European Community and Atlantic Political-Economic Affairs (RPE), was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 14 and 15, where he spoke to officers of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, to the Editorial Board of the Milwaukee Journal, to university students and community participants in one of a lecture series at the Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin, and appeared on "Television News" on station WISN, Milwaukee.

On February 15, Jack F. Matlock, Director for Soviet Union Affairs (SOV), was in Greensboro, N.C., to address the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University's Adult Education Great Decisions Series on "The Soviet Union and the U.S.: Toward Negotiation or Confrontation?"

Jack Perry, officer in charge of Multilateral Political Relations, SOV, spoke on three Georgia campuses, February 10 and 11. On February 10 he spoke to a convocation and luncheon at Wesleyan College in Macon. On the afternoon of that day, he met with the seminar of Ambassador Walter Dowling Mercer University, also in Macon. On February 11 he spoke to four audiences at Armstrong College in Savannah and recorded a television program.

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Walter F. X. Collopy, Economic Officer, Ottawa, was on temporary duty in CAN, January 24 to February 5.

The following personnel who were on home leave and transfer status

visited the Bureau during December and January: James Swihart, Belize to Belgrade; Charles Carson, Seville to Naples; and Robert Cayer, Naples to Rabat.

Also visiting the Bureau were Irene Bauer, Moscow, and J. Harlan Southerland, Bonn, who were on home leave and return status.

Other visitors included Donald Lautz, Naples to Mexico City; Harry Cook, Bucharest to Department; and Kathleen Menche, Bogota to Madrid.

Foreign Service Institute

William D. Broderick has been named Dean of the School of Professional Studies at FSI and will report for duty on April 17. Mr. Broderick is presently serving as Country Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs, Bureau of Inter

American Affairs.

Charles H. Pletcher has joined the staff of the Foreign Affairs Executive Seminar, serving as a State Faculty Advisor. Mr. Pletcher served previously as International Relations

Officer in the Office of the Director for Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs.

Lawrence Saponari transferred from the FSI Payroll Office to the staff of the Budget and Management Office.

New to the FSI staff are Lore Gertrude Michael, a German Language Instructor, and Robert Allen, School of Language Studies.

Inspector General,

Foreign Service

Thomas McElhiney, Inspector General, chaired a series of orientation briefings held in January for the overseas Foreign Service Inspectors. The Inspectors met with Secretary Rogers and other principal officers of the Department during the course of their activities. The inspection teams departed in early February on their various overseas assignments.

Robert Foulon, Director, Domestic and Functional Evaluation Staff (IG/DF), and Foreign Service Inspector Edward M. Rowell consulted in Ottawa, February 13-16. They are undertaking a special survey on the problem of conducting the many facets of U.S. relations with Canada.

Robert Service, an Inspector on the S/IG staff, was a member of the inspection team which inspected the Embassy in Guatemala in February.

Robert Granick, Executive Officer of S/IG, attended the Hearing and Grievance Examiner Course offered by the Civil Service Commission, January 19-21.

Robert Funseth, formerly Coordinator of Cuban Affairs, and Andrew G. Thoms, formerly with the Office of Strategic and General Research in INR, recently joined IG/ DF as Foreign Service Inspectors.

Angela Sullivan, IG/DF, attended an FSI course on effective writing, held January 13-27.

Frederick Elfers, Office of Overseas Evaluation, left on detail to participate in the inspection of U.S.

posts in Iran during February and March.

Intelligence and Research

Leonard Weiss, Deputy Director for Functional Research, chaired a conference on "Implications of EC Monetary Policy for the United States."

Irwin M. Tobin, Director of the Office of Research and Analysis for U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe (RSE), consulted with Cabinet Office and Foreign Office officials in London following his attendance at a Ditchley Park Anglo-American Conference on "Bases of Foreign Policy."

Martha Mautner, RSE, lectured at the Army War College on "East Germany and Ostpolitik."

Robert A. Peck, RSE, spoke on the Soviet Union at the University of Tennessee in Martin, Tennessee.

Igor Belousovitch, Donald E. Graves and Richard A. Christensen, RSE analysts, participated in an FSI panel discussion on international communism.

Robert T. Willner, RSE, attended a course at FSI on the New Left.

Curtis F. Jones, Director of the Office of Research and Analysis for Near East and South Asia (RNA), represented NEA at the fourth meeting of the Columbia University Seminar on the Middle East. Abdul

Hamid Sharaf, Jordanian Ambassador to the U.S., led the discussion.

E. Raymond Platig, Director of the Office of External Research (XR), attended a meeting in New York of the University Consortium for World Order Studies, a new group which will be undertaking a number of interuniversity programs.

Mr. Platig; William J. Trainor, Deputy Director, Research, Coordination and Management (XR); and Idris Rossell, Chief, Academic Relations-Documentation Division (XR), briefed a group of economists in the Department as part of the ScholarDiplomat program. Earlier, Mr.

