Kissinger seeking 'F/T job as secretary,
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JAN 15 1984

By James McCartney

Knight-Ridder

WASHINGTON — The Kissinger commission's report on Central America, a blueprint for a stronger U.S. commitment and deeper U.S. involvement in the region, is probably pretty close to what President Reagan was hoping for last July when the commission was appointed: It is a detailed rationale and argument for the hard-line anti-communist policy he has pursued for three years.

But the report, made public Wednesday, also may be one of the longest, and most ambitious, job-application letters of all time — for Henry Kissinger.

Many of Kissinger's friends (such as former White House national-security adviser Brent Scowcroft) as well as his enemies (such as biographer Seymour Hersh) believe that Kissinger has used his chairmanship of the commission to campaign for a return to power as secretary of State in a second Reagan administration.

Kissinger held that post under both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s, but has been in virtual exile from the top levels of government for nearly seven years.

The argument that Kissinger has sought to prove his compatibility with Reagan's philosophy of foreign policy could easily be supported from a perusal of the major recommendations in the commission's report.

The ubiquitous Kissinger, famed as an intellectual statesman, has managed put himself in Reagan's corner on almost every major issue in Central America.

The report, which Kissinger masterminded, views the problems of the region as a part of the larger East-West competition with the Soviet Union. One draft of the report that was leaked to The New York Times warns that the Soviet Union is threatening "a strategic coup of major proportions" in

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Central America.

This is a position Reagan has taken consistently, one that was enunciated most strongly by his first secretary of State, Alexander Haig Jr.

But it's a new posture for Kissinger, who failed to mention this type of concern at any time when he was running foreign policy in the Nixon and Ford administrations.

In fact, Kissinger once is reported to have declared that Central America was a backwater region, of no consequence in the larger East-West struggle.

Hersh, in his book, "The Price of Power," said that Kissinger in 1969 told the foreign minister of Chile, Gabriel Valdes, that "nothing important" could come from Latin America.

"History has never been produced in the South," Kissinger was quoted as saying. "The axis of history starts in Moscow, goes to Bonn, crosses over to Washington and then goes to Toyko. What happens in the South is of no importance."

According to Hersh, Valdes replied, "You know nothing of the South," and Kissinger reportedly responded, "No, and I don't care."

If anything, however, the report suggests an even tougher posture in Central America than Reagan has dared to propose.

Among other things, it advocates:

* Substantially increased military aid for El Salvador.

* Continued support for clandestine insurgents fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, as a way of pressuring the Sandinistas to negotiate.

* More military aid to Honduras.

* Resumption of direct military aid and arms sales to Guatemala.

* Lifting a ban on aid to police forces, imposed by Congress because of fears that they have been used to perpetuate dictatorial regimes in power.

* Substantial new economic aid across the board.

The report also argues that U.S. interests in the area are vital, and that possible use of U.S. military forces should not be ruled out.

Beyond that, the report arms Reagan with arguments for policies he has been pursuing without widespread public support.

Virtually all public-opinion polls have suggested that large numbers of Americans oppose deeper U.S. involvement in Central America and that many harbor fears of another Vietnam.

The report is clearly aimed at trying to override these concerns. It appears tailored to help Reagan try to build broader support for a far greater national effort, both militarily and economically.

For his part, Kissinger took great pains to make sure that he is not on record as opposing any Reagan policies.

But at least some insiders in the administration question whether Kissinger's apparent campaign will succeed.

"It's a crowded field," one source said, acknowledging that Secretary of State George Shultz will probably step down later this year.

"Now you've got to look at Rumsfeld (Donald Rumsfeld, Reagan's envoy to the Middle East), Baker (James Baker, White House chief of staff), Weinberger (Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger) and (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) Jeanne Kirkpatrick, always a presidential favorite. Henry may have his work cut out for him."

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A winter-storm warning was issued for extreme western Kansas, with five to 10 inches of snow expected.

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A high-wind warning was issued in Utah from Salt Lake City north to the Idaho border as winds gusted up to 75 mph in canyons of the western Wasatch Mountains.

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But secondary roads in central Virginia east of the Blue Ridge and some roads west and north of Harrisonburg remained treacherous, he said.

Roads had been worst from Richmond, Va., to Washington, D.C., with southbound lanes of Interstate 95 closed for several hours in Stafford County. Interstate 395 in northern Virginia for a time was down to one lane northbound and 1½ lanes southbound.

On Interstate 195 in Richmond, a chain-reaction accident that involved 15 cars closed the highway for about two hours, but caused no injuries, Virginia State Trooper Kenneth Moore said.

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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Two brothers who more than 20 years ago invented a vehicle for moving heavy objects will be $3.5 million richer because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling supporting the validity of their patent.

