Betty Dillon Named U.S. Representative To 122-Nation ICAO

Mrs. Betty Crites Dillon was sworn in December 17 as the U. S. Permanent Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations Agency with headquarters in Montreal,

Canada.

Mrs. Dillon, who holds the rank of Minister, is the first woman appointed as Permanent Representative to the 122-nation Organization. She succeeds Charles Frederick Butler, who resigned October 1, 1971, to accept a post with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) as Director of the Bureau of International Affairs in Washington, D.C.

ICAO, established in April, 1947, is a specialized agency created to provide coordination for its member countries in all aspects of civil aviation.

Both as a government career official and as a private citizen, Mrs. Dillon has been active in aviation for more than 25 years. She is an experienced pilot. From 1960-1965, she served with CAB's Bureau of International Affairs as an Air Transport Examiner and liaison officer to the Department of State for Africa, Near East, and eastern European aviation affairs. She was instrumental in drafting the agreement between Pan American and Aeroflot airlines establishing the first air service between New York City and Moscow.

In 1968-1969, she served as an aviation consultant to aviation attorneys and airlines, acting as a liaison officer to CAB, FAA, AID, and the Export-Import Bank. From 19531958, Mrs. Dillion was a Special Assistant to the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration (later ICA, now AID), where her work included staffing of international aviation assistance programs.

In industry she has been associated with several scheduled and supplemental airlines, including Overseas National Airways, where she was Assistant to the President and later Assistant Vice President for Management.

Prior to her appointment as U. S. Representative to ICAO, Mrs. Dillon was a senior staff member of the Peace Corps (now Action) with which she served since 1965. Her first assignment was as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in Tunisia,

SENATE ACTION AWAITED

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President Nixon recently nounced his intention to nominate new U.S. Ambassadors to Czechoslovakia, Somalia, Fiji and Malta.

All the nominations require Senate confirmation. They are:

-Albert W. Sherer, Jr., to Czechoslovakia. Mr. Sherer has served as Ambassador to Guinea since March 1970.

-Matthew J. Looram, Jr., to Somalia. Ambassador Looram has served as envoy to Dahomey since July 1969.

-Kenneth Franzheim, II, to Fiji. Mr. Franzheim, who is Ambassador to New Zealand and concurrently Ambassador to Western Samoa, would serve concurrently-and without additional compensation-as the first U.S. Ambassador to Fiji, which became an independent country on Oct. 10, 1970.

-John I. Getz to Malta. Mr. Getz has served as Special Assistant to U. Alexis Johnson, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, since 1969.

Ambassador Sherer, 56, joined the Foreign Service in 1946 and held such assignments as Deputy Chief of Mission at Warsaw; Senior Foreign Service Inspector; Ambassador to Togo (1967-70) and also accredited as Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea (1968-69); and Ambassador Guinea.

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He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal while serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

Ambassador Looram, 50, joined the Foreign Service in 1948. He has served as Political Officer in Rome and Paris; French Desk Officer in the Bureau of European Affairs; Principal Officer in Asmara; Officer in Charge of Angola and Mozambique Affairs; Deputy Director of the Office of Central African Affairs; and Deputy Director of the Office of North African Affairs.

From 1966 to 1969 he was Coun

try Director for Northeastern Africa

in the Bureau of African Affairs.

Ambassador Looram graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He served three years with the U.S. Army as a Captain of Artillery during World War II.

Ambassador Franzheim, 46, received a B.A. degree from Yale Uni

versity in 1948. Upon graduation from college he worked in various positions with oil field operations. He joined Shell Oil Company in the Gas Contract Department in 1952.

The following year he moved into independent oil operation and investment. In 1969 he joined the Board of Directors of Southern National Bank in Houston.

Mr. Franzheim was named Ambassador to New Zealand in 1969. He was appointed to serve concurrently as Ambassador to Western Samoa on February 10, 1971.

Mr. Getz, Ambassador-designate to Malta, joined the Department in 1949.

He has held assignments as Staff Aide-Economic Officer in Saigon, Phnom Penh and Vientiane; Desk Officer in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs; Political Officer in Rome and Bangkok; Branch Chief in the Division of Personnel; Chief of the Private Office for Secretary General (Paris), NATO; and Deputy Director for Political Affairs, USRO, Paris.

Frm 1966 to 1969 Mr. Getz was

Supervisory International Relations Officer and Deputy Director of Atlantic Political-Military Affairs in the Bureau of European Affairs.

The Ambassador-designate, 54, is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He also earned a Master's degree from the School of International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

Stanley Carpenter

Takes Interior Post

Stanley S. Carpenter, who has served since 1969 as Executive Director of the Bureau of European Affairs, has been appointed Deputy Assistant Secre

tary for Territorial Affairs in the Department of the Interior.

A career Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Carpenter joined the Interior Department on detail from the State Department on January 3.

