# U.S., Saudi Arabia to Strengthen Economic, Military Cooperation

## TIES, From A1

purchase of advanced American military equipment, U.S. investment in joint ventures to industrialize the oil-centered Saudi economy, energy and international monetary questions and opportunities for Saudi investment of some of its huge monetary reserves in U.S. markets.

King emphatically denied that the United States was indulging in the kind of bilateralism between oil-consuming and producing nations for which Washington has been criticizing its European allies, particularly France.

"We are not engaged in discussions with the Saudis to gain a preferred position at the expense of other consuming nations with respect to the purchase of Saudi Arabian oil," the State Department spokesman said. "The United States will continue to press for multilateral solutions to the world petroleum problem."

He said the United States had consulted beforehand "at an appropriate level" with European governments as well as with Japan and Israel regarding the U.S.-Saudi agreement. But he was uncertain whether France, which has made its own arms-for-oil deal with the Saudis, had been informed.

But some observers saw the U.S.-Saudi joint declaration as at least an implicit warning to other oil-consuming nations that Washington, despite its current difficulties in the Arab world, still has the ability to compete successfully for continued access to oil supplies in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter and petroleum reservoir. Saudi Arabia has traditionally relied on the United States for military, economic and diplomatic support.

The announcement nonetheless came as a surprise to many analysts of Arab-American affairs. While Saudi Arabia and the United States had been holding talks on expanding economic and military cooperation before the war, these discussions were halted with the outbreak of hostilities. U.S.-Saudi relations were then stretched almost to the breaking point by American shipment of arms to Israel during the war.

Since the disengagement of Israeli and Egyptian forces along the Suez, however, the Saudis have been in the forefront of Arab states pressing for a lifting of the oil embargo on the United States: apparently as a prelude to resuming cooperation talks with Washington.

Coming before any further agreement between Israel and the Arab states, the Saudi-American rapprochement could easily expose the Saudis to sharp criticism from the radical Arab states, particularly Syria, and the Palestinians.

The State Department's spokesman went out of his way yesterday to say that both the United States and Saudi Arabia would work to strengthen their ties "in ways that will enhance stability in the Middle East" and "support our efforts to achieve a just and durable settlement in the area." He also said there was no change in the American policy of continued support for Israel.

One outcome of closer Saudi-American cooperation could well be a new lease on life for the Arabian-American Oil Co. (Aramco), the giant American-owned consortium that produces over 90 per cent of Saudi Arabia's total exports now running at 8.4 million barrels a day. A little over 1 million barrels of this is now being shipped to American markets.

Reports circulating just before, during and after the October war said the Saudi government would demand at least a 51 per cent interest in Aramco and might nationalize it completely. The Saudis, now have a 25 per cent interest.

Soviet Attacks U.S. Press on Kissinger

By HEDRICK SMITH

Special to The New York Times

MOSCOW, April 4—Pravda today accused The New York Timets, The Washington Post and other American newspapers of “obvious political sabotage” of Soviet-American negotiations because of “pessimistic” reports that Secretary of State Kissinger had failed to achieve negotiating breakthroughs during recent talks here.

The authoritative commentary, broadening two earleir attacks by Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, on the French press and the Western press in general, was directed particularly as press suggestions that the Kissinger mission had failed because of the Kremlin's intransigence.

It was not clear whether Moscow might also be chastising Mr. Kissinger. Dispatches written by newsmen traveling with him on hi airplane are often based, at least in part, on informal comments made by the Secretary himself.

"Certain organs of the American bourgeois press, especially such influential newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post, indulge in irresponsible disinformation, contrary to the facts," Pravda asserted.

"They try, with all their force, to represent the whole business in such a way as to create the impression that the Moscow mission of H. Kissinger has 'failed completely because of the Kremlin's hard line.'"

The New York Times did not publish such a comment.

"What are the sources of the 'pessimism' of The New York

Times and The Washington Post, as well as of some other newspapers?" Pravda asked. "Are we not witnesses of disguised sabotage of the development of the Soviet-American dialogue?"

The paper's Washington correspondent, Boris Strelnikov, asserted that some "local political observers" were convinced: "Yes, we have obvious political sabotage." In an authoritative Pravda commentary, quoting unidentified observers is a standard formulation for presenting the Kremlin's own view.

The sharpness of the attack indicated the sensitivity of the leadership headed by Mr. Brezhnev, and presumably of Mr. Brezhnev personally, to any public indications that the Kremlin's détente policy was in trouble in Washington.

Warning May Be Internal

Some West European specialists suggested tonight that the Pravda commentary might also have been intended by the Brezhnev group as a warning to internal hard-liners not to push too hard on some issues because this would raise insurmountable obstacles in Washington.

Pravda asserted that a "motley coalition" had come out against development of Soviet-American relations, including "representatives of the military-industrial complex, extreme rightist organizations, Zionist circles and their agents in the American congress."

