasa to Diplomatic Training Requirements Division Service Institute, Security Lumley, Dustin W., Specialist Dacus, Jacqueline D., Kingston Economic-Commercial Larsen, Dan Jonathan, Manila to Intake to Bureau of Personnel, Training to International Office of Pacific Island Mendez, Julius A., Specialist Career Development and Organization Affairs Affairs Intake Counseling Division Griffin, George G. B., Near Light Jr., Frank Gristock, O’Heame, Brian, Vatican Daniels, Rita Kay, San Salvador Eastern and South Asian Foreign Service Institute, to Career Mobility Program Affairs to Economic and Language Training to De Smet-Howard, Phyllis A., Business Affairs Vientiane Transfers Moscow to London Griffiths, Douglas M., African Light, Sally Mathiasen, Foreign DeGrands, Drminic J., St. Affairs to Foreign Service Service Institute, Language Abbott, Jan D., Brussels to Petersburg to Bureau of Institute, Economic- Training to Vientiane Karachi Administration, Information Commercial Training Lynch Jr., Thomas A., Moscow Abington Jr., Edward Gordon, Management Haines, Ellen K., Kingston to to U.S. Congress Islamabad to Jerusalem Del Principe, Michael A., East Office of Chief Financial Malkemes, Janet R., Economic Allard, Clarke William, Bureau Asian and Pacific Affairs to Officer and Business Affairs to of Personnel, Office of Bratislava Hanford, Janet J., Special Domestic Assignment Performance Evaluation to DeMeerleer, Suzanne, Inter-American Affairs, Program Portsmouth Consular Center Tegucigalpa to Bureau of Regional Center, Miami to Malleck, George Stephen, Anderson, Michael G., Warsaw Personnel Hong Kong Damascus to U.S. Congress to Department of Dewindt Jr., Victor G., Buenos Harwell, Cherisa K., Rio de Martinez, Maryanne H., Salzburg Transportation Aires to Diplomatic Security Janeiro to Seoul to Human Rights and Aoki, Makoto, Bureau of Dillon, Mary L., Gaborone to Hawley-Young, Margaret, Hong Humanitarian Affairs Administration, Information African Affairs Kong to Economic and McCaffrey, Michaei T., Kuala Management to Bonn Dobbins, Wilma M., Beijing to Business Affairs, Office of Lumpur to Bureau of Ash, E. Charles, Majuro to East Asian and Pacific Food Policy Programs Administration, Unclassified Special Domestic Assignment Affairs Hazzard, Carol Lynn, Nassau to Pouch and Mail Branch Program Doherty, Christopher J., European Affairs, Office of McCulley, Terence Patrick, Ash, Pamela Irene, Bamako to European Affairs to Vienna Executive Director Bombay to Central African Executive Secretariat Dolce, Robert Anthony, Consular Heydemann, Peter L. M., New Affairs Atherton, Lewis R., Foreign Affairs, Citizens Emergency Delhi to Oceans bureau Milam, William B., Dhaka to Service Institute, Language Center to London Hughey, Walter M., Brazzaville Oceans bureau. Office of Training to Beijing Dotterer HI, George O., Beirut to to African Affairs Assistant Secretary Beaudoin, Jules, Diplomatic Bureau of Administration, Humphrey, Sandra Nelson, Miller, Teresa M., Brussels to Security to Casablanca Information Management Moscow to Bureau of Beijing Beer, Richard C., Nuclear Risk Eckman, Vicki Cheryl, Bureau of Personnel, Career Mueller, Richard W., Foreign Reduction Center to Moscow Personnel to Helsinki Development, Consular Service Institute, Language Bender-Klosson, Bonita L., Ensher, Henry S., Near Eastern Johnson, Sylvia D., Barranquilla Training, to Hong Kong Stockholm to European and South Asian Affairs to to Intelligence and Research Olson, Karl Gunnar, African Affairs Damascus Jones, Stuart E., Foreign Service Affairs to Rio de Janeiro Brock Evers, Leslie E., Near Farago, Natalie, Kiev to Institute, Economic- Parton, Kenneth E., Montevideo Eastern and South Asian European Affairs Commercial Training to to Bureau of Administration, Affairs to Bureau of Farr, Thomas Franklin, European Eastern European Affairs Information Management, Personnel, Examination Affairs to Bonn Kaestner, Peter G., Kuala Office of Foreign Operations Division Finn Jr., Earnest E., Bureau of Lumpur to Special Domestic Patterson Jr., Robert E., UN

44 State Political Affairs to Yerevan Pre-Assignment Training to Hadley, Martha, Sofia Blanton, James Taylor, Consular Patterson, Alan L., Bamako to Cairo Hamilton, Elizabeth, Sofia Affairs Addis Ababa Swope, Mary Elizabeth, Cairo to Heydemann, Peter L. M., Oceans Bloch, David, Visa Services Pekala, Mark A., Office of Under Secretary bureau Breckon, M. Lyall, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs to for Management Holland, Thanh, N., Personnel European Affairs, Russian Tanabe, Florence T., Lome to Leave-without-pay status Briggs, Everett Ellis, Lisbon and Security Affairs Division Bureau of Personnel, Hovey, David Miles, Brussels Brown, Claudia A., Monrovia Petersor, Lisa J., Durban to Assignments Division Irvine, Elien P., Paris Carroll, Robert J., Stockholm Intelligence and Research, Thompson, Joanne M., Foreign Johnson, Patricia E., Mexico Chesteen, Charles N., Bureau of South American Division Service Institute, Language City Administration, Diplomatic Popadiuk, Roman, Kiev to Training to N’Djamena Johnson, Ronda Jo, Riyadh Pouch and Mail Division European Affairs Valdez Jr., Manuel, Bureau of Kimbrough, Karin J., Summer Cook, Ross S., Khartoum Pratt, Genevieve J., Dhahran to Personnel to Bureau of and Intern Programs Creekmore Jr., Marion V., Riyadh Administration, Information Leaphart, Stephanie, Bamako Diplomat-in-Residence Purnell, Jon R., Foreign Service De Wilde, Jan, Refugee Management, Personnel Linger, Maria, The Hague Institute, Functional Training Programs Management Division Malcik, Susan H., to European Affairs DePree, Willard A., Office of Vogel, Frederick J., Vientiane to Leave-without-pay status Quaglia Jr., Paul L., Jerusalem Inspector General Politico-Military Affairs Mance, Brenda, Moscow to Near Eastern and South Dillery, C. Edward, Office of Volker, Karen Eileen, Office of Markle, Toni C., Bucharest Asian Affairs Under Secretary for Deputy Secretary to Foreign Martin, Pauline Maria, Mexico Reca, Robert J., Lima to Management Service Institute, Language City Diplomatic Security, Dugan, Gordon J., Intelligence Training Matema, Mildred Evelyn, New Dignitary Protection Division and Research, Office of Walsh, James Donald, Buenos Delhi Reisenauer, Diane J., Beijing to Economic Analysis Aires to Ottawa Meadows, William R., Foreign East Asian and Pacific Edensword, Jon G., Secretariat, Ward, James L., Consular Building Office Affairs Board of Examiners Affairs to Paris Mendenhall, Christine J., African Rubinstein, Daniel H., Ewing, Raymond C., African Wysham, John Anthony, Foreign Affairs, Office of Executive Intelligence and Research to Affairs Service Institute, Director Luanda French, Kenneth A., Paris Economic-Commercial Merkin, Terry E., Mexico City Ryan, Thomas W., Kathmandu Goodgion, Douglas J., Bureau of Training to European Affairs Mokrani, Ahmed, Moscow to Beirut Administration, Information Yee, Hoyt B., Paris to Monaco, Mark J., Paris Salazar, Edward J., U.S. Management Operations Center Najafi, Seid Alireza, Moroni Congress to European Grahame, Jay R., Bureau of Young, Daniel H., Peiczynski, Gabrielle D., Athens Affairs International Organization Inter-American Affairs to Rodriguez, Urbana, Hong Kong Saloom III, Joseph A., Economic Affairs, Office of UN Social Beijing Schaffrath, Beatrice M., Summer and Business Affairs to and Refugee Affairs Young, Rebecca F., and Intern Programs Conakry Graninger, Robert L., San Jose Port-of-Spain to Beijing Scbmidt, Sheryl, Maracaibo Schofield, William Potter, Green, Nick, Diplomatic Security Zumwalt, James P., Tokyo to Schwartz, Edward George, Inter-American Affairs to Harbin, William Bruce, East Asian and Pacific Bureau of Administration, Southern European Affairs Assignments to Affairs Information Management Schuchat, Simon Joseph, Foreign Nongovernmental Simmons, Mari D., Kathmandu Organization Service Institute, Southern, Doris Allen, Economic-Commercial Ifshin, Stanley R., Oceans Resignations Leave-without-pay status Training to European Affairs bureau. Nuclear Technology Sulick, Shirley P., Warsaw Serwer, Claudia H., Caracas to Anderson, Joanne C., Cooperation Division Vaughn, Deborah, Jakarta Leave-without-pay Status Jackson, Lucius A., Diplomatic Near Eastern and South Verble, Geraldine A., Frankfurt Armenian, Nora A., St. Security, Office of Security Asian Affairs Walker, Stephen William, Eastern Shollenberger, John F., Petersburg Technology European Affairs Washington Regional Barillas, Martin M., Jameson, Donald L., Rangoon Whetstine, Phyllis J., Sofia Diplomatic Courier Division Politico-Military Affairs Johnson Jr., Walter E., Bureau Wickham, Victoria Irene, Nicosia to Bangkok Courier Division Bromwell, Linda K., Rio de of Administration, Wong, Charles T., Summer and Skeen, Steven G., Peshawar to Information Management Janeiro Intern Programs Bureau of Administration, Johnson, Stephen T., Intelligence Brunner, Michael G., St. Yamashita, Viviana F., Quito Information Management Petersburg and Research, Southeast Asia Zapata, Carlos M., Smith, Edward T., Special Bryan, George Lawrence, New and Pacific Division Leave-without-pay status Domestic Assignment Delhi Jorgenson, Raymond C., Zarret, Cheryl A., St. Petersburg Program to Inter-American Callahan, Courtney, Dublin Inter-American Affairs Zartler, Malissa Ann, Bogota Affairs Durrett, Margaret N., Koritko, Andrew William, Office Steinhoff, Lena R., Paris to Leave-without-pay status of Foreign Buildings, Maputo Ferro, Evelyn A., Athens Retirements Resource Management Office Stemheimer, Stephen, Prague to Foreman, Margaret Ann, Kotula, Kirk-Patrick, Consular European Affairs Leave-without-pay status Atchley, John K., Nairobi Fraud Prevention Program Strope, Edna G., Near Eastern Galen Wallack, Hallie Sue, Santo Baysden, Alton R., London Kusrow, Carl Bruce, Diplomatic and South Asian Affairs to Domingo Blakeburn, Paul H., Oceans Courier Service Karachi Gatling, William Lance, bureau. 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Technology Meritorious secretaries: Gerald Dixon Rothrock Lupo, Samuel Eldred, Office of M. Eugene Aaron David E. Shields Inspector General Service Awards Aruna S.G. Amirthanayagam W. Brooke Stallsmith Maher, Peter S., Hamilton (See Page 21) Foreign Service officers of Elisabeth S. Wilton Mariano, Nicholas G., Class 4, consular officers and Steve A. Yarbrough Gloria J. Young Diplomatic Security, Office Anderson, Laurence Desaix secretaries: Secretary: of Physical Security Burleigh, Albert Peter Mark Armando Aquiar James G. Wallar □ Programs Courtney, William Harrison Bonita S. Bissonette Marshall, Gene B., Montreal Covey, James P. Mary Elisabeth Bracking Mayhew, Philip R., Pacific Island Dunford, David J. Kent C. Brokenshire Affairs Egan Jr., Wesley W. Joseph Patrick Cassidy Rating/ reviewing Morris, Ned E., Quito Hobbs, David L. Jacqueline Kay Dunphy officers commended Norton, David Clark, Hudson, William J. James Suydam Gibney International Johnson, Ralph R. Amy Elizabeth Holman The 1993 selection boards Jones, A. Elizabeth Communications and Daniel Alan Hutchens have commended the following Kattouf, Theodore H. Information Policy Glen Keiser rating and/or reviewing officers Peiczynski, Casper J., Athens Kauziarich, Richard Dale Ellen K. Kresen for evaluation reports they Kennedy, Patrick Francis Prelec, Frances M., Brasilia Patricia Anne Lacina prepared. The numbers in Quan, Ross S., East Asian and McLaughlin Jr., Michael J. Karin L. Larson parentheses indicate the number Parris, Mark Robert Pacific Affairs Laura Anne Lockman of reports for which the officer Patterson, Anne Woods Rihera, Nivea M., Inter-American Lewis Alan Lukens was cited. A memorandum will Rackmales, Robert Affairs, Regional Center, Doris Ruth McBryde be placed in the file of the Miami Robinson, Max Newton James Earle McCracken commended employees. Riley Jr., Wilson A., Rose, Gerald S. Julie Rethmeier Moyes Environmental Protection Saloom HI, Joseph A. William James Mozdzierz Abington Jr., Edward G. (4) Agency Savage, Eleanor Wallace Michael Chase Mullins Adams, Nicholas James Rose, Gerald S., Monrovia Schulz, Herbert W. Nancy J. Nelson Alderman, J. Mikel Rossi 111, Herman J., Ward, James L. George Thomas Novinger Alexander, Leslie (4) International Williams, James Alan Geoffrey Martin Odium Algire, Wayne W. Communications and Yates, John M. Lynette Joyce Poulton Altan, L. Stuart Information Policy John Templeman Price Ames, Stephen Rubenstein, A. Irwin, Mexican Earline Mason Reid Anderson, M. Audrey Affairs Performance pay Maria Rudensky Antokol, Philip Norman Salisbury, William R., The Hague Jeffrey Lincoln Samelson Aoki, Steven Schiele, David L., International Balabanis, G. Paul David P. Schensted Arcement, Ned W. Organization Affairs Barry, Robert L. Kirsten A. Schulz Aronson, Bernard W. Scott, Louise A., International Bishop, James K. Bethany L. Schwartz Arriaga, Robert D. Organization Affairs Dittmer, Clark M. Eric William Stromayer Ashby, Paul S. Semler, Peter, Milan Donnelly, Shaun Ekiward Laird D. Treiber Atkins, Edmund E. Seymour Jr., Jack M., Nato Frechette, Myles R. Rene Matthew Douglas Wallack Aycock, Barbara Information Office, Atlantic Grove Jr., Brandon H. Paul Douglas Yeskoo Baas, Marc Allen Council Kemp, LaRae Washington David J. Young Bader, George Shankle Jr., Arthur P., Bureau Mack, David L. Michael Paul Zorick Bader, Jeffrey A. (2) of Personnel Mayhew, Philip R. Consular officers and/or Baker, Jerry L. (2) Sherman, Edric, Office of Under Ryan, Mark A. secretaries: Baker, Stephen P. Secretary for International Service, Robert E. Scott M. Anderson Balabanis, G. Paul Security Affairs Sullivan, Joseph Gerard Timothy Todd Buch Baltimore HI, Richard L. (2) Sipprelle, Dudley G., Taylor 111, Philip Bates Paul V. Bunnell Bandler, Donald K. Port-au-Prince Wilcox Jr., Philip C. Dan L. Cadwell Baranowski Jr., Stanley Sleght, Alexander K., Wolf, John Stern □ Courtney J. Cerra Barr, Alan Whittier Politico-Military Affairs Charles Xavier Correia Barry, Robert L. Smith, Beverly J., Cairo Betsy A. Craun Bartholomew, Reginald Stem, Robert H., Office of Foreign Service Robert B. Efird Bash, Richard M. Inspector General Patricia Espinoza Fernandez Basora, Adrian A. (2) Sturgeon, George S., Bonn nominations Edna C. Foster Battle, Vincent M. Tyson, Herbert L., Athens Robert E. Gorelick Beall, David Russell Verrier Jr., Alfred J., The following nominations Richard M. Gunther Beardsley, Bruce A. Washington Regional have been confirmed by the John L. Helgerson Becelia, Joseph F. Diplomatic Courier Division Senate: Brad Joseph Juneau Becker, Robert W. Vieira, John A., Madras Foreign Service officer of David W. Larsen Behrend, Richard M. Willow, Ruth L., Bureau of Class 1, consular officer and Kevin W. Long Bell, Thomas A. Administration, Office of secretary: Duyane R. Norman III Bellamy, William M. (2) Allowances Paul Snow Carpenter Maureen Gay Nowak Benedicto, Lincoln V. Woodward, Katherine F., Santo Foreign Service officers of Gary D. Pate Berry, Ann R. (2) Domingo □ Class 3, consular officers and Mark A. Post Bishop, Robyn M.

