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TOKYO-PEKING

TOKYO (AP)-PRIME MINISTER EISAKU SATO SAID TODAY HE IS WILLING
TO GO TO PEKING TO DISCUSS THE NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN
JAPAN AND CHINA.
HAKI'D

SATO DID NOT GIVE ANY SPECIFIC DATE, BUT SAID HE WAS READY
TO GO TO PEKING "WHENEVER I DECIDE CONDITIONS PERMIT."

THE PRIME MINISTER ALSO SAID HE FAVORS PEKING'S ADMISSION TO THE
UNITED NATIONS, BUT STILL HAS DOUBTS ABOUT WHETHER NATIONALIST
CHINA SHOULD BE EXPELLED FROM THE WORLD BODY.
HAKI'D

JAPAN HAS SUPPORTED THE UNITED STATES IN BARRING RED CHINA FROM THE
UNITED NATIONS BUT RECENTLY HAS BEEN UNDERGOING A CHANGE IN
POLICY.
HAKI'D

ANSWERING QUESTIONS AT A BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, SATO SAID, HOWEVER, PEKING SHOULD FIRST:
DISCUSS WITH FORMOSA WHICH OF THE TWO WILL REPRESENT THE CHINESE
PEOPLE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
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CHINA-BRITAIN

LONDON (AP)--BRITISH AND CHINESE OFFICIALS MET IN PEKING TODAY TO DISCUSS EXCHANGING AMBASSADORS AND UPGRADE EACH OTHER'S DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS TO FULL EMBASSY STATUS, THE FOREIGN OFFICE ANNOUNCED.

A SPOKESMAN SAID A FURTHER MEETING IS SCHEDULED IN LONDON TUESDAY.

DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES REMAIN TO BE OVERCOME BUT THERE COULD BE AN AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF AMBASSADORS IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

BRITAIN AND CHINA HAVE HAD DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS SINCE 1949 THROUGH MISSIONS IN EACH OTHER'S CAPITALS, HEADED BY A CHARGE D'AFFAIRES.

THE BRITISH HAVE REPORTEDLY SOUGHT TO UPGRADE THE MISSIONS AND EXCHANGE AMBASSADORS. THE CHINESE REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE UNTIL THIS YEAR, WHEN PEKING BEGAN TO IMPROVE ITS RELATIONS WITH THE WEST IN A POLICY THAT HAS LED TO PRESIDENT IXON'S FORTHCOMING VISIT TO CHINA.

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FBIS 52 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

PRC 8-POINT PROGRAM FOR NIXON TALKS

PARIS AFP IN FRENCH 1940 GMT 19 JULY 71 C

(BY JEAN LECLERC DE SABLON)

(TEXT) PEKING, 19 JUL--CHINESE PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI HAS
PROPOSED AN EIGHT-POINT PROGRAM TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WITH A
VIEW TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES,
IT IS LEARNED MONDAY EVENING IN PEKING FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE.

EXACTLY WHAT THESE POINTS ARE IS NOT KNOWN. BUT OBSERVERS
NOTE THAT THE SINO-AMERICAN DIALOG, WHICH IT APPEARS WILL FOLLOW
A DEVIOUS ROUTE FRAUGHT WITH DIFFICULTIES, DOES NOT INVOLVE
CONDITIONS LAID DOWN BY PEKING, BUT SIMPLY POINTS, ACCORDING TO
THIS SOURCE. THESE POINTS ARE SAID TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF
THE EVACUATION OF TAIWAN BY U.S. FORCES, U.S. WITHDRAWAL
FROM INDOCHINA, RECOGNITION OF PEKING'S RIGHT TO SEAT AT THE
UNITED NATIONS, AND THE QUESTION OF THE REBIRTH OF JAPANESE
MILITARISM.

DURING HIS TALKS WITH DR HENRY KISSINGER, CHOU EN-LAI EXPRESSED
THE BELIEF THAT A NUMBER OF THESE POINTS COULD BE SOLVED DURING
THE 9 MONTHS PRECEDING PRESIDENT NIXON'S ARRIVAL IN PEKING,
ACCORDING TO THE SAME SOURCE.

IT IS BELIEVED THAT PEKING'S POSITION WITH REGARD TO INDOCHINA
AND TAIWAN IS VERY MUCH IN LINE WITH PRINCIPLES EXPRESSED LONG
AGO.

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NIXON-REACTION (TOPS 46)

BY JIM LUTHER

WASHINGTON (AP)-PRESIDENT NIXON ASKED THE LEADERS OF CONGRESS TODAY FOR RESTRAINT IN CAPITOL HILL DISCUSSIONS AND REACTIONS TO HIS PLANNED JOURNEY TO COMMUNIST CHINA.

SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER HUGH SCOTT REPORTED NIXON SAID IN EFFECT, AT A WHITE HOUSE MEETING WITH THE LEADERS, THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HOLD DOWN CONGRESSIONAL SPECULATION ABOUT THE MISSION BECAUSE OF ITS DELICACY.

"I DON'T THINK THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO MUZZLE ANYBODY AT ALL," SCOTT SAID. "HE IS SIMPLY STATING THE MOMENTOUS NATURE OF THE OCCASION AND THE NECESSITY FOR RESTRAINT."

SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER MIKE MANSFIELD SAID IT IS ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTAND THAT MUCH PREPARATORY GROUNDWORK HAS TO BE LAID IN ADVANCE OF THE MISSION.

"THAT MEANS THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE TO WALK VERY CAREFULLY AND THE CONGRESS WILL HAVE TO ACT VERY RESPONSIBLY SO THAT THERE WILL BE NO SLIP BETWEEN THE CUP AND THE LIP WHICH WOULD IN ANY WAY HINDER THE COMING MEETING," MANSFIELD SAID.

MANSFIELD SAID NIXON "WILL BE WALKING ON EGGSHELLS" IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING WITH PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, AND NEGOTIATIONS LEADING UP TO IT WILL HAVE TO BE SECRET.

SCOTT WOULD NOT DISCLOSE HOW THOSE PREPARATORY DISCUSSIONS WILL BE CONDUCTED. HE SAID ONLY THAT THEY WILL BE CARRIED OUT "AT THE TOP LEVEL, BY PERSONS OPERATING UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S DIRECTION."

SCOTT SAID EARLIER THAT THE TIMING OF NIXON'S VISIT TO CHINA INDICATES THE UNITED STATES WILL HAVE NO COMBAT TROOPS IN VIETNAM BY MAY 1, 1972.

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BY MARK MEREDITH

SAIGON, JULY 20, REUTER -- PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU TODAY SAID THAT DESPITE SIGNS OF A POSSIBLE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND PEKING HE WAS STILL NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR AN EARLY PEACE IN VIETNAM.

THIEU, WHO MADE HIS COMMENT IN A SPEECH, EXHIBITED AN APPREHENSION MATCHED YESTERDAY BY HANOI THAT AN INDOCHINA SOLUTION MIGHT BE ARRANGED ABOVE THE HEADS OF BOTH VIETNAMS.

THE OFFICIAL HANOI DAILY NHAN DAN SAID YESTERDAY THAT PRESIDENT NIXONS POLICY IS "TO ACHIEVE A COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE BIG POWERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE SMALLER COUNTRIES BOW TO THEIR ARRANGEMENTS."

THIEU, SPEAKING TO MARK NATIONAL GRIEF DAY ON THE 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PARTITION OF THE TWO VIETNAMS, TOLD HIS AUDIENCE IN A THEATER NEAR THE U.S. EMBASSY, "THERE ARE STILL MANY TESTS TO BE MADE OF CHINAS GOODWILL AS REGARDS PEACE."

THIEU, WHOSE CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION IN OCTOBER IS BUILDING UP ON A FIRM ANTI-COMMUNIST PLATFORM, ALSO SAID HE HOPED AN UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA WOULD BECOME THE FIRST STEP LEADING TO AN END OF CONFLICT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.

"BY SAYING THIS I WAS NOT BEING OPTIMISTIC. NORXID I BELIEVE IN THE FACT THAT IN ONE DAY, ONE MONTH, OR EVEN ONE YEAR, PEACE WOULD COME," HE SAID.

THE PRESIDENT ADDED "WE MUST BE SKILLFUL IN PERSUADING OUR ALLIES AND THE FREE WORLD TO HELP US MAINTAIN OUR INDEPENDENCE."

TO DO THIS, THIEU SAID HE WAS GOING TO ASK THE UNITED STATES THREE THINGS:

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-- THAT AN AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS BE GRADUAL TO ALLOW THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ARMY TO BE STRONG.

-- THAT THE UNITED STATES CONTINUE TO HELP THROUGH MILITARY AID TO STRENGTHEN SAIGONS FARMED FORCES.

-- THAT AMERICA PROVIDE LONG RANGE ECONOMIC AID.

"IF WE COULD HAVE A GUARANTEE FROM THE UNITED STATES ON THESE THREE THINGS, THEN I AM SURE THAT WITHIN TWO YEARS, THE WAR IN VIETNAM WILL HAVE FADED AWAY AND THE COMMUNISTS WILL NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO DEFEAT THE SOUTH THROUGH A MILITARY VICTORY," THE PRESIDENT SAID.

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["IF THE SOVIET COUNTRY", "IN A MILD WAY, THE AMOUNT IS WAY TOO HIGH. ANY WAY IT IS, I THINK, IT IS NECESSARY TO BE DOING OBLIGATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS, BECAUSE IT ISN'T POSSIBLE, ANYWAY, TO BE ADVANCING TO A NEGOTIATION, WITHOUT A CONCLUSION, WITHOUT A NEGOTIATION, WITHOUT A PROPOSAL, WITHOUT A COUNTEROFFER, WITHOUT A PROPOSAL, WITHOUT A COUNTEROFFER, WITHOUT A NEGOTIATION, WITHOUT A PROPOSAL, WITHOUT A COUNTEROFFER, WITHOUT

THE CHINESE, WHO ARE EXPERTS IN GREAT DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES, ARE UNLIKELY TO SACRIFICE THEIR BASIC PRINCIPLES TO ATTAIN THEIR OBJECTIVES, PARTICULARLY THE EVACUATION OF TAIWAN BY AMERICAN TROOPS, THE TOTAL WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN FORCES FROM INDOCHINA, AND RECOGNITION OF THEIR RIGHT TO REPRESENT ALL CHINA IN THE UNITED NATIONS, OBSERVERS BELIEVE.

