World : 1st Soviet Tanks Leave Hungary
<i> From Times wire services</i>
KISKUNHALAS, Hungary —
Thirty-one Soviet tanks rolled out of Hungary aboard trains today in the first phase of a partial withdrawal of Soviet forces from Eastern Europe.
The T-64 tanks, their caterpillar tracks clamped to flat railroad cars and their gun barrels plugged and tethered with steel rope, were the first of 5,000 tanks due to leave Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia by 1991 under plans announced by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in New York last December.
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