The Foreign Service Journal, July 1993
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Therefore, with the world in which we practice our various State Vice President. JOSEPH H. MELROSE JR. AID Vice President: CAREY COULTER crafts changing around us, and with the administration we currently serve com¬ USIA Vice President: RAZVIGOR BAZALA mitted to change, it's worth listing some priority areas that deserve serious at¬ Retiree Vice President: CHARLES A. SCHMITZ Secretary: CATHERINE BARRY tention in the period ahead. Treasurer: ANNE WOODS PATTERSON Recruitment: Are we really getting the people we need through the current State Representatives: PAULA BOYD JONATHAN FARRAR system? People to exercise leadership on global issues, to harness new technol¬ ROBERT PERRY SUE SAARNIO ogy' to the management of our posts abroad, and to reflect the diversity of AID Representatives: JAMES DEMPSEY American society? Are we getting the best of these? Our competitors are out hand¬ JAMES WASHINGTON USIA Representative: LAUREN HALE picking employees against a strategic vision of future personnel needs. Should Retired Representatives: PATRICIA M. BYRNE we be doing the same? DANIEL NEWBERRY DONALD R. NORLAND Junior-Officer Coning: The current approach of deferred coning for new DAVID SCHNEIDER officers is clearly raising more questions than it is answering. In view of Staff Executive Director. SUSAN REARDON management’s continuing difficulty in deciding how to go about dealing with Business Department the first group of unconed officers in just a few months, maybe it's time to declare Controller: CATHY FREGELETTF. Office Manager. JUDY SHINN the present system a well-intentioned but failed experiment. In a broader sense, Accounting Assistant: SHEREF. E. BEANE of course, no means of coning will be seen as completely satisfactory' until all Administratin' Assistants: DIANNA DUNBRACK cones have equal access to the top levels of the Service. MICHAEL DAILEY Excursion Tours: Greater flexibility and creativity in assignments cannot Legal Services Legal Counsel: SHARON PAPP help but strengthen the Service. The emphasis on global issues, democratization, Staff Attorney: COLLEEN FALLON Law Clerks: EDWIN GANIA and business promotion as central elements of American diplomacy suggests PATRICIA A. MALONE the need for a greater exchange of personnel among all the foreign affairs agen¬ Member Services Director: JAMES YORKE cies. Similarly, we will be well-served by an increase in the number of exchange Representatives: DEBORAH M. LEAHY assignments with our Civil Service colleagues, allowing them the opportunity JULIE SMITHLINE DEREK TERRELL to experience the unique problems of service abroad. Membership Acting Director: LORI DEC Specialists: What can be more important in the Foreign Sen-ice than sound Director: JANET HEDRICK policy? For starters, well-managed offices, functioning facilities, reliable com¬ Representative: NORAJANE McINTYRE munications, and security - all of which are indispensable but too often taken Professional Issues: RICHARD S. THOMPSON for granted. Management must assure that our specialists are the most qualified Retiree Liaison. WARD THOMPSON people we can find, that their careers are predictable and rewarding, and that Congressional Liaison: RICK WEISS they have ready access to needed training. Our success in carrying out that Scholarship Coordinator and "sound policy" depends on it. Systems Administrator. THERESA AURRICHIO User-Friendly Regulations: Housing, travel, and personnel regulations Speakers Bureau and International Associates: GIL KULICK have a crucial bearing on the quality of Foreign Service life and therefore on Conferences: JOHN J. HARTER individual decisions about remaining in the Sendee. Management has the long¬ The American Foreign Service Asstxiation, founded in 192 4. is term task of assuring that policies in these key areas will contribute to the highest the professional association of the Foreign Service and the official representative of all Foreign Service employees in the Department of State, and the United States Information Agency retention rate possible. In the meantime, however, these regulations should be and the Agency for International Development under the terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Active or Retired membership rewritten to make them clear to everyone. No employee should need a translator in AFSA is open to all current or retired employees of the U.S. foreign affairs agencies. 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Executive offices, membership, active or retired, in this time of change and challenge AFSA needs your active professional issues, scholarship programs, insurance pro¬ grams. JOURNAL offices: (202) 338-4045. Governing Board, support. standing committees, general counsel, labor-management relations, member services, grievances: (202) 647-Sl60 • —William Kirby FAX: (202) 647-0265 • USIA Member Services (202) 401- 6405 • Foreign Service Club (202) 338-5730. 2 • FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL • JULY 1993 JULY 1993 JOURNAL Editorial Board Chairman BRANDON GROVE JANET BOGUE C. STUART CALLISON PHYLLIS DICHTER-FORBES JOE B. JOHNSON ROBERT MAUSHAMMER DONALD R. NORLAND PHYLLIS OAKLEY ERIC RUBIN ROBERT TOTH Ask Mr. Ethicsperson 21 Strobe the Great? HANS N. TUCH “The Independent Voice of the FEATURES Foreign Service” Embassy in Crisis 12 Editor ANNE STEVENSON-YANG An Interview with Former Ambassador to Zaire Melissa Wells Associate Editor NANCY A. JOHNSON Speaking Out: Unwelcome Notoriety in the “Missing” Case 16 Advertising Manager TINA M. DREYFUS BY FREDERICK DUNBAR PURDY Communications Assistant LIZ ALLAN Ask Mr. Ethicsperson 21 Editorial Intern LAKSHMI ARJOONSINGH BY JIM ANDERSON Design MARKETING & MEDIA SOLUTIONS Focus: DOING LESS WITH LESS? FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL (ISSN 0015-7279), 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990, is Creating a Foreign Immigration Service 24 published monthly by the American Foreign Service Association, a private, non-profit organization. BY DIANE REIMER BEAN AND FRANCES T. JONES Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and does not necessarily represent Austerity Comes