foreign service

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Still, when their husbands die, ostensibly in a plane crash, Bea and Twila are grief-stricken — they have lost not only their husbands but their careers as foreign service wives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

Michael holds a B.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Russian studies from Indiana University at Bloomington and a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

And then they tell the career civil servants and foreign service officers and military people, “This is what we want to get at the negotiating table. How do we do that?”

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2025

For the past three years, he says, India has maintained contact with the Taliban through a foreign service diplomat.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

We had also to look after the service men who were medically unfit for foreign service, and who were transferred to the land, and to insist that the farmers treated them fairly.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.