The World - News from March 28, 1985

The United Nations will reduce its civilian staff in Lebanon to those carrying out the most essential functions because of security concerns, a U.N. spokesman said. U.N. officials said John Defrates, the British director of U.N. refugee relief in Beirut, has been ordered to leave for his own safety. An information consultant for the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees, Alec Collett, was kidnaped Monday, and a number of other Westerners have been abducted recently.