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the General Assembly last week, repeated China's contention that the United States and the Soviet Union were in a "super-power" collusion against the third world of underdeveloped countries, of which China considers herself a member.

Since Mr. Kissinger's last visit to China last November, he and other American officials have had only minimal contact with the Chinese.

The head of the Chinese liaison office in Washington, Huang Chen, returned to Washington only recently, and in general, American officials had the impression that China had put aside various proposals for strengthening Chinese-American ties in her preoccupation with a domestic ideological campaign.

### Extended Home Leave

David K. E. Bruce, the American envoy to Peking, returned to China recently after an extended leave prompted in part by Mr. Bruce's boredom with his isolation in the Chinese capital. American officials assumed that Mr. Huang, a former general in the Chinese Army, had been recalled to advise civilian leaders who may have been seeking to assert further control over the military.

Mr. Teng, on his first trip to the West since he was a student in France, was accompanied to New York by Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, who has had extensive contacts with Mr. Kissinger. Mr. Chiao was expected to review Chinese-American activities with Mr. Kissinger and his aides.

Trade with Chint, which has greatly increased in the last two years and stands 11 to 1 in the American favor, has been dled somewhat by the fail-

ure of the two sides to resolve the problem of financial claims between Peking and Washington.

Moreover, the import of certain Chinese goods has been restricted by higher tariffs charged on the goods of most Communist countries.

### U.S. Efforts Under Way

An effort is under way in the Senate by the majority leader, Mike Mansfield, to grant Peking most-favored-nation status, which would give it normal tariff treatment. The Administration has so far concentrated its efforts at removing amendments to the trade bill that bar granting of credits or normal tariffs to any Communist country that puts limits on emigration. These amendments mostly apply to the Soviet Union, but could be interpreted as applying to China as well.

In the United Nations today, Mr. Kissinger plans to discuss the relationship of such matters as energy, food, population, trade and monetary affairs, and to make some recommendations.

He was to meet individually with the foreign ministers of Morocco, Zambia, India, Yugoslavia and Turkey and to have dinner with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ismail Fahmy, before returning to Washington.

He planned to attend the luncheon given by Secretary General Waldheim for the chiefs of state and foreign ministers who are at the special session.

### Concerned on Campaign

Mr. Kissinger has paid special attention to China since his secret trip to Peking in July, 1971 opened the way to President Nixon's visit the following February and the opening of liaison offices. He was reportedly concerned a few months ago at the reports from Peking that a campaign to discredit Confucius had taken on overtones against improved relations with the United States.

He ordered a special intelligence report, which found that the domestic campaign in China was not so profound as the Cultural Revolution of the late nineteen-sixties.

Moreover, the report said that

Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai seemed still in charge and that foreign relations did not appear to be a major issue of the debate in China. But the energy devoted to domestic problems was causing Chinese officials to give lower priority to foreign issues, the report found.

Mr. Teng, a former secretary general of the Chinese Communist party, who has made a political comeback after being purged in the Cultural Revolution, was thought by Mr. Kissinger's aides to be qualified to give the Secreatry of State a rough estimate of the possibilities for future progress in Chinese-American relations. Mr. Kissinger has already begun talking privately of making another trip to China early in the fall.

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MAGIC NUMBER: The Thomas Bradens hosted a very, very private birthday dinner party for Henry Kissinger's new bride, Nancy Maginnes in Washington Saturday night. It was Nancy's 40th birthday. "I don't want to talk about it," said hostess Joan. "I managed to keep it a secret so far and I really think they are entitled to some private life." All Ms. Braden would say was that it was "candelight, tulips and daffodils." The guest list was Nancy's and included the Pete Petersons and Sen. and Ms. Jacob Javits from New York.

Others at the sitdown dinner were Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Kay Graham, Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti, Joseph Alsop and Rowland and Kay Evans. Said one guest: "I was sworn to secrecy, but they had chocolate cake, champagne and everyone made funny toasts. I left at midnight and it was still going strong."

