Spain's Socialist premier backs US missile plan

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

May 4, 1983

Bonn

Spain's Socialist prime minister said he supported the deployment of new US nuclear missiles in Western Europe if US-Soviet disarmament talks failed. Felipe Gonzalez, after talks here with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, said he hoped disarmament talks in Geneva would be successful - but if not the NATO decision to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles should come into effect.