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No. 2928

Tuesday, 11 March 1975

KISSINGER SPEAKS OF COMPLEXITIES OF TURCO-US RELATIONS

Ankara yesterday lived through a day of intense diplomatic activity with talks conducted with Secretary of State Kissinger in the afternoon and his deputy Hartman, as well as the Council of Europe delegation, in the morning.

Foreign Minister Esenbel had nearly an hour with Hartman who refused to talk to the press because it was too early for him to speak and in the afternoon Kissinger had talks with Turkish statesmen. The first day's talks were on matters of mutual concern to Turkey and the USA, primarily the American arms embargo and the general security question. The talks on Cyprus are expected to be held today.

Dr Kissinger made no reference to Cyprus in his less than a minute airport arrival statement in Ankara, but twice spoke of complexities in Turkish-American relations. "Our relationship with our old and reliable friend Turkey goes back 30 years and is based on mutual interests and long tradition. It is a relationship we the United States value and which I have come here to strengthen. We will do our best to solve all the complex issues facing our nations", he said. He also expressed his"appreciation for the invitation to visit Turkey at such short notice and in the face of many complexities".

In Turkey he had two aims- one to get agreement on a framework for the discussions on Cyprus broken off last month, and two to get some agreement on where they will be held, within the UN or elsewhere.

It was a surprise move when Turkey agreed that he come here after he saw Greek Foreign Minister Bitsios in Brussels last Friday. The invitation itself, for Kissinger to come to Ankara, was considered progress, according to American sources and press.

Esenbel said in the morning that the latest situation in the US Congress about the American arms embargo, as well as the Cyprus situation would be discussed with Kissinger. He would remind Kissinger that Turkey's relations with NATO had been harmed and the Alliance weakened by the American action. He went on:

"Our stance about the aid is obvious. First we don't call it 'aid'. We say it is 'mutual assistance'. We consider the discontinuation of this assistance and the imposition of an embargo a unilateral move harming NATO relations and weakening the Alliance. Certainly there is no change in our stance. Kissinger also knows this to be so. In principle he is not a man who thinks differently from us. However, what is more important for us, is what will happen and how rapidly it will happen, rather than what he thinks".

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The Foreign Minister said that Turkey would make no sacrifices over the Cyprus question. There was no question of any change in the Turkish stand on Cyprus. "A bizonal geographic federation is the sole safeguard for the future of Cyprus. We make no sacrifice on it. As Kissinger had a talk with the Greek Foreign Minister on the Cyprus question, he may have had some impressions about whether or not there are any ways of bringing forth the new solution. I expect he will convey these to us and will tell us on the basis of what the Greeks say whether or not there is any ground for talks. We have no other grounds for talks with him on Cyprus because our Cyprus policy is clear. What the Turks want to do in Cyprus is obvious. I believe the talks will be on these topics".

Official talks between Esenbel and Kissinger started at 5.25 p.m. when the Secretary of State went to the Foreign Ministry with his deputies, Sisco and Hartman and Ambassador Macomber. Secretary General Sukru Elekdag was also present. Kissinger then called on Chief of the General Staff Gen. Semih Sancar and the Prime Minister.

The Secretary of State also had a meeting with Ecevit for an hour and a half and was an hour late for the working dinner. Kissinger said they had talked of Cyprus, the Middle East and all bilateral relations. Ecevit said he was sorry he had been unable to see Kissinger when he had been prime minister. He had benefited greatly from the information Kissinger had given him on his peace efforts in the Middle East. They had exchanged views on the Cyprus issue. Kissinger will see the JP, NSP, DP and RRP Chairmen and be received by President Koruturk today.

At the Kissinger-Sancar meeting the Secretary of State said that in a reasonable period the US aid could be resumed. He wanted Turkey not to take sudden or hasty decision. Details of military needs and American bases were not discussed at the meeting.

Turkish Socialist Workers' Party Chairman Ahmet Kacmaz called on all anti-imperialist forces to join a resistance movement against Kissinger's visit. Twelve TSWP members were taken into custody for posting bills in the streets of Ankara yesterday.

According to TERCUMAN, Kissinger suggested bilateral talks between Turkey and Greece on Cyprus. The centre of talks yesterday was US aid, military matters and NATO. MILLIYET writes that Kissinger has brought no proposals on Cyprus, but is making soundings to have Turkey and Greece sit down at a conference table. He was told that Turkey was ready to start talks on Cyprus but she would definitely reject any prior conditions for them. Esenbel reminded Kissinger how Makarios had upset in two months the Bitsios-Kissinger-Esenbel decision in Brussels to hold intercommunal talks without conditions. This had obliged the Turks to reorganize their sector, he explained. Greece had not kept her promise in Brussels and taken the matter to the Secrutiry Council. Turkey was determined not to be taken in by any more Makarios intrigues, Kissinger was told. Turkey was ready to talk over every problem as long as the Federal State principle was accepted. "The Greeks must prove that they see this reality and are ready to solve the matter peacefully", it was explained to the visiting statesman who was also given information with the help of maps. He has thus been given an idea of where Turkey stands firm and where she can be flexible. Details will be discussed this morning.

SON HAVADIS says that Dr Kissinger is devoting his attention to talks with the 'party leaders.

Officials point out that this is not an official visit and so there will be no final communique. However, it is in fact a very important visit, they emphasize.

HURRIYET notes that Mrs Kissinger is not accompanying her husband but three blonde girls are, one of whom is very attractive and is arousing a good deal of curiosity.

This paper's editorialist writes that though the two issues discussed with Kissinger, Cyprus and Turco-American relations, are unrelated, according to Ankara, they are in fact very much so, and will inevitably be discussed together. It seems that before his arrival in Ankara, Kissinger had the Greeks accept the accomplished

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facts and the federal system. In return, he expects the Turks to reduce the 'de facto' situation in Cyprus. If this is achieved, American aid may be resumed, he will say. But to whom will he say all this and from whom will he ask for guarantees? From Irmak and Esenbel who, like himself, have no parliamentary support or strength? He will conduct talks with Esenbel but get the real answer from Ecevit and Demirel, says the editorial.

The Council of Europe delegation, headed by Franz Karasek, visited Prime Minister Irmak and Foreign Minister Esenbel in the morning. Karasek said they believed the Cyprus problem should be solved at intercommunal talks and the reason for their visit was to facilitate them. The delegation then visited the political party leaders.

Prime Minister Irmak said after the European delegation's visit, "I told them that Turkey was open to all negotiation to maintain and perpetuate peace in this sensitive region. I said that the Cyprus talks would best be solved through talks between the two community leaders and that contacts must proceed in that field. I find it useful to choose somewhere outside Cyprus for the negotiations. It can be Geneva, Vienna or, if they wish, New York. We have no objections, but certainly it would not be for the good of the two parties to spread and enlarge the Cyprus conflict. In fact, the talks were being run very well between the two communities and we did not cause the rupture. Actually ours was already an autonomous region. No one must be disturbed by its being a federated State. This region was already autonomous. Only the name was changed, the aim being the foundation of the Federal Republic. We want Cyprus to be an independent federal republic with territorial integrity. Turkish Cypriots also want this. That is why we set up the federated State, to facilitate the federal State".

