The World - News from March 20, 1988
The Soviet Union completed the withdrawal from East Germany of SS-12 nuclear missiles and the Soviet troops who guarded them, the official East German news agency ADN reported. It said the last shipment of equipment and troops had left in accordance with an agreement between East Berlin and Moscow. The withdrawal began Feb. 25, when trains carrying SS-12 missiles left East German bases for the Soviets Union, where they are to be destroyed in accordance with the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty signed by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan last December in Washington.
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