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In 1956 John Tinny began his brief years on the “Golden Road to Samarkand,” his vision of the pinnacle for a State Department Foreign Service officer. The murder of Her Britannic Majesty’s vice consul, a grim portent, climaxed Day One at his first post, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Around this obscure consulate the Cold War flamed hot. For 130 weeks he and his family lived amidst savagery and the shades of Hitler and Rommel. Thereafter he was posted to Cairo, where Nile floods bring life and death, and he gloried in the romance of the great sand seas. Assigned to Beirut, he immersed himself in the language of the Koran and the certainty of True Believers. He glimpsed hope in a refugee camp attended by angry young and bitter old Palestinians and clashed with the angry intensity of young Israelis. Understanding the Arab-Israeli problem is not an answer, he discovered. A misstep in the British Crown Colony of Aden, where vain sultans and the jingle of medals on British chests exuded an air of the fading Imperial Raj, taught him that John Q. Public was his master. The State Department pardoned him and named him consul and principal officer of Consulate Benghazi, Libya. There, his second inept misstep was unpardonable. A murder on his last day brought him full circle. His life as a Foreign Service officer ended on the gangplank of a tired Italian tramp steamer, not on the Golden Road to Samarkand. John David Tinny served in Honduras, Egypt, Lebanon, and Aden, accompanied by his wife Josephine and three sons. He was serving as U.S. consul in Benghazi, Libya, when it was bombed in 1964. After leaving the Foreign Service in 1966, he worked for Occidental Petroleum and Conoco in the Persian Gulf and Africa. He earned a Master’s degree in library science in 1986 and worked as a reference librarian until 2011. Tinny married Harriette Josephine Hicks in 1950 after both had served in the U.S. Navy, 1943–46, Josephine in the WAVES, John at sea. He also swept mines in Korea, 1950–53. Both he and his wife descend from Florida pioneers and Revolutionary War patriots.
From the Inside Out
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Tinny, John D. Memoirs and Occasional Papers, World history

In 1956 John Tinny began his brief years on the “Golden Road to Samarkand,” his vision of the pinnacle for a State Department Foreign Service officer. The murder of Her Britannic Majesty’s vice consul, a grim portent, climaxed Day One at his first post, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Around this...

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A lifelong lover of opera and classical music, Hans N. “Tom” Tuch served 35 years in the United States Foreign Service, retiring in 1985 as a Career Minister. This book recalls his devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of that career. His love of opera began in 1938 in Berlin, where he witnessed Herbert von Karajan’s first appearance as conductor at the Berlin Staatsoper. Tuch’s Foreign Service career took him to posts with opera houses–Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Moscow, Sofia, Cologne, Bonn, and Washington–and earned him a Presidential Distinguished Service Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy, and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit in the Federal Republic of Germany. In this book, Tuch shares fascinating stories from his Cold War service in Moscow, Sofia, and Berlin, including Vice President Nixon’s 1959 visit to the Soviet Union (and his famous “kitchen debate” with Khrushchev), the U-2 disaster, and other U.S.-Soviet crises. He writes about his friendship with Georg Solti in the 1950s, his attendance at great music festivals––Salzburg, Florence, Bayreuth––and conductors such as Furtwängler, Walter, Böhm, Szell, and Barbirolli and outstanding vocal artists like Schwarzkopf, Callas, Flagstadt, Ferrier, Seefried, and Fischer-Dieskau. He escorted the Boston Symphony on its 1952 European trip, the New York Philharmonic in 1959, and the New York City Ballet in 1962 on their Soviet tours. In Washington in the early 1960s, Tuch was an assistant to U.S. Information Agency director Edward R. Murrow and, later, deputy director of the Voice of America, ending his Foreign Service career as Minister for Public Affairs in Bonn. His two tours in Germany–in Berlin 1967–70 and Bonn 1981–85–proved especially rich in musical content, with opera, symphony, and solo performances. Since retiring, he and his wife Mimi have frequented the opera and symphonic scene in Washington, especially the Wolf Trap Opera Company in Virginia, with excursions to Santa Fe, Glimmerglass, and New York.
Arias, Cabalettas, and Foreign Affairs
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Tuch, Hans N. Memoirs and Occasional Papers, Miscellanea

A lifelong lover of opera and classical music, Hans N. “Tom” Tuch served 35 years in the United States Foreign Service, retiring in 1985 as a Career Minister. This book recalls his devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of that career. His love of opera began in...

