The Joint Distribution Committee announced today that it has advised President Nicolae Ceausescu of Rumania that it is prepared to contribute $30,000 for general relief in that earthquake-ravaged country. Jack D. Weiler, JDC president, said the agency cabled the Rumanian President to express sympathy over the loss of life and destruction of property and to offer its contribution for “the relief of all victims of this terrible catastrophe.”
(Meanwhile, Rumania’s Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen has relayed to Israeli authorities the names of 61 Jews known to have perished in the earthquake. Other Jewish victims have not been identified and some are still missing. Rosen called on the Israelis to set up committees to aid in the rehabilitation of the two Jewish cemeteries in Bucharest which sustained severe earthquake damage.)
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