The World - News from Nov. 30, 1986

Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger will fly to Europe and northern Africa this week for consultations that are sure to be dominated by nuclear arms control issues and recent developments in the Middle East. The defense secretary’s main purpose on the eight-day trip is a regularly scheduled meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers. But he is also making a special side trip to improve relations with Morocco and will have to allay European concerns about President Reagan’s decision last week to break out from the launcher ceilings imposed by the SALT II nuclear arms accord. Weinberger will leave Washington on Monday for the regular meeting of NATO defense ministers, scheduled Dec. 4-5 in Brussels. The trip will also include stops in Paris and London for consultations with French and English defense officials, in addition to the Moroccan visit.