Milton Katz, Postwar Head of Marshall Plan

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Milton Katz, a legal scholar who helped overseethe rebuilding of Europe after World War II as head of the MarshallPlan, has died. He was 87.

The cause of death was cardiac arrest. He died Wednesday nightat Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline, Mass.

Mr. Katz spent much of his career at Harvard Law School, wherehe began as a lecturer in 1939 and went on to help establish theinternational legal studies program he directed for 20 years.

During World War II, Mr. Katz served first as part of the WarProduction Board and the Combined Production and Resources Board andlater as a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve.

He spent a year as …