Philip M. Klutznick, internationally prominent Jewish community leader, has been named by President Ford to a newly-created 17-member advisory committee to resettle Vietnamese refugees. The committee will be headed by John Eisenhower. Klutznick is a member of the board of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and was elected chairman of the executive committee of the World Jewish Congress at its recent international meeting in Israel. A former U.S. representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council where he held the rank of ambassador, he is presently honorary international president of B’nai B’rith.
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