FIRST LINE REPORT - WTOP

WITH BOB SCHIEFFER

NOVEMBER 5, 1973

BOB SCHIEFFER: Watergate and world affairs. Some thoughts after this message.

(Announcement)

BOB SCHIEFFER: This is usually the best time of the year in Washington. The pollution and the humidity of summer are pushed aside by the crispness of fall. The great buildings of Government are showcased once more in the brilliant colors of autumn. Vacations and thoughts of summer are being wound up and the Government men are turning again to the problems of the Nation.

If all had gone as expected, this would have been a time of triumph for President Nixon. It has been just about a year now since the Nation gave him that landslide victory. If all had gone as Mr. Nixon predicted, this would have been a time of national reflection. The Vietnam war would have been ended. The great power detente would have been strengthened and about now the President would have been off on that grand tour of Europe, the tour that would have climaxed what the President and his men had hoped would be the Year of Europe.

Instead, only the changing of the seasons has come as expected. Mr. Nixon brought the Americans home from Vietnam, but the fighting goes on. There is every indication that the Communists will soon mount a major effort to take over the country by military force. The fabric of detente has been strained by the new trouble in the Middle East. Mr. Nixon's popularity has dropped to the lowest point of any point in 20 years. His word is questioned, his motives challenged, and there is increasing talk of impeachment. Powerful newspapers that supported him now say he should resign.

The watergate troubles seem unending. Policy is reversed from day to day and week to week as Mr. Nixon tries to tamp down his problems. It is like a man trying to kiss an innertube; the President exerts pressure at one point and something pops up at another point. He exerts pressure there and something pops up at a third point, and on and on.

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So there is no grand tour of Europe this fall, but
only an embattled President going back and forth to Camp David,
and then to Key Biscayne, a trip ordered in such apparent haste
that even key staff members were left behind.

Against this backdrop, Secretary of State Kissinger
leaves today for Cairo and the other Arab capitals. The Secre-
tary of Defense, James Schlesinger, left yesterday for the Hague
and a meeting with the ministers of America's NATO allies. Mr.
Kissinger will be trying to bring about some kind of solution
to the troubles in the Middle East, troubles that have been
going on for a thousand years or more. Then he will send all
of his Middle East advisors home and a specialty team of advisors
who handle Asian problems will join him. They will go on to
Tokyo and Peking, where the Secretary of State will meet with
the leaders of China and Japan.

Mr. Schlesinger's trip has been less publicized, but
his assignment is no less delicate. He must try to repair the
serious disagreements that have developed among America and her
NATO allies over the support of Israel. There seems to be con-
fusion even within the U.S. Government over just how serious
those disagreements are. For example, one senior official here
told newsmen Friday that the United States and Germany had
solved the problems that had come up when the Germans denounced
U.S. plans to use German ports as shipping points for aid to
Israel. While that backgrounder was underway, Defense Depart-
ment sources were calling the German action not only disappoint-
ing, but astonishing.

Well, all of this would be complicated enough without
Watergate, but Watergate remains, hanging over everything, every
diplomatic ploy, every suggested compromise, every military
signal, every suggested solution. Talk of impeachment and the
new calls for resignation have produced an air of uncertainty
here, and this, in turn, raises a real question of whether
Kissinger and Schlesinger can still deal from the strong hand
that U.S. representatives have usually held in the past.

It is not a pleasant question to consider, but it
is being considered in several capitals of the world, not just
ours.

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KISSINGER BEGINS
TOUR IN MOROCCO

U.S. Officials Doubt Any Big
Gain at First Stop of Trip
to Mideast and Asia
*KY Times* 11-6-73

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 5 — Secretary of State Kissinger tonight brought to the Arab world his effort to overcome Middle East cease-fire problems and to promote the start of full-scale peace negotiations. He arrived in Morocco to a military honor-guard welcome.

> [In Washington, the Nixon Administration sought to sidestep Israeli charges that Egyptians were massing forces for an attack and that Egypt and South Yemen were blockading Israel-bound vessels at the entrance to the Red Sea. See Page 16.]

American officials accompanying Mr. Kissinger cautioned against expecting any spectacular breakthroughs during the Secretary's talks in coming days here and elsewhere in the Moslem countries.

But they said that it was quite possible that as a result of discussions to be held in Cairo tomorrow night and Wednesday, some progress might be reached toward exchanging prisoners, an issue that has up to now proved to be one of the major obstacles to getting Israelis and Arabs to sit down to negotiations.

Mr. Kissinger's low-key approach

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# Kissinger Lands in Morocco, First Stop of His Tour

Continued From Page 1, Col. 7

proach to the Moslems may reflect an attempt by Washington to mask any deal worked out in recent days, but this could not be confirmed.

After his arrival in the Air Force jet, Mr. Kissinger was greeted by Foreign Minister Ahmed Taibi Benhima of Morocco and was accompanied through the military and royal guards who stood at attention at the airport.

The visitor was then driven to a guest villa for a private dinner and informal talks with King Hassan II.

The King will give a formal reception for Mr. Kissinger tomorrow wat the palace. Then the Secretary will go on to Tunis for a stopover of a few hours before his scheduled landing tomorrow night in Cairo.

Mr. Kissinger will also visit Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan before continuing on to China and Japan. He is due back in the United States around Nov. 15.

His talks here and in other Moslem capitals were described by American officials as a follow-up to his intense efforts in Washington in recent days to mediate differences between Egypt and Israel over the cease-fire and to prevent further fighting.

He shuttled between Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy of Egypt and Premier Golda Meir of Israel, both of whom were in Washington. They returned to their capitals last night.

Despite his efforts Mr. Kissinger was apparently able only to narrow differences and make the mmore precise. He did not resolve them, according to informed suorces. It is expected that his talks in Cairo with President Anwar el-Sadat, who has been authorized to speak for some Arab leaders, will turn out to be the most crucial of the trip because they will provide a good idea whether negotiations can begin soon or whether the stalemate will hold.

## Goal Is Start of Talks

American officials traveling with Mr. Kissinger said that the overriding purpose of his mission was to get Arab-Israeli negotiations started. Newsmen were warned against expecting any major break-throughs while Mr. Kissinger aws in this part of the world because differences over the case-fire are apparently still wide at the moment.

The chief stumbling blocks are Israel's insistence that an exchange of prisoners take precedence over everything and Egypt's equally forceful demand that Israel first withdraw to the cease-fire lines that existed when the case-fire resolution went into effect on Oct. 22.

President Sadat has accused Israel of violating the cease-fire by encircling the 20,000-man Egytian III Corps.

