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The Foreign Service Journal, January 2004 FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page C1 BAGHDAD BULLETIN I CENTURY OF THE AMERICAS? I AID PROJECTS $3.50 / JANUARY 2004 OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L STHE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS ALPHABET SOUP U.S. Overseas Broadcasting Seeks Recipe for Success FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page C2 FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page 1 FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page 2 FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page 3 CONTENTS January 2004 I Volume 81, No. 1 F OCUSON U . S . B ROADCASTING F EATURES 16 / THE ABCS OF U.S. OVERSEAS BROADCASTING LETTER FROM BAGHDAD / 49 By Steven Alan Honley An FSO recounts a memorable recent week in Baghdad. By Beth A. Payne 20 / NEW DIRECTIONS IN U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING LATIN AMERICA: BACK ON THE RADAR SCREEN? / 53 By Brian Conniff The 9/11 attacks derailed the Bush administration’s plans for a “Century of the Americas.” But now that 25 / THE VOICE OF AMERICA ENTERS A NEW ERA vision may be getting back on track. By David Jackson By George Gedda 30 / A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS MAKING INSTITUTIONS OUT OF PROJECTS / 58 By Alex Belida Ad hoc aid projects often work very well. 35 / VOA’S SPECIAL But even the best ones usually don’t pave the way ENGLISH PROGRAM IS for long-term solutions to development problems. REALLY SPECIAL By James Olsen By Shelley Gollust KABUL TRAINING TRIP / 64 38 / GOING ONLINE AT A diplomatic courier’s first mission offers provocative VOANEWS.COM By Mollie King geographic and political sights. By James B. Angell 40 / RADIO FREE EUROPE/ Page 16 RADIO LIBERTY: TODAY AND TOMORROW By Tom Dine C OLUMNS D EPARTMENTS PRESIDENT’S VIEWS / 5 LETTERS / 7 43 / RADIO FREE ASIA: ‘A RARE WINDOW’ 2004: Year of the Dissident CYBERNOTES / 10 By Richard Richter By John Limbert BOOKS / 70 46 / IBB EMBRACES THE DIGITAL AGE SPEAKING OUT / 13 IN MEMORY / 72 By Alan L. Heil Jr. Time to Speak up for the INDEX TO Voice of America ADVERTISERS / 82 By Myrna Whitworth AFSA NEWS / REFLECTIONS / 84 CENTER INSERT By Robert Proctor THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS OREIGN ERVICE Foreign Service Journal (ISSN 0146-3543), 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 is published FJ O U R N A L S monthly with a combined July/August issue by the American Foreign Service Association, a private, non-profit Editor Editorial Board STEVEN ALAN HONLEY organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and does not necessarily represent the views of the Journal, the Editorial Board or AFSA. Writer queries and submissions are invited, preferably by Senior Editor JUDITH BAROODY, SUSAN B. MAITRA CHAIRMAN e-mail. Journal subscription: AFSA Members - $13 included in annual dues; others - $40. For foreign surface mail, Associate Editor add $18 per year; foreign airmail, $36 per year. Periodical postage paid at Washington, D.C., and at additional mail- SHAWN DORMAN MARK W. BOCCHETTI ing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Foreign Service Journal, 2101 E Street N.W., Washington, D.C. Ad & Circulation Manager ED MILTENBERGER STEPHEN W. BUCK 20037-2990. Indexed by Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS). The Journal is not responsible for unsolicited Business Manager TATIANA C. GFOELLER manuscripts, photos or illustrations. Advertising inquiries are invited. The appearance of advertisements herein MIKKELA V. THOMPSON CAROL A. GIACOMO does not imply the endorsement of the services or goods offered. FAX: (202) 338-8244 or (202) 338-6820. E- Art Director WILLIAM W. JORDAN MAIL: [email protected]. WEB: www.afsa.org. TELEPHONE: (202) 338-4045. © American Foreign Service CARYN J. SUKO AURIE ASSMAN Association, 2003. Printed in the U.S.A. Send address changes to AFSA Membership, 2101 E Street N.W., Editorial Intern L K BENJAMIN BODNAR HOLLIS SUMMERS Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. Printed on 50 percent recycled paper, of which 10 percent is post-consumer waste. Advertising Intern BILL WANLUND HONGYU CHEN TED WILKINSON Cover and inside illustration by Mikkela Thompson JANUARY 2004/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 3 FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page 4 FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page 5 PRESIDENT’S VIEWS 2004: Year of the Dissident BY JOHN LIMBERT Last October I proud to present awards to those who, attended an event like Craig Johnstone, Ed Peck, Sam hosted by “Visas for Hart, David Long, Doug