HAIG SPEAKS, TAKES QUESTIONS AT OPEN FORUM SESSION

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1981
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November 1981
News Highlights
Haig speaks, takes
questions at Open
Forum session
In another move emphasizing that
he assigns high value to the work of the
Secretary's Open Forum, Secretary
Haig stepped to the podium himself
when the forum met at noon October 14
in the Dean Acheson Auditorium. It
was the first time since its founding in
1967 that an incumbent Secretary had
addressed the forum, whose member-
ship is open to employees of all ranks at
State and the other foreign affairs
agencies. Some weeks earlier (STATE.
August/September), Mr. Haig said in a
message distributed to all employees:
"The Secretary's Open Forum offers
each of you an opportunity to partic-
ipate more directly in our foreign policy
process-to suggest new policies or to
offer a responsible alternative when dis-
senting from an existing one."
Introduced by Open Forum chair-
man Eileen Heaphy, the Secretary
spoke for some 30 minutes, expounding
on the foreign policy of the admin-
istration. His remarks, in keeping with
the forum rule for all speakers, were off
the record. Mr. Haig spoke extem-
poraneously, with only a glance now
and then at notes he had brought with
him. After completing his presentation,
he took random questions from mem-
bers of the audience, answering at
length. This was followed by a lunch-
eon with members of Open Forum
steering committee in the James Madi-
SECRETARY'S OPEN FORUM-
international economist. Office for Economic
director for market development
Trade and
Memhers of the steering committee with
and Development Policy, Bureau of
.
Development Program
International De-
Secretary Haig, prior to the luncheon with
International Organization Affairs; Joseph
,
velopment Cooperation Agency; William
him. From left, first row: Elizabeth
McBride, congressional liaison officer, Bureau
Veale, management analyst
Office of
Cummings, international relations- officer,
of Congressional Relations. Second row:
.
Management Operations; Cairns Fox
chief
Office for Combatting Terrorism; Eileen
Stuart Schwartzstein, political officer. Office
,
,
Northeast Asian Division
Office of Analysis
fleaphy, chairman, Open Forum; Afr. Haig:
of Regional Affairs, Bureau of Fast Asian and
,
for, East Asia and the Pacific
Bureau of
Sanford lVatzman, vice chairman, Open
Pacific Affairs; Eileen Binn.c, program analyst
.
Intelligence and Research; Afonlerieff Spnzr
Forum, and editor, SrATr magazine; Philip
for associate director for management, ICA;
.
retired senior Foreign Service officer; Lannon
Taylor, management analyst. Office of
Larry Roeder, desk officer, Office of East-
Walker, deputy assistant secretary
Bureau of
Management and Administration, Bureau of
West Trade, Bureau of Economic and
,
African Affairs.
Consular Affairs; - Vicki lluddleston,
Business Affairs; Frank Slewarr. assistant
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 son Dining Room, where the discussion
continued for nearly an hour.
In other October events of the forum,
Charles DiBona, president of the Amer-
ican Petroleum Institute, spoke October
16 on "America's Energy Policy for the
'8Os," and Eliot Berg, consultant to the
World Bank and principal author of the
bank's review of African development
efforts in the past decade, met with a dis-
cussion group from the Bureau. of
African Affairs, with Bob Pringle,
director of the bureau's Economic
Policy Staff, presiding.
Speakers scheduled for this month
included Arthur Flemming, chairman,
U,S. Civil Rights Commission, who was
to discuss the commissions recent study
of hiring practices in the Foreign Serv-
ice, November 4: Frank Carlucci,
deputy secretary of defense, November
10, and newscaster Walter Cronkite,
November 12. ^