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INTERSTATE EXCELLENCE IN MOVING & STORAGE 5801 Rolling Road Springfield, VA 22152 1-800-336-4533, Ext 233 or (703) 569-2121, Ext 233 Clements & Company wishes you peace and happiness for the holiday season. a green tree in your heart & perhaps the singing bird will come Christmas 10Q2 c,.f. ® H- Hi '<&• 0/? i 0 * ' ° CLEMENTS fc? COMPANY Washington, I).C. The Foreign Service in the Post-Cold War Era AMERICAN FOREIGN During the Cold War, United States foreign policy was driven, out of SERVICE ASSOCIATION necessity, by global military considerations. The new international challenges Governing Board facing our nation are no less daunting, but of a very different nature. Success President: WILLIAM A. KIRBY State Vice President: JOSEPH H. MELROSE JR. will come primarily through creative diplomacy rather than military power, and AID Vice President. CAREY COULTER the front lines will be manned by a revitalized Foreign Service. USIA Vice President: BERNARD HENSGEN Retiree Vice President: CHARLES A. SCHMITZ The post-Cold War era therefore requires (a) reorienting our foreign policy Secretary: ANNE WOODS PATTERSON Treasurer: JOSEPH HUGGINS and structures to address the global challenges that threaten our common future State Representatives: CATHERINE BARKY and (b) restoring a diplomatic focus to U.S. foreign policy and strengthening the PAULA BOYD JONATHAN FARRAR Foreign Service to play its proper role in that effort. HARRY GALLAGHER AFSA urges the adoption of the following priority objectives to which it ROBERT PERRY AID Representatives: WILLIAM D. MCKINNEY pledges its wholehearted support: JAMES DEMPSEY USIA Representative: LAUREN HALE Help U.S. business compete while promoting U.S. and global prosperity. Retired Representatives: PATRICIA M. BYRNE DANIEL NEWBERRY • Act on the principle that domestic and foreign policy are inseparable; global DONALD R. NORLAND leadership is founded on economic prosperity' at home which, in turn, DAVID SCHNEIDER requires commercial success abroad. Staff Executive Director: SUSAN REARDON • Reprogram foreign affairs resources to permit more active assistance to U.S. Business Department business interests abroad. Controller: CATHY FREGE LETTE Administrative Manager: SANDRA KARLOWA • Encourage and strengthen market forces worldwide, confident in the Office Manager: JUDY SHINN knowledge that the U.S. can compete and that prosperity is mutually Accounting Assistant: SHEREE E. BEANE Administrative Assistant: DIANNA DUN BRACK beneficial. Executive Assistant: TARA GADOMSKl • Restructure the U.S. national security apparatus to assure consistent Legal Services application of our national economic priorities. Legal Counsel: SHARON PAPP Staff Attorney: COLLEEN FALLON Combat common global threats to peace, health,and well-being. Law Clerks: EDWIN GANIA PATRICIA A. MALONE • Recognize that the global repercussions of ethnic violence, racial and Member Services religious intolerance, drug trafficking, environmental degradation and Director: JAMES YORKE Representatiires: DEBORAH M. LEAHY pollution, mass poverty and starvation, uncontrolled population growth, JULIE SMITHLINE refugee movements and the spread of disease, including AIDS, adversely Membership Director: JANET L. HEDRICK affect our national interest and well-being. Representative- LAURIE A. McMICHAEL • Relate U.S. foreign assistance directly to confronting these problems. Professional Issues: RICHARD S. THOMPSON • Promote a new “Global Charter” as a framework for affirming our values of Retiree Liaison: WARD THOMPSON peace and justice while rallying governments and peoples worldwide to Congressional Liaison: RICK WEISS eliminate these scourges. Scholarships and Development Director: GAIL VOLK • Magnify the effect of U.S. initiatives by building multilateral coalitions; Coordinator. MICHAEL DAILEY unilateral actions are not sufficient for addressing global issues. Speakers Bureau and International Associates: GIL KU'LICK Promote democratic and free market principles and practices worldwide. Conferences: JOHN J. HARTER JASON FELDMAN • Uphold the U.S. role as champion of democracy and free-market reforms. The American Foreign Service Association, founded in 1924, • Mobilize resources to project educational, cultural and economic assistance is the professional association of the Foreign Service and the official representative of all Foreign Service employees in the programs that affirm and enhance that leadership role. Department of State and the Agency for International Devel¬ opment under the terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. • Promote multilateral institutions and initiatives that advance these objectives Active 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 persons having an interest while providing a means of sharing the costs. in or close association with the Foreign Service Annual dues: Active Members—$80-465; Retired Members—$45-55; Asso¬ ciate Members—545- All AFSA mem!