"S" Area

Secretary Rogers addressed the 50th Anniversary Dinner of the Order of AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational and Progressive Association) in Atlanta on August 24. Prior to the dinner, the Secretary joined with former Secretary Dean Rusk in meeting with the Southern Council of International and Public Affairs. Mrs. Rogers accompanied her husband, as did Maggie Runkle and David Lissy of his personal staff.

Secretary Rogers flew to California on August 29 to join the President on August 30 for the trip to Hawaii for the President's meeting with Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan. The Secretary and Foreign Minister Ohira held separate meetings prior to joining the President and Prime Minister. The Secretary was accompanied by Jane Rothe and Jerry Bremer of his immediate staff.

Under Secretary U. Alexis Johnson gave the graduation address to the Foreign Affairs Executive Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute, July 28.

On August 11, Ambassador Johnson helped to prepare a film strip for use in high schools entitled "Postscript from Hiroshima: The Re-emerscript from Hiroshima: The Re-emergence of Japan." The film is being made by the Educational Services Division of the Associated Press, and was written by John Roderick, AP correspondent in Tokyo.

Ambassador Johnson, accompanied by Staff Assistant Don Westmore and Leslie Brown of PM/SP, visited SAC Headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska, and NORAD Headquarters at Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 14-16.

Dennis S. Floberg has been assigned to the Office of the Under Secretary for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs (T).

Catherine F. Thibodeau has been reassigned from the Office of the Deputy Secretary, Board of the Foreign Service (U/BFS), to the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Management (M).

Robert Dean Black will has reported

for duty with the Secretariat Staff of the Executive Secretariat (S/S-S).

Joanne Holland, formerly of the Secretariat Staff (S/S-S), has been reassigned to the Office of the Executive Secretary to replace Helen Brown who has joined the staff in the Office of Press Relations (S/PRS).

Charlotte M. McAuliffe, recently on detail to the White House, has replaced Eleanor Ostermeier as Secretary to the Foreign Service Grievance Board (S/FSG). Miss Ostermeier retired from the Foreign Service in August.

Paul H. Blakeburn has been reassigned from the Operations Center, National Military Command Center (S/S-O:NMCC) to the Executive Secretariat Operations Center (S/S-O).

John B. Craig, previously assigned to Tripoli, has reported to S/S-O as an Associate Operations Officer.

Donald E. Fitzpatrick has been reassigned from the Executive Secretariat, Information Management Center (S/S-I), to S/S-O.

Loretta A. Douglas has been as

signed to S/S-I as Operations Assist

ant.

Temple G. Cole, Office of Refugee and Migration Affairs (S/R:ORM), received a Meritorious Honor Award for achievements in connection with assistance programs for Bengali refugees in India.

On July 10, Philander P. Claxton, Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary for Population Matters, convened a representative group of voluntary organizations to begin preparations for participation in the UN World Population Year 1974. From July 13 to August 15, he met with officials of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the UK Overseas Development Administration, UNESCO, OECD Development Centre, the French Government, the FAO, ILO, and WHO at their headquarters to discuss population policies and programs.

William F. Spengler joined the Office of Special Assistant to the Secretary for Population Matters (S/PM) on July 10 as Deputy Special Assistant. He spoke to the Foreign Service Wives' Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute, August 17, on world population problems.

Robert Y. Hayashida, formerly in the Office of the Country Director for Japan, has been assigned to the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs (PM/DOD).

William I. Cargo, Director of Planning and Coordination (S/PC), headed the U.S. Delegation to the 15th U.S.-Japan Planning Talks at Shimoda, Japan, June 14-16. Other members of the delegation included Joseph Neubert, Wreatham Gath

right, Dallas Jones and Michael Armacost, all of S/PC; Richard Ericson, EA/J; and Leslie Brown, PM.

Richard Funkhouser and William K. Hitchcock have recently been assigned as Members of S/PC.

Administration

Jerome H. Perlmutter, Chief of the Publishing and Reproduction Services Division, Office of Operations, is on extended detail to the National Endowment for the Arts where he is

serving as Coordinator of Federal graphics. In his new assignment, Mr. Perlmutter will provide guidance and leadership for an overall program of upgrading graphics in Federal Departments and Agencies. Catherine G. George will be Acting Chief of OPR/PBR during his absence.

