Families of U.S. Workers Can Leave
The families of U.S. government employees at the consulate general in the capital of Croatia are being allowed to leave Yugoslavia because of the ethnic fighting there, the State Department said Saturday.
The department is also allowing non-essential employees from the consulate to leave Zagreb, the capital city. Croatia and the republic of Slovenia declared independence Tuesday.
The consulate general in Zagreb, Yugoslavia’s second-largest city, is one of two State Department posts in the Balkan country. The other is the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia’s capital, which has not been affected by the fighting.
There are 53 dependents of U.S. government employees in Zagreb and 18 employees in all at the consulate. The State Department said it hadn’t decided how many employees would be deemed non-essential and would leave.
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