The World - News from April 27, 1989

West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher made a quick trip to Denmark and succeeded in lining up Danish support for the emerging Bonn position favoring negotiations with Moscow to reduce short-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The issue has sharply divided the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization only a month before their summit meeting in Brussels. The U.S. view is that the Soviets should reduce their 1,400 short-range nuclear missile launchers closer to parity with the 88 U.S.-made Lances before any talks begin. Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen told a Copenhagen news conference: “We would like to see negotiations as early as possible with regard to bringing down the number of short-range nuclear missiles. . . .”