Dr. William A. Wexler, international president of B’nai B’rith, wound up a visit to Ecuador this weekend, when he was the guest of honor at a luncheon tendered to him by Abraham Sarlouis, charge d’affaires of Israel’s Embassy here.
Among the guests was Vymberley Coerr, the United States Ambassador to this country. Dr. Wexler, who had come to Quito primarily to visit the B’nai B’rith lodge in the Ecuadorian capital, also paid a courtesy visit to Dr. Hernando Donoso Velasco, secretary-general of the Government.
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