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Economist Nutter
Chosen By Laird
For Defense Post
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird
announced Monday that G. Warren
Nutter, chairman of the University's
department of economics, has
been appointed assistant secretary
of defense for international security
affairs.
Mr. Nutter will be responsible
for representing the defense department
in the National Security
Council and for supervising policy
in arms control and sales and the
international military assistance
program.
At 45, Mr. Nutter is considered
an authority on Soviet economy
and is author of Growth of Industrial
Production in the Soviet
Union" and "Extent of Enterprise
Monopoly in the United States." In
addition, he has published numerous
articles in journals and was an
issues analyst for the 1964 Goldwater
presidential campaign.
Leave Of Absence
As of yesterday, Mr. Nutter had
not asked for a leave of absence,
but his request is expected. While
away, a temporary chairman will be
appointed according to Dean of the
Faculty, Fredson Bowers.
A native of Kansas, Mr. Nutter
received his undergraduate and doctoral
degrees from the University of
Chicago. He was an assistant professor
of economics at Yale University
from 1949-56 before coming to
the University the following year.
Besides heading the economics
department, Mr. Nutter is director
of the University's Thomas Jefferson
Center for Studies in Political
Economy.
CIA Agent
Mr. Nutter served as a division
chief for the Central Intelligence
Agency from 1952-53.
G. Warren Nutter
Economics Dept. Chairman
Testifying before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee on
East-West trade in 1964, Mr. Nutter
said the United States should
relax its trade restrictions with
Communist countries only if they
made significant reciprocal concessions.
Karl Hess, a 1964 Goldwater
aide, in his book "A Cause That
Will Triumph" described Mr. Nutter
as the campaign's "anchor man on
the 'think tank' team."
Mr. Hess wrote that "along with
the major staff responsibility for
every single one of the campaign's
major speeches, Warren was deeply
involved with every statement, including
political principles, that left
the (Republican) national committee
during the campaign."
Earlier this month Edwin S.
Cohen, a professor of law at the
University, was named assistant
secretary of the treasury for tax
affairs by the Nixon administration.
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