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MOSCOW--The Soviet Union announced yesterday it is ending its eight-month moratorium on nuclear testing because of continued U.S. tests. It accused America of putting military interests ahead of mankind's desire to end "nuclear madness...
After the Moscow announcement, the White House said that the United States will continue nuclear testing because national security requires it. Washington has rejected a moratorium, arguing that testing is needed as long as the West relies on a nuclear defense...
...group of House Democrats, led by Californian Mel Levine, has proposed a plan under which Reagan would impose a six-month moratorium on military maneuvers in Central America, resume bilateral talks with Managua and meet personally with the Contadora group to discuss a peace plan. When asked if he would go along with the proposal, Reagan said, "No, I think six months is too long a time with what we're facing down there...
...Soviets have put international pressure on the Reagan administration to refrain from testing by announcing their own moratorium, which Gorbachev said Thursday would remain in effect until the United States explodes another nuclear device...
However, David McKillop, director of the comprehensive test ban task force of the proarms control Committee for National Security, called the new tactic an attempt to resume testing "without the monkey on their back" put there by Gorbachev's moratorium...