Dutch OK Missile Deployment
Associated Press
THE HAGUE —
The Dutch government, after a nine-hour delay caused by Cabinet dissension, today approved deployment of the controversial NATO cruise missiles in the Netherlands.
The government had rejected a last-minute call by the Soviet Union to delay a decision. With the government approval, announced today in a letter to Parliament by Premier Ruud Lubbers, the Dutch government would begin deployment of 48 U.S.-built missiles in 1988, but it first must survive national elections in May.
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