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Published by The Economist Newspaper Limited
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1273 29 November 1972

Contents

The 50-50 chance in Vietnam

The factors behind Syria's militancy

Anglo-French frictions loom ahead

Russia's shortages - from Kosygin's lips

The 50-50 chance in Vietnam

The latest Gallup poll on the Vietnam war must be encouraging to the White House. Fifty-nine per cent of those interviewed expressed approval of President Nixon's handling of the situation, and only 33 per cent disapproved. The rest were undecided.

What would be interesting, however, would be a breakdown of the one-third who registered dissatisfaction. A large percentage, no doubt, are what is termed the 'Harrimanites' - people who want the United States to get out of Vietnam instantly, even if it means handing over South Vietnam to the communists. (In fairness to Mr Averell Harriman, the term 'McGovernites' might be a better label).

But a certain element is undoubtedly made up of hawks who feel (a) that the ceasefire terms, summarised on 26 October, amount to a sellout and. (b) that the whole negotiation has not been handled as adroitly by **Henry Kissinger** as it might have been.

By the end of next week, it is possible, though not at all certain, that the picture will be clearer; the talks in Paris between Mr Kissinger and **Le Duc Tho**, the representative of North Vietnam, are to be resumed in Paris on Monday. Meanwhile, President Nixon will have received the special emissary of the Saigon government, **Nguyen Phu Duc**.

From the welter of conflicting reports, certain key points emerge, though they do not form any coherent pattern. Specifically:

(i) The basis of White House optimism. Highly-placed sources in Washington believe firmly that there is a 50-50 chance that the present draft agreement (possibly

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amended slightly in Saigon's favour) will stick. This relative optimism is predicated on the assumption that both Russia and China, for differing reasons, want to see the Vietnam conflict ended.

But ended temporarily – or ended definitively, and forever? On this it is hard to get any clear-cut appreciation out of Washington – and, obviously, on this key point, neither Moscow nor Peking is going to show its hand. Arguably, neither Russia nor China knows its own mind, at the moment. But Mr Nixon's policy appears to be based on the assumption that, because of the larger global implications of the new triangular relationship between America, Russia and China, the two communist super-powers will use their influence to ensure that Hanoi will respect any settlement that is reached.

In brass tacks, this means that the Russians and the Chinese would enter into some kind of self-denying ordinance not to re-equip North Vietnam with arms if the United States refrains from re-equipping its protégés in Saigon. But all this at the moment seems to be in the realm of unwritten understandings; probably only Mr Nixon, Mr Kissinger and one or two highly-placed advisers in the White House know all the facts.

**(ii) Continuing American 'sanctions'.** Senior American officials are realistic about the probable inefficiency of the ceasefire 'supervisory' force (which seems likely to be made up of contingents from Canada, Indonesia, Poland and Hungary), though the Americans hope that, with luck, it will prove more effective than the almost moribund ICC, formed after the 1954 Geneva agreements on Indochina.

But, much more important, Mr Kissinger has warned the North Vietnamese that, if they violate the agreement eventually reached, the United States reserves the right to resume the bombing of the North. FOREIGN REPORT understands that the Hanoi politburo has been left in no doubt about this.

But is the threat of renewed bombing a credible deterrent? Many observers are sceptical. If the North Vietnamese start up the war again, would Mr Nixon really send American bombers on to the offensive again, and risk reopening the Vietnam sore as a domestic political issue – possibly on the eve of the mid-term congressional elections of 1974, or on the eve of the presidential election of 1976? It is hard to see this happening. But, at the moment, sources close to the White House say that the President would not flinch.

**(iii) The presence of the Chinese in Laos.** One curious, and slightly baffling, aspect of the situation – and one which is deliberately being given very little publicity by the White House – is the presence of a large Chinese 'labour' force in Laos. Officially, this force is building the new highway linking Laos with China; but many of them have para-military functions, to put it mildly. (The Chinese can argue that these 'labourers' counterbalance the large force which the CIA maintains in Laos.)

The size of the Chinese force in Laos is still a matter of debate; White House sources put it at around 10,000; other well-informed sources put it much higher. In terms of the political equation, the question is whether the Chinese are a positive or negative factor. Washington sources sympathetic to the incipient rapprochement between America and Peking argue that the Chinese in Laos can be a stabilising factor, and help to underpin the Vietnam settlement, for the North Vietnamese have no great historical affinity with the Chinese.

Other observers are highly sceptical about this theory; and certainly President Thieu and the South Vietnamese government distrust the Chinese much more than their counterparts in Hanoi do. In any international conference to endorse the Vietnam

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settlement, the South Vietnamese may well ask awkward questions about the Chinese presence in Laos. (Indeed, they are asking such questions already.)

(iv) **Reactions of other Asian countries.** At the moment, the reactions of most countries in the region are confused; and it is hard to find solid substantiation of the White House's claim that they wholeheartedly support the draft ceasefire agreement. All the countries of Asia want to see the war over as quickly as possible – yet not on terms that would endanger their own interests.

The Hanoi regime has raised belated objections to the inclusion of Indonesia as a member of the new 'control commission', but these appear to have been overridden, and the Indonesians are preparing to participate. What is more confused, and more unseemly, is the scramble by the main Asian powers to be included in the general international conference which (according to the current scenario) is scheduled to take place to underwrite the Vietnam settlement. The Indians, resentful over their exclusion from the 'new ICC' (International Control Commission), are pushing hard to play the maximum role in the international conference. So, too, are the Japanese – and American experts are unsure whether the presence of the Japanese would be an asset or not. The venue and the modalities of this conference are issues delaying agreement between Mr Kissinger and Le Duc Tho.

(v) **Mr Kissinger's handling of the negotiations.** But perhaps the most remarkable development of the past few weeks is the groundswell of criticism that has emerged in Washington of Mr Kissinger's handling of the Paris talks. The sense of disquiet has even permeated circles within the White House – though it must be stressed that majority opinion at all levels in the Administration is clearly behind both the President and his chief adviser. Points which Kissinger's hawkish critics adduce are:

(a) That, despite his robust physique, he has been so overworked in recent weeks that he has not been able to assimilate all the 'small print' of the draft agreement, and that in particular he has overlooked the complexities inherent in the nuances of translation. Kissinger's allies refute this charge.

(b) That he should never have given an 'exclusive' interview to an Italian woman journalist, in which he appeared to compare President Thieu unfavourably with Le Duc Tho.

(c) That he should not have consented to holding last week's round of talks in premises owned by the French communist party.

These may seem rather petty pinpricks. But it is not being sensational to assert that there is something less than total unanimity in White House circles over the way the negotiation has been conducted, and a fairly widespread feeling that in forecasting (as he did on 26 October) that a settlement was 'at hand', Mr Kissinger put himself (and President Nixon) out on a limb.

The firm odds are that his forecast will be proved right, though the phrase 'at hand' may need flexible interpretation. (Senator Javits, one of the leading Republican experts on foreign affairs, said in London this week that a settlement was virtually certain 'within two or three months'.)

## The factors behind Syria's militancy

Some confusion still surrounds the dogfight in the Golan Heights on 21 November – the heaviest aerial battle since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. But one fact is certain –

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The Democratic majority has been raised by two votes; and altogether there will be 13 new senators—many of them quite young. The veteran leaders should listen to them, as Mr. Mansfield says he intends to do. The Democratic party has been reaffirmed as the majority party in Congress. It should be prepared to act the part.

## And Use

that Maryland growth, which some predict will double in the not-to-distant future, is at present unmanageable. Just as the Mandel administration saw the logical need to protect state wetlands and other natural resources, so now must it rapidly move to preserve the vanishing spaces.

The Anderson position is at the very least premature, and we hope that other county officials will hold back judgment. At present, land use is little more than a concept, an acknowledgment that some steps must be taken. Elected officials in county office buildings would do well to await the actual proposals and listen to their constituents before jumping to rash conclusions.

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Well as have economists and managers. But the structure of trade unionism made it difficult for them to blunt their own union demands. The American wage-price control have these cooler labor heads the argument they needed: they could steer wage demands nearer to national interest.

## What About Kissinger?

# Finding a New Job for the Glamour Figure

By GERALD GRIFFIN

The glamour figure of the Nixon administration is, of course, Henry Kissinger. He speeds around the world in the great presidential aircraft, holding secret talks in Peking, Hanoi, Paris and other intriguing places. He pauses to be photographed in the company of a beautiful woman and he emerges into full public view now and then to conduct press conferences or briefings in which his display of his knowledge and his grasp of complicated situations is nothing short of dazzling.

Small wonder, then, that while the President reshuffles his Cabinet and promises to give its members more attention and more authority, some people are wondering what will happen to Mr. Kissinger. It would seem, unless Mr. Nixon chooses to send him on a secret mission into outer space, that Mr. Kissinger has gone about as far as he can go, on earth, in the diplomacy of secrecy and surprise. A short secret trip to Havana, for example, would be a comedown after his Peking journey.

George Ball, who was Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, has suggested that the President should appoint Mr. Kissinger Secretary of State and put him in charge of restoring U.S. diplomacy

to its traditional policies and methods. The right-wing weekly *Human Events*, looking in the opposite direction, suggested that the President should fire Mr. Kissinger. The publication's chief complaint was Mr. Kissinger's "astonishing ability to concede crucial points to the Communists."

It might be thought that Mr. Kissinger is so much Mr. Nixon's alter ego, so much his faithful agent carrying out presidential instructions, that a criticism of Mr. Kissinger would be in fact a criticism of Mr. Nixon. And *Human Events* has not hesitated to criticize Mr. Nixon. It welcomed the presidential candidacy of the conservative Republican, Congressman Ashbrook, last spring, and regularly publishes a conservative line of opposition to the Nixon administration.

But in the case of Mr. Kissinger, *Human Events* objects to the way in which he acted for the President. Its point was that in the SALT agreement with the Soviet Union, in the opening of U.S. relations with China and in the peace negotiations with North Vietnam, Mr. Kissinger was not sufficiently tough-minded. A few examples:

"Hence, whatever one may think of the policy of accommodations with Peking, it should be quite clear that the execution of that

policy left something to be desired.

"Dr. Kissinger must also be taken to task for the astonishing concessions we made in the SALT agreements....

"Because there has been some reassessment within the administration about the Kissinger agreement, the United States may still end up with an acceptable solution to the Vietnam affair, but we won't owe any thanks to President Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser. A brilliant political analyst he may be, but as a negotiator he falls short of the mark. The time has come, therefore, for the good professor to depart, to make room for someone who is less concerned with diplomatic flair and more concerned about coming out with our shirts when dealing with the Communists."

Mr. Ball does not slight the Nixon-Kissinger feats. "Unquestionably it has been good theater and one cannot deny its solid achievements," he wrote in a *Newsweek* article. But he held that the balance-of-power politics of the Kissinger exploits, the shifting of big-power relationships, has served its purpose, and that it is time to return to a more open foreign policy which would bring Congress and the American public into closer touch with developments.

In this changed climate, Mr.

Ball suggested, "it will be next to impossible to play a secret game of Metternichian diplomacy, for the essential conditions no longer exist. Once the country catches on to the implications of the power-juggling act, it is not likely to be comfortable with it. What Americans like is to have a circle of identifiable friends, close allies, companions in a common endeavor—something other than the cold geometry of a shifting balance conducted in secret by alchemists at work somewhere under the stage."

To facilitate a change to the more open and professional style of our traditional diplomacy Mr. Ball proposes Mr. Kissinger as Secretary of State.

"Such a move has much to recommend it," he wrote. "Not only would it make the architect of our foreign strategy accessible to the Congress and the people; it would preserve Dr. Kissinger's extraordinary talents to serve a policy consistent with our democratic conditioning. Finally, it would provide what may well be our last chance to rebuild and reanimate the Department of State, to restore its self-respect and vitality by returning it to the mainstream before it totally atrophies and all the good men leave. The skill and experience of a great Foreign Office are not a commodity we can afford to waste...."

