Six American Governors and the Governor of the Virgin Islands, paying a five-day visit to Israel as guests of the Government, were received formally today in separate visits to President Zalman Shazar, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Foreign Minister Abba Eban. They also visited the Hebrew University and Yad Vashem, the memorial to the victims of the Nazi holocaust conducted by the Remembrance Authority.
In the group were Governors John A. Volpe, of Massachusetts, chairman of the National Governors Conference; Tim Babcock, of Montana; Warren P. Knowles of Wisconsin; Robert E. McNair of South Carolina; Charles Terry of Delaware, and Hulett C. Smith of West Virginia. Gov. Ralph E. Paiewonsky. of the Virgin Islands, is also a member of the group.
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