Mr. Carpenter During his 24-year career in the Foreign Service Mr. Carpenter served in major posts in Asia and Europe. He was Civil Administrator of the Ryukyu Islands from 1967 to 1969.

"Because of their population growth, their varied resources and divergent needs, the United States territories merit increasing attention," Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton said.

"We are especially anxious to help them fulfill their aspirations for a more effective voice in the conduct of their affairs. Mr. Carpenter's assignment will be to maintain close contact with the Territories and propose improvements in their economic, social and cultural programs," the Secretary added.

United States territories under Interior include the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the last including more than 2,100 tropical islands of the Marshall, Mariana and Caroline groups held in United Nations. trust by the United States for the

Mr. Carpenter became a Consular Officer in Kobe, Japan, in 1948. His career took him through increasingly important posts in Tokyo, London and Copenhagen, where he was Deputy Chief of Mission from 1962 to 1965, and the Ryukyu Islands, where he had the personal rank of Minister.

President Nixon has nominated William Rinehart Pearce to be Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations with the rank of Ambassador. This post has been vacant since 1967.

Since 1963, Mr. Pearce has served as Vice President of Cargill, Inc.

NEW U.S. GUIDELINES

Concerning Asylum for Foreign Nationals

The Department on January 11 began distributing a new guidance outlining the general policy for dealing with requests for asylum in the United States by foreign nationals.

The seven-page document, which supplants interim instructions issued Dec. 2, 1970, is being distributed to 75 U.S. Departments and Agenciesand to U.S. Missions and installations abroad.

In making the document public Secretary Rogers said:

"The right of asylum is rooted in American history and tradition.

"The new guidance is intended to reinforce our continuing dedication to this principle. I have directed that it be distributed to all U.S. Missions overseas, and I have asked all heads of Government agencies whose personnel might become involved in

asylum cases to make equally wide distribution within their organizations."

Applicable sections of the new guidelines also are being distributed to police departments in major U.S. cities and to state police authorities.

The guidelines were developed at the request of President Nixon, in coordination with the White House and relevant Government organizations, by the Department's Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs, headed by Special Assistant to the Secretary Frank L. Kellogg.

Mr. Kellogg said the document aims to clarify beyond doubt traditional U.S. policies on the right of asylum and to identify procedures by Government authorities in the United States and abroad.

DEPARTMENT HONORS AMBASSADOR MACARTHUR

Under Secretary John N. Irwin II, above left, presented the Department's Distinguished Honor Award to Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II on December 2.

The ceremony took place at a reception in the James Monroe Room given in Ambassador MacArthur's honor by Deputy Under Secretary William B. Macomber, Jr.

Ambassador MacArthur was cited for "outstanding and sustained achievement. . . over thirty-six years of dedicated service in positions of critical responsibility and command.”

Ambassador MacArthur, who has served under six Presidents during his long and distinguished career, is presently Chief of Mission in Tehran. Prior to that he held such posts as Ambassador to Austria, Belgium and Japan, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, Counselor of the Department, and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State. He was named a Career Ambassador-the highest rank in the career Foreign Servicein August 1966.

He will retire from the Foreign Service in February.

5 Named to Foreign Scholarship Board

President Nixon on December 6 appointed five members to the Board of Foreign Scholarships.

Four were appointed for terms expiring September 22, 1974. They are:

-Lane Dwinell, who served as Assistant Administrator for Administration in AID from June 1969 until recently. Mr. Dwinell, a former Govenor of New Hamphsire, also served as Assistant Secretary for Administration in the State Department from 1959 to 1961.

-Donald S. Lowitz, an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Lowitz, Stone, Kipnis and Goodman. Mr. Lowitz served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1954-59) and as General Counsel, and later Assistant Director, of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969-71).

-Dr. James R. Roach, Vice Provost and Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs, University of Texas. Dr. Roach previously served as Professor of Government, Special Assistant for International Educational Programs, and Director of Special Programs at the university. He was appointed a member of the Board of Foreign Scholarships in 1966 and a member of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO the following year.

-Dr. Anne Pannell Taylor, former President and Professor of History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Dr. Taylor, now a housewife, also held such positions as Academic Dean and Professor of History at Goucher College; President of the American Association of University Women (1967-71), and Senator-at-Large, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa (1958-70).

Appointed to the Board for the remainder of the term expiring September 22, 1972, was Bernard Katzen, a New York attorney.

Mr. Katzen served as Counsel for the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Narcotic Study; Commissioner and Vice Chairman of the New York Commission for Human

Rights; Counsel for the New York State Pure Waters Authority; and as a Consultant in the State Department.

The President has announced his intention to nominate Kevin O'Donnell to be Associate Director of ACTION for International Operations. Mr. O'Donnell has been serving in this position in an acting capacity since July 1, 1971.

