The Foreign Service Journal, May 2004

Department policies on arms control and international atomic energy problems. He participated as an adviser, senior State Department representative and member of U.S. delegations to conferences in Paris, New York, and London from 1951 to 1957. In postings to London (1956- 1959), Brussels (1959-1962) and Tokyo (1970-1972), he concentrated on arms control and atomic energy issues in bilateral relations and in a multilateral context in the first U.S. mission to the European communi- ties. Similarly, most of his Washing- ton, D.C., assignments centered on atomic energy issues, base rights, military faculties and defense opera- tional questions, first as director for operations in the Office of Political- Military Affairs (1962-66), and later as director of the Office of Strategic and General Research (1973-74), where he was responsible for intelli- gence and technical support for SALT II, Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction and bases and facil- ities issues. He was staff director of the Presidential General Advisory Com- mittee on Arms Control and Dis- armament and, later, special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1974-1977). In his last Foreign Service assignments (1977) he head- ed two U.S. delegations to interna- tional arms control conferences in Geneva, and served as U.S. repre- sentative to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, acting as co-chairman with the Soviet rep- resentative. Mr. Meyers retired from the Foreign Service in May 1977, but continued to work in the Depart- ment of State until 1996. He helped to establish the department’s central- ized document declassification sys- tem and served as a senior reviewer, responsible for the final decisions to release or deny the release of State Department documents. From 1982 to 1996 he was a member of the Department of State Board of Appellate Review, which was respon- sible for, among other functions, adjudicating appeals of loss of U.S. nationality overseas. From 1984 to 2003, he was an arbitrator for the Attorney-Client Arbitration Board of the District of Columbia Bar. A founding member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), Mr. Meyers had been a governor of the Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired and a trustee of the DACOR-Bacon House Foundation. He was a member of the Asiatic Society (Tokyo), the American Foreign Service Associa- tion, the Asia Society, the Arms Control Association, and a Chevalier du Tastevin (the Burgundy Wine society). Survivors include his son, Nicholas MacBride Meyers, his daughter-in-law, Jennie Harvell, and his grandson, Dylan Alexander MacBride Meyers, all of Falls Church, Va. His wife of 48 years, Hope Lewis MacBride Meyers, died in 1991. A daughter, Elizabeth Hope Meyers, died in 1980. Norma Louise Milikien , 68, re- tired member of the Foreign Service, died Feb. 4 after a brief illness. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Ms. Milikien moved with her parents to Anthony, N.M., when she was 4 years old. A 1953 graduate from Gadsden High School, she obtained a bache- lors degree in business administra- tion from New Mexico A&M in 1957, and a master of library science degree from Texas Women’s Univer- sity in 1975. Ms. Milikien joined the Foreign Service in 1965, and she was posted to Tananarive (now Antananarivo), Kabul, Brussels, Lagos and Tunis. She resigned in 1974 to return to col- lege for her master’s degree, and worked as a library director in Texas until 1980. In 1981, she returned to USIA, and was subsequently posted to Harare, Tunis and Karachi. Following her retirement in 1994, Ms. Milikien traveled extensively around the United States and Cana- da, exploring and rediscovering her homeland. Survivors include a sister, Loy Doty of Alamogordo, N.M.; two brothers, Stephen Milikien of Big Spring, Texas, and Timothy Milikien of El Paso, Texas; 20 nieces and nephews, and numerous friends whom she loved dearly. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that con- tributions be made to the American Library Association or any library. William Washington Smith , 83, retired FSO, died July 10, 2003, in Portsmouth, N.H. He lived in Swansea, Mass. Born in New York City, Mr. Smith was a son of the late Christopher and Catherine (McGarty) Smith. A Navy veteran of World War II, Mr. Smith served as a Boatswain’s Mate First Class. He received the Asiatic-Paci- fic Ribbon with one star, Philippine Liberation Ribbon, American Thea- ter Ribbon and Victory Ribbon. Mr. Smith joined the Foreign Service in 1949. His postings includ- ed Seoul, Paris, Palermo, Saigon, Baghdad, Tehran, Dakha, Manila and Washington, D.C. Following retirement in 1975, Mr. Smith summered in York Beach, Maine, and wintered in Montevideo. Survivors include a brother, Thomas F. Smith Sr. of Swansea, Mass.; two nephews, Thomas F. Smith Jr. of Swansea and James Smith of M A Y 2 0 0 4 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 71 I N M E M O R Y