of sensitive French documents.

Verbatim reporters Arnold Cohen and Wylma James traveled to Seattle and Portland to report the Secretary's speeches there on July 22.

Peter Afanasenko, Russian interpreter, accompanied an ERDA delegation to the Soviet Union July 23 to August 8, and after a brief break in Paris, returned to Moscow for talks involving a National Transportation Safety Board delegation, August 12-21. Another Russian interpreter, Cyril Muromcew, accompanied the fisheries delegation headed by Ambassador Rozanne Ridgway to Moscow, July 26-30. He went with the delegation from there to Warsaw for further talks which were held July 31 to August 4.

Mr. Cohn was in Boston, August 2 and 3, for the Secretary's speech before the National Urban League.

OPR/LS SALT contingent members Bill Krimer and Loralyn Andersen returned from Geneva on July 30. Dimitri Arenburger took his family to Kenya for a month of leave before returning to Washington.

Ted Herrera, OPR/LS Spanish interpreter, accompanied the Attorney General, Chief Justice and Vice Minister of the Interior of Peru on a study-tour of the United States, sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration, August 9-20.

Dimitry Zarechnak, OPR/LS Russian Specialist, traveled to New York for Law of the Sea discussions on August 13.

Ernestine Bietz, who served the Language Services Division in several capacities, left the Division on July 31. Mrs. Bietz had held the position of Staff Assistant since 1967.

OPR/LS conference reporters Arnold Cohn, Wylma James and Wendell Thiers attended sessions of the 75th annual National Shorthand Reporters convention, held at the Washington Hilton Hotel, August 2-7.

Newly appointed officers in the Investigations Division of the Office of Security (SY) are Robert Brand, Kevin O'Neill, Thomas D'Amico, Robert Boyke, Patricia Hartnett and Philip Jornlin, assigned to the Washington Field Office; Doyle Cooper, Robert Brittian, Frederick Kingston, David Shaeffer, James Dolan, James Burke, Martin Donnelly and Darwin Cadogan, assigned to New York; Robert Daly assigned to Dallas; and Paul Sullivan assigned to Boston.

Other new appointments include Christina Ace, secretary, assigned to the Technical Services Division (SY/T); Rita Mitzell, secretary, assigned to San Francisco; Lorraine Darcangelo, secretary, assigned to the Evaluation Division (SY/E); Celeste Evaluation Division (SY/E); Celeste Kuhala, typist, assigned to the Inves

tigation Division (SY/I); Shirley A. Mansfield, typist, assigned to the Washington Field Office; Sandra A. Sabutis, typist, assigned to Chicago; Jill Ahearn, typist, assigned to Miami; Evely Keeter, secretary, assigned to Dallas; Judith Graznak, secretary, assigned to SY/T; and Michael Carr, typist, assigned to Protective Security.

Karen King, Administrative Officer, joined the Executive Staff (SY/ EX) following her return from Brussels. She replaces JoAnn Jenkins, who was assigned to Abidjan as Budget Officer.

Jerry P. Wilson, Security Officer, Policy and Training Staff, has been reassigned to the Washington Field Office.

Raymond J. Russell, Security Officer, has been assigned to SY/I/PVB following his return from Montevideo.

Seth Richards, Security Officer, Los Angeles, resigned on July 31 to accept a position as security consultant with private industry.

Emily Amaro, typist, SY/EX, has transferred to the San Francisco Field Office. She replaces Josephine Hill, who transferred to the Chicago Field office.

Christina Wolf, Security Officer, Chicago Field Office, has been reassigned to Protective Security.

Dennis Ravenscroft and James Sandlin, Security Officers, Washington Field Office, have been reassigned to SY/I/GIB and the Special Assignments Staff (SY/SAS), respectively.

Summer employees Katherine Zink, Sharon Cleary, Richard Bagnall, Linda Fletcher, Rebecca Bruck, James Herzog and Sandy Wasserstein have resigned to return to school.

James Donovan, Security Officer, Los Angeles Field Office, has transferred to the Foreign Operations Division (SY/FO). Burley P. Fuselier, Sr., SY/FO, and John G. Kaptain, SY/EX, retired July 31.

