The Foreign Service Journal, July 1992
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I began to feel as if someone’s security clearance State Representatives: CATHERINE BARRY PAULA BOYD were being updated. I replied that I wouldn’t play the gossip columnist. But I’d PURNELL DELLY be glad to talk about how important ambassadorial selections were for our HARRY GALLAGHER ROBERT PERRY country. AFSA in fact had a duty to speak clearly on this and other professional AID Representatives: JAMES DEMPSEY WILLIAM MCKINNEY issues. If we lapsed into lowest common denominators, as government often USIA Representative: LAUREN HALE did, why exist? The public affairs bureaus of our parent agencies would gladly Retired Representatives: PATRICIA BYRNE DANIEL NEWBERRY do our job for us. DONALD R. NORLAND I explained that AFSA is disposed to favor career over non-career ambassa¬ DAVID SCHNEIDER Staff dors for both labor union and professional reasons. As a labor union, AFSA holds Executive Director: SABINE SISK that more career selections are simply better than fewer—although we don’t like Business Department Controller: CATHY FREGELETTE to get lost in the statistics game. As an organization of professionals, moreover, Executive Assistant: IRENE LOWY AFSA believes that career appointees in most cases are better. The worst that Accounting Assistant: SHEREE E. BEANE Administrative Manager: SANDRA KARLOWA could usually be said against them is: “They’re uninspiring, safely dull.” Administrative Assistant: CHAMPA JARMUL I stressed, however, that AFSA has no reflexive bias against non-career Legal Services Staff Attorney: COLLEEN FALLON appointees. We profoundly believe that the overriding consideration in ambas¬ Legal Assistant: MARK W. SMITH sadorial nominations should be the candidate’s fitness. The contemporary Law Clerks: EDWIN GANIA PATRICIA A. MALONE record proves that in these times, no embassy is so remote or unimportant that Member Services Director: CHRISTOPHER PERINE it can safely be entrusted to an incompetent ambassador. Representatives: DEBORAH M. LEAHY The average citizen might find it hard to judge how well or poorly an JULIE SMITHLINE Membership ambassador does his or her job. Successes or failures are rarely reported back Director: JANET L. HEDRICK home. But the public should know that if we are to be successful in doing Assistant: LAURIE A. McMICHAEL business with foreign governments, these transactions cannot all be done in Professional Issues: RICHARD S. THOMPSON Washington and at the cabinet level. Much has to be done in the field by the Retiree Liaison: WARD THOMPSON ambassador—part composer of U.S. policy and always conductor to the Congressional Liaison: RICK WEISS Scholarships and orchestra of agencies in the embassy. It should be self-evident, to pursue the Development Director: GAIL VOLK image, that the ambassador should be able to read sheet music and have played Assistant: MICHAEL DAILEY Outreach Department an instrument himself. Speakers Bureau and But above all else, the public should know that an American ambassador can International Associates: GIL KULICK Conferences: JOHN J. HARTER have very high visibility in some foreign capitals. We should understand that foreign governments and publics will judge our country and our civilization The American Foreign Service Association, founded in 1924, is the professional association of the Foreign Service and the partly by the attributes of our ambassadors. By selecting an ambassador, we official representative of all Foreign Service employees in the Department of State and the Agency for International Devel¬ explicitly tell the world how we choose to be represented. Accordingly, AFSA opment under the terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Active or Retired membership in AFSA is open to all current rejoices at the appointment of non-career chiefs of mission such as Robert D. or retired employees of the U.S. foreign affairs agencies. Associate membership is open to persons having an interest Stuart Jr., Angier Biddle Duke, Barbara Watson, and Dr. Elliott Skinner—to say in or close association with the Foreign Service. Annual dues: nothing of Mike Mansfield, James Bryant Conant, or Edwin Reischauer. Active Members—$80-165; Retired Members—S45-55; Asso¬ ciate Members—$45. All AFSA members are members of the Conversely, we groan when certain other names are put forward. Foreign Service Club. Please note: AFSA dues and Legislative Action Fund donations may be deductible as an ordinary and At bedrock, AFSA’s position is this: patriotic Americans should feel sad and necessary business expense for federal income tax purposes. Scholarship and AFSA Fund donations are deductible as angry when an ambassador is sent abroad who causes our great country to be charitable contributions. AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION, 2101 E Street NW. laughed at. Washington, D.C. 20037. Executive offices, membership, professional issues, scholarship programs, insurance pro¬ grams, JOURNAL offices: (202) 338-4045. Governing Board, standing committees, general counsel, labor-management relations, member services, grievances: (202) 647-8160 • — HUME HORAN FAX: (202)338-6820 • Foreign Service Club (202) 338-5730. 2 • FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL • JULY 1992 FOREIGN SERVICE JULY 1992 JOURNAL VOL. 69, NO. 7 Editorial Board Chairman HOWARD SCHAFFER RICHARD AHERNE C. STUART CALLISON HELEN STROTHER FOUCHE HUME HORAN JOE B. JOHNSON FRANK McNEIL PHYLLIS OAKLEY ROBERT TOTH HANS N. TUCH Airlift Minsk 14 Gays in the Foreign Service 40 “The Independent Voice of the Foreign Service” FEATURES Editor Philip Habib: A Remembrance 10 ANNE STEVENSON-YANG Associate Editor COMMENTS FROM HENRY KISSINGER, CYRUS VANCE, LAWRENCE NANCY A. JOHNSON EAGLEBURGER, JAMES BAKER, GEORGE SHULTZ, CHARLES BRAY, THEODORE Assistant Editor/Advertising Manager ELIOT, CHARLES HILL, ROBERT MILLER, THOMAS MILLER, MORTON JULIA T. SCHIEKEN ABRAM0WITZ, DANIEL O’DONOHUE, AND JOHN NEGR0P0NTE Executive Assistant DEREK TERRELL Design Airlift Minsk: Jump-Starting Operation Provide Hope 14 MARKETING & MEDIA SOLUTIONS BY ARTHUR LEZIN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL (ISSN 0015-7279), 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990, is The Case Against Radio Free China 23 published monthly by the American Foreign Service BY HANS N. TUCH Association, a private, non-profit organization. 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