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Foreign policy expert to speak in Baxter

...in the world and how it affects U.S. foreign policy.Hanson is a foreign policy consultant and a former U.S. Foreign Service officer whose postings included East Germany, France, Norway, the Soviet Union, Sweden, and the former Soviet...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-03-15/foreign-policy-expert-speak-baxter
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Little Falls shooting: Smith protected U.S. embassies abroad

...people - Americans with the highest security clearance."Davnie speculated the State Department has fewer than 100 foreign service diplomatic security engineers serving abroad. According to the State Department's website a security engineer's...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-11-29/little-falls-shooting-smith-protecte
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What's Doing-Jan. 13

...committee and Board Member of Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, U.S. Foundation. He is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who assisted in the opening of new U.S. Embassies in Mongolia and Estonia, served as Director for NATO...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/whats-doing/2013-01-11/whats-doing-jan-13
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Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2011

...anti-Semitism "The Invisible Wall," published when he was 96. June 3. Lawrence Eagleburger, 80. The only career U.S. foreign service officer to rise to secretary of state and whose exuberant style masked a hard-driving commitment to solving tangled...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-12-16/final-goodbye-roll-call-some-who-die
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Son of leading activist hopes to build wilderness education center

...those lines. He may be able to bring the time and energy and focus to make it happen.'' Olson, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer who now heads the Listening Point Foundation -- a Hayward, Wis., organization established in part to preserve...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/122899/new_1228990004.shtml
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Powell calls for more minorities in U.S. embassy posts overseas

...African-American Howard University into the foreign service. "This is great; this is the...of the 8,971 people in the foreign service, 505 are African-Americans...Grossman, director-general of the foreign service. He sidestepped reporters then...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/122000/gov_1220000009.shtml
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Colleagues warmly welcome Powell

...gathering by promising to rely heavily on the expertise of the career diplomatic corps. A common complaint among Foreign Service personnel during the Albright era was that she looked to her inner circle of advisers rather than State Department...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/012201/gov_0122010010.shtml
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An intolerable state

...and the public. Morale among foreign service officers has fallen. Unless...fill the gaps in the ranks of foreign service officers. Rising resignations...1994 and 2000, resignations by foreign service generalists doubled, while resignations...

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Rules relaxed for retirees' access to State Department

...Department again. He said he now will call off a plan to persuade fellow retirees to boycott the 2001 renewal of "Foreign Service Day," held in honor of retirees. Under the rule change, retirees will not be able to roam the halls freely but...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/022401/gov_0224010010.shtml
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Bush's early diplomatic picks mix politics, career diplomats

...the more desirable embassies -- London, Rome, Paris, Vienna, for example. These posts often are seen as rewards for political support, while the less glamorous foreign capitals usually are assigned to career foreign service officers.

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/030801/gov_0308010036.shtml
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