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HEADS STARR PIECE IN TRIB WHICH SAYS ONLY THING PREDICTABLE ABOUT SYRIANS SEEMS TO BE UNPREDICTABILITY. THUS, WHEN HAK BEGAN SHUTTLE THERE WAS UNCERTAINTY TO VERY END ABOUT SUCCESS.

YET IT'S IN SYRIA, SAYS STARR, WHERE 80 PERCENT OF KEY TO FINAL ME PEACE IS HELD. SYRIA HAS NOW AGREED TO FACE ISRAELIS DIRECTLY "T SOME POINT" IN NEGOTIATION AND US OFFICIALS NOW TALK SERIOUSLY ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF EXCHANGE OF AMBASSADORS W/SYRIA IN NOT-SO DISTANT FUTURE, IF ALL

ELSE GOES AS NOW FORESEEN. STARR REPORTS HAK IS SAID TO FEEL MORAL OBLIGATION TO DO AS MUCH FOR SYRIA AS HE DID IN EGYPTIAN TALKS, BUT HE ALSO FEELS "URGENT NEED TO GET AWAY FROM HABIT OF PERSONAL NEGOTIATION." PROBLEM IS, THO,

THAT HAK'S ONLY US OFFICIAL OF ENOUGH RANK TO DEAL DIRECTLY W/ME LEADERS W/ DECISION AUTHORITY. "MOREOVER HE SEEMS TO COMMAND AMONG THEM A NEARLY UNIQUE TRUST THAT'S BEEN ESSENTIAL TO THE TALKS."

THUS, IF SYRIANS ARE TO GET AWAY FROM THEIR INTRANSIGENCE, IT'S POINTED OUT, THEN IT'S GOT TO BE THRU HAK. STARR SAYS IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF HIM ALONE, HOWEVER, THAT SYRIA APPEARS WILLING TO REACH SETTLEMENT. THEY ARE "FOREMOST PARTISANS OF ARAB UNITY," AND OTHER ARAB LEADERS

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BONN (UPI) -- SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER'S PEACE MISSION TO THE MIDDLE EAST APPEARED TODAY TO HAVE OPENED THE WAY FOR AN EARLY LIFTING OF THE ARAB OIL EMBARGO AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND HOLLAND.

ENROUTE BACK TO THE UNITED STATES, KISSINGER TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO EUROPE IN TALKS WITH GERMAN LEADERS HERE BEFORE GOING ONTO BRUSSELS TO REPORT ON HIS MIDDLE EAST MISSION TO THE NATO COUNCIL OF MINISTERS.

HE WAS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE BONN AT 1130GMT AND ARRIVE IN THE BELGIAN CAPITAL AT 1245GMT. THE SECRETARY PLANNED TO BE BACK IN WASHINGTON BY NIGHTFALL.

KISSINGER WOUND UP HIS FIVE-DAY MIDDLE EASTERN TOUR IN AMMAN SUNDAY WITH TALKS WITH JORDANIAN KING HUSSEIN, WHOM THE SECRETARY SAID WOULD VISIT THE UNITED STATES MARCH 12.

AS KISSINGER LEFT THE MIDDLE EAST, EGYPT CALLED FOR A MEETING OF THE ARAB OIL MINISTERS IN THE LIBYAN CAPITAL, TRIPOLI, FOR MARCH 10 WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF CONSIDERING THE OIL EMBARGO APPLIED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND HOLLAND SINCE THE OCTOBER ARAB-ISRAELI WAR.

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A SIMILAR CONFERENCE LAST MONTH WAS POSPTONED, BUT THIS TIME EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT APPEARED TO HAVE LINED UP ENOUGH SUPPORT AMONG THE PERSIAN GULF STATES TO CONVENE IT. EGYPT HAS LITTLE OIL ITSELF CARRIES WEIGHT AS THE POLITICAL LEADER OF THE ARAB WORLD.

SADAT HAS BEEN HINTING THAT THE EMBARGO SHOULD BE LIFTED AS A RESULT OF KISSINGER'S SUCCESS IN ARRANGING AN ISRAELI- EGYPTIAN MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT ALONG THE SUEZ CANAL AND HIS ATTEMPTS TO GET TALKS STARTED ON A SIMILAR DISENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL.

IN SAUDI ARABIA SATURDAY, WHERE THE SECRETARY GOT AN UNUSUALLY WARM WELCOME, KISSINGER TALKED WITH BOTH KING FEISAL, A KEY ARAB OIL LEADER, AND ASHRAF MARWAN, SADAT'S ENVOY TO THE PERSIAN GULF STATES. A HIGH OFFICIAL WITH THE KISSINGER PARTY SAID THAT IT WAS OBVIOUS THE SECRETARY HAD TALKED ABOUT THE EMBARGO DURING HIS MIDDLE EAST VISIT.

GETTING TALKS STARTED BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL ON SEPARATING THEIR TROOPS IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS WAS KISSINGER'S MAIN OBJECTIVE WHEN HE LEFT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST EIGHT DAYS AGO. HE RETURNS HOME SATISFIED THAT HE HAD SUCCEEDED IN HIS MISSION EVEN THOUGH THE OUTCOME IS STILL MUCH IN DOUBT.

FOR THE UNITED STATES, THE SYRIAN FRONT DISENGAGEMENT IS THE NEXT STEP TOWARD A GENERAL PEACE SETTLEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY, KISSINGER REFUSED TO LINK HIS PEACE EFFORTS WITH THE EMBARGO OR SPECUALTE ON WHEN IT WOULD BE LIFTED.

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BONN (UPI) -- SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER ENDED HIS MIDDLE EAST MISSION SUNDAY SATISFIED THAT HE HAD STARTED SYRIA AND ISRAEL TALKING ABOUT MILITARY ENGAGEMENT. HIS EFFORTS MAY HELP LEAD TO AN EARLY LIFTING OF THE OIL EMBARGO AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.

WHILE HE REFUSED TO LINK THE TWO QUESTIONS OF SPECULATE IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ABOUT THE EMBARGO, KISSINGER HAS TALKED ABOUT THE EMBARGO IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

HARD ON THE HEELS OF HIS TRIP, EGYPT ASKED SUNDAY FOR A MEETING OF THE OIL MINISTERS MARCH 10 IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA. IT WAS POSTPONED ONCE LAST MONTH AND THE MAJOR SUBJECT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE THE EMBARGO.

KISSINGER CONFERRED SATURDAY IN SAUDI ARABIA WITH KING FEISAL, A MAJOR FIGURE IN THE EMBARGO, AND ALSO WITH ASHRAF MARVAN, THE EGYPTIAN ENVOY WHO HAS BEEN TOURING THE PERSIAN GULF STATES SEEKING SUPPORT FOR THE EARLY CONFERENCE.

THE AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID THE MAJOR PROBLEM WOULD BE TO GET THE AGREEMENT OF ALL THE ARAB STATES.

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KISSINGER CAME TO BONN TO BRIEF WEST GERMAN LEADERS ON HIS PEACE-SEEKING MISSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST. BUT THE MAIN THEME IN HIS TALKS HERE TONIGHT WITH FOREIGN MINISTER WALTER SCHEEL AND MONDAY WITH CHANCELLOR WILLY BRANDT CONCERNED QUESTIONS ON AMERICAN-EUROPEAN RELATIONS.

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1. HEREWITH FULL TEXT MICHAEL GETLER BYLINER HEADLINED WHITE HOUSE HAD CHANNEL TO PENTAGON, WASHPOST MARCH 3, 1974.

2. WHILE THE MILITARY ALLEGEDLY WAS SNOOPING ON THE WHITE HOUSE IN 1970 AND 1971, THE WHITE HOUSE WAS RECEIVING SOME SENSITIVE INFORMATION ON PENTAGON ACTIVITIES WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES.

"IT WAS A TWO-WAY STREET," SAYS ONE WELL-PLACED INFORMANT, EXCEPT THAT THE LATTER OPERATION WAS AUTHORIZED BUT HIGHLY "UNORTHODOX."

IN CONTRAST TO THE PILFERING OF SECRET WHITE HOUSE DOCUMENTS FROM BRIEFCASES AND "BURN BAGS" BY A NAVY YEOMAN ACTING EITHER ON HIS OWN OR UNDER ORDERS, THE OTHER OPERATION INVOLVED A HIGH-LEVEL INFORMATION-PASSING ARRANGEMENT SET UP BY THE WHITE HOUSE, INVOLVING THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS ADVISER, HENRY A. KISSINGER, NOW SECRETARY OF STATE, AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, ADM. THOMAS H. MOORER.

5. THOUGH THE CIVILIAN SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IS THE IMMEDIATE SUPERIOR TO THE JOINT CHIEFS, THERE TECHNICALLY IS A PROVISION UNDER LAW FOR A DIRECT CHANNEL, UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, BETWEEN THE CHIEFS AND THE PRESIDENT OR HIS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.

6. THE MANNER IN WHICH THIS "CHANNEL" WAS OCCASIONALLY USED DURING THE PERIOD AFTER MOORER BECAME CHAIRMAN IN JULY, 1970, IS KNOWN TO HAVE UPSET THEN DEFENSE SECRETARY MELVIN R. LAIRD AND HIS TOP DEPUTY, DAVID PACKARD, WHEN THEY BECAME AWARE OF IT.

7. SOME STUDIES MADE UNDER LAIRD'S ORDERS BY THE JOINT CHIEFS WERE FORWARDED TO KISSINGER, ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES, BEFORE LAIRD HAD MADE ANY DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT MATERIAL TO SEND TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

8. BOTH LAIRD AND PACKARD, AT CERTAIN MEETINGS WITH THE KISSINGER-RUN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, BECAME AWARE THAT

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KISSINGER WAS WORKING FROM PENTAGON MATERIAL--SOMETIMES INVOLVING THEIR OWN ACTIVITIES--THAT NEITHER OF THE TWO TOP PENTAGON CIVILIANS HAD PROVIDED.

9. PRIMARILY, THE MATERIAL INVOLVED PENTAGON CIVILIAN AND MILITARY VIEWS ON VIETNAM WITHDRAWAL POLIC, AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT DIFFEENCES BETWEEN LAIRD, ON THE ONE HAND, AND THE WHITE HOUSE AND MILITARY HIERARCHY ON THE OTHER.

10. SIMILARLY, MATERIAL TO THE NSC WAS PASSING THROUGH THE WHITE HOUSE LIAISON OFFICE MAINTAINED BY THE JOINT CHIEFS BEYOND THE LEVELS WHICH INFORMANTS SAY LAIRD WAS AWARE OF.

11. THE FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY IS KNOWN TO HAVE STRONGLY FAVORED CLOSING THAT OFFICE EVEN BEFORE IT WAS SHUT BY THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER IT WAS FINGERED IN DECEMBER 1971, AS THE CENTER FOR BOTH THE MILITARY SNOOPING AND LEAKS TO COLUMNIST JACK ANDERSON.

12. THE ARRANGEMENT WITH MOORER, SAID TO HAVE BEEN INITIATED BY KISSINGER, APPARENTLY PUT THE ADMIRAL IN AN AWKARD POSITION SINCE LAIRD WAS HIS BOSS, BUT THERE WAS THIS "OTHER CHANNEL", AS LAIRD HAS ALLUDED TO IT, THROUGH WHICH THE WHITE HOUSE COULD LEGALLY CALL ON MOORER DIRECTLY.

13. IT HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE PHONE OF LAIRD'S MILITARY AIDE, GEN. ROBERT E. PURSLEY, WAS TAPPED FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. BUT INVESTIGATORS SAY THE PRECISE REASON WHY AND BY WHOM THIS WAS DONE REMAINS UNCLEAR.

14. THEY SPECULATE THAT PURSLEY, WHO ALSO AT ONE TIME WORKED FOR DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT S. MCNAMARA, NOW HEAD OF THE WORLD BANK, WAS SUSPECTED IN SOME QUARTERS OF THE WHITE HOUSE OF STILL PASSING INFORMATION TO MCNAMARA. SOURCES SAY THERE WAS, IN GENERAL, A SUSPICION WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE THAT MUCH OF THE CAREER CIVIL SERVICE WAS, IN FACT, RETAINING ITS TIES TO FORMER DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS.

15. THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING THE ALLEGATIONS OF MILITARY SNOOPING ON THE WHITE HOUSE.

16. IN TESTIMONY TAKEN BEHIND CLOSED DOORS FEB. 20 AND 21, BUT BEING RELEASED TODAY, THERE IS ALSO AN ALLUSION

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TO SOME OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY PASSING INFORMATION FROM THE PENTAGON TO THE WHITE.

17. NAVY YEOMAN 1C CHARLES E. RADFORD, WHO WORKED IN THE JOINT CHIEFS' LIAISON OFFICE AND IS A CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE ALLEGED SPYING ACTIVITIES, TOLD HOW HE DISTRIBUTED MESSAGES TO THE NSC "THAT I GUESS THE ADMIRAL (HIS IMMEDIATE BOSSES, ADMS. ROBERT O. WELANDER AND REMBRANDT C. ROBINSON) FELT WOULD NOT GET NORMAL DISTRIBUTION."

18. "I NEVER TOLD THE PEOPLE IN THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF THAT WE WERE GIVING INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, EITHER, ON THOSE MEMOS. . . THIS WAS DONE AS FAR AS I KNOW WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE, EXCEPT THE ADMIRAL, S."

19. RADFORD, AS YEOMAN, WOULD HAVE NO ACCESS DIRECTLY TO THE JOINT CHIEFS, AND THE JOB OF THAT OFFICE WAS TO FACILITATE THE AUTHORIZED FLOW OF INFORMATION. BUT THE SENATE QUESTIONERS DID NOT PERSUE THIS POINT TO CLARIFY IT.

20. RADFORD TOLD HOW HE TYPED "EYES ONLY" ON INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE PENTAGON WITHOUT SUCH A DESIGNATION AND THEN PASSED IT ON TO A COMMANDER HOWE WHO WORKED AS AN AIDE TO KISSINGER'S DEPUTY, GEN. ALEXANDER

M. HAIG JR. SUCH A TECHNIQUE WOULD LIMIT DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE NSC OF DOCUMENTS PASSED FROM THE MILITARY HEIRARCHY.

21. THE TESTIMONY OF RADFORD AND WELANDER RELEASED TODAY, IF ANYTHING, FURTHER SHARPENS THE CONTRADITIONS BETWEEN THE TWO MEN ON WHETHER RADFORD'S SNOOPING ACTIVITIES WERE DIRECTED BY HIGHER-UPS. IT ALSO RAISES STILL MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT MOORER'S AWARENESS OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, AND WHETHER THE SECRET WHITE HOUSE "PLUMBERS" UNIT HAD MISLED KISSINGER ON THE EXTENT OF THE MILITARY SNOOPING. THOUGH RADFORD ACKNOWLEDGES "DELIVERING" PERHAPS 150 DOCUMENTS TO THE LIAISON OFFICE AFTER HIS TRIP WITH KISSINGER TO VIETNAM AND CHINA IN JULY 1971. RADFORD SAYS HE NEVER GOT A COPY OF KISSINGER'S VERBATIM NOTES OF HIS FIRST CONVERSATION WITH CHOU ENALAI.

22. RADFORD SAYS THERE WAS ONLY ONE COPY OF THE TWO-PAGE MEMO AND THAT HE ONLY SAW THE FIRST FEW PARAGRAPHS AND MADE NOTES ON IT.

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23. IN PREVIOUS TESTIMONY, KISSINGER SAID THAT AMONG THE DOCUMENTS HE WAS "INFORMED BY THE PLUMBERS INVESTIGATING GROUP WERE TAKEN FROM HIS BRIEFCASE AND EVENTUALLY PASSED ON TO MOORER WAS A VERBATIM ACCOUNT OF THE CHOU CONVERSATION.

24. THIS WAS SOME OF THE MOST EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY OF THE HEARING SINCE SUCH A DOCUMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOP SECRET.

24. RADFORD'S TESTIMONY RAISES THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE EXTENT OF WHAT WENT ON WAS OVERSTATED TO KISSINGER BY THE PLUMBERS GROUP.

25. WELANDER HAS CHARGED THAT FORMER WHITE HOUSE AIDE JOHN D. EHRICHMAN-WHO WAS IN OVERALL CHARGE OF THE PLUMBERS-TRIED TO GEN WELANDER SIGN A CONFESSION ABOUT "THE WILDEST POSSIBLE, TOTALLY FALSE CHARGES OF POLITICAL SPYING ON THE WHITE HOUSE."

26. THERE HAS BEEN AN UNDERCURRENT OF CONCERN OVER EHRICHMAN(S PRECISE ROLE IN THIS EPISODE, MENTIONED PRIVATELY BY SEVERAL SN"ENATORS, BUT THUS FAR HE IS NOT SCHEDULED AS A WITNESS.

27. THERE IS A SUSPICION THAT IN THE INTENSE INTRA-WHITE HOUSE STRUGGLE FOR POWER DURING THE 070-71 ERA (WHEN THE UTMOST SECRECY WAS ALSO INVOKED ON SENSITIVE POLICY CHANGES WITH VIETNAM, THE SOVIET UNION AND CHINA - EHRICHMAN OR OTHERS MAY HAVE BEEN SEEKING TO GAIN LEVERAGE ON KISSINGER, MOORER AND OTHERS.

28. IN TELLING THE COMMITTEE WHO THE VISITORS TO HIS WHITE HOUSE OFFICE WERE, AND EXPLAINING THAT HIS ADMIRAL-BOSS HAD INSTRUCTED HIM NEVER TO DIVULGE THEIR NAMES, RADFORD MENTIONED ONLY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE "PRESIDENT OF GRUMMAN ENTERPRISES OR INCORPORATED OR SOMETHING."

29. GRUMMAN IS A MAJOR NAVY CONTRACTOR, BUILDER OF THE NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL F-14 FIGHTER. GRUMMAN'S FORMER PRESIDENT IS L.J. EVANS, WHO DIED A FEW YEARS AGO. EVAN'S LONG-TIME LAWYER AND THE EXECUTOR OF HIS ESTATE IS CHARLES W. COLSON. FORMER WHITE HOUSE SPECIAL COUNSEL NOW UNDER INDICTMENT IN THE WATERGATE AFFAIR.

10. THOUGH WELANDER CLAIMS THE ONLY THING HE EVER ASKED RADFORD TO BRING BAC FOR HIM ON TRIPS TO ASIA WITH

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HAIG AND KISSINGER WERE "TWO CERAMIC ELEPHANTS," THE ADMIRAL ACKNOWLEDGED THAT A REPORT RADFORD BROUGHT BACK DID ATTRACT HIS ATTENTION. THAT REPORT WAS WRITTEN BY A CIVILIAN STAFF MEMBER OF KISSINGER'S AND WAS NOTMEANT FOR THE JOINT CHIEFS. A COPY OF IT WAS RETRIEVED FROM A BURN BAG BY RADFORD.

31. THE REPORT, WHICH WELANDER BROUGHT TO MOORER'S ATTENTION AS "SOMETHING RADFORD BROUGHT BACK FROM THE TRIP WITH DR. KISSINGER," WAS AN APPRAISAL OF THE MILITARY SITUATION IN VIETNAM WHICH "WAS MORE OPTIMISTIC BY A GOOD BIT THAN WHAT WE HAD BEEN GETTING FROM OUR MILITARY COMMANDERS IN THE FIELD."

32. BOTH WELANDER AND MOORER HAVE PREVIOUSLY TESTIFIED THAT THEY PAID LITTLE ATTENTION TO WHAT RADFORD HAD SENT BACK OR ITS ORIGINS BECAUSE IT TOLD THEM LITTLE THAT THEY DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW. IN HINDSIGHT, BOTH HAVE CONCEDED THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ALERT. DONALDSON

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SUMMARY: ALL REPORTING COVERED CONCENTRATED ON OUTLINES OF ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT PLAN, SYRIAN REJECTION THEREOF, NIXON TRIP TO ME, HAK'S ITINERARY AND, FINALLY SYRIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT TO MEET IN WASHINGTON TO NEGOTIATE. END SUMMARY.

1. NYT'S GWERTZMAN LEADS P1 PIECE EX DAMASCUS WITH RED CROSS VISITS TO ISRAELI POW'S. SHIFTS TO PRESIDENT'S PLANNED ME VISIT, WITH OFFICIALS SAYING IT WOULD PROBABLY NOT OCCUR UNTIL SECOND HALF THIS YEAR AND WOULD INCLUDE ISRAEL, JORDAN, OTHER COUNTRIES IN AREA BESIDES EGYPT. STORY SAYS WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION THAT HAK ASSURED IN CAIRO THAT SADAT URGING ASSAD TO NEGOTIATE SERIOUSLY AND TO THAT END SENT COS GAMASY TO DAMASCUS TO ADVANCE HAK'S ARRIVAL THERE. STORY WINDS UP WITH DETAILED ANALYSIS SYRIAN ISRAELI POLITICAL PROBLEMS AND NEGOTIATING STANCES

PLUS STUDY OF THE REMAINDER OF HAK'S ITINERARY. NO DIRECT QUOTES FROM OFFICIAL PARTY.

2. WASHPOST HAS BERGER INSIDE (P4) LEADING WITH DELIVERY OF ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT SUGGESTION TO DAMASCUS AND NOTING IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SPECIFIC PROPOSAL SINCE ANYTHING TOO PRECISE AT THIS POINT WOULD BRING CONFRONTATION. ANY EVENT NOTES SYRIAN STATEMENT SUGGESTION "NOT ACCEPTED: AND GOES ON TO US OFFICIALS CONFIRMING PRESIDENT'S ME TRAVEL PLANS. STORY THEN SHIFTS BACK TO ISRAELI SUGGESTIONS AND, ATTRIBUTING INFO TO FRESH REPORTS FROM JERUSALEM, REHASHES DMZ PLAN FIRST PUBLISHED BY SMITH IN NYT YESTERDAY. THERE FOLLOWS LONG, INVOLVED AND WHOLLY UNEXCEPTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NEGOTIATING SITUATION AT END OF WHICH SHE HAS US OFFICIALS SAYING HAK MAY COME UP WITH PROPOSAL OF HIS OWN, ALA EGYPTIAN FORMULA. RECAPS ISRAELI, EGYPT VISITS AND QUOTES HAK'S CAIRO FLAG-RAISING PROMISE TO STUDY ECONOMIC AID FOR EGYPT. NO DIRECT QUOTES FROM PARTY.

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3. BALTSUN'S KEAT MANAGES P1 SPACE TO INFORM US "GOLAN TALKS REMAIN AT AN IMPASSE." ASSAD AND HAK, HE REPORTS, FAILED TO REACH HOPED-FOR AGREEMENT ON DISENGAGEMENT MECHANICS, ADDING THAT SPARSLEY-WORDED STATEMENTS OF BOTH

SIDES CONSTITUTE SETBACK FOR HAK WHO HOPED EARLIER IN WEEK TO GET NEGOTIATIONS STARTED IN GENEVA. TEMPERS JUDGEMENT IMMEDIATELY WHEN HE NOTES STATEMENTS INDICATE PRELIMINARY NEGOTIATIONS SITE AND FORMAT WOULD CONTINUE. SAID NO DETAILS FROM HAK'S MEETING WITH ASSAD, ADDING HAK TOLD EVEN SENIOR MEMBERS US PARTY NOTHING OF WHAT TRANSPIRED. EVEN WITH SETBACK HAK DOES NOT APPEAR DEPRESSED. STORY THEN LAUNCHES INTO LONG RECOUNT EVENTS OF RECENT DAYS, NEGOTIATING TECHNIQUES AND OBJECTIVES, PRESIDENT'S ME TRIP, AND TO-ING AND FRO-ING OF VARIOUS FIGURES INVOLVED IN PRESENT EFFORT TO BRING PEACE TO ME. ONLY NUGGET, BURIED DEEP IN TALE AND SEEN NOWHERE ELSE IN PRINT THIS AYEM, IS THIS: ALTHOUGH US OFFICIALS WOULD NOT SAY SO, SPECIFICALLY, THEY IMPLIED THAT SADAT AGREED THURSDAY TO A LONGER EXTENSION OF UNEF POLICING OF BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL IN THE SINAI...DR. KISSINGER HOPES IT WILL BE RENEWED BY UNSC FOR A LONGER PERIOD. NO DIRECT QUOTES FROM PARTY THROUGHOUT STORY.

