English: President Carter on June 2 announced his intention to nominate Morton I. Abramowitz, since 1974 deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, as ambassador to Thailand. A career Foreign Service officer since 1958, Mr. Abramowitz has served as a foreign affairs analyst in the State Department and as a political adviser to the commander-in-chief, Pacific Command, in Honolulu. Mr. Abramowitz has also held such assignments as program analyst and assistant program officer, with the International Cooperation Administration, in Taipei, China; consular and economic officer, also in Taipei, with the Department; political officer in Hong Kong; and international economist, senior staff member of the Interdepartmental Group, and special assistant in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of State. He was detailed to the Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, in 1971. He returned to Washington to take up new duties as a Foreign Service inspector, also in 1971.
He won the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award in 1975, and the Secretary of Defense Distinguished Service Award in 1976. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Mr. Abramowitz is the co-author of "Remaking China Policy," and the author of "Moving the Glacier: The Two Koreas and the Powers," "Aspects of Taiwan’s Economic Growth" and "Asian Actors and Issues."
Born in Lakewood, N.J., on January 20, 1933, he received a bachelor’s from Stanford University in 1953, and a master’s from Harvard University in 1955. He served in the Army in 1957. Mr. Abramowitz is married to the former Sheppe Glass; they have two children.