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His new responsibility was to pro- tect American Ambassador Alfred Atherton as supervisor of a 12-man Egyptian detail. "Wherever the American ambassador went, from sunrise to sunset, I was with him," Mazer said. Homesick for American food, Mazer was grateful when his parents surprised him and shipped a half dozen of his favorite pizzas and hot dogs, frozen. While in Egypt, Mazer met President Anwar Sadat on several occasions. "One time, we went to look at a series of tombs that were on a big hill, and he jokingly told me, 'I have to give you a cane along with the rest of these old men, so you can make it to the top of this hill."' Mazer still has the cane. One of the most interesting aspects of his time in Cairo "was of course an unfortunate one for the Egyptians — the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. "After the assassination, the U.S. Embassy was an- ticipating some problems, but there were none," Mazer said. "The transition from Sadat to then-Vice President Hosni Mubarak was relatively smooth." In June 1982, Mazer was assigned to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "It afforded my family a dif- ferent kind of challenge, par- ticularly for my wife," Mazer said. "It's a country where women are treated as second- class citizens. My wife was not permitted to drive, and if there wasn't a motorpool vehicle available from the em- bassy, she was pretty much stuck at home because it was also taboo for women to be walking down the streets." Mazer's responsibility was providing security for the 1984 move of the U.S. Em- bassy from Jidda to Riyadh. Mazer also protected U.S. Am- bassador Richard Murphy, who had been threatened with death by a terrorist group. "One of the highlights in Saudi Arabia was when I escorted Murphy and the King of Saudi Arabia to the Riyadh camel races, the Saudi equivalent to the In- dianapolis 500," Mazer said. "The winner won a 75-foot water truck." In May 1983, Mazer tem- porarily left his family in Saudi Arabia. "When the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed in April, I was called to assist the security officer there and re- establish a security program in a new building," Mazer said. "To a layman, the easiest way to describe the `We've certainly learned to stop complaining about things we take for - granted in the United States. city of Beirut at that time was that it looked like a back lot at Universal Studios; it was total devastation." A few months later, Mazer returned to his family and job in Saudi Arabia. They soon were assigned to Indonesia, where they spent three years. He was regional security of- ficer at the U.S. Embassy there in Jacarta when Japanese Red Army terrorists fired two rockets at the building. There were no injuries. In 1987, Mazer and his family returned to the United States so that he could manage the State Depart- ment's 100 million dollar security program. "This was my first desk job, and quite frankly I didn't en- joy it," Mazer said. Last November, Mazer was asked by the newly appointed special agent in charge of Secretary of State Baker's detail to become one of his deputies. "Because of the rigors of the job, the constant travel and long hours, I don't plan on do- ing this for more than two or three years," Mazer said. "I can put in 80-hour weeks on trips overseas and go a stretch of 30 days in a row without a day off." "Secretary of State Baker is one of the most down-to-earth people with whom I've had the pleasure of working," Mazer said. "When you spend so much time with one per- son, there can be friction, but I don't feel any with Secretary of State Baker. I get along very well with him and his family." Over his 13 years at the State Department, Mazer has met Presidents Carter,