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The nightmarish carnage and Houses nomination of a new disintegration of Rwanda have gener¬ ambassador to Tanzania, AFSA We cannot ated a tidal wave of refugees into the has chosen once again to fight an surrounding countries, primarily uphill battle in defense of principle. afford to be sending Tanzania. With the U.S. Embassy in Our reasons for doing so, however, are Kigali shut down, Embassy Dar Es quite different from those that moti¬ rookies abroad. Salaam has become a key base for vated us last fall to testily before the dealing with the Rwanda crisis and Senate Foreign Relations Committee reconciliation. (SFRC) in opposition to tire nomina¬ As fortune would have it, die tion of M. Larry Lawrence as ambas¬ incumbent ambassador, Peter de Vos, sador to Switzerland. order to make way for Mr. Anderson. is probably die Foreign Services pre¬ We opposed Mr. Lawrence — This is, we believe, a pernicious and eminent crisis manager in Africa, hav¬ unsuccessfully, as it turned out — on unwise practice for several reasons. ing served successive tours as chief of the grounds that he lacked the req¬ More dian a decade ago, in die mission in war-wracked Liberia and uisite experience in foreign affairs interests of both efficiency and pre¬ Mozambique and chief trouble-shoot¬ that would qualify him to serve in a dictability, the State Department er in Somalia. To prematurely replace sensitive and complex diplomatic adopted diree years as die standard diis seasoned professional at this criti¬ post, and that he was being given the lengdi of tour for ambassadors, career cal juncture with an untested novice job primarily as a reward for heavy and non-career alike. The costs of simply makes no political or opera¬ campaign contributions and fund¬ preparing a new ambassador, moving tional sense. raising activities. him/her and his/her household to a It is for diese reasons diat I will Our opposition to the nomination new post and moving die predecessor seek to appear before the SFRC to of Brady Anderson for Dar Es Salaam out, can be hundreds of thousands of oppose an ambassadorial nomination. has little to do with his experience or dollars. There is an additional high Although die specific grounds for our qualifications for the job. In fact, as penalty incurred for breaking in a opposition are quite different from die someone who has worked for several rookie, while losing the incumbents Lawrence case, die underlying princi¬ years in East Africa, is well-connected hard-won local expertise.