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WASHINGTON — At or before 8 a.m. every weekday morning Dr. Henry Kissinger strides briskly into his White House office and begins another day of juggling two of the most important jobs in the world.

Until after noon he is at the executive mansion, first gulping down a hasty breakfast, then conferring with President Nixon, attending the 8:30 a.m. White House staff meeting and directing activities of staffers on the National Security Council.

In this first role, one he has held since Jan. 20, 1969, he is National Security Adviser to the President and chief administrative officer of the NSC.

Shortly after mid-day, Kissinger's rotund figure can be glimpsed again in a chauffeur-driven car headed for the State Department where a private elevator whisks him from the basement parking garage to a palatial, carpeted and paneled seventh floor office.

There, seated at a massive polished desk, eyes peering owlishly out over the top of horn-rimmed glasses, he plunges into more

conferences and paperwork, fielding and directing the myriad details of the nation's foreign policy.

In the second role he is wearing the hat of U.S. Secretary of State, an assignment he has held only since last Sept. 22 when he replaced William Rogers.

It is unprecedented in American history that one man should shoulder the burdens of two such strategic foreign policy posts.

But perhaps more important to students of U.S. government are the subtle and perhaps even permanent changes the dual role is bringing to operations of the NSC.

In the past, the council has often been accused of being a "little State Department" in the White House that is beyond the reach of Congress because it was part of the executive office of the President. Some critics charge its activities have undermined the morale and greater in-depth professional expertise of the State Department.

That may never have been an accurate description. But now it appears the council's policy planning and coordinating functions are being more tightly meshed with those of State than ever before in the past.

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KISSINGER
JUGGLES
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This increasing integration is making the NSC less operational and more involved with long range policy studies, while State is taking over more of the day-to-day conduct of policy.

The upshot is that the NSC may now seem to be fading more into the background, to be speaking with a more muted voice and thus attracting less attention.

But that does not mean the council and its staff are any less active or less important than before.

Since Kissinger donned his two hats last September the NSC has been wrestling with four of the toughest issues of the decade — the lagging Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union, the increasingly complex U.S.-Soviet relations in general, the Middle East crisis and the continuing international repercussions of the energy shortage.

In this year alone the full council had met four times by April 5, a pace exceeding that of last year — although not the frenetic early days of the Nixon Administration when the groundwork of later foreign policy initiatives were being laid.

Now in its 37th year, the National Security Council is in one sense an outgrowth of the U.S. disaster at Pearl Harbor in 1941 that launched the nation into World War II.

Postwar studies indicated the U.S. lack of readiness was partly attributable to failures in coordination between the government and its armed forces.

The left hand did not always know what the right hand was doing.

More specifically, a study made by experts appointed by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal led to establishment of the NSC under the National Security Act of 1947.

The NSC was authorized to develop a staff of foreign policy experts to aid the then statutory members — the President, secretaries of state, defense, Army, Navy and Air Force and the chairman of the National Security Resources Board. The President also had the authority to bring in the secretaries of other executive departments and other officials if he desired.

The council's assigned duty from the beginning has been: "To advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign and military policies relating to the national security..."

Since that launching it has gone through at least five evolutionary stages.

From September, 1947, until North Korean troops invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, the council and its staff were largely concerned with organizational details and procedures.

The Korean War vaulted the council into a key coordinating, policy and organizational role, with President Harry Truman taking over regularly for the first time as chairman of all meetings. New and better procedures based on experience from this period, were ushered in.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with his military staff background, elevated the NSC to a highly active policy arm of the executive branch when he took over in January, 1953.

It was under Eisenhower that one of the most significant changes

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# Kissinger—Running State And Security

(Continued from Page C-1)

took place. On March 17, 1953, a new position was created known as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. The special assistant was made principal executive officer of the council and chairman of its planning board.

