David A. Brown, chairman of the Palestine Emergency Fund, which was officially closed on November 2. with a total of $2,003,648, announced that additional contributions of $15,369.90 had increased the fund’s total to $2,019,017, exclusive of the net proceeds of the boxing benefit held at Madison Square Garden on October 21.
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