UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE December 2000 StateStateMagazine Unveiling the Eagle Also in this issue: Integration—A Work in Progress Secretary Albright breaks through a wall near the 21st Street entrance of the Harry S. Truman Building where the U.S. Diplomacy Center will be located. In our next issue: Breakthrough for Diplomacy Photo by Michael Gross Michael Photo by State Magazine State Magazine (ISSN 1099–4165) is published monthly, except Carl Goodman bimonthly in July and August, by the U.S. Department of State, 2201 C St., N.W., Washington, DC. Periodicals postage paid at EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Washington, DC and at additional mailing locations. POSTMAS- Paul Koscak TER: Send changes of address to State Magazine, HR/ER/SMG, WRITER/EDITOR SA-1, Room H-236, Washington, DC 20522-0602. 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The magazine’s phone number is Pat Hayes (202) 663-1700. Doug Ryan Deadlines: Dec. 15 for February issue. Harry Thomas Jan. 15 for March issue. StateState Magazine December 2000 Contents No. 441 Department of State • United States of America 6Post of the Month: Rabat 18 COLUMNS The 12th century city speaks to the past and present. 10 Bureau of the Month: Political-Military Affairs 2 From the Secretary This bureau gives politics a new meaning. 5 Direct from the D.G. 14 Main State Building Named for President Truman It is the first in the capital named for the 33rd President. DEPARTMENTS 16 ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ 3 Letters to the Editor The 11,600-pound sculpture symbolizes democracy. 4 In the News 18 The OIG Has Lots to Cheer About Employees help area’s homeless and hungry. 33 Medical Report 20 Rover Finds Niche with African Animals 34 People Like You She’s wild about animals and it shows. 35 Obituaries 23 USIA-State Integration 36 Personnel Actions It’s still a work in progress. 28 Former Restaurateur Switches to Security Special agent excels in new role. Donated food awaits distribution UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE December 2000 to area’s hungry and homeless. 30 Videoconferencing It’s the next best thing to being there. StateMagazine 32 Growing with the FLO Family Liaison Office expands space and mission. Carpet shop in Morocco. 6 Unveiling the Eagle Also in this issue: Integration—A Work in Progress On the Cover Unveiling the Soaring Eagle are, from left, sculptor Greg Wyatt; Barbara Newington, chairwoman of the board of trustees and director of the Newington- Cropsey Foundation; and Bonnie Cohen, under secretary of State for Management. Photo by Shawn Moore FROM THE SECRETARY SECRETARY MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Presidents Change, Principles Remain uring the past four years, I have been blessed ills, while persuading Congress to grant the fast track with the chance to work with you on behalf of trade-negotiating authority that legislators unwisely DAmerican interests and values. There is no better denied to President Clinton. job, no stronger team and no greater responsibility. The third challenge is democracy. Economic problems, My time is not yet up, so like you, I am looking for- political divisions and rising crime threaten many newly ward. I do not know who the next President will be, free nations. The new Administration must look for ways because this column is being written before the election. I to sustain America’s role as the world’s leading example do know how important it is that the new Administration and promoter of liberty. Building on the Community of receive bipartisan support in pursuing our nation’s fun- Democracies initiative launched last summer in Warsaw damental objectives in the world. Although elections is one such opportunity. come and go, America’s core principles do not change. A fourth and overriding challenge the new The resulting continuity of policy and purpose is vital to Administration will face is defining America’s role over- U.S. leadership. seas. Throughout his tenure, President Clinton has cho- Like President Clinton, the new President will be test- sen the path of vigorous and far-reaching international ed by crises and opportunities in key regions. And the leadership. He has done a remarkable job strengthening new Secretary of State will be called upon to respond our alliances, managing difficult relations with China daily to the ever-changing pattern of world events. and Russia, working for peace and making American Our new leaders will also be required to deal wisely intentions understood everywhere from São Paulo and with long-term challenges that affect important U.S. Lajes to Delhi and Kiev. interests on a global basis. Above all, he has recognized that America cannot lead Primary among these is the ever-present danger posed through exhortation alone. As in Bosnia and Kosovo, we by the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological must lead by example. arms. The next President must work with Congress to The next Administration, regardless of party, will take build a consensus for renewed American leadership office pledged to increase funding for our military. I can aimed at preventing such weapons from falling into the provide no better advice to the President-elect than to sup- wrong hands. That won’t be possible with a go-it-alone port these investments with a sharp increase in funds for policy that ignores the concerns of our allies and other international operations and programs. After all, the best major powers. We must forge an approach that responds way to ensure that our armed forces will be equal to every with wisdom to new threats, without reviving old ones. challenge is to prevent the most serious challenges from And we must either ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear arising. And the best way to ensure that is through effec- Test Ban Treaty or find a convincing rationale for why tive diplomacy backed by sufficient resources. others should practice what we merely preach. The new Administration will begin work at a time of A second challenge is globalization. Trade and technol- unprecedented American prestige, prosperity and power. ogy have the capacity to bring the world closer together To succeed, it must have the full and bipartisan backing and to lift standards of living everywhere. But critics of our Congress and citizens, and especially the support argue that these forces are instead widening the gap and guidance of those who work in this Department. For between rich and poor and should be resisted at all costs. we live in a global era, and you are our nation’s leading President Clinton has sought to achieve optimum repository of global expertise. results by combining a push for freer trade with support I am confident that you will serve the new for debt relief, core worker standards and investments Administration with all the energy, skill and dedication in education, the environment and computer training you have shown during the current one. That is good news and access. for private citizens—whose ranks I expect soon to join. The new Administration will have to develop its own And for our nation, it is an essential and enduring source responses to those blaming globalization for the world’s of strength. I 2 State Magazine LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Setting the Record former chancery, where—as the arti- Castro, who was evicted from two cle notes—the embassy was located midtown hotels before ending up in Straight on Moscow until its most recent move. Harlem. Macmillan gave a brilliant address only to be followed by Your article in the September edition Avis Bohlen Khrushchev who ranted, raved and on the flag raising at the U.S. Embassy Assistant Secretary banged his shoe on his desk. The in Moscow appears to contain an error. Bureau of Arms Control It says, “The former chancery had been papers reported little about Macmillan. the only office building occupied by Robert D. Barber the embassy since the United States Millennium Meets Retired Foreign Service Officer first established diplomatic relations Its Match Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. with the former Soviet government in the 1930s.” The recent Millennium Summit at In fact, the first embassy chancery the United Nations may have been was located in a still-existing build- the largest ever in the number of Letters to the Editor ing next to the National Hotel oppo- chiefs of state attending but, as the- ater, I don’t think it can match the ses- Letters should not exceed 250 words and site the west entrance to Red Square should include the writer’s name, address sion in 1960 when I was head of the from sometime in the mid-1930s and daytime phone number. Letters will be until about 1953 when it moved to U.S. security detail protecting Soviet edited for length and clarity. Only signed the new chancery on the Garden and Eastern European heads of state.