New envoys slated for six countries President Ford has nominated new Ambassadors to Ecuador, Kuwait, Siberia, Norway, Sweden and Czechoslovakia. The nominations, which required Senate confirmation, are: -Richard J. Bloomfield to Ecuador. Mr. Bloomfield has been serving as Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs since August 1973. -Frank E. Maestrone to Kuwait. A career Foreign Service officer, Mr. Maestrone has been serving as Deputy Chief of Mission in Cairo since September 1974. -W. Beverly Carter, Jr., to Liberia. Mr. Carter served as Ambassador to Tanzania from June 1972 until October 1975. -William A. Anders to Norway. A former astronaut and member of the Atomic Energy Commission, Mr. Anders is currently Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. -David S. Smith, to Sweden. Mr. Smith, who served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force from 1954 to 1959, is currently a partner in the Washington law firm of Martin, Whit field, Thaler and Bebchick. -Thomas R. Byrne to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. A former Special Assistant to the Director General for Employee Management Relations, Mr. Byrne has been serving as Ambassador to Norway since Sep tember 1973. departmental Group for InterAmerican Affairs. From 1971 to 1972 he was on detail as a Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. Before that assignment he was Economic Counselor and Associate Director of AID in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Bloomfield was Country Director for Ecuador and Peru from 1967 to 1968. Joining the Foreign Service in 1952, Mr. Bloomfield served as Economic Officer in La Paz, Visa Officer in Salzburg, Consular Officer in Monterrey, Financial Officer in Montevideo, and International Relations Officer and Financial Economist in the Department. From 1965 to 1967 he was Deputy Director of the Office of Regional Economic Policy in ARA. Mr. Bloomfield served with the U.S. Coast Guard from 1945 to 1946 and with the U.S. Air Force from 1950 to 1951. to THE AMBASSADOR-designate Kuwait, Mr. Maestrone, was on detail to the Department of Defense as Faculty Adviser to the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., from 1973 to 1974. Before that assignment he was Counselor for Political Affairs in Manila. Mr. Maestrone joined the Foreign Service in 1948. He has held such assignments as Consular Officer, then Officer, then Political Officer, in Economic Officer, in Vienna; Visa Hamburg; Executive Officer in Salzburg; and Foreign Affairs Officer and International Relations Officer in the Department. From 1960 to 1962 Mr. Maestrone was Principal Officer at Khorramshahr. After an assignment to the Naval War College in 1962 he became Political Adviser on the International Staff of NATO in Paris. Then followed assignments as Chief of the Regional Affairs Division in the Office of Research and Analysis for Western Europe, INR, 1965-66, and Deputy Director of that Office, 196668. Mr. Maestrone was designated Political Officer at NATO in Brussels in 1968. During World War II the Mr. Carter Mr. Anders Ambassador-designate served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. MR. CARTER, who is slated for Liberia, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs from 1969 to 1972. A Foreign Service Information officer of Class 1, Mr. Carter has been with the U.S. Information Agency since 1965. He was detailed to the Department in 1969. A former editor and publisher, Mr. Carter has held such assignments as Information Officer/Attache and Public Affairs Officer/Attache at Nairobi, 1965-66; and Deputy Public Affairs Officer and Public Affairs Officer at Lagos, 1966-68. Before entering the Government Mr. Carter was a reporter on the Philadelphia Tribune, City Editor of the Philadelphia Afro-American, Publisher of the Pittsburgh Courier, Chicago Courier and Detroit Courier, and Editor and Assistant to the Publisher of the New York Courier. Mr. Carter also held positions as Executive Director of the Council for Equal Job Opportunity, 1947-48; Assistant to the President of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge and Valley Forge Foundation, 1951-54; and Sales Manager of the Fuller Products Co., Eastern Division, 1964-65. From 1948 to 1957 Mr. Carter was the owner of Journalists Associates. MR. ANDERS, who is slated for Norway, was an astronaut with the Manned Spacecraft Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 1963 to 1968. He was the back-up pilot on the Gemini II Mission, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 Mission in 1968, and a member of the back-up crew of the Apollo II in 1969. Mr. Anders was with the U.S. Air Institute of Foreign Affairs, Alumni From 1960 to 1974 Mr. Smith was Advisory Editor and Contributing During World War II Mr. Smith AMBASSADOR BYRNE, who is slated for Before that assignment he was a member of the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy at the Foreign Service Institute. From 1964 to 1969 Mr. Byrne was