"S" Area

Under Secretary John N. Irwin, II, attended an orientation program at Strategic Air Command (SAC) Headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska, October 8. Accompanying the Under Secretary were B. Scott Custer and Nicholas A. Veliotes of his staff.

Mr. Custer has assumed the position of Executive Assistant to Under Secretary Irwin. He was formerly with the law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons and Gates.

Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Nathaniel Samuels and other U.S. officials met in Washington, D.C., October 15 and 16, with a delegation from the European Communities headed by Commissioner Ralf Dahrendorf. Officials of the U.S. and the European Communities will be meeting periodically, both in Washington, D.C., and Brussels, to discuss matters of mutual interest.

Ambassador Francis L. Kellogg headed the U.S. Delegation to the 21st Session of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program in Geneva, Switzerland, September 28. Clement J. Sobotka, Acting Special Assistant to the Secretary for Refugee and Migration Migration Affairs, served as Alternate and James L. Carlin, Counselor for Refugee, Migration and Red Cross Affairs, U.S. Mission, Geneva, served as Adviser.

James Carson, Director of the Secretariat Staff (S/S-S); Melvyn Levitsky, Secretariat Staff Officer S/S-S; and Fran Hess, Secretary, S/S-S, provided Secretariat support to the Secretary on the President's recent European trip.

Thomas M. Harrington, formerly an Associate Operations Officer, Operations Center (S/S-O), has reported for duty as a Secretariat Staff Officer in S/S-S.

David D. Passage, from Saigon, has reported for duty as an Associate Operations Officer in S/S-O.

Seton Shanley, of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, has been assigned as a State Department Representative to the National Military Command Center (S/S-O).

Sydney Ann Lafoon, a former sum

Foreign Service on "United States Policy in Thailand."

Dr. Michael A. Samuels, formerly with the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, has joined the staff of the Bureau of Congressional Relations.

Philander P. Claxton, Jr., Special Assistant for Population Matters, attended the Conference of the South

east Asian Development Advisory Group on "Motivation in Population Programs" in Honolulu, Hawaii July 29-31; presented a paper on "Population and the Law" at the meeting

of the American Bar Association in St. Louis, Missouri, August 11-13; delivered a statement on "U.S. Policy on Population/Family Planning Matters" to the Second Latin American Conference on Population in Mexico City, August 17-21; and addressed seminars on "Population and Poverty" at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, September 22 to October 1.

On September 30, David L. Gamon, Deputy to the Special Assistant for Population Matters, led a seminar on "The United States and Population Programs" at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Stuart Blow, of the Office of Fisheries and Wildlife (S/FW), attended the U.S. Section Meeting of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission in Seattle, Washington, September 21-24.

Wilvan Van Campen, of the S/FW staff, attended the 21st Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, October 11-15, at Lake Arrowhead, California.

William L. Sullivan, of S/FW, participated in a meeting of the International Marine Science Affairs Panel of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography in Seattle, Washington, Oc

tober 4-8.

Elizabeth J. Kirby, formerly with U, has reported for duty in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for

Economic Affairs.

Alice L. Kirby, formerly with U, has been assigned to the Secretary's Special Assistant for visits of Chiefs

of State and Heads of Government in the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations.

Nora Downing, formerly with DG/ PER, has joined the secretarial staff of the Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs.

African Affairs

David D. Newsom, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, chaired the first meeting of the new Advisory Council on Africa in the Department on October 15, at which senior Bureau officers exchanged ideas with the Council members. Secretary Rogers spoke to the group and hosted a luncheon for them.

of the "United Nations, the United States and Africa" to the Chicago Committee on September 17. On September 21, he lectured at the Army War College.

W. Beverly Carter, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary, attended the Second Convention of the African Foundation on Negro Affairs in Philadelphia on September 24.

Robert S. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary, gave talks at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Ft. McNair on September 22; at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College on September 24; at Dana College, Blair, Nebraska, on September 30; and at Southern Methodist University on October 1.

John Timothy Smith, Labor Adviser, Office of Inter-African Affairs (AF/I), attended the Population Conference sponsored by the National Interdepartmental Seminar, FSI. The Conference was held at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, October 5-8.

