Former envoy declines posts
NZPA Washington The former United States Ambassador to New Zealand, Mr Armistead Selden, jun., says that he has declined recommendations for “several important posts” in Mr ■Reagan’s incoming Republican Administration in favour of a private position. He has been appointed president of the American League for Exports and Security Assistance, an . organisation of export companies and workers.
Mr Selden, who was the longest-serving United States Ambassador in New Zealand before resigning in mid-1979,
tried to' re-enter Congress in the last election, running as a Republican for an Alabama seat in the Senate. But he was beaten in a primary election by a former Navy admiral and Vietnam prisoner of war, Mr Jeremiah Denton, who went on to win the seat.
Mr Selden had previously sat in Congress from 1952 to 1969 as a Democrat. Mr Selden said that he was looking forward to working .with members of the export league, with the new Administration, and with Congress in encouraging the sale of American goods and services abroad,
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