46 State Blackford, Peggy Clark Jr., William (3) Farley, Vincent J. Haugh, William J. (2) Blakemore, David Clarke, Henry L. Farrand, Robert W. (2) Hauser, Timothy P. Blodgett, John S. (2) Clarke, William D. Farrar, Lawrence F. (2) Heaphy, Eileen M. Blystone, James J. (2) Cleverley, J. Michael Feierstein, Gerald M. (2) Hecklinger, Richard E. (3) Boardman, John S. (2) Cloud Jr., John A Felder, Robert C. (3) Hempstone Jr., Smith Bodde, Peter M. Coffey, Steven James Fiffick, Paul F. Herbst, John E. Bohlen, Avis T. (4) Cohen, Herman J. Fisher, Richard V. Herrmann, George S. Bolton. John R. Coldren, Lee O. (2) Flack, Ronald D. Hill, H. Kenneth Boneski, Raymond A. Collins, James F. (3) Flaten, Robert Hill, Steven Don Booth, Donald E. Connolly Jr., John S. Flowers, George A. Hill 11, WUliam H. Bowers, Charles R. Conway, John J. Folmsbee, Paul Arthur Hilts, Joseph A. Boyce Jr., Ralph Cooke, John O. Forde, John J. Hinton, Drane R. Boyd, Paul Lawrence Copenhaver, Barry F. Foster, Timberlake Hirsch, John L. Bramante, A. Donald Costello, Charles E. (3) Francisco III, William P. (2) Holbrook III, Morton Brayshaw, Charles H. Cotter, Michael W. Frank, W. Douglas (4) Holmes, Anthony Breer, William T. (3) Coulter Jr., Frank J. (2) Frasure, Robert C. (2) Honan, Kevin E. (2) Brew, William R. Courlang, Edward M. Freeman, Arthur L. Hooper, James R. Briggs, Everett Ellis Courtney, Caryl M. Friedman Jr., Townsend B. (2) Hoover, John Bright, Robert L. Courtney, William H. Gaffney, Paul P. Hopkins, Elizabeth A. Brill, Kenneth C. (4) Cowal, Sally Grooms (3) Gagnon, James Michael Hopper, David T. (2) Brooks, Thomas S. Cox, Steven L. Gaines Jr., William R. Horan, Hume Brown, David G. Craft Jr., William E. Gallucci, Gerard M. Homblow, Michael (3) Brown, Kent N. (2) Craig, John B. Gallucci, Robert Louis Houdek, Robert G. (3) Brown, Madeleine M. Craigo, Craig S. Gamber, Daniel C. Howell, Edward C. Brown, Timothy C. Crocker, Ryan Clark (2) Gamble, Roger M. Hrinak, Donna Jean Brown, Todd James Crosher, F. Kenneth Garza, Oliver P. (3) Huddle Jr., Franklin Browning, Robert L. Cummings, Stephen F. Geisel, Harold W. Huggins, Carolyn (2) Bryant, Jack M. Cundiff, Carl C. Gelbard, Robert S. Hughes, Arthur H. (2) Brynn, Edward Dailey, Ronald W. Gerth, Thomas Humphrey (2) Hume, Cameron R. Buchholz, Roy E. Daley, Matthew P. Gibson, Stephen R. Hurley, Paul F. Buck, Stephen W. Dameron, Diana M. Glass, Robert L. Hutchings, Robert L. (2) Buckler, Stephen R. Daru, Terrence J. Glenn, James Hogan Jackson, Marilyn F. Bullen, Roland W. Davidow, Jeffrey Godard, Ronald D. Jackson, Rudy G. Burchfield Sr., Timothy W. Dethomas, Joseph M. Gonzalez, Richard F. Jacobini, Charles B. Burgess Jr., Roger E. (2) De Vos, Peter Jon Goodman, Andrew Louis A. (2) Jacobson, Roberta S. Burghardt Jr., Raymond F. (3) Deal, Timothy (2) Gorbett, Alton P. Jeffrey, James Franklin Burke Jr., William J. Dean, Margaret M. Gosnell, Jack L. Jett, Dennis Coleman i Burleigh, A. Peter Delly, Daniel Purnell Graham, Virginia L. Johnson, Daniel A. Burton, Bruce G. (3) Dembski, Sandra A. Grasty, Kenneth J. Johnson, David Timothy Busby, Morris D. Denitto, Gary T. Greco, Charles S. Johnson, Ralph R. Bush, Wayne J. (2) Dewindt Jr., Victor G. Greenlee, David (3) Johnson, Robert A. Buske, Mark S. Di Placido, Carmen A. Greentree, Todd Jones, A. Elizabeth (4) Butcher, W. Scott (2) Dillard, Diane (2) Greenwald, G. Jonathan (2) Jones, Harry E. (2) Butler, Lawrence E. Dion, Jerrold Mark (3) Greenwood Jr., C. Lawrence Jones, M. Gordon Byerly, John R. (3) Disney, Christopher M.B. Grey Jr., Robert T. Jones, Ralph T. Byrnes, Jill F. Dittmer, Lyle A. Groening, Eva Kamman, Curtis W. Byrnes, Shawn M. Dizikes, Dean M. (2) Grove Jr., Brandon H. Kaplan, Frederick J. Caldwell, Raymond Djerejian, Edward P. (7) Gutensohn, Philip D. Kartman, Charles Campbell, Martha L. DIouhy, David Bryan (4) Gutierrez, Lino (2) Kattouf, Theodore H. (2) Carpenter, Michael Dmytrewycz, Bohdan Habib, Michael J. (2) Kauziarich, Richard Casey, James John Dobbins Jr., James F. Hackett, Anne M. (2) Keane, John F. (2) Cason, James C. (3) Drucker, Milton K. Hall, Patricia Lasbury Keene, Douglas R. Cassman, Joel Dudley, Randal R. Hallford, Scott S. Kefauver, Barry J. Castro, Emil Duncombe, Bruce Halmo, James L. (2) Keiswetter, Allen Lee Chammas, Judith Ann Dunn, Timothy J. Halsted, David Crane Kelly, John H. Chapman, Geoffrey W. Durkee, Michael L. Hambley, Mark G. Kemp, LaRae W. Cheshes, Martin L. (2) Dyels Jr., Jake M. Hamilton, Donna (2) Kemp, Steven Chester Jr., George A. Ecton, Stephen (2) Hamilton, John Randle (4) Kennedy, John N. Chester, Geraldeen G. Egan Jr., Wesley W. Hamilton, Thomas P. Kennedy, Laura-Elizabeth Chicola, Philip T. (2) Einaudi, Luigi R. Hammond, Constance Kennedy, Mary Virginia Chomyak, John P. Einhom, Robert J. Harms, Norma Ruth Kennedy, Patrick F. (2) Christenson, Richard A. Engle, Gregory W. Harris, F. Allen Kennedy, Scott Mark Christiansen, Daniel Erdman, Richard W. (2) Harrop, William C. (2) Kettering, William N. Christy, Gene Burl Emey, Kenneth R. Harter, Dennis G. Keur, Cornelius M. Clap, Priscilla A. Escudero, Stanley T. Harvey, Barbara (3) Kile, Robert L. Clare, Gwen C. Evans, John M. (5) Hassani, Frederick C. Kimble, Melinda L.

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Kimmitt, Robert M. Mautner, Martha Norris Jr., John Jacob Rose, Gerald S. Kirby, Hannon E. Me Caliie, Marshall F. (6) Novetzke, Sally J. Ross, Christopher W.S. (2) Klein, Jacques P. (2) Me Connel, Donald J. (2) O’Brien, Robert Paul Roth, Richard Allen Knigbt, GMrge E. McAllister, Eugene O’Keefe, John M. (5) Roy, J. Stapleton (2) Kolker, Jimmy J. McAnulty, James P. Oakley, Phyllis E. Royle, Michael S. Konkel, David McAteer, Mary Margaret Ochiltree, Thomas Hunter Ryan, Mary Kott, Robert J. (2) McCahill Jr., Wiiliam C. (2) Onate, Andres D. (2) Rychak, Wayne S. (2) Krantz Jr., Robert L. McConville, Donald F. Pabst, David A. Salmon Jr., Charles B. Kreuser, Edward McCulley, Terence Patrick Pace, Jerry R. Saloom III, Joseph A. (3) Krieger, Nanette A. McDonald, Jackson C. (2) Pardon, Raymond J. (2) Sargent, Walter H. Krug, Frederic M. McGhee, Joseph R. Parmiy, Michael Eleazar Satterfield, David Kunsman, June Heil McGrath Jr., Everett J. Parris, Mark Robert (2) Savage, Timothy M. Kurtzer, Daniel Charles (3) McGuire, Kevin J. Parrish, James Randall Scanlan, Francis T. (2) La Fleur, Christopher J. McKune, Elizabeth Pascoe, B. Lynn Scarlis, Basii G. Lafleur, Jerome M. McLaughlin Jr., Michael J. Pastorino, Robert Stephen Schermerhom, Lange (6) Lahaie, Robert W. McLeese, William V. Patterson, John G. Schifferdecker, Arnold P. Luke, Robert S. McMahan, Mark Patterson, Mildred Anne Schlaikjer, Stephen A. (3) Lamantia Jr., Russell A. McMillion, Margaret K. Peashock, David J. (2) Schumaker, James F. Lamb, William H. Melton, Richard H. Pelletreau Jr., Robert H. (2) Schwartz, Deborah R. Lambert, Lynn Foldessy Mercurio, Sharon K. Pendleton Jr., Miles S. (2) Scott, Gerald Wesley Lambertson, David F. Merry, E. Wayne Penfold, John H. Scott, Kyle Lane Jr., James B. (2) Metrinko, Michael J. Perry, June Carter Segura-Giron, Bernardo Langan, Douglas (2) Meyers Jr., Frank J. Perry, C. Richard Seitz, Raymond G.H. Lange Jr., John D. Meyers, Marilyn Ann (3) Peters, Lauralee M. Sell, Louis D. Langford, Patricia A. (2) Peters, Lee M. (2) Michalak, Michael W. Semler, Peter (2) Peters, Mary Ann (2) Lannon, George C. Michaud, Michael A.G. Serwer, Daniel P. (2) Pettit, James D. Larocco,‘James A. (2) Milas, Kevin C. (2) Shapiro, Charles S. (2) Larson, Alan P. Miller, Bill A. Piazza, John Shippy, Amelia Ellen Latimer, Allan B.C. Miller, Bowman H. Pichocki, Henry E. Shurtleff, Leonard G. Lawton, Elsie C. Miller, James B. Pickering, Thomas R. (2) Sigler, Mark A. Leader, Joyce Ellen Miller, Richard T. Pifer, Steven K. (2) Simons Jr., Thomas W. Lecocq, Randall R. Miller, Thomas Joel Pitts, Amy Singer, Norman A. Ledesma, James V. Miller, Walter Plaisted, Joan M. (3) Sipprelie, Dudley G. Ledsky, Nelson C. Milligan, Michael L. Popadiuk, Roman Skocz,Dennis E. Lehovich, Vladimir Millspaugh, Robert A. (2) Porter Jr., Robert C. (2) Skodon, Emil M. Leininger, Wayne S. Millspaugh, Larry G. Powell, Jo Ellen Skol, Michael M. Levitsky, Meivyn Moats, Simeon L. Pratsch, Lloyd W. Smith, Jay Thomas Lewis, Stanley W. Mohler, Brian J. Pressley Jr., Franklin (2) Smith, Joseph Lien, Thomas H. Monjo, John C. (2) Price Jr., Eugene D. Smith, Samuel Vick (2) Lijek, Mark J. Montgomery, William Dale Price, Thomas L. Smith, Stephen T. (3) Limbert, John W. Moran, David R. Pringle, Robert Maxwell Southwick, E. Michael (3) Limprecht, Joseph Moran, John L. (2) Proctor, Robert A. Sparks, Charles E. Littrel Jr., Warren E. (4) Morford, Richard A. (3) Rabens, Ronald B. Spelman, Douglas G. Loff, Kenneth A. Moriarty, James F. Rackmales, Robert Spillane, John P. Logsdon, Wayne (2) Moriarty, Lauren Ramsay, William C. Spiro, Elizabeth P. (2) Lohman, Lee R. Morrison, Bruce F. Randall Jr., Thomas L. Spitzer, Craig A. Lopez, Alphonse Morton, Patricia Ann (2) Rankin, Haywood Sprott, Jeanne Ronchetti (2) Louis, Jean A. Moyer, Larry D. Rase, Glen R. (3) Sprott, John T. (2) Lupo, Samuel E. Mozena, Dan W. Raspolic, Elizabeth (2) Stafford III, Joseph D. Lyman, Princeton (2) Mull, Stephen D. (3) Rea, Michael J. Stanton, William A. Macias, Arturo S. Muller, William A. Reca, Robert J. Steinberg, Donald K. Mack, James F. Munoz, Arnold Reis Jr., Robert C. (3) Stephens, Jerry M. Maisto, John F. Murray, Marie Reams, Peter Robert Stewart, John Todd Manganiello, Frank Myers, Martin H. Reams, Ronaid A. Strathearn, Bruce Mansfield, Robert N. Nagy Jr., Tibor P. Regan, Michael Streeb, Gordon L. Marine, Michael W. (2) Napper, Larry C. Richhart Jr., Raymond D. Strickler, Theodore Eugene (2) Markin, John D. Nay, John R. Rickert, Jonathan B. Surber, Russell J. Maroney, Richard T. Nesemann, Michael E. Ries, Richard Sutherland, William Earl Marquis, Alphonso G. (2) Neumann, Ronald E. Roberts, David A. Swigert, James Marsh, WUiiam H. Nichols, Philip V.K. Robinson, Kathryn D. Swihart Jr., James W. (3) Martin, G. Eugene (2) Nicholson, Marc E. (2) Robinson, Max Newton Tarrant, James R. Martin, Thomas H. (2) Nigro Jr., Louis John (2) Robinson, Thomas Lee Taylor, Lawrence P. Martinez, Pedro Niles, Thomas M.T. (3) Robinson, Wiiliam B. Taylor, Wade A. Marvin, Gary B. Nix, John U. (2) Rocha, V. Manuel (2) Teare, Richard W. Mason, J. Richard Nixon, Warren P. Rodgers Jr., H. Clarke Tefft, John F. (2) Mason, Nancy M. Nolan, Robert B. Rosdahl, Lyle H. Thomas, Mary Jane (2)

48 State Tinney, Philip M. (3) Vogel, Frederick J. Whitehead, Robert E. Winder, Joseph A.B. Tolson Jr., Jerome F. Von Briesen, Mary (2) Whiteside, Ruth Ann Wisner II, Frank G. Tompkins, Tain Pendleton Wade, Alan C. Whitman, Gerald J. Woemer, Mark S. Trivelli, Paul Arthur Wajda, Thomas J. Wiedemann, Kent M. Woerz, Bernard J. Truhn, J. Patrick Walker, Howard K. Wilcox Jr., Philip C. Wolf, John Stem (2) Tubbs, Paul Wanagel Jr., Michael (2) Wiiczynski, Alec Woolfork, James L. Tuten, James T. Warren, Bruce W. Wile, Alan R. Wright Jr., Lacy A. Tynes, Robert Warren Jr., Louis B. Wilkinson Ill, Theodore S. (2) Yamate, Robert T. Updegrove, Brad L. Watson, Alexander F. Willett, John Hurd Yates, John M. Van Voorst, Carol Lee Weingarten, William A. WUliams, David W. (2) Yeutter, David M. Vanderboff, James Welch, C. David (4) Williams, Nicholas M. Young, Johnny (4) Vanlaningham, James R. Wells, Donald Eugene (2) Williams, Wallace Ray Young, Thomas M. Verrier Jr., Alfred J. Wells, Melissa F. (2) Williamson, Molly Zimmermann, Warren Vershbow, Alexander R. Welter, Daniel WUIs, Charles R. Zorn II, Richard H. ■ Vessey III, John W. Wesche, Stephen Wilson, Richard L.

AFRICAN AFFAIRS—At chlefs-of- Laurence Pope, Aurelia Brazeal, Joseph fVil- Alexander, Chris Riche, Johnnie Carson, mission conference, first row, from left: Jo- son IV, fVilliam Twaddell, George Moose, Gibson Lanpher, Edmund DeJamelte, Peter seph Segars, Mark Baas, Peter Chaveas, Da- Joseph Saloom, Ann Hollick, Gordon DeVos, Charles Baquet III, fVilliam Swing, vid Shinn, John Yates, William Dameron, Brown, Roger McGuire, Andrew Winter, Den- Allen (Tex) Harris, Lauralee Peters, Mark Edward Brynn, Howard Perlow, Harmon nis Barrett, Robert Gosende, Robert Houdek, Johnson, William Hudson, Marshall McCal- Kirby, Donald McConnell, Harriet Isom, John Bennett, Princeton Lyman, John Davi- lie, John Sprott, Alan McKee, Michael Kenneth Brown, Martin Cheshes, Ruth son, David Rawson. Second row: Robert McKinley, John Lewis. Davis, Prudence Bushnell, Robert Gribbin, Pringle, Roland Kuchel, Howard Jeter, Leslie

December 1993 49 BUREAU NOTES

CHARLES GATI, senior advisor for the missile technology control regime signing cer¬ THE SEVENTH Policy Planning Staff; the assistant secretary emony at the White House, on September 2 for European and Canadian affairs, STEVE . . . She attended the dinner Secretary of FLOOR OXMAN, and members of his staff, LARRY Defense LES ASPIN hosted in honor of the NAPPER and TERRY SNELL; General MI¬ Russian minister of defense, September 8 . . . CHAEL RYAN of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; On September 9 she attended the reception Office of the Secretary the under secretary for defense, GRAHAM that Secretary Christopher hosted for fresh¬ ALLISON; National Security Council staff men members of Congress ... On September SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER traveled member NICHOLAS BURNS; and PETER 14 she traveled to New York to address the to Budapest, Moscow, Almaty, Kiev, Minsk AFANASENKO, translator from the Depart¬ World Affairs Council . . . She addressed the and Riga, October 20-27, to consult with ment’s Office of Language Services. October 6 session of “Morning Newsmaker,” government and business leaders in the BaE On November 2 Secretary Christopher hosted by the National Press Club . . . She tics. Eastern Europe and the new independent addressed a jointly-sponsored meeting of the attended the inauguration of the National states. Accompanying him and serving as part Los Angeles World Affairs Council and the Foreign Affairs Training Center, October 13 of the advance team were executive assistant Los Angeles Town Hall, on Nafta, in Los . . . She traveled to London to address the A. ELIZABETH JONES; ELIZABETH LI- Angeles. Accompanying him were special as¬ International Institute for Strategic Studies, NEBERRY, personal assistant to the Secre¬ sistants CARLEAN ACKERMAN and MAR¬ then joined Mr. Christopher during his trip tary; staff assistant SUSAN EDWARDS; the GARET McGUINNESS; JAMES WIL¬ to Moscow, Almaty and Kiev in late October deputy executive secretary of the Executive LIAMS of the Executive Office as trip . . . JAMES TIMBIE accompanied her to Secretariat, ROSS WILSON; Secretariat staff officer; computer specialist Sweeney; Mr. Do- Moscow and Kiev, and WILLIAM LOWELL officers ANNE HALL and line assistant nilon and Mr. McCurry, and special assis¬ to Moscow. □ JEFF ARNDT; the executive director of the tants Webster and Glynn. □ Executive Secretariat, LYNWOOD M. DENT Secretary’s Open Forum JR.; computer specialist LYNN SWEENEY; Office of the Under the under secretary for international security assistance, LYNN DAVIS; the assistant secre¬ Secretary for International On September 30 the former U.S. sena¬ tary for public affairs, THOMAS DONI- tor and Democratic presidential candidate, LON, with his deputy and Department Security Affairs PAUL TSONGAS, addressed the Secretary’s spokesman, MICHAEL McCURRY, deputy Open Forum on ways to reduce the U.S. debt BENNETT FREEMAN and special assistants Under Secretary LYNN DAVIS partici¬ and deficit ... On October 5 the forum and MARY ELLEN GLYNN and JUDY WEB¬ pated in bilateral meetings between VICE the American Foreign Service Association STER; the ambassador-at-large for the new PRESIDENT GORE and the Russian prime cosponsored a program featuring Under Sec¬ independent states, STROBE TALBOTT, and minister, in September . . . She attended the retary RICHARD MOOSE, who spoke on his special assistant, VICTORIA NULAND;

