 He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern & South Asian Affairs, from 1979 to 1982.He then served three years as dean of the Foreign Service Institute & as diplomat-in-residence at the University of Virginia (UVA), finally retiring from the State Department in 1985.He subsequently was a distinguished visiting professor at the Citadel for eight years, and an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University from 1998 to 1999.