The head of the Cyprus Coordination Committee, Ziya Muezzinoglu, told a news conference in Nicosia yesterday that the Turkish Cypriot community had made tremendous economic progress in liberated Cyprus since the military operation last July. As a result of the activities in every field, a federated State structure had appeared. Public services and their departments had been reorganized. "Economic and social life has been greatly normalized since the peace operation. The requisite measures were established and taken to this end and an important distance has been covered in their implementation.

"This year 415 000 'donum's of land were cultivated. Considering the population, this is twice the area cultivated last year.

"We met certain bottlenecks in packing and marketing the citrus fruit. We need mobilization for this. We will certainly do whatever is necessary for this as we have done with the carob bean and olive mobilizations. On the marketing question we have made exports or export contracts to certain western countries and Britain, as well as to Czechoslovakia and some eastern bloc countries. Part of the unexported citrus fruit will be shipped to Turkey and turned into concentrated juice both there and here. However, if we do not succeed in harvesting all the citrus fruit this year, it may affect next year's yield".

Muezzinoglu said the touristic installations which had opened a few months ago had entered a period of lull. It would become more lively next month with the arrival of Turkish and British tourists. Better results would be obtained from ship and airline services by reorganizing the timetables. Passengers and goods would be carried to Beirut and Libya from Famagusta. He said that 36 000 had been resettled in the Turkish sector so far and this was not negligible. A thermal power-plant would be built in the Turkish sector of the island as well.

Armed fighting is reported between pro-Makarios and pro-Enosis factions among the Greek Cypriots. Greek Cypriot Under-Secretary of Agriculture Mihalides was gravely wounded when a bomb exploded in his car. Turks' movements in Limassol are being restricted.

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In 1975 Turkey will make a TL45 000 m. investment in the war industry when it starts a number of projects for completion by 180-81. Minister of Industry-Technology Mehmet Golhan said that the war industry would be defensive. The American arms embargo proved the setbacks of and how unreliable were military aids.

"We had not paid due attention to the indigenous war industry because of the military aid which had been coming in hitherto", he observed.

In the first stage an inventory of the existing industry would be taken as a war industry covered the whole sector of industry. In the second stage, the needs of the armed forces would be established and yearly or long-term objectives would be established. "We will establish which factories will meet these needs and set up new factories for the needs left unanswered".

The Minister said of the industries to be set up, "We have planned a package of projects and included them in the 1975 programme. They involve a TL45 000 m. investment and will be completed in eight years. TL15 000 m. has been earmarked (in the public sector) for the first stage. All the projects will be started this year. Some will start construction, some will have their blueprints prepared. But the first units will definitely enter production in 1980-81.

"The construction of the electronics and nuclear industries will start this year. Developments in the electronics field provide the nation with great defence possibilities. Also, research and development units will be founded in both the installations. This will constitute the first step towards Turkey's opening up to nuclear physics and nuclear arms. Considering the importance of maritime spremacy, we will start, again this year, the foundation of a ship-building industry of adequate dimensions. Everything is ready for the aviation industry. The organizations to run these activities will be founded soon and all sorts of civilian aircraft, helicopters and pesticide-spraying aircraft will be made. To increase production, the machine tools industry will be raised to an adequate level. For the manufacture of military vehicles and materiel in sufficient numbers at peace and war, six various-sized engine industries, transmission factories, heavy machinery factories and industrial equipment factories will be founded. A country which cannot meet its own iron-steel requirements cannot talk of an independent industry or a war industry. So we will set up a fourth steel plant with a two million-ton initial and six million-ton final capacity. The Iskenderun steel plant will double its capacity to two million tons. The steel produced by the Machinery-Chemicals Enterprise (MKE) will also be increased. When these basic projects are realized, Turkey will no longer be underdeveloped or dependent on abroad".

About the financing question, Golhan said, "The Turkish nation is proud enough and attached to its national existence to provide a TL45 000 m. investment. Besides, what is TL45 000 m. in a country whose 1974 investment is TL104 000 m.. Some of these projects (the electronics, engine, transmission factories) will be a partnership of small savings and emigrant workers' remittances. Foreign capital is not necessary. However, we will not reject foreign capital, if necessary, if it exports its produce and brings in double the foreign exchange it takes out, in accordance with the stipulations of the Third Five-Year Development Plan".

There were Turkish experts and workers employed throughout the world and in Turkey in the electronics, nuclear, ship-building and engine industries, the Minister remarked. They would be brought together in Turkey and foreign experts would also be brought in, if required. The package of projects would provide employment for 100 000 workers directly and for another 150 000 in side industries. "It is possible to meet a great part of the vehicle, materiel and ammunition needs of our armed forces with our present industrial level. We only import specific war materiel and their ammunition (such as fighters, missiles, rockets, tanks). However, this is a great war. New discoveries are made every year. It is possible to benefit from them within the alliances to which we belong and through mutual assistance agreements. As technological assistance also comes under the arms embargo, we will secure it from countries like Germany and Japan who do not say from time to time, 'I cut it off, I am going to cut it off'".

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The Minister also said there was no specific nuclear weapons project for the time being, but nuclear power-plants' research and development units would be founded. "India did it. Egypt is about to do it. Why shouldn't we? We have to be strong to ward off aggression. Besides, there is no longer any secret about nuclear physics".

Ministers of Energy Isil and Villages Aydinoglu said on Friday that they had suggested at the Council of Ministers that a new State enterprise be set up for the engine industry. Deputy Prime Minister Zeyyat Baykara had not proposed changing the Development Plan. They said all the Ministers eventually agreed to postponing the decision, considering that a new government would soon be formed.

Minister of Energy Erhan Isil said on Friday that Turkey needed over $800 m. crude oil imports in 1975. The Petroleum Law in force was against Turkey's interests. They were at work on its amendment and their preparations were about to be completed.

Turkey will have three submarines by the end of the year, says HURRIYET, two delivered from Federal Germany and one made at the Golcuk naval shipyard. With the help of German know-how, Golcuk is being expanded for the production of submarines. One more submarine will be completed there next year. Meanwhile, a team from Libya has tentatively ordered six more submarines to be made at Golcuk.

### Irmak CONDUCTS SECOND ROUND OF TALKS

RPP Chairman Ecevit yesterday visited President Koruturk for 25 minutes to discuss his tour of Germany, The Netherlands and Britain which he starts today. He also held a meeting with the Prime Minister on the government issue. On his second round of contacts to form a government, Irmak will visit JP Chairman Demirel in the morning and DP Chairman Bozbeyli in the afternoon today.

Irmak said after his visit to Ecevit that the RPP was ready for a coalition with any party, provided an election date was established by the National Assembly. "I hope the JP will also move a little in this direction", he said. He wanted an RPP-JP coalition, not only for the formation of a strong government, but for the prevention of a division of the country. Such a coalition would set an example to the youth which tended to become polarized.

Following the crossing of Nebil Oktay from the RPP to the RRP, MILLIYET carries news of Deputy for Van Ihsan Bedirhanoglu's resignation from the RRP. He will remain independent for a time and then is expected to join the RPP.

