Program were not required to take the entrance examinations. Similarly, the Mustang Program, which allows State Department employees not in the Foreign Service to become members of the Service, has not used the examination. Individuals who have entered the Service pursuant to these programs have received initial cone assignments based on their background and experience. 3 . The decision to grant a career candidate tenure as a Foreign Service Officer is made independently of the promotion process. Tenure decisions are made by the Secretary of State pursuant to 22 U.S.C. § 3946, which provides that the Secretary's decisions shall be based on the recommendations of special tenure boards. See Defendant's Post-Trial Brief at 100-02; see also Daniels v. Wick, 812 F.2d 729 (D.C.Cir.1987) (<HOLDING>). 4 . The Junior Applicant Consent Decree
holding that  3946 provides the only means for receiving tenure under the foreign service act of 1980 holding that fedrcrimp 6e would prevent disclosure of witnesss testimony to foreign officials thereby negating fear of foreign prosecution and alternatively that the fifth amendment provides no shelter  against incrimination in a foreign jurisdiction where federal domestic immunity has been granted holding that a foreign representative may assert under  804 only those avoiding powers vested in him by the law applicable to the foreign estate holding that the fsia provides the sole basis for obtaining jurisdiction over a foreign state in federal court holding that the predecessor to local rule 561b3 provides the only acceptable means of  presenting additional facts to the district court