WORLD IN BRIEF : EUROPE : France, Britain Map New Security Links
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Britain and France, responding to President Bush’s plan not to modernize short-range nuclear weapons in Europe, announced that they will forge closer links of their own in security and defense matters. This may include cooperation on their own nuclear weapons programs, aides said at a summit meeting in England of Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and France’s President Francois Mitterrand. Thatcher noted that the two are “independent nuclear deterrent powers--the only two in Europe.”
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