United States Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic Nomination of Herbert Stuart Okun.

The President today announced that he will nominate Herbert Stuart Okun, of Chevy Chase, Md., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the German Democratic Republic. He would replace David B. Bolen, who is resigning.

Okun has been the State Department representative to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks since 1978 and has served as Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Comprehensive Test Ban talks since 1979.

He was born November 27, 1930, in New York City. He received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1951 and an M.P.A. from Harvard University in 1959. He served in the U.S. Army from 1952 to 1954.

Okun joined the Foreign Service in 1955 and was posted in Munich, Moscow, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, and at the State Department. He attended the Naval War College in 1968-69 and served as special assistant to the Secretary of State from 1969 to 1970.

From 1970 to 1973, Okun was Alternate Director of the Office of Soviet Affairs at the State Department. From 1971 to 1972, he was Deputy Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Talks on Prevention of Incidents at Sea. From 1973 to 1974, he was political adviser to the Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe, in Naples. From 1975 to 1978, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Lisbon.