Peter C. Walker, UN and Regional Affairs Adviser, AF/I, took part in the Strategy for Peace Conference sponsored by the Stanley Foundation and held at Airlie House, October 811.

O. Rudolph Aggrey, Country Director, West African Affairs (AF/ W), attended the Aggrey Fellowship Program Advisory meeting in New York City, October 14.

Harold E. Horan replaced Robert P. Smith as Alternate Country Director, AF/W. Mr. Horan was formerly Country Officer for Liberia and Sierra Leone. Mr. Smith leaves to take up his new duties as Deputy Chief of Mission, Pretoria.

James L. Barnes, Economic Officer, AF/W, travelled to the State of Indiana during the week of October 12-17 to recruit for the Department.

Gordon R. Beyer, George L. Kinter and Edward Marks, Country Officers, East African Affairs (AF/E). spoke to the Sub-Saharan Africa Area Studies Course at FSI, during the week of October 5-9, on the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

Charles W. Bray, III, has replaced W. Clinton Powell as Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of African Affairs. Mr. Bray was formerly Alternate Country Director, North African Affairs (AF/N).

Herman J. Cohen, Alternate Country Director, Central African Affairs (AF/C), served as escort officer for President Ahidjo of the Cameroon during his visit to the United States.

John A. McKesson, Country DirecMr. Newsom spoke on the subject tor, AF/C, attended the three-week

Interdepartmental Seminar at FSI, September 14 to October 2.

Ambassador Thomas P. Melady, U.S. envoy to Burundi, is in the United States serving with the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations in New York.

Ambassadors Robinson McIlvaine, Kenya, and Terence A. Todman, Chad, have been in the Department serving on the current Selection Boards.

AF area Ambassadors in the Department on consultation recently included G. Edward Clark, Senegal and the Gambia; Claude G. Ross, Tanzania; Robert G. Miner, Sierra Leone; Fred L. Hadsel, Somali Democratic Republic; William E. Schaufele, Upper Volta; Anthony D. Marshall, Malagasy Republic; and Lewis Hoffacker, Cameroon and Equatorial

Guinea.

Also in the Department for consultations were:

David S. Wick, from Caracas, assigned to Niamey; Leonard G. Shurtleff, Department, assigned to Douala; C. R. Craft, Department, assigned to Monrovia; Margaret A. Allen, Department, assigned to Addis Ababa; Michael J. Milligan, Department, assigned to Dakar; Michael Mikulak, from Athens, assigned to Monrovia.

Jean Cole, from Algiers, assigned to Vancouver; Harold P. Kline, from Mexico, assigned to Kinshasa; John Hollingsworth, from Algiers, assigned to Luxembourg; Louis Grob, from Bucharest, assigned to Pretoria; Scott Ochiltree, Department, assigned to Douala; Jean Farr, from Athens, assigned to Lagos; Andrea Merkel, from Pretoria, assigned to Rabat.

Theodore Boyd, from Addis Ababa, assigned to USIA; Leo R. Penn, from Monrovia, resigning; Geraldine Poole, from Lusaka, assigned to London; Marilyn Balman, from Mbabane, assigned to London; Ellabeth Abercrombie, from Guatemala, assigned to Abidjan; George S. Dunlap, from Kinshasa, assigned to Paris.

Lucien Kinsolving, from Lome; Helen E. Campbell, from Caracas, assigned to Lagos; Charles M. Hanson, Jr., from Lagos, assigned to Monrovia; Robert B. Olney, M.D., assigned to Kinshasa; Vera Eppinger, from Bujumbura, assigned to Brussels; J. J. Johnston, Department, assigned to Freetown.

James Allegro, from Kampala, assigned to Abidjan; Bruce Chaney, new appointment to Monrovia; Julia A. Craig, Department, assigned to

Kinshasa; Janet L. Wescott, from Paris, assigned to Rabat; L. Dawn Loberg, new appointment, assigned to Kinshasa; M. P. Mikulak, from Athens, assigned to Monrovia; and June Ward, from Kinshasa, assigned to Vientiane.