Patricia Morton, Security Officer, was assigned to SY/FO following her return from The Hague.

Margaret Stewart transferred from EA/ANP to the Boston Field Office. Henry Krohn, Security Officer, has

assumed the duties of Resident Agent at Seattle after returning from Athens. He replaces Robert Clark, who transferred to Chicago as Assistant Special Agent in Charge.

Wayne Combs, Security Officer, has assumed the duties of Resident Agent at Cleveland.

Dale Morris and Peter Morelli, Security Officers, have transferred to Cleveland and Detroit, respectively.

African Affairs

Deputy Assistant Secretary James Blake has left the Bureau to take up his new appointment as Ambassador to Iceland. Ambassador David Bolen has joined the Bureau replacing Ambassador Blake as a Deputy Assistant Secretary.

William Edmundson has replaced

Charles James as a Deputy Assistant Secretary.

Ambassadors recently on consultation in the Department included Donald B. Easum, Nigeria; O. Rudolph Aggrey, Senegal; Nancy V. Rawls, Togo; W. Beverly Carter, Liberia; Jean Wilkowski, Zambia; and David E. Mark, Burundi.

Dan Zachary, former Director of the Office of Inter-African Affairs (AF/I), has been assigned to the USUN as African Affairs representative of the United States Law of the Sea Delegation.

William H. Lewis replaced Mr. Zachery as Director of AF/I. Dr. Lewis gave a lecture entitled, "The National Security Council System and American Foreign Policy" on July 13 before the American University Institute of World Policy.

New Chancery opens

The newest American Chancery is open in Lilongwe, the year-old capital city of the Republic of Malawi. On April 14 the flag was raised for the first time, and Ambassador Robert A. Stevenson welcomed Malawi Government officials, resident Americans and other guests to the handsome new building.

In the photo above are Embassy staff and wives. Shown, left to right, are: Front row-Mr. and Mrs. Moffett Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Hoffman, Ambassador and Mrs. Stevenson, Lt. Col. and Mrs. David M. Parker, and Joseph Hilliard. Second row-Mrs. and Mrs. William Pfender, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coffey, and Mrs. Joseph Hilliard. Back row-Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas Koelemay, Mr. and Mrs. David

Doeden, Mr. and Mrs. William Parker, and Jerrold M. North.

The U.S. Chancery was previously located in Blantyre.

Joyce Kasrai, formerly a secretary of AF/S, has joined the staff of AF/I replacing Shirley Crowley. Ms. Crowley has gone to Mbabane to undertake a new assignment.

Peter Walker has also joined the staff of AF/I.

Robert S. Barrett has assumed the duties of Acting Director for the Office of East African Affairs (AF/E) and Country Office for Ethiopia.

Robert F. Illing is now the Acting Alternate Director for East African Affairs and Sudan Country Officer.

Peter Smith has joined the AF/E staff as Country Officer for Zambia, Malawi and Mauritius. He replaced Henry H. Janin who left to undertake his new assignment in Accra.

Richard Castrodale has joined the AF/E staff as Country Officer for Tanzania, Magadagascar and the Comoros, replacing Russell Barbour.

Gerald Scott recently joined AF/E and is serving as Country Officer for Ethiopia, Somalia, French Territory of Afars and Issas and Diego Garcia. Roy Haverkamp, formerly Director of the Office of Southern African Affairs (AF/S), has been reassigned to the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy. He was succeeded in AF/S by Frank Wisner who was previously assigned

to the Bureau of Public Affairs.

Suzanne Ben Aida also joined the staff of AF/S as secretary to Mr. Wisner. Her previous assignment was also with the Bureau of Public Affairs.

Alfonso Arenales, former Alternate Director in AF/S, is now with the Office of Central African Affairs (AF/C) as Special Assistant to the Director.

Robert C. Perry, Country Officer for Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, attended the International Symposium on Southern Africa at the Indiana Black Expo in Indianapolis on July 18.

Margot Morris has departed AF/S to assume her new assignment as secretary in Addis Ababa.