Mr. Kissinger has reportedly tried to impress the Egyptians with the seriousness of the prisoner question to the Israelis and to remind them that the

Soviet Union and the United States agreed in Moscow that there would be an exchange of prisoners within 72 hours of the cease-fire.

He also reportedly stressed to Mrs. Meir the American view that steps had to be taken to insure the survival of the III Corps. The United States was responsible for Israel's allowing a humanitarian convoy to cross Israeli lines to provide the Egyptians with food and water. The Americans have also suggested a permanent corridor, policed by United Nations personnel so that humanitarian supplies, but not military material, can pass through the Israeli lines to the Egyptians.

The talks with King Hassan were expected to be designed primarily to impress him with the American desire to remain in the role of mediator in the

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dispute. American relations with Morocco have been cordial, though there have been some strains because of the widespread Arab conviction that American support for Israel is total.

Last spring some 2,000 Moroccan troops were sent to Syria, and they were engaged in the early days of the October fighting. Some 1,500 Moroccans

were sent to Egypt.

King Hassan, an Arab conservative, reportedly has considerable influence in Syria. The United States has had some difficulty in dealing with the Syrians, and presumably Mr. Kissinger will seek to enlist Moroccan aid in getting Syria to agree to such important matters as prisoner exchanges and adherence to whatever cease-fire arrangements are worked out.

One comment heard on Mr. Kissinger's 707 jet was that it was difficult for him to negotiate the Vietnam cease-fire when he had to deal with three different Vietnamese parties—the North, the South and the Vietcong.

But it was more difficult, Mr. Kissinger was said to believe, to deal with the various Arab parties as well as with a Jewish one. He was said to have remarked that he now understood what Dante's "Inferno" was all about.

## Hopeful Mood on Plane

Over all, the Kissinger party believes that the prisoner issue can be resolved satisfactorily. The United States expected an exchange of Egyptian and Israeli wounded to take place over the weekend, but last-minute hitches developed because of Israeli insistence that there also be an exchange of lists of prisoners.

For Mr. Kissinger, the first Jewish Secretary of State, this was his first visit to an Arab country. His mood aboard the plane seemed relaxed.

Proximity Talks

A diplomatic dialogue that just two years ago was too
bold and dramatic to be undertaken is now an active
reality between the Israeli and Egyptian Governments
through United States good offices.

In 1971, diplomatic efforts centered on an American proposal to begin peace talks with Arab and Israeli delegations "in close proximity." The so-called "proximity talks," in which American intermediaries would relay suggestions and comments back and forth, were designed to overcome Arab resistance to "direct negotiations" with Israel while at the same time permitting genuine bargaining between belligerents.

Last weekend the equivalent of those proximity talks was actually occurring in Washington among Premier Golda Meir, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. All three have now left the capital and no one has chosen to reveal any details of their conversations—in itself a hopeful sign that the exchanges are still engaged and being taken seriously by all sides.

Mrs. Meir deliberately extended her stay in the United States and canceled some of her public appearances, to be free to participate in the Kissinger conversations. Mr. Fahmy, a lesser minister when he arrived as President Sadat's emissary, was elevated to the Foreign Ministry in the midst of the exchanges—on the face of it a signal that the conversations should be regarded as authoritative. For the first time in any of the recent Middle East diplomacy, an official representative of Syria agreed to participate in a peacemaking dialogue.

Secretary Kissinger's goal is clearly more ambitious than simply to iron out the immediate details of implementing the tense cease-fire of Oct. 22. Important though the maintenance of that truce is, the American effort this time is to reach ahead for a long-elusive peace conference in which all the territorial, diplomatic and political issues that have separated Arabs from Israelis can be dealt with openly and directly.

The Israeli leaders, who have long pressed for negotiations, now face the inevitability that compromises will be required of them once real peace talks are begun. The Government says it is willing, but the Israeli populace is apparently not, at least in its present restive mood. For that reason Mrs. Meir's message to Secretary Kissinger was to try to delay substantive negotiations until after the Israeli election seven weeks hence. Setting off on a tour of the Arab world, Secretary Kissinger has the delicate task of convincing his host governments that Israel needs time to prepare for compromise, without losing the momentum toward peace talks already generated.

The Middle East belligerents have come a long way since the idea of proximity talks first entered the diplomatic lexicon. A negotiating technique is not a settlement, but diplomacy seems farther advanced now than it has been for many discouraging years in the Middle East. All parties have an interest in avoiding intemperate words or deeds that could scotch this latest effort to pull the long-warring nations together.

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Kissinger, Hassan Talk

By The Associated Press

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger today left Morocco, the first stop on his Middle East peace tour, after seven hours of talks with King Hassan II in Rabat. His next stop was Tunis, for a meeting with President Habib Bourguiba, before continuing to Cairo tonight.

On the Golan Heights ceasefire line Syria reported its jets drove off two formations of Israeli planes that fired air-to-ground rockets at Syrian advance positions.

On the Suez cease-fire front, Israel reported new tensions and clashes with Egyptian troops.

As he left Rabat, Kissinger said his talks with Hassan "were conducted in an attitude of friendship but also contributed greatly to my understanding of the point of view of the Arab countries."

The secretary of state declared, "I leave here with an even greater determination and, I hope, greater courage, to contribute to bringing a peace to the Middle East that

is just to all peoples of the Middle East."

Related Stories, Page 2A

Arab leaders were conferring busily meanwhile and diplomatic sources in Beirut said an Arab summit conference has been scheduled tentatively for mid-November in Algiers. King Hussein of Jordan, the latest to enter the rounds of

Arab consultations, flew to Saudi Arabia. He is known to favor to summit of Arab heads of state.

U.S. officials, in denying that Kissinger is seeking endorsement of a firm peace plan in his tour of five Arab capitals, left open the possibility that one may be worked out on the road.

They said the cease-fire situation carries potential for trouble although it has brightened over the last few days.

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Israel Concerned

By Alvin Rosenfeld

Special to The Washington Post

TEL AVIV, Nov. 5 —

Prime Minister Golda Meir returned home today after "very intensive" discussions in Washington and said there were still differences between the United States and Israel.

Mrs. Meir, in a brief airport statement, said the differences were temporary and stressed that Israeli-American friendship remained unshaken.

The prime minister returned amid growing concern here that Egypt may renew major fighting. A usually cautious Israeli military spokesman said there was "tension" on the Suez front today.

The spokesman would not define that tension, but said the Egyptian forces on the front, with the exception of the encircled 3d Army, were capable of attacking if ordered to do so.

