MOSCOW SAYS U.S. ROCKET TEST VIOLATES 1987 ACCORD. Lieutenant
General Vyacheslav Romanov, the head of the Russian general
staff's center for nuclear security, said in Moscow on 28
February that U.S. testing of the Hera rocket is in violation
of the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
agreement that called on both countries to eliminate medium-
range missiles, dpa reported. He said that the Hera is
precisely such a missile. He noted that Moscow had scrapped
its OTR-23 Oka missile with a similar range at the insistence
of the U.S. at that time. PG
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