SEVENTH FLOOR—5ecrrtary Christo¬ Davies, Deborah E. Graze, Michael P. Zo¬ George TV. Sibley, Max Robinson (obscured), pher, center, holds a T-shirt presented him hy rich, Ann E. Pforzheimer, Mark J. Herzberg, Mark R. Kennon (obscured), John P. Desro- the Operations Center staff on its “Profes¬ Jennifer C. Haskell, Rosalyn Anderson, Kim¬ cher, Joseph E. Seman, Gene L. Juve, Mat¬ sional Development Day.” Others, from left, berly C. Jackson, Donald C. Lieber, Arlene thew D. Wallack, Hoyt B. Yee, Jennifer C. front row: Thomas A. Underwood, Mary L, Ferrill, Sharron Amis. Back row: Daniel Poole, Allison J. Pugh, Michelle Bloxton, L. Beth Leonard, Timothy C. Crehan, Kathieen Rothstein, Matthew McKeever, Thomas G. Victor Hurtado, Harry K. Thomas, James L. D. Hanson, Geri L. Kam, Denise A. Urs, Gallo, Michael V. Hayden, James W. Bean, Wayman. Caroi C. Heinick, Ross Wilson, Glyn T. Stephen E. Elsenbraun, Peter Petrihos,

50 State “Advancing Diplomacy.” ... On October 7 Rico, MARLENE GILLETTE, and her assis¬ the forum and its working group on A.I.D. tant, PEDRO GARCIA, visited Washington ADMINISTRATION issues presented JOHANNES LINN, the for briefings on protocol procedure and prac¬ World Bank’s vice president for financial tice. policy and risk management, who spoke on On November 1 members of the Proto¬ Front Office “Improving the Effectiveness of External As¬ col staff attended an orientation program sistance.” ... On October 21 the forum and hosted by the U.S. Secret Service. They were Assistant Secretary PATRICK F. KEN¬ the American Foreign Service Association deputy chief of protocol FRED DuVAL, Mr. NEDY addressed the October 22 gathering of cosponsored a program on gender discrimina¬ Gookin, MARY MEL FRENCH, HARLAN Civil Service employees who are new to the tion ... On October 25 Senator JOHN LEE, EVE WILKINS, CHRIS HATH¬ Department. □ KERRY spoke to the forum on U.S. policy AWAY, MISSY DARWIN, CARLOS ELI¬ on Southeast Asia ... On November 3 ZONDO, LIZ MARTINEZ, TANYA MUHAMMAD YUNUS, founder and presi¬ TURNER-SANDERS, CONNIE DIERMAN, Executive Office dent of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, HILLARY LUCAS, APRIL GUICE, KIM spoke on banking for the poor, at a joint TOWNSEND, RICK PAULUS and JEN¬ Executive director JACK JENKINS and session of the forum and its working group NIFER CURLEY . . . Visits chief MEL other staff members made “customer-service on A.I.D. issues. FRENCH and visits officer RANDY BUM- house calls” to staffers at the Diplomatic On November 5 the forum and the GARDNER traveled to Seattle in mid- Contingency Program, the Office of the Cu¬ Foreign Service Association cosponsored a October to assist with preparations for a rator, the Office of Foreign Missions and the discussion on “Restructuring the Govern¬ conference . . . Blair House general manager Moscow Embassy Buildings Control Office ment: Is There a Role for Political Ambassa¬ BENEDICTE VALENTINER and her staff . . . The office welcomed MELVERN RO¬ dors?” . . . On November 9 STROBE TAL¬ handled the visits to Washington of the BERTS and FERN CANDELARIO to the BOTT, ambassador-at-large and special Turkish prime minister and the Egyptian Administrative Services Division, and AR- advisor to the Secretary, was to speak on president, in October . . . Visits officers LINE HETLAND to the Personnel Manage¬ U.S. policy on Russia, Ukraine and the other Bumgardner and Ms. Hathaway coordinated ment Division . . . CATHIE ROBERTS and former Soviet republics ... On November 18 the Turkish and Egyptian visits, respectively SHARON ORTIZ traveled to the New York JOSEPH NYE, chairman of the National . . . Public affairs specialist MARY MASSE- Despatch Agency in Iselin, N.J., for a pre¬ Intelligence Council was to speak on prob¬ RINI coordinated press and television activi¬ sentation to the staff on performance man¬ lems of intelligence in the post-cold war ties for both visits. agement and avoidance of sexual harassment world . . . JOSEPH DUFFY, director of Ceremonials Division officers Guice, . . . RICHARD FOX, Working Capital Fund U.S.LA., was slated to address the forum on Townsend, PHIL DUFOUR, DEE LILLY manager, visited the European Logistical November 22 . . . TONY QUAINTON, assis¬ and Paulus arranged luncheons hosted by Support Office in Antwerp, Belgium, to re¬ tant secretary for diplomatic security was to SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER in honor of view management issues raised by the Office speak on November 23 . . .DAN OBER- Nato Secretary General MANFRED of the Inspector General and to learn more DORFER, former reporter for the Washing¬ WOERNER and German Foreign Minister about the budget, finance and payment pro¬ ton Post, was to speak on “How To Be More KLAUS KINKEL, members of the House cedures . . . Mr. Fox then traveled to the Effective With the Press,” November 30. □ Foreign Affairs Committee, senior business New York Despatch Agency to observe oper¬ executives and the Conference to Support ations, including methods for despatching air Protocol Office Middle East Peace . . . The Accreditation cargo to foreign and domestic destinations, Division arranged for presentation of creden¬ and consolidation and containerization of tials at the White House on October 1 by freight destined for posts abroad. □ Protocol chief MOLLY RAISER intro¬ ambassadors from Argentina, Eritrea, Co¬ duced the diplomatic corps to PRESIDENT lumbia, Sudan, Australia, Mauritius, Belize, CLINTON at the September 22 joint session Belarus, Indonesia and Cyprus . . . Protocol Office of Small and of Congress. She and members of her staff officer CATHERINE GERARDl coordinated Disadvantaged Business assisted with the Middle East peace donors the arrangements. Escorting the ambassadors conference in early October . . . She partici¬ and their families to the White House were Utilization pated in the opening ceremonies of the Na¬ Ms. French, Mr. Gookin, Mr. Lee, LAWR¬ tional Foreign Affairs Training Center, Octo¬ ENCE DUNHAM, LYNNE MILLER, Mr. The office has issued a reminder that, ber 13, and administered the oath of office to Dufour, BARBARA ADAMS, CONNIE each year, the Small Business Administration the first officer class to graduate at the center DIERMAN, CHENOBIA CALHOUN and makes an award to the firm selected as the . . . She hosted luncheons for African and Mr. Paulus. “National Small Business Prime Contractor Latin American/Caribbean ambassadors at The assistant chief for accreditation, Mr. of the Year.” The winner is chosen from Blair House in October . . . She hosted the Dunham, participated in a training seminar among Small Business Administration region¬ diplomatic corps on a visit to Colonial Wil¬ hosted by the chief of protocol of the Organ¬ al award winners. The award will be present¬ liamsburg, Va., in late October, which was ization of American States to acquaint mem¬ ed at a banquet in Washington during Na¬ arranged by the Ceremonials Division staff ber missions with U.S. Government accredita¬ tional Small Business Week, May 1-7. The . . . RICHARD GOOKIN, associate chief, tion and visa regulations ... In late October agency has requested that federal departments met with representatives of Kazakhstan on Mr. Dunham escorted the body of the Bah¬ and agencies submit their nominations for the establishment of a Kazakh embassy in rain ambassador, who died after a brief this award not later than December 10. A Washington ... He represented the Depart¬ illness in Washington, to Manama for burial department may nominate two firms. One ment at Meridian House for an introduction . . . Protocol assistant DEAN LEWIS served must be in Small Business Administration of new foreign diplomats to the Hospitality as Combined Federal Campaign coordinator Region 3 (encompassing the Pennsylvania- and Information Service. At his invitation, for Protocol, which was the first bureau to Maryland-Delaware-West Virginia-Virginia- the assistant secretary of state of Puerto reach its goal for the current campaign. □ District of Columbia area); the second may

December 1993 51 BUREAU NOTES

be in another region. Any program or pro¬ and Pusan were discussed ... A briefing was RAY SHIRKHODAI traveled to Moscow to curement office which has a contract with a held for ambassador-designate WALTER C. install communications hardware and soft¬ small business that it deems a candidate for CARRINGTON, Nigeria, at which issues ware and instruct embassy personnel on its this award should contact DURIE WHITE, arising from the embassy’s move to the new use ... ROBERT PACE assisted in the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Nigerian federal city of Abuja were dis¬ installation of a new telephone system for Utilization, Bureau of Administration, to ob¬ cussed. These included the status of town- A.I.D.’s mission in Addis Ababa . . . DAN tain the nomination form. (The firm need not house construction in Abuja, lack of an KELLY and WILLIAM PRESPARE traveled have been awarded the contract as a set-aside ambassador’s residence in Abuja, need for a to Tel Aviv and Gaborone, respectively, to in order to be nominated.) Ms. White will housing assignment policy as staffers move to install classified message-processing systems consolidate the nomination(s) and forward Abuja, sale of excess property in Lagos and . . . JOHN SMITH, RON LAY, ROBERT them to the regional offices. She may be providing fixtures and furnishings for Abuja LAKE, JEFFERSON FLAVIN, BRIAN PE¬ reached on (703) 875-6824 in Rosslyn, Va. □ facilities. A roofing project at the chancery TERSON, DAVID COOPER and JOE MI- and the state of repair of the U.S.LA. KULSKI attended training at the Warrenton building in Lagos were also mentioned ... A Training Center . . . ROBERT MASON at¬ Office of the meeting was held with ambassador-designate tended the national senior cryptologic course. Procurement Executive DONALD M. BLINKEN, Hungary, about Information Services: EDWARD WIL¬ the ambassador’s residence renovation, plans SON and NATALIE LEE attended the for¬ for chancery renovations and the status of eign affairs leadership seminar in West Vir¬ ROB LLOYD conducted a procurement other U.S. properties in Budapest . . . The ginia . . . MARY PASCHALL, MAE training seminar in October for Foreign Ser¬ director for operations and post support, WHITEHEAD and YVONNE EVANS at¬ vice nationals in Canberra, Australia. The LAWRENCE BAER, briefed Ambassador tended a training session sponsored by the seminar was sponsored by CASSY EBERT- TERESITA SCHAFFER, Sri Lanka. Funding National Association of Female Executives. □ GRAY, general services officer, and covered and design of the post’s planned warehouse fundamentals of small purchases and formal were discussed, as well as procedures for the contracts. Attendees, from eight posts in the sale of excess property. The ambassador re¬ Office of Operations region, included SHARON JONES, JASON quested Foreign Buildings assistance and ad¬ MAAS, NANCY SOMOLAY and PAM vice on controlling electricity costs, the post’s Office of Allowances: In conjunction BARTLETT, Canberra; WAYNE REHIA, largest variable expense. □ with the Vice President’s “Reinventing Gov¬ Sydney; SHAYNE HEARLEY, Brisbane; ernment’’ initiative, BETTY STEWART, spe¬ KEVIN BROWN, Melbourne; KIRRILLY cial projects officer, is a member of the DONNELLY, Perth; MALCOLM BUNDU, Information Management working group representing the Office of the Port Moresby; COLIN WAITE, Auckland; Inspector General, Finance and Management and ERIN FITZSIMMONS, Wellington. □ Systems Operations: SHEILA STE¬ Policy, Consular Affairs, European Affairs WART traveled to Cairo, Muscat, Abu and the Office of Operations that is under¬ Office of Foreign Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Damascus and Amman taking a pilot project to reduce paperwork to conduct local-area-net computer installa¬ requirements for travel vouchers. This project Buildings Operations tions and training . . . MARK PERO, DA¬ seeks to identify opportunities to reduce pa¬ VID JOHNSTON, STEPHEN HOLMBERG, perwork in the authorization and voucher TOM PHALEN, DEBORAH FONSS, and Deputy assistant secretary JEROME F. TOLSON JR. met with deputy chief of mission-designate RUST M. DEMING, Ja¬ pan, to discuss property issues, including the upcoming ambassador’s residence renovation and asset management in Osaka and Naha ... A briefing was held with Ambassador RICHARD W. TEARE, Papua New Guinea. Progress on the Bank Building renovation project, staff housing needs and the future of the leased chancery were discussed ... A meeting was held with Ambassador THE¬ RESA A. TULL, Brunei. The state of repair of the leased chancery premises and furnish¬ ings for the ambassador’s residence were discussed . . . Acting deputy assistant secre¬ tary JOSEPH T. SIKES briefed ambassador- designate PARKER W. BORG, Iceland, about completion of new public-access con¬ trol facilities for the chancery and renova¬ tions to the Marine house ... A meeting was held with ambassador-designate JAMES T. LANEY, Korea, concerning property issues INFORMATION MANAGEMENT—At ond row: John Channell, Francis Dulemba, there. The Korean government’s desire for award ceremony, first row, left to right: Guy Thompson, Brenda Harrington, Carl the U.S. Government to vacate the chancery Joyce Mabray, Geraldine Peterson, Patsy Giampietro, John E. Clark, Timothy Law- and how this might be integrated into plan¬ Butler, Jacqueline Williams, Kay Monte- son, Sandra Muench, Randall Skoog. ning for U.S. property requirements in Seoul White, Frank Machak, Roy Buchholz. Sec-

52 State process, for employees traveling on ANNIE MOORE, CHARLES PORTER, RY OBST delivered the keynote address at temporary-duty assignments . . . MARY CURTIS PRESLEY, CAROL ROTH, RON¬ the annual meeting of the California Court ANN GRIFFIN, chief, living quarters allow¬ ALD STALNAKER, DAVID STOTT- Interpreters Association, in San Diego. ance branch, retired after 42 years with the LEMYER and JAMES R. YOUNG provided Office of Safety/Health and Environ¬ Department . . . JUANITA STOKES, chief. support at the conference to support the mental Management: STEVE URMAN visit¬ Measurement and Development Division, and Middle East peace efforts, October 1 . . . ed Toronto and Ottawa to discuss indoor BONITA PROCTOR, standards and differ¬ ALBERT WHITING and ALVIN COLE¬ air-quality investigations and to meet with entials specialist, traveled to Riyadh, Jeddah, MAN traveled to St. Louis to support a employees regarding their health concerns . . Dhahran, Cairo and Manama, to conduct U.S.-new independent states conference on Safety/Health and Environmental Manage¬ reviews of allowances and differentials and democracy . . WAYNE HENDERSON at¬ ment held its semiannual Main State fire answer questions on allowances and benefits tended a multimedia convention in St. Louis. safety meeting with occupants of warden under the Standardized Regulations . . . Office of Supply and Transportation: rooms and fire watch officers from Diplo¬ Three modules have been completed for the The annual supply and transportation confer¬ matic Security and Facilities Management and allowances data system, and dual system ence was held in Washington in mid- Support Services . . . EILEEN VERITY and testing began in October ... As of October, November . . . RONALD TATE, property REGINA McClelland represented the of¬ the average worldwide foreign travel per diem management branch, traveled to Bangkok in fice at federal safety and health conference allowance was $143.48. This represents a September to provide training to Foreign . . . DAVID NEEDHAM attended an Envi¬ 1.4*% increase over the September average Service nationals from area posts, on the use ronmental Protection Agency/General Servic¬ and a 3.9*?*o decrease over the past 12 of the Department’s automated inventory sys¬ es Administration seminar on the phaseout of months. Changes are due mainly to fluctua¬ tem, nonexpendable property application . . . ozone-depleting chemicals . . . Mr. Needham tions in exchange rates, the office said . . . Property management specialists CHARLES has been recertified by the Environmental The staff welcomed its new director, LOUIS LYONS traveled to Madrid, Lisbon, Banjul Protection Agency as a licensed asbestos- LEMIEUX, and allowances and differentials and Bissau, and DANIEL YOUNG to Ha¬ management planner. □ specialist, TAMARA PEYTON in September rare, Nairobi and Victoria during October, to . . . JON GUYTON, chief. Standards and review property ofierations and assess compli¬ Differentials Division, spoke on allowances ance with property management regulations. and differentials to a combined class of Office of Language Services: Interpreting AFRICAN AFFAIRS budget and fiscal and personnel officers . . .' support in seven languages for the conference Ms. Stokes provided a briefing on overseas to support Middle East peace efforts was Office of the Assistant Secretary: Assis¬ allowances and differentials to employees at¬ coordinated by interpreting chief STEPHA¬ tant Secretary GEORGE E. MOOSE attended tending the course, “Understanding Regula¬ NIE VAN REIGERSBERG, and involved the Tokyo African development conference, tions, Allowances and Finances in the For¬ staff members VIVIAN CHANG, CAROL October 4-8 ... On October 19 he testified eign Service Context” . . . SARAH BRAND, WOLTER, SIM SMILEY, DIMITRY ZA- before the House Subcommittee on Economic unit security officer, was cited during an RECHNAK, GALINA TUNIK, GUIL¬ Policy, Trade and the Environment, on creat¬ LERMO BASERVA, LILLIAN NIGA- information security review by a Bureau of ing an African Enterprise Fund ... He spoke GLIONI and PATSY ARIZU . . . PETER Diplomatic Security representative as one of at the International Association of Black AFANASENKO accompanied the Secretary the few unit security officers who has a Professionals in International Affairs confer¬ of Energy to Moscow ... He and Mr. closing-hours security-check system (a ence, October 23 ... On October 26 he Zarechnak assisted SECRETARY CHRISTO¬ “double checker” system) in place . . . Secre¬ testified before the House subcommittee on PHER and Under Secretary LYNN DAVIS taries JOANNE DECONCINI and EMO- Africa, regarding Zaire ... He participated on separate itineraries in Russia and eastern GENE WINSTON attended a conference for in a meeting of the African Development Europe . . . Translating chief PILAR MOL- secretaries in Rosslyn ... All staff members Foundation, October 27. NAR and THOMAS MALIONEK coordinat¬ have been trained in Microsoft Windows and Office of Central African Affairs: ed translation of documents for the principals Word. MARY GRANDFIELD took up duties as . . . DIMITRI ARENSBURGER provided Office of Facilities Management and desk officer for Chad and the Central Afri¬ Russian-language support for a review of the Support Services: Director RICHARD ISE- can Republic, October 4 . . . Zaire desk LIN attended the “Partnership in Adminis¬ antiballistic missile treaty in Geneva, and officer TERRY McCULLEY arrived October remained for a session of the Joint Compli¬ tration” seminar sponsored by the General 12 . . . Deputy director REED FENDRICK Services Administration in Baltimore, Octo¬ ance and Inspection Commission where he undertook orientation travel to the central ber 25-27 . . . RAY MATHIS, CURTIS was joined by staff members LAWRENCE African region, October 14-November 5. □ PRESLEY, DALE CHASE, WILLIAM BURRELL and HELEN FIELDS ... GI- WEBB, CALVIN DUBOSE, MELVIN SIMS, SELA MARCUSE interpreted for a military NOLA LIBBY and TIUJUANA THOMAS- meeting in Bonn ... Mr. Baserva traveled to JACKSON attended a heating, ventilation Denver for a transportation working group CONSULAR and air-conditioning training course . . . ELI¬ meeting with Mexico and Canada ... On ZABETH ELLIOTT KIMMEL, FRANK October 4 former staff member HELEN ELY AFFAIRS BRIGHT, SHIRLEY BEARD, WILLIAM rejoined the office as chief of the Romance DAVIS, RICHARD F. ALBERT, ALVIN L. translating section . . .French translation sec¬ COLEMAN, CALVIN DUBOSE, WILEVA tion chief PIERRE POLLIN, program ana¬ Front Office: Assistant Secretary MARY JOHNSTON, BRIGITTA STRANGE, AR¬ lyst WANDA TUCKER and Ms. van Reigers- A. RYAN traveled to Port-au-Prince and THUR YOUNG, LESTER BEST, JOSEPH berg attended the annual meeting of the Santo Domingo, October 27-29, to review BROOKMAN, BARBARA CAPIES, DALE American Translators Association in Phila¬ consular operations . . . Principal deputy as¬ CHASE, JOHN DOLAN, LEON DUNBAR, delphia . . . SUZANNE KLEIS completed sistant secretary DAVID L. HOBBS was the JOAN GOODRUM, ROBERT HENSLEY, her summer internship with the Translating opening speaker at the fifth annual American ANNETTE JURKONIE, NOLA LIBBY, Division ... On October 23 director HAR¬ Tourism Society’s fall seminar, October 21.

