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FROM BOSWELL TO JOHNSON ■ THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION AFSA’s 30 Years As a Union $3.50 / JUNE 2003 OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L STHE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS A LIFE OF PUBLIC SERVICE George P. Shultz With up to 25,000 Bonus Points or 7,500 Bonus Miles, who would you enjoy visiting? Family? Friends? Fiji Islanders? Its easy to earn points or miles for the trip youll enjoy most. Just stay at any participating hotel in the Priority Club® Rewards family of brands now through August 31, 2003. You can earn 5,000 bonus points or 1,500 bonus miles after every third stay— up to 25,000 bonus points or 7,500 bonus miles. That’s enough points for free nights at thousands of hotels worldwide. So whether you want to visit close friends or distant lands, Priority Club Rewards makes it easy to Stay With Someone You Know¤ ! Register today at priorityclub.com/25000 or call 1-888-560-5660 and, when prompted, enter your Priority Club Rewards member number and promotion code 8454. 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By Tom Boyatt CHRISTMAS IN JULY: HOLIDAYS ASAFOREIGN SERVICE CHILD / 62 35 / AFSA BECOMES A UNION: A child raised in the Foreign Service can retain a sense of BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUES Helping individual members with their problems tradition and still appreciate new cultures, including their was an AFSA priority from the outset. holidays. By Herman J. Cohen By Mikkela Thompson SCHOOLS AT A GLANCE / 71 40 / AFSA AND THE COURTS: THE BRADLEY CASE A 1979 Supreme Court decision held that the Essential data on educational choices. Foreign Service has unique needs and challenges. By Ted Wilkinson C OLUMNS D EPARTMENTS 42 / AFSA AND THE FOREIGN SERVICE ACT OF 1980 The AFSA Governing Board played a key role in the nego- PRESIDENT’S VIEWS / 5 LETTERS / 7 tiations leading up to the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Exclusive Representative CYBERNOTES / 10 By Ken Bleakley By John K. Naland BOOKS / 82 IN MEMORY / 83 F EATURES SPEAKING OUT / 13 Dissent Again INDEX TO By David T. 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Sitting here today, it of my columns have employee-friendly is hard to imagine what the Foreign focused on AFSA’s Service would be like had AFSA not role (dating from changes in become a union. 1924) as a professional association, I am Much of what AFSA has accom- honored to use this month’s page to the rules. plished for the Foreign Service was commemorate the 30th anniversary of achieved either directly or indirectly AFSA’s certification as the exclusive rep- because of our union status. For exam- resentative — i.e., union — of the U.S. management officials at the foreign ple, employees would likely get less Foreign Service. affairs agencies must obtain AFSA’s bang for the buck from a non-union If you are among the 30 percent of concurrence before they may alter any AFSA that could not negotiate with the active-duty Foreign Service who of the conditions of employment that management on members’ behalf. have entered on duty within the past affect Foreign Service members. 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