The Nation - News from July 5, 1988

Soviet inspectors prepared to head home after completing their looks at defense sites in the United States under the new nuclear arms treaty. Vyacheslav Kharlamov, the head of a Soviet team that inspected a defense plant in San Diego hailed the cooperative effort as unprecedented, and congratulated Americans on the anniversary of their country’s independence. A 70-member entourage from Moscow divided into five teams to make inspections at five missile storage sites over the weekend. While Soviet inspectors were in California, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, American teams visited Soviet missile facilities in Warsaw Pact nations under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.