The World - News from April 16, 1986
A 35-nation conference seeking freer movement of people between Eastern and Western Europe began hours late after the Soviet Union refused to permit the meetings to be held in public. American and other Western officials said they would counter Moscow’s insistence on closed proceedings at the conference in Bern, Switzerland, by circulating all their statements to the news media.
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