A number of prominent men have since filled the post: Robert Cutler under Eisenhower, McGeorge Bundy under President John F. Kennedy, Walt Rostow under President Lyndon Johnson and Kissinger under Mr. Nixon.

It was the placing of such foreign policy experts at the head of the council's operations that largely led to the charges of supplanting the State Department with a miniature version in the White House.

The NSC appeared to be used less under President Kennedy, who worked closely with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and was used with only somewhat more frequency by President Johnson.

But President Nixon, in fulfillment of a campaign promise, brought the agency back into full prominence, and eventually into a period of ascendancy over state under Kissinger's guidance.

Today in the seventh month of Kissinger's dual administrative role, the council has President Nixon, Vice President Ford, Secretary Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger as statutory members. Its statutory advisers are William E. Colby, director of central intelligence, and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Other cabinet officers, State Department officials also attend on invitation, plus the top two or three in the NSC hierarchy under Kissinger.

In descending order they are Maj. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF; Richard Kennedy, deputy for planning; Charles Cooper, deputy for international economics, and Jan Lodal, director of program analysis.

Normally about 12 persons attend when full council meetings are held. They arrange themselves, according to rank, around the oval-sided rim of the oblong mahogany table in the White House cabinet room. President Nixon presides — as he must to make it an official NSC session.

The full council is convened to review and pass on to the President various alternative recommended courses that can be followed in a given situation, with the anticipated consequences of each.

This is the final step in the NSC process. The real spadework, however, is done elsewhere, by the staff and by the various interlocking, inter-departmental task forces and committees.

The staff reached a peak of 55 members in December, 1972, because of the need for a large number of Vietnam specialists. By August, 1973, it had dropped to 45 and is now down to the 42-44 range.

The staffers undertake various assigned policy studies and pass on their findings to various NSC groups for further processing. The six principal ones are:

- **The Senior Review Group:** — This is the real NSC workhorse. Chaired by Kissinger it handles most of the policy issues that are eventually taken to the President for decision. Interdepartmental groups, chaired by the appropriate assistant secretary of state, make many of the initial studies, aided by NSC staff reports. Three to four meetings are held monthly.

- **The Verifications Panel:** — It is also very active and chaired by Kissinger. It is charged with the technical analysis of arms control issues, including the verification of requirements and capabilities of weapons systems.

- **The Defense Program Review Committee:** — It analyzes the choices available in defense budget decisions, keyed to various levels of expenditure.

- **National Security Council Intelligence Committee:** — It provides information on the quality, scope and timeliness of intelligence that goes into presidential decisions.

- **The Undersecretaries Comittee:** — It is chaired by the deputy secretary of state, Kenneth Rush and is one of two NSC groups charged with carrying out decisions, rather than preparing policy issues for decision. It is charged with uniform execution of decisions throughout the government.

- **The Washington Special Actions Group:** — It is known more commonly by its acronym, WASAG. This is a crisis management group that carries out presidential decisions. Again Kissinger is chairman.

If there is any real drama in the NSC process it is centered in WASAG. Like the other five sub-council groups it meets in the small, oak paneled situation room in the White House basement, located within the White House bomb shelter.

Behind one wall of the room is the White House communications center, linking the executive mansion and WASAG with the global network of U.S. military and diplomatic establishments.

Red chairs rim the one large table. Other chairs are placed along the walls. Situation maps can be produced quickly when needed.

It is here that Kissinger and WASAG members met during the tense crisis that erupted last October when a new Arab-Israeli war engulfed the Middle East.

It is here also that every other major crisis is monitored and dealt with, step by step to make certain U.S. policy is implemented.

good and others, issued such an order Thursday, saying the law had just come to his attention.

Brown's assistants had said an offer of assistance from the attorney general's office would set a dangerous precedent in handling criminal cases involving state employees.

