Officials of 12 countries met to plan...

Officials of 12 countries met to plan tests of each other’s athletes for performance-enhancing drugs.

The United States and the Soviet Union have already agreed to begin cross-testing their athletes outside of competition in 1990.

The countries represented in the meeting at the Italian Olympic Headquarters were the United States, Soviet Union, Australia, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and West Germany.

Under the U.S.-Soviet agreement, each side will be able to request dope-testing of athletes during out-of-competition periods at up to 48 hours’ notice. The athlete would have to report to his country’s lab within that period, and the tests would be conducted under the observation of the visiting experts.