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The uncertainty is because the story isn’t over yet. What you thought was a one AMERICAN FOREIGN evening show turns out to be a serial. Yes, there is a spartan State Department SERVICE ASSOCIATION appropriations bill, but spending is to be held even below these meager levels, at Governing Board least until February. Why? The direct reason is Gramm-Rudman “sequestration” President: THEODORE S. WILKINSON State Vice President: GEORGE E. JONES to hold the overall federal deficit down; an indirect one is controversy about the AID Vice President: CHARLES UPHAUS USIA Vice President: VANCE PACE State Department authorization bill. In case you didn’t realize (there was Retiree Vice President CHARLES A. SCHMITZ practically no press coverage), President Bush vetoed the State Department Secretary: MICHAEL COTTER Treasurer: MICHAEL DAVILA authorization bill because of a controversial amendment inserted by Senator State Representatives: PURNELL DELLY EILEEN HEAPHY Moynihan; the House repassed the bill without the amendment on November DAVID T. JONES ROSS QUAN 21, but the Senate failed to agree before adjournment at 4:30 a.m. on November DAVID SMITH 22, so the ultimate fate of the authorization bill awaits the reconvening of AID Representatives: WENDELL MORSE SAMUEL SCOTT Congress on January 23. USIA Representative: OMIE KERR Retired Representatives: JOHN J. HARTER One result of this legislative legerdemain is that State has lost $300 million, L. BRUCE LAINGEN about one-tenth of an appropriation of just over $3 billion, either temporarily DAVID SCHNEIDER or permanently. The consequences are particularly severe for our participation in Staff Executive Director: SABINE SISK international organizations, which we thought were beginning to be officially General Counsel: SUSAN Z. HOLIK ConmUer: CATHY FREGELETTE redeemed. In fact, the department had begun the year with promises from OMB Membership Coordinator: JANET L. SCHOIJMACHER to seek funding for our full dues for the UN and specialized agencies, plus Director for Member Services: CHRIS BAZAR enough to begin to pay off growing arrears. Now the United States will once Alember Services Representatives: AMY L. MACEACHIN again have trouble even paying assessed dues on time. CATHERINE SCHMITZ Letjal Assistant: CHRISTOPHER PERINE To fund the State payroll, we are told that funds will be taken out of the Law Clerk: JAY EISENBERG long-term construction program designed to make our posts abroad more LINDA VEGA Conference Coordinator. BRIAN HENNESSEY secure. Even after juggling these accounts, however, our managers will be hard Administrative Assistant: C H AM PA J A RM U L pressed to cover just the pay raise. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for active Executive Assistant: MONIQUE COPELAND Professional Issues diplomacy will probably be missed because our posts cannot be augmented in RICHARD S. THOMPSON Eastern Europe, where all U.S. personnel are already working flat out. Congressional Liaison ROBERT M. BEERS, RICK WEISS Long-term training will continue to decline, staffing gaps will persist and grow, Scholarship Programs and obsolete equipment will remain in place. Travel funds will shrink further. CRISTIN K. SPRINGET How can we escape from what Senator Gore calls this “fiscal straitjacket”? The American Foreign Service Association, founded One way would be for our legislators to assign a higher priority to the work of in 1924, is the professional association of the For¬ our foreign affairs agencies, which after all constitute our first line of defense in eign Service and the official representative of all Foreign Service employees in the Department of peacetime. Of course they ought to, but in the short run that’s not in the cards. State and the Agency for International Development Even if prudent cuts in defense spending are possible, there’s a soup line of under the terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Active or Retired membership in AFSA is open to domestic agencies waiting for handouts along with us, and there are always real all current or retired employees of the U.S. foreign emergency needs like the drug program and natural disaster assistance. One affairs agencies. Associate membership is open to persons having an interest in or close association billion dollars in new aid for Poland and Hungary may pale beside the Marshall with the Foreign Service. .Annual dues: Active Mem¬ Plan, but it represents a minor miracle in today’s fiscal environment. bers—-$80-165; Retired Members—$45-55; Associ¬ ate Members—$45. All AFSA members are mem¬ A less popular but probably more durable solution is to start getting ready bers of the Foreign Service Club, Please note: AFSA now for a meaningful increase in taxes. Both parties are maneuvering to avoid dues and Legislative Action Fund donations may be deductible as an ordinary- and necessary' business responsiblity for this; it’s time for a bipartisan agreement to increase federal expense for federal income tax purposes. Scholar¬ revenues. Americans can live well without the conspicuous consumption of the ship and AFSA Fund donations may be deductible as charitable contributions. 1980s. Maybe more taxes would even reduce spending on imports. In any event, • AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION State and our sister foreign affairs agencies can no longer thrive on austerity. 2101 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037. Ex¬ ecutive offices, membership, professional issues, schol¬ Unpalatable as augmented taxes may be, some of us would rather pay them than arship programs, insurance programs, JOURNAL of¬ see our ability to conduct foreign policy crippled. How about you ? fices: (202)338-4045. Governing Board, standing committees, general counsel, labor-management rela¬ Ted Wilkinson tions, member services, grievances: (202)647- 8160. • Foreign Service Club (202)338-5730. 4 Editorial Board Chairman HOWARD SCHAFFER FOREIGN SERVICE RICHARD AHERNE JIM ANDERSON PETER BENEDICT RICHARD BLUE HELEN FOUCHE BENJAMIN LOWE BERNARD REICH LYNN SEVER THEODORE WILKINSON Development and the National Interest 28 “The Independent C. Stuart Callison Voice of the Foreign Service” Editor ANNLUPPI Mandates for AID Reform 34 Managing Editor NANCY JOHNSON Assistant Editor! Randal Joy Thompson Advertising Manager JULIA T. SCHIEKEN The FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL is published monthly except August by the When the Peace Corps Joins AID 37 American Foreign Service Association, a, private non-profit organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions Kitty Thuermer of the writers and docs not necessarily represent the views of AFSA or the JOURNAL. Writer queries invited. JOURNAL subscriptions: AFSA Mem¬ bers—included in annual dues; Others, Journal: Jena’s Story 43 $25.