U.S. to Pick Up Tab for Gulf Evacuees
<i> Times Staff Writer</i>
WASHINGTON —
The U.S. government will pay all the cost of evacuating American citizens from Iraq and Kuwait, without asking the evacuees to contribute, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday.
A department official said, however, that some U.S. government officials may have erroneously asked some evacuees to sign promissory notes covering air fares. But the official said the notes were contrary to Bush Administration policy, and “we don’t intend to try to collect.”
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