The World - News from May 26, 1989

The Warsaw Pact offered a new proposal concerning troop numbers and armaments at European conventional arms reduction talks in Vienna, and Western delegates said the offer appears to meet one of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s original demands. The proposal provides a ceiling of 1 million troops in specific “zones of contact” and envisions smaller but equally specific ceilings for combat strike aircraft, tanks, artillery and armored vehicles. Stephen Ledogar, head of the U.S. delegation, called the proposal “a substantive and positive development” but said it requires “further study.”