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I was Consul at the American Consulate General
in Naples, Italy from 1964 to 1967. In addition to normal
representational duties, my colleagues and I maintained liaison with
the US Navy (6th Fleet,) based in Naples, and with AFSouth (NATO)
headquarters, located in nearby Bagnoli on the Posillippo Peninsula,
in an advisory capacity for public relations with host country
leaders. It was in this capacity that I presented the Mayor of
Selerno with a plaque given to his city for hospitality shown to the
officers and men of the aircraft carrier Franklin Delano Roosevelt
during a port call.
From 1970 to 1974 I served as First Secretary
and Cultural Affairs Officer at the American Embassy in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia. As CAO, I handled the cultural and educational exchange
programs between the USA and Yugoslavia. This included liaison with
the Ministry of Culture and local Belgrade jazz groups to organize
an annual Belgrade Jazz Festival. With the help of George Wein, we
brought in many jazz artists from the Newport Jazz Festival.
Performers attending those festivals included Errol Garner, Miles
Davis (with his hairdresser,) Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk,
Jerry Mulligan, the Preservation Hall Band.
 In 1975 my family moved to Kuwait, where I
served as Counselor for Public Affairs at the American Embassy until
1979. A top local employee on my staff was Fawzi Dalloul. Fawzi is
a Palestinian exile from the 1948 war, one of the 400,000 who wound
up in Kuwait. When the Gulf War broke out in 1991, my wife and I
were instrumental in getting Fawzi and his family settled in
Atlanta. Retired, he currently lives in the Brittany area near
Silver Lake.
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