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The Foreign Service Journal, July 1975
FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL JULY 1975 60 CENTS isn I The diplomatic | way to save. ■ All of these outstanding Ford-built cars are available to you at special diplomatic discount savings. ■ Delivery will be arranged for you either stateside or ■ overseas. And you can have the car built to Export* or Domestic specifications. So place your order now for diplomatic savings on the cars for diplomats. For more information, contact a Ford Diplomatic Sales Office. 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/COUNTRY ZIP Cannot be driven in the U.S American Foreign Service Association Officers and Members of the Governing Board THOMAS D. BOY ATT, President F. ALLEN HARRIS, Vice President JOHN PATTERSON, Second Vice President RAYMOND F. SMITH, Secretary JULIET C. ANTUNES, Treasurer CHARLOTTE CROMER & ROY A. HARRELL, JR., AID Representatives FRANCINE BOWMAN, RICHARD B. FINN, CHARLES O. HOFFMAN & FRANCIS J. McNEIL, III State Representatives STANLEY A. ZUCKERMAN, USIA Representative FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL JAMES W. RIDDLEBERGER & WILLIAM 0. BOSWELL, Retired Representatives JULY 1975: Volume 52, No. 7 Journal Editorial Board RALPH STUART SMITH, Chairman G. RICHARD MONSEN, Vice Chairman FREDERICK QUINN JOEL M. WOLDMAN EDWARD M. COHEN .JAMES F. O'CONNOR SANDRA L. VOGELGESANG Staff RICHARD L. WILLIAMSON, Executive Director DONALD L. FIELD, JR.. Counselor HELEN VOGEL, Committee Coordinator CECIL B. SANNER, Membership and Circulation Communication re: Excess Baggage 4 Foreign Service Educational AUDINE STIER and Counseling Center MARY JANE BROWN & Petrolimericks 7 CLARKE SLADE, Counselors BASIL WENTWORTH Foreign Policy Making in a New Era: Journal SHIRLEY R. -
Middle East -1971 (See List of Items Appendix No. 7)
UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 4 Date 22/05/2006 Time 4:43:51 PM S-0865-0003-04-00001 Expanded Number S-0865-0003-04-00001 Title items-in-Peace-keeping operations - Middle East -1971 (see list of items appendix No. 7) Date Created 01/01/1971 Record Type Archival Item Container s-0865-0003: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant - Middle East Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit x/, 7 Selected Confidential Reports on OA-6-1 - Middle East 1971 Cable for SG from Goda Meir - 1 January 1971 2 Notes on meeting - 4 January 1971 - Present: SG, Sec. of State Rogers, 0 Ambassador Charles Yost, Mr. Joseph Sisco, Mr. McClosky and Mr. Urquhart t 3) Middle East Discussions - 5 January 1971 - Present: Ambassador Tekoah Mr. Aphek, Ambassador Jarring, Mr. Berendsen 4 Letter from Gunnar Jarrint to Abba Eban - 6 January 1971 x i Letter to Gunnar Jarring from C.T. Crowe (UK) 6 January 1971 *6 Notes on meeting - 7 January 1971 - Present: SG, Sir Colin Crowe 7 Notes on meeting - 7 January 1971 - Present: SG, Mr. Yosef Tekoah 8 "Essentials of Peace"(Israel and the UAR) - 9 January 1971 9 "Essentials of Peace" (Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordon - 9 January 1971 Statement by El Tayalt - 13 January 1971 Minutes of meeting - 13 January 1971 - Present: M. Masmoudi, El-Goulli, Mr. Fourati, Mr. Jarring, Mr. Berendsen^ Letter from William P. Rogers - 15 January 1971 Letter - Middle East - 15 January 1971 Implementation of Security Council Resolution 242 of 22 November 1967 For The Establishment of a Just and Lasting Peace in the Middle East - 18 January 1971 C H-^-^ ?-«-r-"~) Comparison of the papers of Israel and the United Arab Republic 18 January 1971 L " Notes on meeting - 19 January 1971 - Present: SG, Ambassador Yost, USSR - 1 January 1971 - Middle East Communication from the Government of Israel to the United Arab Republic through Ambassador Jarring - 27 January 1971 France - 27 January 1971 - Middle East Statement by Malik Y.A. -
Addition to Summer Letter
May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays. -
The Cultural Cold War in the Middle East : William Faulkner and Franklin Book Programs