He said Egyptian forces were fully deployed on both sides of the canal and held the area north of Ismailia with four to six divisions.

Today, the spokesman

See ISRAEL, A15, Col. 1

UAS Post 11-6-73

# Kissinger Visit Held
## Last Hope of Peace

W. Post
11-6-73

### Egypt Disillusioned

By Jim Hoagland

Washington Post Foreign Service

CAIRO, Nov. 5—The Egyptian government sees Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's visit here, scheduled to begin late Tuesday, as the last chance to avoid new and even bloodier fighting with Israel, senior Egyptian officials report.

The Egyptians seem to be confident of stronger and more direct Arab backing if the Middle East war does erupt again and feel they have improved their military position since the Oct. 25 cease-fire.

Moreover, Cairo appears to be deeply disillusioned by the high-level talks in Washington on the Middle East last week.

European and other independent diplomatic sources, who report major movements of troops and weapons by both sides on the Suez front over the weekend, echo this concern.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi is expected to give President Anwar Sadat the first complete briefing on his extended talks with Kissinger after returning

See EGYPT, A14, Col. 1

WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS

Washington, D. C., Tuesday, November 6, 1973

A-11

# Kissinger Keeps Secrets

By Jeremiah O'Leary

Star-Newws Staff Writer

Six weeks after Henry A. Kissinger became secretary of State, his promise to make U.S. policies and purposes more open to public scrutiny is still a promise only.

His pattern has been to conduct an essentially secretive operation.

The latest example — and perhaps the most significant — involves the military alert which went into effect around the world at 11:30 p.m. Oct 24 or 3 a.m. Oct. 25, depending on who is asked.

Kissinger promised in a press conference a few hours after the armed forces went on alert to give full information on why the alert was necessary when "we decently and safely and properly can."

This would be as soon as there was a clear outcome, Kissinger said, "and after that you will be able to judge whether the decisions were taken hastily or improperly." The implication given at the State Department was that the reasons for the alert might be forthcoming within a week.

NEARLY two weeks have passed and Kissinger has divulged no more. Military preparation remains basically a mystery.

Now Kissinger has departed on a peace mission to the Middle East. The alert has ended with the Soviet Union — obviously the nation whom the alert was directed — scoffing at it and America still wonder-

## Interpretation

ing what happened and why.

Some things are known about the alert — not from Kissinger. Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., said the Kremlin sent Washington a note on Oct. 24 that was "brutal" in nature.

Kissinger revealed that "we became aware of the alerting of certain Soviet units and we were puzzled by the behavior of some Soviet representatives in the discussions that took place." But it was from Defense Secretary James Schlesinger that the public learned that an estimated 50,000 Soviet airborne troops had been alerted, ostensibly for some form of intervention in the Middle East.

THE EGYPTIANS let it be known that they had invited the two superpowers to send forces to enforce the cease-fire. The Israelis knew and disclosed that the USSR had even divisions in some stage of readiness.

If the alert was precautionary and not a confrontation, as Kissinger said, the reasons for interpreting it that way have not yet been told.

Speculation ranges all the way from the idea that the alert was not really justified at all to the concept that it was possibly too horrifying an untimatum to bear public airing.

Whatever the reason for the secrecy, it is becoming increasingly evident that Kissinger diplomacy is not yet meeting a goal he set

last Aug. 23: "An obligation to explain our philosophy and purposes and policies to the public."

But, at that post-nomination press conference, Kissinger had also said: "We will do our best to conduct foreign policy in as open a manner as is consistent with the goal which we all share, which is to bring about a lasting peace. The overriding goal of any administration must be to distinguish the fluctuations of the day-to-day headlines from the more lasting achievement."

Still, these words do not explain why Kissinger acted as if he was not sure how the Soviet Union would vote at the United Nations Security Council on the resolution which eased the alert situation when in fact he

knew in advance that the Russians would vote against superpower peace-keeping forces.

KISSINGER has had bitter words to say to congressional committees about the mass desertion of America's NATO allies in the Middle East crisis, but almost nothing has reached the U.S. public about the seriousness of the breach.

Kissinger has become the focak point of U.S. efforts to bring about peace between the Arabs and Israelis, but whether he is acting as a go-between or like a master in chancery dictating peace in terms of territory remains unknown.

With crises coming one after another, the lag between event and full explanation thus grows wider.

Washington Star-News

JOHN H. KAUFFMANN, President

NEWBOLD NOYES, Editor

A-12 *

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1973

Mideast Diplomacy

If the chances for an Arab-Israeli
settlement were to be judged by the
pace of diplomatic activity, the pros-
pects for achieving that goal would be
very bright indeed. Unfortunately a
smaller measure of optimism is in
order, because of complications that
threaten the tenuous cease-fire and
could delay the start of negotiations on
a long-term peace agreement.

Henry Kissinger again is proving his
worth as one of President Nixon's
strongest assets in the foreign-policy
arena. Given the President's preoccu-
pation with his own survival in office,
it is doubtful that without Kissinger at

promoting substantive face-to-face
negotiations without the pre-condi-
tions that could doom such talks from
the outset. Crucial segments of the trip
are his visits today and tomorrow in
Cairo, at the invitation of Egyptian
President Sadat, and Thursday in
Saudi Arabia, which holds the key to
the Arab oil embargo.

The present attempt to clean up the
debris of the fourth Arab-Israeli war
and create the conditions of long-term
coexistence is, if nothing else, eliminat-
ing the communications gap that
developed between us and much of the
Arab world following the 1967 war. If
automatic channels had not
completely, it might have
to head off the most re-
es and an uncomfortable
direct confrontation with
to speak of the energy
faces the Western world
the Arab oil squeeze.

ing the pre-eminence of the
problem among our cur-
policy concerns, and the
back movement by the par-
ve the truce and seize the
for negotiations, Kissin-
as a peace broker may be
ad too thin. From his mis-
crabs, he goes on to Iran,
China and Japan. It might
user to concentrate on one
time.

THE WASHINGTON POST NEWS

CROSBY S. NOYES

Bickeri

It's a fine way to wind up
the "Year of Europe," with
Henry Kissinger so disgust-
ed with our NATO allied
that he doesn't care what
becomes of the alliance an
with the Europeans so petrified
by the implications of

Washington Star-News

JOHN H. KAUFFMANN, President

NEWBOLD NOYES, Editor

A-12

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1973

Mideast Diplomacy

If the chances for an Arab-Israeli settlement were to be judged by the pace of diplomatic activity, the prospects for achieving that goal would be very bright indeed. Unfortunately a smaller measure of optimism is in order, because of complications that threaten the tenuous cease-fire and could delay the start of negotiations on a long-term peace agreement.

