The World - News from Aug. 4, 1985

The 12th World Youth Festival ended in Moscow’s Lenin Stadium with closing ceremonies attended by more than 100,000 people. About 20,000 delegates from 157 countries, including about 300 from the United States, participated in a week of seminars, cultural exchanges and sporting events. The festival organizing committee released a “message to the youth and students of the world . . . to do all they can to halt the forces of militarism and aggression and to pool their efforts to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. . . . “