Submitted November 13-Continued

term of 4 years, vice Anthony Bertoni, term expired.

Martin H. Gerry,

of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, vice Robert B. Helms, resigned.

H. Douglas Barclay,

of New York, to be a member of the Board of Directors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for the term expiring December 17, 1991, vice Thomas A. Bolan, resigned.

Submitted November 14

La Verne G. Ausman,

of Wisconsin, to be Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, vice Vance L. Clark, resigned.

Submitted November 15

Harriet W. Isom,

of Oregon, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the People's Republic of Benin.

The following-named persons to be Representatives and Alternate Representatives of the United States of America to the 44th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations: Representatives:

Thomas R. Pickering, of New Jersey.
Alexander F. Watson, of Massachusetts.
Alternate Representatives:

Jonathan Moore, of Massachusetts.
Milton J. Wilkinson, of New Hampshire.

Ronald F. Ederer,

of Texas, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas for the term of 4 years, vice Helen M. Eversberg, term expired.

John T. MacDonald,

of New Hampshire, to be Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Educa

Submitted November 15—Continued

tion, Department of Education, vice Beryl Dorsett, resigned.

Submitted November 17

Robert W. Farrand,

of Virginia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Papua New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenitiary of the United States of America to Solomon Islands, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Van

uatu.

J. Steven Rhodes,

of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Zimbabwe.

John J. Maresca,

of Connecticut, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of MinisterCounselor, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of the United States Delegation to the Conference on Confidence and Security Building Measures (CSBM).

Carol M. Marshall,

of California, to be Superintendent of the Mint of the United States at San Francisco, California (new position).

Jerome G. Cooper,

of Alabama, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, vice Karen R. Keesling, resigned.

Rhesa H. Barksdale,

of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice Alvin B. Rubin, retired.

Jacques L. Wiener, Jr.,

of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice Robert M. Hill, deceased.