BUT THE CHINESE ARE ALSO EXPERTS IN LONG MARCHES, AND THE EDITORIAL PARTICULARLY STRESSES THAT THE CHINESE PATH IS TORTUOUS AND LONG, AND WARNS AGAINST SOME PEOPLE AFFLICTED WITH IMPETUOUSITY WHO WANT TO SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS OVERNIGHT.

IT WAS CHOU EN-LAI WHO, AT THE END OF THE THIRTYES AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FORTIES, WAS GIVEN THE TASK OF REPRESENTING THE COMMUNIST PARTY WITH RESPECT TO THE KUOMINTANG, THAT ADVERSARY IT WAS NECESSARY TO BE ALLIED WITH AND AT THE SAME TIME TO (WORD INDISTINCT), AS THE EDITORIAL SAID.

IT WAS THE SAME CHOU EN-LAI, NOW PRIME MINISTER, WHO RECEIVED SECRETLY MR. NIXON'S SECURITY ADVISER HENRY KISSINGER AND INVITED THE U.S. PRESIDENT TO VISIT CHINA.

SOME SECTIONS OF THE EDITORIAL WERE QUOTATIONS FROM AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY MAO TSE-TUNG IN OCTOBER, 1945, CONCERNING THE CHUNGKING NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN GENERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND HIMSELF.

INFORMED SOURCES SAID THAT CHINESE CADRES HAVE BEEN ADVISED TO READ MAO'S ARTICLE CAREFULLY. IT TAKES ON PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE IN THE LIGHT OF PRESENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

MAO WROTE: SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT WE SHOULD BE SUSPICIOUS OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK, THAT HE IS DECEITFUL AND THAT NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIM CAN LEAD NOWHERE. SUCH AN OPINION WAS JUSTIFIED IN THE MEASURE THAT IT IS CERTAIN THAT THE KUOMINTANG AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY WILL FIGHT. HOWEVER, THAT WAS ONLY ONE ASPECT OF THE QUESTION. IT WAS NECESSARY TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THREE MAIN FACTORS: THE POWER OF THE LIBERATED REGIONS, THE OPPOSITION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT REAR AND THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION. THE KUOMINTANG, WHICH ALWAYS REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE EQUAL STATUS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, IS NOW OBLIGED TO DO SO. SINCE THEY WANT TO BE REALISTS, WE SHALL BE REALISTS TOO.

MAO SAID THAT CONCESSIONS ARE NECESSARY, FOR AS LONG AS WE RESPECT THE PRINCIPLE OF NEVER HARMING THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE, CERTAIN CONCESSIONS ARE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN IN EXCHANGE PEACE AND DEMOCRACY, OF WHICH THE PEOPLE AS A WHOLE HAVE NEED.

AND MAO ADDED: THE CAPITALIST AND COMMUNIST COUNTRIES WILL FINALLY REACH A COMPROMISE ON A GREAT NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL QUESTIONS, BECAUSE COMPROMISE WILL BE ADVANTAGEOUS. IT WAS NECESSARY TO BE BOTH OPTIMISTIC AND REALISTIC, BECAUSE, IN A WORD, THE FUTURE IS RADIANT, BUT OUR ROAD IS TORTUOUS.

19 JUL 2021Z EH/JZ

THE WASHINGTON POST

E2

Saturday, July 17, 1971

PEOPLE

China Talk

EMBASSY, From E1

"sick in Pakistan" when he was really in China.

Green added to the laugh-
ter of everybody: "No one
can say any more that the
State Department is behind
The Times."

This quip at the expense
of The New York Times and
its publication of the Pen-
tagon study of the war in
Vietnam was snapped up by
former Secretary of De-
fense Robert S. McNamara,
who is now president of the
World Bank.

"Or The Post!" McNamara sang out across the room.

McNamara was kidding
The Washington Post which
followed The Times with
further excerpts from the
so-called McNamara papers.
The Pentagon study of the

Vietnamese war had been
authorized by McNamara
when he headed the De-
fense Department.

McNamara had "no com-
ment" on the release of the
Pentagon Papers and any
embarrassment it may have
caused him, except to say:

"When I ordered the study, I wanted it set up for future historians. I had no particular time in mind when it should come out."

Like everyone else, McNamara was "delighted" over President Nixon's move to improve relations with Chou En-lai, the Chinese premier.

"It's a tremendous step
forward," said McNamara.

Every diplomat there, ad-
mitted that he had no ad-
vance knowledge of the
President's plans.

The ambassador of Japan
Nobuhiko Ushiba, whose
country lies close to China,
was more guarded in his
comments than the others.

"An objective judgment
can be made after the sur-
prise dies down," he said. "I
do think that great good will
come of it."

By Gerald Martineau—The Washington Post

Robert S. McNamara with Indonesian Am-
bassador Soedjatmoko.

