The Foreign Service Journal, March 2013

14 MARCH 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL ada, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. For more information on the issue of political appointees, visit the Ambassa- dorial Appointments page of AFSA’s Web site. There you’ll find AFSA’s statistics on the relative numbers of career and political appointee chiefs of mission, organized by presidential administra- tion, and other background material. —Steven Alan Honley, Editor Appy Days Are Here! I n the January edition of Talking Points, we announced the imminent release of a new app for The Foreign Service Journal. We’re delighted to announce that it is now available as a benefit of membership. Simply visit the Apple app store and search for “The Foreign Service Jour- nal.” Press the “install” button and the download will begin. The app will be updated automatically each month with the latest issue of the magazine, and will also include an archive of recent issues. The app’s design has been optimized for tablet-sized devices, but it also works on smaller devices. Developed by Taoti Creative, the firm that oversaw the redesign of the AFSA Web site two years ago, the app offers all the features you’ve become used to on the digital version of the magazine: active links to advertisers and additional content, beautiful resolution and color, and an enhanced page-flipping feature. As our readers become accustomed to the app version of the FSJ , we plan to add even further online-only content to enhance the reading experience. We are also exploring ways to add a share function. For now, the app is only available for Apple devices, but versions for Android and Windows users are in the works, as well. Please take advantage of this new feature and start enjoying the FSJ in a new way! —Asgeir Sigfusson, Outreach and Marketing Director The End of an Era Although he was not a member of the Foreign Service and had no formal diplomatic training, Max M. Kampelman, who died at the age of 92 at his home in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 25, was a pillar of Cold War diplomacy during the 1980s. Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz praised him as “always steady, thoughtful and constructive.” President Ronald Reagan tapped Mr. Kampelman to lead two sets of interna- tional negotiations. First was the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1981-1983), which brought about the release of political and reli- gious dissidents from the Soviet Union. In 1985, Mr. Kampelman headed to Geneva for bilateral arms control negotiations with Moscow, which led to the 1991 Stra- tegic Arms Reduction Treaty. Max M. Kampelman was born on Nov. 7, 1920, in New York City to Jewish immigrants from Romania. After earning bachelor’s and law degrees from New York University in 1940 and 1945, he received master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1946 and 1951, respectively. As a registered conscientious objec- tor during WorldWar II, Mr. Kampelman participated in an experiment at the University of Minnesota examining the effects of extreme weight loss and recovery from starvation. The results proved useful in treating prisoners of war and survivors of concentration camps at the end of the war. He later renounced his pacifist beliefs, and in 1955 joined the Marine Corps as a reserve officer, serving until 1962. AFSA Scholarship AFSA.org/Scholar AKA StayAKA.com Clements Worldwide clements.com Diplomatic Automobile www.diplosales.com Embassy Risk Management Embassyrisk.com The Hirshorn Company hirshorn.com/afsa Leysin American School in Switzerland www.las.ch McEnearney www.mcenearney.com McGrath McGrathRealEstate.com ProMax promaxrealtors.com Tetratech Tetratech.com WJD wjdpm.com