The World - News from Oct. 21, 1985
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Brussels to protest deployment of U.S.-made cruise missiles in Belgium, and hundreds of West Germans protested the visit of three American warships, including the battleship Iowa, to Kiel. The Brussels demonstrators carried banners saying, “No Cruise in Belgium, No (Soviet) SS-20s Aimed at Belgium.” In Kiel, about 300 persons, in a protest organized by the West German Communist Party, demonstrated against the U.S. ships’ visit. But about 15,000 people went to the port to tour the vessels, which recently took part in maneuvers in the Baltic.
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