The World - News from Aug. 2, 1989
The U.S. Air Force began removing U.S. cruise missiles from Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London, the first North Atlantic Treaty Organization base to receive the intermediate-range nuclear missiles in 1983. A U.S. Air Force transport plane flew out the first of the 96 missiles, which are to be destroyed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, the Air Force said. Britain’s domestic news agency Press Assn. said 16 missiles were flown out. All the missiles are due to be removed by 1991 under the terms of a U.S.-Soviet arms control treaty.
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