N.Z. Premier Cancels U.S. Visit

Prime Minister David Lange on Monday canceled a visit to the United States where he had planned to attend a U.N. General Assembly session on disarmament.

Lange told a news conference that he had pressing engagements to attend to in New Zealand now that he no longer holds the foreign affairs portfolio. He did not elaborate. Lange denied that he was canceling the trip because he had not received an invitation to visit Washington. New Zealand-U.S. relations remain virtually at a standstill over Lange’s anti-nuclear legislation barring port visits by nuclear-armed or nuclear-powered warships.