Evening star., 1963-01-21
NUCLEAR
NUCLEAR
Reds Yield on Some Terms,
China Split Believed Cause
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the Arms Control and Disarm-
ament Agency, will represent
the United States. N. T. Fedo-
renko, Soviet Ambassador to
the United Nations, and S. K.
Tsarapkin, chairman of the
Soviet delegation to the 18-
nation United Nations disarm-
ament committee, will repre-
sent Russia.
Red China Link
The Kennedy Khrushchev
exchange covers three letters
one from Mr.. Khrushchev
December 10, Mr.. Kennedy's
reply of December %, and a
second Khrushchev message on
January 7.
While the Soviet leader
linked his concAiatory move on
testing to the United States
Soviet agreement on Cuba,
officials here think it very
probably has another signifi-
canoe also.
They believe there is a strong
possibility that Mr.. Khrushchev
is reconsidering his relations
with the West in the light of
his split with Communist
China and is looking for ac-
commodations. II this is so, it
could mean that he is entirely
serious about putting an end
to nuclear tests and would be
prepared to make additional
concessions for that purpose.
The presently contemplated
control system to verify COM
pliance with the long-sought
test ban is significantly differ
ent from the 1958-61 pattern,
set by an East-West conference
in Geneva in the summer of
1858.
Many of the features to
which the Soviet Union had OBJ
jected to then, even some which
it had accepted, now have been
removed as detection tech
niques have improved. The esti-
mated number Of unidentified
underground events inside
Russia has been reduced to so
or so a year from the thou
sands expected before 1861.
10 Control Posts
In the 195S-61 negotiations
the system Washington en-
visaged would have included
l9 control posts on Soviet ter
ritory. and II to 20 on-site
inspections. NJ unnamed sta
tions we're planned, and no
stations manned by citizens
of the host country were con-
sidered acceptable.
Now the United States ap-
pears willing to drop its de-
mands for the 19 international
control stations, accepting in
stead some 73 national stations
inside the Soviet Union, oper-
ating under some system of
international supervision as
yet underlined.
These Soviet-manned sta
tions would be supplemented by
unnamed posts, perhaps 20
or 80 so-called black boxes"
or automatic seismic stations. A."
How many instruments the
sealed stations would contain,
whether they would be placed
deep underground or near the
surface were all matters yet
to be negotiated.
In his two letters, dated De-
cember 10 and January 7, Mr..
Khrushchev was still vague
about the complete system he
seeks, but seemed to be offer
ing:
The same Hesitation nation
al system in the Soviet Union,
apparently without interna-
tional supervision; plus three
unnamed posts placed at
specific spots he has desig-
mated; plus two to three on
site inspections a year on the
territories of the three nuclear
powers participating.
Neither the United States
nor the Soviet Union has men,
toned the problem of France
which is already testing nu-
clear weapons, and Red China
reported near to that point.
Both countries have indicated
unwillingness to join in a
nuclear test ban.
(Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko declared three
on-site inspections are all Rus
sia can agree to and insisted
France must come in. He re-
fused to discuss bringing China
into the treaty. He spoke to
newsmen at a reception in the
Indian Embassy in Moscow
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| Anglo-American detectives
are to raise the number of un-
manned seismic stations and
on-site inspections, and also
to assure themselves that the