East Asian and
Pacific Affairs

Assistant Secretary Marshall Green spoke on September 24 to a group of FSI intensive language training students on "U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia." On September 29 he spoke to CIA mid-career officers on "Current Developments and Problems of the USG in East Asia." In Dedham, Massachusetts, he addressed The Asia Foundation on "U.S. Policy in East Asia," and in Cincinnati on October 21 he spoke to the Cincinnati World Council on "The Emerging Role of the U.S. in East Asia and the Pacific."

Deputy Assistant Secretary William Sullivan spoke on September 29 to students at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico, Virginia, on "U.S. Policy in East Asia." On September 26 in Washington he addressed university student body presidents and college presidents at the annual Presidents-to-Presidents

Conference on "History of American Involvement in Viet-Nam." In London at the Imperial Defense College, October 6-14, Mr. Sullivan conducted a series of seminars on "U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia."

Deputy Assistant Secretary Herman H. Barger attended meetings to consider the establishment of consultative groups for Thailand and the Philippines, held in Paris, September 29 to October 2. On October 17 and 18 at Key Biscayne, Florida, he addressed a meeting of the Ceramic Tile Manufacturers of the United States on "Economic Relations with Japan."

Staff Assistant Eugene K. Lawson addressed the annual International Convention of Consulting Actuarians at the Shoreham Hotel on the "Nixon Doctrine and Asia."

On October 5, Frederick W. Flott spoke at Emmanuel College in Boston on "The Role of the United States in Indo-China." Professor Edwin Reischauer participated in the same group.

Visiting the Department on consultation recently were Armin H. Meyers, Ambassador to Japan, James J. Wickel, Special Assistant, Tokyo; Chester W. McClhoe, Budget & Fiscal Officer, Vientiane; John F. Shaw, EconomicCommercial Officer, Tokyo; and L.

Edward E. Masters has been appointed Director of the Office of Regional Affairs in EA succeeding Jerome K. Holloway.

Paul Gardner is serving as Acting Country Director for Indonesia.

Recent assignments in the East Asia Area include the following: Stephen M. Ecton, from Tokyo to FSI Japanese language training; Robert E. Peck, from Tokyo to the Department; Martha Turnbull, from ARA to the Bureau as Fiscal Specialist replacing Monica Schmitt who has been assigned to Bonn; Elaine E. Bors, from the Department to Manila as Secretary.

John H. Dieffenderfer, from Saigon to Manila as Building Services Specialist; Richard M. Griffiths, from Manila to Hong Kong as Electrical

CORDS Highlights

The following assignments have been made to newly-arrived officers in Military Region III:

David R. Moran, as Deputy District Senior Advisor (DDSA), Nhon Trach district, Bien Hoa province; David T. Peashock, DDSA Chan Tanh, Binh Duong province; Charles B. Jabobini, DDSA Ben Cat, Binh Duong province; John D. Isaacs, Refugee Officer, Binh Tuy province; Geoffrey E. Wolfe, DDSA Binh Chanh, Gia Dinh province; Jeffrey R. Siegel, Assistant Area Development Officer, Long An province; David M. Winn, DDSA Xuan Loc, Long Khanh province; and Bruce A. Beardsley, DDSA Hien Thien, Tay Ninh pro

vince.

The following officers received assignments to MR IV (Delta):

Douglas B. Archard, DDSA Cau Ngang, Vinh Bing province; John S. Ford, DDSA Quan Long, An Xuyen province; David Mangan, Jr., DDSA Minh Duc, Vinh Long province; John L. Pitts, DDSA Ham Long, Kien Hoa province; Charles B. Smith, Jr., Assistant New Life Development Officer, Chau Doc province; William H. Siefken, District Senior Advisor (DSA) Tan Chau, Chau Doc province; John P. Modderno, DSA Hoa Loc, Go Cong province; and Susan J. Walters, Assistant New Life Development Officer, An Giang province.

Michael W. Cotter, formerly Senior Adviser Ba Tri district, Kien Hoa province, has been reassigned to Saigon as Special Assistant to Deputy Ambassador Samuel Berger.

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to Hong Kong as Security Officer; William T. Masingill, from Djakarta to Kuala Lumpur as General Services Officer.

