I outlined the need to maintain effective deterrent force and to achieve real movement toward the reduction of nuclear weapons.

I have just concluded a productive meeting and lunch with Prime Minister Trudeau.

The Western economies are pulling out of the serious recession.

We discussed our search for solutions to economic problems facing Canada and the United States.

Central America's problems do directly affect the security and the well-being of our own people.

Our purpose, in conformity with American and international law, is to prevent the flow of arms to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.

We must support the regional efforts now underway to promote solutions to regional problems.

Democracy is beginning to take root in El Salvador, which, until a short time ago, knew only dictatorship.

We do not seek its overthrow.

It is the ultimate in hypocrisy for the unelected Nicaraguan Government to charge that we seek their overthrow.

Our credibility would collapse, our alliances would crumble, and the safety of our homeland would be put in jeopardy.

The countries of Central America are smaller than the nations that prompted President Truman's message.