The World - News from Jan. 12, 1988

The prime ministers of Sweden and the Soviet Union emerged from a four-hour meeting in Stockholm to say they are still hopeful of settling a 19-year-old dispute over territorial waters in the Baltic Sea, which Sweden says is blocking relations with Moscow. “The talks are going well. Wait a little longer,” said Soviet Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov after the meeting with Swedish leader Ingvar Carlsson. It was the first high-level Soviet visit in 15 years. The two nations disagree over how to share 8,500 square miles of sea between the Swedish island of Gotland and the coast of the Soviet republic of Latvia.