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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Sun May 9 17:48:57 1993
Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 18:02-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: President Names Raphel for South Asian Post
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 5, 1993
PRESIDENT NAMES RAPHEL FOR SOUTH ASIAN POST
(Washington, DC) President Clinton announced his intention
today to nominate Robin Lynn Raphel to be Assistant Secretary of
State for South Asian Affairs. Raphel is a career member of the
Foreign Service.
"I am very glad that Robin Raphel has agreed to serve as
Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs," said the President.
"Having lived in the region as a diplomat and as a visiting
teacher, she brings a tremendous understanding to the post."
Raphel, who is currently Counselor for Political Affairs at
the U.S. Embassy in India, joined the Foreign Service in the mid-
1970s as a USAID economic/financial analyst in Pakistan. She has
also served as a political officer in London covering Middle
East, South Asia, Africa and East Asian Affairs and as Counselor
for Political Affairs in South Africa. In addition, she has
worked at the State Department as an economist in the Office of
Investment Affairs, economic officer on the Israel Desk, Staff
Aide for the Assistant Secretary for the Near East South Asia
Bureau, and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for
Political Affairs.
Before joining the Foreign Service, Raphel worked as an
economic analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. She also
worked as a teacher at a women's college in Tehran, Iran during a
break in her graduate studies.
Raphel is a graduate of the University of Washington and
holds an M.A. from the University of Maryland. She also studied
in England at Cambridge University and the University of London.
She and her husband, Leonard Ashton, have two young daughters.
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