Comprehensive Test Ban Negotiations Nomination of Herbert F. York for the Rank of Ambassador While Serving as U.S. Representative.

The President today announced that he will nominate Herbert F. York, of La Jolla, Calif., for the rank of Ambassador during his assignment as the United States Representative to the Comprehensive Test Ban negotiations.

York was accorded the personal rank of Ambassador on February 1, 1979. The validity of personal ranks of Ambassador, accorded without Senate confirmation, is limited to 6 months.

York, 57, has been head of the U.S. Delegation to the CTB negotiations since earlier this year. Previously, he was a professor of physics at the University of California at San Diego. He has also served as Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore.