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U.S. Scales Back Philippine LibraryThe United States government has restricted public access to the popular library and cultural center of the United States Information Service and moved them from Manila's Makati business district to inside the U.S. Embassy compound because of budgetary restraints, embassy spokesman Tom Skipper said in a January 6 Associated Press report. The library of the Thomas Jefferson American Center has been scaled down in its new space at the embassy and will be limited mainly to use by professionals, academicians, and government officials, Skipper said. The report noted that the U.S. government has decided to shut many of its overseas libraries in recent years to save money. Police have also tightened security at the embassy and other U.S. offices in the Philippines since the bombings last August of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Posted January 11, 1999. |
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