The cultural Cold War in the Middle East William Faulkner and Franklin Book Programs Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam Universiteit Leiden William Faulkner is an interesting case for the history of American cultural diplomacy. Although the State Department hailed him as a Cold War war- rior, it had difficulty sponsoring his “modernist” novels in a book program that promoted American ideals during the Cold War. In this article I exam- ine how the Franklin Book Programs arranged for some of Faulkner’s novels to be translated into Arabic and Persian by using sources from the Program’s archive and an interview with a former Franklin editor. The analysis is framed by Faulkner’s rise in status from a marginal to a major world writer. I also assess the cultural forces that led to his inclusion in Franklin’s list of publications. The analysis reveals a tension between American idealism and Cold War imperatives, further challenging the propagandist reading of the program and calling for a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of the cultural Cold War in the region. Keywords: William Faulkner, the cultural Cold War, Franklin Book Programs, cultural diplomacy, the Middle East Mr. Smith writes a letter 10 January 1957, New York To: Mtre. Hassan Galal el-Aroussy, Cairo, Egypt Subject: Faulkner, [the] ‘Sound and [the] Fury Maybe I am just a sissy, but I honestly cannot bear the thought of the criticism which I believe would come down upon Franklin from both Arabs and Americans if this hair-raising piece of realism – which, as indicated in my cable I prefer to call “nihilism’ – should appear under our sponsorship when the total number of American novels in Arabic is still so small.There is no question about Faulkner’s greatness, and I am inclined to agree that this work is typical; but if you are inclined to be impatient with me about the judgment I have expressed I would beg that you yourself read the book and see whether you do not agree with me. -
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Honors a Distinguished Work of Fiction by an American Author, Preferably Dealing with American Life
Pulitzer Prize Winners Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction honors a distinguished work of fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Chosen from a selection of 800 titles by five letter juries since 1918, the award has become one of the most prestigious awards in America for fiction. Holdings found in the library are featured in red. 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 2012: No prize (no majority vote reached) 2011: A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 2010:Tinkers by Paul Harding 2009:Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2008:The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007:The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006:March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson 2004 The Known World by Edward Jones 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Stephan Milhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley -
Pulitzer Prize
1946: no award given 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair Pulitzer 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow 1941: no award given 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Prize-Winning 1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis Fiction 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson 1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller 1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1931 : Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined prize) 1925: So Big! by Edna Ferber 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 1920: no award given 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole Deer Park Public Library 44 Lake Avenue Deer Park, NY 11729 (631) 586-3000 2012: no award given 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 2011: Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 1977: No award given 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks 1974: No award given 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 2004: The Known World by Edward P. -
JOHN FOSTER DULLES PAPERS PERSONNEL SERIES The
JOHN FOSTER DULLES PAPERS PERSONNEL SERIES The Personnel Series, consisting of approximately 17,900 pages, is comprised of three subseries, an alphabetically arranged Chiefs of Mission Subseries, an alphabetically arranged Special Liaison Staff Subseries and a Chronological Subseries. The entire series focuses on appointments and evaluations of ambassadors and other foreign service personnel and consideration of political appointees for various posts. The series is an important source of information on the staffing of foreign service posts with African- Americans, Jews, women, and individuals representing various political constituencies. Frank assessments of the performances of many chiefs of mission are found here, especially in the Chiefs of Mission Subseries and much of the series reflects input sought and obtained by Secretary Dulles from his staff concerning the political suitability of ambassadors currently serving as well as numerous potential appointees. While the emphasis is on personalities and