According to MILLIYET, the President and Prime Minister Irmak are trying to work out a DP-technocrat government under Irmak with the outside support of the RPP in exchange for the DP's agreeing to early elections, on 12 October. The two parties are 226-strong and capable of doing it if Bozbeyli can control the whole of his parliamentary group. However, according to a THA dispatch, leader of the DP dissidents Sadettin Bilgic and his 17 colleagues have taken the initiative to call an emergency national congress in April in an effort to extract a resolution for the DP's merger with the JP. Bilgic will also compete with Bozbeyli for the party chairmanship and in the event of a defeat will leave the DP with his group and rejoin the Justice Party.

The number of veteran Democrats adhering to the JP increases daily. The last group includes Bilgic's brother Sait Bilgic. In a chat with veteran Democrats, Demirel said the Nationalist Front would categorically reject any prime minister other than himself. The President would soon give him the duty because the Front was now capable of getting the vote of confidence in Parliament. Demirel will go to Izmir to attend a ceremony for further adherences to his party by some 30 ex-Democrat parliamentarians of the Aegean region. Demirel will deliver an important speech in Izmir and will also explain his views on the formation of a government and the Nationalist Front's activities. The JP leader said yesterday that he would not answer Irmak's letter. He would give the answer today orally at his meeting with the Prime Minister.

GUNAYDIN reports that if & when the Nationalist Front is formed, at least one of the old Democrats, possibly Hayrettin Erkmen, is likely to be given a Ministry. However, cooperation between the former Democrats and the NSP is regarded as impossible and particularly to be against the wishes of Celal Bayar. (All papers)

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1. LATE AFTERNOON UPI FROM ANKARA SAID HAK ARRIVED ANKARA STATING HE REMAINED HOPEFUL SECOND-STAGE SINAI AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED AND THAT THERE WERE 'NO UNANTICIPATED PROBLEMS. WE NEED A TIME OF QUIET DIPLOMACY. YOU CAN EXPECT NO DAILY PROGRESS REPORT DURING THIS STAGE OF GENERAL EXPLORATION'. ON CYPRUS QUESTION, STORY SAID HAK HAS TWO AIMS IN ANKARA--AGREEMENT TO RESUME TALKS WITH GREECE, AND SELECTION OF SITE, WITH UN SUGGESTED AS POSSIBILITY. TURKISH NEWSPAPERS DESCRIBED AS TAKING LINE THAT THERE SHOULD BE 'NO CONCESSIONS TO KISSINGER' AND FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN QUOTED AS SAYING THERE IS 'NO OTHER SOLUTION BUT A BI-REGIONAL FEDERATION.'

2. AP'S SCHWEID FROM ANKARA SAID HAK TOLD NEWS THAT ARRIVAL HE WAD 'NO REASON' TO CHANGE HIS VIEW THAT SINAI ACCORD IS POSSIBLE. CONCERNING CYPRUS, SCHWEID SAID NEWS THAT ON PLANE WERE TOLD HAK IS WORKING ON NEW 'FORUM' FOR RESUMED TALKS TO BE SET UP IN NEW YORK OR VIENNA. HE SAID

HAK HOPES BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN TWO COMMUNITIES BY INTERCESSION WITH GREEK AND TURKISH LEADERS. SCHWEID ADDED THAT HAK'S 'BUSY DIPLOMACY' MAY SERVE AS SIGNAL TO CONGRESS THAT ANKARA IS MOVING TOWARD COMPROMISE AND THAT REMOVAL OF ARMS EMBARGO WOULD PAVE WAY TO RESUMED NEGOTIATIONS. SCHWEID SAID 'U.S. OFFICIALS NOW CLAIM FORD ADMINISTRATION HAS THE VOTES IN THE SENATE TO RESUME WEAPONS SHIPMENTS BUT THAT THE HOUSE IS QUESTIONABLE'.

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3. EARLIER UPI FROM JERUSALEM SAID HAK TOOK HELICOPTER FROM JERUSALEM TO BEN GURION AIRPORT BECAUSE OF RUMORS OF ARAB GUERILLA ATTACK ON SCHOOLHOUSE IN TOWN OF YEHUD NEAR AIRPORT. REPORT TURNED OUT TO BE FALSE ALARM, SAID UPI.

4. LA TIMES, PAGE ONE, RESTON, JERUSALEM: ASSAD REFUSED SUPPORT HAK'S DIP ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE SEPARATE ME PEACE SETTLEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT.

HIS PUBLIC REAFFIRMATION OF SYRIA'S HARD-LINE POSITION MADE BEFORE START OF TALKS WITH HAK IN DAMASCUS, UNDER SCORED BOTH COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY OF HAK'S CURRENT ROUND OF SKUTTLE DIPLOMACY.

...WE ARE AGAINST SEPARATE PARTIAL AGREEMENTS,* ASSAD TOLD REPORTERS TRAVELING WITH HAK. HE SAID SYRIA WOULD AGREE TO AN INTERIM AGREEMENT ONLY IF IT PROVIDED FOR ALL FRONTS, MEANING ISRAELI WITHDRAWALS FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORY IN EGYPT, SYRIA AND ALONG THE WEST BANK OF THE JORDAN RIVER.

ASSAD EMPHASIZED THE UN RESOLUTION THAT CALLS FOR ISRAEL'S COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL TO BOUNDARIES HELD BEFORE THE 1967 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR.

...ASKED ABOUT HIS RECENT OFFER TO UNIFY SYRIA'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY COMMANDS WITH THOSE OF THE PLO, ASSAD SAID THIS WOULD GIVE THE PALESTINIANS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE REPRESENTED AT ANY EVENTUAL OVER-ALL PEACE CONFERENCE IN GENEVA.

A SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL WITH THE HAK PARTY SAID THE SYRIAN OFFER WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE HELPFUL TO THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN INTERIM DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.

THE OFFICIAL ALSO DID NOT RULE OUT A SEPARATE INTERIM AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA IN THE FUTURE.

WHILE PUBLIC RHETORIC FROM ASSAD APPEARED HARSH, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT ALL PARTIES EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THIS ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS ARE AT A POINT OF STATING ONLY THEIR OPENING BARGAINING POSITIONS. THESE POSITIONS ARE LIKELY TO SHIFT AS HAK SHUTTLES BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND ASWAN, THE EGYPTIAN RESORT CITY ON THE UPPER NILE.

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1. ABC EVENING NEWS HAD NOTHING FROM KOPPEL. REASONER SAID: "SECRETARY KISSINGER SAID TODAY THAT HIS TALKS WITH EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI LEADERS HAVE LEFT HIM CONVINCED THAT A SECOND-STAGE MILITARY AGREEMENT IN THE SINAI IS POSSIBLE. HAX INTERUPTED HIS ME SHUTTLE TALKS TODAY FOR A SIDE TRIP TO TURKEY. HE PLANS TO SPEND 24 HOURS IN ANKARA, HOLDING DISCUSSIONS WITH TURKISH LEADERS ABOUT THE U. S. ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST TURKEY AND THE CYPRUS SITUATION."

