The World - News from Feb. 13, 1987
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The State Department has decided to close seven consulates--five of them in Western Europe--this year because of a sharp reduction in the money available for foreign operations, Administration officials said. They said the consulates to be closed are in Dusseldorf, West Germany; Goteborg, Sweden; Lyon, France; Maracaibo, Venezuela; Salzburg, Austria; Tangier, Morocco, and Turin, Italy. Officials said the U.S. consulate in Genoa, Italy, was also on a “hit list” of missions to be closed but was given a reprieve because of the role it will play in the 500th anniversary celebrations of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World.
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