4. WASHSTAR'S O'LEARY MAKES P1 WITH NEWS SYRIA, ISRAEL AGREE TO SEND DIPLOMATIC/MILITARY REPRESENTATIVES TO WASHINGTON TO NEGOTIATE FIRST PHASE OF GOLAN DISENGAGEMENT. ATTRIBUTING THIS TO US OFFICIALS TRAVELING WITH HAK, STORY GOES ON TO SAY THIS DEVELOPMENT "ANNOUNCED" AS HAK FLEW OFF TO RIYADH. EXPLAINS WASHINGTONS NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN TWO PARTIES WILL BE WITH HAK, NOT WITH EACH OTHER. SPARE STORY THEN BRIEFLY (L50 WORDS) RECAPS RECENT DEVELOPMENTS HAK'S ME TRAVELS.

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1. BELOW IS THE COMPLETE TEXT OF A PAGE
ONE STORY CARRIED MARCH 2 BY GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER (AL-THAWRA)
ON SECRETARY'S MARCH 1 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ASAD. STORY WAS
ACCOMPANIED BY PROMINENTLY PLACED PHOTO OF SMILING ASAD LISTENING
TO SECRETARY WHO IS CAUGHT IN A MOMENT OF SPEAKING. THERE WAS
NO EDITORIAL COMMENT. MEANWHILE, LOCAL RADIO IS ALSO CARRYING STORY
IN SIMILAR STRAIGHT FORWARD MANNER. PAPER ALSO MENTIONS IN SEPARATE
BRIEF ITEM ARRIVAL YESTERDAY IN DAMASCUS OF EGYPTIAN CHIEF OF
STAFF ABL-AL GHANI AL-GAMASI AND HIS MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ASAD
TO DELIVER A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT SADAT. DAMASCUS TV DOES NOT
BEGIN TRANSMISSION UNTIL EVENING. AL-BAATH PARTY ORGAN NOT
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PRESIDENT ASSAD RECEIVES KISSINGER AND DISCUSSES WITH HIM
THE SUBJECT OF DISNEGAGEMENT OF FORCES.

DAMASCUS: SANA: YESTERDAY AT 7:30 PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL-ASSAD
RECEIVED DR. HENRY KISSINGER, AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE.
THE MEETING WAS OVER AT 11:30 P.M..

DURING THIS MEETING DR. KISSINGER PRESENTED THE
IDEAS WE CARRIED FROM ISRAEL CONCERNING THE DISENGAGEMENT OF
FORCES ON THE SYRIAN FRONT. THE PRESIDENT DID NOT ACCEPT THEM
AND SUBMITTED SYRIAN IDEAS. DR. KISSINGER WILL STUDY THESE IDEAS
IN ORDER TO PAVE THE WAY FOR CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION
CONCERNING THE DISENGAGEMENT OF FORCES.

DR. KISSINGER ARRIVED IN DAMASCUS AT 6:00 P.M. LAST EVENING,
AND WAS WELCOMED AT DAMASCUS AIRPORT BY MR. ABDULHALIM KHADDAM,
DEPUTY PREMIER AND FOREIGN MINISTER, DR. MOHAMAD ZAKARIA ISM'IL,
ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER, AND HIGH RANKING MINISTRY EMPLOYEES.

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DR. KISSINGER, ACCOMPANIED BY THE SAME AMERICAN DELEGATION, ARRIVED IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES AT 11:00 A.M. YESTERDAY, COMING FROM JILTRU

DR. KISSINGER, WHO REFUSED TO GIVE ANY DECLARATION, WAS WELCOMED BY EBAN, ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER, THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN WASHINGTON. HE HELD A SECRET MEETING WITH MEIR, EBAN AND DAYAN.

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SUBJECT: REPORTAGE OF TRAVELING PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27.

SUMMARY: SOME TRAVELERS FINALLY BROKE OUTSIDE TO PAGE 1 WITH LEADS BASED ON US MINE-CLEARING TEAM WORKING WITH EGYPTIANS ON CANAL. RADIO-TV REPORTAGE DURING DAY PERFUNC-TORY UNTIL WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ISRAELI POW LIST, WHEN BULLETINS INTERRUPTED REGULAR PROGRAMMING. GROMYKO'S REPORTED DAMASCUS VISIT ALSO PROMINENTLY PLAYED. END SUMMARY

1. NYT (GWERTZMAN, P1) BLENDS ACTIVITIES OF USN ORDNANCE TEAM IN EGYPT WITH SECRETARY'S ARRIVAL DAMASCUS AND ONWARD TRAVEL PLANS TO ISRAEL AND CAIRO. NOTES OFFICIAL AWARENESS OF IROV OF SIX-MAN US MINE-CLEARING TEAM ADVISING ON CANAL RECONSTRUCTION AFTER SOVS HAD SENT THOUS-AS OF MEN AND SPENT B LL ONS OF RUBLES IN EARLIER AID EFFORTS. DESCRIBES EGYPT'S DECISION TO SEEK US HELP AS ANOTHER SIGN CAIRO WANTS CLOSER RELATIONS WITH US EVEN AT RISK OF IRRITATING SOVS. STORY ALSO NOTED THESE POINTS MADE BY US OFFICIALS TRAVELING WITH PARY: (A) AMERICAN OFFICIALS WERE SURPRISED WHEN PRESIDENT AGAIN MONDAY PRE-DICTED END OF OIL EMBARGO. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS WISER, IN LIGHT OF FUROR IN ARAB WORLD OVER HIS STATE OF UNION

REMARKS, TO AVOID PUBLIC COMMENTS. US OFFICIALS STRESSED THAT AS FAR AS THEY KNEW, MR. NIXON ONLY EXPRESSING PERSONAL HOPE AND DID NOT HAVE SPECIAL INFORMATION ABOUT POSSIBLE END OF EMBARGO; (B) WHILE WE HOPE NEW SALT APPROACH WILL BRING FAVORABLE SOV RESPONSE, NO MAJOR PROGRESS EXPECTED UNTIL HAK GOES TO MOSCOW TO LAY GROUND-WORK FOR PRESIDENTIAL TRIP; (C) IF ISRAELI-SYRIAN DISENGAGEMENT WORKS, HAK WILL TRY TO WORK OUT FINAL SETTLE-MENT BETWEEN ISRAEL, EGYPT, NOT JUST ANOTHER INTER-MEDIARY STAGE; (D) IF ALL GOES WELL, HAK WILL GO TO UNCLASSIFIED

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2. WASHPOST (BERGER P1) HAS ESSENTIALLY SAME STRUCTURED PIECE, LEADING WITH MINESWEEPERS, TOUCHING ON HAK'S BUSY SCHEDULE, AND, AFTER 400 WORDS, TURNS TO EMBARGO AND POSSIBILITY OF A VISIT TO FAISAL ON CURRENT TOUR. SAYS OFFICIAL IN SEC'S PARTY TOUCHED ON EMBARGO CONSIDERABLY MORE CAUTIOUSLY THAN PRESIDENT DID MONDAY NIGHT. QUOTES HAK THUS ON TERMINATION; "WE DON'T HAVE ANY PRECISE DATE IN MIND." THE PRESIDENT, ACC HAK, HAD BEEN SPEAKING GENERALLY, TO INDICATE THAT "THE VARIOUS EFFORTS SUPPORT EACH OTHER, THAT PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE WILL SPELL PROGRESS TOWARDS LIFTING THE EMBARGO." HOWEVER, HAK DID NOT REVERSE THIS FORMULA AND REPEAT PRESIDENT'S WARNING THAT FAILURE TO LIFT EMBARGO COULD END PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE. BALANCE OF STORY MELANGE OF PRESIDENT'S MOSCOW TRIP PLANS, QUOTES OF HIGH OFFICIALS SAYING US HAD GIVEN SOVS SALT IDEAS ON "ESSENTIAL EQUIVALENCIES" (DIRECT QUOTE), AND ANALYSIS OF COUNTERS IN PRESENT SALT ROUND.

3. JERRY O WAS NO-SHOW IN ALL EDITIONS OF WASHSTAR. THEIR ONLY REFERENCE TO TRIP WAS P1 TREATMENT OF WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT OF POW LIST, WITH WIRE SHIRTTAILS FROM THE AREA DISCUSSING GROMYKO'S PLANNED ME VISIT.

4. BALTSUN (KEAT) LED THE PAPER WITH THE CANAL-CLEARING ANGLE IN 450 WORDS. NO DIRECT QUOTES USED, AND ONLY REMARKABLE NOTE BEING AMERICAN OFFICIAL INTERPRETING PRESIDENT'S MONDAY COMMENTS AS ATTEMPT TO INCREASE PRESSURE ON ARABS TO LIFT EMBARGO. ALSO FRONT-PAGED WAS SEPARATE KEAT STORY (NO SIGNER) EX DAMASCUS EXPLAINING SETTLEMENT OF MAJOR INTERNAL DIFFERENCES WITHIN USG OVER TERMS OF NEW SALT AGREEMENT. EXTENSIVE 500 WORD STORY SEEMS TO REFLECT BACKGROUNDING IN SOME DEPTH THIS QUESTION BUT USES NO DIRECT QUOTES; ALL PARAPHRASED ATTRIBUTION TO SENIOR US OFFICIALS IN PARTY.

5. NYDN HAS NO CARTER, CARRIES 10-GRAF UPI EX DAMASCUS ON P6.

6. AS YESTERDAY, CHITRI B HAS ONLY AGENCY COPY ON HAK'S TRIP AND AGAIN HAD NO STARR. AM CHECKING WITH TRIB BUREAU HERE TO SEE IF STARR MAKING IN LATER EDITIONS WE NOT GETTING.

7. AGAIN DITTO HEARST PAPERS/WALLACH. BELIEVE WE MAY HAVE TO AWAIT MAIL DELIVERY THIS PRODUCT AND RECAP LATER.

8. WIRES (AP, UPI) PM CYCLE STORIES UNDRAMATIC RECOUNTS OF HAK'S TRAVELS AND TRAVEL PLANS. BOTH AGENCIES LOST OVER-

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HEREWITH FULL TEXT JAMES RESTON OP/ED PAGE COLUMN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1974 NEW YORK TIMES HEADED MR. KQISSINGER AND THE EUROPEANS:

LONDON, FEB. 26 - SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER STOPPED OFF BRIEFLY IN LONDON ON HIS WAY TO THE MIDDLE EAST. HE STAYED AT CLARIDGE'S, WITH A MARINE OUTSIDE HIS DOOR ALL NIGHT; WATCHED PRESIDENT NIXON'S PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE B.B.C.; TALKED BRIEFLY ON THE PHONE WITH JEREMY THORPE, THE LIBERAL LEADER; CALLED ON FOREIGN SECRETARY SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME; HAD LUNCH WITH PRIME MINISTER HEATH, AND FLEW OFF.

THE BRITISH DON'T QUITE KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF HENRY. HE KEEPS ASKING SUCH AWKWARD QUESTIONS: HOW CAN THE WESTERN NATIONS GO ON LIKE THIS? HOW CAN THEY ENDURE THE PRESENT RATE OF INFLATION? OR SOLVE THEIR COMMON PROBLEMS WITHOUT COMMON POLICIES? OR EVEN SURVIVE UNLESS THEY WORK TOGETHER.

THIS IRRITATES PRIME MINISTER HEATH, NOT BECAUSE HE THINKS THE QUESTIONS ARE WRONG BUT BECAUSE HE HAS OTHER THINGS ON HIS MIND AND INSISTS THE BRITISH AND THE OTHER

MEMBERS OF THE NATO ALLIANCE ARE MAKING GREATER SACRIFICES FOR THE SECURITY OF EUROPE THAN THE UNITED STATES. THEY ARE, HE SAYS, LAYING OUT MORE OF THEIR LIMITED CAPITAL PROPORTIONATELY FOR THE DEFENSE OF EUROPE THAN THE UNITED STATES, AND CONSTANTLY BEING TOLD THAT THEY SHOULD DO MORE. PRIVATELY, HE IS QUITE SNIPPY ABOUT THIS.