2. ABC EVENING NEWS: NOTHING FROM VALERIANI. CHANCELLOR: "SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER FLEW FROM ISRAEL TO TURKEY TODAY TO TALK ABOUT CYPRUS. HE HAS NOW BEEN BOTH IN EGYPT AND IN ISRAEL, AND AFTER HIS DEPARTURE FOR TURKEY AN ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SOURCE PREDICTED THAT THE KISSINGER PEACE MISSION IN THE ME WILL BE LONG AND HARD. THE OFFICIAL ADDED THERE IS NO CERTAINTY, AND POSSIBLY EVEN SOME DOUBT, ABOUT REACHING AN AGREEMENT. THE PROBLEM IS THAT, FOR NOW, EGYPT IS UNWILLING TO MAKE A PUBLIC DECLARATION OF NON-BELLIGENCE TOWARD ISRAEL, AND SYRIA DOESN'T WANT A SEPARATE ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN SETTLEMENT."

3. CBS EVENING NEWS: NOTHING FROM KALB. ROGER MUDR.

"SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER TURNED HIS ATTENTION TODAY FROM PEACE IN THE ME TO PEACE ON CYPRUS. HE FLEW FROM TEL AVIV TO ANKARA FOR DAY-LONG TALKS WITH TURKISH LEADERS ON RESOLVING THE DISPUTES THAT HAVE DIVIDED CYPRUS. LAST WEEK HE DISCUSSED THE CYPRUS SITUATION WITH THE GREEK PM." INGERSOLL

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INFORMAL AUSPICES OF THE UN IN MY. PART OF THE PERSONING BEHIND THE CHOICE OF LOCALE IS THAT IT WOULD BE CONVENIENT FOR HAK TO CONTINUE PLAYING A PERSONAL ROLE. BUT JUDGING FROM HIS SCHEDULE IN THE WEEKS AHEAD NY MAY BE THE ONLY CITY IN THE WORLD THAT KISSINGER DOES NOT VISIT.

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1. AP SCHWEID, JERUSALEM: HAK SAID TODAY THAT AFTER HIS FIRST ROUND OF TALKS WITH SADAT, ASSAD AND ISRAELI LEADERS, WE STILL BELIEVES A NEW EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT IS POSSIBLE.

"I CAME HERE UCAUSE I BELIEVED AN AGREEMENT WAS POSSIBLE. I HAVE NO REASON TO CHANGE MY VIEW," HAK OLD NEWSMAN AFTER A TWO-HOUR SESSION SUNDAY NIGHT AND FOUR HOURS TODAY WITH RABIN AND HIS NEGOTIATING TEAM.

ASKED WHETHER HE STILL RATED CHANCE OF AN AGREEMENT AT 50-50, HIS ASSESSMENT AFTER HIS EXPLORATORY TALKS LAST MONTH, HE REPLIED: "I DON'T WANT TO BE IN A POSITION IN WHICH EVERY DAY I HAVE TO GIVE AN ASSESSMENT AND PERCENTAGE FIGURE, BECAUSE WE WILL BE IN A HOPELESS TRAP AFTER A WHILE.

"WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF A PROCESS OF NEGOTIATION WHICH IS COMPLICATED AND WHICH WILL TAKE SOME TIME. WE ARE ENGAGED HERE IN ANALYZING ALL THE IDEAS AND ELEMENTS THAT MIGHT BE PART OF A POSSIBLE AGREEMENT.

"WE ARE DOING SO WITH GREAT CARE. WE'VE DONE SO IN A VERY FRIENDLY, COMRADELY AND VERY POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE."

HAK SAID HE HAD NOT COMMITED HIMSELF TO ANY TARGET DATE FOR AN AGREEMENT OR ABANDONING HIS EFFORT, ADDING:

"IT IS AN AGREEMENT OF SOME IMPORTANCE IF IT IS ACHIEVED, AND IT HAS TO BE DONE WITH GREAT CARE."

AMERICAN AND ISRAELI OFFICIALS SAID A MARATHON SHUTTLE APPEARED IN PROSPECT FOR THE SECRETARY.

2. UPI, JERUSALEM: HAK SAID TODAY HIS TALKS WITH EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI OFFICIALS LEFT HIM STILL CONVINCED THAT A SECOND-STATE MILITARY AGREEMENT IN THE SINAI DESERT IS POSSIBLE. SYRI OPPOSES SUCH AN AGREEMENT AND EGYPT HAS TAKEN A SURPRISINGLY HARD LINE.

FOLLOWING A ONE-HOUR PRIVATE BREAKFAST WITH RABIN AND A TWO-HOUR AND 45 MINUTE MEETING WITH THE ISRAELI NEGOTIATING TEAM, HAK LEFT THE ISRAELI LEADERS TO CONSIDER THEIR NEXT MOVE AND TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO CRISIS BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY OVER CYPRUS ...

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HAK THEN LEFT JERUSALEM FOR ANKARA AND TALKS ON THE CYPRUS CRISIS. ...

THE NEWSPAPER HA'ARETZ SAID SADAT SUBMITTED A DETAILED PROPOSAL TO HAK "THAT SURPRISED THE SECRETARY BY ITS

TOUGH LINE."

A PUBLIC OPINION POLL PUBLISHED BY HA'ARETZ INDICATED HAK'S POPULARITY HAS RISEN AMONG ISRAELIS BETWEEN HIS PREVIOUS TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST LAST MONTH AND NOW. ...

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NYTIMES - GWERTZMAN, PAGE 1: HAK BROUGHT EGYPT'S IDEAS ON ACHIEVING A NEW SINAI AGREEMENT TO ISRAEL'S LEADERS TONIGHT. BUT HAK APPARENTLY FAILED DURING A STOPOVER IN DAMASCUS TO PERSUADE ASSAD TO DROP THE OPPOSITION TO EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS. ...

HAK EXPECTS IN THIS OPENING ROUND OF HIS LATEST "SHUTTLE"

DIPLOMACY" TO RECEIVE CONCRETE ISRAELI COUNTERPROPOSALS THAT WE CAN TAKE BACK TO SADAT IN ASWAN ON WEDNESDAY, THEREBY SPURRING GENUINE BARGAINING. ...

THE ISRAELIS WERE DESCRIBED BY DIPLOMATS HERE AS BEING GENERALLY OPTIMISTIC THAT A SECOND-STAGE ACCORD ON SINAI WOULD BE WORKED OUT. BUT MANY ISRAELIS ARE SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE VALUE OF AN ACCORD THAT WILL PROBABLY CALL ON ISRAEL TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS IN RETURN FOR INTANGIBLE PLEDGES AND STEPS TO REDUCE THE

LIKELIood OF ANOTHER WAR. ...