Henry Kissinger again is proving his worth as one of President Nixon's strongest assets in the foreign-policy arena. Given the President's preoccupation with his own survival in office, it is doubtful that without Kissinger at hand the United States could be playing the key role it is in pushing for an end of the chronic Mideast crisis.

With the secretary of State's efforts of last week, our government emerged as the only superpower able to communicate with both sides in the conflict. The Soviet Union is unable to serve as go-between because it is not on speaking terms with Israel. So Kissinger was mainly responsible for the extraordinary succession of Washington meetings with Israel Prime Minister Meir, Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister Fahmy and Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Ismail.

Kissinger's ambitious tour of five Arab capitals this week should further establish this country's earnestness about solidifying the cease-fire and

promoting substantive face-to-face negotiations without the pre-conditions that could doom such talks from the outset. Crucial segments of the trip are his visits today and tomorrow in Cairo, at the invitation of Egyptian President Sadat, and Thursday in Saudi Arabia, which holds the key to the Arab oil embargo.

The present attempt to clean up the debris of the fourth Arab-Israeli war and create the conditons of long-term coexistence is, if nothing else, eliminating the communications gap that developed between us and much of the Arab world following the 1967 war. If these diplomatic channels had not eroded so completely, it might have been possible to head off the most recent hostilities and an uncomfortable approach to direct confrontation with Russia, not to speak of the energy crisis that faces the Western world because of the Arab oil squeeze.

Considering the pre-eminence of the Middle East problem among our current foreign-policy concerns, and the need for quick movement by the parties to preserve the truce and seize the opportunity for negotiations, Kissinger's talents as a peace broker may be getting spread too thin. From his mission to the Arabs, he goes on to Iran, Pakistan, China and Japan. It might have been wiser to concentrate on one problem at a time.

WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS

A-11

Kissinger Keeps Secrets

Interpretation

ing what happened and
why.

Kissinger revealed that "we became aware of the alerting of certain Soviet units and we were puzzled by the behavior of some Soviet representatives in the discussions that took place' But it was from Defense Secretary James Schlesinger that the public learned that an estimated 50,000 Soviet airborne troops had been alerted, ostensibly for some form of intervention in the Middle East.

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NOBEL CEREMONY

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has notified the Nobel Peace Prize Committee that he will be unable to go to Oslo on Dec. 10 to receive the award personally.

In a letter to Mrs. Aase Lionaes of the prize committee, Kissinger said he regretted that the "press of business in a world beset by recurrent crisis" prevented him from personally receiving the prize.

He said he has designated Ambassador Thomas Byrne, American envoy to Norway, to represent him. Kissinger said he would consider it a privilege to come to Oslo at a later date, if the committee wishes, to deliver the traditional lecture given by peace prize winners.

Le Duc Tho, the North Vietnamese diplomat with whom Kissinger shares the prize, already has announced that he will not accept it. Kissinger is scheduled to attend a NATO meeting on Dec. 10 but also is described by U.S. sources as being under "extraordinary pressures" because of the Middle East crisis.

FIRST LINE REPORT - WTOP

WITH MARVIN KALB

NOVEMBER 6, 1973

MARVIN KALB: First Line Report, News and Analysis. Marvin Kalb, CBS News Diplomatic Correspondent, reporting from Rabat, Morocco, on CBS Radio Network. Good morning. Kissinger, the launching of a new peace effort in the Middle East. That in one minute.

(Announcement)

MARVIN KALB: Secretary Kissinger arrived here in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, last night, recording a number of Kissinger firsts in the process: First time in Africa for this globe-trotting diplomat; first time in an Arab country, and first time reviewing a Guard of Honor at an airport. Two bright lights light the tarmac as Kissinger's blue and white Presidential jet dipped out of the sky and into the northwestern tip of Africa.

The Moroccan Foreign Minister was there to greet the Secretary of State. Together, they walked past the Guard of Honor composed of Berber guards in flowing white and black robes, cameramen before them, bumping, pushing; no one seemed to mind. Up a red carpet they went into a brightly lit reception lounge where Kissinger met Moroccan dignitaries.

All of them had no doubt read a lead editorial in one of Rabat's top newspapers, the writer for that newspaper referring to Kissinger as "a pilgrim of peace, a man of good will and imagination."

Quickly, the two Foreign Ministers left the lounge, ducked into the longest, black limousine in all of Africa, for the 10-minute ride to a regal villa where Kissinger, a German Jewish immigrant when he reached the United States in 1938, would spend the night.

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At 11:00 P.M. Monday, Kissinger and King Hussein met for a private talk about the recent Arab-Israeli war. This morning they met again. Hussein, a youthful monarch, 44 years old, has survived numerous coup attempts, today rules virtually alone. He is said to be on good terms with the leaders of Syria and the Palestine liberation movement; Kissinger explaining American policy and hopes to him.

Stop Number Two in North Africa, Tunisia, where Kissinger pauses just long enough for a brief talk with President Bourgibba. Then later today on to Cairo for the truly significant stop, a talk tonight with Egyptian President Sadat; more talks all day tomorrow with one of the few Arab leaders with the clout to make war and also to strike for peace.

Kissinger knows his task is tough. One of the jokes on his plane as it crossed the Atlantic was Kissinger had first to negotiate with three Vietnamese groups, now with four Arab groups and one Jewish group. That, the joke goes, is a script written for Dante's "Inferno."

No one belittles or underestimates his chore, midwifing a peace settlement between Arab and Israeli. Kissinger himself is said to be less than optimistic that he can achieve any spectacular breakthroughs during this trip. He wants to begin a diplomatic and political process, start a habit of talking rather than fighting. If he can strike the right note with Sadat, cultivate a field of diplomatic accommodation, then he might shore up the cease-fire along the Suez Canal and begin peace talks between the two sides. If he strikes out with Sadat, then the possibility of a breakdown of the cease-fire exists. There have already been enough warnings about a new war.

The task of the mediator is never a joyful one. It is hard work and much travel, narrowing differences normally measured in yards by millimeters. Sometimes improvement is hard to spot. What doesn't happen is often more significant than what does. If war can be avoided, that is almost the same thing as saying peace has been achieved. If Kissinger can leave the Middle East this week on his way to China convinced that he has persuaded both sides to swap prisoners of war and begin to straighten out the cease-fire lines, that will be a big achievement. At this stage, that is at least his aim.