The Soviet press continues attacks on the "military industrial complex" almost daily while simultaneously printing reports of intense interest in Soviet-American trade by large American corporations, many

of them leading defense contractors.

Similarly, Pravda's accusations of "Irresponsible disinformation" against the American press coincide with reports by Tass, the Soviet press agency, and other Soviet publications emphasizing the energy crisis and inflation in America, racial segregation in the South, pensioners who can only afford one meal daily, or labor machineations exposed in the trial of W. A. Boyle, former president of the United Mine Workers.

Dayan Says Egypt

To Pull Out Artillery

JERUSALEM, April 3 (AP) —Egypt has promised to remove all the illegal artillery placed in its zone east of the

Suez Canal, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told Parliament today.

He said Cairo now has 72 cannon inside the zone, twice the number permitted under the agreement worked out by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Dayan said he had been informed of the Egyptian agreement to remove the artillery by Gen. Ensio Siilasvuo, chief of the U.N. Emergency Force patrolling the Suez front.

On the Golan Heights front, the Syrian military command reported that Syrian and Israeli guns and tanks continued their duel for the 23d straight day.

C.C. Times April 4-74

Actor **SIDNEY POITIER** says Kenya is a model multiracial society which white minority governments in southern Africa would do well to imitate. The black star, in Nairobi to film "The Wilby Conspiracy" with British actor **MICHAEL CAINE**, told newsmen yesterday that Kenya could become "the second Hollywood." The movie being filmed deals with racial separation polices in South Africa and a black fugitive on the run from police.

The new Brazilian Academy of Humor has voted to award its first "Order of the Laughing voted to award its first "Order of the Laughing Hyena" medal to U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER. The academy in Sao Paulo praised the American diplomat yesterday for his ability to "keep his sense of humor in spite of formidable problems and apparently insurmountable obstacles." The symbol of the academy is a spotted hyena doubled up in laughter.

EVENING NEWS

TUESDAY

APRIL 3, 1974

MRS. KISSINGER --- SYMBOL AND PROTOTYPE

Eric Sevareid --- CBS - TV and Radio --- Henry Kissinger now has somebody to come home to, as they say; that implies that now and then he will -- a good idea. When Dean Rusk became Secretary of State he figured the trouble with his predecessor, Mr. Dulles, was that Dulles ran the State Department out of his hat which was always on his head as he was always traveling, but President Johnson forced Rusk to do the same. As for Kissinger, no comment needed; but if he owns a hat he now has a place to hang it. A good few people in the State Department think it is time he got married to the Department as well as to Nancy Maginnes, not that he is likely to become a house husband or she a house wife. The new Mrs. or MS Kissinger is a symbol of the new time in a changing capital city. It is many years since Justice Holmes looked at the long row of faces at a starchy White House dinner and made his famous remark -- "Washington is full of great men and the women they married when they were very young......

Nancy Maginnes Kissinger is the prototype of the new breed: bright, highly educated, fashionable when she chooses to be, confident so that she doesn't need to see and be seen, though how she now will avoid the flashbulbs remains a mystery. She already knows that while power and hot money counts here, the real power lies in the country itself not in the capital, that big receptions bring only sore feet, cocktail parties ringing ears, that only smallish parties worth the time. Likely as not she agrees with Max Beerbohm who said there are only three forms of true happiness --- to be writing a really good book, to be at a dinner party with six, or was it eight old friends or to be traveling south with someone your conscience permits you to love. They did head down Mexico way.

# Golan Fire Traded More Than 8 Hours

From News Dispatches

Syria claimed yesterday that its tanks and artillery inflicted heavy losses on Israeli forces on the Golan Heights.

Two Syrian soldiers were slightly wounded as shooting between the armies continued into a fourth consecutive week, a Syrian artillery spokesman said. Heavy exchanges of fire lasted for more than eight hours, he said.

There was no statement from Israel on the report of the fighting.

Upon his return to Israel from the United States, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told reporters he was still convinced that the situation on the Golan Heights might not develop into a major conflict. Neither Israel nor the United States want an escalation in that region, he said.

Dayan said he hoped a disengagement agreement would be reached after talks between Syrian representatives and U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in Washington later this month.

Meanwhile, Israel instructed its chief United Nations delegate, Yosef Tekoah, to submit an urgent protest to the U.N. secretary general, Kurt Waldheim, against what Israel called continuous Syrian aggression.

Waldheim protested yesterday to the Syrian U.N. representative the seizure of two U.N. truce observers by Syrian troops on the Golan Heights

Sunday night, a U.N. spokesman said.

The observers, U.S. and Irish captains, were forced to march 20 miles barefoot and wearing only their underwear to a Syrian military outpost, they said yesterday in Damascus.

Syrian authorities said the observers had been mistaken for Israelis, and that the two men were expected to be released soon from a Italian hospital in Damascus. Neither was hurt, a U.N. spokesman said.