THE DETAILS OF THE EGYPTIAN IDEAS, GIVEN BY HAK YESTERDAY, HAVE NOT BEEN DIVULGED. IN FACT, BECAUSE OF EGYPT'S RELUCTANCE EVEN TO APPEAR TO BE MAKING CONCESSIONS TO ISRAEL IN RETURN FOR RECOVERING OCCUPIED TERRITORY, THE EGYPTIAN PRESS SAID THIS MORNING THAT SADAT HAD MADE NO SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO HAK.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS ABCARD HAK'S AIR FORCE JET, FLYING FROM ASWAN TO DAMASCUS SAID THAT "PRECISE IDEAS" HAD BEEN GIVEN TO KISSINGER BUT THAT THEY EXPECTED THE EGYPTIANS TO DENY THIS ...

... ONE OF HAK'S MAJOR PROBLEMS IS TO FIND A WAY TO INCLUDE SYRIA IN THE NEXT PHASE OF NEGOTIATIONS. ... HAK Fears THAT A SYRIAN-PLO PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST EGYPT COULD WEAKEN SADAT'S POSITION AND MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO COMPROMISE. ...

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... IN AN APPARENT CRITICISM OF BOTH THE RUSSIANS AND EGYPTIANS, MR. ASSAD SAID: "WE ARE NOT ENAMORED OF PEACE TREATIES, EVEN THOSE OF FRIENDSHIP. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS TO MOVE TOWARD A CONDITION OF PEACE AND NOT JUST TO SIGN TREATIES. ...

BALTSUN-MILLS, PAGE 1: HAK ARRIVED HERE LAST NIGHT AND IMMEDIATELY LAID BEFORE ISRAELI LEADERS CONCRETE EGYPTIAN IDEAS FOR A NEW SINAI DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT.

... HAK FLEW FLEW HERE FROM DAMASCUS, WHERE HE HEARD ASSAD THROW SOME PUBLIC COLD WATER ON THIS LATEST ROUND OF SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY.

"WE ARE AGAINST SEPARATE, PARTIAL AGREEMENTS," ASSAD TOLD REPORTERS AT HIS PRESIDENTIAL PALACE AFTER A 45-MINUTE SESSION ALONE WITH HAK.

THE COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED STOICALLY BY U.S. OFFICIALS, WHO SAW THEM AS ONLY A REITERATION OF HRIA'S LONGTIME INSISTENCE THAT ARAB STATES SHOULD MAKE NO NEW AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL WITHOUT A COMPLETE ISRAEL WITHDRAWAL FROM THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, THE SINAI AND THE WEST BANK OF THE JORDAN RIVER.

... IT IS ALREADY UNDERSTOOD, ALLON SAID, IN ONE OF THE INDICATIONS THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LONG, THAT THIS MISSION WILL NOT BE COMPLETED IN ONE JUMP.

... REPORTERS WERE TOLD ALMOST NOTHING ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF HAK'S SESSION SATURDAY WITH SADAT OR THE ONE YES-TERDAY WITH ASSAD. THERE WAS THEREFORE NO WAY TO TELL INDEPENDENTLY HOW JUSTIFIED HAK'S HOPEFUL ATTITUDE IS.

BUT REPORTERS WERE TOLD THAT HAK WAS NOT DISCOURAGED BY HIS TALKS WITH SADAT AND FELT THAT THEY HAD ADVANCED NEGOTIATIONS SOMEWHAT.

THE SESSION WITH SADAT IS UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE PRODUCED SOME CONCRETE IDEAS WHICH CAN BE PRESENTED TO THE ISRAELIS AS A FIRST TEST OF THE TEMPERATURE OF THE NEGOTIATING WATER. THE SECRETARY WAS ALSO SAID TO HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED, ON BALANCE, BY SADAT'S PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE POSSIBILITIES FOR AN AGREEMENT.

AN ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER OFFICIAL SECONDED THAT SAYING THE ISRAELIS WERE NOT PUT OFF BY THE SADAT COMMENTS.

THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HAD STRESSED THAT THIS WOULD BE A VERY HARD ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS, BUT HE ALSO SAID HAK'S EFFORTS MEAN THAT, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 26 YEARS, PEACE IS POSSIBLE. ...

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WASHINGTON POST, BERGER, PAGE ONE: JERUSALEM: ... THE ISRAELI PRESS HAS BEEN PLAYING UP SADAT'S REFUSAL TO SIGN A PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY. SADAT WANTS FURTHER ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN SINAI THAT IS NOW UNDER DISCUSSION TO BE

REPRESENTED STRICTLY AS A MILITARY DEPLOYMENT WOULD INVOLVE NO POLITICAL CONCESSIONS.

BUT AMERICAN OFFICIALS CONFIRMED TODAY THAT EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT DOES ENVISAGE AN IMPROVEMENT IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CLIMATE FOLLOWING A NEW ACCORD ON WITHDRAWAL.

...ALLON SAID IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT HAK PEACE MISSION WOULD NOT BE COMPLETED 'IN ONE JUMP,' BUT HE ADDED THAT 'ISRAEL IS MOST ANXIOUS -- AND I'M SURE IT IS NOT ONLY ISRAEL WHICH IS INTERESTED -- TO GET AN INTERIM AGREEMENT.' HAK PLANS TO LEAVE ISRAEL MONDAY FOR A 24-HOUR TRIP TO ANKARA FOR DISCUSSIONS ON CYPRUS PROBLEM, LEAVING TIME FOR GOVERNMENT IN JERUSALEM TO DEBATE ITS NEXT MOVE.

...A SMALL BOMB EXPLODED 500 YARDS FROM KING DAVID HOTEL A FEW HOURS BEFORE SCHEDULED ARRIVAL THERE, A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID, IT EXPLODED IN A DESERTED PARK IN ABU TOR QUARTER.

...ASSAD, WHOM HAK SAW PRIVATELY TODAY FOR A 45-MINUTE MEETING, HAS DENOUNCED EGYPTIAN MOVES TOWARD SEPARATE 'PEACE.' IN A BRIEF CHAT WITH REPORTERS PRIOR TO HIS MEETING WITH HAK, ASSAD SAID HE WOULD HAVE NO OBJECTION TO AN INTERIM AGREEMENT PROVIDED IT TAKES IN ALL FRONTS. YESTERDAY, ASSAD OFFERED A JOINT POLITICAL AND MILITARY COMMAND TO PALESTINIANS. THE MOVE WAS SEEN BY AMERICAN OFFICIALS AS A SWIPE AT SADAT.

...BUT IN SYRIA, OFFICIALS REPRESENTED ASSAD'S PROPOSAL AS AN EFFORT TO SOLVE PROBLEM OF PALESTINIAN REPRESENTATION AT GENEVA CONFERENCE, SUGGESTING THAT SYRIAN DELEGATION COULD ENCOMPASS BOTH. ... IN ORDER TO GET ASSAD'S AGREEMENT TO A SEPARATE EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT, HAK MAY BE FORCED INTO NEW NEGOTIATIONS ON SYRIAN FRONT AS WELL. ...AT A LUNCHEON HAK GAVE FOR SYRIAN FM KHADDAM AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS TODAY, KHADDAM ALSO STRESSED HIS COUNTRY'S DESIRE FOR PEACE IN A TOAST THAT AMERICAN OFFICIALS CONSIDERED MODERATE, PARTICULARLY BECAUSE IT CAME FROM A REPUTED HARDLINER IN SYRIAN GOVT.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH WASHINGTON POST THAT MAY HAVE NEVER PRECISELY ACKNOWLEDGED NEED IN JERUSALEM. POST AND MOVEMENT ON ALL THREE FROMS, HAK SAID THAT 'AS I CONTINUED AMERICAN EFFORT IN THIS AREA, IT IS CASE ON CONVICTION THAT A LASTING PEACE IN ME MUST INCLUDE ALL OF THE CONCERNED COUNTRIES.'