Labor Attache at the U.S. Embassy in London. Earlier in his career he served as a Consultant on international trade union operations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, 1954-55; Labor Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Accra, 1959-62; and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, 1962-64. Before joining the Federal Government in 1954 Mr. Byrne had been a professor at Canisius College, a television director for the National Broadcasting Company in New York, Administrative Assistant for the Glass Bottle Blowers Union, a professor at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. and Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee. From 1957 to 1959 he was Research Director for the Teamsters Union. Dean Brown goes to Beirut as special envoy Secretary Kissinger on March 30 dispatched former Ambassador L. Dean Brown to war-torn Beirut to take charge of the Embassy temporarily during the absence of Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley. Ambassador Godley left Beirut for medical reasons in January. He is in Washington, recovering from surgery. In asking Ambassador Brown to go to Lebanon, Secretary Kissinger considered it was important to have in Beirut, "at this critical time, a man with Ambassador Brown's seniority and long experience to further strengthen the able and heavily over-burdened Embassy staff."' Ambassador Brown has been closely associated with the Secretary, Within hours after his arrival in In a statement to the press on March 30 the Department pointed out that the Ambassador will be available to assist the Lebanese groups in any way they may think useful in efforts to achieve a ceasefire and work toward a political situation. "Ambassador Brown has served his government with great distinction in many responsible assignments, as Ambassador to Senegal, The Gambia, and Jordan, as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management and, most recently, as coordinator of the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees," the Department noted. "Since his retirement from the Foreign Service he has been President of the Middle East Institute, a position for which he has been well suited by virtue of his friendships, experience and attachments with the peoples of the Middle East." After the assassination of Ambassador Rodger P. Davies in Nicosia on August 19, 1974, President Ford sent Ambassador Brown, then Deputy Under Secretary for Management, to Cyprus to serve as the President's Representative until Ambassador Davies' successor arrived at the post. Christian Herter, Jr. named to AID post President Ford on March 16 nominated Christian A. Herter, Jr., as an Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID). His area of responsibility will be interagency development coordination. Mr. Herter, who has been serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental and Population Affairs in the Bureau of Mr. Herter Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs since October 1974, will succeed Sidney Weintraub, who resigned the post last November. Before his assignment to OES Mr. Herter was Special Assistant to the Secretary for Environmental Affairs and Director of the Office of Environmental Affairs. He also has served as U.S. Commissioner and Chairman of the U.S. Section of the International Joint Commission (United States and Canada). Mr. Herter has represented the Ambassadorial rank for Aldrich as delegation head President Ford on March 18 accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to George H. Aldrich, Deputy Legal Adviser, as head of the U.S. Delegation to two international conferences. Mr. Aldrich was head of the U.S. Delegation to a meeting of the Conference of Government Experts on Possible Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, which was held at Lugano, Switzerland, from January 28 to February 26. He also will head the U.S. Delegation to a meeting of the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts, Third Session, which is scheduled to be held at Geneva from April 21 to June 11. United States on many other international committees and organizations. He was Chairman of the Committee on International Environmental Affairs, which serves as a mechanism for U.S. Governmentwide coordination of international activities relating to the environment, and Vice Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972. Mr. Herter also headed the U.S. Delegation to the Preparatory Committee meetings for the conference and was responsible for coordination of U.S. participation in the conference. He joined the Department in January 1970. From 1967 to 1970 Mr. Herter was Vice President for Public Affairs of Mobil Oil Corporation. From 1961 to 1967 he was General Manager of the oil company's Government Relations Department. During his public service career Mr. Herter served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and of the General Court, Administrative Assistant to then Vice President Richard M. Nixon (1953-54), Deputy Counsel and later General Counsel of the Foreign Operations Administration (1954-56), Governor's Councillor, 3rd Massachusetts district (1957-58), and Republican candidate for Attorney General of Massachusetts. Mr. Herter has been active in many professional and civic organizations. During World War II Mr. Herter served as a Major with the U.S. Army and was decorated for combat duty with the 14th Armored Division in France and Germany. Patricia Lindh named deputy in CU bureau Patricia Sullivan Lindh has assumed her new duties as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Mrs. Lindh Mrs. Lindh formerly served as President Ford's Special Assistant for Women's Affairs. Last year she was a delegate to the United Nations International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Active in polit ical and civic affairs in Baton Rouge, La., before moving to Washington, Mrs. Lindh is a member of the American Association of University Women, Board of Trustees of the Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Chairman of the Women's Division of United Givers, Louisiana Historical Society, Arts Council of Baton Rouge, and the Government Committtee of the Baton Rouge Goals Committee. Mrs. Lindh also was a member of the Horizons Committee of the Baton Rouge Bicentennial Commission. The Deputy Assistant Secretary lived abroad from 1955 to 1965. During this period she was Editor of the Singapore American Newspaper and founding President of the International Women's Club of Kuwait. She was a member of the Board of the American Womens Association of Karachi. rank on January 20. The Senate confirmed the nomination on February 18. Miss Ridgway, who has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries since last September, will have principal responsibility for negotiations relating to international fisheries matters. She will also continue to serve on the Law of the Sea Task Force and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference where she will be responsible for fisheries and marine science matters. Miss Ridgway joined the Foreign Service in 1957 after graduation from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn. After various assignments in Manila, Palermo and Oslo, she served as Officer in Charge of the Ecuadorian Desk and Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. In both positions Miss Ridgway was deeply involved in fisheries and oceans policy. She was a member of the delegations charged with negotiating regional tuna agreements with Chile, Ecuador and Peru, the interim shrimp agreement with Brazil, and fisheries aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty. In 1973, when the Bahamas became an independent nation and the United States elevated its representation there to that of an Embassy, Miss Ridgway was designated Deputy Chief of Mission. After two years in Nassau, she returned to the Department in 1975 to assume the position of Deputy Assist F. Brown designated ant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries During her Foreign Service career New Deputy Assistant Arthur I. Wortzel, a career Foreign Mr. Wortzel Mr. Wortzel Before that assignment Mr. Wortzel was Chief of the Counseling and Foreign Service Assignment Division in PER. From 1970 to 1974 he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague. Joining the Foreign Service in 1950, Mr. Wortzel has held such assignments as Vice Consul in Sydney, Director of the USIA Center in Sendai, Japan, Consul in Tokyo, Chief of the Consular Section in Warsaw, and Public Affairs Adviser in the Office of Eastern European Affairs in the Department. After serving as Officer in Charge of Polish Affairs from 1961 to 1963, Mr. Wortzel was assigned as Political Officer in Moscow. He then served as Deputy Director of the Soviet and Eastern European Exchanges Staff from 1965 to 1969, when he was named Director. The following year he was assigned as DCM and Counselor at Prague. deputy spokesman Frederick Z. Brown, a career Foreign Service officer, has assumed his new duties as Director of the Office of Press Relations and Deputy Spokesman for the Department. Mr. Brown will assist Robert L. Funseth, who recently was designated Special Assistant to the Secretary for Press Relations and Spokesman. (See NEWSLETTER, January.) Mr. Brown Mr. Brown, who recently was on detail to the Foreign Service Institute, served as Principal Officer at Da Nang, Viet-Nam, from 1971 to 1973. Before that assignment he was a Politico-Military Officer and a Personnel Officer in the Department. Joining the Foreign Service in April 1958, Mr. Brown has held such assignments as Personnel Technician and Staff Aid in the Department and Nice, Research Officer in Bangkok (SEATO), Assistant Administrative Officer and Publications Procurement Officer in Moscow, and Area Development Officer for AID in Saigon. Eugene V. McAuliffe named President Ford on March 4 nominated Ambassador to Hungary Eugene V. McAuliffe as Assistant Secretary of Defense. His area