The Foreign Service Journal, December 2018

92 DECEMBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Diplomacy. He served as governor of the Metropolitan Club of New York and was also a member of the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C., AFSA and DACOR. Amb. Landau was predeceased in 2010 by his wife of 62 years, Maria Lan- dau. He is survived by his sons, Robert of Anchorage, Alaska, and Christopher of Chevy Chase, Md., their wives, and four grandchildren. n Wolfgang Lehmann , 96, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Jan. 7, 2018, at an assisted-living center in Rockville, Md. The cause was congestive heart failure. Assigned to the Army in World War II, he served in military intelligence, interrogated prisoners of war in Italy and participated in the postwar occupation of Austria. Mr. Lehmann spent 32 years in the Foreign Service. He served as deputy chief of mission in South Vietnam dur- ing the fall of Saigon, spent four years as American consul general in Frankfurt and worked on the staff of the Central Intelligence Agency director. After retiring in 1983, he worked as a consultant on international affairs. His wife, Odette Chatenet Lehmann, passed away on May 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C. n Princeton Lyman , 82, a retired For- eign Service officer and former ambas- sador, died at home in Silver Spring, Md., on Aug. 24. The cause was lung cancer. Mr. Lyman received his Ph.D. in politi- cal science fromHarvard University in 1961 and then joined USAID. His first overseas posting was to Korea in 1964. On his return to Washington, Mr. Lyman worked in technical assistance programs in USAID’s Bureau for Africa before being asked to head the bureau’s project development office for the con- tinent. In this role, Mr. Lyman became one of USAID’s leading voices for African development. He was instrumental in develop- ing U.S. foreign assistance policies and strategies to, for example, address a major drought in the Sahel region that had caused the death of 100,000 people. Working with the assistant administra- tor, he also designed effective economic assistance programs in the Horn of Africa and led innovative initiatives to advance opportunities for minorities and women. From 1976 to 1978 Mr. Lyman was USAID mission director in Ethiopia. He joined the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs in 1980. As deputy assis- tant secretary, he played a critical role in what became known as “Operation Moses,” the secret airlift from Sudan to Israel of thousands of Ethiopian Jews. Mr. Lyman went on to become ambas- sador to Nigeria (1986-1989), director of refugee programs (1989-1992), and ambassador to South Africa (1992-1995). In South Africa, Ambassador Lyman played a crucial role in what no one at the time had expected: the lifting of apartheid and a peaceful transition of power after the election of Nelson Mandela. After a final assignment as assis- tant Secretary of State for international organization affairs, Amb. Lyman retired for the first time in 1999, becoming the executive director of the Global Interde- pendence Initiative at the Aspen Institute. From 2003 to 2006, Amb. Lyman held the inaugural Ralph Bunche Chair in African Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Amb. Lyman was called back to government service in 2011, when he served as President Barack Obama’s spe- cial envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, helping to implement the 2005 Compre- hensive Peace Agreement. Amb. Lyman retired again in 2013 and joined the U.S. Institute of Peace as a senior adviser to the president, where he remained until shortly before his death. Amb. Lyman served on several boards, including the National Endowment for Democracy, the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative, the Buffleshoek Trust in South Africa and the Board on African Science Academy Development for the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Amb. Lyman was the author of Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy (2002), as well as numerous articles and publications on foreign policy, African affairs, economic development, HIV/AIDS, United Nations reform and peacekeeping. Amb. Lyman’s friends remember him as a talented diplomat, a man of principle and integrity, and as a friend and mentor to many young professionals at USAID, State and elsewhere. Amb. Lyman is survived by his wife, Lois M. Hobson; his daughters Tova Brinn, Sheri Laigle and Lori Bruun; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. He is also survived by his brother Har- vard and his sister, Sylvia. He was pre- deceased by his wife of 50 years, Helen Ermann Lyman, who accompanied him to his posts, and by three brothers. n Thomas A. Moser , 91, a retired For- eign Service officer with USAID, passed away at home in Middlebury, Vt., on June 3. The cause of death was metastasized bladder cancer. Mr. Moser was born in Portland, Ore., in 1927. His whole family worked in the