The World - News from Aug. 8, 1989

U.S. and Soviet officials in Geneva ended the first round of nuclear arms negotiations under the Bush Administration. “Whatever progress has been made does not involve, to my regret, solutions to major outstanding issues,” chief Soviet negotiator Yuri K. Nazarkin told a news conference. His U.S. counterpart, Richard R. Burt, took a more optimistic view in a separate news conference. “While there were no major breakthroughs, we achieved good, solid progress on a range of issues,” he said. Neither Burt nor Nazarkin was willing to predict when a strategic arms reduction agreement could be signed.