The World - News from April 18, 1988
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today will formally urge approval of a treaty eliminating U.S. and Soviet medium-range missiles, calling the pact “a triumph of solidarity” for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and warning that its rejection could cripple the U.S.-European military alliance. In a report that summarized 21 days of hearings, the panel dismissed objections of conservative critics to the treaty. The agreement call for dismantling 2,554 U.S. and Soviet missiles.
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