>er.s are members of the Foreign Sen-ice Club. Please note: AFSA dues and Legislative U.S. Policy Objectives and Interests Action Fund donations may be deductible as an ordinary and It is indispensable that the United States remain fully engaged in world affairs necessary business expense for federal income tax purposes. Scholarship and AFSA Fund donations are deductible as in order to consolidate the freedoms unleashed at the end of the Cold War. We charitable contributions. AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION. 2101 E Street NW, believe it would be contrary to our character as a people and our tradition as Washington. D.C. 20037. Executive offices, membership, professional issues, scholarship programs, insurance pro¬ a nation to abdicate that leadership role just as those Cold War goals—for which grams. JOURNAL offices; (202) 338-4045. Governing Board, standing committees, general counsel, labor-management we sacrificed some $6 trillion of our national treasure—-are within reach. relations, member services, grievances. (202) 647-8160 • (continued on insert page 6) FAX: < 202) 6 )7-0265 • Foreign Service Club (202) 338-5730. 2 • FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL • DECEMBER 1992 DECEMBER 1992 JOURNAL Editorial Board Chairman BRANDON GROVE STEVEN AOK1 C. STUART CALLISON JOE B. JOHNSON ROBERT MAUSHAMMER FRANK McNEIL DONALD R. NORLAND PHYLLIS OAKLEY ERIC RUBIN ROBERT TOTH The Ambassador’s on Hold 31 Loyalty and Dissent 39 HANS N. TUCH “The Independent Voice of the FEATURES Foreign Service” Think Tanks at Work... 10 Acting Editor BY ANNE STEVENS0N-YANG NANCY A. JOHNSON Editor An Impossible Job? 18 ANNE STEVENSON-YANG Advertising Manager Advice to the new secretary of state TINA DREYFUS BY DAVID CALLAHAN Executive Assistant DEREK TERRELL Editorial Intern STEPHEN G. HALL Focus: AMBASSADORS Quizmaster GIL KULICK Design 0, Pioneers! 24 MARKETING & MEDIA SOLUTIONS Professionals at the outposts BY NORMAN KEMPSTER FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL (ISSN 0015-7279), 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990, is published monthly by the American Foreign Service Differences in Style 27 Association, a private, non-profit organization. Career vs. political appointees Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and does not necessarily represent AN INTERVIEW WITH BRANDON GROVE JR. the views of AFSA or the JOURNAL. Writer queries are invited. Sorry, the Ambassador’s on Hold 31 JOURNAL subscription: AFSA Members -$9.50 included in annual dues; others - $40. Overseas BY GEORGE GEDDA subscription (except Canada) - $50 per year. Airmail not available. Frontier Embassy 35 Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. BY JOSEPH LAKE and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. Microfilm copies: University Microfilm Library' Loyalty and Dissent 39 Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 (October 1967 to present). Indexed by Public Affairs The Foreign Service and the war in Southeast Asia Information Service (PAIS). Advertising inquiries BY DANIEL A. STRASSER invited. The appearance of advertisements herein does not imply the endorsement of the services or Diplomat in Central Asia 45 goods offered. FAX: 202/338-6820 or 202/338- 8244 • TELEPHONE: 202/338-4045 or 338-4054. BY JAMES CRITCHL0W American Foreign Service Association 1992 DEPARTMENTS AFSA Views 2 Advertising Sections: THE COVER: Clippings 4 Real Estate 53 Letters 7 Marketplace 57 Illustration by AFSA News, Classifieds/Pull-out Section 1992 Index 58 David Chen Fifty Years Ago/Quiz 60 DECEMBER 1992 • FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL • 3 NO COVER-UPS accounts that we reported to the United Nations. THE WASHINGTON
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