At the time she was one of two women who were country directors.

Each office is staffed by a country director and mostly nationals, with a few expatriates.

Everything is organized on an industry basis, and all of the country directors have been reassigned.

"Our country director used to say it was like a second home to him because of all of the Jews there on Shabbat."

Now the post of country director has been created, and that person is responsible for everything for a particular country.

He had retired in 1990 from the organization, for which he was country director for Poland.

He later moved to Bolivia, where he worked as country director from 1994 to 1996.

Still, the country director and others say they do not believe that the Sunni vote is likely to be monolithic.

His assignments as a country director for the committee took him to places with great concentrations of human suffering.

Our outgoing country director thinks this is one way forward.