WASHINGTON POST

1 DEC. 1972 P.-D23

By Jack Anderson

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U.S. Backdown?

The transcripts of the secret truce talks have been so tightly guarded that few people, other than President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, have access to them.

White House sources, who have not seen the transcripts but have participated in the policy discussions, tell us that the United States definitely reneged on an agreement that was reached in Paris in October.

The main stickler was the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam. Hanoi refused to acknowledge that its troops were fighting in the South, yet insisted at the same time upon the right of all Vietnamese to resist foreign "aggressors."

These were such basic tenets of Hanoi doctrine that Kissinger decided to negotiate around them. He was more interested in producing a workable settlement than a public document. So he settled on a formula that implied, but never mentioned, a North Vietnamese withdrawal.

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TOKYO (AP)-THE VIET CONG HAS ACCUSED THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU OF DRAWING UP A LIST OF SEVERAL THOUSAND POLITICAL DETAINES TO ASSASSINATE BEFORE A VIETNAM CFASF-FIRF.

IN A DECLARATION ISSUED SUNDAY, THE VIET CONG'S PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH VIETNAM SAID THE THIEU GOVERNMENT WAS ACTING UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE UNITED STATES IN A WIDENING CAMPAIGN TO REPRESS "ALL THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN OUT FOR PEACE AND NATIONAL CONCORD."

IT SAID THAT SINCE OCTOBER THE THIEU GOVERNMENT HAS PROMULGATED "DEFREE-LAWS" WHICH PROVIDE FOR LIFE IMPRISONMENT OR DEATH OF PERSONS PRESUMED TO BE VIET CONG OR PRO-VIET CONG, THAT IS, "THOSE WHO WANT A PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED AND EVEN THOSE SLIGHTLY UNHAPPY WITH THIEU'S PERSONAL DICTATORSHIP."

IN LESS THAN A MONTH, IT SAID, "TENS OF THOUSANDS OF RAIDS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN WHICH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PERSONS HAVE BEEN SUMMARILY KILLED OR IMPRISONED, INCLUDING RELIGIOUS FIGURS, INTELLECTUALS, STUDENTS, OLD PEOPLE, PREGNANT WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF HIS OWN ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINE."

THE DECLARATION WAS BROADCAST BY HANOI'S VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY AND MONITORED IN TOKYO. (END)

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(TALKS) PARIS--WHITE HOUSE AIDE HENRY A. KISSINGER BRIEDED AMERICAN OFFICIALS TODAY ON HIS PEACE TALKS MISSION WHICH WIDE-RANGING DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID COULD LEAD TO A VIETNAM CEASE-FIRE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. KISSINGER SCHEDULED TALKS TODAY AT A SECRET LOCATION AND AN UNANNOUNCED TIME WITH HANOI NEGOTIATORS LE DUC THO AND XUAN THUY. KISSINGER, WHO ARRIVED IN PARIS FROM WASHINGTON JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT SUNDAY, SWAPPED JOKES AT THE AIRPORT BUT DECLINED TO MAKE ANY STATEMENT TO NEWSMEN. 350 WORDS. BY GERARD LOUGHRAN, WILL BE LED. PIX. MOVED AS PLB002 ET SEQ.

(ULSTER) BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND--CHILDREN PLAYING IN A BELFAST ALLEY SUNDAY FOUND A MAN'S BODY, THE THIRD APPARENTLY SECTORIAN MURDER VICTIM IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN TWO DAYS. THE OTHER DEAD INCLUDED A PROTESTANT HOUSEWIFE MARRIED TO A CATHOLIC AND A CATHOLIC MAN WHO HAD BEEN TORTURED AND BRANDED WITH THE INITIALS OF THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY (IPA). GUNMEN STAGED ANOTHER ROCKET ATTACK SUNDAY, HITTING AN ARMY SARACEN ARMED CAR AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDING A BRITISH SOLDIER. 350 WORDS. BY COLIN BAKER. MAY BE LED. CONTINUING PIX COVERAGE.

(SPANTAX) SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN--SPANISH AND GERMAN EXPERTS TODAY COMBED AN AREA OF CHARRED GROUND AT TENERIFE AIRPORT FOR THE BLACK BOX OF A FATED CHARTER JET WHICH MIGHT HELP THEM SOLVE THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING SPAIN'S WORST AIR CRASH. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE PERSONS DIED SUNDAY WHEN THE FOUR-ENGINE CONVAIR-990 JET WAS ROCKET BY AN EXPLOSION AT TAKEOFF, ROSE INTO THE AIR AND THEN NOSEDIVED TO CRASH IN A HUGE BALL OF FIRE. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE SPANTAX CHARTER COMPANY SAID THE POSSIBILITY OF SABOTAGE WAS BEING INVESTIGATED BUT HAD TURNED UP NO EVIDENCE SO FAR. 400 WORDS. MAY BE LED. PIX. MOVED AS OLE007 ET SEQ.

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(INFOCHINA) SAIGON--TEAMS OF U.S. NAVY JETS FLEW WITHIN SIX MILES (10 KM) OF PRESIDENT NIXON'S 20TH PARALLEL BOMBING CONFINE. AND WRECKED NEWLY-BUILT RUNWAYS AT AN IMPORTANT NORTH VIETNAMESE AIRBASE, MILITARY SOURCES SAID SUNDAY. A U.S. ARMY AHI COBRA HELICOPTER WAS SHOT DOWN 50 MILES (80 KM) NORTHWEST OF SAIGON SUNDAY BY COMMUNIST GUNNERS, THE U.S. COMMAND SAID. UPI CORRESPONDENT KENNETH F. ENGLANDE REPORTED THREE MAJOR BATTLES IN QUANG TRI PROVINCE. LATE SATURDAY AND EARLY SUNDAY WHICH LEFT 67 COMMUNISTS AND AT LEAST ONE SOUTH VIETNAMESE DEAD. 400 WORDS. MAY BE LED. CONTINUING PIX COVERAGE. MOVED AS PLB002 ET SEQ.

(SECURE) HELSINKI--THE UNITED STATES EXPECTS A LOWERING OF THE COMMUNIST CURTAIN. IN EUROPE AS THE MINIMUM PRICE FOR APPROVING A SOVIET-SOUGHT EUROPEAN SECURITY SYSTEM, DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID TODAY. THE UNITED STATES PLANNED TO PRESENT ITS POLICY OUTLINE FOR EUROPE TO THE 34 NATIONS HELSINKI CONSULTATIVE MEETING, RESUMING AT 10:30 A.M. (0830GMT) TODAY. 350 WORDS BY K.C. THALER. WILL BE LED. MOVED AS PLB133 ET SEQ AT 2124 GMT SUNDAY.

(GERMANY) BONN--THE POLITICAL PARTY KONRAD ADENAUER CREATED TO END CONFESSIONAL SQUABBLING THREATENED TODAY TO SPLIT AS UNDER ON REGIONAL GROUNDS. FRANZ JOSEF STRAUSS, BURLY LEADER OF THE BARVARIAN WING, INDICATED HE MIGHT SPLIT HIS GROUP OFF FROM THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNION UNLESS NATIONAL LEADERS FOLLOWED HIM ON TO A MORE RIGHTIST COURSE. RAINER BARZEL, THE PARTY'S CANDIDATE FOR HEAD OF GOVERNMENT IN THE ELECTION IT JUST LOST TO CHANCELLOR WILLY BRANDT'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, SCHEDULED A MEETING WITH STRAUSS FOR TONIGHT. 330 WORDS. BY WELLINGTON LONG. WILL BE LED.

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(IRELAND) DUBLIN--PRESIDENT EAMON DE VALERA SIGNED INTO LAW SUNDAY A BILL AIMED AT ELIMINATING THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY (IRA) IN THE IRISH REPUBLIC. ARMY AND POLICE UNITS WENT ON STANDBY ALERT FOR A NATIONWIDE CRACKDOWN ON IRA LEADERS BUT HOURS BEFORE THE BILL BECAME LAW PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATIONS EXTREMIST PROVISIONAL WING WENT UNDERGROUND TO EXCAPE THE EXPECTED ROUNDUP. 350 WORDS. BY DONAL O'HIGGINS. MAY BE LED.

(GREECE) ATHENS--THE MAN WHOSE TANKS BROUGHT THE MILITARY-BACKED GOVERNMENT TO POWER FORESEES NO PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS FOR GREECE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. DEPUTY PREMIER STYLIANOS PATTAKOS SUNDAY SAID THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE WILLING TO HAND OVER POWER "TOMORROW" TO A MAN WHO COULD LEAD GREECE TO HER DESTINIES. BUT HE SAID HE SAW NO SUCH LEADER EXCEPT PREMIER GEORGE PAPADΟΡΟULOS. 350 WORDS. BY JOHN RIGGS. SHOULD STAND. MOVED AS PLB045 ET SEQ.

(FRANCO) MADRID--GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO, THE DURABLE CAUDILLO (LEADER) OF SPAIN, TURNED 80 TODAY AFTER PASSING WORD HE DIP NOT WANT TO HAVE A FUSS MADE OF HIS BIRTHDAY. HE PLANNED TO SPEND THE ANNIVERSARY LIKE A NORMAL WORKING DAY, SOURCES CLOSE TO PARDO PALACE SAID. AFTER 36 YEARS IN OFFICE -- MORE THAN ANY OTHER EUROPEAN HEAD OF STATE -- FRANCO IS STILL RUNNING HIS NATION WITH A FIRM HAND AND MAKES THE MAIN DECISIONS. 350 WORDS. MAY BE LED. MOVED AS OLE01 ET SEQ.

(ANGRY) LONDON--A LONDON JURY RETIRED TODAY IN THE LONGEST CRIMINAL TRIAL IN BRITISH LEAGAL HISTORY TO CONSIDER THE FATE OF EIGHT PERSONS ACCUSED OF FORMENTING REVOLUTIONARY ANARCHY IN BRITAIN IN CONNECTION WITH BOMB EXPLOSIONS. THE EXPLOSIONS INCLUDE ONE AT THE HOME OF A GOVERNMENT MINISTER, AND MACHINE-GUN ATTACKS ON THE AMERICAN AND SPANISH EMBASSIES. 350 WORDS. BY CHARLES PEARSON. WILL BE LED AFTER TRIAL RESUMES AT 1000 GMT.

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(TRUDEAU) LONDON--THE PRIME MINISTERS OF BRITAIN AND CANADA WENT INTO THE SECOND DAY OF TALKS TODAY DEALING MAINLY WITH CANAD'S DEEP CONCERN THAT ITS FOREIGN TRADE MAY BE HIT BY BRITAIN'S ENTRY INTO THE EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET. 400 WORDS. BY JOSEPH W. GRIGG. MAY BE LED AFTER TALKS RESUME AT 1000 GMT. MOVED AS OLN002 ET SEQ.

(COFFEE) LONDON--THE 62 MEMBER-NATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COFFEE AGREEMENT OPENED A TWO-WEEK CONFERENCE TODAY TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF ITS TREATY WHICH EXPIRES NEXT YKKEAR. CONFERENCE SOURCES SAID UNLESS THE MEETING SUCCEEDS IN FIXING EXPORT QUOTAS FOR THE NEW COFFEE YEAR THE AGREEMENT WILL BE AS GOOD AS DEAD. 400 WORDS. BY PEGGY POLK. WILL BE LED AFTER CONFERENCE OPENS AT 1100 GMT. MOVED AS OLN005 ET SEQ.

THE FOLLOWING NEWSFEATURES MOVED TUESDAY NOV. 28 FOR USE IN AFTERNOON NEWSPAPERS OF MONDAY DEC. 4:

(BRAUN) CAPE KENNEDY--SPACE PIONEER WERNHER VON BRAUN PREDICTS AMERICANS WILL RETURN TO THE MOON WITHIN 20 YEARS. DRIVE ACROSS ITS FACE IN PRESSURIZED VEHICLES, ERECT SHELTERS AND MAYBE EVEN START A LUNAR GARDEN. MOVED AS DLC006 ET SEQ.

