The World - News from Feb. 28, 1985
The Soviet Union formally protested U.S. charges that it has violated existing arms control agreements and accused Washington of trying to “poison the atmosphere” of next month’s arms talks in Geneva. “The unsubstantiated and groundless charges . . . have been categorically rejected,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Vladimir Lomeiko, said. Lomeiko said that the Soviet Embassy in Washington has filed a formal protest over the charges, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard N. Perle and Assistant Secretary of State Richard R. Burt.
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