Byline: Barry Schweid Associated Press
In a pre-summit flare-up, President Reagan accused the Soviet Union Wednesday of flouting a 1972 arms control treaty by shifting two radar installations to the vicinity of Moscow and Kiev and probably carrying out illegal anti-missile tests.
A report - submitted to Congress just five days before the arrival of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev for a summit meeting and treaty signing - made serious new charges that the Kremlin had violated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
The report said that in addition to shifting the two radar installations, the Soviets had improved a challenged radar at Krasnoyarsk, despite offering reassurances, and may be preparing an anti-ballistic missile defense of the country in violation of the treaty.
"I am confident the Congress fully shares my concern about Soviet noncompliance," Reagan said in a letter accompanying the report.
Earlier in the day, reporters asked Reagan how he could ask the Senate to ratify a new treaty at the same time …
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