Maclyn H. Musser, from Manila to Hong Kong as Electrical Engineer; Patricia Dwyer, from the Bureau to Melbourne as Secretary; Virginia A. Olbrish, from the Department to Vientiane as Secretary; James J. Reid, from the Department to Rangoon as Consular Officer; David H. Lochner, from the Department to Manila as C&R Assistant; Walter Miller and Douglas Sell, from Frankfurt to Bangkok as Diplomatic Couriers.

Micaela Cella, from Osaka-Kobe to Manila as Consular Visa Officer; Rufus D. Putney, from the Department to Manila as Security Officer; Eileen Perrin, from the Department to Manila as Secretary; Patricia Reik, from the Department to Taipei as Secretary; Andrea Valadez, from the Department to Tokyo as Secretary; and Charles Pedonti, from Phnom Penh to the Bureau as Post Management Officer.

European Affairs

Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Martin J. Hillenbrand accompanied President Nixon on his recent trip to Rome, Naples, Belgrade, Zagreb, Madrid and London. Mr. Hillenbrand also made a three-day visit to Paris to confer with French officials and members of the Embassy staff. On October 8 he addressed the Marine Corps Command and Staff College on "U.S. Policy in Europe."

Deputy Assistant Secretary Margaret Joy Tibbetts spoke and participated in the Conference on International Relations among the North Atlantic Nations, held October 15 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Horace G. Torbert, Jr., was sworn in as Ambassador to Bulgaria on October 12, replacing Ambasador John M. McSweeny who is now assigned to the Foreign Service Inspection Corps. Ambassador Torbert departed Washington for Sofia on October 15, stopping en route in Rome and Belgrade.

Ambassador Malcolm Toon is expected to arrive from Prague for consultations in November.

Ambassadors J. William Middendorf II, from The Hague, and Kingdon Gould, Jr., from Luxembourg, visited the Department on informal consultation while on private visits to the United States.

Also on consultation in the Department were the following Ambassadors: Robert Ellsworth, USNATO/ Brussels; Graham A. Martin, Italy; John D. J. Moore, Ireland; Kenneth Rush, Germany; and J. Robert Schaetzel, USEC/Brussels.

Officers here on consultation during October were Charles E. Hulick, Jr., Consul General, Dusseldorf; Paul F. Duvivier, Frankfurt; and Ray E. White, Jr., Munich.

Harry G. Barnes, Jr., Deputy Chief of Mission in Bucharest, accompanied the party of Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu on visits to several U.S. cities.

Eric W. Fleisher, Office of the Country Director for Scandinavia, Iceland and Finland (SCAN), visited the three countries in his area of responsibility-Norway, Iceland and Denmark during October.

William Bodde, Jr., Finnish and Swedish Affairs Officer, SCAN, attended the Executive Studies Seminar the week of October 25 at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

Adolph Dubs, Country DirectorSoviet Union Affairs (SOV), attended the Federal Executive Institute Seminar on national needs and priorities at Charlottesville, Virginia, October 4-9.

William T. Shinn, Jr., has left the Bilateral Political Relations Section of SOV for a one-year assignment as a Congressional Fellow.

Edward A. Mainland, formerly with the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, has joined the Bilateral Political Relations Section of SOV.

Steven E. Steiner, Bilateral Political Relations Section, SOV, participated in a Foreign Affairs Conference at Riverside, California, October 2-4, and addressed classes at Pomona and Claremont Colleges on October 5. He then proceeded to Colorado, where he conducted Foreign Service recruiting at Denver University, the University of Colorado and Colorado College.

the Multilateral Political Relations On October 13, Don R. Kienzle of Section, SOV, briefed a group of fifty women from the Maryland Branch of the American Association of Univerity Women on the subject of SinoSoviet relations.

Thomas E. McNamara, Assistant Benelux Affairs Officer, Office of the Country Director for France and Benelux (FBX), visited college campuses in New England and upper New York State to discuss the forthcoming For

eign Service officer examination with interested students.

David R. Thomson, Office of the Country Director for Canada (CAN), visited Ottawa, September 30 to October 3, to discuss economic questions with Embassy officials.

