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TOTAL AMOUNT OF ORDER: $ MAILING INFORMATION: (Please prim plainly) NAME ADDRESS — CITY STATE ZIP PHONE SIGNATURE (Required for credit card orders) Perceptions and Realities Some of our readers may have been lulled into a false sense of security by the kind words of President Bush, who singled out the men and women of the Foreign Service for special appreciation on the day after his election a year ago, or by the frequent and warm words of respect and encouragement that we have heard from Secretary Baker and his predecessors. We have no doubt that these messages are sincere, but there is another AMERICAN FOREIGN world out there with different views, even here in Washington. Consider SERVICE ASSOCIATION for a minute what the Foreign Service is really like today, in the eyes of Governing Board other observers: President: THEODORE S. WILKINSON State Vice President: GEORGE P JONES “I have complaints from time to time about professionals within the State AID Vice President: CHARLES UPHAUS Department, not a complaint about their knowledge of the State Depart¬ USIA Vice President: VANCE PACE Retiree Vice President CHARLES A. SCHMITZ ment, but a complaint about their knowledge of America. [For Ambas¬ Secretary: MICHAEL COTTER sador in Spain] I would rather have someone who understands our system, Treasurer: MICHAEL DAVILA State Representatives: PURNELL DELIA' what we are all about, what we are trying to do, titan have someone who EILEEN HEAPHY knows all about the State Department but who has relatively little experi¬ DAVID T. JONES ence in the business of America.” Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) ROSS QUAN DAVID SMITH “Many Foreign Service officers are timid and lack political finesse . AID Representatives: WENDELL MORSE intelligent and professional . but prone to arrogance, careerism, and a SAMUEL SCOTr USiA Representative: OMIE KERR propensity to go native. ‘They maintain an abiding conviction that Retired Representatives: JOHN J. HARTER foreign policy is too important to be shared with the secretary of state, L. BRUCE LAINGEN Congress, or the White House.’” Newsweek, October 30, in an article entitled DAVID SCHNEIDER “A ‘Drone Class’ of American Diplomacy?” Staff Executive Director: SABINE SISK “There’s never been a case of a political ambassador being disloyal to the General Counsel: SUSAN Z. HOLIK United States. There have, regretfully, been some cases where some of the Controller: CATHY FREGELETTE Membership Coordinator: JANET L. SCHOUMACHER State Department people have been disloyal.” Senator Rudy Bosclmitz (R- Director for MN) or. ABC Nightline, July 24. Member Sendees: CHRIS BAZAR Don’t take all of this to heart, dear reader. Senators Boschwitz and Gramm Member Services Representatives: AMY L. MACEACHIN can be explained if not forgiven; they had been saddled with the uneviable CATHERINE SCHMITZ Dttal Assistant: CHRISTOPHER PERINE task of countering Senator Sarbanes’ devastating critique of the administra¬ U)v Clerk: JAY EISENBERG tion’s more egregious ambassadorial nominations. Newsweek didn’t bother LINDA VEGA Conference Coordinator: BRIAN HENNESSEY to consult AFSA—in contrast to most journalists who write about the Administrative Assistant: CHAMPA JARMUL Foreign Service—and instead relied on nameless rivals in the NSC. Newsweek Executive Assistant: MONIQUE COPELAND finds us to be both “timid” and “prone to arrogance.” Next week another Professional Issues RICHARD S. THOMPSON journal will no doubt sagely inform the public that the U.S. Foreign Congressional Liaison Service is “demure” and “opinionated,” or “self-effacing” and “aggres¬ ROBERT M. BEERS, RICK WEISS sive.” Scholarship Programs CRISTIN K. SPRINGET In fact, it isn’t easy to generalize about today’s corps of 4,000 FSOs, as some who know us better realize. To those who find die Foreign The American Foreign Service Association, founded Service “out of touch with America,” Elliott Abrams after eight years in 1924, is the professional association of the For¬ here replies in The National Interest: “No one can spend time in the Depart¬ eign Service and the official representative of all Foreign Service employees in the Department of ment of State without realizing that it is inhabited by real Americans, State and the Agency for International Development from places like Iowa and Colorado. The old Ivy League and East Coast under the terms of die Foreign Service Act of 1980. domination is simply gone.” Active or Retired membership in AFSA is open to all current or retired employees of the U.S. foreign We need, however, to do a better job of getting that message across. affairs agencies. Associate membership is open to For its part, AFSA is giving increased attention to outreach. A promising persons having an interest in or clo.se association with the Foreign Service.
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