*****

Israel Discloses High Toll

Kissinger in Cairo

By Jim Hoagland and Murrey Marder

CAIRO, Nov. 7 (Wednesday)—U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived in this tense, expectant capital at midnight to try to convince Egypt's President Anwar Sadat that productive Arab-Israeli negotiations can be opened if the belligerents avoid precipitate acts.

The grim mood that had enveloped Cairo for the past four days lifted slightly as diplomacy replaced fears of renewed fighting as the main topic in Cairo newspapers and embassy conversations in the hours before Kissinger's arrival.

Kissinger, whose personal involvement in the Middle East crisis has long been sought by the Egyptians, agrees that there is pressing need to stabilize the tenuous cease-fire that has left Egypt's 3d Army encircled by Israeli forces, U.S. sources said.

The Americans traveling with Kissinger emphasized, however, that any compromise plan acceptable to Sadat is expected to be passed back to Israel for its approval. As a result, U.S. officials are not forecasting the announcement of any conclusive cease-fire solution in Cairo be-

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Kissinger Huddles
In Tunisia, Egypt

Associated Press

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger takes his Middle East peacemaking tour to Tunisia and Egupy today as Arab leaders launched a flurry of negotiations among themselves.

The secretary of State arrived last night in Rabat, the Moroccan capital, and had a midnight meeting with King Hassan II which Kissinger's spokesman said was "wide ranging and very freely."

Kissinger and the king were to meet again today. Later the secretary of State was to fly to Tunis for a brief meeting with President Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia. He is due in Cairo tonight.

KISSINGER, a Jew making his first visit to the Arab world, got a warm reception in Rabat. The official newspaper Le Matin said in a front-page editorial that relations between Morocco, a major recipient of U.S. economic aid, and Washington have "never suffered the slightest deterioration

or eclipse and have invariably remained filled with sincerity, cordiality and high mutual regard."

The Moroccan government has had an estimated $,600 troops in Syria since spring and said they were in the thick of the Golan Heights fighting. Another $,500 Moroccan soldiers were sent to Egypt after the war started.

Kissinger's aides said he expects no spectacular breakthroughs on his trip but is trying to work out a procedure for Arab-Israeli peace negotiations and to smooth such problems as the Arab demands for Israeli troops to pull back from territory they occupied after the first cease-fire Oct. 22, the lifting of the Egyptian naval blockade at the mouth of the Red Sea and Israeli demands for an exchange of prisoners of war.

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and the Arabs agreed on a "process of peace."

The Cairo newspaper Al Gomhouria reported that President Anwar Sadat and the other Egyptian leaders would stress to Kissinger their demands for Israeli troops to pull back. Israeli has shown no intention of making such a withdrawal, which would release the Egyptian 3rd Army from encirclement, in the Sinai Desert.

In Beirut, the newspaper Al Anwar said today Kissinger was carrying to Sadat a peace proposal endorsed by President Nixon that calls for the return of the Golan Heights to Syria and the Sinai to Egypt. It said the Suez Canal would be

reopened to shipping and Jerusalem would remain under Israeli occupation.

From Cairo, Kissinger goes to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, then on to Iran, Pakistan and China.

Meanwhile, Arab leaders were also traveling. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne arrived in Ryadh, the Saudi capital, and met with King Faisal after visiting Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait and Syria.

BOUMEDIENNE is trying to line up another Arab summit conference in Algiers, and press reports said Egypt and Syria are ready to attend.

Col. Moammar Kadat, the outspoken Libyan strongman, visited Damascus after stops in Cairo and Bag-

dad. Kadati was reported trying to rally resistance to the cease-fire.

Kissinger's talks in the Moslem capitals were described by American officials as a follow-up to his efforts in Washington in recent days to mediate differences between Egypt and Israel over the cease-fire and to prevent further fighting.

In Washington he shuttled between Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi of Egypt and Premier Golda Meir of Israel. Both returned to their capitals last night.

MRS. MEIR said on her arrival in Tel Aviv that Washington talks with President Nixon and Kissinger

clarified all differences on Middle East policy between Israel and the United States, but that the differences remain.

"I must say that we had a full opportunity in many, many hours to clarify that we had to clarify," she said.

"Both the answers we received and the questions that remained without answer on our side or without answers from the other side," she said, will be reported to the government for "conclusions and decisions."

Mrs. Meir reported to her cabinet last night and tomorrow the Knesset (parliament) will hear a statement from the prime minister.

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Politicians are closely watching scattered off-year elections today for an indication of how much impact the Watergate scandal will have.

Today's elections, headlined by gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia and a mayoral contest in New York City, represent the first significant sampling of voter sentiment since the eruption of White House scandals and is being viewed as a possible preview of 1974.

The spotlight turns first to New Jersey where Democrat Brendan T. Byrne is expected to win a governorship captured by the Republicans in 1969. But this hardly looks like a Watergate bellweather.

BYRNE, a 49-year-old former judge, faces conservative Republican Rep. Charles W. Sandman Jr., 52. Sandman beat GOP Gov. William Cahill in a June primary that left the party deeply split. A Democratic victory appears probable under such circumstances even without Watergate.

In the Virginia, governor's race, the Democrats don't even have a nominee on the ballot. The Republican nominee is former Democratic Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr., 68. His opponent is Lt. Gov. Henry E Howell Jr., 53, a Democrat running as an independent.

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CAIRO, Wednesday, Nov. 7
—Secretary of State Kissinger arrived in Cairo late last night for consultations with Egypt's President, Anwar el-Sadat. The American and Egyptian Governments both hope that these talks will touch off a long-range diplomatic process leading eventually to a permanent settlement of the 25-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict.

> [In Jerusalem, an Israeli military spokesman announced that Israel had agreed to permit an additional 50 truck-loads of supplies to be delivered to the beleaguered Egyptian III Corps in an apparent effort to avoid a crisis over the re-supply issue at the time of Secretary Kissinger's arrival in Cairo. Page 13.]

Mr. Kissinger's Boeing 707 jet touched down at the darkened Cairo airport a few moments before midnight. The Secretary was greeted by Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy. He waved smilingly at a throng of newsmen and television cameras but made no statement. Then he was driven along a dark desert highway into the

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Kissinger Probes Sadat on Peace

By Barry Schweld

Associated Press

CAIRO — Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met today with President Anwar Sadat, seeking firm evidence that Egypt is willing to move toward a negotiated settlement with Israel.

U.S. officials said Kissinger, in his conversations in Washington last week with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi, detected willingness to use the "good offices" of the United States to smooth out cease-fire problems and to move on to peace talks.

