The World - News from Jan. 20, 1986
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The Supreme Soviet called on Congress to use its influence to achieve disarmament and to involve the United States in the so-far unilateral Soviet freeze on nuclear tests. In a 10-page statement issued through the Tass news agency, the nominal Soviet legislature maintained the publicity campaign that has followed the proposal last week by Mikhail S. Gorbachev for a nuclear-free world by the year 2000. Alluding to the American “Star Wars” program, it also said that development of space weapons would be an “irreparable error.”
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