Inside a U.S. Embassy is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world-from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist-is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on.

Responds to recommendations contained in the V.P. Gore's National Performance Review's (NPR) Sept. 7, 1993, report. The NPR report contained 384 major recommendations covering 27 federal agencies & 14 government systems. This report contains initial comments on each of the NPR report's recommendations on the basis of the government's work, & is the first part of a planned long-term body of work on the NPR.