Bob Weinberger, legal assistant to the governor, said he and a member of Brown's staff had been studying the

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Kissinger Meets Delegate
and Calls Disengagement
Proposal ‘Constructive’

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 13 —
A special Syrian envoy dis-
cussed his Government's de-
tailed proposals for the sepa-
ration of Syrian and Israeli
forces in the Golan Heights
with Secretary of State Kissin-
ger today. Later Mr. Kissinger
described the Syrian plan as
"constructive."

After meeting with Brig. Gen. Hikmat Kahalil al-Shihabi, chief of staff for Syrian military intelligence for two hours, Mr. Kissinger told newsmen that the discussion had been "very useful" and had been conducted "in a very friendly, very constructive atmosphere."

The two met amid a grow-
ing military build-up in the
Golan Heights area. Syrian and
Israeli forces have shelled each
other for 33 consecutive days,
and today Israeli warplanes

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STAR-NEWS 4/13/74

# Syrian General Begins Talks With Kissinger

Another halting step toward peace in the Middle East was achieved today when Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met here in the role of mediator with a Syrian army general for the first formal discussion on troop disengagement with the Israelis.

Brig. Gen. Hikmat Khalil Chahabi, chief of staff for intelligence of the Syrian army, reportedly brought to Washington with him the counterproposals of the Damascus regime on separation of forces on the Go-lan front.

There has been fighting for the past 33 days between Syrian forces and the Isra-elis, who penetrated to with-in artillery range of the Syr-ian capital during the Octo-ber War.

CHAHABI, accompanied by Syria's Washington rep-resentative, Minister Sabah Kabbani, came to the State Department last night for what amounted to a courte-sy call on Kissinger. He remained for a working dinner with Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Joseph Sisco and other U.S. officials.

Today, Chahabi returned to Kissinger's office for the first high-level mediation session of the so-called Foggy Bottom Shuttle.

Diplomatic sources say they expect nothing ap-proaching agreement in this first round of mediation which does not even have the Israelis and Syrians in Washington at the same time.

Kissinger's mediation

plan consisted of receiving Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan here on March 30 to obtain Israel's first offer and then to per-suade Syria to follow the same course.

KISSINGER will look now for any area of possible agreement in the positions of Dayan and Chahabi to see if he can exploit it for concessions both sides can accept. The Israelis are not expected to come back to Washington, since Kissin-ger plans to go to the Mide East before the end of the month.

At this next stage, Kissin-ger is likely to go into a shuttle between Damascus and Jerusalem similar to his travel that resulted in disengagement between Israeli and Egyptian forces along the Suez front.

Israel wants an immedi-ate prisoner exchange and a demilitarized zone manned by U.N. forces along the pre-1973 war border. Syria is believed to be insisting on an Israeli withdrawal to pre-1957 war frontiers plus a solution to Palestinian aspirations for a new home-land.

—JEREMIAH O'LEARY

## He Ducked Death

A Dutchman who spent 29 years hiding in his parents' home was in good health and "almost relieved" when police apprehended him this week. He had been sentenced to death in 1950 for World War II crimes. Jacobus P. Phillipa, 56, is unlikely to be executed, says the Netherland's premier, Joop Den Uyl, and may be eligible for reprieve after serving about a year in jail.

percent.

ing hearts to veto the
al punish- or attended
urder vic-

n the cur-

stantly coming up with that
line from Deuteronomy where
the Lord says, "to Me belong-
eth vengeance." If that were
to be taken literally man
would have no right to pass a
law, make an arrest or build a
jail, for any degree of punish-
ment is vengeance. Society
couldn't long exist if no man

ments, sootasced by the
theory that the criminal must
be driven by forces beyond his
control, that we haven't been
able to think of anyone to
blame except society itself.

And look what that has got-
ten us.

Let's come off it, lest life be-
come cheaper than ever.

##acy' for Federal Workers

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legislation
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f anyone to
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om any job
to conform
itudes and
al matters

unrelated to his job to those of
his superiors."

That is probably broad
enough to get to the point of
what has bothered so many
presidents of the United
States. They come into office
with programs and ideas and
concepts which they cannot
get an entrenched bureaucra-
cy to carry out. This bothered
John F. Kennedy and Richard
M. Nixon, even more.