WALL STREET JOURNAL, LEVINE, PAGE 48, JERUSALEM, HAK DIS-ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT APPEARS LIKELY TO PROVE A BLOT ROUGHER AND LONGER THAN GENERALLY ANTICIPATED.

WHILE ODDS STILL FAVOR SUCCESS, THERE IS INCREASING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EVIDENCE THAT THE SECRETARY COULD END UP ROAMING THE ME FOR MOST OF MARCH. ... SADAT DAMPENED WIDESPREAD REPORTS IN EGYPTIAN PRESS OF A QUICK SUCCESS IN NEGOTIATIONS BY ASSERTING: 'I AM ALWAYS OPTIMISTIC, BUT I THINK WE SHALL BE HAVING A VERY HARD ROUND (OF TALKS) THIS TIME.'

... 'IT'S TOUGH GOING,' ONE U. S. OFFICIAL SAYS OF THE NEGOTIATIONS.

... TODAY, AFTER TALKS WITH ISRAELI PM RABIN, HAK WILL GO TO ANKARA AIMED AT GETTING NEGOTIATIONS STARTED AGAIN BETWEEN TURKISH AND GREEK COMMUNITIES ON CYPRUS.

... IT WAS MOSTLY IN HOPE OF PACIFYING ASSAD BY KEEPING HIM INFORMED OF TALKS THAT HAK MADE AN EIGHT-HOUR STOP IN DAMASCUS YESTERDAY ON HIS WAY TO JERUSALEM. THERE IS LITTLE CHANCE THAT THE SECRETARY WILL BECOME ACTIVELY ENGAGED ON THIS TRIP TRYING TO PRODUCE FURTHER MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SYRIAN AND ISRAELI FORCES ON GOLAN HEIGHTS. THAT PROBLEM IS CONSIDERED TOO DIFFICULT TO HANDLE NOW. NEVERTHELESS, HAK TOLD SYRIANS, 'WE REALIZE THAT PEACE IN ME REQUIRES THE PARTICIPATION OF ALL PARTIES.'

... DESPITE ALL PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL ROADBLOCKS, HOWEVER, SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAY THAT NEW DIFFICULTIES HAVE NOT ARISEN IN HAK'S TALKS AND BOTH SIDES ARE TRYING TO BE REASONABLE.

FOR EXAMPLE, ISRAELI OFFICIALS HAVE GONE TO CONSIDERABLE PAINS TO AVOID USING TEL AVIV TERRORIST ATTACK TO DISRUPT HAK MISSION, THOUGH IT IS STILL POSSIBLE THAT IT COULD SLOW DISENGAGEMENT EFFORT.

"CAIRO PRESS, WHICH OPERATES UNDER GOVT INFLUENCE, HAS INDICATED EGYPTIAN LEADERSHIP IS GRATEFUL FOR MUTED

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, CARTER, PAGE 2: JERUSALEM: HAK BROUGHT WORD TO ISRAEL TONIGHT THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SECOND STAGE DISENGAGEMENT PACT WITH EGYPT WOULD BE 'TOUGH GOING,' BUT THAT HE STILL THOUGHT AN AGREEMENT WAS POSSIBLE.

HE ALSO WARNED ISRAELIS THAT SYRIA MIGHT TRY TO UNDERMINE A DEAL WITH EGYPT UNLESS SYRIANS RECEIVED AT LEAST PROMISE OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR A FURTHER ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL ON GOLAN HEIGHTS.

AFTER TALKS SADAT IN ASHAN, HAK DID NOT APPEAR DISCOURAGED.

...ASSAD TALKED A TOUGH LINE TODAY. IN A SPEECH YESTERDAY, HE HAD OFFERED TO UNIFY SYRIA'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY COMMANDS WITH PALESTINE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT.

...BUT MEMBERS OF HAK'S PARTY THOUGHT THAT ASSAD'S DECLARATION OF UNITY WITH PALESTINIANS WAS INTENDED PRIVILEGE TO WARM BOTH HAK AND SADAT THAT SYRIANS COULD NOT BE LEFT OUT OF NEGOTIATIONS. AMERICANS THOUGHT THAT IF ASSAD SAW A CHANCE OF GETTING SOME ADDITIONAL SYRIAN TERRITORY BACK FROM ISRAEL, HE WOULD BE LESS LOYAL THAN

HE HAD BEEN IN HIS PUBLIC STATEMENTS TO PALESTINIANS.

BUT AMERICANS FEEL, IF ASSAD BELIEVES HE IS BEING LEFT OUT OF NEGOTIATIONS, HE WILL TRY TO MOBILIZE ARAB WORLD AGAINST SADAT. PURPOSE OF HAK'S TRIP TO DAMASCUS WAS TO TRY TO FIND IF THERE WAS A WAY OF PACIFYING SYRIANS.

...REPORTERS ABORAD HAK'S PLANE WERE TOLD THAT HE HAD NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM ASSAD THAT HE HAD NOT EXPECTED. INGERSOLL

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# KISSINGER IN TURKEY TO CONFER ON CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS (300)

BY MARIE H. NOENIG

IPS DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

ANKARA, MARCH 10--SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER TOOK TIME OUT FROM HIS CURRENT MIDEAST PEACE MISSION TO FLY TO ANKARA MARCH 10 IN HOPES OF SPURRING DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE RESUMPTION OF INTERCOMMUNAL TALKS ON CYPRUS.

DR. KISSINGER IS ALSO INTERESTED IN THE ISSUE OF WHERE, IF OUTSIDE NICOSIA, THOSE GREEK CYPROIT-TURKISH CYPROIT TALKS COULD BE HELD.

DR. KISSINGER MET GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER BITSIOS IN BRUSSELS MARCH 7 AND GOT THE GENERAL GREEK CONSIDERATION OF THE DIRECTION IN WHICH NEGOTIATIONS MIGHT MOVE.

HIS AIM IS TO HELP THE GREEKS AND TURKS FIND AN AGENDA FOR THE CYPRUS TALKS THAT GOES BEYOND THE BARE BONES OF THE ISSUES.

A Senior American official said that up to now the Greek and Turkish sides have been unwilling to talk about the same issues.

IT WAS EMPHASIZED ABOARD THE KISSINGER PLANE THAT THE AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE IS NOT IN TURKEY AS A GIMMICK TO TRY TO GET THE U.S. CONGRESS TO RESUME AID TO TURKEY THAT WAS CUT OFF FEBRUARY 5.

