Alan Cranstin, who left the U.S. Senate in 1993, now lives in Los Altos Hills California, were he grew up. He is serving as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorbachev Fpundation/U.S.A., and has an office at its headquartersin The Presidio in San Fransisco. He is on the advisory committee of SHARE, a human rights foundation in New York, and he is active politicaly through his PAC (Committee for a Democratic Concencus) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Other activities include extensive writing, lecturing, investing, running and traveling. The latter involves frequent trips to Russia and the other New Republics created when the Soviet Union disintegrated. Cranston served in Mongolia as anofficial U.S. monitor of the 1993 presidential election (first im the history of that faraway country) and was a delegate to a conference of world philosopher-statesmen convened by the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in India. Especially noteworthy were his effort - on the international level- for world peace (specifically, helping to end the Vietnam War and to improve relations with the Soviet Union), arms reduction and nuclear arms control (he was a leader of the Senate consideration of the SALT II and START treaties), enhanced Hemispheric relations (he paved the way for the ratification of the Panama Canal treaty), Middle East peace based on the security of Israel, expanded trade (especially California technological and agricultural products), and reduced military spending.