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AFSA Desk, The Hirshorn Company 14 East Highland Avenue Philadelphia, Pa. 19118 (215) CH 2-8200* Send me your free brochure (with built-in application form) that answers my questions about overseas insurance. Name Address City/State/Zip Note: The insurance policies, not this advertisement, will form the contract 'If calling from the Washington between the insured and the insurance company. The policies contain limits, D.C. area (202) 457-0250 exclusions and limitations not listed here. 980 Rieidn emce . sjournal American Foreign Service Association SEPTEMBER 1980: Volume 57, No. 8 Officers and Members of the Governing Board ISSN 0015-7279 KENNETH W. BLEAKLEY, President ANTHEA S. DE ROUVILLE, Vice President FRANK DIMOND, Second Vice President GALEN FOX, Secretary D. LARRY INGRAM, Treasurer JONATHAN L. SPERLING, AID Representative A Diplomat’s Viewpoint FRED M. SHAVER, ICA Representative MATTHEW P. DALEY, JOSEPH N. MCBRIDE, ROBERT H. 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Second-class postage paid at Washington, D C. and at additional post Membership dues are: Active Members—Dues range from $52 to $104 office. Letters t,/*710 Erratum I APPRECIATE your sending a copy of the June FSJ to my home leave address. I was delighted with the imagina¬ tive graphics which add much to my translation. But I was distressed to see that the title had been changed to refer, not to Central Asia as I had it and as would have been correct, but to East Asia, which is not accurate. ABRAHAM M. HIRSCH Columbus, Miss. Editor’s Note: Our imaginative graphic artist was momentarily disoriented when he did the title for Mr. Hirsch’s ~tc n . “Deja Vu: Russia in Central Asia” in the June Journal. The Journal regrets the error. Bankability of Human Rights O-t-est-J I HESITATE to express criticism of the article ‘‘Why Bother With Human Rights” by my classmate and friend, Sandy Vogelgesang, but 77- <3- YH*CUZ I fear damage to the cause we both Ur<- support. T ■ pen Put quite simply, we should /f£uV promote human rights in our foreign policy because the Ameri¬ can public (via the Congress) in¬ oj Uut sists upon it—not because it pays off, but because our actions must be based on our beliefs. The payoffs Sandy cites from the past cannot be proven. Some of them are extremely dubious and to even mention them is to invite devastat¬ ing challenges—so much so that the very concept of defending human rights is tossed into “Cloud Cuck¬ over time? What are the critical Toward Professionalism oo land!” variables in “respect,” and what is I ENJOYED Leon Poullada’s re¬ The worst of asserted successes the importance of “respect” vis- of human rights/national interest view of Smith Simpson’s newest a-vis “the national interests” book, The Crisis in American Di¬ leakages are not only unproven but (another good undefinable, but untestable. Take, for example, plomacy. It seems to me that three Preliminary returns from the Carter ubiquitous term). congratulations are in order—first, Administration’s human rights policy I strongly support a pervasive to Smith for the dedication that he do indicate increased respect for the policy of human rights in our has continued to give to the Service United States on this score. foreign policy, but I do so because since his untimely retirement sev¬ Any serious, trained political of my deep personal belief that we eral years ago (which has most re¬ analyst who is not a hack recog¬ Americans must be true to our¬ cently culminated in this book); nizes this as absolute garbage. How selves. second, to Leon for the special in¬ do you collect such information, We are asking for trouble if we sight he has so gracefully articu¬ evaluate, and test it? How do you predict ‘’pie-in-the-sky” advan¬ lated in his review; and third, to the monitor the variations in respect tages from doing what is simply the editors of the Journal for publiciz¬ right thing to do. ing this objective critique of the RICHARD MILTON The JOURNAL welcomes the expression of its H. Foreign Service. readers' opinions in the form of letters to the Counselor of Embassy To add some fuel to Smith’s al¬ editor. All letters are subject to condensa¬ for Consular Affairs ready hot fire, I recall an event tion if necessary. Send to: Letters to the Bangkok which occurred when I was deputy Editor, Foreign Service JOURNAL, 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. (Continued on page 45) 4 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, September, 1980 SHIPPING LOSSES OF ALL KINDS A Diplomat’s Viewpoint All the Way... PET Leaks ... with travel-pale LIABILITY JACK PERRY Leaks to the press have become an accepted part of our system of government and therefore constitute a danger to it.