W. Donovan, REP; Clarke N. Ellis, OIA; Robert J. Bushnell, BR; Algirdas Rimas, FFD; and William Whitman, FSE.

Educational and

Cultural Affairs

Assistant Secretary John Richardson, Jr., greeted a group from the American Council of Young Political Leaders on July 26 prior to their departure on an 18-day trip to the Soviet Union. The group also met and held discussions with their Soviet counterparts following a U.S. visit by Konsomol leaders.

On July 27 Mr. Richardson spoke about educational and cultural exchange programs before the Foreign Affairs Executive Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute.

At the invitation of Japanese Foreign Minister Ohira, the Assistant Secretary visited Japan August 15-20

to advise on the organization of the newly-established Japan Foundation. newly-established Japan Foundation.

Deputy Assistant Secretary William B. Jones, accompanied by Carol Owens, Executive Secretary of the National Review Board (NRB) of the East-West Center, attended the NRB meeting in San Francisco in early August to discuss the Center's budget proposal for the next two years.

On August 11 Mr. Jones chaired an oral review panel for the Foreign Service Reserve Junior Officer Program. Later in the month, as Acting Assistant Secretary, Mr. Jones hosted a luncheon for Joan Murray, New York television personality and advertising executive, who will be visiting six African countries to conduct lectures and seminars on television

and women's affairs under Department sponsorship.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Alan Reich attended the annual conference

of the Town Affiliation Association in Seattle, where he spoke about the Department's interest in citizens' diplomacy.

Martin Cramer, Acting Director, Office of Private Cooperation, represented the Department at the 10th annual International Banana Festival in Fulton, Kentucky, and South Fulton, Tennessee, on August 18. The following day he participated in the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism in Carbondale, Illinois.

On August 18 Owen Roberts, Deputy Director, Office of African Programs, spoke to a group of Scouts from the Explorers Division on their responsibilities as American "Ambassadors." The scouts, winners of the National Explorer Olympic Contests sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Committee, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and the Explorer Division of the Boy Scouts of America, were headed for the World Student Camp at the Munich Olympics.

On behalf of the Department, Ralph Vogel, Director, Operations Staff, Board of Foreign Scholarships, welcomed exchange teachers from abroad who were in Washington for an orientation program at American University, August 18-23. The following week, J. Manuel Espinosa, Deputy Director, Office of InterAmerican Programs, welcomed foreign teachers sponsored under the Educational Development Program, who were also here for orientation prior to their assignments. On August 28 L. Arthur Minnich welcomed Fulbright-Hays visiting scholars attending an orientation program at Howard University.

Theodore G. Hartry, formerly Special Assistant to the Associate Director, Office of Policy and Plans, USIA, was designated Deputy Director, Office of Cultural Presentations. Prior to being assigned to Washington, Mr. Hartry was Cultural Affairs Officer in Warsaw. Mr. Hartry replaced Sol Polansky who has been assigned to the National War College.

George W. Porter has been designated Deputy Director of the Office of Public Information and Reports. A career USIA officer, Mr. Porter was assigned most recently to Career and Management Training.

Mary Tsouvalas, formerly Executive Secretary of the National Review Board of the East-West Center, has joined the Office of International Vis

itors (CU IVF), Voluntary Visitors Division, as a Program Officer.

Virginia K. Nygard has been assigned to the Office of the Director, CU/IVF, following a tour as Consular Officer in Port of Spain.

Elizabeth Elliott, of the Community Relations Branch, CU/IVF, has been selected for officer training in the Mustang Program.

Yukio Kawamoto, Program Officer in CU/IVF, has been designated Equal Opportunities Counselor for CU. Mr. Kawamoto replaces William Reid who recently passed the bar examination and resigned to join a Baltimore law firm. Mr. Reid had been Program Officer in the Office of Inter-American Programs (CU/ARA) since 1968.

