April 20, 1994

SCOTT HARRIS NAMED CHIEF,
                    OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

       Scott Blake Harris has been named Chief of the Office of International
Communications.  Harris is currently serving as Chief Counsel for Export Administration with
the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Prior to joining Commerce, Harris was a partner with the
law firm of Williams & Connolly  in Washington, D.C.  In private practice, he specialized in
commercial litigation and advising, most often in international matters.

       He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Advisory
Board of the Center for National Policy, and the board of Directors of the American-Turkish
Friendship Council.  He has also served as Vice Chairman of the ABA International Law
Section Committee on International Commercial Arbitration and Chairman of its
Subcommittee on State International Arbitration Statutes.  He is a member of the Judicial
Conference on the D.C. Circuit Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, the American Society
of International Law, and the ABA Sections of International Law, Litigation and Intellectual
Property.

       Harris graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and magna cum laude from
Harvard Law School.  He clerked for federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell.  He lives in
Washington with his wife, Barbara Straughn Harris, and their children Colin and Margot.

       "Scott's experience in international relations as well as intergovernmental affairs will
serve the FCC very well," Chairman Reed Hundt said today.  "The increasing importance of
international issues, as evidenced by the recent adoption of U.S. principles of private
investment, competition and regulatory reform by the World Telecommunications
Development Conference will require increasing attention from the FCC as well as other
government agencies.  International telecommunications markets represent a vibrant and
growing opportunity for U.S. businesses.  Scott's arrival will enable us to expand our work
with them to explore and develop those possibilities."

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