The British Foreign Office announced today the termination of the appointment of Miss Barbara Salt as Ambassador to Israel because of a leg amputation. John G. S. Beith was named to the post in Israel. He is 48, and has been head of the North and East African Department in the British Foreign Office since 1959.
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