December 1993 53 BUREAU NOTES

Portsmouth . . . The Visa Office welcomed ANTOINETTE MARWITZ as director of the Office of Public and Diplomatic Liaison, KAREN STANTON as chief of the Written Inquiries Division and JENNIFER FURNESS to the Office of Field Operations. Overseas Citizens Services: On October 9 WILLIAM DANIELS, Citizens Emergency Center, traveled to Franklin, Ga., on behalf of PRESIDENT CLINTON to attend the funeral of MICHAEL DUNCAN, an Ameri¬ can killed during the crisis in Moscow. Mr. Daniels read a letter from the President and Mrs. Clinton to the family at the funeral service. Passport Services: GRETCHEN SCHUSTER, regional director, Chicago Pass¬ port Agency, presented awards at the Federal Executive Board’s Hispanic employment pro¬ gram subcommittee’s annual scholarship lun¬ VICTORIA, Seychelles—Chargi Stephen municator Gilbert Furtado, right, in this cheon, which was attended by more than 500 Malott presents Superior Honor Awards to island nation north of Madagascar, individuals . . . She also participated in the consular officer Andrew Erickson and com- board’s fall planning retreat in Wisconsin ... In October she and TERRY GREEN, assistant regional director at Chicago, two The seminar focused on governmental rela¬ ALLARD . . . DORAN BARD, consular of¬ representatives from the Bureau of Diplomat¬ tions and issues between the United States ficer, Advisory Opinions Division, attended ic Security and an employee from the Office and the former republics of the Soviet Union, an overseas consular workshop in New Delhi of Foreign Missions welcomed the under and the effects on travel and tourism in those in September . . . RICHARD SCULLY, secretary for management, RICHARD regions. attorney-advisor. Advisory Opinions Divi¬ MOOSE, during his visit to Chicago ... Mr. Visa Services: Deputy assistant secretary sion, addressed the Association of Foreign Moose also visited the Los Angeles Passport DIANE DILLARD and associate director Medical Graduates, in New York, September Agency, October 25, where he met with MICHAEL HANCOCK visited the site of the 18 . . . JAMES CARTER, chief. Post Liai¬ TIMOTHY WIESNET, assistant regional di¬ proposed National Visa Center in Port¬ son Division, traveled to Portsmouth and rector; MARGARET AYER, processing sec¬ smouth, N.H., for consultations on the status Manchester, N.H., October 20, for a meeting tion chief; MARGARET DOYLE, adjudica¬ of construction and preparations for start-up with U.S. Postal Service officials in connec¬ tion section chief; GLORIA GREEN, fraud operations with center director MICHAEL tion with the next visa lottery, which will be program coordinator; MARIN MIURA, com¬ HOGAN and administrative officer CLARKE processed by the National Visa Center at munication section chief; and BARBARA BROPHY, acceptance agents coordinator . . . On October 19 Mr. Wiesnet attended an Office of Personnel Management training seminar, to discuss implementation of the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act and the role of the Office of Personnel Management in working with Government offices in personnel-related matters under that Act . . . On November 4 Ms. Brophy conducted a half-day training class at the Los Angeles Passport Agency in passport acceptance pro¬ cedures for new passport acceptance agents from area postal acceptance facilities and city clerk’s offices . . . SAKAE M. HAWLEY, regional director, Los Angeles, was honored, October 19, by the Los Angeles Federal Executive Board as its outgoing chairwoman. She was given an award, and SANDY PLYLER, a secretary at the Los Angeles agency, was honored for her work in assisting CONSULAR AFFAIRS—At award cere¬ executive director; assistant secretary Mary the chairwoman during the past year ... In mony, from left: Patrick Hegarty, Overseas Ryan; Adina Kazyak, Meritorious Honor October, DEE DEE SOUTHERLAND, sea¬ Citizens Services, Meritorious Honor Award Award for her performance in the Visa Of¬ sonal passport examiner, Los Angeles, trans¬ for his work as acting crisis management fice; James L. Ward, consul general in Paris, ferred to the National Passport Center in director; Barry Kefauver, deputy assistant Superior Honor Award for his performance Portsmouth, to a permanent position as a secretary for passport services, Superior Hon¬ as acting assistant secretary. passport examiner. or Award for his performance as the bureau’s IRENE CONRAN is retiring after more

54 State Office of the Executive Director; STEVE MALONEY, management analyst, visited the consulate in Ciudad Juarez, October 4-7, to discuss immigrant visa operations with post management. □

DIPLOMATIC SECURITY

Office of the Assistant Secretary: Assis¬ tant Secretary ANTHONY QUAINTON trav¬ eled to Haiti to review the security posture of the U.S. mission, October 19. During his MADRID, Spain—A Meritorious Honor passport assistant Ma. Carmen Morales, spe¬ visit, he met with ROBERT MALVAL, prime Award is granted to the passport unit, from cialist Angelines Baniandres, assistant secre¬ minister of the Aristide government, to dis¬ left: consul general Larry Colbert, vice consul tary Mary Ryan, vice consul Colombia cuss what support would be provided by the David Schensted, clerk Felisa Valderrama, Barosse. Department, and to determine what addition¬ al support, if any, might be requested. He than 18 years as secretary at the San Francis¬ houses 18 federal agencies, including the was accompanied by Diplomatic Security’s co Passport Agency. passport agency, adopted the theme “Under operations director for Latin America, MAR¬ The New Orleans Passport Agency One Umbrella of Caring.” Umbrellas are TIN DOUGHERTY, and Mobile Security starred in the federal community’s Combined part of the New Orleans Mardi Gras custom, Division deputy chief LOU POSSANZA. Federal Campaign drive in that city. In previ¬ and each agency was asked to design an Diplomatic Security Service; Director ous years this agency consistently surpassed umbrella that would identify a United Way MARK MULVEY visited the Washington its monetary and participation goals, and it agency. The winner was State’s New Orleans Field Office, October 22. He held a question- was designated a 1993 “Pacesetter Agency.” Passport Agency. and-answer session with special agents about It exceeded its monetary goal by 21. Team Fraud Prevention Programs: RUTH “reinventing Government” and its impact on leaders SHARYOL CUMMINGS and VA¬ LINCOLN conducted antifraud training for their career development . . . SEYMOUR NESSA WININS co-ordinated the drive, and inspectors from the Immigration and Natural¬ DEWITT is the new special assistant to Mr. all employees of the agency demonstrated ization Service, at the Federal Law Enforce¬ Mulvey . . . Special agent GORDON SJUE is their willingness to help those less fortunate. ment Training Center, Glynco, Ga., October the new chief of the Criminal Investigations The U.S. Postal Service building, which 27. Division . . . Special agent MARK BOYETT joined the staff of the Criminal Investigations Division . . . The director for investigations, RON REAMS, and Criminal Investigations Division chief Sjue attended Interpol’s 62nd general assembly session in Aruba . . . Spe¬ cial agent KIMBER DAVIDSON, special in¬ vestigations branch, traveled to St. Kitts to assist the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in a bombing investigation . . . ANTHONY RICHARDS, assistant special agent-in-charge, Washington Field Office, at¬ tended a pressure point control instructors course, October 4-8, at the Diplomatic Secu¬ rity Training Center . . . Special agent FRE¬ DERICK BURGUIERES returned from a two-month detail to Haiti, September 3 . . . Special Agents DAVID ORR and JOHN BLUMBERG returned from a 30-day detail in Macedonia, September 13 ... Special agent SCOTT MORETTI reported to the Washington Field Office, September 7 . . . Special agent MELISSA MePEAK reported to the Washington Field Office, August 30; HELSINKI, Finland—At consular work¬ Marc Gorelick John Parker, Jennifer Scotti, Special agent GEORGE SILKE reported on shop, front row, from left: Frances Jones, Bruce Hudspeth, Robert Winchester, Julie October 4 and special agent VICTOR DE- Margaret Judy, Deborah Klepp, Assistant Ruterbories, Catherine Shumann, Steven WINDT on October 12 . . . DORIS RO¬ Secretary Mary Ryan, David O'Leary, Lynn Kraft. Back row: Dick McCoy, David McAu- GERS represented the Washington Field Of¬ Whitlock Second row: Charles Glatz, Ellen ley, Brian Lieke, Steven Wangsness, Leigh fice at the Diplomatic Security systems Thorbum, Mary Fortino, Nancy Sambaiew, Carter, Nichoias Sherwood, Myies Weber, administrators seminar, September James Carter, William Daniels. Third row: David Stewart. 27-October 1. □

December 1993 55 BUREAU NOTES

TULL was confirmed as ambassador to Bru¬ EAST ASIAN AND nei and was continuing her Washington con¬ sultations before proceeding to post . . . DA¬ PACIFIC AFFAIRS VID VAN CLEVE is assisting in the office prior to consular training and departure for his assignment to Singapore. □ Assistant Secretary WINSTON LORD traveled to New York, September 26-October 1, for the opening of the UN General Assem¬ bly ... He participated in the President’s and Secretary’s meetings with Asian leaders, ECONOMIC and held consultations with foreign ministers of Asian countries ... He traveled to Lon¬ AND BUSINESS don and Moscow, October 18-22. In Mos¬ cow, he held consultations with Russian dep¬ AFFAIRS uty foreign minister GEORGIY KUNADZE, accompanied by special assistant PATRICIA HANIGAN SCROGGS ... On October 5 he Assistant Secretary DANIEL K. TA- testified on “U.S. Policy Toward Japan and RULLO led the U.S. delegation to the second the New Japanese Government,” in hearings meeting on economic cooperation with South before the East Asia and economic policy Korea, in Seoul, October 20-21. The senior subcommittees of the House Foreign Affairs adviser for Asia, RICHARD A. MORFORD, DUBLIN, Ireland—Gerry Noctor with Committee ... He briefed members of Con¬ and the chief of the Division of Developing Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, on his gress on U.S. policy in Asia, particularly Country Trade, DAVID MORAN, participat¬ retirement following a 31-year career as China, throughout October ... On Novem¬ ed .. . PAUL BALABANIS, director. Office chauffeur. ber 1 he held a two-way video conference of Monetary Affairs, led the U.S. delegation from Washington with participants at the to the Paris Club meeting on international East Asia public affairs officers conference in debt issues in Paris, France, October 5-7. He U.S.-German security consultations in Wash¬ Hong Kong. This was the first use of was accompanied by KIM VALUS, who han¬ ington ... He participated in VICE PRESI¬ U.S.I.A.’s new compressed digital video tech¬ dles Paris Club matters in the same office DENT GORE’S meeting with Czech Prime nology. . . . DAVID MORAN, chief. Developing Minister VACLAV KLAUS, October 15, then Four members of the Office for Philip- Country Trade Division, traveled to Seoul, attended the President’s working luncheon p.iies, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singa¬ Korea, October 12-22, to participate in meet¬ with the Turkish prime minister ... On pore Affairs (director W. SCOTT BUTCHER ings of the U.S./Korea trade subgroup and October 18 he addressed journalists at the and country officers ANNE GALER RYAN, the dialogue for economic cooperation. Overseas Writers Club ... He accompanied NAN NIDA and JOHN BRADSHAW) trav¬ JACK CRODDY, deputy director. Of¬ SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER on his trip to eled to New York in late September/early fice of Investment Affairs, participated in the Budapest, October 20, and visited Tirana, October to participate in bilateral meetings in October 4-8 plenary sessions of the European Sofia and Bucharest. Accompanying him to connection with the UN General Assembly energy charter treaty negotiations in Brussels eastern Europe were the director for eastern . . . JOHN NEGROPONTE was sworn in as . . . HOWARD LANGE, director. Office of ambassador to the Philippines, and departed Intellectual Property and Competition, was a for post on October 19 ... THERESA member of the U.S. delegation to the Geneva meetings of governing bodies of the World Intellectual Property Organization, September 20-29 . . . STEPHEN K. KEAT, same office, participated in antitrust consultations with the European community in Brussels, Sep¬ tember 20, and in antitrust consultations with Canada, in Washington, September 27. MARGARET CATON has joined the Textiles Division. □

EUROPEAN AND CANADIAN AFFAIRS

SYDNEY, Australia—Consul general Office of The Assistant Secretary: Assis¬ Cregorie Bujac, (background) presents tant Secretary STEPHEN A. OXMAN testi¬ BUDAPEST Hungary—Ambassador awards to Francis D’Sylva, Leon Smith, fied before the Senate Foreign Relations Charles H. Thomas, presents “Foreign Ser¬ Claire Zsirossy, Marilyn Gallahar, Raquel Committee, October 5, regarding the former vice National of the Quarter” award to Mireles. Yugoslavia . . . On October 7 he hosted Laszlo Vizsy.

