The World - News from Aug. 15, 1989

The Soviet Union, despite two high-level U.S. appeals, last week conducted an intercontinental missile test near two remote Hawaiian Islands, Bush Administration officials said. The 8,000-mile-range, unarmed missile, launched from the Soviet Union, flew between the two tiny islands, Necker and Nihoa. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Raymond R. Seitz and his deputy, Curtis W. Kamman, both made appeals to Deputy Ambassador Sergei B. Chetverikov, complaining that the missile was likely to pass over the Hawaiian Island chain before splashing down. Chetverikov replied the test would be conducted over international waters.