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THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                           (Atlanta, Georgia)
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For Immediate Release                                       May 11, 1999

              PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES JOSEPH LIMPRECHT AS
                 AMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

     The President announced today his intent to nominate Joseph

Limprecht to be U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Albania.

Mr. Joseph Limprecht, born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, is a legal resident of Virginia. He joined the Foreign Service in 1975 and is now a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor. He has served in Bonn, Berlin, Islamabad and Washington. He is currently Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He speaks German and Uzbek.

Mr. Limprecht graduated from the University of Chicago and earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley. He is married to the former Nancy Silverman, also of Omaha. Their daughters, Alma, 22, and Eleanor, 21, live in Chicago and Blacksburg, Virginia, respectively.

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