(GIRLS) TEL AVIV--POUND FOR POUND, ISRAELI'S ARMY HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE PRETTIEST IN THE WORLD, NOT TO MENTION ONE OF THE TOUGHEST. MOVED AS DLC009 ET SEQ.

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PARI(AP)- HENRY KISSINGER, PRESIDENT NIXON'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, RETURNED TO PARIS SUNDAY NIGHT FOR PHASE TWO OF THE CLIMACTIC NEGOTIATIONS ON A VIETNAM CEASE FIRE.

KISSINGER MADE NO STATEMENT ON THE SUBSTANCE OF THE TALKS HE WILL HAVE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WITH LE DUC THO, THE HANOI POLITBURSAU MEMBER WHO HAS BEEN HIS OPPOSITE NUMBER IN SECRET MEETINGS OVER THE PAST YEAR.

BUT THE KISSINGER WIT WAS WORKING SHARPLY AS HE BANTFRED WITH AMBASSADOR WILLIAM J. PORTER, THE CHIFF U.S. DELEGATE TO THE PARIS PEACE TALKS AND AMBASSADOR PHAM DANG LAM, THE TOP SOUTH VIETNAMESE NEGOTIATOR, WHO MET HIM AT ORLY AIRPORT.

SPEAKING TO PORTER WHO HAS JUST BEEN NAMFD BY PRESIDENT NIXON TO TAKE OVER AS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS, KISSINGER SAID " HE'S GOING TO OUTRANK ME NOW."

SOME REPORTERS SAID THEY THOUGHT PORTER SAID " THAT-LL. BE THE DAY."

KISSINGER, GESTURING AT HIS COLLEAGUE, SAID TO NEWSMEN " AS AN UNDERSECRETARY, HE'S GOING TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ALONG WITH NOW."

PORTER, LOOKING AT THE 50-ODD REPORTERS WAITING FOR KISSINGER, TOLD THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER THAT HE HAS BEEN" CURING THEM OF THEIR PESSIMISM."

KISSINGER REPLYED, AGAIN NEEDLING THE AMBASSADOR - SOMEBODY TOLD ME YOUR JOKE THE OTHER DAY. I DIDN'T GET IT UNTIL THEY WROTE IT OUT."

KISSINGER WAS REFERRING TO PORTER'S WARNING ON THURSDAY TO NEWSMEN VOFRING THE VIETNAM PEACE TALKS AGAINST EXCESSIVE PESSIMISM AND TOLD THEM THEY SHOULD'N'T " GET CAUGHT WITH YOUR PENS DOWN." (MORE)

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KISSINGER HELD HIS LAST MEETING WITH THO NOV. 25, AND AT THAT TIME IT WAS AGREED THEY WOULD MEET AGAIN MONDAY FOR THE 22ND IN THEIR SERIES OF TALKS TO END THE FIGHTING.

IMMEDIATELY BEFORE LEAVING WASHINGTON, KISSINGER HAD TWO LONG TELEPHONE TALKS WITH PRESIDENT NIXON WHO WAS IN KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. THE PRESIDENT IS FLYING BACK TO WASHINGTON TO GET DIRECT REPORTS FROM KISSINGER AFTER THE TALKS WITH THO START.

MORE THAN FIVE WEEKS HAVE PASSED SINCE KISSINGER SAID "PEACE IS AT HAND" BUT DURING THE PAST WEEK PRESSURE SEEMED TO HAVE MOUNTED ON SOUTH VIETNAMESE PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU TO ACCEPT A CEASE FIRE.

AMID REPORTS THAT THE UNITED STATES MIGHT BE PREPARING TO SIGN A SETTLEMENT WITHOUT WAITING FOR SOUTH VIETNAMESE APPROVAL, PRESIDENT NIXON HELD TWO MEETINGS WITH NGUYEN PHU DUC, SAIGON'S SPECIAL ENVOY, AND KISSINGER SAW DUC FOUR TIMES IN AIL.

SAIGON HAS BEEN INSISTING ON SOME ASSURANCES FROM A PEACE AGREEMENT THAT NORTH VIETNAM WILL WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS NORTH OF THE 17TH PARALLEL. NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS HAVE KEPT REPFATING THAT THE DOCUMENT SHOULD BE SIGNED AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY AGREED.

DISPATCHES FROM SAIGON HAVE INDICATED THAT THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT IS NOW RE signeD TO SEEING A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT. SIGNED AND THAT PREMIER TRAN THIEN KHIEM HAS TOLD CABINET MEMBERS AND HIGH-LEVEL DEPARTMENT HEADS TO REPARE FOR THIS EVENTUALITY.

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MRS BINH SAID THE INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES "PRETEND
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GOVERNMENT (VIET CONG) AS THEY SHOWED RECENTLY AT THE CONFERENCE
OF NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES AT GEORGETOWN, GYANA."

THE VIET CONG LEADER REPEATED HER DEMANDS THAT THE UNITED
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GOVERNMENT TODAY FOR ALLEGEDLY OPPOSING THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS
WHILE PRETENDING TO BE NON-ALIGNED.

INDONESIA IS ONE OF FOUR COUNTRIES WHICH HAS BEEN NAMED AS
A SUPERVISOR OF AN EVENTUAL CEASE-FIRE IN VIETNAM.

IN A STATEMENT ISSUED ON THE EVE OF NEW TALKS BETWEEN
WHITE HOUSE AIDE HENRY A. KISSINGER AND HANOI DIPLOMATS,
MRS BINH SAID THE INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES SEVERAL TIMES HAD
MADE "TENDENTIOUS STATEMENTS ON THE QUESTION OF A PACIFIC SOLU-
TION TO THE VIETNAM PROBLEM."

SHE SAID: "IT IS NECESSARY TO POINT OUT THAT FOR A NUMBER
OF YEARS THE INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE ADOPTED A HOSTILE
ATTITUDE TOWARD THE BATTLE IN INDOCHINA...FOR INDEPENDENCE
AND FREEDOM. THEY HAVE UNDERTAKEN ACTS WHICH DIRECTLY SERVE
THE AMERICAN WAR OF AGGRESSION AND HAVE BACKED THE PUPPET
ADMINISTRATION OF (SOUTH VIETNAMESE PRESIDENT) NGUYEN
VAN THIEU."

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PARIS (UPI)--WHITE HOUSE AIDE HENRY A. KISSINGER BRIEFED
AMERICAN OFFICIALS TODAY ON HIS NEW PEACE MISSION WHICH WIDE-
RANGING DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID COULD LEAD TO A VIETNAM
CEASE-FIRE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

KISSINGER SCHEDULED TALKS AT A SECRET LOCATION TODAY WITH
HANOI NEGOTIATORS LE DUC THO AND XUAN THUY. NEITHER
THE AMERICANS NOR NORTH VIETNAMESE WOULD SAY WHEN OR WHERE
THE MEETING WOULD TAKE PLACE.

THE TALKS SESSION WILL BE NUMBER 22 SINCE KISSINGER STARTED
HIS SEARCH FOR AN END TO THE VIETNAM WAR. THE LAST MEETING,
COVERING A TOTAL OF 22 HOURS, TOOK PLACE IN PARIS BETWEEN
NOV. 20 AND 25.

KISSINGER ARRIVED AT ONLY AIRFIELD LATE SUNDAY CRACKING
JOKES BUT REFUSING ANY STATEMENT ABOUT HIS PLANS.

"HE'S GOING TO OUTBANK ME NOW," HE SAID, NODDING TOWARD
AMBASSADOR WILLIAM J. PORTER, CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN DELEGATION
TO THE REGULAR PARIS PEACE TALKS, WHO HAS JUST BEEN NAMED AN
UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE.

"THAT WILL BE THE DAY," PORTER REPLIED.

THE EXCHANGE TOOK PLACE AS THE TWO MEN POSED FOR PICTURES
WITH THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE DELEGATION CHIEF PHAM DANG
LAM.

WHEN PORTER SAID HE WAS TRYING TO CURE JOURNALISTS OF THEIR
PESSIMISM ABOUT THE TALKS, KISSINGER SAID: "THEY
ARE ALL OLD FRIENDS. THE OTHER DAY ONE OF THEM TRIED TO TELL
ME A JOKE, BUT I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT UNTIL HE WROTE IT
OUT FOR ME."

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KISSINGER THEN BROVE TO THE AMERICAN EMBASSY RESIDENCE,
TALKING ANIMATEDLY TO PORTER ON THE WAY.

THE U.S. AIDE FLEW IN FROM WASHINGTON CARRYING FINAL
INSTRUCTIONS FROM PRESIDENT NIXON WITH WHOM HE HAD FIVE HOURS
OF TALKS AT THE FLORIDA WHITE HOUSE SATURDAY.

HE WAS ALSO FULLY PRIEFED ON SAIGON'S DEMANDS AFTER
EIGHT HOURS WITH NGUYEN PHU DUC, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
TO SOUTH VIETNAMESE PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU.

U.S. ADMINISTRATION SOURCES WERE OPTIMISTIC. A SETTLEMENT
CAN BE CONCLUDED WITHIN A MATTER OF DAYS, PERHAPS RESULTING
IN AN OFFICIAL SIGNING CEREMONY BY MID-MONTH.

IN PARIS, COMMUNIST SOURCES SAID KISSINGER HAD THE POWER
TO INITIAL A PEACE ACCORD AND LEAVE A FULL-FLEDGED
SIGNING CEREMONY FOR LATER.

FRENCH RADIO AND TELEVISION NETWORKS REPORTED OPTIMISTICALLY
ON HOPES FOR AN EARLY AGREEMENT.

THE PARIS NEWSPAPER LE MONDE SAID THE SAIGON GOVERNMENT
HAS TOLD ARMY AND ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS "TO TAKE ALL STEPS
NECESSARY IN VIEW OF A DECLARATION OF ARMISTICE BEGINNING DEC. 12."

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SAIGON (UPI)--U.S. B52 BOMBERS FLEW A SINGLE RAID OVERNIGHT AGAINST TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM--EIGHT FEWER THAN THE PREVIOUS DAY--BUT IN THE SOUTH COMMUNIST GUNNERS ATTACKED INSTALLATIONS ON TWO SIDES OF SAIGON, MILITARY SOURCES SAID TODAY.

THE U.S. COMMAND SAID ONE FLIGHT OF THREE HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACKED A COMMUNIST SUPPLY CACHE ABOUT 11 MILES (17 KM) ABOVE THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE (DMZ) THAT SEPARATES THE TWO VIETNAMIS. ANOTHER 20 B52 MISSIONS WERE FLOWN THROUGHOUT SOUTH VIETNAM, HALF OF THEM IN THE UPPER SECTION OF NORTHERNMOST QUANG TRI PROVINCE, THE COMMAND SAID.

BIEN HOA AIR BASE, A MAJOR ALLIED MILITARY FACILITY 14 MILES (22 KM) NORTHEAST OF SAIGON, WAS HIT WITH A PREDAWN BARRAGE OF SOVIET-BUILT ROCKETS, MILITARY SOURCES SAID. THEY SAID 11 OF THE SIX-FOOT-LONG ROCKETS SLAMMED THE BASE AND NEARBY AREAS.

THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES OR DAMAGE ON THE BIG AIR BASE, BUT THREE SOUTH VIETNAMESE MILITARY POLICEMEN WERE WOUNDED WHEN ONE OF THE SLENDER ROCKETS EXPLODED IN AN ADJACENT SOUTH VIETNAMESE HEADQUARTERS COMPOUND, THE SOURCES SAID. MORE THAN 30 ROCKETS HIT BIEN HOA DEC. 1, KILLING A SMALL BOY AND WOUNDING 10 OTHER PERSONS.

