The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2019

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019 91 If you would like us to include an obituary in In Memory, please send text to journal@ afsa.org. Be sure to include the date, place and cause of death, as well as details of the individual’s Foreign Service career. Please place the name of the AFSA member to be memorial- ized in the subject line of your email. Sweden, as well as on domestic tours with the Department of State. He spoke Russian, German, Italian, Romanian and Indonesian. In the late 1950s, Mr. Martens attended the Russian Institute at Columbia Uni- versity. In New York City he met Patricia Glavin, a Broadway dancer and member of the June Taylor Dancers, and they mar- ried in 1958. While posted in Moscow during the late 1950s, he led initial implementation of the U.S.-Soviet Cultural Exchanges program. In the 1960s, his tours included posts in communist Indonesia during the Sukarno regime, and in Burma follow- ing General Ne Win’s establishment of a socialist state. In the early 1970s, Mr. Martens served as chargé d’affaires in Romania; in 1973 he escorted dictator Nicolae Ceausescu on a state visit to the United States. He also served as office director of the State Department’s East Asia Bureau under Assistant Secretary of State Philip Habib. In the late 1970s, he acted as deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires in Sweden. Following several years as a Foreign Service chief inspector, Mr. Martens retired in 1982, but soon returned to diplo- matic work. He ran crisis management exercises at embassies in the Middle East until 2000, followed by other consulting work for the State Department. In retirement, he served as vice presi- dent of an academic institute addressing European security issues, and as a regular participant in the annual Global War Game at the Naval War College. Mr. Martens twice received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award. He is the author of The Indonesian Turning Point 1965-66 (2012), a book about the 1965 failed coup attempt. Mr. Martens is survived by his children: Anne, John and Tom; and by his sister Beverly. n