Arnold J. Denys has been assigned to CU/ARA as Program Officer. Mr. Denys, former Consular Officer in Halifax, was detailed to the Department of Transportation to work on TRANSPO 72 immediately prior to his assignment to CU.

Arthur J. Hardman, who had been detailed to OEO in San Francisco, is now on the staff of the San Francisco Reception Center as a a Program Officer, replacing Joel Rochow who is returning to USĨA.

Edward J. Slack, on detail from USIA, has returned there for training preparatory to an assignment in

Bangkok.

Richard A. Dwver, formerly Political/Economic Officer in Sofia, has been assigned to the Office of Eastern European Programs as Program Officer replacing Nicholas Lang, now on leave of absence for study toward a Ph.D. degree at Indiana University.

Robert K. Carr has reported to the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Programs as Program officer, transferring from Tangier where he served as Administrative Officer.

Sandra Rouse has been reassigned from the Office of Special Projects to the Office of Cultural Presentations as Assistant Planning Officer.

E. Michael Southwick. formerly Administrative Officer in Kigali, has reported for duty as a Program Officer in the Office of African Programs.

Mervin E. Decker and Joseph W. Rose, both of the Office of the Executive Director, were presented 30year Length of Service awards by Mr. Richardson on August 4.

European Affairs

Deputy Assistant Secretary R. T. Davies represented the Department at

MOSCOW-Ambassador Jacob D. Beam cuts the ribbon to open "Washington Circle," the Embassy's redesigned and remodeled lunch room. At right is General Services Officer Phillip J. Walls.

the opening on August 3 of the Soviet Arts and Crafts Exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ambassador Kingdon Gould, Jr., was in from Luxembourg on consultation for several days in mid-July.

Ambassador Fred J. Russell, Denmark, was in Washington, August 8-11, on consultation.

Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, on home leave from Brussels, consulted in Washington, August 14-17.

Joseph J. Montllor, Chargé d'Affaires, a.i., in Madrid, was in the Department from July 31 to August 4 on consultation prior to taking home leave. He returned to Madrid on August 16.

H. Allen Holmes, Political Counselor in Paris, was in Washington on consultation in July prior to beginning home leave.

Thomas P. Murphy, Special Assist

ant to Ambassador Arthur K. Watson in Paris, consulted with officials of the Department and other agencies in late July.

Henry McCown, Country Officer for Spain, Office of Spanish and Portuguese Affairs (SPP), accompanied President Nixon's Personal Representative, California Governor Ronald Reagan, on visits to seven Western European countries, July 2-22. Governor Reagan delivered personal messages from President Nixon to European leaders in Copenhagen, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Rome, London and Dublin.

On August 10, Gilbert H. Sheinbaum reported for duty as Country Officer for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Office of Western European Affairs (WE). Mr. Sheinbaum previously served in the Political Section at Copenhagen.

During July and August three new officers joined the Office of Eastern European Affairs (EE). Marten H. A. van Heuven, formerly Deputy Chief of the Political Affairs Division, International Relations Bureau, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, became Country Officer for Romania and Albania replacing Charles W. Schaller, who was assigned to the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Herbert Kaiser, formerly Political Officer at Pretoria, became Country Officer for Yugoslavia replacing Donald Tice, assigned to Belgrade as Counselor for Political Affairs. Edward Hurwitz, formerly Political Officer in Moscow, became Country Officer for Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and the Baltic States replac

Launching of Satellite

next year. The new orbiting observatory will be used by scientists to study the heavens in the ultra-violet and x-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum which are obscured from astronomers on the ground by the earth's thick, lightabsorbing atmosphere.

"This is a terribly exciting adventure in astronomy," said Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr., of Princeton University, one of the project scientists. "We will be able to study the stars and stellar clouds in a way that until now has been impossible.

The spacecraft, the fourth and final vehicle in the Orbiting Astronomical series, is the heaviest, most expensive, and most complicated unmanned scientific satellite ever launched by the United States.

ing William J. Dyess, assigned to the Bilateral Political Relations Section, SOV, and Robert Rackmales, assigned to Mogadiscio.

