NATION : Shirley Temple Takes Prague Post
<i> From Times wire services </i>
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia —
Former child star Shirley Temple Black has arrived in Prague to take up her duties as the new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, the U.S. Embassy said today.
Black, 61, served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, White House chief of protocol for President Gerald R. Ford and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1969. She plans to present her credentials to Czechoslovak President Gustav Husak in the near future but no date has been set, an embassy spokesman said.
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