Rick Sherman, formerly Country Officer for Mozambique and Namibia in AF/S, has departed to become an instructor at the University of Kansas.

William Eaton returned to AF/S as Economic Officer. He recently completed the Economic Course at FSI.

Jeffrey Davidow recently joined the staff in AF/S as Country Officer for Mozambique and Namibia. His previous assignment was in Pretoria.

Robbie Buchans recently completed her assignment in Tananarive and is now with AF/S.

Dorinda Morsell, a summer employee, left AF/S to return to school.

The General Advisory Committee on arms control and disarmament met

July 29 and 30 in Washington to review the current status of various arms control activities. James Chambers, President of the Dallas Times Herald, was sworn in on July 29 as the 13th member of the Committee.

Director Fred C. Ikle led the U.S. Delegation to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva July 23-30. In an address to the plenary session on July 27, he reviewed current arms control issues.

Mr. Ikle testified on Export Reorganization Act 1976 before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy June 22.

Deputy Director John Lehman represented President Ford at the Celebration of Constitution Day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 23-25.

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Assistant Director for Planning, VAB, participated in the Aspen Arms Control Consortium Workshop, held August 9-13 at Aspen, Colorado.

Gerhard Mally, Military Affairs Bureau, lectured on "Multinationals in Western Europe" at the Foreign Service Institute on June 21. On July 8, he lectured on "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Alliance Systems" at the School of International Service of the American University.

Thomas Hirschfeld, who has spent the past year as a member of the State Department's Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, has returned to the Agency to work on problems in international terrorism as Deputy to the Chief Scientist.

David Windle has been assigned as Chief of the Communication Center. His last post was Tunisia.

Captain Markley Seibert, USN, has been assigned to MAB/TA. Also assigned to that bureau is Colonel Craig Coverdale, formerly Director of International Studies, U.S. Army Military Assistance Institute.

Commander Hugh Williams, the first Coast Guard Officer to be assigned to ACDA, will serve on the staff in the NTB Bureau.

The following individuals have recently been assigned to the International Relations Bureau: Marvin Humphreys, following a three-year tour as Political Officer in Paris; Robert Strand, who was most recently in the Bureau of African Affairs; and Arch Turrentine, who has served in Bonn, Stockholm and as exchange officer to the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon.

The following persons have recently departed the agency: James Shea, who will be the new Director of the Office of International Programs of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; David Engel, reassigned to the Consulate at Palermo; Allan Summers, to become Personnel Officer of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, N.I.H.; John Swenson, returning to USIA; Robert Williams, who will become regional director for a real estate firm.

Also, Commander Frank Martin, to accept a position with ERDA; Colonel Jerome Naleid, who is retiring from the Air Force after 30 years' service; Colonel William Narus, to accept a position with the Hughes Organization in Arizona; and Commander Peter Tarpgaard, who has been reassigned to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

East Asian and
Pacific Affairs

Assistant Secretary Arthur W. Hummel, Jr., participated in the visits of Australian Prime Minister Fraser and Foreign Minister Peacock.

Mr. Hummel and Thomas J. Wadja accompanied Deputy Secretary Charles W. Robinson as official members of the U.S. Delegation to the ANZUS meeting which was held in Canberra August 3 and 4. Following

the ANZUS meeting Mr. Hummel accompanied Mr. Robinson to Manila for consultations. After leaving Manila, Assistant Secretary Hummel and Special Assistant John Helble proceeded to Bangkok, Jakarta and Tokyo for further consultations.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert H. Miller attended the launching of the Indonesian satellite at Cape Canaveral on July 8.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Lester E. Edmond chaired the U.S.-Korean Fisheries Negotiations in the Department August 2-13.

Oscar V. Armstrong replaced William H. Gleysteen, Jr., as EA Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for the country directorates of People's Republic of China and Mongolian Affairs, Japan, Korea, and Republic of China. Mr. Gleysteen is now Senior Staff Member for East Asia at the NSC.

Harry Thayer, formerly Deputy Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Peking, has been named Director of the Office of People's Republic of China Affairs, replacing Mr. Armstrong.