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MR. KISSINGER IS ALSO IRRITATED BECAUSE HE WANTS TO TALK TO A UNITED EUROPE WHEN THERE IS NO SUCH THING, BUT WHAT DOES HE EXPECT, MR. HEATH ASKS. EUROPE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT POLITICAL TRANSITION SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE AMERICAN STATES. ON THE FEW THINGS IT CAN SPEAK AS ONE, BUT ON MANY THINGS IT SIMPLY CANNOT GET TOGETHER. HE AGREES THIS IS AWKWARD, BUT THINKS HENRY IS IN A BIT OF A HURRY.

THERE IS ANOTHER PROBLEM. ALL THE MAJOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES NOW HAVE ALMOST AS MANY INTERNAL POLITICAL AND PERSONAL PROBLEM AS THE UNITED STATES. MR. HEATH HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR HIS POLITICAL LIFE IN THE MIDST OF THE MOST SERIOUS BRITISH ECONOMIC CRISIS SINCE THE LAST WORLD WAR. PRESIDENT POMPIDOU OF FRANCE IS ILL WITH LEUKEMIA. CHANCELLOR WILLY BRANDT OF WEST GERMANY HAS POLITICAL PROBLEMS AT HOME AND EVEN HIS FLIRTATION WITH THE SOVIETS IS NOT GOING TOO WELL.

AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND IT SEEMS TO MR. HEATH A LITTLE HARD FOR THE EUROPEANS TO BE PRESSED FOR ANSWERS TO BIG GLOBAL QUESTIONS WHEN THEY ARE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH THEIR OWN QUESTIONS AT HOME AND WHEN THEY CAN'T SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE IN EUROPE EVEN IF FRANCE WERE TO COOPERATE, WHICH IS NOT LIKELY.

ODDLY, IT IS NOT PRESIDENT NIXON BUT SECRETARY KISSINGER WHO SEEMS TO BE BLAMED FOR WASHINGTON'S AGGRESSIVE DIPLOMACY. MR. HEATH MAKES THE POINT THAT HIS RELATIONS WITH MR. NIXON ARE VERY GOOD, THAT HE IS IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH HIM, THAT HE SPEAKS WITH HIM REGULARLY ON THE TRANS-ATLANTIC PHONE.

MR. HEATH WAS MIFFED ABOUT THE SUDDEN SWITCHES IN AMERICAN POLICY TOWARD CHINA AND ECONOMIC POLICY DURING JOHN CONNALLY'S DAYS AT THE TREASURY, BUT HE NOW INSISTS THAT HE UNDERSTOOD WASHINGTON'S DRAMATIC ACTIONS IN THE LATEST MIDDLE EAST WAR.

STILL, SOMETHING ABOUT MR. KISSINGER'S STYLE RANKLES HERE. HE ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE RUNNING AROUND IN AREAS LIKE THE MIDDLE EAST THAT ARE VITAL TO EUROPE'S INTERESTS, AND WHILE THE BRITISH KNOW ROUGHLY WHAT HE'S DOING, THEY PROFESS TO BE NEVER QUITE SURE.

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THIS IS NOT QUITE FAIR TO MR. KISSINGER. NEITHER BRITAIN NOR THE OTHER MAJOR NATIONS ARE IN A POSITION TO BRING ABOUT AN ACCOMMODATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST. MR. HEATH HAS BEEN HELPFUL, ESPECIALLY IN HIS PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS WITH SHEIK YAMANI OF SAUDI ARABIA, IN MAKING THE OIL STATES UNDERSTAND THE DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL AND UNDERDEVELOPED WORLD OF QUADRUPLED OIL PRICES, BUT ONLY THE UNITED STATES HAS SUFFICIENT INFLUENCE WITH ISRAEL TO RECOMMEND THE CONCESSIONS ESSENTIAL TO PEACE IN THAT AREA.

ALSO, MR. KISSINGER HAS MANAGED TO CREATE A TRUSTFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT SADAT IN EGYPT, AS HE DID WITH CHOU EN-LAI IN CHINA AND THROUGH SADAT IS NOW MAKING SOME PROGRESS TOWARD A COMPROMISE BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL.

AS MR. KISSINGER SEES IT, THIS HELPS NOT ONLY THE UNITED STATES BUT THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AND EVEN MR. HEATH AGREES THAT CONTINUED TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST NOT ONLY WEAKENS WESTERN EUROPE, BUT INCREASES THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOVIET UNION.

MR. KISSINGER IS ARGUING THAT IT IS NOT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE OIL-PRODUCING COUNTRIES TO CONTINUE THEIR OIL BOYCOTT TO KEEP RAISING PRICES, OR TO LIMIT PRODUCTION AND KEEP OIL IN THE GROUND.

IN THE SHORT RUN, MR. KISSINGER INSISTS, EUROPEAN STATES MAY GAIN BY MAKING BILATERAL DEALS WITH THE ARAB STATES FOR OIL, BUT IN THE LONG RUN, THIS WILL MERELY KEEP THE PRICE OF OIL HIGH AND HAMPER THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF BOTH THE INDUSTRIAL AND UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES.

HIS REMEDY, NOT ONLY FOR THE PRESENT OIL CRISIS BUT FOR THE COMING CRISIS IN FOOD AND OTHER RAW MATERIALS, IS FOR THE NATIONS CONCERNED TO WORK OUT COMMON POLICIES FOR CONSERVATION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

MR. KISSINGER UNDERSTANDS THE DIFFICULTY OF ORGANIZING A EUROPEAN UNION AND ALSO THE PRESENT POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE MAJOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, BUT HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE "PETTY MALEVOLENCE" OF FRENCH POLICY, AND HE DOES NOT THINK THE PRESENT CRISIS IN THE WESTERN WORLD CAN WAIT ON THE SOLUTION OF DOMESTIC PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, FRANCE AND GERMANY.

"WE HAVE TO ACT AS BEST WE CAN UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES," HE SAID HERE, AND THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE THAT EVEN HIS BRIEF STOP IN LONDON HELPED REMOVE SOME OF THE SUSPICIONS REGARDING HIS RESTLESS DIPLOMACY. (END TEXT)
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SUBJECT: REPORTAGE OF TRAVELING PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

1. NYT NOT DELIVERED TO DEPT OWING TO NY-WASHINGTON TRANSPORT COLLAPSE.

2. WASHPOST (BERGER) HAS 600 WORDS INSIDE (P21) EX-LONDON PARAPHRASING US OFFICIALS TRAVELING WITPSTHE SECRETARY'S PARTY TO EFFECT THAT HAK EXPECTS ONLY MINIMAL PROGRESS TOWARD ISRAELI-SYRIAN DISENGAGEMENT. REPORTS ONE OFFICIAL RATES CHANCES "NONEXISTENT" (IN QUOTES) THAT ACTUAL DISENGAGEMENT COULD BE ACHIEVED DURING SECRETARY'S TRIP, BUT GOES ON TO NOTE THAT SIMILARLY MODEST EXPECTATIONS PROJECTED AT START OF HAK'S LAST TOUR DRAMATICALLY OVER-TAKEN BY SUEZ DISENGAGEMENT. STORY TURNS TO LENGTHY ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGED AND MORE COMPLEX SITUATION, SECRETARY MUST DEAL WITH IN CURRENT DIPLOMATIC EFFORT, RTS) CITING THREE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS (NOTED IN EARLIER REPORTS) OUTLINED BY TRAVELING OFFICIALS. THEY ALSO SAID HE CAN BE EXPECTED TO MAKE ANOTHER TRIP TO THE AREA IN 3-4 WEEKS AFTER SYRIAN-ISRAELI TALKS PROGRESS TO CERTAIN POINT, NOT OTHERWISE EXPLAINED. THESE OFFICIALS SAY HAK RECOGNIZES NEED TO GET AWAY FROM TAKING DIRECT HAND IN EVERY ARAB-ISRAELI NEGOTIATION BUT AGREE THAT FEELS HE MUST DO AT

LEAST AS MUCH TO HELP ALONG SETTLEMENT ON GOLAN FRONT AS HE
DID AT SUEZ. STORY THEN LINKS MOVEMENT ON GOLAN TO TERMIN-
ATION OF OIL EMBARGO. REPORTS US OFFICIALS IN PARTY
TAKING ISSUE WITH ALLEGATION PRESIDENT ERRED IN HIS
REFERENCES TO EMBARGO IN STATE OF UNION. THESE OFFICIALS
INSIST LANGUAGE PRESIDENT USED WORKED OUT WITH "FRIENDLY"
ARAB GOVERNMENTS, WHILE IMPLICITLY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HIS
REMARKS MAY HAVE DELAYED A LIFTING OF THE EMBARGO.
SAME OFFICIALS ALSO SAID SYRIAN DISENGAGEMENT IMPORTANT
IN GETTING EXTENSION BEYOND APRIL 24 OF UN FORCE IN SINAI,
TERMINATION OF WHICH WOULD BE "SERIOUS SETBACK" (IN QUOTES).

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3. WASHSTAR (JERRY O) HAS BRIEF INSIDE STORY (P4) TOPPED BY FOUR-COLUMN PIX OF SECRETARY AND ANNENBERG AND LEADING WITH HAK'S CONCERN THAT TERMINATION OF UNEF WOULD BE SERIOUS SETBACK. GOES ON TO RELATE VARIOUS COUNTERS FIGURING IN UNEF EXTENSION, THEN TURNS TO HAK'S CONVICTION THAT HIS VISIT TO UK WOULD HAVE NO IMPACT ON BRIT ELECTIONS. AS WITH POST STORY CITED AND TRIP CURTAIN-RAISDRS SUMMARIZED IN OUR 037806, BALANCE OF STOYY SEEMS STRAIGHT ACCOUNT OF YOUR APPARENT BACKGROUND LINE.

4. BALTSUN'S KEAT ALSO INSIDE (P2) WITH 450 WORDS RAISING POSSIBILITY HIGH IN STORY THAT HAK, WHO HAS BEEN FRONT-STAGE CENTER SINCE OCTOBER IN SEARCH FOR PEACE IN ME, MIGHT CROSS TRAIL OF GROMYKO, WHO IS TO BE IN CAIRO FRIDAY, ABOUT TIME US MISSION REACHING ITS CLIMAX. DWELLS BRIEFLY ON LONDON STOPOVER AND REASONS THEREFORE, THEN TURNS TO US EXPECTATIONS FOR BEGINNING OF GOLAN NEGOTIATIONS. MINIMIZING SAME, STORY QUOTES SENIOR US OFFICIAL AS SAYING, IN DIRECT QUOTES, "THIS IS NOVEMBER, NOT JANUARY", REFERRING TO TIME REQUIRED FOR SUEZ DEAL. SAYS HAK EXPECTS TO OBTAIN ISRAELI POW LIST WI HOU DIFFICULTY, AND THEN ANALYZES NEGOTIATING SCENARIO OUTLINED IN PREVIOUS REPORTS CITED.

5. NYDN'S CARTER INSIDE (P6) WITH 250 WORDS. HAS SISCO IN SUBORDINATE LEAD SAYING ATMOSPHERE APPEARS FAVORABLE FOR SUCCESS. "I THINK WE HAVE UNPARALLELLED OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE PROGRESS," ACC. SISCO. "WE DON'T GO THERE WITH ANY PREPACKAGED PLAN OF OUR OWN. WE GO THERE TO LISTEN (TO BOTH SIDES). I THINK THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE HAS BEEN MORE FAVORABLE THAN IT HAS BEEN." IN DISCUSSING SADAT'S ROLE IN UPCOMING SYRIAN NEGOTIATIONS, CARTER REPORTS AHRAM STORY QUOTING HAK AS CALLING SADAT "ONE OF THE GREATEST LEADERS I HAVE MET IN MY POLITICAL CAREER." THE CAIRO NEWSPAPER, SAYS CARTER, CLAIMS SECRETARY MADE STATEMENT IN TOAST AT GHORBAL'S LUNCH FOR FAHMY.

