NEWS
        July 25, 1997    
   
             
                           PETER PAPPAS NAMED       ASSISTANT BUREAU CHIEF
OF THE INTERNATION             AL BUREAU
               
   
     The FCC announced today that Peter C. Pappas has joined the Commission as
Assistant Chief of the International Bureau.
 
     Pappas, an attorney, comes to the Commission from the Department of State, where he
has served since 1994, most recently as Director of Communications for Economic Affairs. 
Previously, Pappas served as an Assistant Counsel to the President in the White House
Counsel's Office.  Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, he had been an associate in the
New York law firm of Simpson Thacher and Bartlett from 1988 - 1992.

     Pappas earned a B.A. with honors from Tufts University in 1981, an M.A. in Political
Science from Brown University in 1982, a B.A. in Jurisprudence from the University of
Oxford in 1985, and a J.D. from Georgetown University in 1988.

     
     -FCC-