There is a new resource available to help acquaint Americans with the work of their professional diplomats, which is the goal of AFSA's outreach program. It also makes the contents readily accessible through a sophisticated search engine. When the CD-ROM user types in a word or combinations of words, the search engine instantly identifies those words wherever they appear in the thousands of pages of transcripts. Research that used to take hours now takes seconds. But ADST and AFSA hope for a much broader audience for it.
Many corporations make donations to local schools.
This CD-ROM would be an ideal donation for them to consider. Founded by two alumni, Ambassador Frank Crigler, publisher, and Dr. Henry Mattox, editor, the journal draws on the experience and insights both of former diplomats and Washington policy makers and of top scholars in related academic fields. Contributors include retired Foreign Service officers, staff and spouses. The journal provides insight into current world issues and sheds light on how those issues bear upon American foreign policy. It also offers insight into the lives of America's diplomats.