The Foreign Service Journal, April 2003

2 AFSA NEWS • APRIL 2003 AFSA NEWS BRIEFS Staff: Executive Director Susan Reardon: reardon@afsa.org Business Department Controller Kalpna Srimal: srimal@afsa.org Accounting Assistant Christa Nyamekye: nyamekye@afsa.org Labor Management General Counsel Sharon Papp: papps@state.gov Labor Management Attorney Zlatana Badrich: badrichz@state.gov Labor Management Specialist James Yorke: yorkej@state.gov USAID Senior Labor Management Advisor Douglas Broome: dbroome@usaid.gov USAID Office Manager Suzan Reager: sreager@usaid.gov Grievance Attorneys Harry Sizer: sizerhs@state.gov, an d Neera Parikh: parikhn@state.gov Office Manager Christine Warren: warrenc@state.gov Member Services Director Janet Hedrick: hedrick@afsa.org Representative Lindsay Peyton: peyton@afsa.org Administrative Assistant Ana Lopez: lopez@afsa.org Outreach Programs Retiree Liaison Ward Thompson: thompsonw@afsa.org Director of Communications Thomas Switzer: switzer@afsa.org Congressional Affairs Director Ken Nakamura: nakamura@afsa.org Corporate Relations/Executive Assistant Marc Goldberg: goldberg@afsa.org Scholarship Director Lori Dec: dec@afsa.org Professional Issues Coordinator Barbara Berger: berger@afsa.org AFSA HEADQUARTERS: (202) 338-4045; Fax: (202) 338-6820 STATE DEPARTMENT AFSA OFFICE: (202) 647-8160; Fax: (202) 647-0265 USAID AFSA OFFICE: (202) 712-1941; Fax: (202) 216-3710 AFSA Internet and E-mail addresses: AFSA WEB SITE: www.afsa.org AFSA E-MAIL: afsa@afsa.org AFSA NEWS: afsanews@afsa.org FSJ: journal@afsa.org PRESIDENT: naland@afsa.org STATE VP: cranelk@state.gov RETIREE VP: farrand@member.afsa.org USAID VP: jpastic@usaid.gov FAS VP: afsafas@fas.usda.gov FCS VP: peter.frederick@mail.doc.gov AFSA News Editor Shawn Dorman : dorman@afsa.org (202) 338-4045 x 503; Fax: (202) 338-8244 On the Web : www.afsa.org/news How to Contact Us: Governing Board: PRESIDENT: John K. Naland STATE VICE PRESIDENT: Louise K. Crane USAID VICE PRESIDENT: Joe Pastic FCS VICE PRESIDENT: Peter G. Frederick FAS VICE PRESIDENT: Edwin Porter RETIREE VICE PRESIDENT: Robert W. Farrand SECRETARY: F.A. “Tex” Harris TREASURER: Thomas D. Boyatt STATE REPRESENTATIVES: Pamela Bates, John P. Boulanger, George W. Colvin, Roy Perrin, Lynn G. Sever, John Weis USAID REPRESENTATIVE: Woody Navin FCS REPRESENTATIVE: James Joy RETIREE REPRESENTATIVES: William C. Harrop, David E. Reuther, Richard C. Scissors, Theodore S. Wilkinson, III IBB REPRESENTATIVE: Vacant FAS REPRESENTATIVE: Eric Wenberg Legislative Update: Funding for Diplomatic Readiness Some 136 days late, Congress finally passed an appropriations bill funding the foreign affairs agencies for the fiscal year (2003) that began last Oct. 1. Secretary Powell’s requests for funding people, technology and facilities fared well. Meanwhile, Secretary Powell has already started making the rounds on Capitol Hill testifying for the president’s Fiscal Year 2004 budget request for international affairs. The secretary’s testi- mony can be found at www.state.gov. Briefs • Continued on page 3 Life in the Foreign Service BY BRIAN AGGELER, FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER & CARTOONIST NOW AVAILABLE Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America Do your friends and relatives in the U.S. still get that glazed-over look in their eyes when you try to explain exactly what the Foreign Service is and what kind of work you do? Help give them a clue. The most informative book on the inner workings of the Foreign Service is now available. AFSA’s all-new edition of Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America , is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the people who work in American embassies and con- sulates around the world, and about how embassies operate. Inside a U.S. Embassy includes profiles of outstanding rep- resentatives in each type of Foreign Service position. The book also includes a series of one-day, hour-by-hour journal entries from Foreign Service members around the world, illus- trating what Foreign Service employees in different jobs actu- ally do on the job. The selection of stories in the final section highlights tales of the extraordinary in Foreign Service work. We hope you will invite your friends and relatives to share the real-life experiences of work and life in the Foreign Service: the coups, the evacuations, the adventures, the hero- ics, and the everyday challenges and rewards of representing America to the world. TO ORDER: Go to www.afsa.org/inside or call 1 (847) 364-1222 to place an order by phone. The price of the book is $12.95 plus shipping and handling. Proceeds from the sale of the book will be used to enhance and expand AFSA’s public outreach efforts.