56 State European Affairs, TERRY R. SNELL, and Office of East European Assistance: with officials and check out possible locations special assistant NANCY E. McELDOWNEY RALPH R. JOHNSON, Coordinator for As¬ for the new U.S. liaison office . . . TOM ... He rejoined the Secretary in Riga, Lat¬ sistance to central and eastern Europe, trav¬ GERTH, deputy director for the northern via, October 26, then concluded his overseas eled to the region, September 22-October 2. tier, traveled to Brussels, October 25-28, for trip with stops at Nato and Stockholm. He addressed a conference of public affairs consultations with the European Community Office of Canadian Affairs; Director officers in Salzburg and later met with gov¬ on developments in eastern Europe. JIM HOOPER visited Ottawa, October 6-8, ernment leaders and staffers at Embassies in Office of Northern European Affairs: for a chiefs-of-mission conference with the Bucharest and Tirana to discuss U.S. assist¬ The bureau welcomed ELISABETH BROCK- consuls general and Ambassador JAMES A. ance programs . . . Special assistant PETER ING, new Belgium desk officer, who com¬ BLANCHARD ... He spoke to the annual MULREAN accompanied Mr. Oxman to the pleted an orientation trip to Belgium, the conference of the Association of Black Pro¬ region, October 20-26. The delegation met Netherlands and Luxembourg in early Octo¬ fessionals in International Affairs, October with government officials in Budapest, Ti¬ ber . . . Office director JOHN TEFFT, ac¬ 22, on U.S.-Canadian policy . . . Deputy rana, Sofia and Bucharest . . . Deputy coor¬ companied by Norway/Denmark desk officer assistant secretary MARY ANN PETERS dinator GERRY HAMILTON left the office RICHARD NORLAND, led the U.S. delega¬ served as acting U.S. chairwoman for the to prepare for his upcoming duties as head of tion to Oslo and Kirkenes, September 23-24, 192d meeting of the U.S.-Canadian Perma¬ a mission to Latvia. for security consultations with Norway . . . nent Joint Board on Defense, in Winnepeg, Office of the Executive Director: Deputy Mr. Norland stopped in Copenhagen for Manitoba, October 19-21 ... Deputy direc¬ director JOHN O’KEEFE traveled to Serbia, consultations . . . Iceland/Ireland desk offic¬ tor BRUCE EHRMAN also served on the Slovenia, and Croatia for consultations, Oc¬ er JOHN WITHERS visited Reykjavik, Lon¬ board, which meets semiannually to coordi¬ tober 1-8 ... Post management officers don, Dublin and Belfast, October 14-23, for nate bilateral political/military issues . . . KIMBERLY DEBLAUW, JOHN BELZ, CE¬ discussions with embassy and country offi¬ Desk officer KATHERINE CHRISTENSEN CILIA ELIZONDO, NAOMI LYEW and cials ... He accompanied the Secretary at participated in consultations on border trade JOHN LAMSON traveled to England, Ire¬ the September 28 bilateral with the Icelandic issues, in Ottawa, October 7 ... On October land, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, Ita¬ foreign minister, at the UN General Assembly 27 she made a presentation on U.S.-Canada ly, Spain and Ukraine, to review post man¬ in New York. trade at the Arizona World Trade Center agement operations and issues . . . Office of Policy and Public Affairs; Conference on “Global Perspectives: Busi¬ Supervisory budget officer JAMES BROWN¬ Director KEITH SMITH participated in a ness Strategies for the 21st Century.” . . . ING, who has joined the bureau, hosted a seminar on “The New France in the New Desk officer TIM COLLINS visited Van¬ budget training workshop in Germany for Europe,” October 22-23, at Georgetown Uni¬ couver and Calgary, October 13-21, for con¬ administrative officers and senior Foreign versity . . . The deputy director for policy, sultations and calls on political party repre¬ Service nationals from the newly-independent JON GUNDERSEN, participated in a confer¬ sentatives . . . Environmental affairs officer states. The workshop was organized by budg¬ ence on ethnic conflict and U.S. policy, JOHN BAUMAN attended the seventh bien¬ et officer SUSAN GARRISON . . . JOHN October 1. nial conference on Great Lakes water quality, BALAS, post management section, traveled Office of European Community and Re¬ in Windsor, Ontario, October 22-24. to Almaty to assist in the Secretary’s visit gional Affairs: The bureau welcomed JOHN Office of Central European Affairs: Di¬ there. HARRI^N as the desk officer covering rector J.D. BINDENAGEL attended the Oc¬ Office of Eastern European Affairs: Ma¬ Organization for Economic Cooperation and tober 14-15 meeting of the German-American cedonia desk officer MONIQUE QUESADA Development and European Community Is¬ high-level defense group, in Berlin. traveled to Skopje in mid-September to meet sues . . . Office director SHAUN DONNEL¬ LY represented the Department, October 19, at a dinner sponsored by the European Insti¬ tute in honor of EGON KLEPSCH, president of the European Parliament . . . deputy di¬ rector LAURIE TRACY was a member of the U.S. delegation to the executive commit¬ tee in special session of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, October 25-27, in Paris . . . WILLIAM BELLIS represented the bureau at the annual U.S.-European Community environmental bi¬ laterals, October 20-22. Office of European Security and Politi¬ cal Affairs: Director JIM CUNNINGHAM headed the U.S. delegation to a meeting of the Nato high-level task force on arms con¬ trol, in Brussels, Belgium, October 21-22. He was accompanied by the conventional-forces- in-Europe treaty expert, JENNIFER LAU- RENDEAU . . . LAUREL SHEA GALLI- VAN attended the Nato Defense Ministers meeting in Travemuende, Germany, October 20-21 . . . DEBRA CAGAN participated in BUCHAREST, Romania—At award cer- Kenny, Toni Markie. Bottom row: Ligia To- the meeting of the Nato ad hoc group on the emony, top row, from left: Andrei Stratan, dan. Ambassador John R. Davis, Carmen former Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons, Oc¬ Paul Teodorescu, Teodora Capatina, Mary Costinescu, Michael Markie. tober 15, in Brussels . . . Colonel JAMES

December 1993 57 BUREAU NOTES

ALLGOOD attended the Nato high-level and addressed gatherings of the local consu¬ Luxembourg, October 20-22, to discuss the group meeting in Brussels, September 23, and lar corps elsewhere ... He met with repre¬ role of Government departments in the for¬ Colonel DANIEL COX attended the Nato sentatives of local government and law en¬ mulation and implementation of human conference of national armaments directors, forcement agencies at each location, and with rights considerations in foreign policy. October 28, in Brussels . . . FRED KAPLAN representatives of other federal agencies. The director of the Office of Bilateral was a member of the U.S. delegation to Recent personnel changes include the Affairs, YVONNE THAYER, conducted an Nato’s senior emergency planning committee departure of Unisys contract employees PA¬ all-day seminar on U.S. human rights policy, plenary session meeting in Noordwijk-aan- TRICIA SELLERS and LANCE PARKER for Department desk and human rights offic¬ Zee, Netherlands, October 13-14 . . . JONA¬ from the program support section in Wash¬ ers, October 5 . . . She met with Haitian THAN COHEN and TOM TORRANCE rep¬ ington, and CHELSEA COCHRANE from legislators, October 22, and a delegation of resented the Department as U.S. delegation the regional office in Los Angeles . . . MOL¬ Latin American indigenous parlimentarians, executive secretaries for the Conference on LY PETERSON has joined the New York October 25 . . . The director of the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe’s human Regional Office, and DEL NECESSARY has Democracy Policy and Program Coordina¬ dimension implementation meeting, in War¬ replaced Ms. Cochrane in Los Angeles . . . tion, JOSEPH McBRlDE, addressed partici¬ saw, Poland, September 27-October 15. Par¬ Long-time Unisys employee PHILIPPE GRE¬ pants in the political tradecraft course at the ticipants reviewed compliance with human GORY is serving as acting Unisys project Foreign Service Institute, October 27. His rights, rule of law and fundamental freedom manager . . . Foreign Service officers ANN talk was on democracy promotion as one of commitments by all the states of Europe, the COVINGTON and TIMOTHY SEARS have the three pillars of the Clinton administra¬ former Soviet Union and the United States taken up duties as program director for tax tion. Special programs assistant THOMAS and Canada, and looked at ways of correct¬ and customs and as member of the travel and PLOFCHAN, Office of Democracy Policy ing shortcomings in this area . . . Mr. Cohen property program staff, respectively. and Program Coordination, was in Newport, returned to Warsaw, November 2-5, as U.S. “Quality Employee of the Month’’ R.L, at the Navy Justice School, October delegation executive secretary at the Confer¬ awards for June and July went to SHEILA 12-15, to work on the development of human ence on Security and Cooperation in Euro¬ CHESTNUT and TRACY SANTORO. Ms. rights courses for the Navy’s international pe’s free media seminar. The U.S. delegation, Chestnut contributed to the Diplomatic Mo¬ military education and training program. □ led by the Bureau of Human Rights and tor Vehicle program and Ms. Santoro to Humanitarian Affairs’ Assistant Secretary improvement of the database supporting the JOHN SHATTUCK, also included HOD- travel program. □ DING CARTER; the managing editor of Wall Street Journal Europe, FREDERICK INSPECTOR KEMPE; the director of Radio Library, KE¬ VIN KLOSE; and International Herald Tri¬ GENERAL’S bune correspondent JOE FITCHETT. HUMAN RIGHTS Office of Southern European Affairs: OFFICE Assistant Secretary Oxman and JOHN MA- AND RESCA (special Cyprus coordinator and U.S. negotiator on Nagorno-Karabakh) attended a HUMANITARIAN On November 18, inspector general luncheon meeting between PRESIDENT SHERMAN M. FUNK and JANE ALTEN- CLINTON and Turkish Prime Minister AFFAIRS HOFEN, inspector general. International TANSU CILLER, October 15. The bureau Trade Commission, co-hosted a management then hosted a series of discussions with the forum presented by the President’s Council prime minister’s delegation on bilateral eco¬ Assistant Secretary JOHN SHATTUCK on Integrity and Efficiency, on “Evaluating nomic and security issues. traveled to China, October 7-19 ... In Beij¬ Agency Operations in a Period of Austerity.’’ Office of Western European Affairs: ing, he held bilateral discussions on human There were speakers from the inspector gen¬ Portugal desk officer MARK DAVISON or¬ rights conditions specified in the President’s eral and management communities, including ganized the eighth round of Lajes Azores May 28 executive order on most-favored SUSAN GAFFNEY, inspector general. De¬ base negotiations in Washington, October nations ... He also visited Tibet, Chengdu partment of Housing and Urban Develop¬ 4-5, following which he traveled to the and Guangzhou ... He then went to Hong ment; DEREK VANDER SCHAAF, acting Azores with the U.S. delegation . . . Fall Kong . . . On October 21 he represented the inspector general. Department of Defense; intern RACHEL ROBBOY, from George Department at the opening of a seminar held THOMAS KOERBER, assistant chief postal Washington University, has joined the to honor the 150th anniversary of B’nai inspector, U.S. Postal Service; and RICH¬ office. □ B’rith . . . On October 26 he testifed before ARD KUSSEROW, senior vice president. the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s sub¬ Strategic Management Association, Inc. and committee on human rights, on human rights PHILIP LADER, deputy director for man¬ in Mexico. agement. U.S. Office of Management and FOREIGN Principal deputy assistant secretary Budget, spoke on how insp)ectors general can NANCY ELY-RAPHEL and regional bilater¬ become more effective. MISSIONS al affairs officers ERIC SCHULTZ and The Office of Investigations’ Special Op¬ CAROL SMETANA were members of the erations Division director, WILLIAM N. OFFICE U.S. delegation to the Conference on Security CRANE, has completed a 60-day interagency and Cooperation in Europe’s implementation detail to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. During September and October ERIC J. review meeting, in Warsaw, September 27- While there, he assisted in the preparation of BOSWELL, director, visited regional offices October 15 . . . Ms. Ely-Raphel attended the congressional testimony by the commission in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and annual American Association for the Interna¬ chairman, IVAN SELIN and consulted with New York ... He participated in a formal tional Commission of Jurists meeting of gov¬ the commission’s Office of Investigations on seminar for the consular corps in Los Angeles ernment officials involved in human rights, in automated case management ... He traveled

58 State to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, to assist in a federal grand jury investigation of nuclear license violators. He received a letter of commendation from the U.S. attorney for his assistance there. □

INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH

Office for Terrorism and Narcotics Anaiysis: JUDY BIRD, acting director, at¬ tended the annual bilateral intelligence ex¬ change on terrorism with British counterparts in London, October 4-5. Office of the Geographer; WILLIAM B. WOOD participated in a panel on “Changing Environments: How Vulnerable Are We?” at Indiana University, October MIAMI—At Foreign Service national Alfredo Chong, Managua; Lynn Lyons, 14-15 ... He also gave the keynote address workshop, standing left to right: Jemiie Ber- Washington. Seated: Marta Hernandez, Cara¬ at the annual meeting of the North American tot; Ligia David, Tegucigalpa; Regina de cas; Diana de Alvarez, Bogota; Tania Scott Cartographic Information Society, October Avaios, San Salvador; Gracieia Estigarribia, de Escala, Panama; Maria Rosa Chappuis, 21 . . . BRADFORD THOMAS was elected Asuncion; Dahlia Stewart, Kingston; Judith Buenos Aires; Lesley Ann Hardy, Grenada; chairman of the U.S. Board on Geographic Leiva, Guatemala; Marlon Avellan, San Jose; Margarita Martinez, Santo Domingo; Maria Names, at its first meeting of the 1993-95 Rosa Elvira Salazar, Lima; Angela Maria Soledad Blaida, Santiago; Claudia Prado, biennium, October 12. □ Hunte, Bridgetown; Arrindell Henry, Port- Mexico City; Aurelia Sanchez, Belize. of-Spain; Rosemar Nunes Correira, Brasilia;

INTER-AMERICAN European Community “troika” for the annu¬ NIS HAYS and deputy director NANCY al talks on Latin America and the Caribbean. MASON made orientation trips to Havana AFFAIRS Office of the Executive Director: The . . . Political officer BOB FRETZ visited the first chiefs-of-mission conference in 10 years naval base at Guantanamo Bay. was held September 15-17, for one day in Office of Central American Affairs: Di¬ Office of the Assistant Secretary: As¬ Washington and two at Airlie House, War- rector JOHN R. HAMILTON and deputy sistant Secretary ALEXANDER WATSON renton, Va. The office hosted an administra¬ director MICHAEL RANNEBERGER were traveled to Haiti, September 20-22, accompa¬ tive officers conference, October 5-8, on in New York at the UN General Assembly nied by Ambassador LAWRENCE PEZ- resource reductions in fiscal years 1994-95. the week of September 27 for meetings with ZULLO, executive director JIM WEINER Office of Cuban Affairs: Director DEN¬ Central American officials . . . Mr. Ranne- and representatives from A.I.D. and the De¬ partment of Defense. Mr. Watson, accompa¬ nied by deputy assistant secretaries ED CA¬ SEY and ANNE PATTERSON, spent the week of September 27 at the opening of the UN General Assembly, joining the President and Secretary in bilaterals and meeting with heads of state and foreign ministers . . . MICHAEL SKOL completed his assignment as chief of mission in Venezuela and joined the bureau as the principal deputy assistant secretary, October 4 . . . Mr. Watson testi¬ fied before the House Foreign Affairs Com¬ mittee, on Nicaragua (October 6) ... He sp)oke to Latin American ambassadors at the Carnegie Endowment (October 7, at the Inter-American Defense College (October 8), at the Washington International Business Council (October 25), at the Cuban-American National Federation (October 26), and ended on October 28 in New York, addressing the Wall Street Journal’s second annual confer¬ ence on the Americas . . Mr. Skol traveled to Brussels, October 26-29, to meet with the

December 1993 59 BUREAU NOTES

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berger led a team to Mexico, October 14-15, for consultations on regional counternarcotics matters . . . Deputy director FREDERICK A. BECKER led an interagency team to Nicara¬ gua, October 6-9, for consultations with the government on international terrorism and arms trafficking . . . Nicaragua desk officer CARL SCHONANDER traveled to Mana¬ gua, October 17-24, and Honduras desk of¬ ficer KATHLEEN HENNESSEY to Teguci¬ galpa, October 22-29 for consultations . . . New officers include GLEN GRIFFIN (El Salvador, TODD GREENTREE and CARL SCHONANDER (Nicaragua), CHARLES HARRINGTON (Guatemala) and JOHN CONNERLEY (Belize) . . . ERIC FARNS¬ GEORGETOWN, Guyana—At award Lioyd Kweiey, Michaei DeCunha, Donaid WORTH has moved from the Nicaragua to ceremony, seated, from left: Jean Harriper- Biair, Ambassador George F. Jones, Sherman the Costa Rica desk . . JOHN GISE and saud, Pameia Roberts, Eiieen Madray, Don¬ Williamson, Edgar Embrey, Mohamed Noor- GREG FREDDE have joined the office as na Mohabir, Marcia Hing, Barbara Persaud, hassan, Lloyd Boilers. interns for the fall semester. Standing: Patrick Hariequin, David Bose, Office of Andean Affairs; JAMES FORD COOPER became the director, Sep¬ tember 27, after returning from a two-month regional operations planning conference, held and Air Wing deputy chief JOHN BINKLEY stint as acting deputy chief of mission in by the Drug Enforcement Administration in participated in interagency meetings at the Lima. He was coordinator of “Partnership Miami . . . Program officer Blau traveled to Drug Enforcement Administration, on inter¬ for Democracy and Development” in Central Mexico City with the deputy director of the diction operations in Peru . . . Mr. Binkley, America . . . JANET L. CRIST became dep¬ Office of Central American Affairs, MIKE PHIL TELANDER, JAIME BARRERA and uty director of Andean affairs, September 7. RANNEBERGER, October 14-15, to discuss TIM HENDERSON traveled to Bogota for She was political counselor in Bogota. □ with Mexican counternarcotics officials a consultations with embassy staff, October 18 Mexican initiative for cooperative approaches . . . NANCY BERRY traveled to New York to drug control in Central America. Embassy to assist Ms. Wilkinson at the UN General Mexico narcotics affairs section director RO¬ Assembly’s high-level sessions on narcotics, BERT RETKA participated in the discussions October 25-November 1 ... Mr. Binkley and INTERNATIONAL . . . Program analyst SUSAN SNYDER visit¬ Air Wing safety officer Telander were in ed Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Barba¬ Washington for award fee meetings, October NARCOTICS dos, Dominican Republic and the Bahamas, 26-29 . . . Three key Air Wing officers— MATTERS to conduct an evaluation of joint information Lieutenant Colonel GARY MESSANO and collection centers, September 30-October 20. Major Telander, based at Patrick Air Force Senior policy adviser RAYBURN HESSE Base, and Chief Warrant Officer LUIS Assistant Secretary MELVYN LE¬ chaired financial action task force seminars DIAZ, who is assigned to Peru—have re¬ VITSKY chaired the Dublin Group meeting on narcotics-related financial crime, in Octo¬ ceived Joint Service Achievement Medals in Brussels, Belgium, October 12-14, accom¬ ber in Saudi Arabia (cosponsored by the Gulf from the Department of Defense for their panied by BRIAN FURNESS. The meeting Cooperation Council) and the Bahamas (co¬ contributions to the aviation programs. marked the end of his yearlong chairmanship sponsored by the Caribbean Financial Action The Office of Program Management wel¬ of this multilateral informal grouping, intend¬ Task Force), and in November in Russia comed BRIAN GWITT (fall intern) and the ed to coordinate international counternarco¬ (cosponsored by the UN Drug Control Pro¬ South American Division welcomed ME¬ tics policy and assistance . . . Deputy assis¬ gram). The seminars were conducted by ex¬ LINDA FORD (secretary) . . . Departing tant secretary GRANT SMITH headed the perts drawn from the United States, the from the front office: CAROL MILLS. □ U.S. delegation to the UN drug control United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzer¬ program major donors meeting in Vienna, land, Italy and the Netherlands, and were Austria, October 6-9. He was accompanied attended by host-nation and regional govern¬ by program analyst KATHLEEN WILKIN¬ ment officials and central bank officers . . . INTERNATIONAL SON . . Mr. Smith headed the U.S. delega¬ He lectured at a conference in Oxford on tion to the 14th meeting of the Inter- financial crime in Russia and eastern Europe, ORGANIZATION American Drug Abuse Control Commission, and at the joint conference of the American in Washington, October 20-23. He was aided Bar Association and American Bankers Asso¬ by staffer DAN STRASSER, who represented ciation in Washington. AFFAIRS the United States on alternative development Budget analyst CALVIN T. WATLING- matters, and ELIZABETH CARROLL, RO¬ TON conducted field assistance reviews, Sep¬ On September 26 Assistant Secretary BERT BLAU and intern BRIAN BWITT . . . tember 28-October 7 for the narcotics affairs DOUGLAS J. BENNET accompanied SEC¬ Mr. Smith participated in the UN General offices in the Bahamas and Jamaica . . . RETARY CHRISTOPHER to New York for Assembly high-level sessions on narcotics, HELENE KAUFMAN organized and attend¬ meetings of the UN General Assembly . . . October 27-28, in New York. ed the private-sector drug conference in Se¬ On October 4-5 Mr. Bennet represented the Program officer BEVERLY EIGHMY ville, Spain, October 11-17 . . . The director United States at a meeting of UN directors in represented the bureau at the fall Caribbean of the Transnational Office, DAVID LYON, connection with the New York consultative