Capt. John J. Holly, 27, a Marine from Corning, N.Y., and Capt. James Mortell of Ireland appeared in good spirits.

Holly said he and Mortell were sleeping in a U.N. trailer near an Israeli position when an Arab soldier ordered them up and marched them to the Syrian side.

"The soldier obviously took us for Israelis," Holly said. "He spoke only Arabic, and we could not identify ourselves. We reached an Arab army position and were identified and properly treated. Our feet were badly cut from the long barefoot march."

Hospital officials said Holly would be returned to his U.N. observation post in the Golan Heights within four days. Mortell, who had more severe cuts, was expected to spend about two weeks at the hospital.

Rowland Evans and Robert Novak

WP 4/4/74

# For Dr. Kissinger: Criticism From Pro-Israel Hardliners

The first glimmerings of a potentially ominous attack against Secretary of State Henry Kissinger by pro-Israel hardliners have begun appearing in this country's Zionist press, deeply worrying more moderate Jewish leaders.

Muted criticism of the first Jewish Secretary of State began immediately after his brilliant performance separating Egypt and Israel in January. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), a hard-line Zionist lobby, in its February bulletin criticized that agreement as "strengthening the position of the belligerent Arab world and the Soviet Union."

By March, ZOA no longer muted its criticism. Directly attacking Kissinger for the first time, it next criticized the political leadership of Israel itself which, it said, regards Kissinger "as a second Disraeli."

"In the United States, on the other hand," the bulletin continued, "Jewish leaders, both Zionist and non-Zionist,

are jittery, wondering whether he is not leaning over backwards as a Jew to placate the Arabs and their Soviet protectors."

This toughening ZOA line in no way reflects opinion in the political center of the powerful American-Jewish community. But some of these moderate Jewish leaders now fear this may change as a result of the dangerous increase in Syrian-Israeli military activity on the Golan Heights. Kissinger's pressure for Israeli concessions there could widen ZOA's anti-Kissinger ripple into a far broader attack.

Kissinger has never underestimated the delicacy of his position toward the American-Jewish community. He has remarked privately that if either the Israeli government or the American-Jewish community ever concludes that he is pushing Israel too hard, he could be outflanked.

Although the moderate Jewish leadership's political roots are deep in the Democratic Party, it gave President

Nixon substantial support for re-election in 1972 and declared a moratorium on criticism of the administration's Mideast policies when the Yom Kippur war began Oct. 6. Now that truce is showing signs of strain, quite apart from the hard-line position of the ZOA.

An example is Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the Zionist Federation of America (an umbrella organization which embraces many organizations). He was less than enthusiastic in a statement last week giving Kissinger good marks in handling both the Israeli conflict and the question of immigration by Soviet Jews. "We have no complaints for the time being against Kissinger," Miller was quoted by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "But that does not mean that we are going to follow him blindly."

Kissinger has tried hard to keep the American-Jewish community neutralized in his hazardous effort to reverse 25 years of American diplomacy. But in his zeal to prove U.S. good faith

to Arab leaders, he opens the door—probably inevitably—to Jewish complaints that he has gone too far.

Thus, ZOA's March bulletin, in a sarcastic item, said that "the kissing contest currently under way in Arab capitals" is being lost by the Soviet Union and won by Kissinger—"a new suitor for embracement by sheiks, presidents and kings of Arabia."

Considering the modest border adjustments Kissinger has mediated so far, this gives the merest hint of what he can expect. Israeli withdrawal from the Suez Canal was far less painful than others in store for Israel. Kissinger is now concentrating on the Golan Heights, but after that comes the emotional question of the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Here Kissinger's problem is compounded by the flimsy structure of Prime Minister Golda Meir's new government. As a price for giving her a parliamentary majority, the New Religious Party extracted this concession: no change on the West Bank (Samaria and Judea) without a plebiscite.

Moreover, some Jewish leaders here are convinced that Israel's true interests—and certainly this country's—require major border rectifications, including establishment of a Palestinian state on the West Bank. In trying to achieve this, they see another trap for Kissinger: President Nixon's own vulnerability to pro-Israeli hardliners in Congress whose votes he needs in the impeachment battle.

So far, there is no disagreement between Kissinger and the President, who desperately needs another foreign policy triumph: political solution of the 25-year Arab-Israeli war. To get it, he seems willing to take limited risks with his hard-line Jewish constituency.

But each Kissinger move ahead will tighten battle lines at home and in Israel, potentially subjecting Mr. Nixon to increasing political threats. To manipulate and control these pressures may be beyond anyone, even so subtle a diplomat as Dr. Kissinger. The rising tide of Jewish criticism shows that.

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Dayan Submits
List of Weapons

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan presented the United States today with an arms shopping list that includes an urgent request for help in blunting Arab superiority in antiaircraft missiles.

Dayan was seeing Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger at 11 a.m.

