Foley Sworn In as Envoy to Japan
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former House Speaker Thomas S. Foley was sworn in as ambassador to Japan in a private State Department ceremony attended by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo has been without an ambassador since the departure last December of the previous envoy, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale.
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