The World - News from Oct. 7, 1985
A Soviet claim that it has fewer medium-range missiles in Europe than the United States alleges is unlikely to influence a Dutch missile deployment decision, Lord Carrington, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said in Washington. The Dutch have said they will agree to the placement of 48 cruise missiles if the total number of deployed Soviet SS-20s exceeds 378. The United States puts the number at 441, but Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said in Paris last week that his country now has only 243 of the mobile missiles in Europe.
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