Department Of State U S Budget

Congressional restrictions on the State Department budget will force the department to abandon programs, close some embassies and consulates around the world and lay off about 8% of its staff, leaving the agency without "the resources to do our job," department spokesman Charles Redman said Friday. Redman said not all details of the cuts have been decided but they will fall heavily on personnel reductions because "the great bulk of our expenditures (is for) salaries and expenses for people."

The Bush Administration will end its economic sanctions against Nicaragua and restore friendly relations with the country's leftist government if it wins genuinely free and fair elections this month and ends its support for Marxist rebels in El Salvador, Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Thursday. "If we determine that it is free and fair and we determine that they have indeed stopped their support of subversion in neighboring countries . . .

The Bush Administration will end its economic sanctions against Nicaragua and restore friendly relations with the country's leftist government if it wins genuinely free and fair elections this month and ends its support for Marxist rebels in El Salvador, Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Thursday. "If we determine that it is free and fair and we determine that they have indeed stopped their support of subversion in neighboring countries . . .

Congressional restrictions on the State Department budget will force the department to abandon programs, close some embassies and consulates around the world and lay off about 8% of its staff, leaving the agency without "the resources to do our job," department spokesman Charles Redman said Friday. Redman said not all details of the cuts have been decided but they will fall heavily on personnel reductions because "the great bulk of our expenditures (is for) salaries and expenses for people."