Abba Eban, Minister of Education and Culture and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, left here today for a week’s visit to the United States in his capacity as president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
Mr. Eban, who will be the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the Chicago Committee for the Institute, will also deliver the graduation address at the International Center of Atomic Studies at the Argonne National Laboratories of Chicago University. He will also deliver the concluding Alexander Keller Lecture at Hartford University on the problems of arms control.
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