NEWS                                   September 5, 1996
   
                                    
   JOHN STERN NAMED SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR
                  
        The new Chief of the International Bureau, Don Gips, has appointed John P.
   Stern as senior legal advisor.  
   
        John joined the Commission in January 1995 as a litigator in the Office of
   General Counsel.  In February of 1996 John joined the International Bureau (on a
   detail) to work on satellite issues.  
   
        John earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1983 and a J.D. from Yale Law
   School in 1988.  He was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in 1984-85.  He clerked for
   the Honorable Morris E. Lasker, in the Southern District of New York, between
   1988-90.  John worked for four years in the Affirmative Litigation Division of the
   New York City Law Department before joining the FCC.
   
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