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THE WEEK WE WENT TO WAR by Barton J. Bernstein THE UGLY AMERICAN REVISITED by Dino J. Caterini FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAI JANUARY 197| 60 CENT % p f'1 4 "WM A I y l f H r * ML IlLV Diplomacy comes in all sizes* Ford’s 1977 diplomatic lineup comes in Mail us the coupon below and we’ll send full-car sizes like the Continental, Marquis you complete information on the Ford-built and LTD. Trimmer sizes like the new car of your choice—and how you can get Thunderbird, LTD H, Cougar and it at our special discount. What could be Cougar XR-7. Personal sizes like Mark V, more diplomatic? Granada and Monarch. Compact sizes like *Cannot be driven in the U.S. Comet, Maverick, Mustang n, Bobcat and Pinto. Pick the car that’s sized right for you, then check out the special diplomatic discount savings you can get on any 1977 Ford-built car or light truck. Delivery will be arranged for you, either stateside or overseas. And you can have the car built to Export* or Domestic specifications. Please send me full information on using my diplomatic discount to purchase a new WRITE TO: DIPLOMATIC SALES: FORD MOTOR COMPANY 815 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006/Tel: (202) 785-6047 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE 1977 Granada Four-Door Ghia COUNTRY ZIP FORD EXPORT CORPORATION FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL American Foreign Service Association JANUARY 1977: Volume 54, No. 1 Officers and Members of the Governing Board PATRICIA WOODRING, President LARS HYDLE, Vice President CHARLOTTE CROMER, Second Vice President USIA: A Counter Proposal FRANK CUMMINS, Secretary GUNTHER K. ROSINUS 3 PAUL von WARD, Treasurer WILLIAM S. LEFES, THOMAS O'CONNOR, AID Representatives SAMUEL F. HART, DAVID NOACK, & Hiring Myself an Employer KENNETH N. ROGERS, Sfafe Representatives PETER WOLCOTT, USIA Representative NANCY COLE 5 OLCOTT DEMING & GLENN G. WOLFE, Retired Representatives Journal Editorial Board The Week We Went to War: RALPH STUART SMITH, Chairman G. RICHARD MONSEN, Vice Chairman American Intervention in Korea JOEL M. WOLDMAN ARNOLD P. SCHIFFERDECKER BARTON J. BERNSTEIN 6 JAMES F. O'CONNOR GEORGE F. SHERMAN, JR. HARRIET P. CULLEY CYNTHIA E. GALLUP WESLEY N. PEDERSEN William Faulkner, STAG Staff JACK H. SHELLENBERGER 10 ALLEN B. MORELAND, Executive Director WILBUR P. CHASE, Counselor CATHERINE WAELDER, Counselor The Ugly American Revisited CECIL B. SANNER, Membership and Circulation DINO J. CATERINI 12 CHRISTINA MARY LANTZ, Executive Secretary Foreign Service Educational Values and Consensus in and Counseling Center American Foreign Policy 16 BERNICE MUNSEY, DirectorICounselor CLARKE SLADE, Consultant Journal Manuel’s Son SHIRLEY R. NEWHALL, Editor ELIZABETH E. McNEILL 19 PAUL L. C. SQUIRE, Editorial Assistant MclVER ART & PUBLICATIONS, INC., Art Direction Advertising Representatives Editorials 2 JAMES C. SASMOR ASSOCIATES, 521 Fifth Ave., Suite 1700, New Book Essay 24 York, N.Y. 10017 (212) 683-3421 ALBERT D. SHONK CO., 681 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. Bookshelf 25 94105 (415) 392-7144 Letters to the Editor 36 JOSHUA B. POWERS, LTD., 46 Keyes House, Dolphin Sq„ AFSA News 37 London SW1 01-834-8023/9. International Representatives. Cover: Everyday, Lome, by Eleanor Dickinson The FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL is the journal of professionals in For subscription to the JOURNAL, one year (12 issues); $6.00; two years, foreign affairs, published twelve times a year by the American Foreign $10.00. For subscriptions going abroad, except Canada, add $1.00 annu¬ Service Association, a non-profit organization. ally for overseas postage. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and is Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical not intended to indicate the official views of the Department of State, the Abstracts and/or America: History and Life. United States Information Agency, the Agency for International Develop¬ Microfilm copies of current as well as of back issues of the FOREIGN ment or the United States Government as a whole. SERVICE JOURNAL are available through the University Microfilm Library While the Editorial Board of the JOURNAL is responsible for its general Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 under a contract signed October 30, content, statements concerning the policy and administration of AFSA as 1967. employee representative under Executive Order 11636 on the editorial ® American Foreign Service Association, 1977. The Foreign Service Jour¬ page and in the AFSA News, and all communications relating to these, are nal is published twelve times a year by the American Foreign Service the responsibility of the AFSA Governing Board. Association, 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington D.C. 20037. Telephone (202) Membership in the American Foreign Service Association is open to the 338-4045 professionals in foreign affairs overseas or in