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ROGERS 7-18 NX

WITH KISSINGER

WASHINGTON (UPI)--SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM P. ROGERS, AIDES SAY, IS PHILOSOPHIC ABOUT THE RISE TO PROMINENCE IN THE CURRENT CHINA DIPLOMACY OF HENRY A. KISSINGER, PRESIDENT NIXON'S NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS ADVISER.

ROGERS FEELS THAT WHATEVER STEPS MAY STRENGTHEN WORLD PEACE AND BRING BENEFITS TO THE UNITED STATES ARE SO VALUABLE THAT IT MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE WHO RECEIVES CREDIT FOR BEING THE ARCHITECT OF THE POLICY.

ROGERS' ATTITUDE IS BOLSTERED BY HIS OWN SENSE OF SELF-CONFIDENCE AND THE ASSURANCES OF POLITICAL SUPPORT WHICH HE HAS CONTINUED TO RECEIVE FROM NIXON. HIS AIDES SAY THAT ROGERS' EQUANIMITY APPARENTLY FLOWS FROM THE FACT THAT HE HAS A HAPPY FAMILY LIFE AND THAT HE HAS ACHIEVED ALL OF HIS PROFESSIONAL GOALS WHILE AMASSING A RESPECTABLE FORTUNE AS A NEW YORK LAWYER.

NEVERTHELESS, ROGERS, 58, HAS HAD HIS FRICTION WITH KISSINGER DURING THE TWO-AND-HALF YEAR LIFE OF THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION. KISSINGER, AT TIMES, IS REPORTED TO HAVE LOOKED UPON ROGERS WITH SOME DISDAIN, BELITTLING HIS INTELLECT AND OCCASIONALLY HIS DRIVE AND DETERMINATION.

THE PROBLEM SURFACED EARLY IN 1971 WHEN SEN. STUART SYMINGTON, D-MO., COMPLAINEO IN A SENATE SPEECH THAT KISSINGER WAS NEVER AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF "EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE" TO TESTIFY ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.

SYMINGTON CALLED ROGERS AN ABLE SECRETARY OF STATE, BUT HE NOTED THAT OCCASIONALLY HE HAD BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING SECRETARY "IN NAME ONLY" AND THAT KISSINGER WAS REALLY THE POWER BEHIND THE SCENES.

THE MEDIA SEIZED ON SYMINGTON'S LATTER REMARKS AND PRECIPITATED THE CRISIS IN ROGERS-KISSINGER RELATIONS. ROGERS IMMEDIATELY SOUGHT NIXON'S REASSURANCES AND EVER SINCE THEN HAS BEEN APPEARING MORE FREQUENTLY AT PRESS CONFERENCES.

A SPECIAL EFFORT WAS MADE BY THE WHITE HOUSE IN RECENT DAYS TO CONVEY THE IMPRESSION THAT ROGERS PLAYED HIS ROLE TOO IN THE SECRET KISSINGER VISIT TO PEKING. BUT THE ROLE WAS NOT VERY CLEARLY EXPOUNDED AND ROGERS' MAIN CONTRIBUTION SEEMED TO BE IN GIVING ADVANCE NOTICE TO A NUMBER OF FOREIGN AMBASSADORS.

ROGERS ALSO CANCELED A PLANNED TRIP TO LONDON, WHERE HE HAD BEEN SCHEDULED TO DELIVER A SPEECH MONDAY TO THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, IN ORDER TO BE ON HAND IN WASHINGTON PERSONALLY TO BRIEF A LARGE NUMBER OF ASIAN AMBASSADORS, INCLUDING THE ENVOY FROM NATIONALIST CHINA, JAMES H. C. SHEN.

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July 17, 1971

MEMORANDUM FOR COL. KENNEDY

FROM: Peter Rodman

The only Edgar Snow post-announcement comment which USIA or
FBIS has been able to locate is the brief statement from Geneva
which was printed virtually in toto by the London Times and the
New York Times today.

The story originated in a phone call from the London Times man
in Geneva to Snow's residence. Snow's wife read him the
following:

"Mr. Kissinger's visit to Peking, followed by President Nixon's announcement, fulfilled efforts begun by Nixon at least a year ago. We are witnessing the liquidation of two decades of U.S. East Asian policy dominated by the ghost of John Foster Dulles. Nixon has now preempted major issues of foreign policy from exploitation by his opposition in the Presidential race of 1972. A new era of Far Eastern and world politics has begun. China stands to gain much from her new stature but China will not abandon the basic worldview of Mao Tse-Tung."

The above looks like a prepared statement. But Snow is not known for
his reticence, and it is possible that other journalists might have
squeezed additional details out of him. USIA is on the lookout for
any other press reports of Snow's views.

Edgar Snow Sees End
Of 'Dulles' Ghost' Policy

Dispatch of The Times, London

GENEVA, July 16—Edgar
Snow, the American writer
who has visited Communist
China regularly over the
years, said in a statement
today on President Nixon's
plan to visit China that "we
are witnessing the liquida-
tion of two decades of a U.S.
East Asian policy dominated
by the ghost of John Foster
Dulles."

"Nixon has now pre-
empted a major issue of
foreign policy from exploita-
tion by the opposition in the
1972 Presidential race," he
said. "A new era of Far
Easteern and world politics
has begun.