Sadat has vowed publicly he will not bargain with the Jewish state. Kissinger, hoping to act as a catalyst, intends to find out whether the Egyptian leader really is adamant.

THE PRINCIPAL immediate issues for discussion are Israel's demands for a prisoner exchange and the lifting of the Egyptian

blockade at the mouth of the Red Sea.

Israel claims the blockade is a cease-fire violation, but a State Department spokesman in Washington

said yesterday that "there are naval vessels there (AT THE Bab El Mandeb Straits), but no blockade has been declared."

Egypt, on the other hand,

insists that Israel give up the territory it occupied after the first cease-fire order on Oct. 22. The gains Israel made on the west bank of the Suez Canal during that period cut off the Egyptian 3rd Army on the eastern bank of the waterway.

Kissinger will convey Sadat's views to thee Israelis. And while playing the middle man between Egypt and Israel, he is confident that the Soviet Union or another government will use its influence to enlist Syria, the other major combatant in the October war, should a negotiating process between Israel and Egypt develop.

KISSINGER came to Cairo after meetings in Rabat with King Hassan of Morocco and in Tunis with President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia. Tomorrow he sees King Hussein of Jordan in Amman and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh.

Israeli Premier Golda Meir had planned to report

today to her parliament on her talks with Kissinger and President Nixon last week. But she postponed her speech until Monday to await word from the American secretary on his talks with the Arab leaders.

Arab leaders meanwhile were involved in intensive efforts to convene a summit conference in Algeria next week, and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov was also touring the Middle East in search for peace.

Hussein of Jordan flew to Kuwait yesterday for talks with Kuwaiti leader Sheik Sabah al Salem al Sabah and to the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh for a meeting with King Faisal. Last night he flew to Damascus for talks with President Hafez Assad of Syria, Damascus radio said.

THE WELL informed Beirut daily An Nahar said the Arab summit meeting would seek to assess how

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11-7-73 STAR NEWS

On the battle front, Israel's military command reported two new attempts yesterday by the Egyptian 3rd Army to break through the Israeli forces encircling it, but the command said both attempts were contained.

In Cairo, reliable sources said Egypt was pushing large amounts of fresh armanent eastward toward

announced it was letting another 50 truckloads through.

Diplomats at U.N. headquarters in New York said Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is proposing to the Security Council that Soviet soldiers join the corps of U.N. military observers in the Middle East for the first time in its 25-year history.

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Arab-Israeli war—in perspective

By Dana Adams Schmidt
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The Christian Science Monitor

Washington

It is possible now to see the 22-day fourth Arab-Israeli war in the perspective of three preceding Israeli wars.

The similarities and differences among these wars suggest the real nature of the current attempt to bring about an Arab-Israeli settlement, and the prospects for its success or failure.

In 1948, agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union led to the birth of Israel. In addition to volunteers, supplies, and money rushed to Israel by private groups in the United States, an important part of Israeli armament was supplied by air from Czechoslovakia, with Soviet approval.

Thus were Zionist aspirations achieved and Gentile consciences salved. The Soviet Union, for its part, got the foil which subsequently has served well the purposes of Soviet Middle Eastern strategy.

The Arabs, lacking support from any of the great powers, made futile military attempts to suffocate the nascent Israel. The Israelis skillfully used the time during, as well as between, UN trucos to occupy Elath and key positions in Galilee.

The year 1956 brought the first preemptive, or preventive war. In the shadow of the abortive British-French attempt to reoccupy the Suez Canal which President Nasser had nationalized, the Israelis knocked out or captured an impressive portion of the first large Soviet deliveries of arms to Egypt. The Russians threatened Paris and London if they did not withdraw and President Eisenhower won short-lived U.S. popularity among the Arabs by agreeing with the Russians that Israel must withdraw from Sinai. The Israelis went back.

Whatever its origins in Nasserite provocation, the 1967 six-day war turned out to be a preemptive coup in which the Israelis again wiped out a large part of the Arabs' Soviet-built planes and tanks.

In the absence of any U.S.-Soviet agreement, no settlement followed and the Israelis remained in occupation of the West Bank of the Jordan and Sinai.

The 22-day war of 1973 is really a continuation of the 1967 conflict. The Egyptians in effect counterattacked, crossing the Suez Canal and inflicting heavy losses on the Israelis. The Israelis counter-counterattacked, also crossing the canal, inflicting even heavier losses on the Egyptians and winding up in Suez with the Egyptian 3rd Army trapped.

So the Israelis spoiled President Sadat's military game plan. But Mr. Sadat nonetheless got what he really

peace treaty with Israel.

Algerian President Hourai Boumedienne has been making a series of personal visits to Damascus, Baghdad, Kuwait, and Riyad. He is urging other Arab rulers to buckle down for a long military, political, and oil war against Israel and its Western backers. He also has poured heavy Algerian tank, troop and aircraft reinforcements into Egypt.

Saudi Arabian King Faisal, who is to meet Dr. Kissinger in Riyad Thursday, is said to have disapproved of the cease-fire in a message to Egyptian President Sadat. But he reportedly added a pledge to continue financing Egypt's efforts "in peace or war."

Pending a resolution of the impasse, the Arabs are maintaining their pre-cease-fire war measures, including:

1. Blockade of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait at the entrance to Israel's Red Sea access route. The straits, blocked by minefields and by Egyptian and Yemeni warships, are "at Egypt's disposition," the envoys added.

In Damacus, North Yemen Foreign Minister Muhammad Noman declared Bab al-Mandeb would remain closed to Israeli shipping until Israeli withdrawal from occupie

wanted. His object was not to deter the Israeli Army, not to liberate militarily the occupied territories, not to destroy Israel. He knew he could not do these things.

His object was to bring about great power intervention, which he got with a vengeance.

In contrast to the previous wars, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union established aerial bridges to the combatants: weapons flown in by the two great powers were actually used in combat within hours.

Intervention reached such a point that the Soviet Union threatened, when it looked as though the Egyptians were on the brink of total disaster, to fly in airborne units to protect their clients. And the United States, taking a very serious view of the Soviet threat, alerted not only the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, and the Sixth Fleet, but the worldwide U.S. military establishment, including ICBM's and nuclear bombers.

Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger may say that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were far from confrontation. But others would say that President Sadat's counterattack had triggered an exercise in superpowe brinkmanship.

As this confrontation was nearing its climax, Henry Kissinger flew to Moscow and reached an agreement with the Russians that resulted in the Security Council cease-fire of Oct. 22.

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Arab land.

