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  • A longtime foreign-service officer, he worked in an office of the White House, advising on international strategies in the war on drugs while Iran was still under an official U.S. embargo dating from the 1979-81 hostage crisis.

    Clandestine Trade Melik Kaylan 2011

  • The State Department has added 500 Arabic speakers, doubling its total, and it also doubled the number of foreign-service officers in Muslim and Arab countries.

    After a Decade, U.S.-Islamic Relations Take New Shape Gerald F. Seib 2011

  • Even the Democrats' favorite presidents, John F. Kennedy and FDR, had their foreign-service roots in the military departments, not the Department of Talk.

    We've Long Valued Military Power 2011

  • Born in Pakistan the son of a foreign-service officer, he grew up largely overseas and studied philosophy at Swarthmore College before serving in the Maryland legislature for 12 years.

    Democratic Official Keeps Up the Fight Janet Hook 2010

  • Agency for International Development, serving as deputy chief of foreign-service personnel and as an evaluation officer before retiring from federal service in 1975.

    Julia H. Morgan, Perry J. Adams, Eunice Morde Doty, Thomas J. Pfau, Arthur G. Strissel, Fenton G. Usher, James R. “Whit” Whittinghill, Robert D. Robertson, Raymond Kitchell 2010

  • Appointment to this Order, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica Web site, is conferred mostly on officials in colonial affairs, foreign-service officers and diplomats, and others who have performed important duties in Commonwealth countries.

    another diplomatic fukcup 2008

  • Until two years ago, the foreign-service academy required young diplomats to read scores of second-tier, neo-Marxist works with such titles as Brazil and the United States: Dangerous Relations.

    Rogue Diplomacy 2010

  • Appointment to this Order, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica Web site, is conferred mostly on officials in colonial affairs, foreign-service officers and diplomats, and others who have performed important duties in Commonwealth countries.

    24 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • (FY 2010) and a staff of 78 professionals (48 full-time, 25 contractors and 5 foreign-service nationals), USTDA's success is dependent on being able to seek out new opportunities, leverage its private and government relationships, and find development opportunities for both private business and larger federal foreign assistance/development agencies.

    Andrew Romanoff White House Job Offer: Robert Gibbs Responds, Read E-Mails Detailing Possible Jobs 2010

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Mexico this week to chat about the war on drugs is the first major diplomatic visit since an American foreign-service worker and two consular officials 'husbands were murdered on March 13, allegedly by a street gang tied to the Ciudad Juárez drug cartel.

    The Long Game 2010

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