"China stands to gain
much from her new stature
but she will not abandon
Mao Tse-tung's basic view of
the world."

UPI-53

(VIET TALKS)

SENT IO SAN CLEMENTE

PARIS --THE VIET CONG BROKE SILENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY SINCE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRESIDENT NIXON'S FORTHCOMING TRIP TO PEKING AND BRUSHED OFF MOVES TOWARD AN INDOCHINA CONFERENCE.

DUONG DINH THAO, SPOKESMAN FOR THE VIET CONG DELEGATION AT THE DEADLOCKED VIETNAM TALKS, SAID THE VIET CONG HELD THE PARIS CONVERSATIONS REMAINED THE BEST FORMULA FOR SEEKING A SOLUTION TO THE VIETNAM QUESTION.

THE VIET CONG AND HANOI DELEGATIONS HAVE IN THE PAST REJECTED A U.S. PROPOSAL TO WIDEN THE SCOPE OF THE PARIS MEETINGS TO INCLUDE LAOS AND CAMBODIA. BUT THAT PROPOSAL APPEARED TO GAIN NEW LIFE WHEN PEKING LET IT BE KNOWN LAST WEEK IT FAVORED THE IDEA OF A MULTI-NATION INDOCHINA MEETING TO SOLVE WAR AND PEACE PROBLEMS FOR THE AREA.

"THE (VIET CONG'S) PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH VIETNAM HOPES TO FIND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE A JUST POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM PROBLEM IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE PARIS CONFERENCE," THAO SAID.

BLAMING THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION FOR THE FAILURE TO REACH A SETTLEMENT AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS OF MEETINGS, THAO SAID CHINA "SUPPORTS OUR PATRIOTIC STRUGGLE AGAINST THE AMERICAN AGGRESSION" IN VIETNAM.

HE SAID CHINESE PERMIER CHOU EN-LAI AND HIS GOVERNMENT "AGAIN HAS JUST CLEARLY DECLARED THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF CHINA FIRMLY SUPPORT OUR SEVEN-POINT PEACE POSITION."

THIS WAS SUBMITTED TO THE CONFERENCE JULY 1 BY VIET CONG "FOREIGN MINISTER" MADE NGUYEN THI BNIH. ITS MAIN POINT IS AN OFFER TO RELEASE U.S. PRISONERS SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH A UNILATERAL U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWAL AND ITS CALLED ON PRESIDENT NIXON TO ANNOUNCE A TERMINAL DATE FOR U.S. TROOP PRESENCE IN SOUTH VIETNAM.

BOTH THAO AND HIS OPPOSITE NUMBER ON THE HANOI DELEGATION, NGUYEN THANH LE, SAID THEY WOULD HAVE NO OFFICIAL COMMENT ON PRESIDENT NIXON'S TRIP TO CHINA.

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KISSINGER

BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP)-PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT HENRY A. KISSINGER, WHO SLIPPED SECRETLY INTO PEKING IN A SILK-CURTAINED LIMOUSINE JULY 9, SAID TODAY AN ILL-PREPARED U.S.-CHINA SUMMIT SESSION WOULD BE A DISASTER.

A MEETING BETWEEN THE CHIEFS OF STATE OF THE TWO GIANT POWERS HAS BEEN SET FOR SOMETIME BEFORE MAY--PROBABLY WEEKS EARLIER.
THE MAN WHO SEALED THE FINAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR A MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT NIXON AND PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI SAID BOTH SIDES HAVE TO BE ASSURED THEY CAN COME OUT OF A CONFERENCE WITH SOMETHING, AND DETAILED PRELIMINARY WORK ALREADY IS UNDER WAY.

TALKING WITH REPORTERS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL JET EN ROUTE FROM THE WESTERN WHITE HOUSE AT SAN CLEMENTE, CALIF., TO WASHINGTON, KISSINGER SAID HE HAS NO ILLUSIONS ABOUT A FRIENDSHIP BUT THERE APPEARS TO BE A MUTUAL RESPECT.

NIXON'S TOP ADVISER ON NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS DECLINED TO BE QUOTED DIRECTLY AND ASKED TO CLEAR NEWSMen'S NOTES. HE DISCLOSED NOTHING PARTICULARLY NEW, HOWEVER.

THE PRESIDENTIAL AIDE FLEW FROM PAKISTAN TO PEKING UNDER COVER OF A STORY THAT HE HAD DEVELOPED STOMACH TROUBLE AND WAS GOING TO A RESORT. NOW, HE LAMENTED, NEVER AGAIN CAN HE HAVE AN UPSET STOMACH.

KISSINGER DECLINED TO DESCRIBE THE PLANE HE USED OR ITS NATIONALITY.

ONE ACCOMPANYING SECRET SERVICE AGENT HAD NO IDEA OF THE DESTINATION UNTIL HE SPOTTED A CHINESE NAVIGATOR.

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SOVIETS 7-18 NX
NIGHT LD

BY DAVID NAGY

MOSCOW (UPI)--THE SOVIET PUBLIC LEARNED FOR THE FIRST TIME SUNDAY THAT PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER HENRY KISSINGER HAD VISITED PEKING AND MET WITH PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR A VISIT BY PRESIDENT NIXON.

