Jose Bar Gelbard; a Polish-born Jew, has been appointed Finance Minister in Argentina’s new government. The appointment was announced Friday at the inauguration of President Hector J. Campora. Gelbard, 56, who came to this country with his parents as a child, is also acting Minister of Commerce and Agriculture until permanent appointments are made. It is believed that his first step will be to tighten currency controls as a step in combatting the skyrocketing inflation.
Israel’s Health Minister Victor Shemtov represented the Israeli government at Friday’s inaugural ceremonies. The Mapam minister met with Jewish journalists earlier in the day and discussed Israel’s hospital system, sanitation developments and health care, especially of Israel’s 300,000 persons who are 65 years and older.
Press reports that Egypt is moving troops into the Suez Canal zone were dismissed today by political circles in Jerusalem as nothing more than an attempt by Cairo to create an atmosphere of tension on the eve of the Security Council’s Middle East debate and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit to Washington. The circles insisted that the resumption of hostilities between Egypt and Israel was “unlikely” at this time. But the view in these circles is that any Egyptian troop movements could alter the military status quo along the canal.
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