Benjamin Z. Gil. chief of the division of demographic and social statistics of Israel’s Centra Bureau of Statistics, was named by the United Nations today to help the new African republic of Ghana to conduct its first census as an independent nation. The appointment “was made at the request of the Government of Ghana, under the United Nations Technical Assistance operations.
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