IN EARLIER SPARSE REPORTS THERE HAD BEEN NO MENTION OF KISSINGER'S ROLE.

THE COMMUNIST PARTY NEWSPAPER PRAVDA, QUOTED NIXON SUNDAY AS HAVING SAID IN A TELEVISION APPEARANCE THAT CHOU MET KISSINGER IN A MANNER "EXTREMELY AMIABLE AND COURTEOUS."

PRAVDA ALSO QUOTED THE U.S. PRESIDENT AS SAYING THE OBJECTIVE OF HIS VISIT WOULD BE "TO ESTABLISH NEW RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA."

PREVIOUSLY THE SOVIETS HAD PRINTED ONLY ONE OR TWO-LINE TASS NEWS AGENCY REPORTS ON THE CHINESE INVITATION AND NIXON'S ACCEPTANCE.

IN THE FIRST SOVIET COMMENTARY ON THE VISIT, THE COMMUNIST YOUTH LEAGUE NEWSPAPER KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA REACTED WITH COOL SUSPICION.

COMMENTATOR ALEXANDER YEFREMOV WROTE IN THE NEWSPAPER "THE TALKS OF CHOU EN-LAI WITH WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN HENRY KISSINGER IN PEKING ARE BEING TREATED AS A SENSATION IN THE WESTERN PRESS. THE NEWS IS ACTUALLY UNUSUAL, ALTHOUGH NOT PARTICULARLY UNEXPECTED."

KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA ALSO SUGGESTED CHINA HAD ULTERIOR MOTIVES IN INVITING NIXON, USING THE FAMILIAR SOVIET JOURNALISTIC METHOD OF QUOTING FROM THE FOREIGN PRESS TO MAKE THAT POINT.

THE COMMENTATOR QUOTED A WESTERN NEWSPAPER AS ANALYZING NIXON'S VISIT THIS WAY: "THE INVITATION TO VISIT PEKING MEANS THAT CHINA IS USING ALL OF ITS INFLUENCE TO HELP AMERICA GET OUT OF VIETNAM UNDER CONDITIONS ACCEPTABLE TO IT."

SOVIET COMMENTATORS FREQUENTLY PCIX QUOTES OUT OF FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS TO SUGGEST THEIR OWN VIEWS ON TOUCHY SUBJECTS WITHOUT ACTUALLY COMMITING THEMSELVES. THIS EXAMPLE RECALLS THE WELL-PUBLICIZED SOVIET CLAIM THAT CHINA IS MAKING SECRET DEALS WITH THE UNITED STATES REGARDING VIETNAM IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SOVIET UNION.

ANOTHER COMMUNIST PARTY NEWSPAPER, SOVIETSKAYA ROSIYA, DISCUSSED THE POSSIBLE EFFECT OF THE BLOSSOMING OF SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS ON THE LATEST VIET CONG PEACE OFFERS. IT SAID "WASHINGTON, POSSIBLY ENCHANTED NOW BY ITS FLIRTATION WITH PEKING, RISKS MISSING THIS CHANCE (FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT)."

PRAVDA, THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE NEWSPAPER OF OFFICIAL COMMUNIST PARTY OPINION, HAS NOT YET COMMENTED ON THE WASHINGTON-PEKING CONTACTS, CONFINING ITSELF TO REPORTING BRIEF DETAILS.

THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY AND GOVERNMENT THUS APPEARED TO BE EXECUTING A POLICY OF CAUTIOUS REACTION THROUGH THE OFFICIAL PRESS -- NOTHING IN PRAVDA BUT EXPRESSIONS OF SUSPICION IN LESS PRESTIGIOUS JOURNALS.

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SENT TO SAN CLEMENTINE

FBIS 31

BTA STATEMENT ON NIXON, PRC ANNOUNCEMENT

SOFIA BTA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE IN ENGLISH 0824 GMT 17 JUL 71 L

(BTA STATEMENT ENTITLED "'NORMALIZATION' OF RELATIONS ONLY?"
CARRIED BY ALL BULGARIAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS THE MORNING OF 17
JULY)

(TEXT) THE NEWS ITEM OF THE DAY WAS THAT KISSINGER, PRESIDENT NIXON'S ADVISER ON THE QUESTIONS OF SECURITY, AND CHOU EN-LAI HAVE HAD SECRET TALKS IN PEKING FROM JULY 9TH THROUGH JULY 11TH AND THE USA PRESIDENT NIXON HAS ACCEPTED "WITH PLEASURE" THE INVITATION EXTENDED BY CHOU EN-LAI TO VISIT PEKING BEFORE MAY 1ST 1972.

VISITS BY REPRESENTATIVES OF COUNTRIES TO OTHER COUNTRIES ARE SOMETHING THAT IS QUITE COMMON IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. WHAT IS UNUSUAL IN THIS CASE IS THAT FOR OVER TWO DECADES THE USA WAS PARTICULARLY IRRECONCILABLE IN ITS POLICY IN RELATION TO CHINA AND WAS ANGRY AT ANY OF ITS ALLIES THAT ESTABLISHED CONTACTS WITH THAT COUNTRY.

