The World - News from Feb. 6, 1986

Richard N. Perle, assistant secretary of defense, charged that Britain’s main opposition Labor Party is the biggest threat to agreement on security between the United States and its European allies. Perle said in a speech in London that divergence on arms issues could occur if certain parties came to power in Europe, adding, “The British Labor Party is unique in its potential in this respect. . . . The aggressive unilateralism it advocates is the only sort of threat I can imagine.”