The World - News from Feb. 28, 1986

On a vote of 79 to 70, the Dutch Parliament gave final approval to a treaty with the United States calling for the deployment of 48 cruise missiles beginning in 1988. Prime Minister Ruud Lubber’s Cabinet decided in favor of deploying the missiles last November after postponing any decision for most of its four-year term in an attempt to neutralize widespread domestic opposition. Deployment of the missiles, under a North Atlantic Treaty Organization program, has been proceeding in Britain, West Germany, Italy and Belgium.