Willis E. Naeher, Chief, Communications Center Division, Office of Communications (OC/T), presided at a ceremony marking Departmental acquisition of ownership of the Automated Terminal Station (ATS) on August 22.

Robert W. Nichols, formerly Chief of the Communications Center in Bonn, has assumed duties as Chief of the Diplomatic Mail and Pouch Branch (OC/P).

Katherine N. Haffner received a Meritorious Service Increase for her superior performance as Executive Secretary in OC.

James G. Businger departed from OC/P on assignment to Frankfurt. Reporting for duty in OC/P were Richard G. Merchant, from Taipei, and John C. Whitridge, III, from Bridgetown.

Graham R. Lobb, Communications

Security Division (OC/S), departed on transfer to London as Communications and Records Officer.

Guest observers at a session of the Communications Placement Panel were Paul Merighi, transferring from Moscow to Saigon; Charles N. Chesteen, Belgrade to Lagos; William O. Weatherford, Kabul to Conakry; and Edward T. Nosko, Istanbul to Kampala.

William L. Black, OC/T, and Harold H. Brown and L. Keith Atkins, both of the Communications

Programs and Engineering Division (OC/PE), attended Class Ten of the National Communications Security Course conducted by the National Cryptologic School, Fort George C. Meade, Maryland.

Length-of-Service certificates were presented to OC/T employees Robert C. Fuller, 20 years, and James Lee Hamit, Jr., and Esther B. Stevens, 25 years.

Communications employees attending the June and August classes of the Foreign Service Institute's Supervisory Studies Course, held at the USDA Training Center, Front Royal, Virginia, and the Tidewater Inn, Easton, Maryland, were:

June session-Juanita L. Cole, London; Arthur P. Crowfoot, London; Lynn W. Curtain, Abidjan; Robert P. Hearney, OC/EX, Raul Holguin, Brussels, Gerald R. Hoover, Blantyre; Gordon H. Land, Dakar; William H. LeBrane, Bonn; Wayne K. Logsdon, Geneva; Martha Maxwell, Stockholm; and Keith R. Petteway, S/S.

August session-David P. Borter, OC/PE; William P. Camuti, OC/PE; Charles N. Chesteen, Lagos, LaVonne H. Knoblock, OC/S; Leon W. Lever, OC/P; Edward T. Nosko, Kampala; Curtis H. Pruitt, OC/PE; James K. Tucker, Vientiane; William O. Weatherford, Conakry; and Beatrice K. Zamarrippa, OC/PE.

Diplomatic Courier J. W. Hanks has been transferred from Frankfurt to OC/P. George D. Koorkanian has been reassigned to WRDCO from OC/P.

Communications Electronics Officers Kenneth R. Erney, Howard L. Gappa, Willie Johnson, Charles M. King, Nicacio Mendoza and Warren R. Thornton, all of OC/PE; and William E. Bischoll, Paris; Donald N. Kennedy, Bonn; Jack R. Kincaid, Bonn; John E. Sorenson, London; and Walter L. Swierczek, Bonn, attended equipment maintenance courses conducted by military, manufacturers' and other training schools.

African Affairs

W. Kennedy Cromwell, III, Deputy Chief of Mission at Mogadiscio, was in the Department on consultation recently. Following home leave he will return to post.

Harry R. Melone, Alternate Director, East African Affairs, spoke at FSI on August 14 on "The Horn of Africa."

Kenneth L. Brown, Country Officer for Zambia and Malawi, left for Brussels where he will serve in the Political Section. Thomas J. Burke, former Staff Assistant to AF Assistant Secretary David D. Newsom, has replaced Mr. Brown in AF/E.

Alan M. Hardy, Country Officer for Kenya, has returned from a trip to Kenya and Uganda where he met with American and host country officials.

Harriet Rosenbaum, secretary to the Director of East African Affairs, left the Department on August 23 to accompany her husband to Nairobi, where he has been posted to the USAID Mission.

Paul J. Hare, AF/PPS, spoke at the Defense Intelligence Agency's National Senior Intelligence Course on "U.S. Policy in Africa."

Donald Haught, Desk Officer for South West Africa, gave a talk at FSI on Southern Africa.

