Nomination of Kenneth L. Adelman To Be Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Kenneth L. Adelman to be Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He would succeed Eugene V. Rostow.

Since August 1981 Dr. Adelman has served as Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations. He was Legislative Presidential Delegate to the Second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament dune 1982); Head of the Delegation for the United Nation's First Committee, which deals with political and security affairs, including arms control, for the 36th and 37th sessions of the General Assembly. He has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee on the Present Danger.

Dr. Adelman was legislative officer at the Department of Commerce in 1968-1970. From 1970-1972, he was with the Office of Economic Opportunity as Special Assistant to the Director of VISTA and also to the Director of Congressional Relations. He was congressional liaison officer at the Agency for International Development in 1975-1976, and in 1976-1977 he was Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.

Dr. Adelman was researching for his dissertation at Georgetown University and at Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1972-1975. He was also senior political scientist at the Strategic Studies Center of SRI International in Arlington, Va.

He has written widely on security affairs in publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Washington Quarterly, Wall Street Journal, and the New Republic. He graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa (B.A., 1968), and Georgetown University (M.A., 1969; Ph.D., 1975). Dr. Adelman is married, has two children, and resides in Arlington, Va. He was born June 9, 1946, in Chicago, Ill.