President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador and members of the Government and diplomatic corps attended a Weizmann memorial in the Jewish cemetery near Quito. Eulogies were delivered by Dr. Pio Jaramillo Alvarado, president of the Ecuadorian Pro-Palestine Committee and community leader Dr. Max Weiser.
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