Trainor visited the faculties at Harvard Business School, M.I.T., and Tufts.

Mr. Platig and Robert Crane, DDC, participated in a workshop at Ohio State University on "Knowledge Transfer into Foreign Policy."

Philander P. Claxton, Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary for Population Matters, and J. Wesley Adams, Senior Program Officer of the Office of External Research (XR), cochaired a conference on "Effects of Rapid Population Growth on Political Change in the LDC's."

Eric Willenz, Chief of the International Political Affairs Division of the Office of Strategic and General Research (RSG), lectured to the Western European Course at the For

eign Service Institute on "Western European Communism in Transition." He also participated in the SAIS-Ford Foundation sponsored

Airlie House Conference on interrelations of the Soviet Union, China and the United States.

Philip J. Wolfson, Chief of the Politico-Military Affairs Affairs Division, RSG, served as Acting Chairman of Area Studies Course on Western Europe at FSI.

Leicester W. Cook, RSG, visited the White Sands Missile Range and the Army Air Defense Center at Fort Bliss, Texas, for briefings and orientation on U.S. weapon systems.

John H. Kelly, formerly assigned to the Air Force Staff College, has replaced Andrew Thoms in RSG. Mr. Thoms has been assigned to S/IG.

Nancy E. Bateman, of the Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific (REA), made a speaking tour of five Alabama colleges, lecturing on the People's Republic of China.

REA analyst David M. Walker discussed North Viet-Nam at the Southeast Asia Area Studies Course at FSI.

Frederick C. Ashley, REA, lectured on the Khmer Republic at FSI.

James K. Connell, formerly assigned to Reykjavik, has joined the staff of the Office of Research and Analysis for Western Europe (REU).

Alan H. Bergstrom, from Khartoum, has reported for duty in the Office of Research and Analysis for Africa (RAF).

Herbert Spielman, of the Office of the Assistant Deputy Director of Science Affairs (DFR/SA), has been assigned to NATO at Brussels.

Richard Bogosian, RSG; Norman C. LaBrie, C. LaBrie, REA; and E. Mark Linton, RAF, have been assigned to FSI for economic training.

Raymond C. Jorgenson, of the Office of Research and Analysis for American Republics (RAR), gave lectures and participated in campus discussion groups at several colleges and universities in Texas and New Mexico, including the University of Texas, College of Santa Fe and University of New Mexico.

Timothy Gardner, the son of James R. Gardner, of the Office of the Deputy Director for Coordination, followed in his father's footsteps when he won a Rhodes Scholarship in December. The elder Gardner, who won his Scholarship in 1937, attended Swarthmore College, the same school from which his son was graduated in 1970.

Inter-American Affairs

Assistant Secretary Charles A. Meyer presented awards to the following recipients in a ceremony held on January 31: Sean Holly, Superior Honor Award for courage in the face of death while being held prisoner by terrorists in Guatemala; H. Andre Weismann, Meritorious Honor Award for superior performance as an Acting Deputy Chief of Mission for an entire year; and James G. Joyce, Meritorious Honor Award for devotion to duty with outstanding service to the Government. Mr. Meyer also presented length-ofservice awards to George Monsma, USOAS, 35 years, and David Cox, APU, 10 years. Mr. Monsma was also cited as a two gallon blood donor.

Mr. Meyer visited London to attend a conference with British Government officials on British-Caribbean policy. He was accompanied by William Broderick, Country Director, Office of Caribbean Affairs (CAR).

Deputy Assistant Secretary John Hugh Crimmins addressed the National Foreign Policy Conference for Editors and Broadcasters on January 28.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Szabo participated in a meeting of the Special Committee on Membership of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), held in Brasilia, January 24 and 25. He also visited Guatemala and Colombia.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert A. Hurwitch participated in a panel at the Center for Inter-American Relations in New York City. Mr. Hurwitch also was principal speaker at a luncheon of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.

Jack Heller, Director, Office of Development Programs (LA/DP), addressed a Partners of the Americas Workshop on January 24 in Washington, D.C.

Here on consultation recently were Ambassadors Henry E. Catto, Jr., El Salvador, the last week of January; Robert McClintock, Venezuela, February 3-5; Leonard Saccio, Colombia, here January 24-28 before returning to Bogota after a month's leave in the United States; and William M. Rountree, Brazil.

James A. Dibrell, former Counselor for Administration at Santiago, visited ARA-LA/MGT in connection with his retirement from the Foreign Service. His successor in Santiago,

Kenneth O. Harris, consulted with management officials prior to his departure for post.

Wendell Pike, former Administrative Officer at Tegucigalpa, consulted in ARA-LA/MGT prior to taking home leave and beginning his assignment in Brasilia.