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FIFTEEN MILES (24 KM) SOUTHWEST OF THE CAPITAL, COMMUNIST TROOPS ATTACKED A MILITIA POSITION AT BEN LUC BRIDGE ON HIGHWAY 4, THE VITAL ROAD TO THE MEKONG DELTA. ONE MILITIAMAN WAS KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED BY THE 15 B50 ROCKETS FIRED INTO THEIR CAMP, SOURCES SAID.

IN STILL ANOTHER OVERNIGHT ATTACK, TWO CIVILIANS WERE KILLED AND 17 WOUNDED IN A SIX-ROUND MORTAR BARRAGE THAT Landed IN THE MARKET AREA OF CHI TAG, 75 MILES (120 KM) SOUTHWEST OF SAIGON, THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE COMMAND SAID.

IN THE AIR WAR DURING THE WEEKEND, TEAMS OF U.S. NAVY JETS FLEW TO WITHIN SIX MILES (10 KM) OF PRESIDENT NIXON'S 20TH PARALLEL BOMBING CONFINE SATURDAY TO WRECK NEW RUNWAYS AT A NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR BASE, MILITARY SOURCES SAID TODAY.

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NEW YORK (AP)--"THEY SAY THAT THE SOVIET UNION AND INDIA TOGETHER ARE ATTEMPTING TO ENCIRCLE CHINA. THIS IS UTTER NONSENSE. WE ARE NOT ATTACKING ANYONE AND I DON'T THINK THE SOVIET UNION WANTS WAR WITH ANYONE."

INDIAN PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI ADDED IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED SUNDAY IN TIME MAGAZINE THAT HER COUNTRY DESIRED BETTER RELATIONS WITH CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES AND REAL FRIENDSHIP WITH PAKISTAN.

MRS. GANDHI ADDED THAT INDIA CONTINUES TO TAKE AID FROM THE U.S. BUT WANTS TO DO WITHOUT ALL FOREIGN AID "AND LEARN TO STAND ON OUR OWN FEET...TRADE IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN MERE CREDITS."

FOR THE 1973 FINANCIAL YEAR U.S. AID TO INDIA IS SET A 50.5 MILLION DOLLARS, MOST OF IT FOOD. RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN AID FOR 1973 IS 22.5 MILLION DOLLARS. (MORE)

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REGARDING PAKISTAN, MRS. GANDHI SAID: "THE U.S. HAS SUPPORTED PSISTAN. BUT WE DON'T WANT TO ISOLATE PAKISTAN, NOR CAN WE DICTATE WITH WHOM THE U.S. SHOULD BE FRIENDS.

"OUR PRESENT RELATIONS WITH PAKISTAN ARE NOT NORMAL. WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO NORMALIZE THEM.

"PAKISTAN PRESIDENT BHUTTO TOLD ME IN OUR SIMLA MEETING THAT HE WAS THE ARCHITECT OF CONFRONTATION WITH INDIA, BUT THAT IT HAD GOT PAKISTAN NOWHERE. HE ADMITTED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE GAINF FROM CONFRONTATION, AND SO MANY ADVANTAGES FROM FRIENDSHIP." (B KS2355GMTDFC-03-72

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DISCUSSING UNITED STATES RAPPROACHMENT WITH COMMUNIST CHINA, MRS. GANDHI WAS QUOTED BY CORRESPONDENT MURRAY GART:

"THIS IS A RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING. WE WERE NOT UNHAPPY WHEN PRESIDENT NIXON WENT THERE. AFTER ALL, WE HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS THAT WHETHER ONE APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT, ONE HAD TO RECOGNIZE THE REALITIES... (END)

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BANGKOK (AP)--THE UNITED STATES WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP TROOPS AND WARPLANES IN THAILAND AFTER A CEASE-FIRE IN VIETNAM IS SIGNED, FIELD MARSHAL THANOM KITTIKACHORN, CHAIRMAN OF THAILAND'S RULING MILITARY JUNTA SAID MONDAY.

HE SAID THE CONTINUED PRESENCE OF AMERICAN FORCES IN THAILAND IS NECESSARY IN CASE THE NORTH VIETNAMESE VIOLATE THE CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT.

"A VIOLATION OF THE CEASE-FIRE COULD HAPPEN AT ANY TIME," HE SAID, ADDING "HOW CAN WE TRUST THE COMMUNISTS?"

SPEAKING AT AN IMPROMPTU PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER OPENING THE FOURTH ASIAN PHARMACEUTICAL CONGRESS, THANOM SAID IT WAS LIKELY SOME REDUCTION OF U.S. FORCES WOULD TAKE PLACE.

HE DECLINED TO GIVE A FIGURE, SAYING "WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SFF."

THERE ARE ABOUT 49,000 U.S. SERVICE MEN, MAINLY AIR FORCE PERSONNEL, STATIONED AT SEVEN MAJOR AIR BASES IN THAILAND.

THE BASES ARE USED FOR AIR STRIKES AGAINST COMMUNIST FORCES IN NORTH VIETNAM, LAOS, CAMBODIA AND SOU TH VIETNAM.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE U.S. FMBASSY WOULD NOT COMMENT ON THANOM'S REMARKS. (END)

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NEW YORK (AP)--NEWSWEEK SAID SUNDAY IN ITS LEADING BUSINESS ARTICLE THAT JAPAN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER TANAKA IS TACKLING THE COUNTRY'S "DILEMMA--HOW TO SURMOUNT SUCCESS."

THE PROBLEM IS A RECORD 1972 ESTIMATED NINE-BILLION-DOLLAR TRADE SURPLUS AGAINST THE REST OF THE WORLD.

"LATELY THERE HAVE BEEN GROWING SIGNS THAT WORLD PRESSURE IS FORCING JAPAN TO COME TO GRIPS WITH ITS OWN ECONOMIC REALITY," "THE NEWSWEEKLY ADDED. "UNDER THE INTENSELY PRAGMATIC LEADERSHIP OF TANAKA, JAPAN HAS BEEN DISMANTLING ITS INTRICATE EXPORT PROMOTION APPARATUS, OPENING ITS MARKETS AND MAKING AT LEAST TOKEN FOREIGN INVESTMENTS. IN A SHARP REVERSAL OF POSTWAR PRIORITIES, TANAKA IS ATTEMPTING TO DELFECT THE COUNTRY'S ATTENTION FROM EXPORTS TO THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY. AND WHEN THE JAPANESE VOTE NEXT WEEK IN THE NATION'S 12TH GENERAL ELECTION SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO IT IS ENTIRELY PROBABLE THAT THEY WILL. GRANT TANAKA A MANDATE TO CONTINUE THIS TURNAROUND. FOR JAPAN'S TRADING PARTNERS, ESPECIALLY THE U.S., THE CHANGE CAN'T COME TOO SOON....

"BUT EVEN WITH A REDIRECTION OF THE ECONOMY, THE JAPANESE BELIEVE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THEIR STRONG GROWTH RATE. STILL, THE PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT WILL BE LONG AND PAINFUL..."

"JAPAN COULD EASILY ACHIEVE A TRADE SURPLUS NEXT YEAR OF 12 TO 13 BILLION DOLLARS, SUCH AN IMBALANCE COULD TRIGGER AN INTERNATIONAL ROUND OF PROTECTIVE TARIFFS AND QUOTAS AND PUT AN END TO THE CURRENT ROUND OF MONETARY AND TRADE NEGOTIATIONS. BUT, ON THE OTHER HAND, IT COULD ALSO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY IMPETUS FOR A NEW WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER. SAID ONE HIGH U.S. TREASURY OFFICIAL:

"A COUNTRY PILING UP RESERVES AND SURPLUSES AT JAPAN'S RATE CAN THREATEN ALL ECONOMIC COOPERATION AMONG NATIONS. JAPAN'S MONSTROUS SURPLUSES MIGHT JUST SPUR TRADE AND MONETARY REFORM."

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SINGAPORE (AP)--SINGAPORE, EXPECTING AN END TO LONG-STANDING DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS BECAUSE OF AUSTRALIA'S ELECTIONS, REACTED MILDLY MONDAY TO THE LABOR PARTY'S VICTORY.

THE WIDELY READ STRAITS TIMES, IN A LONG EDITORIAL, NOTED "STRONG WINDS OF CHANGE... FROM DOWN UNDER," AND SAID: "THESE CHANGES WILL TAKE TIME. MEANWHILE SINGAPORE WHICH HAS FNJOYED A CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH AUSTRALIA, WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THAT RELATIONSHIP ENDURING."

THERE WAS NO OFFICIAL COMMENT.

AUSTRALIA IS THE MAINSTAY OF A DEFENSE AGREEMENT LINKING BRITAIN, NEW ZEALAND, MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE.

LABOR PRIME MINISTER-FLECT GOUGH WHITLAM IS COMMITTED TO BRINGING HOME THE AUSTRALIAN BATTALION BASED IN SINGAPORE, PROBABLY WITHIN THE YEAR. NEW ZEALAND'S FORCES ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO BE WITHDRAWN.

THAT WOULD EFFECTIVELY COLLAPSE THE ACCORD UNDER WHICH AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND BRITAIN KEPT TOKEN LAND, AIR AND SFA FORCES HERE WITH THE PROMISE TO CONSULT IN CASE OF NEED FOR EMERGENCY REINFORCEMENT.

THE AUSTRALIAN UNIT FINISHES ITS TWO-YEAR TERM LATE NEXT YEAR AND IT IS UNLIKELY TO BE REPLACED.

THE STRAITS TIMES REPORTED THAT WHITLAM IS EXPECTED TO VISIT SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA EARLY NEXT YEAR TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL.

BRITISH DEFENSE SECRETARY LORD CARRINGTON IS ALSO EXPECTED TO COME IN EARLY JANUARY FOR TALKS ON FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS, REPORTS SAID.

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BANGLADESH - NEWSWEEK

NEW YORK (AP) - ONE YEAR AFTER GAINING ITS INDEPENDENCE BANGLADESH IS A MESS, SAID NEWSWEEK SUNDAY AND IT QUOTED OBSERVERS THAT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS THERE MIGHT GET EVEN WORSE.
IT ADDED:

"THE VISIBLE SCARS OF WAR ON THE LANDSCAPE HAVE ALMOST BEEN WIPED OUT BY PUBLIC WORKS AND THE LUSH GROWTH STIMULATED BY THE MOONSON RAINS. BUT BANGLADESH TODAY IS FAR FROM RECOVERY. BOOM THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES REMAIN VERY MUCH IN NEED OF RECONSTRUCTION AND POPULAR FRUSTRATION IS RAPIDLY OUTRUNNING EXPECTATION..."

"ONE HAS ONLY TO OPEN THE PAGES OF THE BANGLADESH MORNING NEWS TO UNDERSTAND--MURDER, ROBBERY AND GENERAL LAWLESSNESS ARE STILL RAMPANT. SHORTAGES OF RAW MATERIALS AND SPARE PARTS ARE CRIPPLING THE ECONOMY. IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THE TEXTILE MILLS ARE JUST BARELY RUNNING AND BUSES AND TRUCKS ARE GRINDING TO A HALT FOR LACK OF SPARE PARTS. EVERYWHERE THE COST OF LIVING HAS SOARED, RICE PRICES DOUBLED AND EVEN TRIPLFD..."

THE NEWSWEEKLY SAID THAT ONLY THE PERSONALITY OF SHETK MUJIBUR RAHMAN, 52-YEAR-OLD HEAD OF THE AWAMI LEAGUE AND ACKNOWLEDGED 'FATHER' OF BANGLADESH, KEPT THE COUNTRY TOGETHER BUT IT ADDED:

"ONE CAUSE OF THE COUNTRY'S DEEP TROUBLE IS THAT THE AWAMI LEAGUE PARTY, WHICH WON A HUGE MAJORITY IN THE PRE-INDEPENDENCE ELECTIONS OF 1970 HAS PROVED WEAK AND INDECISIVE IN RUNNING THE COUNTRY ..."