NIXON INHERITED a bu-
reaucracy heavily loaded with
long-term Democratic em-
ployes with ideas different
from his, and it led to endless
trouble in the Justice Depart-
ment, the Internal Revenue
Service, Health, Education
and Welfare, Defense and oth-
er agencies.

A very fine line is to be
drawn between political prin-
ciple and administrative ac-
tion in carrying out policies,
and also between what is "job
related" and what is not. An
administrator ordered to carry
out a Nixon policy he does not
like can squeal: "You're
trying to make me conform to
political doctrine and that's
illegal."

Another provision is de-

signed to protect any employe
from compulsion to attend
meetings, discussions and lec-
tures on political, social and
economic subjects "unrelated
to his duties." No more meet-
ings telling why racial integra-
tion is imperative as a social
good.

The legislative explanation
is that government bosses are
to be prevented from attempts
to influence employe thoughts,
attitudes and actions on sub-
jects which may be of concern
to them as private citizens.

So there is a lot more to the
bill than an employe not being
forced to take a lie detector
test or answer such questions
as, "Have you ever had sexual
relations with an animal?"

As of last count, there were
about 13.6 million federal,
state and local employes in
this country who would proba-
bly be affected in some way
sooner or later by this new
charter of independence.

And if bureaucracies work
the way they usually work,
those who conform will get
ahead and the few who do not
will get some publicity in hear-
ings before a new "Board on
Employes Rights."

STAR NEWS

4/13/74

# SALT Prospect: Limited Pact

By Jeremiah O'Leary

Star-News Staff Writer

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concurred yesterday that a limited strategic arms limitations agreement is about the most they have hopes of achieving before President Nixon goes to the Moscow summit meeting in June.

Gromyko and Kissinger met yesterday at the State Department for more than two hours on SALT, other bilateral problems and the Middle East.

It was a day in which Kissinger went on the record for the first time to admit that the chances of a permanent agreement on nuclear arms limitation this year have dwindled to nothing.

That admission came as he talked with reporters, after a breakfast meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi. Kissinger said unequivocally in that encounter, the first of four statements on classifications: "We will not have a permanent agreement this year in SALT II."

WITHIN THE hour, the State Department rushed out a clarification of Kissin-

ger's remarks which said the secretary had not intended to inject "new policy" into the situation.

State Department spokesman George S. Vest said, "this was his position in the past. He did not foresee a permanent or comprehensive agreement. There remains a possibility for a substantial agreement on portions of this subject."

Kissinger then held an unusual press conference at the White House after he and Gromyko had met with President Nixon at 11 a.m. The presumed intention was to reduce the excitement by treating the situation as if it was neither new nor startling.

"As I pointed out at the State Department some weeks ago," he said, "it is unlikely that we can achieve a comprehensive agreement of a permanent nature certainly by the time of the summit meeting."

He said the Soviet Union had made a proposal to him in Moscow and that the United States is now developing a counter-proposal which will be submitted to the Russians within the next few weeks.

BUT REPORTERS cornered Kissinger again at the State Department diplomatic

entrance in mid-afternoon as he waited nearly 15 minutes for Gromyko to arrive. Again Kissinger insisted he had said nothing new.

"I repeated what I said 100 times before," Kissinger said. "I said at my last press conference there wouldn't be any agreement before the summit. Believe me I didn't intend to make spectacular news this morning. I affirmed what I take to be obvious that between now and the summit we are not going to have a permanent comprehensive agreement."

When he and Gromyko emerged from their session late in the afternoon, the Soviet foreign minister made a great show of joviality with Kissinger. He said, "We hope there will be a SALT agreement before the President's visit." Asked what kind of agreement he hoped for, Gromyko replied, "We did not define it but limited might be a good word."

Kissinger added, "I agree with everything the foreign minister has said."