Lewis Macfarlane, Southern Rhodesia Desk Officer, spoke at FSI August 14 on Southern Rhodesia.

Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency

Col. Harvey D. Williams (USA) recently arrived for a tour of duty in the Economic Affairs Bureau. Before coming to ACDA, he was assigned to the staff of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army.

Cdr. Ronald E. Pitkin (USN) has joined the staff of the Weapons Evaluation and Control Bureau. He graduated from the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., prior to his arrival.

Col. Clarence Mann (USA) has completed a tour of duty in the Economic Affairs Bureau and is now assigned to Jordan as an attaché.

Director General's Office

John Drew, formerly DG/EX Executive Officer, has been designated Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of Personnel for Career Counseling and Assignments. Ken

Assignment Branch as Placement Officer.

Marge Lindsey, Personnel Assistant in the EUR Assignment Branch, departed for an assignment to War

saw.

Susan Bell, formerly assigned to the Embassy Port-au-Prince, in joined the Administrative Counseling Branch in August.

Nancy McKee, Secretary on the Senior Officer Staff of PER/CA/FS, has departed for an assignment, under the Mustang Program, as Consular Officer in Manila.

O. Ammon Bartley, recently with CORDS in Viet-Nam, has joined PMS/PA as Chief of the Planning Branch.

William E. Bellamy recently transferred from AID to PMS/PA replacing Nell S. Riemer.

Charles E. Emmons, back from a year's study of Systems Analysis at M.I.T., is now in PMS/PA/AR.

Mary Pollard has transferred from PMS/PA/AR to BF/FMS.

Daniel Holliday has been designated Acting Chief of the Position and Pay Management Division (PMS/ PPM), replacing Chester Beaman, who has retired.

Nurse Dorothy Luketich was in MED for consultation before taking home leave and proceeding to her next post, Kabul. She has just completed a tour of duty in Tripoli.

Nurse Alice Davies in MED for consultation prior to her reassignment from Bangkok to Kathmandu.

Also reporting into DG/MED recently for orientation and consultation before proceeding to their new assignments were Dr. James Reed, to Saigon as Medical Officer; Dr. James Quilty, Medical Officer, to Bangkok; Nurse Mary L. Currie, to Mogadiscio; and Nurse Patsy A. Deem, to Monrovia.

MED to the General Services DiviRobby Hayes has transferred from

sion.

East Asian and

Pacific Affairs

Assistant Secretary Marshall Green the Nixon Doctrine" at the Foreign discussed "U.S. Foreign Policy and Affairs Executive Seminar on July 14. Mr. Green spoke to the National War College, August 17, on "Major U.S. Interests and Objectives in East Asia."

Deputy Assistant Secretary William H. Sullivan discussed current de

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Departures: FSO-3's Thomas J. Barnes and Stockwell Everts, on transfer to the Department; FSO-6 Kirby L. Smith, on transfer to Sao Paulo; and FSÓ-6 Hilton Graham, on transfer to the Department.

velopments in Southeast Asia at the English Speaking Union in Spokane on July 20, the Portland City Club, July 21, and the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin on August 14.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Arthur W. Hummel discussed "The Rim of Asia" at the National War College Defense Strategy Seminar.

Richard L. Sneider, former Deputy Chief of Mission at Tokyo, joined the Bureau on August 14 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia.

Roger Sullivan has been designated Deputy Director of the Office of Asian Communist Affairs (ACA) vice William Brown who is attending the National War College.

Ambassador Edwin W. Martin, Burma, recently visited the Department on consultation as did Thomas Enders, Deputy Chief of Mission, Phnom Penh; Charles Cooper, from Saigon returning to post; Irene Welsh, from Phnom Penh; Louis M. Purnell, from Djakarta; and Herbert Reiner from Canberra.

Others visiting were: Stephen R. Gibson, from Lisbon to Manila as Economic/Commercial Officer: Richard G. Coleman, from Taipei to Nepal as General Services Officer; Richard W. Duemling, from Tokyo on home leave and return; George J. Peterson, from Quito to Naha as

Consular Officer; James J. Wickel, from Tokyo on home leave and return.