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This memoir of Theresa Tull’s thirty-three-year career as a twentieth-century diplomat begins with recollections of her childhood during the Second World War in the small town of Runnemede, New Jersey, and culminates with her two ambassadorial appointments. Her first overseas assignment as a Foreign Service officer, at Embassy Brussels, was followed by a year of Vietnamese language training. Her FSO career took her to Saigon just in time for the Tet Offensive of 1968. In September 1970 she returned to Washington to work on internal Vietnamese politics in the Vietnam Working Group. In August 1973 she returned to Vietnam as deputy principal officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Da Nang, where she remained until the fall of South Vietnam in April 1975, when she organized and oversaw the consulate’s evacuation. Other assignments included the Intelligence and Research Bureau, consul in Cebu, the Philippines, the National War College, office director in the Human Rights Bureau, the Senior Seminar, diplomat-in-residence at Lincoln University, and director, Office of Regional Affairs, East Asia and Pacific Bureau. As chargé d’affaires in Laos in 1983, she negotiated and oversaw the first joint crash-site excavation to seek the remains of missing U.S. servicemen. In 1987 President Reagan appointed her ambassador to Guyana, and in 1993 President Clinton named her his ambassador to Brunei. The book includes stories of Tull’s early life and education. It tracks her father’s death, her initial education, post–high school employment, and early college education. In 1963, without a college degree and after successfully passing the rigorous entrance examinations, Terry Tull entered the U.S. Foreign Service. She later received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, and in 1973 earned a master’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan.
A Long Way from Runnemede
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Tull, Theresa Diplomats, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

This memoir of Theresa Tull’s thirty-three-year career as a twentieth-century diplomat begins with recollections of her childhood during the Second World War in the small town of Runnemede, New Jersey, and culminates with her two ambassadorial appointments. Her first overseas assignment as a Foreign Service officer, at Embassy Brussels, was...

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A Haiti Chronicle: The Undoing of a Latent Democracy, 1999-2001
A Haiti Chronicle: The Undoing of a Latent Democracy, 1999-2001
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Whitman, Daniel Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Former ADST Executive Director Dan Whitman has written an account of two tumultuous years and three elections in Haiti, where he served as Counselor for Public Affairs in 1999–2001. A Haiti Chronicle: The Undoing of a Latent Democracy, 1999–2001 puts on the record some disputed or forgotten events and efforts...

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Arabian Nights and Daze: Living in Yemen with the Foreign Service provides a timely and needed understanding and appreciation for this vulnerable country, its history and culture, and the enormous challenges it faces today. Journey back to 1970 and enjoy the “never in a lifetime” adventure of the author and her Foreign Service officer husband as they reopened the U.S. diplomatic mission to Yemen after its closure by the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. David McClintock, who served as principal officer and his wife, Susan, as the mission’s secretary, arrived only eight years after the Republican Revolution ousted a thousand-year-old dynasty of Shiite (Zaydi) Muslim imams. The author describes, with both humor and respect, the country’s struggles in the early throes of becoming a modern, viable state in this remote corner of Arabia. The Yemeni people in the 1970s were friendly, respectful, and hospitable; they were not terrorists, as many claimed after the 2000 USS Cole attack in Aden’s harbor. Today, they are still a friendly, resilient, and proud people who are unwitting pawns in an international game of politics. Arabian Nights and Daze concludes with two chapters that discuss major challenges facing the present Yemen government as it tries to cope with international terrorism inside its borders, the global economic crisis, a major Shiite rebellion in the north near the Saudi border, and a strong secessionist movement in the south. A chronology of Yemen’s long history, a glossary of terms, and a comprehensive bibliography provide the reader additional resources for developing a better understanding and more positive regard for a little-known country maligned by negative media. Susan Wyatt was previously a career counselor in several locations including the U.S. State Department’s Family Liaison Office. She and her present husband Richard Williams divide their time between Albuquerque, NM, and Eugene, OR. She is the author of Thirty Acres More or Less: Restoring a Farm in Virginia, published in 2003.
Arabian Nights and Daze
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Wyatt, Susan Clough Memoirs and Occasional Papers, Political science

Arabian Nights and Daze: Living in Yemen with the Foreign Service provides a timely and needed understanding and appreciation for this vulnerable country, its history and culture, and the enormous challenges it faces today.

Journey back to 1970 and enjoy the “never in a lifetime” adventure of the author and...

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Peregrina
Peregrina
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Young, Ginny Carson Diplomats, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Peregrina is the story of Ginny Carson Young, a young Foreign Service widow and mother who finds an unexpected second life as an American consular officer in India, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Romania. She deals with the hippies of the 1970s in New Delhi, is courted in Hong Kong by...

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