US Covert Actions in Chile, 1971-73 by Nathaniel Davis The Foreign Service Wives’ Rebellion of 1978 by Jane Beckman FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Bylaws Amendments Bal,ot> Pa9e 49 NOVEMBER 1978 75 CENTS IANHATTAS lUtMouacnctf* IALC/VOL- JO0®gl« Quality, pre-mixed cocktails .g«XMAt|S'2"^j( you’d be proud to call your own. £INA EBbAi^f FOR INFORMATION ON "COCKTAILS FOR TWO" AND OTHER FINE SCHENLEY PRODUCTS, PLEASE WRITE: BILL YURACKO, PRESIDENT, SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CO., 888 7TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N Y. 10019 • TELEX 620181 OR CALL: NEW YORK (212) 957-3402; MUNICH 089-74-65-17; TOKYO 583-9206; SYDNEY 929-3545; BRUSSELS (02) 647-1387 FSJ FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL American Foreign Service Association NOVEMBER 1978: Volume 55, No. 11 Officers and Members of the Governing Board ISSN 0015-7279 LARS HYDLE, President KENNETH N. ROGERS, Vice President THOMAS O'CONNOR, Second Vice President FRANK CUMMINS, Secretary M. JAMES WILKINSON, Treasurer RONALD L. 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AFSA is prepared to sell Your letter seems to claim that AFSA is responsible advertising in the Journal to the Thomas Fund in the for the current legislated grievance system for the future, as we have in the past. However, we regret that Foreign Service. As far as I know, we can thank Cynthia the Thomas Fund, presently controlled by AFGE, has Thomas for that. She is the one that got Senator Bayh supported an attack on Foreign Service mandatory re¬ interested, and kept after the matter for five years while tirement in the Bradley case. The case is the principal Wayne Hays blocked the bill in the House every year. cause of low promotions this year in State and ICA. The Every year, that is, until Elizabeth Ray. Where was Thomas Fund’s participation in the case gave the District AFSA? AFSA originally opposed Cynthia’s efforts. Court the mistaken impression that there is widespread AFSA wanted to go along with management and the support in the Foreign Service for abolishing mandatory interim grievance “system.” Now apparently AFSA has retirement. In our amicus curiae brief to the Supreme changed its politics. But perhaps a little honesty is in Court, we have corrected that impression. order. Cynthia Chard, backed by AAFSW and WAO (but Grievance counseling: if AFSA now provides griev¬ not, as you tacitly admit, by AFGE) deserves credit for ance counseling for all Foreign Service employees, then her efforts on the skills bank and the Family Liaison that too is a change in policy. For several years 1 handled Office. In 1977 we made a proposal on jobs for family grievance cases in which the opening remark of the griev- members overseas to management who claimed it was ant was that he/she had tried AFSA but they advised non-consultable. Thereafter, we supported legislation her/him that he/she had no grievance. As a matter of fact, (Section 413 of the FY 1978 Foreign Relations Authori¬ when these grievances moved forward, most of the griev- zation Act) which does increase job opportunities for ants were successful. Maybe AFSA has now decided to family members overseas, but also protects career get on the grievance bandwagon—some years late. Foreign Service positions. This year we’ve initiated a I doubt if AFSA can get us better pay. If any organiza¬ proposal, which is Section 401 of the FY 1979 Authoriza¬ tion can, it will be AFGE. tion Bill, which permits family members to take some Litigation of tax deductibility: Have you forgotten that FSL positions. this was a case jointly sponsored by AFSA and the In contrast to our vigorous efforts, your own organiza¬ Thomas Fund? No mention of that. However, we do tion, AFGE, has been ineffective, and sometimes remember that when the Thomas Fund started, AFSA counter-productive, in defending the interests of the refused advertising space in the Foreign Service Journal. Foreign Service people you represent: Not for free, but for a fee. Has AFSA now changed its • AFGE’s support of the attack on mandatory retire¬ policy with regard to the Thomas Fund? ment was the principal cause of low promotions this Job opportunities for family members overseas: Come year. In your testimony to the Senate Foreign Rela¬ now, we all know that was Cynthia Chard, backed by tions Committee last spring, you tried to explain away WAO and AAFSW. Cynthia did the original skills bank. the bad promotions as a sudden consequence of provid¬ Cynthia lobbied on the Hill to get the Family Liaison ing cover for the CIA. Office into the State authorization bill. 1 am not aware •The principal thrust of your testimony on the reor¬ that AFSA did anything about this. But it is good to see ganization of public diplomacy was that a labor repre¬ AFSA climbing on the bandwagon, again. sentative should be appointed to the ICA Advisory Better late than never? Perhaps, but then there is also a Commission. season for a little honesty and candor, at least among •AFGE did not even show up at the House-Senate colleagues. Conference on the Foreign Relations Authorization Best regards, Act. As a result, Senator Pell was constrained to re¬ John A. Anderegg, cede in his support for an AFGE-initiated measure to make former Binational Center employees eligible for Dear John: Foreign Service retirement. I welcome your invitation to honesty and candor • AFGE did not even know that the Civil Service Re¬ among colleagues. form Act included the Foreign Service, and thus has AFSA, along with Cynthia Thomas and others, sup¬ taken no role in AFSA’s successful efforts to keep the ported the Bayh Bill for many years. And it was AFSA, Foreign Service out of the Act. in 1975 before the fall of Wayne Hays, who negotiated •AFGE has done nothing to support the “High-One” and supported the bargain which enabled passage of retirement incentive initiated by AFSA to cope with grievance legislation.