The United Nations will spend $100,000,000 on Near Eastern projects for the benefit of Arab refugees, it was learned today. John E. Blandford, Jr., whose resignation as head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees becomes effective Saturday, said construction would start this summer on the largest project–an irrigation plan for 20,000 families whose farms will get water from the Jordan’s Yarmuk River.
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