[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 24 (Tuesday, March 10, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S1713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              NOMINATIONS

  Executive nominations received by the Senate March 10, 1998:


                          Department of State

       Shirley Elizabeth Barnes, of New York, a Career Member of 
     the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of Madagascar.
       Charles Richard Stith, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the United Republic of Tanzania.
       William Lacy Swing, of North Carolina, a Career Member of 
     the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


                           In the Coast Guard

       The following-named officer for appointment as Commander, 
     Pacific Area, United States Coast Guard, and to the grade 
     indicated under title 14, U.S.C., section 50:

                           To be vice admiral

Rear Adm. (lh) Thomas H. Collins, 0000.

       The following-named officer for appointment as Vice 
     Commandant, United States Coast Guard, and to the grade 
     indicated under title 14, U.S.C., section 47:

                           To be vice admiral

Vice Adm. James C. Card, 0000.

       The following-named officer for appointment as Chief of 
     Staff, United States Coast Guard, and to the grade indicated 
     under title 14, U.S.C., section 50a:

                           To be vice admiral

Rear Adm. Timothy W. Josiah, 0000.


                              In the Navy

       The following-named officer for appointment in the United 
     States Navy to the grade indicated while assigned to a 
     position of importance and responsibility under title 10, 
     U.S.C., section 601:

                           To be vice admiral

Rear Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., 0000.

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