["- 11 -", "CAMBODIA", "SENATOR HUBERT HUMPHREY SAID HE WILL VOTE AGAINST AN\nADMINISTRATION REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL AID FOR CAMBODIA BE-\nCAUSE PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS REPORTS HE HAS SEEN SHOW THERE.", "IS LITIGATION COMING? OPOVOVOKAYE MAL'.", "SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER HUHDIT CALLED ON PRESIDENT\nLON NOL TO RESIGN IN FAVOR OF A TRANSITIONAL REGIME THAT\nCOULD NEGOTIATE A TRUCE AND A NEW GOVERNMENT WITH THE INSUR-\NGENTS.", "CAMBODIA'S NATIONAL LEGISLATURE MONDAY PASSED A RESOLUTION\nCALLING ON THE U.S. CONGRESS TO CONSIDER \"WITH KINDNESS\"\nTHE REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL MILITARY AID.", "CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES HELD PHNOM PENH'S PERIMETER\nAGAINST REBEL ASSAULTS, BUT FAILED IN A DRIVE TO EXPAND\nTHE CAPITAL'S DEFENSE LINES.", "IN A \"PEOPLE'S DAILY\" COMMENTARY PEKING HAS CALLED ANEW\nFOR AN END TO AMERICAN AID FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN PHNOM PENH.\nIT SAID THE COMMUNIST NOOSE WAS TIGHTENING AROUND THE\nCAMBODIAN CAPITAL."]

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IT WAS SAID THAT DR. KISSINGER IS TRYING TO DO AS MUCH
AS HE CAN, UNDER THE PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES, TO HELP SOLVE
THE CYPRUS PROBLEM.

THE KISSINGER PARTY BELIEVES THERE ARE ENOUGH VOTES IN
THE U.S. SENATE TO REPEAL THE AID CUTOFF, BUT THE VOTING
SITUATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS UNCERTAIN.

IN AN ARRIVAL STATEMENT IN ANKARA, DR. KISSINGER STRESSED
THAT THE UNITED STATES VALUES ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH TURKEY.
HE SAID HE CAME TO ANKARA TO "STRENGTHEN" THAT RELATIONSHIP.

"WE WILL DO OUR VERY BEST," HE SAID. "TO SETTLE IT altogether
AND TO DISCUSS TOGETHER ALL THE COMPLEX ISSUES." --ITEM

3/10/75 AM

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KISSINGER EXPECTS TO KNOW PROSPECTS FOR SINAI ACCORD SOON
(1,100)

BY MARIE H. KOENIG

IPS DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

ANKARA, MARCH 10--SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER BELIEVES
HE WILL KNOW MARCH 12, AFTER HIS SECOND SESSION OF TALKS
WITH EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT, WHAT THE PACE OF
PROGRESS WILL BE -- AND HOW CONCRETE THE NEGOTIATING IDEAS
ARE -- FOR A SECOND EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT ON SINAI.

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THAT FORECAST WAS GIVEN TO NEWSMEN ABOARD DR.

KISSINGER'S PLANE MARCH 10 AS HE FLEW FROM ISRAEL TO TURKEY, TAKING A BRIEF BREAK FROM HIS NEW PEACE MISSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN ORDER TO GIVE THE ISRAELIS TIME TO CONSIDER THE IDEAS HE BROUGHT THEM MARCH 9 FROM PRESIDENT SADAT.

DR. KISSINGER, ACCORDING TO A SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL TRAVELLING WITH HIM, ENCOUNTERED NO UNANTICIPATED PROBLEM WHEN HE TALKED WITH PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN AND HIS NEGOTIATING TEAM IN JERUSALEM.

THE SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID DR. KISSINGER HAD NEVER SEEN THE ISRAELIS MORE SERIOUS OR MORE CONCERNED THAN THEY ARE IN THIS ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS.

HE IS SAID TO HAVE FOUND NO POSTURING OR HISTORIONICS FROM THE ISRAELIS AS HE DISCUSSED THE PROJECTED NEW AGREEMENT WITH THEM.

EARLIER, THE SENIOR OFFICIAL SAID DR. KISSINGER IS ALSO ENCOURAGED BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S STATED DETERMINATION TO PURSUE PEACE DESPITE THE ARAB TERRORIST RAID MARCH 6 IN TEL AVIV.

EGYPT IS ASKING FOR A RETURN OF THE MITLA AND GIDDI PASSES AND THE OIL FIELO IN SINAI, ACCORDING TO PUBLISHED REPORTS. ISRAEL, ACCORDING TO ITS PUBLIC POSITION, WANTS IN RETURN A PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGENCE FROM EGYPT.

SINCE DR. KISSINGER'S ARRIVAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST LAST WEEK, THE AMERICANS, ISRAELIS AND EGYPTIANS HAVE ALL EMPHASIZED THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS WILL BE TOUGH.

ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER YIGAL ALLON CAUTIONED THE PRESS
MARCH 9 TO AVOID SPECULATION.

DR. KISSINGER TOLD REPORTERS ABROAD HIS PLANE EN ROUTE TO
ANKARA, "WE NEED A PERIOD OF QUIET DIPLOMACY NOW...YOU
CAN'T EXPECT A DAILY PROGRESS REPORT."

THE EGYPTIANS AND ISRAEL IS ARE STILL TRYING TO ESTABLISH
THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE NEGOTIATIONS. THEY ARE NOT
YET IN THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS ITSELF, THE SENIOR AMERICAN
OFFICIAL EMPHASIZED.

DR. KISSINGER TOLD JOURNALISTS IN JERUSALEM, JUST BEFORE
HE LEFT FOR TURKEY:

WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS WHICH ARE COMPLICATED AND WILL TAKE SOME TIME. WE ARE ENGAGED HERE IN ANALYZING ALL THE IDEAS AND THE ELEMENTS THAT MIGHT BE PART OF A POSSIBLE AGREEMENT, AND WE ARE DOING IT WITH GREAT CARE.

"WE HAVE DONE SO IN A VERY FRIENDLY, VERY COMRADELY AND
VERY POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE.

"I AM GOING TO ANKARA THIS AFTERNOON AND I AM RETURNING
TOMORROW EVENING TO CONTINUE THIS EXAMINATION OF THE IDEAS
AND THE ELEMENTS OF THE POSSIBLE AGREEMENT."

HE ASKED BY REPORTERS OUTSIDE PRIME MINISTER RABIN'S OFFICE
IF THE CHANGES FOR AN AGREEMENT WERE BETTER OR WORSE THAN
FIFTY-FIFTY. DR. KISSINGER REPLIED:

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"I DON'T WANT TO BE IN A POSITION IN WHICH EVERY DAY I HAVE TO GIVE AN ASSESSMENT AND A PERCENTAGE FIGURE BECAUSE WE WILL BE IN A HOPELESS TRAP AFTER AWHILE."

"I CAME HERE BECAUSE I BELIEVED THAT AN AGREEMENT IS POSSIBLE. I HAVE NO REASON TO CHANGE MY MIND."

DR. KISSINGER ALSO REFUSED TO PUT A DEADLINE ON HIS EFFORTS WHILE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

"I DON'T WANT TO PUT MYSELF INTO ANY PARTICULAR TIME PERIOD SINCE XJWRHCOZUSE IT IS AN AGREEMENT OF SOME IMOA=&7 IF IT IS ACHIEVED #81JUMINBE DONE WITH GREAT CARE," HE STREWSED.