EA/ROC Director Burton Levin visited Taiwan for 11 days during a July ited Taiwan for 11 days during a July 6-23 trip to the area which included consultations with CINCPAC at Honolulu, Embassy Tokyo and Consulate General Hong Kong. Aside from a series of meetings with Mission officials on Taiwan, Mr. Levin also met with ROC officials and press personalities. He spent several days touring the island and visiting with local officials.

Robert Martens of the Office of Regional Affairs participated in a seminar on U.S.-U.S.S.R. competition July 12-14 at the National Defense University.

Personnel changes in EA/PRCM include the arrival of Galen Fox as

Economic Officer. Robert McMahan is now Political Officer replacing Laura Kennedy who began Russian language training at FSI.

Mr. Wajda has replaced Michael A.G. Michaud as Country Officer for Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands in EA/ANP. Mr. Wajda was Political and Labor Officer in Wellington; Mr. Michaud is now Deputy Director of PM/ISP.

John Zerolis left for New York July 30 to join the U.S. Law of the Sea delegation. Michael Gelner replaced Mr. Zerolis as Regional Political Offi

cer.

Neil E. Silver has replaced Jeffrey R. Cunningham as EA Staff Assistant. Mr. Cunningham is attending the economic officers' course at FSI.

Personnel on consultation in the Bureau recently included:

Traba Parks, a nurse assigned to Seoul beginning in September; Oliver Shaw, on transfer from Tehran to Tokyo where he will be Assistant Budget and Finance Officer; William H. Barkell, on transfer from Sofia to Manila as Consular Officer; Harold E. Vickers, Administrative Officer, assigned to Peking; Anne L. Carroll, on home leave and return to Tokyo as Personnel Officer; Consul General John Williams, Auckland; Olin S. Whittemore, on home leave and transfer from Athens to Seoul as Consular Officer.

Also, Lester Miller, on home leave and return from Seoul; Budget and Fiscal Officer Harry B. Cook, on home leave and transfer from East Berlin to Manila; John F. Charlton, on home leave and transfer from Port Moresby to Manila as Assistant GSO; David A. Peterson, Jr., on transfer from Tehran to Hong Kong as Building Maintenance Officer.

FSL Janet Ho of the Consular Section in Hong Kong; John E. Hall, Commercial Officer, from Bern to Wellington; Political Counselor Robert L. Burns, on home leave and return from Wellington; Heinz Zimmerman, on transfer from Vienna to Seoul as GSO; Roy Fujioka, General Services Officer, on home leave and return from Bangkok; and Nancy J. Hall, secretary, on transfer from Accra to Bangkok.

Economic and
Business Affairs

Assistant Secretary Joseph A. Greenwald attended the meeting of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency in Paris July 4 and 5 and a meeting of the Conference on International Economic Cooperation (CIEC) on July 8 and 9, also in Paris. He was in Aspen, Colorado, July 11-16, attending a conference on international business practices sponsored by the Carnegie Center for Transnational Studies.

Mr. Greenwald testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 27 on international commod

ity agreements for tin, coffee, and wheat. On August 10 and 11 he spoke at a meeting of the American Bar Association on "Sharing the World's Natural Resources: Prospects for International Cooperation."

Deputy Assistant Secretary Julius L. Katz spoke to students in FSI's 26-week Economic/Commercial Course on July 9 on U.S. foreign. economic policy.

Joel Biller, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation, Telecommunications and Commercial Affairs, addressed a luncheon meeting of the World Trade Association of Milwaukee on August 9. During that visit he also met with members of the press and participated in television and radio programs.

The 36th Session of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) Council was held in London June 8-11. Richard Bank, Director, Office of Maritime Affairs, was U.S. Representative. On June 14 and 15 he headed the U.S. Delegation to the Maritime Transport Committee (MTC) of the OECD in Paris. Major items on the agenda included the impact of state-controlled shipping and the world tanker surplus.

On June 16 Mr. Bank led the U.S. Delegation to the meeting of the MTC's Working Group on Flags of Convenience. Following bilateral talks on shipping matters with Finnish Government and shipowner officials in Helsinki June 18-20, he participated in three days of discussions with Soviet officials in Moscow. These talks, chaired on the U.S. side by Assistant Secretary of Commerce Blackwell, dealt with the current and future operations of the U.S. U.S.S.R. Maritime Agreement.