"We will discuss relations and arms supplies," Dayan said on television yesterday.

Dayan said Israel has weapons parity with the surrounding Arab states except in the field of antiaircraft missiles supplied to the Egyptians and Syrians by the Soviet Union destroyed a large part of the Israeli air force during the October war, challenging Israeli control of the air in the Middle East for the first time.

"In the area of antiaircraft missiles, the Russians have helped the Arabs to have superiority over us," Dayan said. "I don't know whether you Americans have anything better."

"I have no complaint about your American weapons, but I do have a complaint about not having some of your weapons," Dayan added.

Dayan said in addition to Soviet supplies of arms, the Syrians are supported by some foreign troops stationed on their territory. He said these include North Koreans and "about a brigade" of Cubans, as well as Saudi Arabians and other Arabs.

Nevertheless, Dayan said he believes Syria probably does now want an agreement with Israel although differences between the two remain "big and wide."

"I am hopeful," Dayan said. "Not more than hopeful, but hopeful... The main point is, we want an agreement and they (the Syrians) want an agreement, although there is a big and wide gap between us."

Dayan outlined his suggestions for disengaging Israeli and Syrian troops locked on the Golan Front in two sessions with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger Friday and Saturday. Syrian emissaries are due in Washington in about 10 days to present their own ideas and

hear Kissinger's submission of the Israeli proposals.

Syrian and Israeli guns and tanks resumed their daily pounding in the Golan Heights for the 21st straight day today and Dayan was reported to have warned against further escalation.

The Israeli army command said that Syrian gunners opened up on one of the two Israeli positions captured from Syria in the October war on Mt. Hermon. It was the third attack within a week on the towering observation point that Dayan has called "the eyes of Israel."

A spokesman said there were no casualties in the relatively light morning artillery and tank

exchanges, however.

Syrian communiques indicated the Syrians were escalating both the duration and scope of what the Arab press was calling a "war of attrition."

On Saturday and yesterday they said artillery and tank fire continued for 11 hours. For the first time last night they spoke of striking "in depth" at Israeli military targets behind the front lines.

The Israeli newspaper Maariv said Dayan warned "of a tough Israeli response if the deterioration on the Golan continues." He spoke to a closed session with Jewish fund raisers in New York, Maariv said.

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VIETNAMESE RANGER CLUTCHES HIS WOUNDED BABY
Child Was Injured During Enemy Artillery Barrage

Rangers were lifted in by helicopter to reinforce the 160 troops manning the base.

Government spokesmen put Ranger losses at 29 killed and 27 wounded. They said 16 members of the Rangers' families were killed, although field reports put the number of dependents who died at as high

which erupted last Wednesday, the field reports said.

Two government Al Skyraid-er bombers and two spotter planes have been reported lost in the fighting for Duc Hue, which is within three miles of the Cambodian frontier. Military sources said the Communists have been using small SA7 heat-seeking aircraft.

release five captured North Americans provided the Ethiopian government does not retaliate, negotiator Ed P. Burtchaell said today, adding that the government is ready to cooperate.

The five employes of the American-owned Tenneco Oil Company — three Americans and two Canadians — were captured by guerrillas last week when their helicopter was forced down in a storm near the Red Sea port of Massawa.

Tenneco President Burtchaell said the guerrillas contacted him late last night. They sent a note written in English to a police station and the note was then telephoned to him in the northern city of Asmara where he has been waiting.

"It was very encouraging," he said in a telephone interview. "There were no conditions except that there should be no retaliation. The government is quite prepared to go along with this."

Burtchaell said there were indications the five, reported to be in good health, had been constantly moved about during their captivity, perhaps walking 10 to 15 miles a day.

He said he knew their approximate whereabouts, which was a "long way away" from where the helicopter came down and was destroyed on the ground by the guerrillas. He would give no further details. Once the men are released. He said, they will be taken to a nearby American military base and spend at least a day in hospital there. There are about 600 Americans manning a satellite tracking station in Asmara.

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# ‘No Nonsense’ in Greece

## New Government Has Made It Clear That Dissenters Will Not Be Tolerated

By STEVEN V. ROBERTS

Special to The New York Times

ATHENS, March 31—Greece celebrated her national day last week with dozens of tanks rumbling through Athens, showing off the nation's military might. But the sizable crowds

lining the sunlit parade route stared in silence as the olive drab armor clanked past. To some Greeks, the

guns seemed pointed as much at them as at any foreign enemy.

Four months after a military coup deposed the Government of George Papadopoulos, a former Army colonel who seized power in 1967, the direction Greece is taking remains murky and uncertain. Readers gave a knowing laugh last week when The Athens News published a picture of Chinese characters and labeled it "The Greek Political Situation."

