The World - News from March 9, 1988

The Soviet Union, accused of foot-dragging by Reagan Administration officials, has presented drafts of two key provisions of a treaty to sharply reduce U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear weapons. One of the documents submitted to American negotiators in Geneva deals with ways to guard against cheating and the other with procedures for weapons reductions. A U.S. official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there are “big areas of disagreement” with the American positions in some respects and accord in others. He said the Soviet drafts are still being translated from the Russian and that a full appraisal by the U.S. side has not been completed.