ACCESSION NUMBER:263518

FILE ID:AEF209

DATE:01/19/93

TITLE:MOOSE NAMED TO SUCCEED COHEN AT STATE DEPARTMENT (01/19/93)

TEXT:*93011909.AEF  SUB:TRANSITION  CO:MOOSE NOM./STATE DEPT.,#CC(FR)RLC

*AEF209   01/19/93 *



MOOSE NAMED TO SUCCEED COHEN AT STATE DEPARTMENT

(FR) (Clinton chooses former ambassador)  (230)

By Charles W. Corey

USIA Staff Writer

WASHINGTON -- Ambassador George Edward Moose has been nominated as the

new U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, President-elect

Bill Clinton's transition office announced January 19.



If confirmed by the Senate, Moose will succeed Herman J. Cohen, who, like

Moose, had been ambassador to Senegal.  Currently, Moose is deputy director

of the transition team at the State Department, and before that he was

diplomat-in-residence at Howard University in Washington.



1mbassador Moose served in Senegal 1988-1991 and from 1983 to 1986 was

ambassador to Benin.  He is a career diplomat and in addition to  his

ambassadorships in Africa he served as deputy director of the State

Department's Office of Southern African Affairs (1978-1979).



Other assignments during his career include special assistant in the Office

of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs 1977-1978, analyst for the

Office of African Affairs in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence

and Research 1974-1976, and political officer at the embassy in Bridgetown,

Barbados 1972-1974.



Moose was born June 23, 1944, in New York.  He graduated from Grinnell

College in Iowa with a bachelor of arts degree in 1966 and entered the

diplomatic service in 1967.



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