Doyle V. Martin, Regional Affairs Officer, EE, has been transferred to Reykjavik as Deputy Chief of Mission.

Upon the departure of Jack Perry to the Council of Environmental Quality, Edward A. Mainland, previously with the Bilateral Political Affairs Section of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (SOV), became Acting Officer in Charge of the Multilateral Political Relations Section.

John D. Scanlan of SOV spoke to a group of 60 members of the Young President's Organization at JFK Airport in New York on "Current Soviet-American Relations," just before the group embarked on a charter flight to the Soviet Union. Mr. Scanlan spoke on the same subject at the 1972 Navy Public Affairs Workshop, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, on August 8.

John J. Kadilis, SOV, participated on July 24 in the taping of "Students and Diplomats" at American University, a half-hour radio program distributed to college campuses throughout the country.

David H. Jackson. formerly in Guatemala, has joined the Budget and Fiscal Section, Office of the Executive Director for European Affairs (EUR/EX).

Marcella Del Favero has transferred to EUR/FX from the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Management (M).

John P. Owens has assumed his

Eric Rehfeld, Office of NATO and Atlantic Political-Military Affairs (RPM), attended the NATO Joint Electronics and Communications Policy Committee meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels during the week of July 10.

Woodward Romine, Officer-inCharge of the Defense Policy and Military Security Affairs Section of RPM, spoke to the officers and men of Amphibious Squadron Phibron-4 folk, Virginia, on July 19 and 20. at the Naval Operations Base, NorMr. Romine addressed the squadron, which is deploying to the Mediterranean Sea for operations with the Sixth Fleet, on the political situation in the Mediterranean.

Richard Williamson, RPM, visited 24 and 25, and spoke at Mankato the University of Wisconsin on July State College, Mankato, Minnesota, on July 27. His activities this trip were mainly in the nature of classroom visits to courses which dealt with European affairs.

Len Reddy, of the U.S. Mission to NATO, spent several days in RPM during July while on home leave and

consultation.

Samuel Bartlett, Policy Planning Staff, RPM, spent four days in late July on a tour arranged by the Bureau of Public Affairs. During this period, Mr. Bartlett appeared on four

television programs for extended interviews on European policy matters and spoke at the offices of four newspapers in Maine, Vermont and New York.

C. M. Schneider, Office of Canadian Affairs, spoke on U.S.-Canadian relations before the Conference on Canada and the United States of the New York State Council for Social Studies, held at State University College, Potsdam, New York, August 14 and 15.

Foreign Service Institute

Dr. Lowell R. Fleischer has joined the staff of the Center for Area and Country Studies as Chairman for Latin American Area Studies replacing Richard Salvateria. Dr. Fleischer spent the past year as The John Quincy Adams Lecturer at the Univ

ersity of Massachusetts. He chaired his first Latin American Area Seminar August 7-18.

The School of Professional Studies inaugurated a course for Deputy Chiefs of Mission the week of August 11-18. The course, geared toward advanced management training, was management_training, chaired by William D. Broderick and Harry Feinstein and was attended by 17 students. Deputy Under Secretary for Management William B. Macomber launched the course with a talk on management, while later in the week, Inspector General of the Foreign Service Thomas McElhiney and Director General of the Foreign Service William O. Hall and others served as guest speakers.

New language instructors at FSI include Evelina Luccioli, Italian; Ingrid Patton, German; Syamphone Douangpanya, Laotian; Marcella Cernik, Czech; Steven S. Raviv, Hebrew; Keomanivanh Boutsavath, Laotian; Lisma N. Ibrahim, Malay; Andromachi Chiacu, Romanian; Khin Khin Nyunt, Burmese; Om German; Helene Mitrofannoff, RusPrakash, Hindi-Urdu; Irmhilt Hanza, sian; Ladislav Slivka, Czech; George P. Roussos, Greek; Malkanthi BasPolish; and Chandara Lor, Camnayake, Sinhalese; Irene Coulter,

bodian.