6. CHITRIB HAD NOTHING FROM STARR AND COVERED INITIAL DAY OF TRIP FROM WIRES.

7. DITTO HEARST AND WALLACH, JUDGING FROM ONLY PAPER AVAILABLE TO US.

8. WIRES (AP, UPI) BOTH LIGHT ON ANALYSIS AND LIMITING THEMSELVES TO DEBRIEF OF HAK'S LONDON DISCUSSIONS. BOTH RETOPPED STORIES WITH HIS DAMASCUS ARRIVAL FOR OVERNITERS. UPI HAS TWO SIDEBARS, ONE FROM JERUSALEM QUOTING EBAN'S INSISTENCE THAT SECRETARY'S CHANCES FOR SUCCESS DEPEND ON SYRIA, THE OTHER FROM CAIRO SAYING HE WILL SPEND 22 HOURS THERE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, WITH MOST TIME DEVOTED TO TALKS WITH SADAT.

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I COMPLETED THE LONG SESSION WITH THE FOREIGN SECRETARY AND HIS ASSOCIATES THIS MORNING, THEN I HAD A WORKING LUNCH WITH THE PRIME MINISTER. I ALSO TALKED TO MR THORPE ON THE TELEPHONE. I HAD AN APPOINTMENT WITH MR WILSON BUT BECAUSE OF THE PRESS OF OTHER BUSINESS HE HAD TO CANCEL AT THE LAST MOMENT. IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WE REVIEWED, IN THE SPIRIT OF THE CHARACTERISTIC FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES AND THE WARM PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THAT EXIST BETWEEN THE FOREIGN SECRETARY AND THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE KEY OFFICIALS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, THE MIDDLE EAST; THE DISCUSSIONS ON STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS IN GENEVA, AND THE ENERGY SITUATION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ENERGY CONFERENCE AND ITS FOLLOW UP, AND WE ALSO HAD A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE OTHER WORLD PROBLEMS. AND I AM NOW GOING ON TO DAMASCUS AND JERUSALEM. I HAVE PROFITED GREATLY FROM OUR CONVERSATIONS.

I WOULD BE GLAD TO TAKE A FEW QUESTIONS:

Q. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO GET IN DAMASCUS, SIR?

A. I HOPE THAT IN DAMASCUS WE CAN BEGIN PROGRESS TOWARDS GETTING PEACE TALKS STARTED OR DISENGAGEMENT TALKS STARTED BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL. BUT WE CONSIDER THAT THE KEY PROBLEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW.

QM LAST NIGHT THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT YOU MIGHT SUSPEND PEACE EFFORTS IF THE EMBARGO WERE NOT LIFTED. WHEN WOULD THEY HAVE TO LIFT THE EMBARGO FOR YOU TO CONTINUE IN YOUR EFFORTS?

A. WE DON'T HAVE ANY PRECISE DATE IN MIND. I THINK THE PRESIDENT WAS SPEAKING IN GENERAL TERMS OF THE FACT THAT THE VARIOUS EFFORTS AFFORD EACH OTHER --THAT PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE SPELT PROGRESS TOWARDS LIFTING THE EMBARGO AND THE REVERSE IS ALSO TRUE.

I THINK I'LL TAKE QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE EXCEPT THOSE TRAVELLING WITH ME.

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Q. IS THERE ANY INDICATION, SIR, THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET A LIST OF ISRAELI PRISONERS FROM THE SYRIANS?

A. THE ISSUE OF THE PRISONERS, IS, OF COURSE, ONE OF THE KEY PRECONDITIONS TO GET PEACE TALKS STARTED, AND AS I INDICATED I AM VERY HOPEFUL THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET PEACE TALKS STARTED ON DISENGAGEMENT IN THE SYRIAN DESERT.

Q. SIR, THERE IS A LOT OF INTEREST IN THIS COUNTRY, CONCERN RATHER, ABOUT THE PUNISHING SCHEDULES WHICH YOU SUBJECT YOURSELF TO. HOW ARE YOU BEARING UP UNDER IT?

A. WELL I THINK MY STAFF CAN TESTIFY TO THE FACT THAT I BEAR UP UNDER IT ONLY TOO WELL. I AM KEEPING THEIR MORALE UP WHILE THEY'RE STAYING AROUND FOR THE CHANCE OF BEING THERE WHEN I DON'T BEAR UP SO WELL.

I WILL TAKE TWO MORE QUESTIONS.

Q. IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY OF THE GENEVA PEACE TALKS RESUMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

A. WELL WHEN THE DISENGAGEMENT PHASE IS OVER AND THE PHASE OF THE FINAL PEACE TALKS BEGINS WE EXPECT IT TO BE WITHIN THE GENEVA FRAMEWORK.

Q. COULD YOU ELABORATE ON THE SALT TALKS NOW MR KISSINGER?

A. AS YOU KNOW THE SALT TALKS RESUMED IN GENEVA A WEEK AGO TODAY. THE ISSUES IT'S ABOUT ARE EXTREMELY COMPLEX. IN THE FIRST SALT TALKS THE PROBLEMS CONCERNED PRIMARILY NUMBERS. IN THESE TALKS THE ISSUE INVOLVES BOTH NUMBERS AND QUALITY, ESPECIALLY THE PROBLEM OF THE MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT RE-ENTRY VEHICLES. OUR DELEGATION HAS COME TO GENEVA WITH SOME IDEAS OF THE CONCEPTUAL APPROACH THAT COULD BE USED TO THIS PROBLEM -- COULD BE USED TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM WHOSE DIFFICULTY IS SHOWN BY THE FACT THAT IF YOU DON'T BRING IT UNDER CONTROL WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO THEN IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE AN AGREEMENT. WE WILL EXPLAIN OUR POSITION AND HOPE TO ELICIT A SOVIET RESPONSE AND THEN WE CAN SEE WHETHER WE CAN FIND SOME POSITION THAT MEETS THE SECURITY NEEDS OF BOTH SIDES. WE HOLD THE VIEW THAT, FIRST OF ALL, PROGRESS OF STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION IS ESSENTIAL AND SECONDLY THAT A PROPER AGREEMENT MUST BE ONE THAT MEETS THE SECURITY NEEDS OF BOTH SIDES BECAUSE IF EITHER SIDE FEELS AT A DISADVANTAGE IT WILL OBVIOUSLY WORK IN ORDER TO EVADE THE AGREEMENT OR TO FIND VARIOUS TECHNOLOGICAL ESCAPES. WE CONSIDER THE STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT AND THE PRESENT JUNCTURE IN THE STRATEGIC ARMS RACE AS ONE OF THE MOST DECISIVE.

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FEBRUARY 26, 1974

EGAN IN NAT'L OBSERVER NOTES HAK" OFTEN SOUNDS LIKE A
CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER "IN DESCRIBING DETENTE, E.G., "BUILDING"
RELATIONS, A "STRUCTURE" OF PEACE, "FRAMEWORKS" FOR EXAMINING
ISSUES. BUT GROWING NUMBER OF MCS AND PROFS SEE HAK BUILDING
A HOUSE, NOT A HOME. "THEY WANT TO INFUSE MORAL VALUES INTO
DETENTE. "GEORGE BALL SEES NO EVIDENCE OF
DETENTE "EXCEPT IN 1 OR 2 AREAS" " HE CITES NO CHANGE IN USSR'S
LONG RANGE STRATEGY; THEY'VE ONLY CHANGED TACTICS, USING
"A SOFTER RATHER THAN A HARDER TACK. " BUT USSR STILL SEeks
to split NATO and keep EUROPE FRAGMENTED. MORGENTHAU
ALSO DISTRUSTS USSR PURSUIT OF DETENTE AS ONLY A TACTIC DURING
SINO-SOVIET RIFT AND WHILE USSR NEEDS WESTER HELP. BUT SOVIETS
"HAVEN'T CHANGED THEIR SPOTS. THEY JUST FIND DETENTE MORE
PROFITABLE TO THEMSELVES AT PRESENT. " AND JACKSON SAYS THERE
CAN BE NO GENUINE DETENTE W/OUT AN ACCOMPANYING INCREASE IN
LIBERTIES IN COMMUNIST WORLD. AND FOR NOW, JACKSON DEFINITION
IS THE ONE MOST MCS ENDORSE--"WHATEVER EFFECT THIS MAY HAVE
ON US-USSR RELATIONS."

OTHER FOREIGN AFFAIRS

NOTING TALK ABOUT RESUMED RELATIONS W/CUBA, HUMAN EVENTS
CLAIMS CUBA IS "ENGAGED IN MAJOR EFFORT TO TRIGGER UPRISINGS
IN 3RD WORLD AND IS DETERMINED TO AID REVOLUTIONARIES IN US.
"AND CASTRO IS "STILL EXPORTING SUBVERSION AND TERRORISM.
"......"HAK 'GOOD NEIGHBOR' PLAN "TOPS US NEWS PAGE ON "FRESH
US EFFORT TO SPUR HEMISPHERE COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT--
AND SPREAD IT WIDELY. INSTEAD OF TELLING LATINS WHAT THEY MUST
DO, US WAS SAYING: 'WE NEED EACH OTHER.' BUT 2-PAGE ARTICLE
FOLLOWS: "VIEW OF LATIN SKEPTICS: JUST ANOTHER EMPTY GESTURE
BY US" W/US NEWS REPORT assertinG "GRIEVANCES OVER US BUSINESS/
DIPLOMATIC PRACTICES RUN TOO DEEP FOR EASY SOLUTION (AND)

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DEMAND IS GROWING FOR ACTION, NOT WORDS. "HOWEVER, THERE WAS SOME "MODERATE OPTIMISM" MIXED W/THE SKEPTICISM OVER THE HAK PROMISES. BUT HE'S CLEARLY MAKING THE EFFORT, SAYS US NEWS AND "IF HE CAN FOLLOW UP W/CONCRETE ACTIONS LONG-RANGE RESULTS COULD BE AS IMPT AS SOME OF HIS OTHER, MORE DRAMATIC ACHIEVEMENTS."

MONITOR'S GOODSELL SAYS LAT AMER'S "EVIDENT ENTHUSIASM" OVER MEETING IS "TEMPERED W/A TOUCH OF WARINESS, "BUT" NO ONE CAN MISTAKE THE GENERAL HEMISPHERE MOOD. "AS A COLOMBIAN OFFICIAL SAID, IT'S 1ST TIME/ADMIN "WE'VE HAD SOMETHING POSTIVE FROM US. HAK LISTENED TO OUR NEEDS AND OUR IDEAS W/RESPECT AND NOT, AS OTHERS HAVE DONE, W/BEMUSED INTEREST." GOODSELL FINDS IT'S "OBVIOUS HAK IS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS REACTION. HE HAS MADE A HIT W/LAT AMER. HIS REPUTATION PRECEDED HIM AND HE MANAGED...TO LIVE UP TO IT."

BIRMINGHAM NEWS FEELS HAK'S TRIPS ARE CREATING "A SITUATION IN WHICH A FOREIGN POTENTATE FEELS INSULIED UNLESS HE HEALS THRU HAK HIMSELD." PAPER QUOTES RUSK AS FEARING HAK'S NEGOTIATIONS CAUSE OTHER TO FEEL NEGLECTED AND ALSO CONCERNED THAT SUMMITRY HAS TAKEN SUCH HOLD THAT "CREDIBILITY AND PRESTIGE OF OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO REPRESENT US WILL SUFFER." RECALLING RN'S OWN STRONG CRITICISM OF SUMMITS IN '68 CAMPAING, THE BIRM. NEWS CONCEDES DETENTE PROBABLY REQUIRED RN'S AND HAK'S INTENSE INVOLVEMENT. BUT HAK WASN'T SECY. THEN. "SOONER OR LATER RN WILL REALIZE HAK HAS BECOME SPREAD TOO THIN, THAN HIS CONSTANT ABSENCE TENDS TO WEAKEN STATE'S EFFECTIVENESS." THUS, THE BIRM. NEWS URGES A GRADUAL LOWERING OF HAK'S PROFILE..., SUBSTITUTING LESS WELL-KNOWN BUT COMPETENT DIPLOMATS AND EVENTUALLY BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN THEIR CREDIBILITY AS NEGOTIATORS." PAPER ALSO HOPES "HAK'S CAPACITY AS IMAGE-BOOSTER FOR ADMIN WON'T GET IN WAY OF QUIETER BUT NEVERTHELESS VITAL ASPECTS OF HIS SECY. JOB. (AS IT IS), BY HANDLING A FEW MATTERS IN SPECIFIC DETAILS, HE'S PREVENTED FROM MANAGING THE BROAD RANGE OF ISSUES IN A GENERAL WAY."