At his last press conference, on March 21, before he went to Moscow, Kissinger

See SALT, A-9

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Talk of 'If' Cabinet

THE MOST controversial portion of Osborne's article referred to Nixon's new-bound penchant for small talk with staff aides and others he feels he can trust during office hours. It concluded with this reference to Ford:

"The hours that he's had to spend with the President, mostly listening to Nixon talk about this and that, leave on a few occasions driven the vice president close to distraction. He's brought himself recently to break off their conversations, pleading that he's got to go someplace or do something important right away."

Safire quoted Ford as interpreting the situation differently: "I got somewhat embarrassed that I'm taking too much of

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger — Ford has high regard for him, and has "assured Kissinger that he would be not only be allowed but asked to remain."

Treasury Secretary George Shultz — Although he has resigned and is only awaiting confirmation of a successor before he leaves office, "Ford thinks Shultz is a great public servant who has been a tremendous asset to the administration" and would want him back in the government.

Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton and HUD Secretary James Lynn — All are respected by Ford and probably would remain in their positions.

home town of Grand Rapids, Mich., and longtime friend of the vice president. Also expected to play a major role on Ford's vice presidential staff is Philip Buchan, Ford's former law partner who currently is in charge of the vice presidential study on invasion of citizens' privacy.

Nixon's chief of staff, Gen. Alexander Haig, is described in glowing terms: "Ford thinks that Haig is a great manager and that he's done a tremendous job for Nixon in staving off staff collapse and chaos under Watergate pressures."

On the other hand, Ronald Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary, "definitely would not be asked to stick around." On the other hand,

Lynn said.

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17 POW Dead
Arrive in U.S.

OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI) — The last of 23 bodies of U.S. prisoners of war who died in North Vietnamese prison camps have arrived in the United States from Southeast Asia in Flagdraped caskets.

The 17 bodies were released with six others by Hanoi last month and flown to Thailand for shipment to the United States. They were taken yesterday to the Oakland Army Terminal mortuary.

Lynn also announced that his department's program for keeping the interest ceiling at 7½ percent on a program for providing 200,000 new homes at below-market interest rates will be retained.

Correction

The Star-News, Wednesday erroneously reported that CBS White House correspondent Dan Rather had urged President Nixon to take a leave of absence and allow Vice President Gerald R. Ford to take his office.

The story, based on a United Press International dispatch that was later corrected, ran in this day's first edition. Rather, in fact, had suggested that a leave of absence was one of the President's options in the face of the current impeachment threat. He did not suggest it as a course of action for the President.

SALT

Continued From Page A-1

had said the United States
would work very hard for an
agreement this year and
that he thought the pros-
pects were reasonably good.
There was no flat indication
that there will not be a per-
manent agreement this
year.

THE MOSCOW trip failed
to produce the "conceptual
breakthrough" Kissinger
had hoped to achieve. By
any standards, the results
of the trip and yesterday's
statements constituted a
major comedown from Kiss-
inger's words at San Cle-
mente last June when he
declared, "We believe with
considerable hope that a
permanent agreement limit-
ing strategic offensive
arms, which would be one of
the historic achievements
in the fields of arms control,
can and will be negotiated
during the course of 1974."

At his March 21 press
conference Kissinger did
say that the San Clemente
statement expressed an
aspiration and could not be
made a binding commit-
ment but he did not rule out
chances of a permanent
agreement this year.

But even with joint admission by the top U.S. and Soviet foreign policy makers that only a limited SALT

agreement is in prospect
before the summit, there
appears to be no doubt that
Nixon is still planning to go
ahead with his June trip to
Moscow.

From Kissinger's words
at the White House yester-
day, the only open question
about the visit is the date.
Kissinger said the summit
will take whether there is a
SALT agreement or not.

