[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[May 1, 1992]
[Pages 683-684]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Adrian A. Basora To Be United States Ambassador to 
Czechoslovakia

May 1, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Adrian A. 
Basora, of New Hampshire, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, 
class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador to the Czech and Slovak 
Federal Republic. He would succeed Shirley Temple Black.
    Currently Mr. Basora serves as a senior research associate at the 
Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs of the Foreign Service Institute 
in Arlington, VA. Prior to this, he served as Director of European and

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Soviet Affairs for the National Security Council in Washington, DC, 
1989-91; and as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, 
Spain, 1986-89. From 1983 to 1986, he served as a Political Counselor at 
the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France.
    Mr. Basora graduated from Fordham University (A.B., 1960) and 
Princeton University (M.P.A., 1962). He was born July 18, 1938, in New 
York, NY. Mr. Basora is married, has one child, and resides in 
Washington, DC.