Louis and Cyril Keller were ice fishing on a lake near Fergus Falls, Minn., Friday when their attorney, Herman Baines of Minneapolis, told them the court had refused to

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## Oswald's daughters will seek dismissal of libel lawsuit against National Enquirer

DALLAS — An attorney representing the daughters of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald says a libel suit against the National Enquirer probably will be dismissed next week.

June and Rachel Porter, daughters of Oswald and his Soviet-born wife, Marina, sued the tabloid after a June 1982 article said they had been shunned by society because of their infamous father.

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# Kissinger: Damascus wins in Syria—Lebanon deal

MAR 4 1984

HOUSTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Saturday that a potential agreement between Syria and Lebanon should be considered a victory for the government in Damascus and not a reconciliation.

He said, "What has happened in Lebanon is a victory for the Syrians. There will be a government that is pro-Syrian installed and Syria will have the veto over anything the Lebanese government does. You can call that reconciliation if you want to, but it is in fact a victory for the radical factions."

"I would urge all those who so politely keep talking about the coalition government in Central America to see what happens in a civil war. Somebody wins and somebody loses, and the Syrians have won, and that's a fact of life."

Kissinger, who is chairman of the Bipartisan

Commission on Central America, was here for an academic conference on Soviet policy sponsored by the University of Houston.

Kissinger also said there was "no chance" that Lebanon would cancel its troop-withdrawal agreement with Israel.

After talks last week between Lebanese President Amin Gemayel and Syrian President Hafez Assad, Gemayel was expected to announce the cancellation of the pact with Israel, as Syria has demanded, and a Syrian-guaranteed truce.

Kissinger said the implications of an agreement could still be argued, adding, "I think some of the long-term implications will be that the moderate elements in the region will suffer considerable discouragement."

In his keynote address to about 250 participants

in the conference, Kissinger said rapid changes in Soviet leadership and disarray in the Soviet economy puts the United States in a superior bargaining position.

Konstantin Chernenko became head of the Communist Party after the recent death of Yuri Andropov, who had taken office in 1982.

Kissinger said, "I think that to have two successes in 15 months, plus the fact that it is now the aging majority of the Politburo, plus the mess of the Soviet economy — all these will combine to make the Soviets not look for confrontation with the United States."

"They will not seek a crisis with the United States, but that doesn't mean that they will be extremely generous or will not exploit every situation."

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Kissinger says U.S. must prepare
to use chemical warefare tactics

VAIL, Colo. — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says the United States must be prepared to wage chemical warfare but at the same time work to ban chemical weapons and pledge not to use them first.

Kissinger discussed the issue during a speech to investment bankers here Saturday night.

He also predicted the Soviet Union will begin "a peace offensive" toward the United States after the 1984 presidential election.

Iraq's alleged use of nerve gas and chemical weapons against Iran in the Persian Gulf war makes such warfare "certainly more thinkable than it has been," Kissinger said. Iran charges that more than 400 soldiers have died and 1,000 others have been injured by exposure to mustard gas and other poison gases.

Most nations pledged not to use chemical weapons in the 1925 Geneva Convention.

The United States "cannot put itself at the mercy" of nations that threaten nerve gas attacks, Kissinger said. "Understand that I am talking only of the contingency that they would be used against (us) first," he said.

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# Kissinger & Co. split on Central America

Knight-Ridder

WASHINGTON — President Reagan's National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, created six months ago to recommend a long-range U.S. policy for the region, failed Thursday to complete its report because its members remained deeply divided over several key issues, sources close to the commission said.

They said that as a result, the White House scrapped plans for a meeting today between Reagan and members of the commission, of which former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is chairman. Instead, the panel will meet with Reagan next Wednesday.

Kissinger was to have delivered the commission's report Thursday to Reagan. The date of the meeting was announced to reporters while Reagan was in California during the year-end holidays.

## Bipartisan group fails to meet today's deadline

The first indication of trouble came from White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes, who told reporters early Thursday that the possibility of a meeting "appears to be slipping."

Thursday afternoon, a commission official said the meeting had been called off. "Commission members are still working on the report," the official said. "They have not finished."

He said that the commission would continue its closed-door sessions at the State Department Friday and hoped to complete the report by Tuesday, the deadline set by Kissinger during a visit to Florida last fall.

The spokesman raised the possibility, however, that the commission may have to extend its sessions several more days beyond Tuesday. "They are working

on the report line by line," said the spokesman, Herbert Hetu.

He did not say why the delay developed, but sources knowledgeable about the commission's work said commission members had been unable to reach a bipartisan consensus on their recommendations to the president.

They said the chief stumbling blocks were whether the report should link U.S. military aid to human rights considerations and whether military-security assistance should take precedence over economic aid.