TRIB'S WIEDRICH REPORTS LETTERS FROM US DRUG AGENTS INVOLVED IN STOPPING HEROIN FROM LAOS SAY EFFORTS ARE BEING TORPEDOED BY US DIPLOMATS AND AID OFFICIALS TRYING TO ACHIEVE POLITICAL AND MILITARY OBJECTIVES. DIPLOMATS NEED RLG COOPERATION IN ESTABLISHING COALITION AND ARE MORE INTERESTED IN DISGUISING INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES BEHIND THE COMINGS-AND-GOINGS OF VARIOUS AID PERSONNEL, NOTES WIEDRICH.

US WAS HIT HARDER THAN MOST BY HIGHER FOOD COSTS, REPORTS US NEWS. '73 INCREASE HERE WAS 20 PERCENT COMPARED W/21 PERCENT IN AUSTRALIA, 17 PERCENT JAPAN, 13 PERCENT ENGLAND, 11 PERCENT ITALY AND FR, 5 PERCENT GERMANY.

2-PAGE US NEWS FEATURE ON THE "FUROR OVER ABORTION--HOTTER THAN EVER" AS NATIONWIDE DRIVE SEEKS TO OVERTURN COURT RULING.

"WHO'S IN CHARGE AT WH?" IS A US NEWS COVER STORY WHICH NAMES HAIG, HAK, SHULTZ AND ASH AS THE "BIG 4." SHULTZ DEPARTURE WILL LEAVE "A TERRIFIC VACUUM" SAYS AN ASSOCIATE AND AN OFFICIAL SAYS THAT W/OUT ASH AND OMB, "US WOULD BE PARALYZED."

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OTHER INFLUENTIAL ADVISERS: SCHLESINGER, WEINBERGER, RZ, SIMON, STEIN, ARMSTRONG, HARLOW, BT AND MALEK, VP'S ROLE IS STILL BEING WORKED OUT, SAYS US NEWS, BE HE SEES RN FREQUENTLY.

SIMILARLY, US NEWS EDITOR FLIEGER NAMES THE AVERAGE JOE BLOW AS THE REAL MAN OF THE YEAR. "IN A YEAR OF CRISES, SCANDALS, TENSIONS AND SHORT TEMPERS, JOE HAS KEPT HIS COOL" AS HE USUALLY DOES. "HE DOESN'T RANT AND RAVE...HE AND FAMILY ARE SELF-ENFORCERS OF OUR SELF-GOVT...HE'S EAGER TO HELP US. HE'LL DO ALL THAT'S ASKED OF HIM AND MORE...WHAT HE WANTS IS DIRECTION AND LEADERSHIP--AND IF HE DOESN'T GET THEM. HE'LL PROVIDE HIS OWN."

NEWS SUMMARY

FEBRUARY 26, 1974

(MON. NETS, WIRES. NEWS CONF. REPORT
AT END. DIGEST SEPARATE)

THE MAJOR STORIES OF THE DAY:

SIMON ACCUSED SHAH OF MAKING "IRRESPONSIBLE AND RECKLESS" STATEMENTS IN SAYING US WAS GETING "MORE OIL THAN ANY TIME IN PAST" DESPITE EMBARGO. HE SAID GOVT "HAS SOLID AND HARD NUMBERS" ON OIL IMPORTS AND TO SUGGEST IM BBL/DAY ARE BEING SMUGGLED IN IS "RIDICULOUS" AND "INSANE." FILM ON ALL NETS OF THE FEO BOSS "TAKING SHARP ISSUE" W/SHAH, DISCRIBED AS VISIBLY ANGRY, MAKING A SHARP ANSWER. SIMON FOLLOWED BY WAYS AND MEANS MEMBER VANIK (D-OHIO) WHO SAID ON ALL NETS THAT SHAH HAS RAISED LEGIT POINT AND HE, VANIK, WANTS TO KNOW WHERE THE OIL HAS GONE. ...ABC FILM FROM CHICAGO W/MAJORS SUGGESTING USE OF INVENTORIES NOW WILL ONLY LEAD TO AGGRAVATED SHORTAGES LATER. ...NBC FILM FROM DC ON THE "HASSLE" A STATION OWNER GOES THRU THESE DAYS.

ON STORY NOTED BY ALL NETS, UPI LEADS: "HAK BEGAN HIS MOST DIFFICULT MISSION TO M-E, W/HOPES OF CRACKING ISRAEL-SYRIA IMPASSE THAT'S BEEN PUNCTUATED BY NUMEROUS BLOODY BORDER CLASHES." ...CBS FOCUSED ON MEIR'S PROBLEMS, SAYING CURRENT TALKS COULDN'T HAVE COME AT A WORSE TIME FOR HER. ...KOPPEL OF ABC TOLD OF HAK'S PRIVATE OPTIMISM THAT PROGRESS CAN BE MADE. ...HKS TRIVUTE TO US ROLE IN M-E OVER PAST 25 YEARS DURING WHICH WORK FOR PEACE HAS BEEN A LONELY OCCUPATION.

ENERGY

THE SHAH CREATED SOMETHING OF A FUROR, NOTED NBC. LEVINE SIAD SIMON FEELS SHAH WANTS US PUBLIC TO BLAME COMPANIES. NOT M-E COUNTRIES, BUT FEO BOSS FEELS THAT WON'T WORK BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE. ...ABC NOTED SHAH'S REMARKS WERE HARD TO SQUATE W/STATION LINES AND A "VISIBLY IRRITATED" SOMON AD LIBBED A SPEECH TO IT. GOVS. CRITICAL OF SHAH TIL HE CAME TO LOSS FOR WORDS. SIMON ON ALL NETS POINTED TO

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ACCURACY OF US MONITORING OF IMPORTS. ...WHEN VANIK SAID SOMON'S OWN FIGURES SHOWED IMPORTS OF 80 M MORE BARRELS BETWEEN SEPT AND JAN THAN YEAR BEFORE, SIMON RETORTED: "ANYBODY CAN AMORTIZE NUMBERS AND MAKE THE SHAH LOOK GOOD." ...ON CBS, VANIK SAID HE FEELS A GOOD PART OF OIL IMPORTED IS IN HIDING. SIMON SAID THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF THAT AND SEVERAL MC'S HAD REFUTED VANIK ON IT DURING MEETING. ...ABC NOTED SIMON SAID VANIK WAS "DISTORTING" STIX.

MEANY SAID AFL-CIO. IS CONSIDERING CALLING FOR NAT'LIZATION OF OIL INDUSTRY. HE COMPARED MOVE TO TVA, NOTED NBC. ...CBS NOTED FTC ATTYS HAVE RECOMMENDED 8 MAJORS BE ORDERED TO CUT AWAY HALF OF THEIR REFINING CAPACITY OF EAST AND GULF COASTS TO INCREASE COMPETITION. STAFFERS ALSO WANT 10-13 NEW FIRMS FORMED. PROPOSAL HAS 2 STAGES OF REVIEW AHEAD, NOTED CBS.

OIL SHORTAGES AROUND WORLD ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN HAD BEEN EXPECTED, AND PRICES MAY COME DOWN WHEN SUPPLIES RETURN TO NORMAL, CITIBANK SAYS.

MIDEAST

WIRES QUOTE AN OFFICIAL W/HAK WHO SAID IT'D BE A "MIRACLE" IF THERE'S COMPLETE AGREEMENT DURING HIS MISSION.

(AP) NOTES THE US OFFICIAL ADDED THAT ASSAD APPEARED "IN A FRAME OF MIND" TO NEGOTIATE... (CARTER) OF NY' NEWS REPORTS ASSAD'S PROMISED OTHER ARAB LEADERS HE'LL GIVE ISRAELI POWS LIST TO HAK. UNCERTAIN, THO, IS WHETHER HE'LL PERMIT RED CROSS VISITS....AP NOTES INDICATIONS HAK'S SUCCESS MAY BE PRE-DESTINED. OBSERVERS SAY SADAT'S NOT LIKELY TO HAVE EXPRESSED OPTIMISM PUBLICLY W/OUT EVIDENCE IT'S TRUE.

ABC'S KOPPEL RECALLED HOW HAK HAD TO SPEND SEVERAL MONTHS OF CATCHING UP WITH HIS OWN OPTIMISM RE: PEACE IS AT HAND IN WN AND HE'S NOT MAKING SAME MISTAKE AGAIN, NO GRANDIOSE PUBLIC STATEMENTS THIS TIME ALTHO HAK EXPECTS LIST OF PPWS TO HELP TAOKS PROGRESS AND TO GET EMBARGO LIFTED BY 1ST WEEK IN MARCH....NBC ALSO NOTED NO PUBLIC HAK PREDICTIONS.

AND, NOTED ABC, HAK WANTS PROGRESS TO SHOW SADAT AS A LEADER IN TREND TOWARD PEACE, NOT ISOLATED IN ARAB WORLD. KOPPEL SAID HAK WANTS TO KEEP MOMINTUM GOING AND GIVEN ASSAD'S SUSPICIONS AND MEIR'S SQUABBLES, SADAT MAY BE HAK'S MOST ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTER.

CBS AM'S HOTTELED NOTED THAT HAK'S MISSION IS TO BREAK ANOTHER DEADLOCK AND A LOT IS RIDING ON HIS SUCCESS. IT WON'T BE EASY BUT THE CONSENSUS IS IF THERE IS NO CHANCE, HAK WOULDN'T BE GOING. SISCO ON INTERVIEW BELIEVES THERE IS HOPE AND A REASONABLE PROSPECT THAT NEGOTIATING PROGRESS CAN BE STARTED. EACH SIDE HAS AND INTEREST AND HE HOPES SYRIA IS FLEXIBLE AND CONSTRUCTIVE. POW ISSUE IS A SIGNIFICANT ELEMENT AND MUST BE DEALT W/IF THERE'S TO BE PROGRESS. HE NOTED HAK'S ROLE IN A SENSE A MESSAGE-CARRIER AND AN INTERPRETER OF EACH SIDE'S STAND. US DOES NOT HAVE A PLAN BUT WILL LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES A

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DETERMINE THE BEST WAY TO GO. SISCO FEELS ATMOSPHERE IS GENERALLY FAVORABLE FOR DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT. HE ALSO RAISED SADAT'S POSITIVE ROLE IN WHICH HE FACED UP TO HARD DECISIONS AND HELPED BRING ABOUT 1ST AGREEMENT.

NEVER HAVE ISRAELI POLITICS BEEN SO CONFUSED, REPORTED FENTON ON CBS. MEIR'S ALLIANCE IS A SHAMBLES W/OPPONENTS OUT TO TOPPLE HER. SHE'S IN NO POSITION TO MAKE CONCESSIONS; IS TAKING A TOUGHER LINE THAN W/EGYPT AND HAS EMPHASIZED INTENT TO HOLD ON TO ALL OF OCCUPIED GOLAN HEIGHTS, A STANCE W/WHICH FEW ISRAELIS WILL ARGUE, GIVEN CLOSE-NESS OF AREA TO ISRAEL. ASSAD IS ALSO TAKING TOUGH STANCE, NOTED FENTON CITING THE SYRIAN LEADER'S INSECURITY AND NOTORIOUS INSTABILIT Y OF SYRIAN GOVTS. ALL IN ALL, SAID CBS, IT'LL TAKE ALL OF HAK'S SKILL T BRING OFF DISENGAGEMENT.

DAYAN IS DETERMINED TO QUIT CABINET, ISRAELI RV REPORTED. BUT HE'S EXPECTED TO MEET W/HAK.

ISRAEL RETURNED 56 EGYPTIAN POW'S, NOTED ABC WHICH FOLLOWED W/FILM OF ISRAELIS SETTING UP AT NEW DEFENSE LINES IN SINAI AND NOTING DISAGREEMENT W/IN ISRAEL BETWEEN SUCH AS GEN. SHARON AND MEIR AS TO ADEQUACY OF THE NEW POSITIONS.

