The World - News from Nov. 18, 1988
Sixteen cruise missiles were removed from a base in Comiso, Italy, for shipment to Arizona, where they will be destroyed under a U.S.-Soviet treaty. Italian police escorted a nine-truck convoy carrying the Tomahawk missiles, launchers and warheads. The 16 nuclear missiles were the first of Comiso’s 116 missiles targeted for destruction under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by President Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev last December. The Italian Foreign Ministry said the U.S. Air Force will fly the missiles to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in the Arizona desert outside Tucson for destruction.
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