From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU  Mon Jun 21 18:03:43 1993
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 17:49-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: President Names Ambassadors to Iceland and Uraguay

                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

                                                                  
For Immediate Release                             June 18, 1993

        PRESIDENT NAMES AMBASSADORS TO ICELAND AND URAGUAY

(Washington, DC)    President Clinton today announced his 
intention to nominate Foreign Service officer Parker Borg to be 
the U.S. Ambassador to Iceland and historian Thomas Dodd to be 
Ambassador to Uruguay.

     "These two outstanding individuals will make fine 
representatives of our nation," said the President.  "I am very 
glad to be making these announcements today."

     Parker Borg has been an officer in the Foreign Service since 
1965, and currently serves as Special Advisor on International 
Crime and Justice at the State Department.  He was previously 
Ambassador-designate to the Union of Burma, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of International Narcotics and 
Acting Coordinator in the Bureau of International Communications.  
He has also served at posts in Mali, Zaire, Vietnam, and 
Malaysia, as well as a number of positions in the State 
Department, including Director of the Office of West African 
Affairs.  Borg has also published a number of scholarly articles 
on foreign policy topics, and served as a Senior Fellow at the 
Center for Strategic and International Studies.  He holds a 
bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a masters in public 
administration from Cornell University, and served as a voluntter 
in the Peace Corps.  He is married and has three children, and is 
54 years old.

     Thomas Dodd is an Associate Professor of History at 
Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he has 
taught since 1966.  Dodd, whose work has focused primarily on 
Latin America, has also taught at the Department of State's 
Foreign Service Insitute, the Interamerican Defense College, 
Defense Intelligence College, and National Defense University.  
From 1970-72, he was a consultant to the Office of the Secretary 

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