R. Miller Upton, then Chairman Designate and now Commission Chairman,

reads a paper before a session begins.

James C. Haahr, the Director of 10/ UNESCO, left, and U. S. Commissioner of Education Sidney P. Morland, Jr., a member of the U.S. National Commission, are shown taking questions during a conference panel session.

Secretariat Staff Officer Barbara Good, left, and Barbara Stuhler, who is Vice Chairman of the Commission.

JANUARY 1972

The closing weeks of 1971 were both busy and stimulating ones for the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO, particularly for its Secretariat staff.

During Thanksgiving week the Commission held the second of its regional Environmental Education conferences for the year, this one in Atlanta, Georgia. A highly successful undertaking, it brought more than 300 participants and principal speakers into Atlanta's Regency Hyatt House Hotel for three days of intensive discussion of the Commission's special conference topic for 1971-72.

The Conference was capped by a closing session at which Jimmy Carter, the Governor of Georgia, and Mahdi Elmandjra, UNESCO's Assistant Director General for PreProgramming, made principal addresses. Excellent local press, radio and TV coverage coupled with warm audience response were rewarding measures of the success of the Secretariat's efforts in mounting this major conference.

Upon the conclusion of the Atlanta meeting, the Secretariat was immediately faced with the task of preparing for the annual meeting of the National Commission, which was held at the Airlie House conference center and extended over three days, from Sunday, December 12, until mid-day Tuesday, December 14.

In the course of what was, for the Commission, an unusually long annual meeting, a new Chairman was elected, a noted educator, R. Miller Upton, President of Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. A native of New Orleans, and a graduate of Tulane, Dr. Upton is an economist who has specialized in the fields of business finance and administration. He has been President of Beloit College since 1954 and has introduced to that institution the so-called "Beloit Plan" of year-round education. Dr. Upton succeeds Washington attorney A. Marvin Braverman as the Commission's Chairman.

The Airlie House meeting marked the ending of a long career in public service, most of it on the Commission Secretariat, of Mrs. Lillian Parker who is retiring. Mrs. Parker has spent 24 of her 27 years in federal service

Louise Gore, U.S. Member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, reported on the Board's recent Paris meeting.

with the Commission. Professor Walter Laves, former Chairman and noted UNESCO authority, led the Commission in farewell remarks to Mrs. Parker and in a two-time standing ovation both preceeding and following her final appearance before the group.

The Commission heard reports from all its standing Committees and passed a number of resolutions affecting its policy guidance positions toward UNESCO. In a mood of increased accent on youth, the Commission moved to draw upon outstanding young Americans for a more active participation in the activities of the Commission. It endorsed strengthening of UNESCO programs in the areas of human rights-especially women's rights and the combating of racial discrimination.

In anticipation of the forthcoming United Nations Stockholm conference on the environment, the Commission took a positive stand in favor of UNESCO's work in the environmental field, such as environmental education and the problems of environment in the newly developing regions of the world. Taking particular note of the need to inform the American public about UNESCO activities, the Commission agreed to explore ways in which UNESCO-sponsored conferences might be held within the United States.

The Commission voted to invite a number of new non-governmental organizations to membership, among them:

American Association of School

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SERIOUS PROBLEMS FACED

Representatives and observers from many countries and organizationsincluding 42 African nations, the United States, and the United Nations -attended the First African Population Conference, held in Accra, Ghana, from December 9 to December 18.

The meeting was organized by the Population Centre of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, with the cooperation of the of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Most of the expenses for the conference were financed by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.

Prime Minister Kofi A. Busia of Ghana formally opened the conference with a keynote address directed toward its principal theme: population and development in Africa.

Recent declines in mortality in

African countries, where birth rates are still among the highest in the world, have produced a very high population growth, the Prime Minister noted.

He pointed out that it is around 2.5 percent annually-and increasing as death rates continue to go down. Thus, even at present rates the populations of African countries will double in 30 years, or less.

"Rapid population growth has proved to be a serious impediment to the measures aimed at developing the economies of the developing world," the Prime Minister told the group. "The efforts being made to augment the present inadequate facilities for health services, education, housing and other necessities of life have in and other necessities of life have in many places not shown any appreciable results because of the rapid growth of our populations."

Dr. Busia noted that "almost all of our countries are suffering from diffi

cult unemployment problems." He emphasized that the "very rapid rate of urbanization is also a serious problem which deserves urgent attention."

The speaker expressed the hope that countries in Africa which consider that their rates of population growth constitute an impediment to their development "will adopt such measures as they think feasible and necessary to regulate levels of fertility."

"Already eight countries have made policy decisions on population," he pointed out. "It is expected this number will increase in the next decade."

ECA experts prepared a series of papers containing new demographic information on African populations and discussing the adverse effects of rapid population growth on development. These papers were augmented by other studies and reports on spe

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