AND CONVERSELY, CHINA STOOD UP AS AN IRRECONCILABLE OPPONENT OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, AS EMBODIED BY THE USA, AND ACCUSED STATES THAT MAINTAINED NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE USA OF "CO-OPERATION AND COLLUSION WITH AMERICAN IMPERIALISM".

YET, OF LATE, A RARID CHANGE TOOK PLACE IN THAT ATMOSPHERE OF IRRECONCILABILITY.

IN HIS STATEMENT THE OTHER NIGHT, PRESIDENT NIXON DECLARED THAT THE SEARCH FOR NEW FORMS IN THE RELATIONS WITH THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC WERE NOT "DIRECTED AGAINST ANY OTHER NATION". (ON THE CHINESE SIDE, NO OTHER COMMENT FOLLOWED AFTER THE COMMUNIQUE PUBLISHED IN PEKING.) YET THE MANNER IN WHICH THE JOINT COMMUNIQUE WAS PREPARED, THE SUSPICIOUS SECRECY RELATED TO KISSINGER'S STAY IN PEKING, AND THE SILENCE OF PEKING, ALL THESE HAVE A NATURE THAT THROWS ANOTHER TYPE OF LIGHT ON THE ASSURANCES GIVEN BY MR. NIXON.

AT PRESENT, IT HAS BECOME KNOWN THAT ON LEAVING FOR HIS ASIAN TOUR, KISSINGER HAD ALREADY THE CONSENT OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO TRAVEL TO PEKING. YET ALL THIS FOLLOWED THE STYLE OF DETECTIVE AND THRILLER NOVELS.

ON SATURDAY, JULY 8TH, KISSINGER, WHO AT THAT TIME WAS IN PAKISTAN, CALLED OFF SOME OF HIS COMMITMENTS SCHEDULED FOR THAT DAY UNDER THE PRETEXT THAT HE WAS INDISPOSED, AND THAT HE WAS GOING TO TAKE A REST IN THE MOUNTAIN RESORT NATIAGALI, 100 KM AWAY FROM RAWALPINDI, OVER THE WEEKEND.

NEWSMEN WERE TOLD THAT HE WOULD RETURN TO THE CAPITAL ON SUNDAY, IN ORDER TO HAVE LUNCHEON WITH PRESIDENT YAHYA KHAN, ON SUNDAY. KISSINGER ACTUALLY APPEARED AT THE LUNCHEON, BUT NOBODY COULD THINK THAT HE HAD NOT ENJOYED THE MOUNTAIN SUN OF NATIAGALI, BUT HAD BEEN TO PEKING. AS EARLY AS FRIDAY HE HAD BOARDED THE SPECIAL PLANE WAITING FOR HIM, AND BY THE NIGHT HE HAD COVERED THE THREE THOUSAND KILOMETRES TO THE CHINESE CAPITAL IN ORDER TO HAVE LONG TALKS WITH CHOU EN-LAI ALONE, A PERIOD OF TIME DURING WHICH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT DID NOT ISSUE VISAS TO THE FRENCH COMMUNIST MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, INCLUDED IN THE FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION, FOR A VISIT TO CHINA.

ODD, BUT LOGICAL ENOUGH, WHEN ONE TAKES INTO ACCOUNT HOW THE AMERICAN-CHINESE COMMUNIQUE WAS PREPARED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN PEKING AND WASHINGTON. THE SUB-TEXT OF THE RAPPROCHEMENT LAID OUT, HOWEVER, STANDS OUT BEST SET AGAINST THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND, AT WHICH IT WAS DONE.

ON THE ONE HAND, THIS IS THE PURPOSEFUL ANTI-COMMUNIST POLICY OF THE USA, THE BASIC CONTENT OF WHICH, JUST AS THAT OF THE WHOLE POLICY OF IMPERIALISM IN GENERAL, IS THE AGGRESSIVENESS AGAINST THE SOCIALIST COMMUNITY, AND ABOVE ALL AGAINST ITS VANGUARD DETACHMENT, THE SOVIET UNION.

ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS IS THE POLICY OF THE CHINESE LEADERS OF UNBRIDLED ANTI-SOVIET PROPAGANDA AND DISSENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST AND WORKERS' MOVEMENT, IN THE RANKS OF THE SOCIALIST STATES, AND THEIR LEADERS, ATTEMPTS TO WEAKEN THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST FRONT.

IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE TARGETS BEING PURSUED BOTH BY PEKING AND WASHINGTON IN THE EXPRESSED WITH SUCH ZEAL WISH TO "NORMALIZE" RELATIONS CANNOT BUT GIVE RISE TO SERIOUS QUESTIONS AMONG ALL PEOPLE, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN PEACE.

NOTHING SHOWS THAT BOTH THE USA AND THE CHINESE LEADERS HAVE CHANGED OR ARE READY TO CHANGE BY SOMETHING THE BASIC CONTENT OR THE GOALS OF THE POLICY PURSUED BY THEM SO FAR.

UNDER THIS LIGHT THE QUESTION NAMELY COULD BE RAISED WHETHER THE DESIRE FOR "NORMALIZATION" HAS NOT BEEN DICTATED ABOVE ALL BY THE LONGINGS TO UNITE THEIR FORCES IN A DEFINITE DIRECTION, WHICH HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE GENUINE CONCERN FOR PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING.

SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE AMERICAN POLICY IN THE WORLD AND THE EFFORT OF THE CHINESE LEADERS TO SPLIT THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST POWERS, THE AMERICAN-CHINESE COMMUNIQUE EXPLICITLY VIVIDLY DEMONSTRATES WHO IS THE ONE THAT JOINS IN SECRET COLLUSION AT PRESENT WITH IMPERIALISM IN THE NAME OF UNWORTHY POLITICAL AIMS.

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THE TALKS BETWEEN KISSINGER AND CHOU WERE HELD IN A STATE GUEST HOUSE WHERE THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER STAYED AND ALSO IN THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE, WHICH THE CHINESE LEADER USES FOR RECEPTIONS AND DINNERS.

THERE WAS GENERAL AGREEMENT AMONG POLITICAL OBSERVERS THAT NIXON HAD PULLED OFF A GREAT DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL COUP WHICH WOULD BUTTRESS HIS POSITION WHEN HE MADE HIS EXPECTED DECISION TO STAND FOR RE-ELECTION NEXT YEAR AND ANOTHER FOUR-YEAR WHITE HOUSE TERM.

OFFICIALS, HOWEVER, SAID THAT MAY 1, 1972 -- FOUR MONTHS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS IN EARNEST -- WAS CHOSEN AS THE LATEST DATE FOR NIXONS VISIT TO CHINA SO THAT IT COULD BE KEPT OUT OF CAMPAIGN POLITICS.

THEY SAID THE EXACT DATE WOULD DEPEND ON EXTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS OF TECHNICAL ARRANGEMENTS, BUT THE VISIT WOULD TAKE PLACE WELL BEFORE THE TARGET DATE.

THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS SAID THAT THE GROUND FOR KISSINGERS TRIP TO PEKING THIS MONTH WAS PREPARED IN APRIL, CLIMAXING TWO YEARS OF OVERTURES BY NIXON AS PART OF HIS GOAL OF IMPROVING RELATIONS WITH CHINA AND BRINGING PEKING INTO THE WORLD COMMUNITY.

THEY INDICATED THAT OTHER COUNTRIES HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE PREPARATIONS, WHICH CULMINATED WITH THE PRESIDENTS ANNOUNCEMENT THURSDAY NIGHT, BUT THEY REFUSED TO GIVE ANY DETAILS.

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NIXON-CHINA (TOPS 18)

SAN VLEMENTE, CALIF. (AP)-PRESIDENT NIXON'S SURPRISE
ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WILL VISIT COMMUNIST CHINA BROUGHT FOLLOWUP
WORD FROM THE WESTERN WHITE HOUSE TODAY THAT THE TRIP WILL TAKE PLACE
WELL IN ADVANCE OF NEXT MAY 1.
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SAN CLEMENTE ADD NIXON (71)

IN ANNOUNCING THURSDAY NIGHT THAT HE HAD ACCEPTED AN INVITATION
FROM PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI TO GO TO PEKING, NIXON SAID THE JOURNEY
WOULD BE UNDERTAKEN BEFORE NEXT MAY.
AMEASWUHTE HOUSE SOURCE WHO DECLINED TO BEQUOTED BY

A WHITE HOUSE SOURCE WHO DECLINED TO BE QUOTED BY NAME SAID THIS
WAS AN OUTSIDE DATE AND THAT HE WOULD EXPECT THE TRIP TO
OCCUR MUCH SOONER, ALTHOUGH NOT NECESSARILY THIS YEAR.
THE PRESIDENT SAID THE PRIME PURPOSE OF HIS MISSION WOULD BE

THE PRESIDENT SAID THE PRIME PURPOSE OF HIS MISSION WOULD BE
TO SEEK A "NORMALIZATION" OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND MAINLAND CHINA.
THE VISIT, WAS ARRANGED LAST WEEKEND BY CHOU AND DR. HENRY A.

AND MAINLAND CHINA.
THE VISIT, WAS ARRANGED LAST WEEKEND BY CHOU AND DR. HENRY A.
KISSINGER, NIXON'S ADVISER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS, WHO
MADE A SECRET STOP IN PEKING DURING AN 11-DAY TRIP AROUND THE WORLD.
KISSINGER DID NOT MEET WHILE THERE WITH MAO TSE TUNG, CHAIRMAN OF

MAO TSE TUNG, CHAIRMAN OF
KISSINGER DID NOT MEET WHILE THERE WITH MAO TSE TUNG, CHAIRMAN OF
CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY, BUT THE WHITE HOUSE SOURCE SAID NIXON IS
EXPECTED TO HAVE A FACE-TO-FACE SESSION WITH MAO.
KISSINGER, IT WAS LEARNED, SPENT 49 HOURS IN PEKING, OF WHICH

MAO TSE TUNG, CHAIRMAN OF
KISSINGER, IT WAS LEARNED, SPENT 49 HOURS IN PEKING, OF WHICH
NEARLY 20 HOURS WERE OCCUPIED IN PERSONAL TALKS WITH CHOU.

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