Louis Glenn Fields Jr.; Ex-Envoy to Disarmament Conference
Louis Glenn Fields Jr., 58, appointed by President Reagan in 1981 as ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva. Fields, a lawyer, was named state coordinator in 1965 for the reelection bid of the late Sen. A. Willis Robertson of Virginia. He served as a consultant on economic warfare to the Vietnam bureau of the Agency for International Development from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1981, Fields worked in the legal adviser’s office of the State Department. After his appointment by Reagan, he served in the rank of ambassador until his retirement in 1985. In Washington on Tuesday of cancer.
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