ACCESSION NUMBER:292909
FILE ID:POL202
DATE:07/06/93
TITLE:DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT, TUESDAY, JULY 6 (07/06/93)
TEXT:*93070602.POL
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT, TUESDAY, JULY 6
(Iraq, Bosnia, force level) (310)
NEWS BRIEFING -- Navy Captain Michael Doubleday, the Pentagon spokesman,
discussed the following topics:
IRAQI MILITARY STANDING DOWN
Iraqi forces continue the process of standing down from a condition of
high alert that followed an incident last month in which a U.S. fighter
plane fired a missile at an Iraqi anti-aircraft site that had locked onto
it with radar, Doubleday said.
However, he said, the Iraqi military is conducting various routine training
exercises as expected this time of year.
U.S. air forces continue to patrol both the northern and southern no-fly
zones of Iraq, he said.
U.S. naval forces in the region include a task force in the Red Sea
comprising the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, three destroyers and
two frigates, and another task force of one cruiser, one destroyer and two
frigates in the Persian Gulf, the spokesman said.
U.S. GROUND FORCE EN ROUTE TO MACEDONIA
Small advance units of the U.S. Army company scheduled to carry out
peacekeeping tasks in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have
arrived several days before the main body, Doubleday said.
Engineer and construction units arrived July 5-6 and will be followed by the
remainder of the 300-member unit slated to arrive by July 12. The company
will join a Scandinavian battalion whose mission is to prevent aggression
in the former Yugoslavia from spreading to Macedonia, he said.
MILITARY FORCE LEVEL STILL DECLINING
The U.S. military continues to downsize, the spokesman announced.
On May 31, 1993, the armed services had a personnel strength of 1,726,949,
representing a decrease of 6,351 since April 30 and a decrease of 157,294
since May 31, 1992, he said.
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1CCESSION NUMBER:292910
FILE ID:POL203
DATE:07/06/93
TITLE:WHITE HOUSE REPORT, TUESDAY, JULY 6 (07/06/93)
TEXT:*93070603.POL
WHITE HOUSE REPORT, TUESDAY, JULY 6
(Nominations) (xxx)
CLINTON NAMES ENVOYS TO AUSTRALIA, LAOS, SOUTH KOREA
President Clinton has announced his intention to nominate career Foreign
Service Officer Edward Perkins to be ambassador to Australia, career
Foreign Service Officer Victor Tomseth to serve as ambassador to Laos, and
Emory University president James Laney to be envoy to the Republic of
Korea.
Perkins served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations
from May 1992 to February 1993, after having served as director general of
the Foreign Service and director of State Department Personnel. During
1986-89, he was ambassador to South Africa; he has also served in Liberia
and Ghana.
Tomseth, the diplomat in residence at the North Carolina Consortium for
International/Intercultural Education, has been deputy chief of mission in
Thailand and Sri Lanka. His other overseas assignments included Iran and
Nepal. Tomseth has held senior positions in the State Department Bureau of
Near East and South Asian Affairs.
Laney has been president of Emory University since 1977. He previously was
dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory and earlier held teaching
positions at Vanderbilt and Harvard. He currently chairs the United Board
for Christian Higher Education in Asia and is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Yale University Council and the Council on Foreign
Relations.
CLINTON NOMINATES AIR FORCE, STATE OFFICIALS
President Clinton has announced his intention to nominate Sheila Widnall
to be secretary of the Air Force and Toby Gati to be assistant secretary of
state for intelligence and research.
If confirmed by the Senate, Widnall will be the first woman service
secretary. She is associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where she is also the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of
Aeronautics and Astronautics. She also serves as vice chair of the board
of the Carnegie Corporation and a member of the Carnegie Commission on
Science, T~echnology and Government.
Gati is senior vice president for policy studies at the U.N. Association of
the United States, where she has worked since 1979. In addition, she is a
consultant to BDM International, Inc., on Russian affairs, and to the Ford
Foundation for a project on southern Africa.
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