REBUILD DUBROVNIK FUND GATHERS $150,000 FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF CITY

CITY WASHINGTON, July 15 (Hina) - The Rebuild Dubrovnik Fund has announced that 150,000 dollars have been gathered so far for the aid in the reconstruction of the war-stricken palaces in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik. Ms. Nazli Weiss, the executive vice president of the Fund with the seat in Washington, has said that the Rebuild Dubrovnik Fund has received a special donation of 55,850 dollars from the Boston Grand Circle Foundation, for the repairs on the Dubrovnik famous street "Stradun". The Boston Grand Circle Foundation has promised to donate additional 16,000 dollars, as the preliminary cost estimate for the reconstruction of "Stradun" amounts to 71,000 dollars. During last May the Rebuild Dubrovnik Fund organized the visits of journalists and travel correspondents of magazines from the U.S.A., Canada and Great Britain to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, Opatija, Korcula, Hvar and Dubrovnik. 151505 MET jul 94