Bush to Press Gorbachev on Latin Arms
WASHINGTON — President Bush, reacting to the escalating bloodshed in El Salvador, said Tuesday that he intends to press Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their Malta meeting next month to “stop sending arms into the hemisphere.”
The statement, airing Administration unhappiness over continued arms shipments by Soviet allies to Nicaragua and the Salvadoran rebels, is the strongest criticism Bush has made of Gorbachev in recent months.
Bush also named a 20-member congressional commission, co-chaired by Los Angeles Democratic Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson, to monitor the Nicaraguan election process.
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