HE INSISTED that there
has been progress in SALT
and that the United States
will not hurry the negotia-
tions because of an artifi-
cial deadline. The United
States considers the area of
multiple warheads, he said,
to be one in which there is
the greatest urgency and to
which Washington is paying
the greatest attention. It is
in the MIRV issue where
progress has been made
but, Kissinger said, "we are
not yet sure that an agree-
ment can be made by the
time of the summit."

Asked about the Presi-
dent's feelings when it is
suggested that he may have
to negotiate from a position
of weakness in the summit
meeting because of his
domestic problems, Kissin-
ger replied, "Having sat in
on all of the meetings that
the President has had this
week with President Bou-
medienne (of Algeria), and

again this morning with
Foreign Minister Gromyko,
he does not conduct himself
as if he were in a position of
weakness nor do foreign
leaders treat him as if he

were in a position of weak-
ness. He is conducting for-
eign policy the way he has
always conducted it, with
concern for the national in-
terest."

—Associated Press

Secretary of State Kissinger explains his
SALT pronouncement after meeting with
President Nixon. At left is White House
Press Secretary Ron Ziegler.

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# Aluminum Is Out In the Penny Plan

Associated Press.

Americans won't have aluminum pennies in their pockets in the near future after all, and they soon may not have enough copper pennies, either, the U.S. Mint says.

The vending machine industry has killed the aluminum penny idea, and hoarders apparently are buying up the copper coins faster than they can be produced.

The country is seeing the beginning of a shortage of pennies that has already forced some banks in California, particularly in Los Angeles, to begin rationing them to their customers.

The big problem is that the price of copper is approaching the point where the penny will not be worth as much as its copper content.

The price of copper increased to $1.20 per pound this week, the price at which it costs the government more to make a penny than the penny is worth. However, the Mint now is producing coins from stockpiled copper bought at a cheaper price.

Mint spokesman Roy C. Cahoon said the Mint now is producing 35 million pennies every day, but there is demand for 40 million a day.

He said it is evident that many of these pennies are being hoared, since they are not being circulated in normal commerce.

The Mint plans to produce between 8 billion and 8.5 billion pennies this year, compared with 7 billion last year. The demand has far exceeded expectations, Cahoon said.

Although the penny isn't worth much to most Americans, Cahoon said the Mint has not seriously considered dropping it altogether because of its uses in vending machines, parking meters, and especially for state and local sales taxes.

The Mint had hoped to solve the problem by switching from copper to the much less expensive aluminum, if Congress approved. Production was to start this year, and sample aluminums sets were stamped.

But the vending machine industry lobbied hard against the proposal, asserting that pennies would not reject properly from some

STAR NEWS 4-13-74
# Undiplomatic Diplomats

The choice of words was manifestly
unfortunate. The lack of security at
the State Department was deplorable.
And the result is that our ambassador
to Saigon has done considerable dam-
age to the cause he represents, and
perhaps to his own career as well.

Ambassador Graham Martin should
not have sent a cable to the State De-
partment expressing his opinion that
"it would be the height of folly to give
(Senator Edward) Kennedy the tacti-
cal advantage of an honest and detail-
ed answer" to his queries about
American policy in Indochina. Given
the parlous security situation at State
(and elsewhere) when it comes to
confidential communications, Graham
might have foreseen that his recom-
mendation would promptly reach the
senator's attention with predictably
unfortunate results.

As it has turned out, Kennedy did in-
deed receive an authenticated copy of
the cable and took the Senate floor to
denounce the message as an "out-
rage" and "coverup." Ambassador
Graham has been recalled from Sai-
gon for "consultations" and the for-
tunes of South Vietnam are not likely
to fare well in forthcoming Senate de-
bates over continuing American aid to
that embattled nation.

The ambassador was equally impoli-
tic — if not mistaken — in implying at
one point that Senator Kennedy and
his liberal brethren in the Senate are,
however unwittingly, espousing the
cause of the North Vietnamese, or that
significant sections of the American
press are helping the Communist
cause in Indochina. Whatever they
may think privately — and perhaps
convey privately to trusted superiors
— ambassadors are still expected to
treat influential senators — and of
course the press — with a certain
defference.