Inspector General,
Foreign Service

Carol Steele, formerly with IG/ OE, has joined the staff of U.S. Representative Don Edwards (D.Calif.) as an Administrative Assistant. Mrs. Steele had been with IG/ OE, formerly O/FI, since June 1970. She recently received a B.A. degree

in Psychology from The George George Washington University.

Janice Singleton, of S/IG, has been selected to participate in the Mustang Program.

Intelligence and Research

Benjamin M. Zook, Chief of the Soviet Affairs Division, Office of Research and Analysis for Europe and the Soviet Union (RES), participated in a panel on "Africa in Soviet foreign policy" at a USIA conference of Public Affairs Officers at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia.

Mr. Zook and Martha Mautner, RES, spoke on Soviet policy and Paul Cook, RES, on Komsomol, youth and education with a delegation of the American Council of Young Political Leaders departing for

a visit to the U.S.S.R.

Igor N. Belousovitch, RES, discussed "Trends of Soviet Policy in Asia" with a group of Naval officers taking an Intelligence Management

Course at Andrews Air Force Base.

Robert H. Baraz, RES, lectured on "Forces in the European Theater" at the Foreign Service Institute.

Paul J. Costolanski, RES, spoke on Eastern Europe to a group of American Legion "student/scholars."

Mark S. Ramee, newly assigned from Moscow to RES, spoke on "The President's Visit to the U.S.S.R." to the Kiwanis Club of Meriden, Connecticut.

Sandra L. Vogelgesang, RES, lectured on "Scandinavia Today" at the Foreign Service Institute before the Western Europe Area Studies Semi

nar.

Alfred E. Wellons, of the Office of the Deputy Director for Corodination (DDC), attended a three-week seminar at the Foreign Service Institute.

Alfred R. Barr, formerly assigned to REC/BEX, has joined the staff of DDC.

Jim Marshall, of the Office of Economic Research and Analysis (REC), was an adviser to the U.S. Delegation for the Special Session of the United Nations' Population Commission meeting in New York. Initial plans for World Population Year (1974) and the World Population Conference were the agenda items.

William P. Keasbey, Jr., has come to REC from the Bureau of Economic Affairs and will be working on international trade matters.

John J. St. John has joined the staff of REC and will be working on international monetary affairs. Mr. St. John was the Chief of the Economic

in Managua.

Dalton V. Killion, whose last tour was in the Political Section in Tokyo, has joined the staff of the Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific (REA) as Japan analyst.

Harold E. Meinheit, back from a tour in Saigon, is a new South VietNam analyst in REA.

Frederick C. Ashley, of REA, addressed FSI's Asian area course on the current situation in Cambodia.

REA analyst David T. Kenney spoke to FSI's area course on North Viet-Nam. Edward L. Barber, of REA, addressed FSI's Asian area course on the situation in Indonesia.

Terry V. McIntyre, of the Office of the Geographer (RGE), attended meetings of the International Geographical Union held at the University of Montreal, Canada.

Also new to the staff of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research are Paul D. Molineaux, RES; Paul A. Inskeep, Office of Research and Analysis for Africa and American Republics; Marguerite Cooper, Office of Research and Analysis for Near East and Sotuh Asia; and Jeanetta L. Southerland, secretary to the Director of the Office of External Research.

Inter-American Affairs

Assistant Secretary Charles A. Meyer presented awards to a number

mony on August 16. The recipients were Kenneth N. Rogers, Desk Officer, Argentine-Paraguayan-Uruguayan Affairs (APU), Superior Honor Award; Martin Forrester, Chief, Venezuelan Affairs, North Coast Affairs (NC), Meritorious Honor Award; Ambassador Joseph J. Jova, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Orof ganization American States (USOAS), 30-year Length of Service Award; Ambassador Douglas Henderson, Deputy U.S. Representative, USOAS, 30 years; Margot Glavis, Office of Brazilian Affairs (BR), 30 years; Nicholas C. H. MacNeil, Economic Officer, Office of Panamanian Affairs (PAN), 10 years; Annie Ruth Maddux, Office of the Assistant Secretary, 10 years; and Barbara Graves, Office of EcuadoreanPeruvian Affairs (EP), Meritorious Step Increase.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Szabo addressed members of the Brazilian National War College in the International Conference Room of the Department on June 16.

