The Nation - News from March 12, 1986
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Dick Carlson, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of San Diego in 1984, has been named acting director of the Voice of America, an agency official said. The appointment of Carlson, head of the VOA’s office of public liaison for the last several months, was made on a temporary basis. Charles Z. Wick, director of the U.S. Information Agency, which oversees the VOA, will make a permanent appointment at an undisclosed later date, officials said.
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