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President Clinton has nominated former Secret Service Director Eljay B. Bowron to be inspector general for the Interior Department. Bowron has been at the General Accounting Office since October 1997, where he is assistant comptroller general in the Office of Special Investigations. Also in 1997, he spent five months as deputy inspector general at the Social Security Administration. Bowron worked at the Secret Service for 22 years, and served as its director from May 1993 to May 1997.
William B. Bader has been nominated to be associate director of educational and cultural affairs at the U.S. Information Agency. Bader is currently a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His career includes jobs as staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, president of the Eurasia Foundation, professor at Princeton and Georgetown universities, assistant deputy under secretary of Defense and foreign service officer.
Dr. David Michaels is President Clinton's pick to be assistant secretary for environment, safety and health at the Energy Department. Michaels is a professor at the City University of New York Medical School.
Also at DOE, Rose Eilene Gottemoeller has been nominated to be assistant secretary for non-proliferation and national security. Gottemoeller is director of DOE's Office of Non-Proliferation and National Security. Earlier in the Clinton Administration, she was the director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council.
Dr. Gerald T. Keusch will be donning two hats at the National Institutes of Health. He will serve as both NIH associate director for international research and as director of the Fogarty International Center, the NIH branch that promotes international cooperation on health issues. Keusch is currently a professor and chief of the division of geographic medicine and infectious diseases at the Tufts University School of Medicine and New England Medical Center.
The Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas has a new top civilian. Blaine R. Withers is the depot's new civilian executive assistant. Withers began his career as a munitions handler at Tooele Army Depot in Utah, working up through the ranks to become maintenance division chief. He also served as director for maintenance at the Sacramento Army Depot in California.
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The White House Council on Environmental Quality's chairwoman, Kathleen McGinty, is resigning to move to India, where her husband, Karl Hausker, has accepted a position with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Federal Communications Commission chief of staff John Nakahata is leaving the agency at the end of October. Nakahata has been with the FCC since 1995. He said he is leaving so he can spend more time with his family.
Philip Schambra, Ph.D., is retiring after ten years as director of the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center. Schambra has worked for the government for more than 30 years.