Richard J. Bloomfield has been named Staff Director of NSC/ARA

IG. Mr. Bloomfield spent the past year as a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Also new to the NSC/ARAIG staff is Robert B. Lane who replaced Jack Binns as a Staff Assist

ant. Mr. Lane recently completed a year of Latin American area studies at Stanford University.

Dr. Philip Burgess, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Behavioral Science Laboratory at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, worked with the NSC/ARAIG staff during August in appraising various potential applications of CASP data to support planning, resource allocation and program evaluations.

Richard H. Melton, NSC/ARA-IG, spoke on Latin American policy and programs before a group of Civil Service Summer Interns on August 1.

Elizabeth Tolman, Financial Adviser, USOAS, departed on August 19 for Buenos Aires where she will attend, as Adviser, the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Educational Opportunities for Women, Au

gust 21-25. The conference is sponsored by the OAS.

Frank McNeil joined the staff of USOAS on August 1 as Deputy Director of the Executive Office. Mr. McNeil came to USOAS from a year of senior training at Stanford University.

Foreign Service Secretary Dorothy Linete left USOAS for a new assignment at Oslo.

Anthony Perkins, USOAS, travelled to Brazil during August as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Seventh Inter-American Indian Conference held at Brasilia, August 7-10, and to the Inter-American Special Conference on tourism at Rio de

Janeiro, August 18 to 25.

On August 8, John W. Ford, USOAS, gave the opening talk before the U.S. Committee of Cooperation, working with the Inter-American Commission of Women, attended by

some 70 women representing over 40 different national and regional U.S. women's organizations. Mr. Ford was introduced to the group by ARA Deputy Assistant Secretary John Hugh Crimmins.

Townsend B. Friedman was Acting Paraguay/Uruguay Desk Officer during July and August, replacing Michael M. Skol who departed for Commerce Department orientation and transfer to Santo Domingo.

The following were on consultation in APU recently: Ambassador to Argentina John Davis Lodge; Ambassador to Paraguay J. Raymond Ylitalo; Frank V. Ortiz, Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Montevideo, transferring to La Paz as DCM; Ralph Richardson, replacing Roger Brewin; William C. Rhoads, Mission Director for Uruguay; George B. High, transferring from Buenos Aires to the Army War College; and John T. Doherty, Labor Attaché, Buenos Aires.

Other personnel changes in APU include those of Peter W. Askin, Assistant Director for Development, who left for consultation prior to departure for Viet-Nam; Edward T. Costello, Development Officer, who left to teach economics for a year at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, replaced by Patricia Schraud; and Florence Clayton Tolson, who left for Caracas, replaced by Sylvia Oudsteyn.

Donor M. Lion is the new Director of the Office of Multi-Lateral Coordination and Regional Social Development Affairs (MRSD)

Brian Bell has succeeded James Morad as Public Affairs Adviser (ARA/PAF). Mr. Bell's last assignment was with the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy at the Foreign Service Institute. Mr. Morad left ARA/PAF to become Information Officer at Madrid.

International
Organization Affairs

Deputy Assistant Secretary Martin F. Herz visited Cyprus to confer with officials of UNFICYP (the UN Force there) and with Cypriot officials. He then served as Alternate U.S. representative at the Seabed Committee proceedings in Geneva.

There have been a number of personnel changes in IO recently. Violet Atkochaitis has joined the Office of the IO Staff Assistant as Staff Aide. Glen Starkey, previously in EUR/ EX, has reported for duty in IO/EX,