"DESPITE A RISING TIDE OF CRITICISM, MUJIB PROFESS'S TO BE PROUD OF HIS NATION'S ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR. HE TOLD NEWSWEEK: 'OF COURSE WE HAVE PROBLEMS. WHAT DID ANYONE EXPECT?... I HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE ECONOMY AND THESE WILL TAKE TIME TO SORT OUT. BUT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS AND I AM NOT IN THE FAST PESSIMISTIC.'"

BUT NEWSWEEK ADDED: "'THAT MUJIB HAS ANY GROUNDS AT ALL FOR SUCH OPTIMISM IS DUE TO THE MASSIVE ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN INTERNATIONAL AID WHICH HAS BEEN COMMITTED TO BANGLADESH, WITH THE U.S. CONTRIBUTING ONE THIRD ...'"

"THOUGH SUCCESS FOR MUJIB IN THE MARCH ELECTIONS SEEMS FORFORDAINED, THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY IS CERTAIN TO REMAIN TRIPLFD. THE ECONOMIC PICTURE IS DIM ..."

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PANMUNJOM, KOREA (AP) - NORTH KOREA RENEWED ITS DEMAND MONDAY THAT ALL U.S. TROOPS BE WITHDRAWN FROM SOUTH KOREA TO HELP REUNIFY THE DIVIDED COUNTRY.

AT THE 333RD MILITARY ARMISTICE COMMISSION MEETING, NORTH KOREAN ARMY MAJ. GEN. KIM POONG SUP ACCUSED U.S. "IMPERIALISTS" OF OBSTRUCTING A PEACEFUL REUNIFICATION OF KOREA BY STATIONING "AGGRESSIVE FORCES" AND CONTINUING MILITARY BUILDUPS IN SOUTH KOREA.

HE SAID THAT ALTHOUGH THE UNITED STATES HAS VOICED SUPPORT FOR THE NORTH-SOUTH KOREAN DIALOGUE AIMED AT REUNIFYING THE COUNTRY, IT MAINTAINS AN "AGGRESSIVE POLICY" TO CONTINUE TENSION IN THE AREA.

THE NORTH KOREAN GENERAL SAID RECENT REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON ON PLANS TO SUPPLY PHANTOM JETS AND AMPHIBIOUS TANKS TO SOUTH KOREA, REFLECTED A U.S. POLICY OF PERPETUATING DIVISION IN KOREA.

SPEAKING FOR THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND - UNC - U.S. AIR FORCE MAJ. GEN. ROLLEN AMPHIS REMINDED NORTH KOREA OF ITS NOTICE IN 1957 TO ABROGATE A CLAUSE IN THE 1953 ARMISTICE AGREEMENT PROHIBITING A MILITARY BUILDUP.

"THE UNC HAD NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE BUT TO TAKE MEASURES AIMED AT RESTORING THE RELATIVE MILITARY BALANCE BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES AND STATSD OPENLY ITS INTENT TO DO SO," AMPHIS SAID. HE ADDED THAT THE ACTION WAS A DEFENSIVE MEASURE.

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NEW YORK (AP)-ISRAEL'S PREMIER GOLDA MEIR WAS QUOTED SUNDAY AS SAYING HER COUNTRY "CAN COME TO AN AGREEMENT WITH OUR ARAB NEIGHBORS IF THE PRINCIPLE IS ACCEPTED THAT THE 1967 BORDERS WILL NOT BE RESTORED."

"WE ARE READY TO NEGOTIATE LIKE GROWN-UP, SERIOUS PEOPLE,"
SHE WAS QUOTED IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE, ADDING
THAT ISRAEL WILL NOT DO ANYTHING TO PUT EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT
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THE WEEKLY QUOTED MRS. MEIR AS SAYING SADAT HAS NEITHER THE
CAPABILITY TO DEFEAT ISRAEL IN WAR NOR THE COURAGE TO TELL HIS
PEOPLE THAT ISRAEL IS HERE TO STAY.

"SADAT CAN OPEN THE (SUFZ) CANAL ANY TIME OF DAY OR NIGHT,"
SHE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING, "BUT ISRAEL. CANNOT ACCEPT SADAT'S
DEMANDS FOR RETURNING TO THE 1967 BORDERS AS A PRECONDITION.

"WHEN SADAT IN FEBRUARY 1971 SUGGESTED A SUEZ CANAL AGREEMENT
WE IMMEDIATELY AGREED TO NEGOTIATE THE PARTIAL SUEZ AGREEMENT.
ISRAEL IS PREPARED TO PULL BACK A BIT TO A CERTAIN LINE WHICH
NATURALLY WILL NOT BE THE FINAL LINE. THE FINAL BORDERS WILL BE
NEGOTIATED. WE, OF COURSE, ARE NOT PREPARED TO ACCEPT ANY OF
SADAT'S PRECONDITIONS, AS FOR INSTANCE A COMMITMENT THAT WE WILL.
RETURN TO THE 1967 BORDER OR THAT WE SHOULD AGREE TO HAVE HIS ARMY
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"PRESIDENT SADAT EXPECTS THINGS TO BE SOLVED FOR HIM BY
OTHERS. HE THOUGHT THAT ONCE HE SENT OUT THE RUSSIANS, THE AMERICANS
WOULD SQUEEZF ISRAEL. SADAT IS ALWAYS DEPENDING ON SOMEONE ELSE
TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM FOR HIM. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. HE MAY EVEN TRY
REFNEWING THE WAR EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS HE CANNOT WIN IT. EITHER HE
CAN TRY TO DEFEAT US IN A WAR OR HE SHOULD HAVE THE COURAGE TO SAY
TO HIS PEOPLE, 'THIS IS IT. THEY (THE ISRAELIS) ARE HERE, WE HAVE TO
LIVE WITH THEM.' HE DOES NOT HAVE THE COURAGE FOR THE SECOND AND HE
IS NOT CAPABLE OF THE FIRST. THE RESULT IS FRUSTRATION AND CONFUSION."

THE PLAN PUT FORWARD BY U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM ROGERS
FOR AN ISRAELI PULLBACK FROM THE SUFZ CANAL "HAS BEEN PUT OUT OF THE
WAY," MRS. MEIR WAS QUOTED AS SAYING, "AND IF IT IS NOT REVIVED
THAT WILL BE ALL RIGHT."

ON JORDAN'S KING HUSSFIN, SHE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING:

"HUSSFIN MUST... ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR
MAKING WAR AGAINST PEOPLE MUST ACCEPT THE CONSEQUENCE. ..."
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NEW YORK (AP)--EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MOHAMMED FL-ZAYYAT
DENIED SUNDAY THAT SOVIET ADVISERS AND TECHNICIANS WERE RETURNING
TO HIS COUNTRY IN SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS.

"THESE REPORTS ARE NOT TRUE," HE SAID IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION
ON THE TELEVISION "ISSUES AND ANSWERS" INTERVIEW PROGRAM.

FL-ZAYYAT SAID EGYPT HAD DECIDED THAT SUCH RUSSIAN PERSONNEL
"ARE NOT OF ANY USE TO US IN TRYING TO GET BACK OUR TERRITORIAL
INTEGRITY."

THOUSANDS OF RUSSIAN MILITARY ADVISERS AND TECHNICIANS LEFT
EGYPT EARLIER THIS YEAR AT CAIRO'S REQUEST. THE FOREIGN MINISTER
WAS ASKED HOW MANY RUSSIANS WERE STILL IN HIS COUNTRY.

"I CAN'T GIVE YOU NUMBERS, HE REPLIED, "BUT THERE ARE NO
MORE THAN HUNDREDS."

THE EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL WAS NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR
PEACE, SAYING ISRAEL SHOWED NO SIGNS OF WILLINGNESS TO WITHDRAW
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NEW YORK (UPI)--EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MOHAMED HASSAN EL-ZAYYAT SAID SUNPAY A PROPOSED PARTIAL SOLUTION TO THE MIDDLE EAST PROBLEM IS ACCEPTABLE TO EGYPT IF IT WOULD LEAD TO PRESERVATION OF THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF ALL STATES IN THAT AREA.

THE EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL WAS SPECIFICALLY ASKED ABOUT A U.S. SUGGESTION BASED ON ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER MRS. GOLDA MEIR'S RECENT STATEMENT SHE WOULD AGREE ON SOME SORT OF NEGOTIATION FOR A PARTIAL WITHDRAWAL FROM THE SUEZ CANAL AND ITS RE-OPENING TO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING.

"IT ALL DEPENDS WHAT ELSE IS PROPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES OR WHAT IS PROPOSED BY EGYPT OR WHAT IS PROPOSED BY ISRAEL. THE QUESTION IN THE END THAT WE THINK THAT THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF ALL THE STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST MUST BE PRESERVED," EL-ZAYYAT SAID.

THE EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, WHO WAS IN NEW YORK ATTENDING THE U.N. ASSEMBLY, WAS INTERVIEWS ON ABC TELEVISION'S "ISSUE S AND ANSWERS."

"IF WE ARE GOING TO BE ASSURED THAT OUR TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IS GOING TO BE RESTORED ... THEN WE WILL KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT HAVE ALL THINGS IN ONE STEP AND WE WILL BE ACCEPTING A STEP BY STEP, A PHASED WITHDRAWAL AND PHASED PEACE," EL-ZAYYAT SAID.

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WHEN ASKED WHETHER HE WAS SUGGESTING PEACE WAS POSSIBLE IF ISRAEL WOULD NOW MAKE A COMMITMENT TO WITHDRAWAL FROM ALL EGYPTIAN LANDS, EL-ZAYYAT REPLIED "YES."

ON THE SUBJECT OF SOVIET-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS, THE FOREIGN MINISTER WAS ASKED IF IT WAS CORRECT MOSCOW HAD CAUTIONED EGYPT AGAINST OPENING ANY ACT OF OFFENSIVE AND HAD SAID THAT SHE WILL NOT SUPPORT EGYPT BY SUPPLYING OFFENSIVE WEAPONS FOR SUCH WARFARE.

"I THINK YOU WOULD GET A NEGATIVE ANSWER IF YOU WOULD PUT THIS QUESTION TO SOMEONE IN MOSCOW," ELK-ZAYYAT SAID.

EL-ZAYYAT DENIED SOVIET TECHNICIANS WERE RETURNING TO EGYPT. "THE SOVIETS WHO LEFT EGYPT HAVE LEFT BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THEY HAVE FINISHED THEIR SERVICES AND VERY FRANKLY BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THEY WERE NOT OF ANY USE TO US IN TRYING TO GET BACK OUR TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, TO RESTORE OUR TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY," HE SAID.

HE ESTIMATED THE NUMBER OF SOVIET MILITARY OR ASSOCIATED PERSONNEL IN EGYPT AT "NO MORE THAN HUNDREDS."

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ABC ASKED THE FOREIGN MINISTER IF DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER PRESIDENT NIXON'S NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS ADVISER, IS ACCEPTABLE AS A PEACE NEGOTIATOR IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO SUCCEED SWEDEN'S AMBASSADOR TO MOSCOW, DR. GUNAR JARRING, WHO HAS BEEN U.N. SPECIAL PEACE ENVOY TO MIDDLE EAST.

"WELL, I THINK THIS IS UNFAIR TO GET ME INTERFERRING IN YOUR INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN AMERICA, BUT I THINK IF MR. KISSINGER IS GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN VIETNAM, THEN HE HAS SHOWN THAT HE CAN DO THINGS."

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JERUSALEM (AP)- A 100-MILLION - DOLLAR PLAN TO COMPENSATE SOME OF THE ARABS WHO LOST PROPERTY IN 1948 WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL WAS APPROVED SUNDAY BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT

THE PLAN COUNTERS ARAB CLAIMS THAT WHEN ISRAEL WAS CREATED 24 YEARS AGO ARABS IN PALESTINE FRE DISPOSSESSED.

