The Nation - News from Oct. 24, 1985
State Department and U.S. Information Agency employees ran up tabs totaling $556,232 on luxury cruise ships like the Queen Elizabeth II during a recent three-year period, congressional investigators said. Had commercial airlines been used instead, the 102 trips between the United States and overseas assignments would have cost taxpayers $160,047 and possibly less, the General Accounting Office told the House Government Operations legislation and national security subcommittee. The State Department has announced it has changed its travel rules.
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