But at least one point is now clear: The new Government will not tolerate dissent. The Athens daily newspaper Eleftheros Cosmos seemed to be taking an official view when it editorialized on the national day, March 25, the anniversary of the rebellion against the Turks in 1821, that "Greece is perhaps menaced more internally and

ros, 65 years old, has apparently been exiled to Gyaros, a harsh island in the Aegean, where about 100 political prisoners have been reported sent.

Several former associates of Mr. Papadopoulos have also been rounded up. Michael Balopoulos, former secretary general of the national tourist organization, was arrested and released last week, but Ioannis Agathangelou, once the No. 2 man in the previous administration, remains on Gyaros after his arrest for "creating unrest among citizens."

Dissident film makers, actors and singers have also been send to Gyaros. About 10 small night clubs in the Plaka district were closed by the police, apparently because they presented songs composed by Mikis Theodorakis, an avowed leftist now living in exile.

Diplomats and professors say that students are routinely arrested and released as a form of "intimidation." Student demonstrations helped bring about the coup last November, and it is still uncertain how many youths were killed after tanks stormed the campus of the Athens Polytechnic University. The official figure for civilian

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# SOVIET-ENDORSES HANOI TRUCE PLEA

## Bids U.S. Stop Shipment of Arms to South—Response to Pressure Is Seen

Special to the New York Times

MOSCOW, March 31—The Soviet Union today joined North Vietnam's demand that the United States halt “violations” of the ban in the Vietnam cease-fire agreement on shipments of armaments, munitions and other matériel into South Vietnam.

The Soviet stand, issued in a statement by Tass, the Soviet press agency, was the sharpest attack on the United States on the subject of Vietnam in many months.

The statement, which carries almost the force of a Government pronouncement, endorsed a North Vietnamese diplomatic note sent on March 18 to the parties that participated in the Vietnam peace conference in Paris a year ago.

The North Vietnamese note called for measures to end what it said were American violations of Article 7 of the Paris cease-fire agreement signed in January, 1973—the provision requiring that neither side in South Vietnam accept the introduction of military personnel or war matériel from the outside.

Tass, in its statement, said that persistent tension in South

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Vietnam was a result of "the grossly provocative activities of the Saigon authorities, which, leaning on the support of U. S. imperialist circles, refuse to reckon with the two zones of control, two administrations and two armed forces really existing in South Vietnam."

It added that "any actions leading to the violation and subversion of peace in Vietnam, in whatever form, are resolutely condemned in the Soviet Union."

That Moscow has now spoken out is read here as a response

to North Vietnamese pressure on the Soviet Union. Hanoi has urged stronger Moscow pressure on Washington and Saigon to cut back military operations against Vietcong forces.

Visit by Hanoi's Premier

The North Vietnamese Premier, Pham Van Dong, visited Moscow in the middle of the month and held talks with Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin, shortly before the visit here last week of Secretary of State Kissinger.

But official statements on Mr. Kissinger's talks with the Soviet party leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, gave no indication that Vietnam was dealt with extensively in their three days of conversations.

Heretofore, the Soviet press has periodically warned of the dangers inherent in the tense and unresolved situation in South Vietnam. But by and large, the Soviet news media have not made much of the

a victory for Communist forces and any detailed explanation of the situation on the ground would involve a discussion of the continued existence of the Government of President Nguyen Van Thieu.

Other Proposals Backed

The Tass statement also endorsed Vietcong proposals made on March 22 for strict observance of the cease-fire and for progress by the two sides toward negotiations for a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord and organizing elections.

Previously, Soviet newspapers had expressed support for these proposals, but not quite so formally. The statement today was taken as an effort to focus new attention on the Vietcong proposals.

The North Vietnamese note on American arms shipments to South Vietnam followed reports from Washington earlier this month that the Nixon Adminis-

tration was preparing to extend about $2.4-billion in military and economic aid to South Vietnam in the fiscal year beginning July 1—a 65 per cent increase over current appropriations.

Amin Seeks Unified Force
To Fight White in Africa

KAMPALA, Uganda, March 31, (Reuters)—Uganda's President, Idi Amin, today urged black Africa to form a combined military force to fight white minority rule on the African Continent.

General Amin was speaking to welcome delegates arriving for a meeting tomorrow of the 42-member Organization of African Unity.

According to Radio Uganda General Amin told the officials that the organization should set aside one or two battalions to fight the white governments under a joint military command.

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# Moscow and the Mideast

THE MIDEAST rightly is regarded as at once the most important and the most demanding political testing ground for Soviet-American detente, the place which the overlap of great-power rivalry and local tension has made the most dangerous in the world. But the Mideast is as well a region where both local sides, Arab and Israeli, look for a settlement primarily to the United States. American good faith is more or less generally accepted, despite American support of Israel. Soviet good faith is more or less generally accepted, despite American support of Israel. Soviet good faith is not widely accepted, perhaps in part because of subversive activities mounted by Moscow, especially in Egypt. The Kremlin's patronage is valued by its Arab friends far more in wartime than in peace. This has created a seemingly paradoxical situation. To improve relations and lessen tensions with the United States, the Russians must facilitate, or at least not block, diplomatic progress in the Mideast. But the more the Mideast moves toward stability, the less influence in the region the Soviets can expect to have. For them it is not an easy tradeoff.

