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The Foreign Service Journal, June 2004 IRAQ AMBUSH I MORE FROM THE AFRICA FILE I GUATEMALA, 1954 SPECIAL REPORT: FS NEW HIRES SPEAK OUT $3.50 / JUNE 2004 OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L S THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS FAMILY VALUES Members of Household and the Foreign Service CONTENTS J u n e 2 0 0 4 I Volume 81, No. 6 C OVER S TORY S PECIAL R EPORT 16 / NOT QUITE FAMILY: GREAT EXPECTATIONS: “MEMBERS OF HOUSEHOLD” AT STATE NEW HIRES AND THE FOREIGN SERVICE / 33 State’s “Member of Household” policy is now more than The new generation is ready to contribute. three years old. How has it fared so far and what are its Here’s what they need in return. prospects in a rapidly changing world? By Shawn Dorman By Bob Guldin S CHOOL S UPPLEMENT F EATURES A VILLAGE TO CALL HOME — GLOBAL NOMADS INTERNATIONAL / 69 28 / FOREIGN SERVICE Despite sometimes feeling like you’re living a Fellini FIREFIGHT An FSO describes a close film, life after a Foreign Service childhood can include encounter with Iraqi insurgents a club called home. on the road from Baghdad By Mikkela Thompson to Najaf. Page 16 SCHOOLS AT A GLANCE / 82 By Philip S. Kosnett Essential data on educational choices. 52 / FIFTY YEARS AGO IN GUATEMALA The U.S.-backed removal of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in C OLUMNS D EPARTMENTS June 1954 was neither the first nor the PRESIDENT’S VIEWS / 5 LETTERS / 7 last such intervention. But different In Memoriam CYBERNOTES / 12 observers have drawn very different By Louise Crane BOOKS / 65 lessons from the episode. By George Gedda LETTER FROM INDEX TO ADVERTISERS / 98 THE DITOR E / 15 AFSA NEWS / By Steven Alan Honley CENTER INSERT 58 / THE AFRICA FILE, PART II: REFLECTIONS / 100 HELPING TO BUILD SUCCESS Members share more stories of progress By William V. Roebuck from around the African continent. By Susan Maitra 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 organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and does not necessarily represent STEVEN ALAN HONLEY 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 STEPHEN W. BUCK 20037-2990. Indexed by Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS). The Journal is not responsible for unsolicited ED MILTENBERGER PATI CHAPLIN manuscripts, photos or illustrations. Advertising inquiries are invited. The appearance of advertisements herein Business Manager TATIANA C. GFOELLER does not imply the endorsement of the services or goods offered. FAX: (202) 338-8244 or (202) 338-6820. E- MIKKELA V. THOMPSON CAROL A. GIACOMO MAIL: [email protected]. WEB: www.afsa.org. TELEPHONE: (202) 338-4045. © American Foreign Service Art Director ILLIAM ORDAN CARYN SUKO SMITH W W. J Association, 2004. Printed in the U.S.A. Send address changes to AFSA Membership, 2101 E Street N.W., LAURIE KASSMAN Editorial Intern Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. Printed on 50 percent recycled paper, of which 10 percent is post-consumer waste. DWIJEN JAYDEV MEHTA HOLLIS SUMMERS Advertising Intern BILL WANLUND WEI TAN TED WILKINSON Cover and inside illustration by Jennifer Kalis JUNE 2004/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 3 4 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL/JUNE 2004 PRESIDENT’S VIEWS In Memoriam BY LOUISE K. CRANE This column will AFSA plaques represent — unfulfilled appear after Mem- The next time you lives. That is what the names in all the orial Day, but I write national cemeteries represent — unful- it as I ponder what walk through the filled lives. to say on Foreign C Street lobby, The names on our plaques go back Affairs Day, May 7, to 1780 when William A. Palfrey when AFSA pays stop and think drowned at sea en route to his post in annual tribute to about what each Paris. When I first walked into the our colleagues who have died in the Main State lobby in April 1965 there service of their country and whose name on the AFSA was just one plaque and it was half-full. names are carved on the memorial Memorial Plaques A few months later a terrorist bomb plaques we placed in the State Depart- represents. went off outside the U.S. embassy in ment’s lobby many years ago. Saigon, and the terror toll has not slack- As of this writing, we do not have to ened since. carve any new Foreign Service names These plaques represent the into the marble. So I guess one could militia members.” When helicopters Foreign Service’s compact with the say we