FEB 4 1976

Kissinger speech meant as warning

By Robert Gruenberg

Of Our Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Sec. of State Henry Kissinger's San Francisco address was more than just a warning that the United States will tolerate "no more Angolas."

It was U.S. officials emphasized, a wide-ranging warning that what Kissinger views as irresponsible foreign policy in an election year can do the nation almost irreparable harm abroad and create internal dissension that would peril a successful foreign policy.

Kissinger also was repeating the warning that U.S. troubles with the Soviet Union are to be a way of life, and that real detente is no "mindless search" for friendliness with the Russians, but adjusting in a nuclear world to living with a problem that will have to be managed, rather than solved.

ALTHOUGH IT was billed as a "major address," Kissinger did not announce any new foreign policy directions. Nor did he state any startling conclusions that he had not already made at press conference tests.

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Kissinger, of course, named no targets of his criticism on the domestic scene.

BUT IT WAS unmistakable that they ranged from Republican presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan to the spokesmen of the liberal left; from former defense secretary and presidential pal Melvin Laird to Sen. Henry Jackson and other congressional hornets.

Kissinger believes that current foreign policy debate has turned into too much charge and counter-charge; into a search for scapegoats; into framing issues too often in terms of secrecy and openness.

He believes that while the cold war of the '50s is past—and served its purpose when it concentrated on military containment—a new kind of "containment" can be practiced, even as the U.S. holds its own, or does better, militarily in comparison with Russia.

Union, that are the engine of the world economy... (they) possess vast strengths to contain Soviet power and to channel that power in constructive directions."

Kissinger barely disguised his resentment at what he considers Congress' failure to realize the consequences of its "interference" in foreign policy-making — from human rights issues to Angola.

The congressional attempt to openly link human rights — mainly, although he did not

say so, Jewish emigration — to economic relations, "without subtlety or understanding of Soviet politics, both deprived us of economic levers and sharply reduced Soviet emigration."

Similarly, when the administration appeared to be making progress in getting the Soviets in December to have "second thoughts" about "continued meddling" in Angola, "the impact of our domestic debate overwhelmed the possibilities of diplomacy."

PUBLIC EXPLANATIONS were demanded, Kissinger complained, and when the Senate voted to block further aid to Angola, the expected happened: "Cuba more than doubled its forces there and Soviet military aid was resumed on a large scale.

"We have the diplomatic, economic and military capacity to resist expansionism, but we cannot engage in a rhetoric of confrontation while depriving ourselves of the means to confront," he warned.