Cabinet members and other leading government personages attended a luncheon tendered here by Israel Ambassador Avraham Harman in honor of Israel Finance Minister Levi Eshkol.
Among those in attendance were Robert B. Amerson, Secretary of the Treasury; Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture; G. Lewis Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Per Janobson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund; Walter Sauer, executive vice-president of the Export-Import Bank; J. Burke Knapp, vice-president of the Bank for International Development, and others.
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