The International Telecommunication Union Administrative Council's annual meeting was held in Geneva June 14 to July 1. John O'Neill, Director of Communications Policy, was among those attending. A variety of administrative matters were decided with the most important being approval of the draft budget.

Arthur Freeman of International Communications Policy participated in meetings held in London in both June and July looking toward the establishment of an international maritime satellite organization. There were fruitful discussions of the issues remaining for resolution at the Third Session of the INMARSAT Conference, held September 1-3.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Stephen W. Bosworth participated in the meet

CITED-John Richardson, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, left, recently presented the Superior Honor Award to Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Robert A. Hurwitch for the latter's outstanding accomplishments in developing cultural exchange between the Dominican Republic and the United States.

ing of Senior Officials of the 27 Nation Conference on International Economic Cooperation, held in Paris July 10-12. The Senior Officials officially concluded the analytical phase of the CIEC dialogue and instructed the commissions to begin their action-oriented work with a view toward reaching concrete results for recommendation to Ministers at the December Ministerial. Mr. Bosworth also headed the U.S. Delegation to the regularly scheduled meetings of the four CIEC Commissions the following week. Considerable progress was made in the individual Commissions toward agreeing on work programs for their remaining sessions, but failure of the participating countries to agree on work program formulations for the subjects of debt relief and indexation caused these sessions to be suspended. If these difficulties are resolved, the Commissions planned to meet again in September.

Meetings were held in Tokyo July 27-31 on Multinational Trade Negotiations and on the application of Japanese safety and emissions standards to automobiles imported from the United States. Ray Meyer of the Trade Agreements office participated in these meetings.

New employees in the Bureau include John Ferch, Director of the Office of Food Policy; Pierce Bullen, Office of Fuels and Energy; William Brew, Fibers and Textiles Division; David Dunford, Chief of Trade Agreements Division; George White, Special Trade Activities; George Boutin, Office of East-West Trade; Carl Taylor, Office of Maritime Affairs; Richard Kauzlarich, Office of Development Finance; George Mitchell, Office of Investment Affairs;

Richard Jones, Office of Special Bilateral Affairs; Richard Dertadian, Deputy Executive Director; Mary Bueter, secretary in East-West Trade; Barbara Adair, secretary in Aviation Negotiations; and Susan Molesky, secretary in Investment Affairs.

Educational and
Cultural Affairs

Assistant Secretary John Richardson, Jr., spoke on "The Role of the Educator and American Foreign Policy" on June 24 at the National Foreign Policy Conference for Educators, co-sponsored by the Department and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Sven Groennings, Director, Office of Public Affairs (CU/P), and William J. Cunningham, Director, Office of Youth, Student and Special Programs (CU/YSS), participated in two of the concurrent workshops associated with the conference, which was held in the department.

Mr. Richardson, Eugene Kopp, USIA; Arthur Gardiner, AID; Robert H. Miller, Deputy Assistant Secretary, EA; Nicholas A. Veliotes, Deputy Director, S/P; and Ronald Palmer, Deputy Coordinator for Human Rights, met on June 30 with Dr. Soedjatmoko of Indonesia to discuss human rights. Dr. Soedjatmoko, who is now adviser to the Indonesian National Planning Council and a member of the Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees, was formerly Indonesia's Ambassador to the United States.

On July 30 Mr. Richardson addressed delegates to the 23rd World Assembly of the International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) on "The International Future of Teacher Education-the New Revolution." ICET is an international, nongovernmental association of teachers with over 1,000 members in 75 countries. Its annual assemblies are held to promote innovation in teacher education programs. This conference, held in the USA in commemoration of the Bicentennial, focused on the issues facing professional educators and the teaching profession in an era of global interdependence.

On behalf of the United States Government, Mr. Richardson welcomed foreign delegates and U.S. participants to the 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference of the Council of International Programs (CIP) on August 3 at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. On that occasion, Mr. Richardson CU presented the

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