The World - News from May 30, 1988
Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Parliament closed a three-day conference in Portugal with continued quarreling over sharing defense costs. U.S. representatives to the North Atlantic Assembly--the parliamentary grouping of the 16 member states--renewed calls for their European allies to contribute more to the alliance budget. European representatives countered that NATO should use its available resources better. And departing NATO Secretary General Lord Carrington also warned against hopes for big defense savings from U.S.-Soviet nuclear-disarmament efforts.
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