A U.S. Navy task force including an aircraft carrier and five destroyers, and Soviet warships also are in the area. Though Israel says 13 outbound ships are blocked in Eilath Harbor, it has not discussed the blockade's effect on inbound cargoes including oil shipments from Iran, nor has it made any military move so far to break the blockade.

2. Slowdown of Iraqi troop evacuation from Syria and new measures of readiness to return Iraq's earlier combat force of over 70,000 "immediately after the first shot is fired in a new round," say Arab diplomats here.

3. Preparation of new economic warfare measures to add to the oil embargo and restrictions applied against the United States, the Netherlands, and other Western friends of Israel.

Libyan Leader Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi, who during the war expressed his annoyance at not having been included in planning for the Oct. 6 war, also is making the rounds of Arab capitals. He is reliably reported to have promised full military and financial participation in a new round, provided all the other Arab states take part.

Several days of fighting remained during which the Israelis made new gains.

The extent of Dr. Kissinger's agreement with the Russians is not known, but it may be assumed that it was intended to save the detente. It is the key to Dr. Kissinger's strategy in the developing negotiations.

As a historian, Dr. Kissinger is aware that in the past it has been when the United States and the Soviet Union were in agreement that the great historical turns in the affairs of the Middle East occurred.

He is aware also that some serious students of the Arabs and Israelis doubt whether they could ever come to terms in direct negotiations. The thesis is that the role of extremist, emotional, religious-nationalist forces on both sides is such that agreement by moderates is precluded unless they are reinforced by the great powers.

This analysis makes clear why the Israelis so much dislike the idea of great power intervention and why Premier Golda Meir's objective in Washington had to be to obtain reassurances from President Nixon that there will be no imposed settlement.

But President Nixon already has let it be known during his last news conference that we will be exerting "more influence" than in the past during the coming talks.

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# Kissinger: Nixon's 'Savior'?

In his present travail, which is daily growing more intolerable, President Nixon has one important asset going for him. His name is Henry Alfred Kissinger, the recently appointed secretary of state.

Kissinger — and the foreign policy that he has engineered during Nixon's first term of office — is the President's chief defense against a widespread condemnation of his conduct in the White House. Of those who still believe that Richard Nixon, at all cost, must serve out the three years remaining in his term, the majority base this judgment on the accomplishments of his administration in the area of foreign policy and the fear that his resignation or impeachment would expose the nation to danger at a time of international crisis.

Nixon himself leans heavily on this argument. In defending himself against charges of misconduct in the Watergate affair and related scandals, he is constantly inviting us to raise our eyes from the unsavory mess of his administration to the things that have been achieved abroad.

But for him, he insists, there could never have been a reversal of our China policy and the beginning of a detente with the Soviet Union. And but for these things, we are told, we would never have got out of Vietnam and there might well have been a great-power confrontation in the latest Middle Eastern crisis.

Well, maybe so. The validity of such claims is impossible to prove and it is

probable that, to the extent that Americans are still willing to give Nixon credit for anything, his performance in the foreign area rates considerably higher than his performance at home. Even those who have the uneasy feeling that the state of the world, from an American viewpoint, isn't all that fine are probably willing to give the President the benefit of the doubt.

Which means, essentially, to give the Nixon-Kissinger team the benefit of the doubt. For whatever has been accomplished in the area of foreign affairs since 1969, the influence, imagination and skill of Henry Kissinger have most certainly been essential, if not determining, factors.

Again, this is an equation which is impossible to resolve with much confidence. As between a president and his chief foreign policy adviser (or secretary of State), who deserves the credit (or blame) for the policy that emerges is not easy to sort out.

What one can say on the basis of some personal knowledge and fairly close observation over a period of many years is that Henry Kissinger is by far the more imaginative innovator of the two men. It is perhaps just as well that he has been teamed up with a relatively unimaginative and cautious conservative politician.

Kissinger came to Washington from Harvard thoroughly prepared to dislike the President and to find himself in an emotional and intellectual wasteland. He was agreeably surprised and understandably flat- tered to find that his ideas

were not only listened to but in most cases eagerly embraced by a president who prided himself on his own astuteness in foreign affairs.

As a result, Kissinger is one of the few remaining loyalists of the original Nixon- on team. He is eloquent in defense of administration policies overseas — which is natural since they are his own policies. He speaks up readily about the dangers of a continuing “crisis of leadership” in terms of the conduct of our foreign interests.

I have no idea, of course, what interest, if any, Henry Kissinger may have in "saving" Richard Nixon from his own incredible fancies in the Watergate and related affairs. My own opinion is that Kissinger is about as nonpartisan in a political sense as anyone could be and that, given the authority, he would be equally effective under any administration that might succeed the shambles of the present one. I am also convinced that he is an uncommonly dedicated patriot.

All of which does not mean, of course, that the foreign interests of the United States may not be severely injured by a grave and sustained crisis of leadership here at home. What it does mean is that these interests are not by any means the exclusive preserve of the present incumbent in the White House. And that, in fact, they might be more effectively pursued by a successor whose personal authority and credibility at home and abroad were not so severely compromised.

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# Are Those Guards Really Necessary?

By Maxine Cheshire

Rep. Frank Moss (D. Calif.) has written a letter to the Comptroller General of the United States, Elmer B. Staats, challenging the legality of providing Secret Service protection and other government services to Spiro T. Agnew since his resignation.

Quoting the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, which authorizes such courtesies and protective measures for outgoing Presidents and Vice Presidents who are leaving office under normal circumstances, Moss has asked Staats to show how the law can be interpreted to include Agnew.

The Secret Service has declined to discuss the number of agents assigned to protect Agnew, although one source puts the number at a 21-man detail. The duty, ordered by President Nixon, is expected to continue for six months.

According to Moss, the language of Section 102 of Title 3 of the U. S. Code states that:

> "The national interest requires that such transitions ... be accomplished so as to assure continuity in the faithful execution of the laws and in conduct of the affairs of the federal government, both domestic and foreign. Any disruption occasioned by the transfer of the executive power could produce results detrimental to the safety and well being of the United States and its people."

Moss asked Staats:

> "Is it the opinion of the Comptroller General that the Agnew resignation leads to the kind of transitional period contemplated by the statute? Had (Agnew) received a jail sentence, would the nation have provided protection in a federal detention facility?"

Moss protested that, in addition to around-the-clock Secret Service protection, Agnew has "use of government facilities, a staff of eight ... all ancillary services, government limousines and drivers, plus use of military aircraft."

> "All this represents a considerable expense to the American people," he wrote. "It is certainly conceivable that expenditures for such services ... could actually offset or even make good whatever fines (Agnew) has thus far had assessed upon him by the courts."

