U.S. Said to Agree to Delay Decision on NATO Missiles
A senior aide to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Saturday that the United States agreed with Bonn that NATO could put off a decision on modernizing nuclear missiles until 1991.
Chancellery Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble challenged reports that Kohl’s stand on modernization--spelled out in a British newspaper interview Friday--would anger West Germany’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, above all the United States.
On his return from talks in Washington, Schaeuble said in a West German newspaper interview that U.S. officials had agreed Bonn’s reservations on modernization should not be turned into a test of its credibility in NATO.
“We were agreed that such individual decisions as a successor for the Lance short-range (nuclear) missile do not have to be made before 1991,” Schaeuble was quoted as saying.
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