European Office of the United Nations Nomination of Gerald B. Helman To Be the U.S. Representative.

The President today announced that he will nominate Gerald B. Helman, of Ann Arbor, Mich., to be Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. He would replace William vanden Heuvel, who has been transferred to another position. Helman has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs since 1977.

He was born November 4, 1932, in Detroit, Mich. He received an A.B. (1953) and LL.B. (1956) from the University of Michigan. He practiced law in Michigan in 1956.

In 1956 Helman joined the Foreign Service, and he was posted at the State Department and in Milan, Vienna, and Barbados. From 1968 to 1973, he was counselor for political-military affairs at USNATO in Brussels. In 1973-74 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University.

From 1974 to 1976, Helman was Deputy Director of the Office of NATO and Atlantic Political-Military Affairs at the State Department. From 1976 to 1977, he was Director of the Office of United Nations Political Affairs in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at State.