Washington, as well as to persons having an active interest in, or close association with foreign Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. and at additional post affairs. office. Membership dues are: Active Members—Dues range from $13 to $52 annually depending upon income. Retired Active Members—Dues are $30 annually for members with incomes over $15,000; $15 annually for less than $15,000. Associate Members—Dues are $20 annually. AR^A EDITORIAL A MESSAGE FROM THE NEW AFSA PRESIDENT I am honored by the Governing Board’s decision to appoint me as President of the Association for the re¬ mainder of its term. LEGAL DEFENSE As a State Representative on the AFSA Board, I have This month’s AFSA News describes the activities of been painfully aware of the problems that have faced the Association since Mr. Hemenway’s recall took effect your Governing Board as it has attempted to carry out its on November 17. This issue also reports, on page 39, on serious responsibilities in serving you, the members of Mr. Hemenway’s continuing lawsuit against the Associa¬ AFSA. The circumstances we continually encountered tion and individual members of the Governing Board and are well documented and need not be reviewed here. As the Recall Committee, which makes it impossible for the President I shall direct my efforts and energies in getting Association to put the matter completely behind us. on with the day-to-day business of representing you, of That legal action, by Mr. Hemenway and four other listening to your problems and solving them as they can AFSA Members, was initially aimed at stopping the be solved, and of improving the working conditons and counting of the recall election votes. That failed, and the effectiveness of AFSA’s membership. Membership expressed its will decisively, in the largest I recognize that the present Board is in its final months percentage turnout ever in an AFSA election, by a vote of stewardship. There remains much to be done, how¬ of 94 percent in favor of recall. The Governing Board had ever, and with the multiple approach of effectiveness, hoped that this would resolve the matter, and appealed to honesty and dignity, I know our Board can and will ac¬ the plaintiffs on November 23 to .drop their lawsuit to complish much to prove our worth to you. I can honestly avoid further substantial legal costs. But the plaintiffs state to you that every current Board Member—elected persist, seeking to return Mr. Hemenway to office and and appointed—is a dedicated competent representative obtain $100,000 for him in “compensatory and punitive” of his or her constitutency. I am proud to serve with damages. them. We have survived much. In our future delibera¬ The plaintiffs’ disregard of the expressed will of the tions on your behalf our differences will be professional Membership, the lack of substantive merit in their allega¬ and final positions that we take will reflect collectively tions, and their failure to exhaust, or even to pursue, less the best possible, the best attainable, and the best costly administrative remedies through the Employee- thought out solution. Management Relations Commission and the Department I do not consider myself to be a lame duck president. of Labor, make this matter more than just a dispute of the With your support I will not be. With your support, we, type in which an association such as ours could normally the Board, will give you honest, dedicated representa¬ expect to be involved. This lawsuit is nothing less than an tion. I ask that special interest groups communicate with attack on AFSA’s ability to represent its Membership, us on a regular basis as required or desired. An informed and State and AID Foreign Service employees, under Board will have a basis, a consensus, of what is needed Executive Order 11636; and an attack on the right of by whom. In the same manner, individuals are these employees to be represented effectively. There¬ encouraged to help us in our deliberations. Write to us, fore, we believe that it is necessary and proper to appeal come to our meetings, volunteer as you can to help us directly to Members for contributions to meet the costs with your particular expertise, I want your Board to be of litigation, as we did to fight the AID RIF and to estab¬ open in the conduct of its affairs, and you have a neces¬ lish the tax deductibility of home-leave expenses. sary, a valuable role to play. The Board from here foward Over the longer term we hope that members will con¬ will reflect your contributions. To this end, beginning in tribute regularly to the AFSA Legal Defense Fund, January 1977, there will be a Board meeting every Tues¬ building it into a formidable war chest for legal fights on day at 12:00 noon in the Levin Library on the second issues affecting the interests of our Membership and the floor of the AFSA headquarters building, unless for some Foreign Service and the effectiveness of the Association special reason otherwise indicated.
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