THE ISRAELIS ALSO HOPE THE PLAN WILL UNDERSCORE THE UNIFICATION OF JERUSALEM UNDER JEWISH DOMINATION, SINCE MOST CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION ARE EXPECTED TO COME FROM JERUSALEM ARABS LIVING UNDER JORDANIAN RULE UNTIL THE 1967 MIDEAST WAR.

ARABS LIVING INSIDE ISRAEL PROPER ALSO WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR REPARATIONS, BUT EGYPTIAN AND JORDANIAN ARABS UNDER OCCUPATION ARE EXCLUDED, ALONG WITH PALESTINIAN RFFUGUES INARAB STATES

CLAIMS CAN BE LODGED AS SOON AS THE PLAN IS APPROVED BY PARLIAMENT.

LITTLE OPPOSITION IS EXPECTED, ALTHOUGH SOME PARTIES HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY WILL RENEW PRESSURE ON THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO MAKE THE ARAB STATES RFPAY MIDDLE EAST JEWS FOR CONFISCATED BELONGINGS. (MORE) (ELIASON)

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THE JUSTICE MINISTRY, WHICH INITIATED THE PLAN, EXPECTS TO BEGIN PAYING OUT MONEY BY JULY 1975.

THE ISRAELIS WILL INSIST ON SEEING RECEIPTS AND DEFDS OF SALE FOR PROPERTY REPORTED LOST.

"WE KNOW THE ARABS -- THEY HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN WHAT THEY LOST," SAID AN ISRAELI OFFICIAL. THE MAJORITY HAVE HELD ONTO THEIR PAPERS FOR 24 YEARS, AND WILL KEEP THEM FOREVER IF NECESSARY.

THE COMPENSATION WILL BE PAID ACCORDING TO A U.N. PROPOSAL. WORKED OUT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST IN 1961.

AFTER PROVING OWNERSHIP, THE CLAIMANT WILL RECEIVE AN IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF 10,000 ISRAELI POUNDS -- 2,400 DOLLARS. THE REMAINDER WILL BE PAID IN 15 GOVERNMENT BONDS, REREDEEMABLE FOR CASH AT THE RATE OF ONE A YEAR, WITH SIX PER CENT INTEREST.

PAYMENT WILL BE 10 TIMES THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY BEFORE 1948, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ISRAELI POUND'S DEPRECIATION OVER 24 YEARS.

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COMMUNIQUE -1 (WITH ALLFEND VIO3)
BY EDUARDO GALLARDO

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO (AP)- CHILE AND MEXICO ASKED THE REST OF THE LATIN AMERICA TO OVERLOOK IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES SUNDAY IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS THROUGH ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND UNITED ACTION IN INTERNATIONAL FORUMS.

MEXICO ALSO ACKED CHILE IN THE "INALIFNABLE RIGHT AND SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE TO THE FREE USE OF ALL. THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES AND TO FOLLOW, WITHOUT FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, THE MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT MOST SUITED TO THEIR NATIONAL REALITIES."

PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLENDE OF CHILE AND PRESIDENT LUIS FCHFVERRIA OF MEXICO ISSUED THE STATMENT AS A JOINT COMMUNIQUE DISTRIBUTED BEFORE ALLFEND LEFT FOR NEW YORK, WHERE HE IS TO ADDRESS THE UNITED NATIONS MONDAY.

THE SIX PAGE COMMUNIQUE ALSO SAID THE TWO PRESIDENTS ENFERGIFICALLY CONDEMN THE EFFORTS OF SOME INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIA WHO HAVE TRIED TO VIOLATE THE PRINCIPLE OF NON-INTervention IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DENYING THE SOVEREIGN RIGHT OF THOSE COUNTRIES TO RESCUE FOR THE NATION THEIR BASIC RICHES IN AGREEMENT WITH THEIR OWN LEGISLATION."

THE FORMAL BACKING OF THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT ONTHIS POINT REPRESENTED A CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL SUCCESS FOR ALLFEND.

CHILE RECENTLY HAS HAD ITS COPPER SHIPMENTS ABROAD EMBARGOED BY THE U.S. KENNECOTT COPPER COMPANY AFTER KENNECOTT'S CHILEAN HOLDINGS WERE EXPROPRIATED BY ALLFEND. (MORE) IRD1832GMTDEC-3-72

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THE COMMUNIQUE SAID: THE PRESIDENTS OF MEXICO AND CHILE AGREE ON THE NECESSITY AND THE TRANSENDENCY OF A FRANK AND OPEN DIALOGUE, WITH THE GOAL OF SOLIDARITY OF ALL LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS AND INDEPENDENTLY OF THE DIFFERENCES WHICH MIGHT EXIST ON THE IDEOLOGICAL LEVEL OR IN THE SOCIO-POLITICAL STRUCTURES OF EACH NATION, IN ORDER TO ARRIVE AT AN AGREEMENT WHICH WOULD GIVE A NEW AND DECISIVE IMPULSE TO THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION.

IT SAID THE STATE VISIT PRODUCED SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATIONS FOR ESTABLISHING LINES OF CREDIT FROM THE BANK OF MEXICO TO THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHILE FOR THE PURCHASE OF BASIC MATERIALS AND CAPITAL GOODS "UNDER MUTUALLY SATISFACTORY CONDITIONS."

ALLFEND ALSO EXPRESSED HIS THANKS TO FCHFVERRIA FOR LINES OF CREDIT OPENED BY PRIVATE MEXICAN BANKS. RESTRICTED CREDIT, ESPECIALLY FROM THE UNITED STATES, IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ALLFEND'S MARXIST GOVERNMENT FACES. (MORE) IRD1844GMTDEC-3-72

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THE TWO PRESIDENTS PRAISED MEXICO'S GROWING CLOSENESS WITH THE GRUP ANDINO, A SUBREGIONAL ECONOMIC PROGRAM OF ANDean NATIONS FORMED BY CHILE, BOLIVIA, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR AND PERU.

IN OTHER AREAS THE COMMUNIQUE SAID:

--ALLFEND THANKED MEXICO FOR SUPPORT DURING "ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES PROVOKED IN CHILE FROM ABROAD."

--NOTED THE COMMON POINT OF VIEW OF BOTH COUNTRIES IN MANY ASPECTS OF FOREIGN POLICY.

--BOTH PRESIDENTS EXPRESSED SATISFACTION AT RECENT MOVES TOWARD WORLD PEACE--APPARENTLY A REFERENCE TO VIETNAM--BUT ALSO EXPRESSED WORRY THAT CONFLICTS CONTINUE WHICH AFFECT SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN THE THIRD WORLD.

--BOTH SAID THERE SHOULD BE A FORM OF CONTROL OF THE ACTIVITIES OF LARGE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES.

--ALLFEND REPEATED CHILE'S SUPPORT OF A GOAL OF THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT FOR THE DRAFTING OF AN INTERNATIONAL "LETTER OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE STATES."

--BOTH NOTED THE IMPORTANCE OF AN UPCOMING WORLD CONFERENCE ON SEA RIGHTS AND EXPRESSED THEIR AIM TO ACHIEVE UNIFIED LATIN AMERICAN ACTION IN THE CONFERENCE.

--ALLFEND CONFIRMED CHILE'S SUPPORT OF FCHFVERRIA'S ATTEMPT TO GET ALL NATIONS OF THE CONTINENT TO RATIFY THE TREATY OF TLA.TLOLO CREATING A LATIN AMERICAN NUCLEAR FREE ZONE.

--CHILE SUPPORTS MEXICO'S PROPOSAL TO SEEK A LARGER REPRESENTATION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN THE UNITED NATIONS.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP)- PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLFND OF CHILE
ARRIVED IN NEW YORK SUNDAY TO ADDRESS THE U.N. GENERAL.
ASSEMBLY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAID A "MAXIMUM SECURITY
DETAIL" WOULD BE AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, WHERE HE PLANNED
TO STAY.

HIS PLANE ARRIVED AT 2045GMT.

ALLFND FLFW IN FROM AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO MEXICO ABOARD
A SPECIAL PLANE OF THE LAN CHILE AIRLINES.

SINAN KORLI, THE UNITED NATIONS' TURKISH CHIEF OF PROTOCOL,
AND AMBASSADOR HUBERTO DIAZ CASANUEVA, HEAD OF THE CHILEAN
U.N. MISSION, WERE AMONG THOSE WAITING TO GREET HIM.

ALLFND, FLECTED TO OFFICE ON THE SOCIALIST TICKET IN 1970,
IS THE FIRST MARXIST HEAD OF STATE OR GOVERNMENT FROM THE
WESTERN HEMISPHERE TO GO ON THE SPEAKERS' LIST IN THE AS: FMBLY
SINCE PRIME MINISTER FIDEL CASTRO OF CUBA WAS LAST HERE IN
1960. (MORF)

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THE PRESIDENT OF CHILE IS TO MAKE A 75-MINUTE ADDRESS STARTING
AT 1615 GMT MONDAY T A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE 132-NATION
ASSEMBLY CALLED EXCLUSIVELY TO HEAR HIM. CASTRO MADE A 269-
MINUTE SPEECH SEPT. 26. 1950, IN THE ASSEMBLY'S GENERAL DEBATE.

SPECULATION IS THAT ALLFND WILL. DESCRIBE CHILE'S PROGRAM
OF NATIONALIZATION INCLUDING ITS BATTLE WITH FOREIGN CORPORATIONS:
REFER TO ITS HOSTING OF THE LAST U.N. CONFERENCE ON TRADE
AND DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS, AND
PRESS ITS INVITATION TO HAVE THE SECOND U.N. CONFERENCE ON
THE LAW OF THE SEA HELD IN SANTIAGO.

HE WILL BE GREETED MONDAY BY SECRETARY-GENERAL.
KURT WALDHEIM ON ARRIVING AT U.N. HEADQUARTERS AT 1500GMT AND WILL
CONFER WITH WALDHEIM FOR 45 MINUTES BEFORE MAKING HIS SPEECH.

HE WILL MEET PRIVATELY WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY,
POLISH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER STANISLAW TREPCZYNSKI, BEFORE
MAKING HIS SPEECH. (END)
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UNITED NATIONS (AP)-THE FIRST FAST GERMANS EVER TO GAIN OFFICIAL
U.N. STATUS WERE DUE TO ARRIVE IN NEW YORK LATE SUNDAY.

AMBASSADOR HORST GRUNERT, NAMED THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC'S
FIRST PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS, WAS ENROUTE FROM
FAST BERLIN VIA MOSCOW.

WITH HIM WERE FIVE OTHERS WHO WILL MAKE UP THE STAFF OF A
MISSION THAT HE WILL ESTABLISH IN THE CITY.

THE FAST GERMANS PLANNED TO CHECK INTO THE DELMONICO HOTEL.
ON PARK AVENUE FOR THEIR SETTLING-IN PERIOD.

A U.N. SPOKESMAN SAID HE EXPECTED THAT GRUNERT WOULD CALL ON
SECRETARY-GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM EARLY IN THE WEEK.

THE WEST GERMANS HAVE HAD A PERMANENT OBSERVER SINCE 1953.
NOW BOTH GERMAN STATES WILL HAVE EQUAL STANDING HERE, FOLLOWING
THE INITIALIZING NOV. 8 OF A TREATY GOVERNING THEIR RELATIONS.
BOTH ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME U.N. MEMBERS NEXT SEPT. 18.

WALDHEIM AGREED TO ACCEPT AN FAST GERMAN PERMANENT OBSERVER'S
MISSION HEADED BY GRUNERT ON NOV. 24 IN RESPONSE TO A TELEGRAPHED
REQUEST FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTER, OTTO WINZER.

