The World - News from Feb. 18, 1986

The United States expects to sign an accord on West German participation in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative by mid-March, and agreements with Italy, Japan and Israel are likely to follow by summer, U.S. Under Secretary of State William Schneider told a conference of British industrialists in London. Britain is the first--and so far only--ally to agree to allow its industries to cooperate in research on President Reagan’s proposed program of space-based defensive weapons, known as “Star Wars.”