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Friday, February 13, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Budget squeeze closes missions
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The State Department has decided to close seven missions, five of them in Western Europe, this year because of a budget squeeze, administration officials said yesterday.
Officials said that the seven U.S. consulates to be closed were: Duesseldorf, West Germany; Goteborg, Sweden; Lyon, France; Maracaibo, Venezuela; Salzburg, Austria; Tangier, Morocco, and Turin, Italy.
Officials said the U.S. consultate in Genoa, Italy, was also 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.
Although the mission in Frankfurt, West Germany, is one of the largest U.S. consulates in the world, Secretary of State George Shrultz said Wednesday, "We're struggling to keep our post in Frankfurt open, which is one of the biggest cities, and most important cities in the world.
"I guess we're going to figure out how to do it, but it's very tough."
how to do it, but it's very tough." U.S. officials said heavy pressure from the West German and U.S. banking communities saved the Frankfurt mission.
State Department officials said
budget cuts imposed on the State Department and the weakened value of the dollar overseas, contributed to the closures. Officials said with more missions will be closed next year.
For budgetary, historic, geographic and political reasons, a majority of closures were made in Western Europe, officials said. U.S. missions are concentrated heaviest in Western Europe. Because of anticipated congressional opposition, cuts in East Asia were ruled out.
In Western Europe, the U.S. missions are fairly close to each other and the functions of one post could be performed by another in a neighboring region.
The basic reason for the cut is a sharp reduction in the money available to the State Department for foreign operations. The State Department has asked for an additional $1 million to help the states have warned Shultz that the chances or getting all the extra money this year are slim.
The missions still on the potential "bit list" are:
■ West Germany: Hanover, Frankfurt and Stuttgart
France: Bordeaux, Marseille
Italy: Florence.
Britain: Edinburgh
Austria: Salzburg.
Belgium: Antwerp Turkey: Izmir.
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TOKYO — Suicides by Japanese children and teenagers surged 44 percent in 1986 and more than a quarter of the deaths were blamed on intense parental pressure to succeed in school, national police said yesterday.
Suicide rate soars for Japan's teens
Pressure on high school pupils to win admission to prestigious universities led 207 of the children, or 25.8 percent, to suicide, a police
United Press International
A report released by the National Police Agency said 802 youngsters under age 19 took their lives last year compared to 557 in 1985, a 44 percent increase in one year.
Although suicide still is viewed in Japan as a tragic yet honorable exit from perceived personal failure, the suicide rate in modern Japanese society is statistically about even with that in the United States.
The spokesman said undefined family problems accounted for 107 of this year's child suicides. Another 93 were blamed on tragic love affairs and the cause of the rest was unspecified.
But Japan's suicide rate among young people is higher than that for U.S. teen-agers.
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