The World - News from Aug. 14, 1988

Soviet officials inspected four U.S. missile sites in West Germany as part of a treaty eliminating Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), a U.S. military spokesman said in Frankfurt. Forty Soviet inspectors in four squads visited the Pershing 2 missile bases in Neu Ulm and Heilbronn, a missile storage facility in Weilerbach and a launcher repair site in Hausen, near Frankfurt. It was the second visit by Soviet officials to West Germany to monitor preparations for scrapping missiles. They inspected two bases last month. The INF treaty provides for the dismantling of all U.S. and Soviet land-based nuclear missiles with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.