of responsibility will be international security affairs. Ambassador McAuliffe, who has served in Budapest since March 1975, will succeed Robert Ellsworth, who became Under Secretary of Defense last December. Joining the Foreign Service in 1948, Ambassador McAuliffe has held assignments as Director of the Office of Public Services in the Bureau of Public Affairs, Executive Secretary of the Policy Planning Staff, Director of Atlantic Political and Military Affairs, and Deputy Chief of Mission, with the personal rank of Minister, in Madrid. NEW CLASS-Director General Carol C. Laise, fifth from left, poses with members of the 124th Class of the Foreign Service. Eagleburger greets new Foreign Service officers Deputy Under Secretary for Management Lawrence S. Eagleburger welcomed 39 members of the 124th Class of the Foreign Service at a swearing-in ceremony in the Benjamin Franklin Room on March 12. The class includes 34 who are start ing their careers with the State Department and five Foreign Agricultural Service officers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The State members represent 20 states and the District of Columbia. They attended 35 colleges and universities. They have "impressive credentials"-30 baccalaureate degrees, 10 master degrees, and 3 doctoral degrees. Eight have served abroad with the military or with other U.S. Government agencies. Two were Peace Corps volunteers. Four studied at foreign universities, and ten have lived or worked abroad under other circumstances. The 124th Class includes five members who are in the Department's Mustang Program and three who are in the Equal Employment Opportunity Program. The average age of the class is 29, somewhat older than usual. Mr. Eagleburger was introduced to the junior officers by the Director General of the Foreign Service, Carol C. Laise, who also extended greetings. Ambassador Laise noted that the new class, which is entering the Foreign Service in this Bicentennial year, will help set the course for the next 200 years. She expressed the hope that the class will "keep up the traditions" of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and other distinguished diplomats in American history. In his remarks, Mr. Eagleburger pointed out that the young officers are members of the Foreign Service of the United States. "You do not represent the Department of State or the Department of Ag riculture, but the whole United States and the national interest," he said. "You are working for the people of the United States." The speaker urged the class to keep up with the United States and its culture and "not grow away from our roots." He also advised the officers to express opinions on foreign policy. But after a decision has been made, officers should do their best to carry it out. Mr. Eagleburger congratulated the class for choosing the Foreign Service "a demanding, first-rate, and exciting career." Richard J. Dols, Coordinator of Junior Officer Training at the Foreign Service Institute, presided at the ceremony. Benny W. Whitehead, Jr., Assistant Chief of Protocol for Administration, swore the officers in. State members of the 124th Class: Thomas C. Adams, Phyllis S. I. Anderson, Hector P. Barreyro, Thomas H. Bohrer, Julee A. Brand, Carole B. Conyngham, Thomas E. Crocker, Jr., Sandra J. Crutchfield, Walter N. Davenport, Jr., Thomas F. Foulger, Marc I. Grossman, Reno L. Harnish, Kathleen V. Hodai, Stephen B. Hogard, William Imbrie, III. Allen Sung Hu Kong, M. Diane Le Zotte, John M. Lekson, Wayne K. Logsdon, Michael E. Malinowski, Jonathan C. Mayhew, William V. McLeese, Thomas M. Okada, William R. Pearson, Howard T. Perlow, Robert C. Porter, Jr., Keith Powell, Joseph P. Richardson, Albert E. Schrock, Katherine H. Smith, James W. Swigert, Joanne Marie Thompson, Richard C. Wood and Ronnie D. Woody. Savings Bond drive now under way Employees at home and abroad are being asked to sign up for U.S. Savings Bonds under the payroll deduction plan. The annual Bond Campaign, which got under way April 1, is headed by the Deputy Secretary. Thomas J. Ranson, Director, Office of Employee Services in the Bureau of Personnel, has been designated Vice Chairman. They are being assisted by many area chairmen and keymen. The Department's drive is part of a Government-wide campaign. President Ford has called on Federal employees "to renew our confidence in America and its promising future." "Today more than 67 billion dollars in U.S. Savings bonds are held by private citizens. These investments are a source of strength for our national economy and a source of financial security for the millions of Americans participating in this very worthwhile program. "There is no better time than now, in our Bicentennial Year, to renew our confidence in America and its promising future. And there is no better way to do it than buying United States Savings Bonds." Series E Bonds have an interest return of 6 percent compounded semiannually when held to maturity of 5 years. They pay 41⁄2 percent interest the first year. |