Ambassador David H. Ward, Richard B. Finn and John P. Sheffey visited Panama to present negotiating visited Panama to present negotiating credentials to the President of Panama and to attend meetings with officials of the Panamanian Government.

John Karkashian, Deputy Director, Bolivia-Chile Affairs (BC), represented the Bureau in meetings at Paris in early February, among major creditors of Chile on the Chilean request to reschedule its external debt. Mr. Karkashian began a two-week orientation trip to Chile and Bolivia in mid-February.

Richard Frederick, Chief of Bolivian Development Affairs, spent three weeks in La Paz beginning in late January.

Jack Binns, ARA/NSC/IG, participated in the FSI course on Negotiations, February 14-18.

Richard Hines, Desk Officer for Nicaragua and British Honduras, Nicaragua and British Honduras, visited Managua, Tegucigalpa and Belize for talks, January 18-30.

Robert Funseth, Coordinator of

Cuban Affairs (CCA), has been named a Foreign Service Inspector on the Domestic and Functional Evaluation staff of the Inspector General, Foreign Service. Joseph Norbury has been named Acting Coordinator of Cuban Affairs.

J. T. Rogers, Director of the Office of Regional Economic Policy (ECP), attended the meeting of Government Experts on Export Promotion at Bogota, February 6-12, as a member of the U.S. Delegation of the Special Committee for Consultation and Negotiation, IA/ECOSOC.

Diego Asencio was in the Department on consultation prior to assuming new duties as Counselor for Political Affairs at Brasilia.

W. Douglas McLain, Jr., Political Officer in the Office of Brazilian Affairs (BR), participated in a consultant panel on Brazil, February 7 and 8, at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.

Charles Stockman, Deputy Director, North Coast Affairs, returned on February 2 from a brief orientation and consultation trip to Colombia and Venezuela.

John Drake, an international relations student at American University, joined the Venezuelan Desk staff in January for a four month work-study program.

Margo Kranz, Chief, Colombia De

velopment Affairs, returned to her office after a month of jury duty.

William Broderick, Country Director, Office of Caribbean Affairs (CAR), visited Nassau January 30 to February 1 for consultations with Consul General Moncrieff Spear.

Paul F. Canney, Assistant Director for Political Affairs, CAR, was a Department of State participant in Exercise Escort Tiger XI, a politicalmilitary live free play command post operation conducted on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, February 1-11.

William P. Kelly, Chief, Political Affairs, Guyana, Surinam and Netherlands Antilles, visited Georgetown, Paramaribo and Curacao during January on orientation and consultation.

International
Organization Affairs

Assistant Secretary Samuel De Palma was one of the speakers at the Foreign Policy Conference for Editors and Broadcasters held at the Department, January 27 and 28. On February 11, Mr. De Palma was the principal speaker at the Charles W. Woodward High School seminar on "Problems of the Twentieth Century." Mr. De Palma also gave the opening address at the Ninth North American Invitational Model United Nations held at the Shoreham Hotel, February 17-20. On January 26 he spoke

to a group of 60 graduate students from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Don R. Torrey, Special Assistant for Public Affairs, spoke to a group of students from Newberry College, South Carolina, on January 18 in the Department.

Frederick J. O. Blachly, Deputy Public Affairs Officer, spoke to a group of students from Towson State College, Maryland, on January 19. On February 18, Mr. Blachly addressed students who were participating in the Model United Nations pating in the Model United Nations held at Georgetown University and to another group from the Georgetown University Teachers Institute.

John W. McDonald, Jr., Coordinator for Multilateral Development Programs (IO/CMD), spoke at the convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City on February 16.

William M. Kerrigan, Chief, Programs, Operations and Evaluation Division, CMD; Richard L. Spring, CMD; and Douglas G. Marshall, CMD, were members of the U.S. Delegation to the 13th United NaDelegation to the 13th United Nations Development Program Governing Council which met in New York, January 12-28. On February 24, Mr. Kerrigan addressed a seminar on economic development at the State University, Plattsburg, New York.

Kathleen Bell, Director, UN System Coordination Staff (UN/COR),

and Robert E. Allen, UN/COR, were in New York, February 8 and 9, to consult with the U.S. Mission to the UN and the UN Secretariat on preparations for the forthcoming meetings of the Committee for Program and Coordination and the Economic and Social Council.

Reuben Lev, Office of UN Budgetary and Administrative Policy Staff (UN/BAPS), was in New York, February 14-16, assisting the U.S. Expert Member of the UN Special Committee for the Review of the Salary System in an analysis of a report on government salaries in the countries in which UN Specialized Agencies are located.

International Scientific and Technological Affairs

The Chairman of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. (R.Tenn), met with the press on February 23 at the Department to announce the schedule of regional hearings to be conducted in six major U.S. cities in March of 1972. The purpose of these hearings is to gather views and information which will help develop the U.S. role in this first international conference geared at improving the Human Environment. The conference is to be held in Stockholm, Sweden in June of 1972.

