Senate Kills Ambassador Job for Diane Watson From: Los Angeles Sentinel | Date: November 11, 1998 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Los Angeles Sentinel

11-11-1998

Senate Kills Ambassador Job for Diane Watson

Conservative Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee succeeded last month in killing the nomination of state Sen. Diane E., Watson, D-Los Angeles, as U. S. ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia.

The committee, headed by ultraconservative Jess Helms, R-N. C., failed to send Watson's nomination to the full Senate for a vote after Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo...

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