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                  THE SALOMON BROTHERS FUND INC.
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(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Elliott Associates, L.P. and Elliott International, L.P.
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      ELLIOTT SETTLES PROXY CONTEST AND AGREES TO VOTE FOR SALOMON BROTHERS
       FUND NEW MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT FOLLOWING SBF BOARD DECISION TO SEEK
                           AN OPEN-ENDING OF THE FUND
           Major Investor Says Open-ending Will Permanently Eliminate
                        the Discount to Net Asset Value

NEW  YORK   (November  15,  2005)  -  Elliott   Associates,   L.P.  and  Elliott
International, L.P. (collectively "Elliott"), who together are among the largest
stockholders of The Salomon Brothers Fund Inc (NYSE:  SBF), today announced that
following  the  unanimous  decision  by the SBF  Board of  Directors  to seek an
open-ending  of the Fund in 2006,  which will allow all shares to be redeemed at
net asset value (NAV), Elliott will terminate its proxy solicitation contest and
vote  FOR a  proposed  new  management  agreement  when  a  special  meeting  of
stockholders,  scheduled for later today, is convened.  The proposal to open-end
the  Fund  is  subject  to  stockholder  approval  and is  also  conditioned  on
stockholder  approval  of the new  management  agreement  between  the  Fund and
Salomon Brothers Asset Management Inc ("SBAM").

Elliott,  a  stockholder  since 2002 and the  beneficial  owner of 5.88  million
shares,  or approximately  6%, of SBF urged all stockholders to vote FOR the new
management  agreement  now  that  the SBF  Board  has  agreed  to take  steps to
permanently eliminate the discount to NAV by open-ending the fund.

"The  decision  by the SBF  Board to  propose  an  open-ending  of the fund is a
welcome development that, if consummated,  will allow all stockholders to redeem
their  shares at NAV,  subject to a redemption  fee that will not exceed  0.75%.
This result  could not have been  achieved  without the strong  support of other
large and small SBF  stockholders,"  said Mark Levine,  the portfolio manager at
Elliott who oversees the SBF investment.

Elliott also announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement with SBF,
pursuant to which Elliott agreed to terminate its proxy solicitation contest and
work with the SBF Board to obtain  stockholder  approval  of the new  management
agreement and the conversion to open-end  status.  The  termination of the proxy
contest  means that  Elliott will not vote any of the proxies it has received in
relation to the vote on the new management agreement.

Stockholders  who executed  blue cards can assure their votes will be counted by
executing  and  returning  a WHITE proxy card or by calling  1-888-293-6728.  In
light of the  decision by the SBF Board to seek an  open-ending,  Elliott is now
recommending  that  stockholders  vote  FOR the new  management  agreement.  The
special  meeting  at which  stockholders  will vote on  open-ending  the Fund is
expected to occur in the first quarter of 2006.



About Elliott  Associates,  L.P.
Elliott Associates, L.P. and its sister fund, Elliott International,  L.P., have
more than $5.5 billion of capital under  management as of October 2005.  Founded
in 1977,  Elliott  Associates  is one of the  oldest  funds  of its  kind  under
continuous management.

THE SUMMARY OF THE  SETTLEMENTS  REACHED BY ELLIOTT AND SBF  REFERRED TO IN THIS
PRESS  RELEASE IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO THE FULL TEXT OF THE
SETTLEMENT  AGREEMENTS REACHED BY ELLIOTT,  SBF AND SBAM, WHICH WILL BE FILED BY
SBF  WITH  THE SEC  AND  WILL  BE  AVAILABLE  FOR  FREE  ON THE  SEC'S  WEBSITE,
HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV. ELLIOTT, SBF AND SBAM HAVE AGREED NOT TO MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENTS RELATING TO THE SETTLEMENTS.



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