He was previously an international vice president, the first Mexican American to serve on the union's executive board.

Washington contends that this is specificially intended to exclude most American boards.

There are a number of differences between an "American" board and a traditional "English" board.

While the board structure is at the direction of each group, most are modeled after the regional or North American board.

He said he would like the American board to take up the issue sooner rather than later.

Approval by the American board would produce the same accounting treatment in virtually all leading countries.

After thirteen years' labor for the American board, he returned to New York because of illness.

He headed the American Psychoanalytic Association's board on professional standards in the 1960's.

The company's overwhelmingly American board of directors and senior management still suffer from a not-invented-here arrogance.

He also sits on the American advisory board of Christie's, the art & antiques auction house.