WORLD IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON D.C. : Baker, Soviets to Hold Arms Talks
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Secretary of State James A. Baker III will go to Moscow on Feb. 6-7 for talks to help reduce obstacles to a new U.S.-Soviet strategic arms treaty, Administration officials said. The trip to Moscow is one of three sessions Baker intends to hold with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze before a U.S.-Soviet summit in Washington in June. Baker also may visit Prague to demonstrate U.S. support for the peaceful revolution in Czechoslovakia, officials said.
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