Ramsey, Tom Life,” a group dedi- We need Boyatt, and others, have challenged cated to recognizing our gadflies, conventional wisdom and taken a risky and honoring those or unpopular stand. diplomats who saved our shin-kickers, For the sake of our Service and our hundreds of thou- to remind us that profession, we need to value our dis- sands of lives during World War II by senters. I urge all of you to recognize issuing visas and papers to the hunted all human wisdom colleagues who have had the courage to and the threatened across Europe. does not necessarily speak out by nominating them for one Two things struck me about these col- of our AFSA awards for constructive leagues’ stories. First, compassion and reside in dissent. courage knew no national boundaries. Washington. We offer awards in four categories: Those who acted bravely included • The Tex Harris Award for a Americans, Swiss, Turks, Swedes, Foreign Service specialist Mexicans and Iranians. Some even • The Averell Harriman Award for a represented “enemy” countries such as fession if we did not have such individ- junior officer (FS 06-04) Japan and Germany. uals. We need our gadflies, our shin- • The William Rivkin Award for a Second, many suffered for doing the kickers, to remind us that all human mid-career officer (FS 03-01) right thing. Sweden’s Raoul Wallen- wisdom does not necessarily reside in • The Christian A. Herter Award for berg disappeared into the gulag, and, the FAM or in guidance from a senior officer (FE/OC-FE/CA) by all accounts, died there. Iran’s Abd Washington. It does not even reside in Recognizing dissenters is never easy. al-Hosein Sardari faced an official Section 214 (b) of the Immigration and Doing so may mean swallowing our inquiry and reprimand for having pro- Nationality Act. The realities of our pride and admitting we were wrong — tected Europeans Jews with Iranian violent and unpredictable world rarely or could be wrong — about an issue. It passports. Our own Hiram Bingham, conform to bureaucratic guidelines may mean identifying ourselves with an honored in June 2002 with a special hammered out between competing unpopular and contrary view on policy posthumous AFSA award for construc- bureaus and departments. Think of or operations. It may mean identifying tive dissent, found himself shunted into Vietnam in 1975; Iran in 1979; Rwanda ourselves with an abrasive, difficult per- backwaters and eventually hounded in 1994; and Iraq and Afghanistan in sonality. None of the above will come out of the Foreign Service for his 2003. None of these places was order- easily in a Foreign Service that values courageous actions in Marseilles. ly, and none of them conformed to any collegiality and consensus. Other winners of the AFSA dissent rulebook so far written. But the very difficulty of the process awards also faced great difficulties and Since 1968 AFSA has recognized makes it all the more important. I urge were sometimes forced to leave the colleagues who show the integrity, ini- all of you to go to www.afsa.org/awards Foreign Service. tiative and intellectual courage to take a and take an hour to write a nomination Yet it would be a sad day for our pro- stand for what is right. We are proud to for a colleague who has shown the present awards to those Foreign courage to stand up for what is right. John Limbert is the president of the Service personnel who say “no” or ask Our Service and our profession will be American Foreign Service Association. “why?” and “why not?”. AFSA is better for your efforts. I JANUARY 2004/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 5 FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy_FSJ C1-15 JAN 2004 copy 11/10/11 12:00 PM Page 6 Give the gift of Foreign Service knowledge ... Inside a U.S. Embassy How the Foreign Service Works for America Only $12.95 Inside a U.S. Embassy takes readers inside embassies and consulates in over 50 countries, providing detailed descriptions of Foreign Service jobs and first-hand accounts of diplomacy in action. Inside a U.S. Embassy is now available for purchase through Amazon.com, Inside a U.S. Embassy is being used as a Barnes and Noble stores and the resource in several university classes on Barnes and Noble Web site. diplomacy, and AFSA would like to see more professors add it to their reading At least 80 different universities and lists. If you’d like to help AFSA spread the colleges have purchased the book for their word about the real work of diplomacy, career centers, exposing students who consider sending a copy of the book to might not otherwise hear about the Foreign your alma mater. Service to this career option.
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