Thus it is that Soviet policy in the Mideast remains essentially ambivalent, the more so after the Kissinger-Brezhnev talks in Moscow last week. The communique registered the formal Soviet support for a settlement. But the talks seem to have resulted in American agreement to consult the Kremlin more closely on the Mideast and, at some point, to move negotiations from direct American sponsorship under Henry Kissinger, to joint Soviet-American sponsorship in the context of the Geneva peace conference. The Russians have been expressing increasing displeasure at being shut out of Dr. Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, and at being ignored by their erstwhile dependents (military dependents), the Egyptians. Presumably, the United States, in return for letting

Moscow nudge its way back into the Mideast diplomatic act, got some assurance that the Russians would not simply play the spoiler—by egging the Arabs to take extreme positions, by feeding them excessive arms, by manipulating Arab governments in their own capitals, or whatever. If not, the United States got a bad deal. It will also be interesting, and indicative of overall Soviet intentions, to see if the Russians continue to tell the Arab oil states to maintain the embargo, to nationalize American oil properties, to keep oil prices high, to bar American investments, and to take their money out of Western banks.

At any rate, it appears that the Soviet Union is not now conducting a diplomatic breaking-and-entering operation to get into the talks which are about to begin in Washington to negotiate a disengagement of forces on the still-hot cease-fire line between Syria and Israel. As with Egypt, Moscow is not in a position to offer Syria the element crucial to successful disengagement: Israeli consent. As with Israel's patron, the United States is in a position to offer Syria that element. A disengagement accord, however, will be very difficult. Having attacked Israel twice in seven years and having lost territory both times, meanwhile having disdained all efforts at a diplomatic solution, Syria still seems unaware of the change in its own attitude which will be required for a gradual accommodation. The Syrians are said to feel rather abandoned by Egypt, which not only made its own disengagement accord promptly with Israel but went on to help persuade the Arab producers to lift their embargo on oil shipments to the United States. But perhaps the Syrians will now be ready to follow Egypt's reasonable lead. If they are, it will be that much easier for the United States to persuade Israel, which needs little persuading on this immediate issue, to do what is necessary for an early disengagement.

Syrian 'Talk-Fight'?

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Yesterday's apparent escalation of the "war of attrition" between Syrian and Israeli forces contrasts ominously with the hopes for disengagement on the Golan Heights voiced by Secretary of State Kissinger Saturday and echoed in Cairo.

A reported attempt by Syrian patrols to probe behind Israeli lines after three months of relatively innocuous artillery duels could touch off a new round of fighting that might once more inflame the whole region. If this is what the Syrians—and more importantly, their Soviet mentors—have in mind, the outlook for Mr. Kissinger's intensive diplomatic initiative is bleak indeed.

It may be that the Syrians are merely trying to im-

## Man in the News

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## Editorials and Comment

Editorials and Letters. Page 30

Anthony Lewis gleans the light of history. Page 31

William Safire advocates some diplonomics. Page 31

Victor Gold on being boxed by Watergate. Page 31

John W. Dean 3d appraises tests of character. Page 31

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Steven V. Roberts discusses situation in Greece. Page 4

B. Drummond Ayers Jr. on DC-10 safety rules. Page 54

apart the century-old statute of the famous 19th-century performer in a Bridgeport cemetery and made off with the head, two teen-aged girls found it wedged in a cavity of a nearby oak tree last Wednesday.

Officials, who noted that it was the second time in 15 years that someone had de-capitated the 36-inch statute, said they hoped to have it restored in time for the annual ceremonies on July 5 honoring P. T. Barnum, the one-time Bridgeport Mayor and flamboyant showman who “discovered” the midget he dubbed “General Tom Thumb,” and who is buried near the Tom Thumb Memorial.

Kissinger Replies to Kennedy

# Saigon Aid Linked to Pact

By Peter Masley

Washington Post Staff Writer

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger says that the 1973 Paris agreement bringing a cease-fire to Vietnam committed the United States to aid South Vietnam although "no bilateral written commitment" exists.

Stating that the United States has invested "great human and material resources" to give South Vietnam the right to self-determination, Kissinger said that "we have thus committed ourselves very substantially, both politically

and morally. While the South Vietnamese government and people are demonstrating increasing self-reliance, we believe it is important that we continue our support as long as it is needed."

Kissinger explained U.S. policy on Indochina in a document prepared at the request of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees.

Kennedy responded to the Kissinger policy statement released yesterday on Capitol Hill by calling it "a welcome

but disturbing clarification" of U.S. policy.