On February 24, the Department announced (Press Release No. 49) the publication of the Stockholm Conference documents which are now available for public dissemination. The documents are divided into three sections which may be ordered separately, or the complete set may be purchased for $12.00.

Christian A. Herter, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Director, Office of Environmental Affairs, represented SCI at the OECD meeting in Paris, and conferred with Embassy officials in London and Bonn on the forthcoming Stockholm Conference, February 5-16. Henry Brodie, of the same office, accompanied Mr. Herter.

Jay Blowers, Office of Environmental Affairs, attended the meeting of the Great Lakes Basin Commission at Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 15 and 16. On February 24, Mr. Blowers addressed the Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations on the subject of the UN Conference on the Human Environment.

Donovan Q. Zook, Director, Office of Atomic Energy Affairs (SCI/AE), was in London, March 4-7, for con

sultations with U.K. and Embassy officials pertaining to safeguards

matters.

H. Daniel Brewster, Deputy Director for Programs, SCI/AE, represented SCI at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, February 29 to March 4.

Robert L. Loftness, Deputy Director for Technology, SCI/AE, attended the meeting of the U.S. National Committee of the World Energy Conference held in El Paso in early February.

Robert F. Packard, Director, Office of Space and Atmospheric Science Affairs, served as an adviser at the meeting of the Joint U.S./European Working Group on development of the Space Transportation System, held in Paris, February 7-10.

Walter E. Jenkins, Jr., Deputy Director for Advanced Country Programs, Office of General Scientific Affairs (SCI/SA), served as an alternate delegate on the U.S. Delegation to the NATO Science Committee Meeting in Brussels, February 3 and 4. From March 3 to 15, Mr. Jenkins was in Moscow for talks regarding U.S./Soviet exchanges negotiations.

Addison E. Richmond, Jr., Deputy Director for Polar and Technological Affairs, SCI/SA, served as a member of the U.S. Delegation at the London Conference on negotiations pertaining to a Convention to Protect Antarctic Seals, February 2-11.

Joseph W. Scott, a retired Foreign Service Officer, was sworn-in on February 7 as a Consultant to SCI on Antarctic Affairs.

Colin M. MacLeod, President, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and a long-time SCI Consultant, died in London on February 10 after suffering a heart attack. Dr. MacLeod was the Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Com

mittee.

Tammy Mewshaw, secretary to the Director, Office of General Scientific Affairs, resigned from the Department. She was replaced by Mary M. Frey, formerly with the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Florence Cooper has joined SCI in the Office of Environmental Affairs. Ernelle L. Ross has been transferred from CU/EA to the Office of General Scientific Affairs.

Legal Adviser's Office

Legal Adviser John R. Stevenson was in Caracas February 20-23 where he took part in a meeting sponsored

by the Law of the Sea Institute of the University of Rhode Island. He is also the U.S. Representative to the U.N. Seabed Committee meeting in New York from February 28 to March 31. The Seabed Committee is acting as a preparatory Committee for the 1973 U.N. Law of the Sea Conference and will have a second 1972 session in July and August in Geneva.

Bernard H. Oxman, Assistant Legal Adviser for Ocean Affairs, and Myron Nordquist, Attorney Adviser, L/OA, are also members of the U.S. Delegation to the Seabed Committee meeting. meeting. Lesley Anschutz, Carol Kramer and Karen Olewnick of L/ OA are providing secretarial assistance to the Delegation. Charles J. Pitman, Attorney-Adviser, L/OA, was a member of a delegation which went to Brazil for two weeks at the end of February to discuss fisheries

matters.

Carl Salans, Deputy Legal Adviser, will head the U.S. Delegation to the UNESCO Panel of Experts meeting in Paris, April 4-22. The Panel will be negotiating a convention to establish a World Heritage Trust for the preservation of natural areas and cultural sites of universal value. In his Environmental Message Environmental Message of 1971 President Nixon called for completion

of such an international agreement, and it is hoped that this proposed Convention will be completed this year.

Charles I. Bevans, Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, and Marie Morris are presently members of the United States Delegation to the United Nations Conference to Amend the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. The Conference was convened to strengthen international controls to prevent illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, and is meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from March 6 through March 24.

Stephen Boyd and Jon Greenwald, L/NEA, participated recently in consultations with more than 40 States on proposals to amend the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Mr. Greenwald was part of a Delegation headed alternately by Nelson Gross, S/NM, and William Cargo, S/PC, which in January visited Geneva for multilateral talks with 18 European, Asian and African States as well as Tehran, Cairo and Beirut for bilateral discussions. He also participated in discussions January 31 and February 1 in the Department with 18 Latin American States. Mr. Boyd accompanied Mr. Gross to London and Moscow in February and conducted additional discussions in Paris and