ACCESSION
NUMBER:328400
FILE ID:POL402
DATE:02/24/94
TITLE:WHITE HOUSE REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 (02/24/94)
TEXT:*94022402.POL
WHITE HOUSE REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24
(Kravchuk, ambassador nomination, defense nomination) (200)
KRAVCHUK VISIT SET
Ukraine's President Leonid Kravchuk will visit Washington March 3-5 and meet
with President Clinton on March 4; the visit was announced during Clinton's
trip to Kiev last month.
The White House said the leaders will discuss implementation of the
trilateral statement on removal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine, ways to
promote economic reform in Kiev and security issues.
AMBASSADOR SELECTED
The president will nominate Derek Shearer, a former Commerce Department
official, to be ambassador to Finland. Shearer is an associate professor
of public policy at California's Occidental College where he also is
director of the International and Public Affairs Center.
DEFENSE POST FILLED
1linton will nominate John Deutch, a military technology expert, to be
deputy secretary of defense. A former chairman of the chemistry department
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deutch is serving as
undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology.
He previously had been director of energy research in the Department of
Energy, and has served on the White House Science Council, the President's
Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee and the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board.
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