WORLD IN BRIEF : LIBERIA : Treasury Is Nearly Empty, Official Says

Liberia’s interim finance minister said that the country has only $5,000 in New York bank accounts and that the national treasury is almost empty. Byron Tarr, speaking to reporters in Monrovia, the capital, said about $27 million had been deposited in two New York accounts by the government of slain president Samuel Doe in the first six months of 1990. “Last week, the Republic National Bank told me that only $2,500 remained in each of those accounts,” Tarr said. Tarr also said most funds were gone from the national bank.