GROMYKO TO BE IN EGYPT W/IN NEXT WEEK, BUT NOT EXPECTED TO SEE HAK

HKS NOTED SOME HOPEFUL SIGHN THAT LONG ARAB HATRED FOR US IS ON DECLINE, BYT THE OLD GRUDGE BROKE OUT AGAIN AT MOSLEM SUMMIT W/US CHARGED W/BEING "CRUELLY INSENSITIVE" TO PALESTINIANS AND W/CREATING ISRAEL. IN FACT, SAID HKS, ISRAEL DID IT ON HER OWN, STEELED W/DETERMINATION RESULTING FROM HITLER'S PERSECUTION AND AIDED W/CZECH AND FRENCH ARMS, W/US BECOMING MAIN SUPPLIER ONLY LATE IN THE GAME. AS FOR PALESTINIANS, HKS NOTED US HELP TO FEED REFUGEES OVER LONG, HARD YEARS W/OUT SOVIET OF ARAB HELP. IT MAY BE THAT US POLICY HAS BEEN ILL-EXECUTED, SAID HKS, BUT THRUOUT, ITS ALTRUISTIC GOAL HAS BEEN TO KEEP THE PEACE.

OTHER FOREIGN AFFAIRS

BAD NEWS CAME FROM HEATH GOVT JUST 3 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION, NOTED CBS. WORST MONTHLY TRADE FIGURES EVER: $686M DEFICIT FOR JAN. AP NOTES JUST BEFORE LABOR'S '70 DOWNFALL IT ANNOUNCED $86M DEFICIT. ...HEATH STATED FIGURES SHOW ECONOMIC SITUATION IS "TOO SERIOUS FOR THE IRRELEVANCE OF LIBERAL PROGRAM OF DESTRUCTIVENESS OF LABOR'S."

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AP NOTES IN SPEECH TO KAUNDA BANQUET THAT CHOU MADE REFERENCES
TO PRC'S INTERNAT'L ROLE WHICH SERVED NOTICE THAT, FAR FROM CUR-
TAILING ITS NEW INTERNAT'LISN. PRC WILL EXPAND THAT POLICY. "PRC IS A

DEVELOPING COUNTRY, AND OUR CONTRIBUTION TO PEOPLE OF WORLD HAS SO
FAR BEEN RATHER MODEST," HE SAID AND PRC WILL "STRIVE TO MAKE A
GREATER CONTRIBUTION."

MOORER SAID LAST WEEK WAS MOST PEACEFUL WEEK IN WORLD IN
LAST FOUR YEARS.

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

MANSFIELD WILL VOTE TO KILL PAY RAISE FOR TOP GOVT OFFICIALS,
SAYING HIKE "WOULD SET A BAD EXAMPLE." ...BOB BYRD AND HILL ALSO
OPPOSED. ...SCOTT, THO FAVORS INCREASE FOR FEDL OFFICIALS BUT WOULD
LIKE TO SEE INCREASE FOR MCS POSTPONED TIL JAN.

CBS CLOSED W/VERY CRITICAL 5 MINUTES ON FAILURE OF DETROIT TO DO
MUCH ABOUT DANGER CAUSED BY LOCATION OF AUTO FUEL TANKS AND THE FIRE
BALL POTENTIAL THAT EXISTS IN CRASHES EVEN BELOW 40 MPH. MERCEDES
AND TOYOTA HAVE MADE CHANGES AND CBS SHOWED HOW IT COULD BE DONE.
AND WHEN FORD, ONLY US FIRM TO REPOND, CLAIMED NOT ENOUGH WAS
KNOWN YET, CBS REPORTED IT HAS DOCUMENTS SHOWING 20 YEARS OF FORD
RECORDS AND TESTS ON THE PROBLEMS AS WELL AS A FORD CLAIM SENT TO DO
THAT THE $50M THAT COULD BE SAVED IN 189 LIVES WASN'T WORTH THE $137M
$11/CAR -- THAT'D BE REQUIRE ACTION, NOTED CBS -- MEANWHILE 100 M
NEW CARS WILL ROLL OUT AND 10-20,000 PERSONS WILL DIE BY FIRE IN AUTO
CRASHES WHO MIGHT'VE BEEN SAVED.

WATERGATE

ABC/CBS NOTED KALMBACH SAID 3 WH AIDES, INCLUDING HRH,
AND 1FORMER ONE -- GLEASON WERE INVOLVED IN WHAT NBC CALLED ILLIGAL
'TO WARCHEST" KEPT BY WH. ...ALL NOTED PROMISE OF AMB. TO
J. FIFE SYMINGTON IN EXCHANGE FOR $100,000, NBC SAYING KALMBACH
"SOLD" SEVERAL AMB. POSTS AND CALLED WH TO "FIRM UP THE DEAL"
W/SYMINGTON THO POST WASN'T EVER FORTHCOMING. ...CBS NOTED
KALMBACH IS STILL AN RN ATTY WHILE NBC SAID HIS FIRM STILL DOES
SOME RN WORK.

NBC NOTED HARRIS POLL FINDING THAT 37PER. FEEL IMPCHMNT VOTE
SHOULD BE TAKEN "ONLY AFTER ALL FACTS HAVE BEEN GONE INTO CAREFULLY."
29PER. AGREED "AN EARLY VOTE SHOULD BE TAKEN TO GET IT SETTLED ONCE
AND FOR ALL." AND 24PER. OPPOSED ANY IMPCHMNT VOTE WHATSOEVER.

POLITICS/MISCELLANY

SAMMY DAVIS JR. IN SATISFACTORY CONDITION IN MIAMI HOSPITAL
AFTER SUFFERING SEVERE CHEST PAINS -- NO HEART ATTACK.

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"RN DOWNGRADED E-CRISIS TO A 'SERIOUS PROBLEM' AND PREDICTED SHORTER GAS LINES BY SPRING AND END TO EMBARGO." (AP)

"RN SAYS ENERGY SHORTAGE HAS DIMINISHED FROM CRISIS TO SERIOUS PROBLEM W/BETTER DAYS -- AND SHORTER GASOLINE LINES -- COMING UP." (UPI)

"RN SAID WHILE HE SYMPATHIZES W/SOLZHENITSYN, US HAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO RECOGNIZE 'WE MUST ALL LIVE TOGETHER OR DIE TOGETHER.'" (UPI)

"DESPITE NEW ECIDENCE OF BROAD-BASED SLOWDOWN, RN INSISTED US WILL ESCAPE A RECESSION." (UPI)....AP NOTES RN WAS MORE OPTIMISTIC ON ECONOMY THAN HIS ADVISERS HAVE APPEARED TO BE.

UPI NOTES RN SUPPORTED SIMON'S ASSESSMENT THAT EMBARGO IS EFFECTIVE AND OIL IS NOT POURING THRU BUT RN REFUSED TO ENDORSE SIMON'S CHARGE "THAT SHAH WAS IRRESPONSIBLE AND RECKLESS." POST-SESSION NETWORK COMMENTARY

STRAIGHT TO POSITIVE CBS REPORT W/BRUCE MORTON WHO REVIEWED RN ENERGY STATEMENT, CALLING IT GENERALLY OPTIMISTIC W/MUCH BETTER THAN EVEN CHANCE TO AVOID RATIONING, AND NOTING HIS QUALIFIED PROMISE ON COOPERATION WITH JUDICIARY.

SEVAREID THOUGHT REASON FOR CONF. MIGHT HAVE BEEN BIG ANNOUNCEMENT BUT THAT WASN'T THE CASE. RN APPARENTLY WANTED TO SHOW HE WAS STILL ON THE JOB. LONGER CONFERENCE THAN USUAL WITH RN IDENTIFYING HIS OWN FATE W/INSTITUTION OF PRESIDENCY AS HE'S DONE ALL ALONG, NOTED ERIC WHO ALSO OBSERVED THAT ON ENERGY, RN SHOWED HIS FREE MARKET PHILOSOPHY.

SEVAREID THOUGHT RN HANDLED MCCLENDON BETTER THAN IKE USED TO, AS SHE SOMETIMES RATTLED IKE. ALSO NOTED BY SEVAREID/MORTON WAS RN-HAK CARROT-STICK APPROACH ON EMBARGO - EITHER IT'S LIFTED SOON OF US WILL DRAG HEELS RE: PEACE EFFORTS. AND MORTON NOTED RN DIDN'T SEEM AFFECTED BY MICH. LOSS.

ABC'S REYNOLDS NOTED CONF. WAS 1ST IN WH SINCE RN REFERRED TO VICIOUS, DISTORTED AND HYSTERICAL REPORTING. REYNOLDS NOTED RN'S W'GATE-RELATED DIFFICULTIES HAD NOT ABATED SINCE THEN AND IN ADDITION BOTH PRICES AND EMPLOYMENT WERE UP AND FULL FORCE OF E-CRISIS WAS BEING FELT. IN A 60-SECOND POST-SPEECH WRAP-UP, REYNOLDS NOTED RN'S COMMENTS ON RATIONING, THAT HE'D COOPERATE W/JUDICIARY PRETTY MUCH AS IN SOTU AND HE REVEALED POSSIBLY FOR 1ST TIME THAT HE'D BEEN INVITED AND HAD DECLINED TO TESTIFY BEFORE GRAND JURY. REYNOLDS ALSO NOTED RN'S BELIEF HOUSE WON'T IMPEACH HIM AND HIS BELIEF THAT HE SHOULDN'T BY IMPEACHED.

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NBC'S CHANCELLOR GAVE 90-SECOND RECAP ON CONF. A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL W/RN ANSWERING OVER A DOZEN QUESTIONS, PRINCIPALLY ON TWO SUBJECTS: IMPEACHMENT AND THE ECONOMY. (CBS COUNTED 20 QUESTIONS.)

CHANCELLOR SAID RN WAS "VERY STRONG" ON IMPCHMNT. BUT, ADDED CHANCELLOR, RN ALSO SAID HE'D COOPERATE W/JUDICIARY ONLY TO DEGREE THAT IT'D NOT COMPROMISE HIS IDEAS OF PRESIDENCY.

CHANCELLOR CALLED QUESTION ON EMBARGO LIFT "FASCINATING," NOTING AND RN BELIEVES MEETING OF ARABS WILL NOW BE HELD AND THAT THE EMBARGO WILL BE LIFTED. OTHERS, SAID CHANCELLOT, ARE SAYING THIS MAY OCCUR W/ IN A FEW WEEKS. CHANCELLOR ALSO NOTED RN ON RATIONING, AND RN FEELING WE'VE PASSED THRU THE CRISIS. BUT HE ALSO SAID IF HILL PASSES ENERGY BILL IN PRESENT FORM HE'D HAVE TO VETO IT.

ON NET, DUKE SAID A "GENERALLY OPTIMISTIC" RN "RATHER EMPHATICALLY" REITERATED INTENTION TO SERVE OUT HIS TERM. RN ALSO SHED SOME LIGHT ON HIS OWN THINKING RE: BASIS FOR REMOVING A PRES. DUKE SAID THAT DIFFERED W/ A NUMBER OF CONST'L. SCHOLARS AND DOAR/JUNNER. DUKE NOTED RN TO COOPERATE W/JUDICIARY BUT "ONLY UP TO A POINT," AGAIN SUGGESTING HE HAS A DUTY TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY OF WH DOCUMENTS. DUKE NOTED SOME MCS INTERPRET THIS TO MEAN RN WON'T PROVIDE ALL DOCUMENTS REQUESTED. DUKE NOTED RN ALSO MADE IT PLAIN HE WON'T APPEAR BEFORE A GJ AS JAWORSKI HAD ASKED, BUT IS WILLING TO MEET PRIVATELY WITH JAWORSKI, A PROPOSAL JAWORSKI REJECTED.

DUKE SAID RN SEEMED "NERVOUS AND TENSE" MUCH OF THE TIME, BUT THOUGH HE SPODE IN A "MORE SUBDUED MANNER", THERE WAS NO BACKING DOWN FROM HIS TOUGH-IT-OUT MOOD, EVEN IN FACE OF GROWING GOP DISCONTENT. DUKE FELT RN'S "PERHAPS MOST REVEALING" REACTION WAS TO MICH. ELECTION. EVEN THO GOP LEADERS BLAMED WATERGATE, RN REFUSED TO DO SO, SUGGESTING NOV. WOULD HINGE ON PEACE AND PROSPERITY W/NOT EVEN A HINT THAT W GATE MIGHT PRODUCE A DISASTER AS SOME GOP LEADERS FEAR.