A number of administration officials have said over the last few weeks that several Democrats on the commission were insisting that military aid, especially in the case of El Salvador, should be tied to an improvement in that country's human rights record.

These officials said, however, that Kissinger and Republican members were opposed to this, arguing that the aid should be unconditional because El Salvador constituted a vital security interest to the United States.

The Democrats also reportedly felt that a preliminary draft of the report states that military aid is more critical than economic aid, and that the report should emphasize that many of the region's problems stem from underdevelopment.

Generally, however, commission members have agreed, according to knowledgeable sources, to recommend a large package of military and economic aid to the Central America over the next several years. Estimates of the price tag range from as low as $1 billion to as high as $7 billion.

Kissinger
proposes
new talks

Says Reagan, Andropov
should designate envoys

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today that President Reagan and Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov should name personal envoys to begin private talks to reduce East-West tensions.

The representatives "should be authorized to conduct private, exploratory conversations on (the leaders') behalf, preferably without publicity" and each envoy should have access to leaders on both sides and begin "a global review of their entire relationship," Kissinger said.

Kissinger made the proposal in a speech prepared for delivery to a conference sponsored by the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He did not suggest in his speech who the envoys should be. But Kissinger later ruled himself out, telling a reporter, "It would raise too many hackles among conservatives in the United States. It would not be a wise choice in an election year."

The proposal is reminiscent of what former President Richard Nixon did to improve U.S.-China relations. Nixon sent Kissinger, then national security adviser, to Peking for secret negotiations with Chinese leaders. The talks led to Nixon's visit to China and restoration of U.S.-Chinese diplomatic relations.

Kissinger said the only way to achieve a breakthrough to better U.S.-Soviet relations is through a high-level political agreement rather than the slow process of building confidence.

"In my experience, every breakthrough occurred by principals or their key aides who then gave marching orders to subordinates," Kissinger said. "The problem is how to define the highest level."

He said a premature summit would involve "exorbitant risks," because heads of state cannot talk freely, there's not enough time for hard bargaining and reports of Andropov's poor health excludes such a meeting now.

"As soon as the conversation between the special representatives demonstrates hope for progress, preparations would begin for a summit meeting," Kissinger said.

He said the West must be prepared to accept the possibility the Soviets have no desire for a thaw.

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once and for all the hostility between the United States and Israel, then that would be one of the things to be negotiated," Reagan said in an interview published today in The New York Times. Reagan said any such transfer of the embassy would be "most unwise." Asked if he would veto such legislation, Reagan replied: "I am hoping I won't have to."

The president said that until the two sides in the dispute can reach decisions on "Jerusalem, the West Bank, things of this kind," the United States "has no right to put itself in a position of trying to lean one way or the other on those areas for negotiation."

## Leading indicators improve again

The government's main gauge of future economic activity rose a healthy 0.7 percent in February, the government reported today, as the economy continued to show surprising strength.

The February increase in the Index of Leading Economic Indicators was down from January's 1 percent rise but still stronger than many economists had predicted.

That optimistic outlook was clouded, however, by a separate report that the nation's foreign trade deficit posted a new record in February of $10.1 billion. It marked the second straight month that a record has been set, seeming to confirm pessimistic forecasts that the trade deficit for the year will easily top $100 billion and surpass last year's record of $69.4 billion.

The increase in the index was the 17th rise in the last 18 months as the nation has climbed steadily out

Kissinger calls for unity,
1,000 protest U.S. policies

** APR 17 1984

By William Ratliff
Times Tribune staff

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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called Monday for realism and unity among Americans in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and Central America.

Outside the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco where Kissinger was speaking, there was little of that unity as about 1,000 demonstrators shouted and waved banners denouncing U.S. policies in Central America. Nearly 200 protesters were arrested after some of them began pelting police officers with bricks, eggs and marbles.

"I think we can make major progress in East-West relations," Kissinger said in a noontime address to the Commonwealth Club, "and we can overcome the crisis in Central America without the use of U.S. troops. But it will depend on unity and a willingness to face realities."

But he was not optimistic that Americans would meet the chal-

lenge, particularly the developmental needs and security issues in Central America.

Then, answering questions from the audience, he lashed out at what he considered the self-serving and hypocritical "debate" now under way over CIA involvement in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors.

Kissinger said "there is a high probability that in the next 12 to 15 months significant negotiations with the Soviet Union will start. The only obstacle is how the Soviets consider the impact of the American election."

But, he continued, Americans must get over thinking that successful negotiations will result from simply "getting people together." Soviet leaders evaluate "the international balance of forces" and prospects for advancing their interests and then negotiate accordingly. American leaders, he said, should do the same.

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