The World - News from June 6, 1988

British opposition leader Neil Kinnock backed away from Labor’s unilateralist defense policy and said he would favor using the Trident missile system as a bargaining chip in East-West disarmament talks. Kinnock said that the recent breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet arms talks indicates that progress toward a non-nuclear Britain could be achieved in step-by-step arms negotiations. “We want to get rid of Trident. But the fact is now that it does not have to be something for nothing,” Kinnock said. His break from Labor’s policy backing the unilateral scrapping of nuclear weapons was certain to worsen a split with left-wingers in his party.