
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 13, 1991                   TAG: 9103130498
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN GETS INFORMATION POST

President Bush today named Henry Catto, ambassador to Britain, to head the U.S. Information Agency. He would replace Bruce Gelb, whose two-year tenure has been marked with controversy.

Bush announced he was sending Gelb to Brussels to be U.S. ambassador to Belgium.

In a third, related job shuffle, Bush announced he has selected Raymond Seitz, an assistant secretary of state, to succeed Catto as ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

All three nominations require Senate confirmation.

Gelb, a multimillionaire whom Bush first befriended when both attended Yale, came to USIA from the business world and critics said he had a difficult time learning the ropes of government and its relationship with Congress.

by CNB