The World - News from May 19, 1989

A Kremlin spokesman said the United States knows that the Soviet Union has stopped providing weapons to Nicaragua and described U.S. intelligence reports to the contrary as “propaganda stunts.” Spokesman Vadim Perfilyev told a news conference that “some circles constantly raise the issue of arms supplies . . . despite the fact that the Soviet Union, showing restraint, has not supplied weapons to Nicaragua for some time. . . .” He was commenting on doubts voiced by U.S. officials that Moscow has stopped arming Nicaragua in response to a U.S. policy shift from arms to diplomacy in Central America.