"I am distressed that the secretary's statement seems to propound a new rationalization for our continued heavy involvement in Indochina," Kennedy said. "Apparently the administration now views the Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring the Peace as creating new American commitments to South Vietnam."

The Paris cease-fire agreement was signed Jan. 27, 1973, by the United States, South

See KENNEDY, A9, Col. 1

"There are no doubt several causes—among them the problems relating to energy—but the causes are not what matters," the President said.

"What matters is this: the men who fought on the battle lines in Vietnam must not come back to job lines in America. We must redouble our efforts to help these young men and women find jobs."

The President recalled that at a recent White House news conference "one of the most spirited reporters in Washington, Sarah McClendon of Texas," asked him why some GI benefit checks were late arriving.

"That was a good question," he said, "and the next day I asked the Veterans Administration for an answer."

Each month the VA mail

coordinated the conference, did not notify people across the nation who might have benefitted by the workshops.

One recommendation approved was that a steering committee of geographically representative women with experience in campaigns and in setting up conferences would assist the DNC in planning future meetings.

Another recommendation was aimed at remedying the frequent complaint that women's conferences are too super-

don Nixon is guilty, she said, but "the charges are so serious that we must insist impeachment must go through in the House and it must come to trial in the Senate."

Sen. Frank Church of Idaho told a banquet Saturday night that "if President Nixon continues to refuse to furnish the House Judiciary Committee with the documents and other evidence to which it is lawfully and constitutionally entitled, then that in itself is an impeachable offense."

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prove their bargaining position in advance of critical
negotiations scheduled in Washington and the Middle
East for later this month, following a "talk-fight"
strategy that is not unfamiliar to Mr. Kissinger. If so,
they have adopted a singularly unpromising and danger-
ous course, challenging superior Israeli forces at a time
when some of their own diplomats are reportedly ex-
pressing optimism about the Kissinger effort. If that
effort is to have a chance, restraint is essential in both
Damascus and Tel Aviv.

# U.S. Aid to Saigon
Is Linked to Pact

## KENNEDY, From A1

Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Vietcong's Provisional Revolutionary Government.

Kissinger's policy statement criticizes North Vietnam for "serious" cease-fire violations. Although military casualties since the cease-fire have fallen to one-third the level before the agreement, Kissinger said, "it is unfortunately evident that significant violence continues to occur and that the cease-fire is far from being scrupulously observed."

North Vietnam, he continued, "has persisted" in infiltrating South Vietnam, sending more than 100,000 troops and "large quantities" of heavy equipment into the south.

Beyond this, Kissinger said in another section, North Vietnam has failed to live up to the agreement's terms on cessation of military activities in Cambodia and Laos, and accounting for U.S. missing in action.

Kissinger declined to provide the dollar amounts of U.S. economic assistance in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos for the current fiscal year and for the one to begin July 1. But Kennedy said that all U.S. spending in Indochina totals $3 billion for this fiscal year, a figure about $1 billion higher than official estimates, according to Dale S. de Haan, counsel to Kennedy's subcommittee.

De Haan said that the Kissinger document, and several reports being prepared by the General Accounting Office, may provide the basis for holding subcommittee hearings sometime in the future.

He termed the Kissinger statement one of the most comprehensive on U.S. Indochina policy that Kissinger has made in several months.

Kennedy sent Kissinger a list of nine questions March 13 and the Secretary of State, now on a honeymoon in Mexico, replied March 25.

In Laos and Cambodia, as in

South Vietnam, there are no formal commitments by the United States but national interest dictates U.S. support, Kissinger said.

Laos is "the bright spot in Indochina where the fruits of our efforts to assist and support the Royal Lao government are most clearly seen," Kissinger said. A cease-fire has endured for more than a year, he added, and "a coalition government may not be far away."

The "real progress" Kissinger described in Laos was made "partly because of our assistance."

However, the Secretary of State was less optimistic about peace prospects in Cambodia. He said a "broadened political base, a new prime minister and a more effective cabinet offer signs of improvements in the civil administration. The enormous dislocation of the war, destroying production, producing over a million refugees and encouraging spiraling inflation, face the leaders of the Khmer Republic with serious problems."

Nonetheless, Kissinger said, "we are convinced that with U.S. material and diplomatic support the Khmer Republic's demonstration of military and economic viability will persuade their now intransigent opponents to move to a political solution of the Cambodian conflict."

Talks on U.S. reconstruction aid to North Vietnam were suspended last July. Kissinger told Kennedy that the administration position is that the United States "cannot at this time move forward" on such a program.

Should North Vietnam stop military activities and "demonstrate a serious compliance with the agreement," the United States would be prepared, with the approval of Congress, to proceed on the program, Kissinger said.

Situation on Syrian Front
Worsening, Israelis Told

MIDEAST, From A1

The Syrians said the Israelis lost a great number of men in an attempt to ambush one of the patrols, but the Israelis said they suffered no casualties. Israeli sources said that the Syrians probably laid down yesterday's particularly heavy barrage to provide covering fire for the patrols to withdraw after they were discovered.