politics, information on U.S. relations with various foreign countries can be found in this series. The Chiefs of Mission Subseries totals approximately 1,800 pages and contains candid assessments of U.S. ambassadors to certain countries, lists of chiefs of missions and indications of which ones were to be changed, biographical data, materials re controversial individuals such as John Paton Davies, Julius Holmes, Wolf Ladejinsky, Jesse Locker, William D. Pawley, and others, memoranda regarding Leonard Hall and political patronage, procedures for selecting career and political candidates for positions, discussions of “most urgent problems” for ambassadorships in certain countries, consideration of African-American appointees, comments on certain individuals’ connections to Truman Administration, and lists of personnel in Secretary of State’s office. -
Spring Semester 2013
Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies Spring Semester 2013 Monday, March 4 – Friday, June 7 Chicago and Evanston Study Groups 1 Monday Group # Chicago Study Groups At-A-Glance Start Time 3888 The Great American M usic People 10am 3889 Great Short Stories 10am 3890 Literary Masters 10am NEW 3891 Our Evolving Social Behavior 10am NEW 3892 Story of American Freedom 10am NEW 3893 British History Lite 1:30pm 3894 M onday at the M ovies (3 HRS) 1pm 3895 The New Yorker, Monday 1:30pm NEW 3896 The Unfolding of Language 1:30pm 3897 Women in Literature 1:30pm 3898 Writing Life Stories 1:30pm Tuesday 3899 The Creature from Jekyll Island, a Second Look at the Federal Reserve 10am 3900 Economic Viewpoints 10am 3901 The Geography of Modernism: Art, Literature, and Music between the Wars 10am NEW 3902 The Harlem Renaissance 10am NEW 3903 India—The Definitive History 10am 3904 Monarchs: Queens Who Made a Difference 10am NEW 3905 To Err is Human? 10am 3906 Curtain Up! 1:30pm NEW 3907 History: A Muslim Perspective 1:30pm International Perspectives: Iron Curtain – 3908 The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 1:30pm NEW 3909 Let’s Talk About the Movies – Lunchtime Bonus Group (5 SESSIONS) 12:15pm NEW 3910 Shutterbug —Fun with Digital Photography 1:30pm 3911 The Writing Group 1:30pm Wednesday NEW 3912 The American Century 10am 3913 Art in the Twenty-First Century 10am NEW 3914 Devil in the White City (12 SESSIONS) 10am 3915 Foreign Affairs 10am 3916 Like Suspense? Go Against the M aster Alfred Hitchcock 9:30am 3917 The New Yorker, Wednesday -
United Nations Issues: Cabinet Rank of the US
Updated December 22, 2020 United Nations Issues: Cabinet Rank of the U.S. Permanent Representative The U.S. Permanent Representative is the chief as a means of maintaining communication and the flow of representative of the United States to the United Nations. information among key Administration officials. The President appoints the Permanent Representative with the advice and consent of the Senate. Of the 30 individuals By tradition, permanent Cabinet membership comprises the President, the heads of the executive departments and, in who have served since 1946, approximately two-thirds have more recent decades, the Vice President. Beginning with been accorded Cabinet rank by Presidents. Some Members of Congress have demonstrated an ongoing interest in the Dwight D. Eisenhower, each President also has accorded Cabinet rank to select senior executive branch leaders, Cabinet rank of the Permanent Representative in the context including the U.S. Permanent Representative. The positions of the Senate confirmation process and broader U.S. policy toward the United Nations. On November 24, 2020, and individuals granted this distinction vary by presidency and, sometimes, within a presidency. Some positions, President-elect Biden announced his intent to nominate including the Administrator of the Environmental Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be Permanent Representative, with Cabinet rank. Biden stated that he will accord Cabinet Protection Agency, the United States Trade Representative, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and status to Greenfield “because I want to hear her voice on all the White House Chief of Staff, have all consistently been the major foreign policy discussions we have.” accorded this status over the past three decades. -
