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CLEMENTS Cf COMPANY Specialists in Insurance for the Foreign Service at Home and Abroad 1730 K Street, NW, Suite 701, Washington D.C. 20006 Phone (202) 872-0060 Fax (202) 466-9064 Telex 64514 Cable Clements/Washington A LONG-HAUL FIGHT Last month's "President's Views," which dealt with the issue of political ambassadorial appointments, was a condensation of testimony I gave at a November AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 10 hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) that considered six Governing Board such nominations. At that hearing, AFSA testified in opposition to the spoils system President: F.A. (TEX) HARRIS State Vice President: TODD STEWART by which non-career ambassadors are chosen and against the nomination of San AID Vice President: JOHN A. PATTERSON Diego hotelier M. Larry Lawrence, because in our view he lacks the necessary USIA Vice President: RAZVIGOR BAZALA Retiree Vice President: DONALD R. NORLAND qualifications to serve as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland. So meager was his Secretary: CATHERINE BARRY Treasurer: ANNE WOODS PATTERSON understanding of basic diplomatic concepts that at his hearing he referred to State Representatives: CHRISTINE FULENA Switzerland, whose name is synonymous with neutrality, as our "ally", and responded DENNIS KUX JOHN MARIZ to a question about "export controls" with an answer about export promotion. SUE SAARNIO DAVID H. SHINN Thanks mostly to our opposition, the SFRC, while endorsing the other nominees, AID Representatives: LEE ANN ROSS split 10-10 on Lawrence, whose nomination was then sent to the Senate floor without JAMES R. WASHINGTON USIA Representative. BRUCE WHARTON a recommendation. In the full Senate, a hold was placed on the nomination, Retired Representatives: KATHRYN Cl ARK-BOURNE SAMUEL F. HART suspending it until the Senate reconvenes in 1994. AFSA's success in temporarily M. BRUCE HIRSHORN blocking this high-profile nomination has focused considerable attention on the use EDWARD L. PECK FAS Representative: MAGGIE DOWLING of prestigious ambassadorships as sinecures for wealthy campaign contributors and, PCS Representative: BARRY FRIEDMAN not surprisingly, has triggered a counterattack: Staff Executive Director: SUSAN REARDON ■ Op-ed pieces by friends of the would-be ambassador have appeared in Business Department California newspapers characterizing our position as nothing more than self-serving Controller: CATHY FREGELETTE Office Manager: JUDY SHINN careerism and flailing back with childish epithets like "witless," "snobs," and—no Executive Assistant: ME1KE MEISSNER kidding—"dorks." USIA Office Manager: PETER GAASERUD Accounting Assistant: SHEREE E. BFANE ■ Senator Harlan Mathews (D.-TN) criticized AFSA bitterly at the SFRC hearing Administrative Assistants: DIANNA DUNBRACK for challenging, as he put it, the president's "constitutional duty and responsibility to MICHAEL DAILEY Labor Management nominate people to the Foreign Service [sic]," and even questioned our "right" to do General Counsel: SHARON PAPP Director: JAMES YORKE so. So much for the First Amendment! Staff Attorney: COLLEEN FALLON ■ In an apparently random act of retaliation, Senator Mathews put a hold on a list Representative: JULIE SMITHLINE Law Clerks: EDWIN GANIA of 27 senior USAID officers whose promotions were then before the Senate for MEGAN CHUNG routine approval. Although these officers have nothing whatsoever to do with the Member Services Acting Director: LORI DEC nomination of Larry Lawrence, they are being held hostage, according to Senator Director: JANET HEDRICK Mathews himself, until Lawrence and three other nominations on hold are approved. Representative: NORAJANE McINTYRE Grievance Counselors: DEREK TERRELL The absurdity and injustice of this action needs no comment. We have appealed JENNY NOYES to Senator Mathews and his colleagues, in the name of fairness, to stop penalizing Professional Issues: RICHARD S. THOMPSON these innocent USAID officers and to approve their promotions retroactive to the day Retiree Liaison: WARD THOMPSON they were suspended. I am confident that cooler heads will prevail and that our Congressional Liaison: RICK WEISS Scholarship "hostages" will be freed and duly promoted once the Senate reconvenes. Coordinator and The fate of our challenge to Larry Lawrence, however, is more problematic. Systems Administrator: THERESA AURRICHIO Speakers Bureau and Success in blocking confirmation of a manifestly unqualified ambassadorial nominee International Associates: GIL KUIICK would be an unprecedented achievement and possibly a historic turning point in the Conferences: JOHN J. HARTER The American Foreign Service Association, founded in 192-1, is the longstanding campaign to ensure that America's diplomatic missions abroad are professional association of the Foreign Service and tlte official represen¬ tative of all Foreign Sendee employees in the Department of State, and headed by "the best qualified" persons—whether career or non-career. the United States Information Agency and the Agency for International Development under the tenns of the Foreign Sendee Act of 1980. Active It may be that that point has not yet arrived, but we intend to press forward on or Retired membership in AFSA is open to all current or retired employees of the U.S. foreign affairs agencies. Associate membership is open to all fronts. Win or lose, there can be no doubt that we have raised congressional and persons having an interest in or close association with the Foreign Sendee. .Annual dues-. Active Members—$85-188; Retired Members—$45-62; White House consciousness and gained media attention to the damage to the national Associate Members—$50. All AFSA members are members of the Foreign Sendee Club. Please note: AFSA dues and Legislative Action Fund interest wrought by sending rank amateurs to fill important diplomatic posts. donations may lx* deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expease for federal income tax purposes. Scholarship and AFSA Fund Win or lose, AFSA is in this fight for the long haul. We must secure justice for donations are deductible as charitable contributions. our USAID hostages and be prepared to use our heightened credibility consistently AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION. 2101 E Street
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