FAST GERMANY HAD JUST MET ONE QUALIFICATION FOR OBSERVER
STATUS-MEMBERSHIP IN A U.N. SPECIALIZED AGENCY--BY BEING VOTED
A MEMBER OF THE U.N. EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL
ORGANIZATION.

WALDHEIM TELEPHONED U.S. AMBASSADOR GEORGE BUSH AND LEARNED
THAT THE FAST GERMANS WOULD HAVE NO TROUBLE GETTING U.S. VISAS,
SO THAT THEY MET THE SECOND QUALIFICATION FOR SUCH STATUS--ACCESS
TO U.N. HEADQUARTERS. (END)

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U.N.-ALLFNDF (PMS)

BY WILLIAM N. OATIS

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLFNDF OF CHILE, SPEAKING IN THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY MONDAY, WAS EXPECTED TO DEFUND THE TACTICS OF U.S.-BASED INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN FIGHTING THE NATIONALIZATION OF THEIR PROPERTIES IN HIS COUNTRY.

ALLFNDF, A SOCIALIST WHO WON OFFICE IN A DEMOCRATIC FLECTION IN 1970, WAS THE ONLY SPEAKER AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE 132-NATION ASSEMBLY ARRANGED FOR SPECIALLY TO HEAR HIM AS A VISITING HEAD OF STATE. HE HAD SAID HIS THEME WOULD BE "ECONOMIC AGGRESSION."

THE PRESIDENT'S MAIN TARGETS IN HIS STRUGGLE WITH FOREIGN INTERESTS HAVE BEEN THE KENNECOTT COPPER CORP. AND THE INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO.

THE CHILEAN PRESIDENT, ON A TWO-WEEK TRIP TO FOUR CONTINENTS, STOPPED IN PERU AND MEXICO EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK ON A SPECIAL PLANE OF THE LAN-CHILEAN AIRLINES. HE PLANNED TO GO ON MONDAY NIGHT OR TUESDAY ON A SPECIAL PLANE OF THE SOVIET LINE AFROFLOT TO ALGERIA, THE SOVIET UNION AND CUBA.

BEFORE HE FINDED HIS THREE-DAY MEXICAN VISIT SUNDAY, ALLFNDF AND PRESIDENT LUIS ECHEVERRIA OF MEXICO ISSUED A COMMUNIQUE IN GUADALAJARA URGING LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES TO PUT ASIDE IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES AND ADOPT UNIFIED POLICIES TO PROTECT THEIR COMMON INTERESTS IN INTERNATIONAL FORUMS.

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HIS 6 3/4 -HOUR U.N. VISIT TAKES PLACE UNDER TIGHT SECURITY. THE PROGRAM INCLUDED TALKS WITH SECRETARY-GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM AND THE ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, POLISH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER STANISLAW TREFPCZYNSKI; A MEETING WITH HEADS OF LATIN AMERICAN DELEGATIONS; A STATE LUNCHFON FOR SO PEOPLE GIVEN IN HIS HONOR BY WALDHEIM; A BRIEF TOUR OF HEADQUARTERS, AND A NEWS CONFERENCE.

ALLFNDF ARRIVED SUNDAY AND CHECKED INTO THE WALDORF TOWERS TO REST WHILE HIS WIFE, HORTENSIA BUSSI DE ALLFNDF, WENT TO SEE A BROADWAY MUSICAL, "NO, NO, NANETTE."

HE FLEW IN BY SPECIAL PLANE WITH AROUND 14 CHILEAN NEWSMEN AND AN OFFICIAL PARTY OF 21, INCLUDING FOREIGN MINISTER CLODOMIRO ALMEYDA, A SOCIALIST, AND LABOR MINISTER LUIS FIGUEROA, A COMMUNIST.

THE COMMUNIST ACCUSED SOME INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUMS OF TRYING "TO VIOLATE THE PRINCIPLE OF NON-INTFRVENTION IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES."

HIS CURRENT BIGGEST FIGHT IS WITH THE KENNECOTT COPPER CORP., WHOSE "EL TENIENTE" MINE IN CHILE WAS NATIONALIZED LAST YEAR.

UNITED NATIONS-U.S.-ALLFNDF 3

IN A BID FOR COMPENSATION, THE COMPANY HAS SUITS PENDING IN EUROPE TO PREVENT FOREIGN BUYERS FROM PAYING FOR COPPER EXPORTED BY THE CHILEAN STATE CORPORATION THAT OPERATES THE MINE.

IN RETALIATION FOR THIS, THE ORGANIZATION OF COPPER EXPORTING COUNTRIES, INCLUDING CHILE, PERU, ZAIRE AND ZAMBIA, AGREED IN SANTIAGO, CHILE, FRIDAY TO SUSPEND BUSINESS WITH KENNECOTT TILL THE COMPANY STOPPED WHAT WERE CALLED ACTS OF AGGRESSION AGAINST CHILE.

CHILE HAS COMPLAINED THAT KENNECOTT IS USING THREATS AGAINST PURCHASERS OF CHILEAN COPPER AND PRESSURE ON MARKETS AND BROKERS TO DISCOURAGE FREE TRADE IN SUCH COPPER IN EUROPE.

CHILE HAS ALSO COMPLAINED THAT THE INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE CO., ANOTHER FIRM WHOSE PROPERTY WAS NATIONALIZED, TRIED TO GET THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO OPEN ECONOMIC WARFARE ON CHILE. SO AS TO BRING DOWN ALLFNDF'S GOVERNMENT.

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HELSINKI (UPI) --- THE UNITED STATES EXPECTS A LOWERING OF THE
COMMUNIST CURTAIN IN EUROPE AS THE MINIMUM PRICE FOR APPROVING A
SOVIET-SOUGHT EUROPEAN SECURITY SYSTEM', PIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID
TODAY.

THE UNITED STATES PLANNED TO PRESENT ITS POLICY OUTLINE FOR
EUROPE TO THE 34 NATIONS HELSINKI CONSULTATIVE MEETING, RESUMING
AT 10.30 (08.30 GMT) TODAY

THE UNITED STATES WAS THE LAST AMONG THE BIG POWERS TO SET
OUT ITS VIEWS ON THE PROSPECTS FOR A FULL-DRESS EUROPEAN SECURITY
CONFERENCE, ITS SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES. THE RUSSIANS PROPOSED
QUICK DECISION HERE TO HOLD THE CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN MINISTERS
LEVEL IN HELSINKI IN JUNE OF NEXT YEAR TO WORK OUT A SECURITY CHARTER

THE MAJOR WESTERN POWERS HAVE TAKEN THE LINE SO FAR THAT
BEFORE AGREEING THEY MUST BE CONVINCED THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE
AND THE PROJECTED EUROPEAN SECURITY SYSTEM WILL BE WORTH WHILE AND
NOT MERELY AMOUNT TO PAPER DECLARATIONS OF GOOD INTENTIONS

AMERICAN VIEWS BROADLY FOLLOW THESE LINES, APPROVED IN ADVANCE
WITHIN THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (ATO) WITH THE ALLIES.

DIFFERENCES AMONG THE ALLIES ARE MINOR, REFLECTING NUANCES
RATHER THAN MATTERS OF SUBSTANCE, THE SOURCES SAID, WITH FRANCE
AND SMALLER NATIONS GENERALLY MORE INCLINED FROM THE START TO
APPROVE THE SOVIET-BLOC DEMANDED CONFERENCE.

THE MAJOR WESTERN ALLIES HAVE, IN FACT COME RELUCTANTLY TO THE
HELSINKI MEET WHICH WAS APPROVED ONLY AFTER YEARS OF HESITATIONS
AND OPPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER A FULL DRESS MINISTERIAL
CONFERENCE TO DRAFT A EUROPEAN SECURITY CHARTER SHOULD BE HELD.
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RUSSIA, IN THE VIEW OF SOME WESTERN GOVERNMENTS SUCCEEDER TO
"DRAG" THE WEST TO THE CONFERENCE TABLE WHICH CAME TO HELSINKI ON
CONDITION THAT IT WILL PROCEED TO SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS ONLY WHEN
IT IS CONVINCED THAT SOMETHING WORTH WHILE CAN BE ACHIEVED.

SOME CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS NOW BELIEVE THAT SINCE THE HELSINKI
TALKS OPENED NOV. 22 THE RUSSIANS MAY HAVE COME TO BE LESS
ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE CONFERENCE.

THE SOVIET WHICH RAISED THE ISSUE MANY YEARS AGO AND NEVER TIRED
OF PRESS IT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE SOME OF THE KEY OBJECTIVES
OF THEIR SCHEME BEFORE THE HELSINKI TALKS GOT UNDER WAY.

THE MOSCOW INTENTION HAS ALL ALONG BEEN TO USE THE PROJECTED
CONFERENCE TO HAVE ALL OF EUROPE INCLUDING THE UNITED
STATES AND CANADA TO ENDORSE THE EUROPEAN STATUS QUO WITH ALL
ITS POST-WAR BOUNDARIES AND DIVISIONS AND AS WELL AS THE SUBSTANTIVE
RUSSIAN GAINS.

IN THE POST 12 MONTHS RUSSIA GOT MOST OF IT: AN AGREEMENT WITH
WEST GERMANY ACKNOWLEDING THE POST-WAR FRONTIERS, INCLUDING
THOSE WITH POLAND, THE VIRTUAL RECOGNITION OF EAST GERMANY, RESISTED
BY THE WEST FOR NEARLY A QUATER OF A DECADE AND ACCORDS FOR
CLOSER CO-OPERATION.

STILL, THE RUSSIANS WANT ALL THIS TO BE NOW INCORPORATED IN
A HIGH-SOUNDING DECLARATION OF PEACE AND NON-AGGRESSION WITH A
TOP ORGANISATION TO CONTROL THE SECURITY SYSTEM AND A SUMMIT TO
ENDORSE IT. THE WEST HOLDS THAT IF IT AFFIXES ITS SIGNATURE TO SUCH
A DOCUMENT, THE SOVIET BLOC SHOULD AT LEAST UNDERTAKE TO LOOSEN
THE BARRIERS WITH THE WESTERN COUNTRIES AND ALLOW FOR FREER
MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS ACROSS THE CURTAIN LINE, AS A START
FOR MORE FREEDOM WITHIN.

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AN ARMY SPOKESMAN SAID IRA GUNMEN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED A BRITISH SOLDIER IN A ROCKET ATTACK SUNDAY ON AN ARMY SARACEN ARMORED CAR GUARDING A BELFAST PARADE OF 1,000 MEMBERS OF THE CATHOLIC EX-SERVICEMEN'S ASSN.

IT WAS THE LATEST IN THE IRA'S WAVE OF ATTACKS USING SOVIET-MADE ANTI-TANK ROCKETS AND LAUNCHERS SMUGGLED INTO THE NORTH VIA THE IRISH REPUBLIC, SPAIN AND ARAB COUNTRIES, ACCORDING TO ARMY SOURCES.

IN OTHER VIOLENCE SUNDAY, PROTESTANT YOUTHS ATTACKED THE HOME OF A CATHOLIC FAMILY IN CARRICKFERGUS, COUNTY ANTRIM, WITH GASOLINE BOMBS. TWO GIRLS IN THE HOUSE, ONE FOUR AND THE OTHER 16, SUFFERED EXTENSIVE BURNS, POLICE SAID.

A BOMB EXPLOSION IN TANDRAGEE, COUNTY ARMAGH, WRECKED A PUB BUT CAUSED NO CASUALTIES, POLICE SAID.

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BY COLIN BAKER

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND (UPI)--NORTHERN IRELAND ENDED A WEEKEND OF MURDER TODAY. THE VICTIMS INCLUDED A PROTESTANT HOUSEWIFE, A ROMAN CATHOLIC BRANDED WITH THE INITIALS OF THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY (IRA) AND ANOTHER CIVILIAN.