When Secretary of State Henry Kissinger walked into the Sans Souci with NBC's Barbara Walters last Friday, it was just the moment for which humorist Art Buchwald had been waiting.

As Kissinger passed, Buchwald stopped him to exchange pleasantries.

Then, with all heads turned in their direction, Buchwald reached into his coat and pulled out a surprise. He handed the startled Kissinger two reels of tape.

The White House wasn't ignoring the demonstrations along Pennsylvania Avenue last week when passing cars were being signaled to "Honk for Impeachment."

Someone was keeping a eye on a stand where impeachment buttons and banners and bumper stickers were being passed out. When a car bearing Massachusetts license plates and a congressional sticker pulled up and collected a stack of anti-Nixon material, the license number was jotted down.

The car belongs to Sen. Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy's wife, Joan, but she wasn't driving. Mrs. Kennedy is in Europe and the young man behind the wheel was unidentified.

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Work Starts on Details
Of Mideast Agreement

Associated Press

Israeli and Egyptian offi-
cers have already begun
work on the implementation
of the new cease-fire agree-
ment reported between Is-
rael and Egypt.

Cairo's leading newspa-
per said today that Cairo,
Moscow and Washington
are discussing an Arab-Is
raeli peace conference in
Geneva possibly before the
end of the year under the
auspices of the United Na-
tions.

Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger, meanwhile,
arrived in Teheran today to
brief the Shah of Iran on his
Middle East peacemaking
mission. He was expected to
spend about four hours in
Iran, the oil-rich, long-time
friend of the United States,
before continuing on to Pak-
istan and Peking.

U.S. OFFICIALS accom-
panying Kissinger reported
yesterday that the secretar-
y's swing through the Mid-
dle East had produced Is-
raeli-Egyptian agreement
to a five-point proposal giv-
ing the Egyptians an access
corridor through the Israeli
army's lines to the city of
Suez and their encircled 3rd
Army across the Suez Canal
on the east bank.

The Israeli state radio
said the plan also called
for exchange of prisoners of
war "as soon as possible,"
lifting of the Egyptian
blockdade at the southern
end of the Red Sea, negotia-
tions between Israeli and
Egyptian military com-
manders to arrange new
cease-fire lines and direct
peace negotiations between
Israel and Egypt.

The U.S. officials said the

agreement would be offi-
cially announced today in
Washington, Cairo, and Tel
Aviv after U.N. Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim has
been advised of the details.

Western diplomats said,
however, that it might take
months, perhaps years of
negotiations to hammer out
a durable peace accord
acceptable to Arabs and
Israelis.

QUIBBLING over details
has apparently already
begun.

Cairo's semi-official Mid-
dle East News Agency said,
"It is not true that Egypt,
when it agreed to the Amer-
ican plan, pledged to lift the
blockade of Bab El-Man-
deb," on the Red Sea.

The agency said parts of
the plan described by Israe-
li and other foreign news

media "do not agree with
the contents of the Ameri-
can plan which Egypt said
it was prepared to accept."

Despite that report, the
Cairo newspaper Al Ahram,
also a semi-official news
source, said the question of
the straits of Bab El-Man-
deb is part of the settle-
ment, but it did not specifi-
cally mention lifting the
blockade.

The U.S. officials said
Syria, the other major com-
batant in the October war,
hadnot endorsed the agree-
ment. Syria was not on Kis-
singer's itinerary, and no
Syrians took part in his
talks in Cairo with Presi-
dent Anwar Sadat. But the
Syrian front has been ge-
nerally quiet since the
cease-fire, and Syrian

See MIDEAST, A-6

up."

Nevada natives, former

## House Holiday Break Is Opposed by 15

Congress, which routinely votes itself vacations with little fuss, has run into a solid front of 15 junior Republican House members opposed to taking off Thanksgiving week.

They concede their stand may be in vain. Too many plans have been made for too many trips. But they promise to force a floor vote of all House members on whether they should take the vacation.

House leaders have announced plans for a holiday beginning after work next Thursday until the Monday following Thanksgiving.

"We think," the 15 said in a letter to all other House members, "such a proposal is completely out of order when there is so much remaining to be done."

One by one, they stood up on the House floor yesterday talking of unfinished business. Rep. John Y. McCollister, R-Nebr., mentioned the energy crisis. Rep. Louis Frey, R-Fla., mentioned legislation to increase Social Security benefits.

Others talked of pension reforms and campaign spending reforms, federal aid to education, minimum wage bills, and the nomination of GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford as vice president.

"We urge your support in our efforts to keep the House at work to get urgent business taken care of," they said. "It is time to put our nation's needs above our convenience."

The Democrats were unsympathetic. "If we were Republicans" Rep. Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, D-Calif., said, "we wouldn't want to go home either."

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Kissinger's Letter
On Mideast Terms

Associated Press

The text of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's letter to U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim disclosing the Israeli-Egyptian agreement on the Middle East:

Dear Mr. Secretary
General:

I have the honor to inform you that the governments of Egypt and Israel are prepared to accept the following agreement which implements article 1 of the United Nations Security Council resolution 338 and Article 1 of the United Nations Security Council resolution 339.

The text of this agreement is as follows:

A. Egypt and Israel agree to observe scrupulously the cease-fire called for by the U.N. Security Council.

B. Both sides agree that discussions between them will begin immediately to settle the question of the return to the Oct. 22 positions in the framework of agreement on the disengagement and separation of forces under the auspices of the U.N.

C. The town of Suez will receive daily supplies of food, water and medicine. All wounded civilians in the town of Suez will be evacuated.

D. There shall be no

impediment to the movement of non-military supplies to the East Bank.

E. The Israeli checkpoints on the Cairo-Suez road will be replaced by U.N. checkpoints. At the Suez end of the road Israeli officers can participate with the U.N. to supervise the non-military nature of the cargo at the bank of the canal.

F. As soon as the U.N. checkpoints are established on the Cairo-Suez road, there will be an exchange of all POWs, including wounded.

It has been agreed by the two parties that they will hold a meeting under the auspices of the United Nations Commander at the usual place (Kilometer 101 on the Suez-Cairo road) to sign this agreement and to provide for its implementation. I would be most grateful if you would take appropriate steps to insure that a meeting is held on Saturday, Nov. 10, 1973, or at such other time as may be mutually convenient of representatives of the parties to take the appropriate steps.

We intend to announce publicly the agreement at noon New York time, on Friday, Nov. 9, 1973.

Best regards.

Henry A. Kissinger

WASH. POST 11-10-73