Pershing Tests Will Continue
The West German Parliament’s Defense Committee today rejected an opposition move to halt further training with Pershing 2 missiles following last week’s accident that killed three U.S. soldiers.
Committee chairman Alfred Biehle, a member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Party, said after the closed panel inquest into the accident the West German population was never in danger.
Delegates of the government coalition parties rejected the training moratorium demanded by the opposition Social Democrats, saying that although the accident was “very worrisome,” it was no cause for immediate drastic measures.
Government officials told the panel that the U.S. investigation into the accident that killed three soldiers and injured 16 would be completed in about four weeks and that the West German population would be kept informed.
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