Representative on the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs

The President today announced his intention to designate Dominick L. DiCarlo as Representative of the United States of America on the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. He would succeed K. Mathea Falco.

Mr. DiCarlo is presently Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotic Matters. He served as New York State assemblyman in 1965-1981 and was deputy minority leader in 1975-1978. He was a self-employed attorney, beginning in 1963. He was assistant professor of Long Island University in 1974-1975. He served as vice chairman of the New York Joint Legislative Committee on Crime in 1969-1970. He was counsel to minority leader of the New York City Council in 1962-1964 and was assistant United States attorney with the Department of Justice in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1959-1962.

He graduated from St. John's College (B.A., 1950), St. John's University School of Law (LL.B., 1953), and New York University School of Law (LL.M., 1957). He is married, has four children, and resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was born March 11, 1928.