The World - News from June 13, 1989

U.S. and Soviet officials have agreed on procedures for Moscow’s inspectors to monitor destruction of banned U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles, a U.S. announcement said. Delegates signed an agreement on inspection procedures at an eight-week session in Geneva of a special verification commission that monitors compliance with the 1988 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The pact eliminated the superpowers’ ground-launched missiles with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles. The inspection procedures approved by the commission will be followed by Soviet inspectors at a monitoring site at Magna, Utah, where stages of the now-banned Pershing 2 missile were produced. Similar rules for U.S. inspectors were approved at an earlier meeting.