the Delaware subsidiary of Bermuda company, Globalstar Telecommunications.

Mr. Thomas B. Ross, who was the special assistant to the President and senior director for public affairs of the National Security Council, has become vice president, communications, of Globalstar L.P., the international consortium developing a 48 satellite-based mobile telecommunications services network.

Mr. Ross will be based in New York, and responsible for public, investor and government relations.

He began his career as a journalist and worked for the Chicago-Sun Times as a foreign correspondent and Washington bureau chief and for NBC News as senior vice president.

He was assistant Secretary of Defence for public affairs from 1977-1981, before working in corporate public relations as director of communications for a series of companies.

Globalstar Telecommunications, on Cedar Avenue, Hamilton, is managing partner for the limited partnership, which boasts a star-studded list of parents.

The company was formed by Loral Corporation and Qualcomm Incorporated to design, construct and operate a worldwide, low-earth orbit satellite-based digital telecommunications system (the Globalstar system).

Globalstar intends to offer low-cost, high quality voice telephony and other digital telecommunications services.