DUKE SAID RN WAS "SOMEWHAT LESS BULLISH" ON ECONOMY THAT DURING SOTU, BUT REITERATED INTENTION NOT TO PERMIT RECESSION. DUKE NOTED RN BELIEVES RATIONING STILL CAN BE AVOIDED THO HE WAS LESS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ENDING EMBARGO SOON. FOR 1ST TIME RN CONVEYED CONCERN THAT EMBARGO MAY DAMAGE PROSPECTS FOR M-E PEACE. RN HELD OUT NO IMMIDATE HOPE FOR ENDING LONG GAS LINES, SAYING ONLY THINGS MIGHT BE BETTER IN A FEW WEEKS. PERHAPS RN'S MOST CAUTIOUS ANSWER, IN DUKE'S OPINION, WAS RESPONSE RE: SOLZ. HE DIDN'T PERSONALLY CONDEMN USSR, INSTEAD SAYING IT'S BETTER TO TRY TO GET ALONG WITH SOVIETS --- "CLEARLY A TIPOFF" TO DUKE THAT RN WOULD DO NOTHING TO UNDERMINE DETENTE AND INTENDS TO CONTINUE EMPHASIS ON THE PEACE ISSUE.

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LATE NEWS

AP QUOTES INFORMED SOURCE THAT RESIGNATION OF SHULTZ MAY BE ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK. DAVID ROCKEFELLER UNDER CONSIDERATION TO REPLACE HIM, BUT A SOURCE ALSO SAID SIMON WAS STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION. AP QUOTES INDICATIONS SHULTZ MIGHT ANNOUNCE RESIGNATION EFFECTIVE AT A LATER DATE, POSSIBLY APRIL OR MAY.

TIP O'NEILL THINKS RN WILL RESIGN IN APRIL OR MAY. " THE EVIDENCE IS VERY DAMAGING. " LATER, AN O'NEILL AIDE, SAID IT WAS "COMPLETELY AND ABSOLUTELY FALSE" THAT THE MC HAD PREDICTED RN RESIGNATION AND POSSIBLE INDICTMENT. REPORTEDLY O'NEILL SAID JAWORSKI COULD HAVE SOUGHT INDICTMENT, BUT O'NEILL IS GLAD JAWORSKI DIDN'T TRY. O'NEILL SAID HE EXPECTS SIRICA TO TRANSFER EVIDENCE ON RN TO JUDICIARY. THE DEM WHIP ALSO FEELS VP WOULD GIVE US "GREAT STABILITY" AND BE HARD TO BEAT IN'76.

18PER. GIVE RN A "GOOD" RATING IN CALIF. FIELD POLL, 32PER. SAY "FAIR" AND 47PER. "POOR." SLIGHT CHANGE SINCE AUGUST WHEN IT WAS 20PER "GOOD," 31PER. "FAIR" AND 47PER. "POOR."

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3. SOON AFTER MEETING OPENED WE TABLED OUR SUGGESTED TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR EACH OF THE ACTIVITIES AND PROPOSED LOCUS FOR WORK AS FOLLOWS:

1) CONSERVATION AND DEMAND RESTRAINT. (OECD HLG)

2) ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF CONVENTIONAL ENERGY RESOURCES. (OECD HLG)

3) OIL SHARING. (OECD HLG)

4) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. (AD HOC GROUP)

5) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON URANIUM ENRICHMENT. (AD HOC GROUP)

6) ECONOMIC AND MONETARY MEASURES. (DIVERSE ASSIGNMENTS TO OECD, IMF, WORLD BANK, AND CG)

7) PRODUCER-CONSUMER RELATIONS. (CG)

8) RELATIONS WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (CG)

9) ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL OIL COMPANIES. (CG WITH AD HOC WORKING GROUP)

WE OUTLINED SUBSTANTIVE RATIONALE BEHIND THE ABOVE AND PROPOSED CG WORK BE COMPLETED BY EARLY MAY. CONSENSUS DEVELOPED BEHIND US LIST OF ACTIVITIES AND EARLY MAY DEADLINE (WHICH IMPLICITLY PUSHED PRODUCER-CONSUMER MEETING INTO JUNE-JULY PERIOD) AND, ON AD REFERENDUM BASIS, BEHIND US VIEWS ON WHERE TO LOCATE WORK. ONLY STRONG OBJECTION TO LAITER CAME FROM IRISH DEL WHO, TAKING UP WHERE HIS MINISTER AND JOBERT LEFT OFF AT WASHINGTON CONFERENCE, ARGUED FOR PLACING ALL WORK IN OECD UNDER DIRECTION OF COUNCIL WITH ALL MEMBER STATES PARTICIPATING.

4. OTHER AGREEMENTS REACHED WERE:

- TO PROVIDE COMMENTS TO DONALDSON AND OCKRENT ON US PROPOSED TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR FIRST THREE ITEMS BY MARCH 4 IF POSSIBLE AND ON REMAINDER ON OR ABOUT MARCH 7.

- FOR DONALDSON AND OCKRENT TO OBTAIN VIEWS OF OECD SEC GEN VAN LENNEP AND HIGH-LEVEL OIL GROUP CHAIRMAN WANSINK BEFORE SECOND CG MEETING RE

HOW WORK ON FIRST THREE ITEMS COULD BE HANDLED EXPEDITIOUSLY BY OECD HLG SO THAT RESULTS WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO CG ASAP.

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-- WITH BELGIAN, IRISH, ITALIAN, AND JAPANESE RESERVA-
TIONS PENDING APPROVAL IN CAPITALS, ESTABLISH AN AD HOC
GROUP ON ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BEFORE MARCH 13-
14 CG MEETING. (THE AD HOC GROUP'S FINAL TERMS OF
REFERENCE WOULD BE SUBJECT TO REFINEMENT AT MARCH 13-14
MEETING BUT IT CAN BEGIN ORGANIZING BEFORE THEN IF
COUNTRIES SO AGREE.)

-- A TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR MARCH 13-14 CG MEETING
SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL IN CAPITALS AND ANY VIEWS
FUTURE CHAIRMAN OCKRENT MIGHT HAVE. THREE ITEMS ON
AGENDA ARE:

I. OUTSTANDING ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO TERMS OF
REFERENCE AND WORK PROGRAMS INCLUDING REPORT BY DONALDSON
AND OCKRENT ON THEIR CONSULTATIONS WITH OECD AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS.

II. BROAD PLAN AND SCHEDULE FOR ALL CG MEETINGS,

FINAL RESOLUTION OF OUTSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL QUESTIONS
SUCH AS CHAIRMAN AND SITE.

III. SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSION OF A) SHORT-RUN MARKET OUTLOOK FOR OIL, B) ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL MEASURES.

5. POSTS IN PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES MAY DRAW ON ABOVE IN DISCUSSING ENERGY COORDINATING GROUP WITH HOST GOVERNMENTS. US OECD SHOULD TELL OCKRENT THAT DONALDSON WILL BE IN TOUCH SHORTLY TO FILL HIM IN AND TAKE UP QUESTION OF DISCUSSING THE OECD ASSIGNMENTS WITH VAN LENNEP.
US OECD SHOULD ALSO INFORM VAN LENNEP IN GENERAL TERMS OF MEETING'S RESULTS AND TELL HIM THAT DONALDSON AND OCKRENT PLAN TO CONTACT HIM.

6. OTHER POSTS SHOULD TREAT ABOVE FYI. IF ASKED THEY MAY SAY CG'S FIRST MEETING DISCUSSED ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS AND WORK PROGRAM. POSTS IN OECD COUNTRIES NOT PARTICIPATING IN COORDINATING GROUP MAY ADD WE WILL BE GIVING ATTENTION IN COORDINATING GROUP TO APPROPRIATE MEANS OF KEEPING ALL OECD MEMBER COUNTRIES INFORMED.
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ON FEBRUARY 23, DEPUTY TASS DIRECTOR YEDRASHNIKOV POINTEDLY
REMARKED TO USINTOFF THAT IN THE LONG RUN, US/SOVIET RELATIONS
WERE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT OF US OR USSR WITH THIRD COUNTRY.
HE NOTED THAT SOVIETS HAD GIVEN CONSIDERABLE SUPPORT TO EGYPT
IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, BUT HAD RECEIVED VIRTUALLY NO RECOGNITION
FOR IT. NOW SOVIETS WERE ATTEMPTING TO BE HELPFUL WITH ME
SETTLEMENT HERE, TOO, HAD RECEIVED VIRTUALLY NO RECOGNITION
FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE. YEDRASHNIKOV SAID THAT THIS WAS THE
US'S MOMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND PARTICULARLY IN EGYPT:
THE FLOW OF POLITICS IN THE AREA WAS CLEARLY IN THE DIRECTION
OF THE UNITED STATES NEVERTHELESS, HE SAID THAT HE THOUGHT
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1700 WIDER MEETING BEGINS IN MRS MEIR'S CONFERENCE ROOM. ISRAELI PARTICIPANTS WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: PRIMIN MEIR, FOMIN EBAN, DEMIN DAYAN, DEPUTY PRIMIN ALLON, AMB DINITZ, CHIEF OF STAFF ELAZAR, AVRON (MFA), GAZIT (PM'S OFFICE), DAYAN'S MILITARY AIDE, AND SEVERAL OTHER MILITARY OFFICERS WHO WILL ACCOMPANY ELAZAR. FOLLOWING PATTERN OF PAST, AT LEAST SEVERAL ADDITIONAL ISRAELI CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STAFFERS WILL BE IN ROOM. NUMBER OF US PARTICIPANTS IS UP TO SECRETARY. WE COULD INCLUDE ALL TEN MEMBERS OF OFFICIAL PARTY LISTED IN STATE 036952, PLUS RODMAN AND MY DCM. PLEASE ADVISE.

2000 OR 2100 (TIME TO BE FIXED TOMORROW) DINNER HOSTED BY PRIMIN AT HER RESIDENCE. ISRAELI GUESTS: MRS MEIR, EBAN, DAYAN, ALLON, MINISTER OF TOURISM KOL (INDEPENDENT LIBERAL), DINITZ, CHIEF OF STAFF ELAZAR, PLUS "SOME OTHERS." SIX RPT SIX U.S. PARTICIPANTS, INCLUDING SECRETARY, ARE INVITED. I PROPOSE FOLLOWING NAMES: SECRETARY, SISCO, BUNKER, AND KEATING. PLEASE ADVISE RE OTHER TWO AMERICAN GUESTS.

FEBRUARY 28

0800 DEPART HOTEL FIR AIRPORT BY MOTORCADE.

0900 WHEELS UP.

2. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 1:

1040 ARRIVE BEN-GURION AIRPORT. (POSSIBLE STATEMENT O PRESS AT PLANE SIDE.)

1050 DEPART AIRPORT BY MOTORCADE FOR JERUSALEM.

1150 ARRIVE KING DAVID HOTEL.

1215-1230 SECRETARY CALLS ON PRIMIN IN HER OFFICE FOR PRIVATE CONVERSATION. (RODMAN AND DINITZ EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT.)

1330 LUNCHEON HOSTED BY FONMIN EBAN AT HIS RESIDEE. ISRAELI GUESTS WILL PROBABLY INCLUDE THOSE MINISTERS PRESENT AT PRIMIN'S DINNER PLUS ELAZAR, DINITZ DND EVRON. THIS WILL BE FIRMED

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UP LATER. EIGHT RPT EIGHT U.S. GUESTS INVITED, INCLUDING SECRETARY. I RECOMMEND SAME SIX WHO AOTEND PM DINNER BE INCLUDED. PLEASE ADVISE RE TOTHER TWO U.S. GUESTS.

1600 DEPART HOTEL FOR BEN-GURION AIRPORT.

1700 ARRIVE BEN-GURION AND WHEELS UP SHORTLY THEREAFTER. IF IT IS DECIDED TO HAVE PRESS CONFERENCE IN AIRPORT LOUNGE, DEPARTURE WILL BE DELAYED APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF HOUR OR UNTIL 1730.

3. RECAPITULATION OF ACTION REQUESTED. PLEASE ADVISE ASAP RE U.S. GUESTS AT MEIR DINNER FEB 28, EBAN LUNCHEON ON MARCH 1, AND LIST OF U.S. PARTICIPANTS IN WIDER MEETING IN PM'S CONFERENCE ROOM ON FEB 28.

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