Without giving any details, Dayan said that there is "about a brigade" of Cuban military men serving in Syria. He said there are also North Koreans there.

Dayan hinted broadly that there are informal talks going on with Jordan about a peace settlement on the West Bank.

Denying a report by the Cairo weekly Rosel Youssef that both Israel and Jordan have implemented a secret agreement to draw back their forces on either side of the Jordan River, Dayan said that King Hussein "knows what our position is" and that "we do hear and we have some signals about his thoughts."

He wants us to withdraw completely from the Western

Bank, and we do not want to do that," Dayan said. "But theoretically I think that we can reach an agreement if the two parties would agree to make concessions."

Dayan said he saw no reason that the Israeli settlements being built on occupied Arab lands could not remain where they are even after the territories are returned to Arab sovereignty.

He drew a comparison with the existence inside Israel of "more than 100 Arab villages." At another point, however, Dayan referred to the Allon Plan for the West Bank, a proposal under which Israel would maintain armed settlements in the strategic areas of the West Bank after it reverts to Jordan.

Turning to the Egyptian front, Dayan gave a broad indication of the timing for the next phase of Israel withdrawal into the Sinai Peninsula.

He said it would only come after the Egyptians have carried out "what we expect them to do" in the way of returning a normal civilian economy to the Suez Canal zone, from which Israeli forces have withdrawn.

To obtain the Israeli disengagement, Egypt gave Kissinger private assurances that it

would take such measures as reopening the canal and repopulating the region's cities with civilians. But those assurances were not part of the formal agreement. Cairo argued that any Egyptian commitments to Israel about how Egypt would use its own territory would be an unacceptable curb on Egypt's sovereignty.

Once these measures are taken, Dayan said, "If they want to, we should go into the next stage and, if possible, to try to reach the final agreement between us and Egypt about the final boundary and the final kind of normal relationship. But not before they ... turn the area into civilian normal kind of way of life."

Dayan said that, contrary to some reports, Israel does not believe that Egypt has nuclear warheads for its Soviet-supplied Scud missiles.

He said that the Soviets have given the Arabs better anti-aircraft missiles than the Americans have given Israel, but that he is satisfied with the quality of other U.S. arms he is getting. Dayan is meeting today with U.S. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and his remarks seemed to indicate that he will seek more advanced U.S. antiaircraft rockets.

First Foreign-Born Secretary of State

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# Kissinger Assumes Office

By JOHN P. WALLACH

Sunday Herald Advertiser Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON—Henry A. Kissinger was sworn in yesterday as the nation's first foreign-born Secretary of State, at what President Nixon called a "watershed time in American foreign policy."

In a moving White House ceremony, Nixon praised Kissinger as "superbly qualified" for the "historic opportunity" of building a structure of peace.

Kissinger was flanked by his white-haired father, Louis, and his short, red-haired mother, both of whom fled Germany to escape Nazi persecution in 1938.

"There is no country in the world where a man of my origin could be standing here next to the President of the United States," Kissinger said beaming at the large, and enthusiastic crowd of cabinet officials, diplomats and friends of the Kissinger family.

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CONGRATULATIONS—President Nixon shakes hands with new Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, right, after swearing-in ceremony.
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The newspaper in a copyrighted story quoted Leslie J. Bennet, a former chief of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) antiespionage operations as saying that U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents had infiltrated Montreal on a large scale during the Front de Liberation Quebecois (FLQ) crisis and tanks and heavy equipment was massed just south of the border.

Bennet said the federal government was informed that should the Quebec government fall or fail to preserve order, the Americans would move into Southern Quebec to protect vital U. S. interests in the St. Lawrence Seaway.

ENERGY MINISTER Donald MacDonald, who was defense minister at the time of the crisis, denied the story. In Washington, a spokesman for the State Department said the story was "absolutely false."

Bennet, a 53-year-old career intelligence officer was quoted as saying, "During the Separatist crisis of October, 1970, in Montreal,

government made equipment into offset a buildup equipment just

Bennet, who year, is now er firm in Johanne

MacDONALD: "Frankly the experiences I have just don't believe

MacDonald why the U. S. border. "It would be on their part to

He also did mobilized in recent movements.

"I knew how they were deploying a buildup, I would have compressed at the time on point-to-point

5 of Sextuplets

DENVER (AP) — After nearly a week of an up-and-down battle for life the five surviving Stanek sexier stronger by the hour

The doctors said tiny babies, Jeffrey, Jeffrey and the Nathan and Steven,

Dr. James Strain encouraged by the of the five. But he five have cleared premature babies.

"Until they confirm we have to be Strain said. "As long as support, we have to conditions are important the time."

CATHERINE, N been on respirators for 24 hours shown symptoms of killed Julia, the small Tuesday night.

In the sophisticated health of the five