Reagan-Gorbachev pact influences Hopi and Navajo

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Sen. Daniel Inouye has pleaded with Navajo and Hopi tribes to sit down and resolve their differences over a land dispute that had divided them for more than 100 years.

Inouye, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, said if President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev were able to settle their differences, the two Indian nations should meet again in the spirit of the U.S.-Soviet peace accord.

Inouye was speaking during hearings on the re-authorization of the Navajo and Hopi relocation commission, which will help the two nations move onto their own reservations.