1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project ARNOLD DENYS Interviewed by: Self Copyright 1998 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements A out the Author Note to the Reader Preface A Crisis in the Life of a Foreign Service Officer My Beginnings (S Citi)enship Return to Civilian Life Panama Assignment Crisis in Panama London Egypt Athens Mexico Canada ,ashington, DC Antwerp ,ashington to Tijuana Tijuana Tijuana to Retirement Conclusion DIARY Son of Flanders The Making of a Consul. Diary of an American Foreign Service Officer In Memory of Emiel Denys 01103411767 8odelieve Maria Denys 01101411117 AC9NO,LED8MENTS 1 I feel deep gratitude to my late parents for their encouragement to write this memoir. The late Mrs. 9atherine McCook 9nox, an art historian from ,ashington, DC, was in great part responsi le for my efforts in compiling letters and notes on the American Foreign Service. My thanks also go to Rhoda Riddell, Ph.D., a writer and teacher, who transcri ed and edited my handwritten account, which was taken from my diary. I also wish to thank Art Drexler, who completed the editing and prepared the book for printing. I wish also to thank the following persons, whom I have known in the long course of my foreign service career, and who have meant so much to me both personally and professionally, and deserve special acknowledgment. Consul 8eneral John D. Barfield Vice Consul 0Ret.7 Frank J. Barrett Miguel Angel 8arcia Charles Stuart 9ennedy, Director of the Association for Diplomatic Studies, who inspired me with his work on the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. -
2 Ndour Overcoming Boundaries
Overcoming Boundaries: Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter and Toni Morrison’s Sula Moustapha Ndour This study utilizes Toni Morrison’s Sula (1991) and Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981) to examine the ways in which women interact with cultural boundaries in West African and African American contexts. While Morrison explores the sociocultural role of Black woman in North America, Bâ focuses, in her novel, on the sociopolitical implications of polygamy and cultural conflicts in postcolonial Senegal on women in the country. Both novelists engage in a struggle to reposition Black women, who have often been marginalized in men’s narratives. Therefore, by giving agency to their heroines, they make a clear political move with regard to a long established form of writing. Despite the fact that women make up the majority of the world’s population, they are often given a lower position in society and treated as a minority group. Their ambitions for careers and power have regularly been hindered by social, racial, ethnic, religious, and political constructions. Female authors the world over have frequently sought to counter this perception by exploring issues affecting women in their novels, standing against sexual stereotypes or other restrictions. In other words, through their writing, they seek the same political, social, sexual, intellectual, and economic rights as men. Black Diaspora Review 4(2) Summer 2014 1 It could be said that the postcolonial period is marked by social inequities in the US for women. Moreover, women’s social position in the US cannot be fully explored without referencing racial segregation, which has impacted all minority social groups, including Black women. -
1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM LUERS Interviewed
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM LUERS Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: May 12, 2011 Copyright 2020 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born in Springfield, Illinois in 1929 Family Background Childhood in Springfield BA with Honors in Chemistry and Math, Hamilton University 1947–1951 Officer in U.S. Navy 1952–1956 MA in International Relations, Columbia University 1956–1957 Entered the Foreign Service 1957 Background in Socialist and Communist Theory Naples, Italy—Visa Officer 1957–1959 Note Taker and Translator for Consular General Jim Henderson U.S. Policy Failure Excluding Leftist Parties Achille Lauro Visa Process Translating for Truman and De Nicola McCarthyism Washington, D.C.—Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Junior FSO 1959–1962 Soviet-Castro Relations Soviet Youth Propaganda U-2 Incident Outer Mongolia Relations Khrushchev-Kennedy Relations Oberammergau, Germany—Detachment R Language Trainee 1962–1963 Russian Language Training Moscow, USSR—Assistant General Service Officer 1963–1965 Family Adjustment Problems Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Cultural Exchange Program Year One 1 Kennedy Assassination Cultural Exchange Program Year Two Moscow Underground Andrei Amalrik KGB Surveillance Khrushchev Ousting State Department Mentality towards Russia Washington, D.C.—Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Internal Analyst 1965–1967 Soviet Research Open Forum Panel Chairman 1965–1969 Vietnam War Changing Role of INR Soviet Governance Soviet Expansionism