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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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