William H. Mansfield, CAN, visited Ottawa, October 6-10, to attend the meeting of the International Joint Commission and for consultation with Embassy officials.

Frederick S. Quin, CAN, delivered a briefing on Canada to the Foreign Service Institute Atlantic Community

Affairs class on October 13.

George W. Landau, Country Director for Spain and Portugal (SPP), participated in the "Kelvinator Day" activities in Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 12. Kelvinator's major marketing efforts center around Spain, and the company plans to hold a meeting of approximately 5000 dealers in Marbella in August, 1971.

Everett E. Briggs, Country Officer for Portugal, SPP, attended a oneweek executive studies seminar, held under Foreign Service Institute's auspices, at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, September 27 to October 2.

Timothy L. Towell, Spanish Affairs Officer, SPP, spoke on Spanish foreign policy, October 16, to an American University class.

Ruth H. Phillips, Office of the Director for OECD, European Community and Atlantic Political-Economic Affairs (RPE), attended the OECD-DAC High-Level meeting in Tokyo, September 14 and 15.

James D. Phillips, RPE, has returned from temporary duty as a Foreign Service Inspector in VietNam Mr. Phillips was one of two younger Foreign Service Officers to participate in this recent inspection.

Ruth E. Krueger recently transferred from Vienna, Austria, to RPE as secretary to the Director.

Lillian Van Ackooy reported for duty on August 17 as secretary to the Country Director for Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland (CHP).

Charles B. Cuenod, Jr., Post Management Officer in the office of the Executive Director (EUR/EX), and Marcella J. Barnhart, office of the Director-NATO Atlantic Political and Military Affairs (RPM), were detailed to Ireland to assist during the recent visit of President Nixon. Following the President's visit, Mr. Cuenod consulted with Embassy officials in Dublin and London.

Robert G. Livingston, whose most recent assignment was as Deputy Chief of the Political Section in Bonn,

has been granted leave to accept a visiting fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York He is writing a policy study on Germany at the Council and will be organizing a Council study group on that topic. The group will be chaired by Professor Philip Mosely, Director of Columbia University's European Institute.

The following personnel, who were on home leave and transfer status, visited the Bureau during September and October:

to The Hague; Murrow B. Morris, Thomas H. Gewecke, Lagos (AID) Brussels to Department (SCA/SCS); Robert Farrand, Moscow to Department; Ruth E. Krueger, Vienna to Department; Asbury Mills, Brussels

to Department; Ann L. Kramer, Luxembourg to Quito;

Larry A. Ward, Lahore to Brussels; Barbara Maxwell, Luxembourg to Rome; Vera Eppinger, Bujumbura to Brussels; George Dunlap, Kinshasa to Paris; Jerris Riordan, Singapore to Brussels; Doris E. Wilmeth, Paris to Saigon; Janet Wescott, Paris to Rabat;

Jean E. Keys, Tripoli to Ottawa; Robert L. Sims, Moscow to Depart

ment; Mildred Wentner, Oslo to Rawalpindi; Mildred Gregory, Beirut to Berlin; Geraldine Poole, Lusaka to London; Johanne Rohmann, Lima to Lisbon; Margaret Bullock, Zagreb to Ottawa; and Mark A. Cole, Rabat to Oslo.

Also visiting the Bureau were the following who were on home leave. and return status:

Roland Berardo, London; Wilbur Hitchcock, Quebec; Warren L. Swope, Toronto; Irwin S. Lippe, London; Richard V. Davis, Seville; William Holm, Nice; George B. Kettenhofen, Marseille; John J. Degan, Florence; jorie Regnault Dela Susse, Paris; and Ernest B. Gutierrez, Palermo; Mar

Mary Ornes, Ottawa.

Other visitors included: Martin Van Heuven, Brussels, NATO, to Department (ACDA); Donovan E. Fischer, Frankfurt to Department (SY); Dr. M. W. Levenson, Rangoon to Belgrade; Joseph J. Montllor, Quebec to Madrid; Linda H. Underwood, The Hague, resignation; Beverly Tupper, Helsinki, resignation; Calvin Thornton, Department to Frankfurt; and William T. Blaydoe, Department to Paris.