60 State level meeting ... He participated in a panel even further, and biotechnology may reduce on peacekeeping and peace-building spon¬ NATIONAL the earning potential of many traditional sored by the Overseas Development Council third world agricultural exports, he pointed in Washington, October 14 ... On October FOREIGN AFFAIRS out. 19 he spoke to the World Affairs Council in Mr. Kennedy noted that, unless better San Francisco . . . The following day, he TRAINING controlled, rapid population growth is likely spoke to the “United Nations 50 Committee” to have a major negative effect on political of San Diego . . . While there, he participat¬ CENTER and social stability as we move into the 21st ed in a radio call-in show on KPBS-FM and century. “Adolescent societies,” encumbered spoke at San Diego State University ... He by high population growth and poor job and met with faculty members of the University Global issues addressed educational prospects, could be a major de¬ of San Diego law school for discussions on stabilizing factor in the international arena, he said. Certain have/have-not “fault lines” peacekeeping. By James G. Huff reflecting these uncomfortable trends can al¬ ELIZABETH W. SHELTON, Office of Director, Political Training Division ready be discerned, according to Mr. Ken¬ Economic and Environmental Affairs, attend¬ nedy. These would include the economic and ed the UN Trade and Development Board’s On October 1, before its dedication, the social divides between southern Europe and 40th session, in Geneva, September 30- National Foreign Affairs Training Center the North African littoral, between Slavic October 2, and the meeting of the working opened its doors to a seminar initiated by Russia and formerly Soviet Central Asia, and group on trade efficiency, in Geneva, Octo¬ Department counselor TIMOTHY WIRTH between Australia and populous Indonesia. ber 4 . . . She was invited to Columbus, O. which featured author and academic PAUL Such global trends not only help delin¬ to attend a planning meeting on the upcom¬ KENNEDY. This first use of the new training eate possible future problems, but also pose ing UN international symposium on trade facility was dedicated to a discussion of fundamental issues for American policy¬ efficiency, October 21-22. change in the international arena affecting makers, he said. While proposing no solu¬ Office of Democracy, Human Rights and U.S. diplomacy. tions, Mr. Kennedy noted that such trends Social Affairs; BEVERLY ZWEIBEN served Seminar participants included approxi¬ demanded a thoughtful policy response from as an adviser to the U.S. delegation to the mately 40 senior Department officials, drawn the United States and other developed na¬ General Assembly during consideration of largely from the global issues area to be tions, not the politics of reaction. Figurative¬ crime-prevention measures and criminal jus¬ directed by Mr. Wirth. Among those attend¬ ly or actually putting up barbed wire or tice standards, October 28-29 . . . ALICE C. ing were Assistant Secretaries ELINOR CON¬ barriers to movement or trade is no real MOORE served as an adviser to the U.S. STABLE, Oceans and International Environ¬ solution, he contended. delegation to the General Assembly’s Third mental and Scientific Affairs; MELVYN His remarks stimulated an extended dis¬ Committee, during the committee’s introduc¬ LEVITSKY, International Narcotics Matters; cussion among seminar participants. Ques¬ tion and consideration of social development and JOHN SHATTUCK, Human Rights and tions focused on the adequacy of the interna¬ resolutions, October 19-25 . . . She traveled Humanitarian Affairs; together with deputy tional decision-making structure for dealing to The Hague, October 14-15, for consulta¬ assistant secretaries BRUNSON McKlNLEY, with global issues requiring sustained long¬ tions with the “Western European and oth¬ Refugee Programs; and NANCY ELY- term attention. Seminar participants also ers” group, on the world summit for social RAPHEL, Human Rights and Humanitarian questioned whether the urgent need to ad¬ development . . MARGARET POLLACK Affairs. dress global issues would be matched by participated on the U.S. delegation to the Following introductory remarks by Mr. adequate funding. 44th session of the UN high commissioner for Wirth and training center director LAW¬ * • * refugees’ executive committee, October 4-8, RENCE TAYLOR, Professor Kennedy led a School of Area Studies; The associate in Geneva. discussion of the factors influencing global chairwoman for African studies, HANNAH WILLIAM H. WHITE JR. has entered change. Noting the difficulty of confident BALDWIN, presented a paper at the fall on duty in the Office of the Assistant Secre¬ prediction in this area, he said that, even with meeting of the southeastern regional seminar tary . . . COLLEEN A. GREER transferred all appropriate caveats, certain trend lines in African studies at Virginia State Universi¬ from the Bureau of Personnel to the Office still emerge which can help foreign policy ty, Petersburg, on October 23. Her paper, of the Assistant Secretary . . . HELEN R.M. decision-makers understand the future. Many “Legends, Rumors and Electoral Politics in La LIME transferred from Zurich to the of Mr. Kennedy’s subsequent remarks elabo¬ Senegal,” reported on and analyzed the Sene¬ Office of International Development Assist¬ rated on ideas from his recent bestseller, galese presidential and legislative elections, ance . . . HENRY F. WEBB, JR. transferred “Preparing for the 21st Century.” which she attended as an election observer from the Bureau of African Affairs to the He said a most important trend line is with National Democratic Institute . . . Office of Technical and Specialized Agencies. represented by technology-driven change. GARY BRANA-SHUTE of Area Studies and Office of Peacekeeping and Humanitari¬ With more scientists engaged in research and ALFRED CARTER of Language Studies an Operations; Deputy director ROBERT development now than during all the rest of went on a needs-analysis trip to the embassies LOFTIS spoke at the College of William and recorded history, a continuous explosion of in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. They Mary’s “Model United Nations” on U.S. change driven by technology is almost inevi¬ interviewed former Foreign Service Institute policy on peacekeeping, October 29 . . . Ac¬ table, he added. However, some of this students working at all levels, to ascertain the tion officer NATHAN BLUHM made two change may be a two-edged sword, according relevance of their language and area training trips to New York in October to discuss to Mr. Kennedy. For example, although for their work at post, as well as what other re-establishing a Somali police force with changes from robotics and biotechnology training would have enhanced their effective¬ United Nations and other mission officials may seem ostensibly positive, they may in ness . . . Area Studies dean RICHARD . . . Sanctions officer FREDERIC BARON fact increase political and social volatility— JACKSON and language training supervisor traveled to countries bordering the former especially in the third world. In the face of MARSHA KAPLAN returned from a Yugoslavia to view compliance with economic geographically uneven population growth, ro¬ training-needs assessment mission to posts in sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro. □ botics could reduce employment opportunities northern and sub-Saharan Africa, including

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NATIONAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS Judy Pike, Gaborone; Tijuana Jenkins; Sossi ginia Chandler; Karen Lundahl; Linda TRAINING CENTER—In professional skills Mahoney, Sanaa; Kendall Montgomery; Bar¬ Olesen; Gail Knowles. Top row: Les Felter, course for community liaison officers, from bara Ensslin, Berlin; Lycia Sibilla, Havana; Ankara; Martha Fleming, Bujumbura; Mary¬ left, first row: Oya Cofman, Baku; Debbie Lisa Hough, Beijing; Stacy Clay, Addis ann Perkins, Caracas; Robert Regester, Cara¬ Jordan, Amman; Patricia Alaniz, Montevi¬ Ababa; Jacque fVhitehorn, Lisbon; Sharon cas; Marilyn Horween, Bridgetown; Zara deo; Margery Pedry, Paris; Sylvia Hooper. Jennings, Paramaribo. Third row: Joan Ries- Harris, Prague; Kathleen Pelletier, Tunis; Jan Second row: Carol Wasylko, Kiev; Marie land, Khartoum; David Ball; Sharon Feather- Carey, Madrid; Erin Rooney; Thomas Noot- Tomasi, Budapest; Patricia Baker, Mbabane; stone; Mary Byron McGhee, Capetown; Vir¬ bar, Buenos Aires.

Tunis, Algiers, Casablanca, Rabat, Libreville, ,Buenos Aires and La Paz . . . SHARON day at Hemlock Overlook Camp, participat¬ Yaounde and Cotonou. CHI of the Mandarin Chinese section co¬ ing in outdoor exercises designed to develop School of Language Studies: MARGRET authored the book, “Read Chinese Signs,” their team-building skills. BJORGULFSDOTTIR, Icelandic language with CORNELIUS KUBLER, former chair¬ and culture instructor, attended the seventh man of the Asian and African Languages annual seminar of the Icelandic-American Department. The book has been released by Chamber of Commerce, on “U.S.-Icelandic the Cheng & Tsui Co. of Boston. NEAR EASTERN Relations: Trade, Investment and Defense,” Overseas Briefing Center: DANADEE October 1, in Washington ... A team visited CARRAGHER has joined the staff as coordi¬ AFFAIRS field schools in Yokohama, Taipei and Seoul, nator of the security overseas seminar . . . September 11-29, and met with staffers at The center has completed revision of the Office of the Assistant Secretary: As¬ embassies and at the American Institute in “Foreign Service Assignment Notebook.” sistant Secretary EDWARD P. DJEREJIAN Taiwan . . . Dean MARK LISSFELT, CAN- The publication provides an overview of reg¬ made two appearances on Capitol Hill. On DICE HUNT (formerly in charge of the ulatory and personal logistical preparations October 15 he testified before the Senate Office of External Programs, now on detail for an official overseas move. It is intended Foreign Relations Committee and on October to the Center for the Advancement of Lan¬ to guide U.S. Government and foreign affairs 21 before the House Foreign Affairs Commit¬ guage Learning) and THOMAS MADDEN agency employees and their families through tee’s subcommittee on Europe and the Middle (returned from six years in charge of the what might otherwise be a long and confus¬ East. He discussed peace efforts and events in Chinese school in Taipei) looked into issues ing process. The publication will be available the region ... He participated in a of training quality, management and person¬ for distribution in December . . . With the “Worldnet dialogue” with Kuala Lumpur, nel at the Japanese, Chinese and Korean help of the Office of Information Services Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia, October advanced-language and area studies schools and the Office of Directives, the “Foreign 28. He discussed developments in the peace . . . STEPHEN ZAPPALA and MARGA¬ Service Assignment Notebook” and “What talks and U.S. views on the politics of Islam RET SARLES of Area Studies and SHAWN Do I Do Now? A Sourcebeook on Regula¬ ... He gave the keynote speech to the DESCOUROUEZ of Professional Studies tions, Allowances and Finances” will also be second international conference of the Ameri¬ traveled to Latin America, September 13-30 available on Infoexpress/lnfoguide CD-ROM can task force for Lebanon, October 6 . . . to assess training needs. Posts visited were soon ... As part of the re-entry program for On October 12 he gave the keynote speech on Caracas, Quito, Rio, Sao Paulo, Brasilia- Foreign Service teens, 12 students spent the the Gaza-Jericho accord and the Middle East

62 State George Mason University, October 20 . . . On October 27 he discussed the interagency process with participants in the Foreign Ser¬ vice Institute’s Washington tradecraft course ... He traveled to London, October 28-30, to attend the heads of delegation meeting of members of the environmental working group of the multilateral negotiations of the peace process . . . Deputy director RICHARD ROTH addressed the Council of Jewish Fed¬ erations in San Antonio, October 15. He spoke on the peace efforts and U.S.-Israeli relations ... On October IS he discussed U.S.-Israeli relations with members of the Columbia (Md.) Jewish Congregation ... On October 26 he addressed Hadassah chapters from Pittsburgh and New York on the Mid¬ dle East . . . Political officer MARC SI¬ EVE RS traveled to Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for consultations, Ocrtober 1-10 . . . He spoke to the nongovernmental organiza¬ tions’ coordinating committee for Palestine, in Washington, October 15 ... Political- miUtary officer JOHN FENNERTY spoke on the peace efforts to the Hollis Hills (N.Y.) chapter of Hadassah, October 12. MANAMA, Bahrain—Secretary Judith and cash award from charg6 David S. Office of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Franco receives Meritorious Honor Award Robins. Palestianian Affairs: The ambassador- peace talks to a gathering of Americans for designate to Lebanon, MARK G. HAM- Peace Now ... He spoke on the Middle East BLEY, appeared before the Senate Foreign peace efforts and new opportunities in U.S.- Relations Committee, October 15, for his Israeli economic relations at a seminar on confirmation hearing. U.S.-Israeli trade, in Washington, October 20 Office of Maghreb Affairs: Deputy di¬ . . . Principal deputy assistant secretary rector ED VAZQUEZ traveled to Tunisia, MARK R. PARRIS discussed events in the Algeria, Morocco and Spain for orientation region with businessmen attending a seminar and consultations, October 2-22 . . . Tunisia on the New Middle East sponsored by the desk officer SUE SAARNIO addressed a Brookings Institution, October 13 . . . Depu¬ class at the U.S. Marine Corps Command ty assistant secretary DANIEL KURTZER and Staff College, Quantico, VA., October traveled to New Haven, October 31, to dis¬ 26, as part of a military exercise involving cuss the peace talks and U.S.-Israeli relations Tunisia and Libya. with the Yale Friends of Israel. Office of Regional Affairs: Director Office of the Public Affairs Adviser: JOHN HERBST and the special assistant for Public affairs adviser RICHARD LeBARON science and technology, CHARLES LAW- traveled to Damascus, Amman, Tel Aviv and SON, visited Israel and the West Bank and Jerusalem, October 5-19. He met with jour¬ Gaza, October 20-23, for consultations with nalists, officials and U.S. mission staffs in Israeli and Palestinian water working group the countries. delegation members . . . From Israel, they Office of Egyptian Affairs: Deputy di¬ traveled to Beijing, China, for the fourth rector THEODORE FEIFER participated in meeting of the Middle East multilateral work¬ the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination ing group on water resources, October 26-29 Committee’s October 12 town meeting on the . . . Mr. Herbst, as head of the U.S. delega¬ CAIRO, Egypt—Deputy chief of mission Israeli-Palestinian declaration of principles. tion, is the gavelholder for the working group tVes Egan wins the Superior Honor Award. Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs: . . . Deputy director GARY USREY partici¬ His wife is with him. Director THOMAS J. MILLER spoke on pated in a teleconference on U.S. policy U.S.-Israeli relations at the annual conference Community Relations Advisory Council’s Is¬ toward the Islamic world with correspondents of the National Women’s Division of the rael task force ... On October 11 he traveled in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 20 . . . The United Jewish Appeal, October 4 ... On to Metuchen, N.J., to discuss the peace special assistant for the peace efforts. Colonel October 5 he discussed the peace talks with efforts at a forum hosted by Representative JOE BAVARIA, traveled to Wilkes Barre, members of the Scarsdale (N.Y.) Hadassah FRANK PALLONE ... He participated in a October 20, to give a speech and participate chapter ... He met with members of the debate on the peace talks with representatives in a panel discussion at a conference on Cleveland chapter of Israel Bonds, October 5, from the Palestine Liberation Organization Middle East peace sponsored by Luzerne to discuss U.S.-Israeli relations and the peace and Israel, at a forum sponsored by Howard County Community College . . . The adviser efforts ... He traveled to New York, Octo¬ University, October 13 ... He addressed a for economic and congressional affairs, ber 10, to discuss the peace talks and U.S.- seminar on U.S.-Israeli trade, October 20 . . . CINDY TINDELL, traveled to Muscat, Ri¬ Israeli relations with the National Jewish He spoke on the peace efforts to students at yadh and Tunis for regional consultations.