Nancy A. McKee, from the Department to Manila as Consular Officer; Thomas R. Kresse, from Bangkok to Manila as Budget and Management Officer; Daniel L. Williamson, Counselor for Administration, Tokyo, on home leave and return; Kathryn Groot, Personnel Officer, Tokyo, on home leave and return; Richard C. Andre, from Seoul on round trip orders.

John C. Lacy, assigned to Rangoon as Deputy Chief of Mission; Vic Rusillo, General Services Officer from Vientiane, returning to post after home leave; Wesley Jorgenson, Consul General from Bangkok, returning to post; Margaret Cooney, Personnel Officer, Phnom Penh, on home leave and return; Dr. James Quilty, Jr., to Bangkok as Medical Officer; Paul Merighi, from Moscow to Saigon as Communications and Records Officer; and James J. Guisheski, from Athens to Saigon as General Services Officer.

Economic Affairs

Assistant Secretary Willis C. Armstrong was a member of the U.S. Soviet Commercial Commission which travelled to the Soviet Union July 20 through August 1. In addition, while in Moscow, he had responsibility for conducting talks on the outstanding World War II Lend-Lease debt of the Soviet Union. On his return from Russia, Mr. Armstrong stopped off in Warsaw August 1-3 where he took part in talks with representatives of the Polish Government on possible expansion of commercial relations.

Julius L. Katz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Resources and Food Policy, and John J. Ingersoll, Chief of the Tropical Products Division, were in London during the last two weeks of August to attend the 20th session of the International Coffee Council. The 20th session will determine the arrangements governing world coffee trade under the International Coffee Agreement for the year beginning October 1.

The Director of the Office of International Commodities, Joseph B. Kyle, headed the interagency delegation which negotiated a five-year cotton textile agreement with Nicaragua on August 7 and 8.

Between August 2 and 5, Harry M. Phelan, Jr., Chief, Fibers and Textiles Division, headed an interagency delegation holding formal consultations in Washington with representatives of Japan on matters arising in the operation of the bilateral Man-made Fiber and Wool Textile

Agreement between the U.S. and Japan. A number of administrative questions were resolved in the course of the consultations. Similar consultations with representatives of the Republic of Korea were initiated August 15 and were expected to be completed shortly. Mr. Phelan also headed an interagency delegation holding formal consultations in Washington on August 17 and 18 with representatives of the Government of British Honduras on textile trade matters. The consultations resulted in agreement on the level of exports of certain textile items from British Honduras to the United States for a year which began June 29.

Michael Boerner, Chief of the Food Policy Division, served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the last meeting of the Working Group of the GATT Agriculture Committee in Geneva, July 20-28. The Working Group completed preparation of a report examining techniques for use in future world trade negotiations relating to agriculture.

Russell Prickett, of E/OT/STA, addressed a workshop on Economic Education, sponsored by Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on July 21. The topic of Mr. Prickett's speech was "Meeting the Challenge of Changing Markets at Home and Abroad."

Richard T. Black, Office of Telecommunications, chaired an International Telecommunication Union Conference of 15 countries in Geneva, July 10-19, on the Future of the World Plan Committee. Arthur L.

Freeman, also of the Office of Telecommunications, acted as spokesman for the U.S. delegation. The Conference, which grew out of a World Plan Committee meeting in Venice last October, developed recommendations for future worldwide communications network planning. The recommendations will be submitted for consideration by the Vth Plenary Assembly of the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT) in Geneva next fall.

On July 26 and 27, Mr. Black and Wallace A. Johnson, Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Broadcast Bureau, participated in conversations at Mexico City in an effort to overcome final obstacles to the signature of the proposed Mexican-U.S. Agreement on FM Broadcasting. During the course of the talks the participants agreed upon a separate arrangement which would deal with the specific difficulties without having to amend the basic technical agreement. Plans are now proceeding for signature of these agreements in Washington-in September, if possible.

Major Ronald L. Carbery, USAF, reported for duty in the Office of Telecommunications on August 15 under the State/Defense Officer Exchange Program. He replaces Major Gerald F. Allsman who is being assigned to the Defense Communications Agency on October 1.

The following have also entered on duty in the Bureau: E. Mark Linton, GCP; Frederick O. Shoup and Kenneth A. Stammerman, STA; Michael