NEWS                                              January 18, 1996

SUSAN LEWIS SALLET NAMED ACTING DIRECTOR
      OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
  
     Susan Lewis Sallet has been named Acting Director of the FCC's Office of Public
Affairs.  Sallet is moving from the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau, where she served as
Special Assistant to the Bureau Chief.  She previously served as Press Secretary for the
Commission.

     Prior to joining the FCC, Sallet served as Director of Government Affairs for the
JASON Foundation for Education, a science and technology program for students.  She has
also served as Press Secretary to Rhode Island Congressman Jack Reed, for whom she also
handled telecommunications issues; as a Senior Account Executive at Porter/Novelli, a
national public relations firm; as a Legislative Assistant for New York Congressman Stephen
Solarz; and as an Assistant Press Secretary/Assistant Scheduler for Massachusetts Senator
John F. Kerry.

     "The Office of Public Affairs has a critical role to play in informing the public about
the activities of this public agency" said Chairman Reed Hundt.  "Susan has done a terrific
job for the Common Carrier Bureau and I'm delighted that I could prevail upon her to accept
this challenge."

     Sallet graduated from Trinity College in CT with a B.A. in economics and lives in
Maryland with her husband Jonathan.

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