President George W. Bush on Friday nominated Alejandro Wolff to serve as deputy to U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, a post that makes him the second-ranking official at the United States' U.N. mission. Wolff is a foreign service officer who has been deputy chief of mission in the U.S. embassy in Paris for the past four years. Before that, he was an assistant to former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. The outgoing deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Anne Patterson, is expected to be named assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law-enforcement affairs, The Associated Press quoted diplomats as saying. In August, Bush bypassed the Senate to install Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations over the objections of Democrats, who expressed concern over his past criticism of the world body.
