Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Soviet Affairs Nomination of Marshall D. Shulman for the Rank of Ambassador.

The President today announced that he will nominate Marshall D. Shulman, of Sherman, Conn., for the rank of Ambassador while serving as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Soviet Affairs.

Shulman was born April 8, 1916, in Jersey City, N.J. He received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1937 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1949. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942 to 1946.

Shulman was a reporter for the Detroit News in 1937 and 1938, and a writer for the National Safety Council in 1938 and 1939.

From 1949 to 1950, Shulman was an information officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. From 1950 to 1953, he was special assistant to the Secretary of State. He was associate director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University from 1954 to 1960, and was a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from 1961 to 1967.

Shulman was a professor of government and director of the Russian Institute at Columbia University from 1967 until 1977, when he became Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Soviet Affairs.

Shulman is the author of "Stalin's Foreign Policy Reappraised" (1963) and "Beyond the Cold War" (1966), and of numerous articles in professional journals. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.