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October 14-26. She discussed foreign assist- of International Affairs, October 26. He Family Liaison Office ance, financial conditions and donor coordi- discussed arms sales and munitions licensing nation . . . Deputy political-military adviser in the Middle East. □ TODD ROSENBLUM spoke to the Society Education counselor KAY BRANAMAN EAKIN organized the fifth annual seminar for parents of children with special learning needs, October 26. Director general GENTA PERSONNEL HAWKINS HOLMES opened the half-day workshop, and Dr. ELMORE RIGAMER, special assistant. Office of Medical Services, spoke. A parents’ panel reported on their experiences and answered questions from the audience of Foreign Service parents ... Ms. Eakin participated in a panel discussion at the employee relocation conference in San Diego, speaking on re-entry experiences of Foreign Service families. Employment program coordinator DA¬ VID BALL organized a lunchtime program for Foreign Service family members and oth¬ ers on Washington employment. A panel of experts from various private-sector enterprises and an Office of Personnel Management representative discussed employment opportu¬ nities in their occupational fields, and offered tips on job-hunting . . . Mr. Ball conducted a weeklong workshop on employment planning for Foreign Service family members in con¬ junction with the Overseas Briefing Center. Youth coordinator KAREN LUNDAHL organized a program for Foreign Service parents, to hear expert DAVID POLLOCK BUREAU OF PERSONNEL—Jolene Johnny Young, director. Office of Career speak on what he calls “third-culture kids”— Natoli, acting chief of secretarial counseling, Development and Assignments, children who grow up in another culture or receives Meritorious Honor Award from cultures, as many Foreign Service children do . . . Employment program assistant ERIN

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—At com¬ Madras. Second row: Christine Herpst, Sing¬ lucky, Lahore; Kara Sisson, Kuala Lumpur; munity liaison officer conference, from left, apore; Anna Dworken, Canberra; Jan Setr- Lori Stolp, Manila; Jeffrey Kealing, Bang¬ first row: Kendall Montgomery; Sharon terlund, Dhaka; Barbara Yoder, Taipei; An¬ kok; Sherry Noziglia, Wellington; Carol Mc¬ James, Seoul; Mrs. John Wolf, Ambassador drea Foley, Kuala Lumpur; Jerry Richmond, Creary, Islamabad; Natalie McSherry, Suva. John Wolf; Julie Rlegg, Colombo; Beverly Hong Kong; Olive Lim Barnes, Guangzhou; Bllland, New Delhi; Barbara Cortez-Grelg, Virginia Chandler. Third row: Carol Za-

64 State ROONEY traveled to New York to attend the Tashkent; GAYNOR JOHNSON, Ashgabat; delegation for the fifth meeting of the exp>erts National Foreign Trade Council Foundation MAGGIE KNIGHT, New Delhi; BETH group of the nuclear safety convention, Octo¬ seminar on “Global Talent.” . . Director VEUGOPAL, New Delhi; BARBARA ber 25-29. KENDALL MONTGOMERY addressed two KAPNER, New Delhi; ANN JEYACHAN- Office of Nuclear Technology and Safe¬ sessions of the ambassadors’ seminar . . . She DRAN, New Delhi; SUSAN CANNING, guards: BART SERAFINI traveled to met with DIANE NEGROPONTE, wife of New Delhi. □ Buenos Aires, October 24-29, as a member of Ambassador JOHN NEGROPONTE (Philip¬ the interagency delegation to lay groundwork pines), and SUZANNE MILLER, wife of for the 1994 Latin American symposium on Ambassador WILLIAM MILLER (Kiev). peaceful utilization of atomic energy . . . Staff members lectured at the security POLITICO- ROBERT SENSENEY led an interagency del¬ overseas seminar, spoke at the “Introduction egation to Rabat and Cairo, October 16-28, to Foreign Service Life” course at the Over¬ MILITARY to discuss a proposed sister-laboratory ar¬ seas Briefing Center, spoke to defense attache rangement in support of the U.S. obligation spouses and to the general services officers AFFAIRS to Article IV of the nonproliferation treaty class, the Foreign Agricultural Service offic¬ . . . CHARLES NEWSTEAD was an adviser ers re-entry seminar, the A-lOO class and to the Department of Energy delegation to Marine security guard spouses. □ On September 21 principal deputy assis¬ the meeting on international thermonuclear tant secretary THOMAS E. McNAMARA experimental reactors in San Diego, Septem¬ attended a U.S.-Australian round-table dis¬ ber 27-October 4 ... He hosted the Medical Services cussion in Washington on the comprehensive U.S./Norway bilateral nuclear discussion on test ban treaty ... On September 23 he radiological contamination of the Arctic, and While on her rest-and-relaxation trip, chaired the first of a new series of State- mutual cooperation in Washington, October nurse practitioner JENNIFER GRISE con¬ sponsored interagency working group meet¬ 13-14. These discussions were a continuation sulted in Medical Services, October 5, before ings, on demining ... On September 28 he of the U.S./Norway bilateral discussions in returning to Accra to finish her tour . . . was a panel speaker at a symposium on Washington, June 24-25 . . . Acting director SUSAN SUMMERS, nurse practitioner con¬ U.S.-Russian technical policy, jointly spon¬ ALEX BURKART traveled to Seoul, Korea, sulted in Washington and attended a National sored by State and the National Defense October 11, to pay calls to officials at the nurse practitioner symposium in Baltimore; University, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel . . . ministry of science and technology . . . R(XJ- she then returned to Tokyo for two more On October 15 he was one of three panel ER SWENSON participated in a nuclear years ... Dr. JOHN ALOIS took over as members to address a colloquium on science nonproliferation workshop at Los Alamos director of medical clearances in August, and security hosted by the American Associa¬ National Laboratory, New Mexico, and at after returning from a tour in Beijing . . . tion for the Advancement of Science, at the the Nevada nuclear test site, October 18-22. Also attending the conference in Baltimore in Madison Hotel. Office of Nuclear Exports: ROBIN DE- October were nurse practitioners ANNE Office of Defense Relations and Security LABARRE gave a speech on U.S. nonproli¬ MURRAY, Bangkok; and MICHAEL Assistance: JOHN SCOTT and STEVE feration policy regarding highly enriched ura¬ PATE, Hong Kong. Mr. Pate also consulted HILL represented State at the annual South¬ nium use, at the annual meeting on reduced in Medical Services before continuing his ern Command security assistance officer con¬ enrichment for research and test reactors, in home leave and returning to post for two ference in Panama City, October 25-28 . . . Japan, October 1-8. more years. Colonel THOMAS SCHOEGLER accompa¬ Office of Defense Trade Controls: ROSE Contract and Foreign Service national nied deputy assistant secretary FRANCES BIANCANIELLO, ALLAN SUCHINSKY nurses visiting Medical Services recently in¬ COOK to Bahrain, October 21-27, for bilat¬ and KEN PEOPLES attended the convention cluded SUPANEE SAISON, from Bangkok; eral consultations on use of Bahrain’s naval of the Society for International Affairs, a WALTER KITTOE, from Freetown; JAN facilities by the U.S. Navy, and went on to defense industry group, in Alexandria, Va. OLSEN, from Jeddah; and CONNIE Dubai for additional consultations, October . . . Mr. Peoples participated in a panel BYRNE, from Panama . . . The embassy 28-29 . . . WILL MOSER attended the di.scussion on the missile technology control medical adviser from Canberra, Dr. CAME¬ U.S./Tunisia political-military talks in Tunis, regime before an audience of U.S. industry RON K. WEBER, consulted here in mid- October 28-29 . . . JULIE GRANT called on and foreign embassy representatives . . . October while visiting in conjunction with the Pacific Command commander-in-chief in Aerospace and ordnance branch chief MAL professional travel . . . Before leaving War¬ Honolulu, October 26, enroute to attend a ZERDEN, with licensing officers TERRY saw, nurse practitioner B.J. WESOLOSKI Korean security consultative meeting in HUNTER, CAROLYN LANCASTER, SUE was honored by the embassy for establishing Seoul, November 3-4, and Japan security CLARK, CAROL BASDEN, PAUL JAMES the health unit there . . . Before her onward subcommittee bilateral talks in Tokyo, No¬ and SUZANNE PALMER, conducted an in- assignment to Colombo, she consulted in vember 5-6, and related consultations. house seminar on defense export licensing for Medical Services in July . . . CHARLENE Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs: Direc¬ industry representatives . . . The office said BURNS, nurse practitioner in New Delhi, tor RICHARD STRATFORD headed the farewell to Major “TEX” MAIER and Major hosted a regional nurses conference in Sep¬ American delegation to the American Insti¬ MARSHA FINLEY, who completed ex¬ tember. The following; contract nurses and tute of Taiwan’s coordination council for change tours, and licensing officer SUE nurse practitioners attended the event: ANN North American affairs’ joint standing com¬ PLANT, who will accompany her Foreign SHIEKH, Karachi; JANICE CHOUDRY, mittee on civil nuclear cooperation, in Tai¬ Service husband to Bonn. Lahore; HELEN HANSEN, Peshawar; wan, October 12-15. He was accompanied by Office of the Senior Coordinator for NANCY HAMILTON, Islamabad; DEBBIE Dr. ALEX BURKART, acting director. Of¬ Reactor Safety and the International Science WELLER, Islamabad; QUEENIE ANDRUS, fice of Nuclear Technology and Safeguards and Technology Centers: Senior coordinator Islamabad; CARRIE SENGELMAN, Kath¬ . . . Mr. Stratford then traveled to Vienna to ELIZABETH VERVILLE headed the U.S. mandu; FRANCES HOWLAND, Kath¬ head the U.S. delegation for the nuclear delegation to negotiations in Moscow and mandu; LYDIA FORBES, Colombo; MAU¬ suppliers group and the Zangger committee, Kiev, October 14-23, on nuclear safety assist¬ REEN BRAND, Dhaka; JUDY SUTTON, the week of October 18 ... He headed the ance agreements. Two were signed during

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SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER’S visit to com on telecommunications, October 4-5, in with LODI GYARI, president of the Interna¬ Kiev. Accompanying Ms. Verville were CAR¬ Paris, and traveled to Ottawa for telecommu¬ tional Campaign for Tibet, to discuss Tibetan OL KESSLER and the legal adviser’s RAY nications talks, October 18 . . . BILL SKOK refugee issues ... He also met with the MEYER. made a presentation at a conference on recently sworn-in U.S. Immigration and Nat¬ Office of International Security Opera¬ export controls in Prague . . . New arrivals to uralization Service commissioner, DORIS tions: NICOLE PEACOCK will work on the office include LULA ELLIS (from the MEISSMER, to discuss policy issues. At the humanitarian affairs issues . . . ALEX MAR- Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs), meeting were PHYLLIS E. OAKLEY, senior GULIES has returned from Haiti, where he PAUL ALLEN BROWN (from Consulate deputy assistant secretary, and THERESA L. has served for the past two months as special General Sao Paulo) and CHRIS KAVA¬ RUSCH, office director. assistant to the deputy chief of mission . . . NAGH (from Embassy Montevideo) . . . JO¬ Ms. Oakley met with JAN ELIASSON, LEWIS LUKENS has arrived from an assign¬ SEPH PENNINGTON and NANCY NEL¬ UN undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, ment in the Ivory Coast . . . VALERIE SON have departed to enroll in the economic to discuss refugee matters . . . She attended BELON, coming from the Congo, will work training course at the Foreign Service meetings and reviewed domestic refugee reset¬ crisis management issues . . . Mr. Margulies, Institute. □ tlement in Chicago, and consulted with vol¬ KATIE SOLON, BARBRO KIRKPATRICK untary agencies in New York. She was ac¬ and LEW LUKENS have received promo¬ companied by ANITA L. BOTTI, section tions in the Foreign Service . . . Lieutenant chief, and TREVOR A. SNELLGROVE, Colonel MIKE KING has returned from a Washington Processing Center. terrorism conference in Copenhagen . . . DA¬ REFUGEE BRUNSON McKinley, deputy- VID GOWDEY departed the office, October assistant secretary, met with Lao Foreign 20. He led the U.S. Government’s global PROGRAMS Minister SOMSAVAT LENGSAVAD . . . demining effort . . . The 24 military officers NORMAN W. RUNKLES, comptroller, and in the bureau have been awarded the Joint WARREN ZIMMERMAN, bureau di¬ his deputy, EMILY K. KRANTZ, traveled to Meritorious Unit Award for their contribu¬ rector, attended the UN high commissioner New York to attend the International Organi¬ tions to U.S. foreign policy efforts world¬ for refugees’ executive committee meeting in zation for Migration travel loan meeting with wide. Geneva; traveled to Zagreb to review bureau voluntary agencies ... Ms. Rusch attended a Office of Cocom Affairs (The Coordi¬ funded programs and to assess needs in conference on migration in Mexico City . . . nating Committee for Multilaterial Export Bosnia and Croatia; to Israel to review bu¬ DEWEY R. PENDERGRASS, section chief, Controls): Director ROBERT PRICE led an reau programs there and in the West Bank attended the refugee information exchange interagency team for export control consulta¬ and the Gaza Strip; to Riyadh to review conference sponsored by the California De¬ tions in Prague and Bratislava, September 18- refugee issues in Saudi Arabia; and to New partment of Social Services, in Santa Ana October 1 . . . ANDREW CHURCH, from York to attend the Council on Foreign Rela¬ . . . JAMES F. LAWRENCE, executive di¬ the Office of Defense Trade Policy, partici¬ tions symposium on domestic and interna¬ rector, discussed intern and other State De¬ pated . . . Mr. Price led an interagency team tional immigration policy and to meet with partment employment opportunities with stu¬ (including JULIE KAVANAGH from the nongovernmental organization officials . . . dents at Washington College, Chestertown, Office of Defense Trade Policy) to participate He addressed the Southeast Asia Resource Md. . . . Following her attendance at the in the Japanese-sponsored Asian Export Con¬ Action Center’s board of directors on U.S. Tunis meeting of a multilateral working trol Seminar for International Security, Octo¬ refugee policy in Southeast Asia ... He met group on refugees, JUDITH J. CHAVCHA- ber 25-27, in Tokyo. The team briefed dele¬ gations from Asian governments on export control policy and enforcement issues . . . CESARE ROSATI led negotiations in Paris, October 27-November 1, which resulted in revisions to the export controls on computers maintained by the Coordinating Committee on Export Controls ... He participated in bilateral supercomputer negotiations in To¬ kyo, October 27-29 . . . ROBERT GAREL led a U.S. team to negotiations for Cocom’s controls on advanced propulsion technolo¬ gies, at Cocom headquarters, October 11-14, in Paris . . . DAMON LABRIE led a U.S. team to Cocom negotiations on navigations and avionics, October 18-21 . . . DAVID SALAZAR participated in discussions at Co-

A bargain for you: Buy U.S. bonds— You can’t beat the interest and benefits REFUGEE PROGRAMS—At farewell Meritorious Honor Awards to Paul Birdsall, ceremony, Brunson McKinley, second from Glenda Wright and Jane Tannenbaum. right, deputy assistant secretary, presents

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Front Office: Assistant Secretary ROB¬ IN RAPHEL traveled to Philadealphia, Octo¬ ber 3, and addressed the Joint U.S.-Indian seminar on nonproliferation and technology transfer, at the University of Pennsylvania . . . On October 4 she met at the General Assembly with South Asian officials . . . She participated in the visit to Washington by the prime minister of Sri Lanka, RANIL WICK- REMASINGHE, October 13-19 ... On Oc¬ tober 19 she testifed before the House For¬ eign Affairs subcommittee on Asian and the Pacific, on the recent Indian earthquake and relief and reconstruction efforts ... On Oc¬ tober 22 she met with the Canadian ministry REFUGEE PROGRAMS—Brunson deWilde and Certificate of Appreciation to for external affairs’ director general for Asia, McKinley, center, deputy assistant secretary, Dawne Johnson upon their departure. to discuss regional issues. presents Meritorious Honor Award to Jan Office of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Director RONALD LORTON made a familiarization visit to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, September 17 to October 9 . . . The ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, TERESITA SCHAFFER, con¬ sulted in the Department, October 7-19 and participated in the private working visit of Prime Minister Wickremasinghe, October 13- 19 . . . Deputy director RON WOODY at¬ tended the Indo-U.S. strategic symposium in Jaipur, India, September 20-23, and consult¬ ed at posts on the subcontinent, in New Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Colombo, Kathmandu and Islamabad, September 19- October 9. Office of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh: Director JOHN HOLZMAN traveled to Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghani¬ stan and Brussels, on consultations, October 5-23. In Brussels he represented the United REFUGEE PROGRAMS—Director or Honor Award to Albert A. Thibault upon States in discussions with the European Com¬ Warren Zimmermann, right, presents Superi¬ his departure. munity, on South Asia . . . Bangladesh desk officer PAUL WOHLERS made an orienta¬ VADZE, deputy office director, traveled to tions, including the International Committee tion visit to Bangladesh and India, September Israel to monitor bureau programs and to of the Red Cross, the International Rescue 23-October 5. followup with the embassy and consulate Committee and Save the Children Fund . . . Office of Regional Affairs: Director MI¬ general on U.S.-funded projects supporting MARY M. LANGE, program officer, attend¬ CHAEL LEMMON traveled September 17- Middle East peace . . . MARY E. KAVA- ed a disaster assessment training course spon¬ October 8, to London, New Delhi, Islama¬ LIUNAS, program officer, attended the advi¬ sored by the Office of Foreign Disasters, bad, Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow, Bonn and sory meeting of the UN Relief and Works A.I.D., in Ornkey Springs, Va. . . . MI¬ Paris, for consultations with government offi¬ Agency, in Vienna . . . PAULA R. LYNCH, CHELE KLEIN-SOLOMON, Legal Adviser’s cials on U.S. policy approaches to South Asia program officer, served as a member of the Office, attended the refugee law conference regional security and nonproliferation . . . U.S. delegation to the World Food Pro¬ in St. Remo, Italy, and consulted with UN While in India, he participated in the fourth gram’s committee on food aid and its sub¬ and refugee and migration affairs officials in U.S.-India strategic symposium in Jaipur . . . committee on projects, in Rome . . . She met Geneva . . . Joining the bureau was HULYA On October 14 he participated in round with officials of the European Community KILGORE, as a staff assistant . . . The tables hosted by the Asia Foundation on the humanitarian operations office. refugee programs bureau hosted a meeting Pakistani elections and at the Stimson Cen¬ LAUREN I. MAY, program officer, with personnel from the International Organi¬ ter, on Sino-Indian confidence-building mea¬ traveled to Pakistan, India and Geneva to zation for Migration and the Department of sures ... He assisted in Ms. Raphel’s Octo¬ monitor refugee programs and meet with Defense, to discuss the medical evacuation ber 22 consultations with the Canadians on representatives from international organiza¬ program. □ South Asia. ■

December 1993 67 MUSIC atSTATE

ways Chasing Rainbows”). It received its ‘Dignity/ then full due at the artist’s hands. Midnight Muse Federico Busoni transcribed many of ‘thunder’ on Bach’s organ works for the piano, but his version of the “St. Anne Prelude” is (Lines written on the midnight shift at the among his most masterly. Given the in¬ communications program unit in Paris): credibly thick textures of the original work, it is completely understandable that The moon in splendor shines tonight. there were a few smeared notes and split But here inside, fluorescent light octaves along the way. Nevertheless, they Confuses time: It might be day! did not detract from Mr. Tran’s ability to (Such subtle games the mind will play.) communicate the universality of Bach’s music. I wish only that time had permitted And thus I sit. . . but presently. him to give us the fugue which normally Alarms I hear and Lights I see! follows. Perhaps he can rectify the omis¬ I fear not fire nor civil unrest— sion in a return appearance. □ The Terp reveals: High Precedence.

