71.   Career diplomat Jeffrey Millington, who has worked on Sudan issues for a number of years, was appointed to the post.

72.   Career diplomat Robert C. Frasure never concealed his frustration with the slow progress toward peace in Bosnia.

73.   Chile has appointed career diplomat Patricio Pozo as its ambassador to Cuba, and he has been in Havana for some time.

74.   Chancellor-elect Gerhard Schroeder is likely to tap two career diplomats with high-profile experience in the Balkans for key foreign policy posts, sources said Wednesday.

75.   Connor defended U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, under fire from the United States which has said it will veto a second term for the Egyptian career diplomat.

76.   Collins, a career diplomat, presented his credentials to Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, the Interfax news agency said.

77.   Earlier reports said the current ambassador to Italy, career diplomat Reginald Bartholomew, would replace Indyk.

78.   Edelstein is a career diplomat who most recently held the post of High Commissioner to Tanzania.

79.   Egypt has named a career diplomat, Mahmoud Karim, as its first envoy to the Gaza Strip, the Foreign Ministry announced Friday.

80.   Former career diplomat Mohammed Larbi Sitout supported that view.