The Foreign Service Journal, February 2013

68 FEBRUARY 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL ican lawyer in the country. In fact, you’re the only one.” Mr. Gould subsequently told Colby that the existing laws and proce- dures were contradictory, poorly drafted and unevenly applied. Many existed only in French. Working in the office of South Viet- nam’s interior minister, Mr. Gould, under Colby’s supervision, suggested legal and structural revisions which resulted in a major liberalization of security laws and procedures. These reforms affected interrogation, standards of evidence, legal proceedings, sentencing and prison condi- tions. Amb. Colby then dispatchedMr. Gould to inspect the government’s imple- mentation of the new system. He found the South Vietnamese hadmade surprisingly good progress. Next, Mr. Gould was assigned to Ven- ezuela, but was soon called back to Saigon to serve as the American embassy’s legal adviser. His responsibilities included deal- ing with suspected “irregular practices” of Vietnamese and American officials. Mr. Gould left Vietnam, and the Foreign Service, in 1973. He subsequently served as legal advisor to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and as assistant health commissioner of the State of New Jersey. He later retired to Gaithersburg, Md. Mr. Gould is survived by his sister, Judy Gould, of Plantation, Fla., and his brother, Dr. Philip Gould, of Davie, Fla. n Harry L. Heintzen, 89, a retired FSO with the U.S. Information Agency, died of a heart attack on Oct. 11 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. Md. Harry Leonard Heintzen was born in NewOrleans, where he received a bache- lor’s degree in 1947 and a master’s degree in 1949, both in English literature, from Tulane University. He served in the Army Air Forces in Europe during WorldWar II. Before joining USIA in 1964, Mr. Heint- zen was a reporter for the NewOrleans Times-Picayune from 1949 to 1954 and did freelance reporting in Scandinavia. He later received the Council on Foreign Rela- tions’ Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship. During his first assignment with USIA, he established the Voice of America’s regional office in Addis Ababa and covered the Horn of Africa as a regional corre- spondent. He was later posted to Ethiopia, Morocco and Tanzania as an information officer specializing in press and cultural relations. In 1972, Mr. Heintzen returned to Washington, D.C., to work at VOA head- quarters in the Africa division, eventually becoming division chief. During the last decade of his career, he helped establish and lead the organization’s International Media Training Center for foreign journal- ists, retiring in 1994 as director of the Voice of America’s international broadcast train- ing center. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the self-publishedmemoir, Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun (2010). His many honors include the USIA Superior Honor Award. AWashington, D.C., resident, Mr. Heintzen belonged to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in the District. Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Ilse Michels Heintzen of Washington; two children, Guian Heintzen of Pelham, N.Y., and Annika Heintzen of Rockville, Md.; and two grandchildren. n Kempton B. Jenkins, 86, a retired FSO and Russian specialist, died on Nov. 18 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md., of complications fromheart surgery. Mr. Jenkins was born in Jacksonville, Fla., and served in the Navy at the end of WorldWar II. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1948 fromBowling Green State University in Ohio, a master’s degree in political affairs fromThe George Wash- ington University in 1950 and a master’s degree in international business and policy fromHarvard University in 1958. Mr. Jenkins (“Jenks”) joined the For- eign Service of the Department of State in 1950, beginning a 30-year diplomatic career that coincided with the ColdWar. A Russian specialist, he began his career in Berlin andMoscow in the late 1950s and early 1960s during the height of the Berlin Crisis and CubanMissile Crisis. He advised U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. during discussions with Soviet ForeignMinister Andrei Gromyko, an experience he recounted in a Reflec- tions column, “A Confrontation inMos- cow,” in the February 2009 Foreign Service Journal . He also served inThailand and in Venezuela. Beginning in the late 1960s, he was the U.S. Information Agency’s assistant direc- tor in charge of informational and cultural programs for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Mr. Jenkins later wrote a well- receivedmemoir about this period, Cold War Saga (Nimble Books, 2010). He served as principal deputy assis- tant secretary of State for congressional relations under Henry Kissinger before moving to the Commerce Department in the late 1970s. Mr. Jenkins retired from government in 1980 as deputy assistant secretary of com- merce for East-West trade. While in that position, he helped negotiate the first trade agreement between the United States and China. After retirement, he became corporate vice president for Armco Steel and was a lobbyist for the steel industry for 10 years. Since 1990, he had served as a consultant to corporations seeking to do business overseas, primarily in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union. He was also