Niact in hand, with wicked smile. At yonder telephone I dial Music reflects And wake the gently slumbering one ‘cold bleakness’ Whose duty calls fore morning sun . . . By Steven Alan Honley There ends the tale, and being stoic, of the Andes —My couplets rather unheroic— The author, a Foreign Service officer I tend to other tasks mundane in the Bureau of African Affairs, is the The day of the Rumillajta ensemble And read my novel once again. magazine’s regular music reviewer. performed for a wildly enthusiastic audi¬ ence in the East Auditorium—October So minutes drag, but hours fly. A program featuring two polonaises 13—was particularly auspicious on two My book is done and so am I! by Chopin and a transcription by Busoni counts. First, there could hardly be a A yawn, a stretch, the eyelids fall . . . might appear rather conventional, even more appropriate time to feature musi¬ At least I’ll dream in digital. staid. Fortunately, Vinhlac Nhy Tran’s cians from the Americas (in this case, the skills turned his Oc¬ Andes) than the climax of “Hispanic Her¬ —Kate Chalkley □ tober 20 recital in itage Month” (right after Columbus Day). Second, the group’s tour through Europe the Dean Acheson Nascimientos (whose music has been per¬ and the United States has done a lot to Auditorium into a formed by other recitalists in this series). promote the UN designation of 1993 as genuine tour de During the nearly four years this the “Year for the World’s Indigenous force. reviewer has been attending the “State of Peoples.” Both polonaises— the Arts” series, he has heard close to 100 the Opus 3 in C No matter when or where they per¬ recitals at State. As good as most of those form, however, the members of Rumil¬ Major and the 22 in were, I believe it is safe to say that E-Flat Major—are lajta (which means “city of stone” in their Rumillajta will long stand out among relatively early, al¬ native Quechua, the language of the In¬ them. most improvisatory, cas) are marvelous musicians in their own —S.A.H. ■ Mr. Honley works resembling right. All five not only sing but play a one-movement piano sonatas. The Opus 3 multitude of traditional and European is particulary treacherous in terms of tem¬ percussion, wind and stringed instru¬ po and mood changes, but Mr. Tran, who ments, sometimes trading off three or is completing his bachelor-of-music degree four times in the course of a selection. at Catholic University, was up to the test. They began and ended their concert He invested the stately, choraJe-like begin¬ with impressionistic, purely instrumental Tdke>^^i. ning with dignity, before plunging into the pieces; the first captured the cold bleak¬ vigorous rhythms of the middle section ness of the Bolivian altiplano (high Stock and ending in a burst of thunder. plains), while the concluding work depict¬ America The Opus 20 has its share of sturm ed a fierce storm. In between came a und drang as well but, overall, is a more variety of vocal and instrumental selec¬ reflective work. (I believe, but am not tions from around the region, including T JCSAVINGS certain, that one of its lyrical passages Ecuadorean love songs and a classical supplied the tune for the song “I’m Al¬ selection by Brazilian composer Milton UaBONDS

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—(Continued from inside front cover) genuinely cared about those who worked zens of France were getting ready for the for and with her. But her care never visit of Pere Noel. Caroling and church attaining senior-officer positions has been lapsed into mawkish sentimentality, as bells took the place of the muezzin’s call much more significant. anyone who was ever victimized by one of to prayer. Actually, 16 of the women listed in her devastatingly witty comments (she was Three days later, on December 6, we the article attended or are attending the a great devotee of Dorothy Parker) can boarded TWA Flight 891 for the United seminar—more than the 9 who are Na¬ attest. Most fortunate for Marge, and States. I flew home with my one suitcase, tional War College graduates. They are dare I say for her colleagues as well, her a shopping bag full of souvenirs and Janice Bay, Aurelia Brazeal, Ruth Davis, wit was ante-politically correct; her catho¬ many special memories. The resourceful¬ Genta Hawkins Holmes, Harriet Isom, lic tastes meant that anyone and anything ness and courage of American embassy Patricia Langford, Lauralee Peters, The¬ within range was not immune from a bon officials—especially charge Eagleton and resa Tull, Prudence Bushnell, Joan Cor¬ mot or two. But so humorous were her administrative officer Dieffenderfer—had bett, Leslie Ann Gerson, Joann Jenkins, remarks, so often astonishingly telling, given us the best Christmas present of all. Mary Kennedy and Sharon Wilkinson. even her targets had to applaud. We would be safely home with our grate¬ Women have been in most Senior Forgive her? Nothing to forgive; you ful families that special Christmas of Seminar classes, starting with Kay were hurt if Marge ignored you. Indeed a 1979. ■ Bracken-Hunter in the first class, which caring person, and a very kind one as graduated in 1958. Among the other well. One morning at work 1 received a women graduates who became distin¬ call from the Board of Examiners giving guished senior officers are Eileen Dono¬ me advance word that 1 had passed the Retirees’ Corner van, Carole Laise, Jean Wilkowski, Ruth —(Continued from Page 35) written Foreign Service entrance exam. 1 Phillips, Margaret Tibbetts, Edelen Fo¬ ran to tell Marge the news, whereupon she garty, Mary Olmsted, Elizabeth Ann picked up the telephone, called the bu¬ Brown, B. J. Harper, Sara Littlefield, Secretary’s reception reau’s principal deputy assistant secretary Marilyn Johnson, Pat Bryne, Nancy and told him that they had to reschedule Ostrander, Regina Eltz, Michelle Truitt Starting in 1989, the Secretary began some rather important meetings on their and Nancy Ely-Raphael. hosting eighth-floor receptions honoring afternoon agenda. When asked why, she The board of directors of the Senior recent retirees. The most recent event took told him—because of my achievement, Seminar Alumni Association has always place on April 7. Foreign Service and she was going to treat me to a long lunch had women members. Georgia Sadler, Civil Service Department of State employ¬ that very day. Navy; Barbara Pace, Central Intelligence ees who retired between January 3, 1992, Needless to say, it wasn’t her lun¬ Agency; Mary Olmsted and Nancy Ely- and last January 3 were invited. At the cheon guest’s exalted status that screened Raphael Cl.’" "'tly are board members. suggestion of the Senior Foreign Service her from the wrath of her principals. Sincerely, Association (supported by Foreign Service They knew that, once again, Marjorie William P. Stedman Jr. retiree organizations), a different type of Philbrick was doing something which Treasurer, alumni association □ event honoring those who retired between made her so wonderfully unique. She will January 3 and the end of November has A personal tribute be dearly missed. been scheduled for December 16. The Sincerely, Secretary is scheduled to make brief re¬ Stephen H. King Arlington, Va. marks followed by a photo opportunity Foreign Service officer (retired) ■ with each retiree. Light refreshments will Dear Editor: be served afterwards to the retirees and their guests. ■ Marjorie Philbrick’s obituary in the Christmas Washington Post furnishes the basic es¬ —(Continued from Page 13) sentials and is precisely what Marge would have wanted. speeding us through the night, away from Marge (see page 71) was my second danger. As we approached our landing in Anapestic boss in the Department. She was also, France, the lights of the city below daz¬ hands down, the best 1 was ever to serve zled us like strings of Christmas-tree Assignments under. 1 have yet to find anyone who ever lights. When we landed, reporters were worked for her in the Bureau of Public waiting with cameras and microphones. By EBP Affairs who feels otherwise. Marge Protective officials hastened us into wait¬ brought out the best in everyone—gifted ing cars and drove us to our hotels. There was a man assigned to Sydney and incompetent alike. In her gentle king¬ A good night’s sleep and a continen¬ Who said to PER: "You wouldn't kid dom, no one shirked, laziness was un¬ tal breakfast Imparted to me wonderful me! known and, no matter what the task, she recuperative powers. The harrowing For I find it beyond any belief managed to convince everyone that one events of the preceding two days began to I may see the great barrier reef. did what one had to do to do the job. be dimmed by the sights of glittering A sight that has always eluded me!" □ Marge accomplished this because she stores and tinsel-bedecked trees. The citi¬

December 1993 69 OBITUARIES

Reynold E. Carlson, 81, a retired fore retiring a second time in 1990. His secretary for public affairs, he became ambassador to Colombia, died in Nash¬ survivors include his wife, Jacqueline chief of the political section in Accra in ville, Tenn., on October 27. Crowne of Sarasota, two sons, a daughter 1959. In 1%2 he was named principal Mr. Carlson was named chief of and four grandchildren. □ officer in Ibadan. He was officer-in- mission in Bogota charge at Tanzania, 1964-66, then alter¬ by President John¬ Fritz A.M. Alfsen, 94, a retired For¬ nate country director for East Africa, son in 1966. Prior eign Service officer, died in Bryn Mawr, 1966-68. After becoming principal officer to serving as envoy, Pa., on September 4. in Cape Town, he retired in 1970. he held a number of Mr. AJfsen joined the Service in 1939 Mr. Meagher was born in Chicago on positions associated and went to Stockholm the following January 29, 1922. He served as a lieuten¬ with Latin America, year. After serving as second secretary in ant in the Navy overseas, 1943-46. He including director of Helsinki, he became consul in Barcelona attended Loyola and the University of the Institute for in 1943. He was assistant commercial Redlands. Before State, he was an ac¬ Brazilian Studies, attach^, then attach^, in Damascus, 1947- count executive and public relations direc¬ senior economist for 48. After assignments in Paris and Bristol, tor of a radio station. His survivors in¬ the western hemi- he served as consul in London, 1948-50. clude his wife, Gloria Meagher, of Mr. Carlson (1966) sphere branch of He was assigned to the Department of Laguna Hills. □ the World Bank, consultant to the Eco¬ Commerce, 1950-51. After a final tour as nomic Commission for Latin America and consul in Tokyo, he retired in 1952. Frank M. Lemay, 36, a member of associate director of the Latin American Mr. Alfsen was bom in Oslo on May the Policy Planning Staff, died at his program of the Ford Foundation. 3, 1899. He attended Oslo University and home in Washington on October 27. Mr. Carlson was bom in Chicago on Georgetown. His survivors include his Mr.Lemay joined the Foreign Service September 7, 1912. He received a bache¬ wife, Lillian Alfsen, of Bryn Mawr. □ in 1981 and was as¬ lor’s and master’s from Northwestern and signed to Santo Do¬ a doctorate from Harvard. He taught at Edna Barr Hubbert, 73, who was a mingo the following Johns Hopkins before and after World retired Civil Service employee and Foreign year. After serving War II. For 10 years he taught economics Service officer, died at National Orthope¬ as a rotational offic¬ at Vanderbilt, where he also served as dic Hospital in Arlington, Va., on Octo¬ er there, he became director of the graduate program for eco¬ ber 27. a staff assistant in nomic development. □ Ms. Hubbert began her career at the Bureau of Inter- State in 1945 as a clerk-stenographer. In American Affairs in Sherwin A. Crowne, 70, retired For¬ 1950 she became an assistant on interna¬ 1983. He was as¬ eign Service officer, died on a cruise ship tional organization affairs. She joined the signed to the bu¬ in the Atlantic on September 7. Foreign Service in 1955. After an assign¬ reau’s Office of Mr. Crowne began his career at State ment in the Department, she was posted Mr. Lemay Policy Planning and in 1952 as an opin¬ to Manila in 1960. Next, she was an Coordination, 1984-86. In 1986 he became ion analyst. After intelligence research specialist in Washing¬ economic officer in Bogota. working as an intel¬ ton, l%7-68. After a final assignment as a After training at the Foreign Service ligence research spe¬ foreign affairs policy analyst, she retired Institute, Mr. Lemay became an interna¬ cialist, he joined the in 1972. She held both the Meritorious tional economist in the Office of the Foreign l^rvice in Honor Award and a commendable service Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in 1956. He was assis¬ award. 1989. In this capacity, he wrote a memo¬ tant public affairs Ms. Hubbert was born in West Vir¬ randum warning that U.S. loan guaran¬ officer in Turin, ginia on April 16, 1920. She received a tees to Iraq were being used illegally to 1956-57. In 1958 he bachelor’s from Ohio State. Her survivors build up the military arsenal of Saddam became assistant in¬ include two cousins, Susan Farmer of Hussein. formation officer in Springfield, Va., and Caroline Hughes of After serving as an economist, Mr. Mr. Crowne (1975) Rome. He was post¬ Waldorf, Md. □ Lemay became a legislative management ed to Phnom Penh in 1%2. In 1%7 he officer in the Bureau of Legislative Af¬ was named special projects officer in Sai¬ John P. Meagher, 71, a retired Civil fairs in 1991. He had been a member of gon. After a final assignment in Washing¬ Service employee and Foreign Service of¬ the Policy Planning Staff since last year. ton, he retired in 1971. ficer, died in Laguna Hills, Calif., on He held the Superior Honor Award and Mr. Crowne was born in Philadel¬ October 15. three Meritorious Honor Awards. phia on August 19, 1923. He received a Mr. Meagher began his career at Mr. Lemay was born in Fairechild, bachelor’s from the University of Pennsyl¬ State in 1951 as a radio information Wash., on March 5, 1957. He received a vania and a master’s from Columbia. He officer. He became chief of the Public bachelor’s from Georgetown and a served in the Army overseas during World Services Division in 1955. He joined the master’s from Johns Hopkins. A memori¬ War II. After State, he worked as an Foreign Service later that year. After serv¬ al service attended by his coworkers was investment broker in Sarasota, Fla., be¬ ing as a special assistant to the assistant held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in

70 State Washington on October 30. He leaves his served on the board of trustees of Fifth parents, Alphee and Elvira Lemay of Church of Christ, Scientist, in Washing¬ Health insurance Columbia, Md., and a sister. □ ton. She leaves a sister, Lois Dupuis of Peabody, Mass., and a brother, Elwood The annual health insurance open William J. Medlin, 73, a retired For¬ Philbrick of San Diego. □ season, during which employees may en¬ eign Service Officer, died in Milton, Fla, roll in the federal health benefits program on October 15. Anita Lauve Richardson,79, who was and make enrollment changes, closes on Mr. Medlin joined the Service in 1966 a retired Foreign Service officer, died at a December 13. □ and became foreign buildings officer in nursing home in Westminster, Md., on Vienna. He was general services officer in October 22. Warsaw, 1968-70. In 1970 he returned to Ms. Richardson joined the Service in New Miami office Vienna as general services attache. He was 1944 and became cultural officer in Paris. building services specialist, then general After an assignment in Washington, she The Department has opened a region¬ services officer, in Saigon, 1971-74. After went to Saigon as political officer in 1954. al procurement support office in Miami to a final tour in Damascus, he retired in In 1957 she became a career development assist posts in the Western Hemisphere. 1976. officer in the Bureau of Personnel. She This becomes the fourth such office, the served as economic attache in New Delhi, Mr. Medlin was born in Florida on others being in Bonn, Tokyo and 1958-60. She left State the following year October 9, 1920. He served in the Navy Singapore. □ for 23 years before his career at State. His and worked for the Rand Corp. until survivors include his wife, Eileen Medlin, 1973, but was recalled twice from retire¬ of Milton. □ ment to serve as a special assistant to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in the Communications Rosemary Mitchell, 71, a retired For¬ 1960s and Ambassador Graham Martin in eign Service secretary, died in New Or¬ the early 1970s. group to meet leans on October 1. Ms. Richardson was bora in Upper Ms. Mitchell joined the Service in Montclair, N.J., on January 21, 1911. She The U.S. Organization for the Inter¬ 1957 as a clerk-stenographer. She became received a bachelor’s in m,isic, jointly national Telegraph and Telephone Consul¬ a secretary in Johannesburg later that conferred by Johns Hopkins and the Pea¬ tative Committee, Study Group A, will year. In 1960 she was posted to Quito. body School, and taught music at Calvert meet on December 8 at 9:30 a.m. in After a tour in Paris, she was assigned to School in Baltimore before she came to Room 1105. the Bureau of International Organization State. During World War II she worked The proposed agenda will include Affairs in 1%8. She retired in 1977. for the Red Cross in Europe and Africa. preparations for the January meeting in She leaves her husband, E. Drayton Ri¬ Geneva of the International Telecommuni¬ Ms. Mitchell was born in New Or¬ chardson of Lago Vista, Tex., a sister and cations Union’s Telecommunication Stan¬ leans on September 18, 1921. She received a brother. □ dardization Study Group 1, and a review a bachelor’s from Ursuline College. Be¬ of the results of the November Study fore State, she was a secretary at Conti¬ Thomas T. Turner, 75, a retired For¬ Group 3 meeting. nental Oil and 20th Century Fox. Her eign Service officer, died of multiple scle¬ Members of the public may attend. survivors include a cousin, Michael Mc- rosis in Eugene, Ore., on October 23. Persons who plan to should advise Gary Cune, of New Orleans. □ Mr. Turner joined the Service in 1946 Fereno, (202) 647-0201. □ and was assigned to Tunis. The following Marjorie P. Philbrick, 72, a retired year he became vice consul in Zurich. office director in the Bureau of Public After an assignment in the Department, Affairs, died at a nursing home in Alex¬ Work for spouses he served as administrative officer and andria, Va., on October 13. consul in Prague, 1955-57. In 1957 he Ms. Philbrick began her career at Two new bilateral work agreements, became consul in Wellington. Next, he State in 1945 as a clerk. She became an with Albania and the Czech Republic, was general services officer in Paris, 1960- editor the following year. She served as an have been concluded for members of For¬ 64. In 1964 he became administrative information specialist and a distribution eign Service families, the Family Liaison officer in Bamako. After a final assign¬ planning officer, 1949-64. In 1964 she Office has announced. The Department ment in Washington, he retired in 1967. became deputy director for public services has similar agreements with 39 other Mr. Turner was bora in Spokane on in the Bureau of Public Affairs. She was countries. □ September 12, 1918. He received a bache¬ named director in 1970, a position she lor’s and a master’s from the University held until her retirement in 1972. of Oregon. He served in the Army over¬ Ms. Philbrick was bom in Saugus, Library phone numbers seas during World War II. His survivors Information and reference.647-1099 Mass., on July 1, 1921. She received a include his wife, Ellen K. Turner, of Interlibrary loan.647-3609 bachelor’s from Radcliffe. During World Eugene. ■ Circulation.647-2458 War II she worked as a cryptographer at Front desk.647-2458 □ the Navy Department. After State, she

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