THE WHITE HOUSE


                     Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                    October 3, 1997



                 PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES CAMERON R. HUME 
                   AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE DEMOCRATIC 
                      AND POPULAR REPUBLIC OF ALGERIA



 President Clinton today announced his intention to nominate Cameron R. 
Hume, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, to be United 
States Ambassador to the Democratic and Popular Republic Algeria.


 Mr. Hume, of New York City, joined the Foreign Service in 1970, 
following service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Libya.  His overseas 
assignments include Palermo, Tunis, Damascus, Beirut, and the Holy 
See.  He has served as a member of the Secretary of State's Planning 
Staff and as a desk officer for South Africa.  He has had three tours 
of duty at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, most recently as 
Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs.


 Mr. Hume graduated from Princeton University and American University's 
Washington College of Law.  He has been an International Affairs Fellow 
at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow at Harvard's Center for 
International Affairs, and a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of 
Peace.  He has written two books and numerous articles on diplomacy and 
diplomatic history.  He has been awarded the Meritorious Honor Award, 
the Superior Honor Award twice, and the Distinguished Honor Award.  He 
speaks Arabic, French, and Italian. 


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