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For Immediate Release				January 13, 1996
					
 
Two Former U.S.Ambassadors Featured in Lawrence University Lecture Series
 
APPLETON, WIS.-- Former U.S. ambassadors Jack Matlock Jr. and David Swartz will
share their perspectives on prospects for Russia's future as part of Lawrence
University's continuing lecture series, "Russia and Europe in Transition."  

Matlock will deliver the address, "Russia:  Politics, Problems and Prospects,"
on Monday, Jan. 20 and Swartz will speak Thursday, Jan. 23 on "Russia and the
Old Soviet Empire in Europe: Stability or Chaos?"  Both lectures will be held
at 7 p.m. in Main Hall Room 109 and are free and open to the public.  

During a 35-year career in the American Foreign Service, Matlock served as
Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-91 and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
from 1981-83.  He also served as special assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs and senior director for European and Soviet Affairs
on the National Sec, participating in all but one of the U.S.-Soviet summit
meetings  held from 1972-1991.

Matlock has written widely on U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and his
book, "Autopsy on an Empire:  The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse
of the Soviet Union," was published in 1995.  He currently is a professor at
the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.   

Swartz was appointed the first U.S. Ambassador to the newly formed country of
Belarus in 1992.  During a 30-year career with the U.S. State Department,
Swartz served as First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, head of the
U.S. Consulate General Advance Party in Kiev, Ukraine, and Deputy Ambassador to
Poland.

His most recent article, "Problems in American Assistance Policy Toward  the
Former Soviet Union: The Belarus Prism," was published in the winter edition of
the journal Demokratizatsiya.  For the past year, Swartz has served as 
president of European Humanities University Foundation, Inc. in Virginia.