THE DEATHS, ALL IN PREDOMINANTLY PROTESTANT EAST BELFAST, BROUGHT THE THREE-YEAR TOLL IN THE BRITISH PROVINCE TO 649 AND THE NUMBER OF APPARENT SECTARIAN SLAYINGS THIS YEAR TO 104.

IN THE LATEST ASSASSINATION, THE BODY OF AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN OF ABOUT 55 WAS FOUND SUNDAY BY CHILDREN PLAYING IN AN ALLEY IN A CATHOLIC ENCLAVE OF THE DISTRICT. POLICE SAID HE HAD BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.

THE BODY WAS DISCOVERED NEAR WHERE POLICE SATURDAY FOUND THE MAKER CORPSE OF PATRICK LIAM BENSTEAD, A 32-YEAR-OLD CATHOLIC. POLICE SAID HE HAD BEEN TORTURED AND HIS BACK BRANDED WITH THE INITIALS "IRA."

IN THE WEEKEND'S OTHER SLAYING, SANDRA MELI, A 26-YEAR-OLD PROTESTANT, WAS KILLED BY A BURST OF GUNFIRE FIRED THROUGH THE KITCHEN WINDOW OF HER HOME IN ANOTHER SECTION OF THE DISTRICT. HER CATHOLIC HUSBAND AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON WERE ELSEWHERE IN THE HOUSE.

POLICE HAVE SAID THEY CAN FIND NO MOTIVES FOR THE WAVE OF KILLINGS OTHER THAN REVENGE ON AN EYE-FOR-AN-EYE BASIS. THE ASSASSINATIONS HAVE APPEADED TO THE VIOLENCE WAGED BY THE IRA IN AN EFFORT TO UNITE THE PREDOMINANTLY PROTESTANT PROVINCE WITH THE MAINLY CATHOLIC IRISH REPUBLIC.

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BY DILLON GRAHAM

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE (FAS) REPORT SAYS THAT FOR THE LONG-TERM PICTURE, IT APPEARS THAT INCREASES IN WORLD BEEF PRODUCTION WILL BE RACING AGAINST RISING POPULATION AND RISING INCOMES.

MORE AND MORE, IT SAYS, BEEF WILL BE A WORLD MARKET COMMODITY; SHIFTS IN PRODUCTION AND IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT WILL LARGELY DEPEND UPON WORLD MARKET CONDITIONS, GROWING AFFLUENCE IN WESTERN EUROPE, TOGETHER WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ENLARGEMENT, WILL CAUSE A GREATER PULL ON INTERNATIONAL BEEF SUPPLIES.

THE REPORT SAYS JAPAN IS LIKELY TO BECOME A GREATER FACTOR IN THE WORLD BEEF MARKET. IT POINTS OUT THAT RETAIL PRICES OF BEEF ARE HIGHER IN MOST OF WESTERN EUROPE AND IN JAPAN THAN IN THE UNITED STATES, AND SAYS U.S. CONSUMERS ARE GETTING A BARGAIN IN BEEF BY WORLD STANDARDS.

IN HIS REPORT, HAROLD SANDEN OF THE FAS NOTES THAT THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE UNITED KINGDOM-TWO OF THE WORLD'S GREAT BEEF MARKETS-FACH HAS ITS OWN TRADITIONAL BUYING PATTERN AND ITS OWN SPECIFIC NEEDS IN BEEF TYPES. SO ALSO DOES JAPAN AND THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BEEF MARKET-THE UNITED STATES. SIMILARLY, FACH OF THE WORLD'S FOUR MAJOR BEEF EXPORTERS-ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND IRELAND-PRODUCES ITS OWN SPECIAL BEEF TYPES.

WASHINGTON -- AGRICULTURE REPORT 2

'ALL OF THE MAJOR BEEF MARKETS EXCEPT JAPAN ARE ALSO BEEF EXPORTERS. THEY MAY COVER THE NEEDS OF ONE PARTICULAR TYPE, IMPORT A SECOND, AND EXPORT A THIRD TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE SHORT OF THAT TYPE BUT MAY PERHAPS EXPORT A DIFFERENT TYPE,' HE SAYS.

BEEF, SANDEN SAYS, IS NOT JUST 'BEEF'. THAT IS, THERE IS NO SINGLE GRADE OR CUT OF BEEF THAT CAN BE USED AS AN INDICATOR COMMON TO ALL COUNTRIES.

'THE TYPICAL U.S. CONSUMER DEMANDS HIGH-QUALITY STEAKS AND ROASTS, WHICH REQUIRE A FATTER, HIGHER QUALITY OF YOUNG BEEF FROM STEERS AND HEIFERS,' SANDEN SAYS.

'BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE CHILDREN IN HIS FAMILY HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE HAMBURGER AND THE HOT DOG, AND MADE THEM WORLDWIDE SYMBOLS OF FAMILY-STYLE AMERICAN LIVING,' HE SAYS.

'FULLY 46 TO 50 PERCENT OF ALL BEEF CONSUMED IN THE UNITED STATES IS GROUND BEEF; SO THE NEED FOR LEANER PROCESSING BEEF TO MIX WITH THE FATTER DOMESTIC BEEF CUTS HAS MADE THE UNITED STATES ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT MARKETS FOR LEAN MANUFACTURING BEEF,' SANDEN SAYS.

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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS (AP)--A PILE OF 25 BODIES LAY IN SANTA CRUZ' RODFOS AIRPORT AND ANOTHER 50 WERE LAID OUT IN WOODEN COFFINS IN THE PORTICO OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH AS INVESTIGATORS PROBED THE DEBRIS OF A SPANTAX CHARTER JFT THAT EXPLODED ON TAKEOFF SUNDAY KILLING 155 PERSONS IN THE WORST AIR CRASH IN SPANISH HISTORY.

THERE WAS NO OFFICIAL EXPLANATION OF THE CRASH THAT SENT THE CONVAIR CORONADO 990--A PLANE FILLED WITH GERMAN TOURISTS TO A FIFRY FINISH AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY.

THE CIVIL GOVERNOR'S OFFICE IN SANTA CRUZ SAID IT WOULD REPORT MONDAY.

RESCUE WORKERS MEANWHILE PROBED THE WRECKAGE FOR MANGLED AND BURNED VICTIMS.

WEST GERMAN CONSUL JOACHIM ALHERS SAID 143 OF THE 148 PASSENGERS WERE GERMAN TOURISTS, MEMBERS OF A BUS OWNERS' ASSOCIATION IN BAVARIA.

SEVEN SPANISH CRUISE, THREE AUSTRIANS AND TWO ITALIANS ALSO DIED IN THE CRASH.

OFFICIALS SAID IDENTIFICATION WAS SLOWED BY THE CONDITION OF THE BODIES, TORN TO BITS, BURNED AND SCATTERED OVER AN AREA OF 200 BY 300 METERS. (MORE)

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## SANTA CRUZ--PLANE WRAPUP 2

THE JFT, ON A CHARTER FLIGHT FROM SANTA CRUZ TO MUNICH, BURST INTO FLAMES ON TAKEOFF. WITNESSES SAID IT BARELY CLEARED 300 FFET--100 METERS--BEFORE IT FELL ONTO THE RUNWAY AT THE END OF THIS CANARY ISLANDS AIRPORT.

A GERMAN TEAM OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, INCLUDING FIVE FINGER PRINT EXPERTS, FLEW INTO SANTA CRUZ LATE SUNDAY TO HELP WITH IDENTIFICATION, BUT THEY WERE NOT PERMITTED TO LOOK AT THE SCENE, PENDING CLEARANCE OF SPANISH OFFICIALS.

SPANTAX, SPECIALIZING IN CHARTER FLIGHTS, SAID THERE WAS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THE PLANE HAD BEEN SABOTAGED. BUT ITS MADRID OFFICE SAID IT WAS INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITY.

THE GERMAN BUS OWNERS ARRIVED AT TENERIFE AFTER AN ATLANTIC VOYAGE ON THE GREEK TOUR SHIP JACSON WITH THE FINAL STOP AT CASABLANCA IN MOROCCO.

THE WEATHER WAS CLEAR WHEN THE PLANE TOOK OFF EARLY SUNDAY.

RESCUE WORKERS LABORED THROUGH THE NIGHT HUNTING FOR THE REST OF THE BODIES.

ONLY ONE PERSON, AN UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN IN HER LATE TEENS, SURVIVED THE IMPACT. SHE DIED WITHIN MINUTES AT A SANTA CRUZ HOSPITAL. (END)

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## SOCCER STRIKE 1

PARIS(AP)-THE REGULAR ROUNDOF THE FRENCH FIRST LEAGUE SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS WAS DISRUPTED SUNDAY WHEN MORE THAN HALF OF THE TEAMS WENT ON STRIKE FOLLOWING AN ORDER BY THE PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS' UNION.

ONLY TWO MATCHES COULD BE PLAYED BY COMPLETE TEAMS WITH THEIR USUAL LINEUPS. THREE OTHER MATCHES WERE PLAYED WITH SECOND-RANKED PROFESSIONNALS OR AMATEURS CALLED IN TO REPLACE REGULAR PLAYERS WHO WERE ON STRIKE, AND FIVE MEETS HAD TO BE CANCELLED.

THE STRIKE WAS CALLED BY THE NATIONAL UNION OF PROFESSIONNAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS (UNFP) AS A PROTEST AT WHAT THEY SAID WAS THE DISCIPLINING OF THE LYON FIRST LEAGUE TEAM FOR ATTENDING A FOOTBALLERS' UNION MEETING. THE UNFP SAID THE LYON TEAM MANAGEMENT'S DECISION TO DROP EIGHT PLAYERS FROM A FIRST DIVISION MATCH TO A THIRD DIVISION MEET WAS A DISGUISED RETALIATION TO THESE PLAYERS' PARTICIPATION TO A CONGRESS OF THE UNION. IT DEMANDED THAT THE SANCTION BE CANCELLED.

IN THE ONLY TWO MATCHES WHICH WERE REGULARLY PLAYED SUNDAY, RENNES BEAT NICE, THE LEADER IN THE STANDINGS, 3-0, AND NANTES BEAT NIMES 3-0. (MORE)
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OFFICIALS SAID THEY DOUBTFD THE RESULTS OF THE THREE OTHER MATCHES, WHICH WERE PLAYED WITH NON REGULAR TEAM MEMBERS, WOULD BE COUNTED IN THE STANDINGS.

IN ONE OF THESE, THE PARIS FOOTBALL CLUB WITH A LINEUP OF AMATEURS WAS SEVERELY BEATEN BY THE METZ AMATEURS TEAM WHICH WAS STRONGER THAN BY FOUR FIRST DIVISION PROFESSIONALS WHO HAD REFUSED TO GO ON STRIKE. METZ WON BY 11 TO 1.

THE MARSEILLE TEAM, WHERE ALL PROFESSIONNALS DECIDED TO PLAY AFTER A LAST MINUTE 8-4 MAJORITY VOTE, WAS OPPOSED TO THE STRASBOURG THIRD DIVISION TEAM WHICH IT EASILY BEAT 4-0.

THE BASTIA FIRST DIVISION TEAM ALSO DECIDED TO PLAY SHORTLY BEFORE THE GAME STARTED AND BEAT THE LYON TEAM WHERE ONLY TWO REGULAR PLAYERS AGREED TO ENTER THE FIELD AND NINE AMATEURS WERE CALLED IN TO SUBSTITUTE THE NINE ABSENTEES. THE SCORE WAS 3-0 FOR BASTIA.

THE FIVE CANCELLED MATCHES WERE NANCY VS SEDAN, SAINT-ETIENNE VS RED-STAR, SOCHAUX VS ANGERS, VALENCIENNES VS BORDEAUX AND REIMS VS AJACCIO.

ACCORDING TO STANDINGS WHICH MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGES BECAUSE OF TODAY'S DISRUPTIONS, NICE REMAINED THE LEADER WITH 26 POINTS, AHEAD OF NANTES WITH 23 POINTS AND MARSEILLE, 22. (END)
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