The Swiss Government contributed 150,000 pounds of powdered milk and cheese to the Joint Distribution Committee in 1977, Donald M. Robinson, JDC president, reported. More than 143,000 pounds of this were sent to Israel, and the balance was shipped to Yugoslavia.
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