Friday, 22 July 1988
(15 July 88) FRED BERNTHAL IS THE NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF
STATE FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC
AFFAIRS
who will have to worry about symmetric access. He
replaces John Negroponte, who joined the National Security
Council last year. Bernthal, who has a PhD in Nuclear Chemistry
from Berkeley, was an APS Congressional Fellow in '78. He
remained on the staff of Senator Howard Baker and became his
chief legislative assistant. When Baker left the Senate in '83,
Bernthal was appointed as a Commissioner in the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, a position he resigned to take the State
Department post. It is rumored that he joined the Reagan
Administration in its waning days in exchange for a promise of a
position in a Bush Administration.
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