are lucky this year. But every finally reached the Najaf garrison to American people. We know the risks fresh report of a suicide bombing, con- drop ammunition and retrieve a and acknowledge the dangers, yet we voy attack, roadside bomb or RPG wounded Marine, the defenders were willingly expose ourselves to them to launch makes me feel that our luck is down to fewer than 10 rounds per man. advance the cause of peace and securi- that much closer to running out. The Nor was that a unique event — see ty. In spite of the nightly litany of car Foreign Service community came very the article on p. 28 of this issue, bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel close to suffering loss this year. It was “Foreign Service Firefight,” for an eye- and Pakistan, our Foreign Service col- the courage and sacrifice of others witness account of one such incident. leagues eagerly enter their bids for which kept one or more of us from get- And last October, John Branchizio, these posts. Fully one-third of the cur- ting killed. John Linde Jr. and Mark Parson died rent entry-level class of generalists says Natividad Mendez Ramos, a when a remote-controlled bomb tore they want to go to Iraq now. A reporter Salvadoran soldier, was killed in April apart their car in a diplomatic convoy. asked me to explain this dedication. He outside Najaf, Iraq. Our Foreign The three DynCorp contractors were couldn’t understand it. Service colleagues in Najaf have testi- guarding U.S. diplomats entering the The next time you walk through fied to the bravery of the Salvadoran Gaza Strip to interview candidates for the C Street lobby, stop and think soldiers when militias attacked them. Fulbright scholarships. what each name on the AFSA The Washington Post recently report- Our colleagues in that convoy, like Memorial Plaques represents. My ed: “Eight Blackwater contractors those caught in the attacks in Najaf, Foreign Service classmate Dennis W. assigned to protect a building in Najaf must wonder how and why they sur- Keogh’s name is there. He was blown fought alongside four Marines and vived. Why were the lives of their pro- up by a bomb in Namibia in 1984. He three Salvadoran soldiers to defeat a tectors cut short, left to be mourned was part of a peacekeeping mission. determined attack by hundreds of Iraqi and memorialized on marble head- And think about the names which are stones, while they are allowed to fulfill not on our list but represent lives Louise K. Crane is AFSA vice presi- their lives? equally unfulfilled, lives lost while dent for State. That is what the names on the protecting others. I JUNE 2004/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 5 THE REMINGTON 6 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL/JUNE 2004 LETTERS The DG on Iraq Service cessors and enjoy the respect and future, whether that is a promotion To suggest, as Peter Rice has recognition of all of us at home and or an assignment to what some Hill done in his March letter to the edi- abroad. staffers call “cushy” posts like Paris tor, that employees who have W. Robert Pearson or Canberra. That’s not our Foreign served in Iraq might not receive Director General of the Service. Here the desire to “serve equal treatment in assignments or Foreign Service the country” still burns brightly and for promotion “considering the dis- Washington, D.C. the condition of being worldwide dain of some (perhaps many) FSOs available is accepted and understood. toward President Bush and the Iraq Our Foreign Service & Iraq What Rice ignores is the powerful War” is unfair and unwarranted. I have two points to make about incentive of an opportunity “to do The independence of selection Peter Rice’s March letter, “Disin- something important for our coun- boards, governed by precepts nego- centives for Iraq Service?” First, he try,” as Hume Horan wrote in the tiated with the American Foreign has spent too much time listening to same issue. Service Association, is a fundamen- the critics of the Foreign Service: Finally, I want to disabuse Rice tal element of the Foreign Service those who falsely claim that the and other critics of the notion that system. Those precepts are clear Foreign Service disdains issuing visas, there is no meaningful work to be and stress that creditable perfor- that the Foreign Service disdains ser- done in Canberra, Berlin, Rome, mance under unusually difficult or vice at hardship posts, and that the Brussels or Paris.
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