Nomination of David Anderson To Be United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia

The President today announced his intention to nominate David Anderson, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He would succeed Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who has been named Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.

Mr. Anderson entered the Foreign Service in 1959 as intelligence research analyst, then management analyst in the Department. In 1961-62 he attended Serbo-Croarian language training at the Foreign Service Institute. He was political officer in Belgrade (1962-65), in Bamako (1965-67), in the United States Mission at Berlin (1967-70), in Brussels-US-NATO (1970-71), and in Bonn (1971-75). In the Department, he was Director of the Office of Central European Affairs (1975-77), and Deputy Executive Secretary (1977-78). Since 1978 he has been assistant chief of mission in the United States Mission at Berlin.

Mr. Anderson graduated from Union College (B.A., 1958) and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A., 1959). His languages are French, German, Serbo-Croo atian, and some knowledge of Russian. Mr. Anderson was born January 3, 1937, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.