New Zealand’s Lange Cancels Visit to U.S.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — 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 said he had pressing engagements to attend to and added that Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer or Foreign Minister Russell Marshall will go in his place.

Lange denied he was canceling the trip because he had not received an invitation to visit Washington. New Zealand-U.S. relations remain uneasy over Lange’s anti-nuclear legislation barring port visits by nuclear-capable warships.