The World - News from Dec. 31, 1985

The Kremlin for the second time in two days denounced Saturday’s U.S. nuclear test in Nevada, calling it a sign that Washington is working against solutions to the central problems of Soviet-American relations. The news agency Tass distributed a statement saying that the test also indicates that the Reagan Administration is not interested in its commitment to speed up arms control talks in Geneva. “Nuclear tests must be stopped,� the statement said. “This is the demand of reason, the demand of millions of people the world over and an objective military and political necessity.