The World - News from Oct. 5, 1988
The Soviet Union has formally rebuffed President Reagan’s 15-month-old “Berlin Initiative” aimed at expanding air links to the divided city and promoting more international events there. The rejection came in a diplomatic note sent to the United States, Britain and France, the Allied nations responsible for West Berlin since the end of World War II. It accused them of trying to use the initiative to alter Berlin’s delicate legal status and said there is “no practical need whatsoever” to increase air links to the western enclave, 110 miles inside East Germany. Copies of the Soviet response were leaked to two West German newspapers. Reagan made the initiative in a speech at the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987.
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