Soviet Host Ship Heading for Malta
<i> Reuters</i>
MOSCOW —
The Soviet missile cruiser Slava, which will co-host next week’s superpower summit in the Mediterranean, left its home port of Sebastopol on Friday heading for Malta, Tass news agency said.
It was escorted by the patrol ship Pytlivy, Tass said.
President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev will meet on board the Slava (Glory) and the U.S. cruiser Belknap near Malta on Dec. 2 and 3.
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