The Foreign Service Journal, June 2011

72 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / J U N E 2 0 1 1 bolt Crisis, the Profumo affair, the Kennedy assassination, the election of Harold Wilson and the death of Win- ston Churchill. Returning to the United States in 1965, Mr. Tull worked in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs’ Of- fice of United Nations Political Affairs. In 1967 he became special assistant to the assistant secretary of State for inter- American affairs, Covey T. Oliver. Mr. Tull went overseas again in 1969 as the political officer in Monte- video, a position he held until 1973. During this difficult assignment, the embassy had to deal with kidnappings and murder by the Tupamaros rebel group and the collapse of democratic government in Uruguay. Upon his return to Washington, D.C., Mr. Tull was assigned to the Of- fice of Personnel (Latin America) from 1974 to 1976 and to the Bureau of Eu- ropean Affairs from 1976 to 1978. He was also selected to attend the Na- tional War College for the 1973-1974 academic year. In 1978 Mr. Tull began almost a decade of service abroad as the deputy chief of mission at four embassies: Santo Domingo (1978-1981), Nicosia (1981-1984), Bogotá (1984-1985) and San José (1985-1987). After his final overseas assignment, Mr. Tull returned to Washington to serve as deputy director of the Office of Career Development and Assign- ments before retiring from the Foreign Service in June 1990. James L. Tull is survived by his wife of more than 57 years, Nilva of Alexan- dria, Va.; two sons, Stephen of Crofton, Md., and Christopher of Virginia Beach, Va.; a daughter, Elizabeth Arbon of Centennial, Colo.; and two grandsons. I N M E M O R Y