To be sure, what was said so indis-
creetly was essentially true: There
are members in the Senate and parts
of the press inflexibly dedicated to the
destruction of the regime in Saigon
and the ultimate triumph of the
Communist cause in Indochina. They
are wasting no opportunity to throw
their weight against requests for $850
million in economic aid and $474 mil-
lion in additional military equipment
that could mean the difference be-
tween the survival and the defeat of
South Vietnam. The real outrage here
is that the decision may be materially
affected by diplomatic bungling which
has no real bearing on the central
issue.

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## Panov

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## Under

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Harold Wilson's home yesterday, sealed off the street so the bomb squad could take over. The canister was merely a vacuum bottle, with a little tea left in it.

## 55-Year Delay

Ernest A. Sheer of Rock Island, Ill., is going to get the Silver Cross on Monday for darting through a hail of bullets and capturing a machine gun with which he then took 47 enemy prisoners — on April 18, 1918. The one-time corporal receiv- ed France's Croix de Guerre in 1919 but a recom- mendation for an American medal failed to get through red tape until recently, when a neigh- bor's letter stirred Army Secretary Howard Calloway to order Monday's ceremony. Sheer is 77.

## Olga Leaves Harold

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Compiled From Wire Service Reports

There has been fighting for the past 33 days between Syrian forces and the Isra-e-lis, who penetrated to with-in artillery range of the Syr-ian capital during the Octo-ber War.

Kissinger's mediation

KISSINGER will look now for any area of possible agreement in the positions of Dayan and Chahabi to see if he can exploit it for concessions both sides can accept. The Israelis are not expected to come back to Washington, since Kissin-ger plans to go to the Mid-dle East before the end of the month.

—JEREMIAH O'LEARY

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STAR-NEWS 4-13-74

# SALT Prospect: Limited Pact

By Jeremiah O'Leary

Star-News Staff Writer

See SALT, A-9

BRYCE HARLOW

BRUCE KEHRLI

Talk of 'If' Cabinet

THE MOST controversial action of Osborne's article referred to Nixon's new-and penchant for small talk with staff aides and others he feels he can trust in office hours. It contrasted with this reference to Ford:

> The hours that he's had spend with the President, mostly listening to Nixon about this and that, on a few occasions even the vice president set to distraction. He's taught himself recently to break off their conversations, pleading that he's got to someplace or do something important right away."

Safire quoted Ford as interpreting the situation differently: "I got somewhat embarrassed at I'm taking too much of his (Nixon's) time. I know

Transportation Secretary

On the other hand, Ronald Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary, "definitely would not be asked to stick around." On the other hand, Melvin Laird and Bryce

American home buyers," Lynn said.

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when the home is sold.

Lynn also announced that his department's program for keeping the interest ceiling at 7¾ percent on a program for providing 200,000 new homes at below-market interest rates will be retained.

Correction

SALT

Continued From Page A-1

THE MOSCOW trip failed to produce the “conceptual breakthrough” Kissinger had hoped to achieve. By any standards, the results of the trip and yesterday’s statements constituted a major comedown from Kissinger’s words at San Clemente last June when he declared, “We believe with considerable hope that a permanent agreement limiting strategic offensive arms, which would be one of the historic achievements in the fields of arms control, can and will be negotiated during the course of 1974.”

From Kissinger's words at the White House yesterday, the only open question about the visit is the date. Kissinger said the summit will take whether there is a SALT agreement or not.

HE INSISTED that there
has been progress in SALT
and that the United States
will not hurry the negotia-
tions because of an artifi-
cial deadline. The United
States considers the area of
multiple warheads, he said,
to be one in which there is
the greatest urgency and to
which Washington is paying
the greatest attention. It is
in the MIRV issue where
progress has been made
but, Kissinger said, “we are
not yet sure that an agree-
ment can be made by the
time of the summit.”

—Associated Press