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Article: Bonn Pledges to Scrap Missiles If U.S., Soviets Agree on Treaty; Kremlin's Reaction Cautiously Positive
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- The Washington Post
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- August 27, 1987
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Chancellor Helmut Kohl pledged today that West Germany would
dismantle its 72 intermediate-range Pershing IA missiles, and not
replace them with more modern weapons, if the United States and the
Soviet Union scrapped all of their own intermediate-range missiles as
foreseen under a proposed disarmament treaty.
Kohl's surprise announcement, which was a major concession,
appeared to remove one of the last obstacles to a U.S.-Soviet pact to
eliminate all ground-based nuclear missiles with ranges of between
300 and 3,500 miles.
Kohl said at a news conference that the antiquated Pershing IAs,
which are under joint U.S.-West German control, would be dismantled
after all of the U.S. and Soviet ...