The World - News from April 12, 1985

The Reagan Administration contradicted China’s assertion that Peking has received assurances that visiting U.S. Navy ships would not be carrying nuclear arms. “We have given no assurances to the Chinese, as reported in the press, that the proposed U.S. ship visit to China would be by non-nuclear-armed vessels,” State Department spokesman Edward P. Djerejian said. He reiterated Washington’s policy that it will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons aboard U.S. warships.