ISRAEL MARCH 13 ON HIS SECOND SHUTTLE EFFORT.

THREE OR FOUR DAYS AFTERWARDS HE WILL PROBABLY VISIT DAMASCUS AGAIN, WHERE HE STOPPED MARCH 9 EN ROUTE TO ISRAEL, TO TALK TO PRESIDENT HAFEZ ASSAD.

NEITHER DR. KISSINGER OR OFFICIALS ABOARD HIS PLANE HAVE DISCLOSED TO REPORTERS THE NATURE OF DR.

KISSINGER'S TALKS IN DAMASCUS OTHER THAN TO SAY HE DOES NOT WANT SYRIA TO FEEL EXCLUDED FROM PEACE MOVES.

IN DAMASCUS MARCH 9, PRESIDENT ASSAD TOLD DR.

KISSINGER'S PRESS GROUP THAT SYRIA DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SEPARATE, PARTIAL AGREEMENTS. BUT PRESIDENT ASSAD SAID SYRIA WANTS THE PROCESS OF PEACE TO CONTINUE.

PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, DR. KISSINGER SAID REQUIRES RESOLUTIONS THE PARTICIPATION OF ALL" THE CONCERNED COUNTRIES TO CONTINUE.

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DR. KISSINGER'S UMBRELLA IN SYRIAN CAPITAL CAME ONE DAY AFTER PRESIDENT ASSAD MADE A SPEECH PROPOSING TO UNIFY SYRIAN'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY COMMANDS WITH THE PALESTINIANS.

NO OFFICIAL UNITED STATES ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN MADE PUBLIC OF PRESIDENT ASSAD'S PROPOSAL, BUT IT COULD BE A COMPLICATING FACTOR IN EFFORTS FOR ANOTHER EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT.

BUT A SENIOR UNITED STATES OFFICIAL TOLD NEWSMEN TRA VELLING WITH DOCTOR KISSINGER THAT SO FAR, PRESIDENT SADAT HAS NOT BEEN DETERRED IN THE EGYPTIAN PURSUIT OF THE SECOND STAGE SINAI SETTLEMENT.

AFTER HIS MEETING WITH DR. KISSINGER IN ASWAN MARCH 8, PRESIDENT SADAT PREDICTED THAT THE NEW VEGOTIATIONS WITH ISRAEL WILL BE A "VERY HARD ROUND THIS TIME" BUT HE WWOUSNDNRSITIVELY

PRESIDENT SADAT REAFFIRMED A STATEMENT HE MADE IN 1974 THAT "FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 26 YEARS, PEACE IS POSSIBLE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

A SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAID MR. SADAT HAS PRESENTED NO NEW ISSUES OR CONDITIONS THAT WOULD MAKE THE NEGOTIATIONS MORE DIFFICULT IN A SECOND-STAGE ACCORD BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. THERE IS SPECULATION, HOWEVER, THAT DR. KISSINGER GAINED SOME FAIRLY CONCRETE IDEAS FROM THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT. THE TALKS IN ASWAN ENDED ON A POSITIVE NOTE WITH DR. KISSINGER ENCOURAGED THAT PROGRESS CAN BE MADE TOWARD PEACE. --ITEM

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CONGRESSIONAL ROUNDUP MARCH 10 (800)

FILIBUSTERING AND OIL:

AFTER MORE THAN TWO WEEKS OF DEBATE THE SENATE LATE MARCH 7 VOTED 56 TO 27 TO SHUT OFF FILIBUSTERING DEBATE BY A STRAIGHT 60 VOTES IN THE FUTURE RATHER THAN TWO THIRDS OF SENATORS PRESENT AND VOTING, THE RULE THAT HAS EXISTED SINCE 1959.

THE NEW RULE BECOMES EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, AND ITS FIRST TEST MAY NOT BE FAR OFF.

BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE EXPECTS TO REPORT OUT THE RECESSION-FIGHTING TAX CUT BILL, MINUS A HOUSE-INCLUDED PROVISION FOR ENDING THE OIL DEPLETION ALLOWANCE. FIVE SENATORS, LED BY SENATORS KENNEDY AND HOLLINGS, SAY THEY WILL OFFER AN AMENDMENT TO RESTORE TERMINATION OF THE TAX BREAK FOR THE OIL COMPANIES.

OIL-STATE SENATORS ARE THREATENING A FILIBUSTER IF THE KENNEDY-HOLLINGS FORCES PROCEED WITH THEIR PLANS. KENNEDY AIDES HAVE BEEN QUOTED AS SAYING THEY WILL BACK OFF AND LET THE TAX CUT LEGISLATION PASS IF THEY ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL IN BREAKING THE FILIBUSTER IN ONE OR TWO ATTEMPTS. THE SENATE IS UNDER PRESSURE TO PASS THE TAX CUT BILL BEFORE IT RECESSES FOR TWO WEEKS ON MARCH 21.

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SUBJECT: MEDIA REPORT - NEWSPAPERS, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1975

FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM FUNSETH (S/PRS)

NO. 9

SUMMARY: ALL THREE SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS RECEIVED AND REVIEWED (POST, STAR AND TIMES) PUBLISH PAGE ONE STORIES ON SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SADAT. WPOST HEADLINE -- "SADAT SEES 'HARD ROUND' FOR KISSINGER, PEACE POSSIBLE SECRETARY SAYS;" WSTAR HEADLINE -- "SADAT PLUNGES TALKS IN GLOOM:" NYTIMES HEADLINE (UNDER 2 COL. UPI PHOTO OF SECRETARY AND SADAT) -- "KISSINGER AND SADAT OPEN TALKS FOR A SINAI ACCORD."

1. WPOST (BERGER, ASWAN) -- ". . . AFTER HE HAD MET TWICE WITH EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT HERE TODAY, KISSINGER HEARD THE EGYPTIAN LEADER TELL NEWSMEN AT A JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE, 'I THINK WE SHALL BE HAVING A VERY HARD ROUND THIS TIME.'

"SADAT'S WORDS SEEMED DESIGNED TO DAMPEN THE PREVAILING OPTIMISM IN EGYPT SUGGESTING THAT A NEW SINAI DISENGAGEMENT DEAL WITH ISRAEL IS IN THE BAG. . .

"IT WAS ACKNOWLEDGED ON BOTH SIDES THAT THERE CAN BE NO REAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PROSPECTS FOR A SETTLEMENT UNTIL KISSINGER

UNDERTAKES AT LEAST ONE ROUND OF TALKS IN JERUSALEM. BOTH MEN, THEREFORE, WERE SAYING LARGELY WHAT IS TO BE EXPECTED AT THE OPENING STAGE OF NEGOTIATIONS. . .

"IT IS KISSINGER'S ROLE TO FIND A FORMULA THAT MEETS THE CONFLICTING DEMANDS OF EACH SIDE AND TO PACKAGE THEM IN A WAY THAT IS NOT ONLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE LEADERS BUT EXPLAINABLE TO THEIR VARIOUS CONSTITUENCIES. . .

". . . BUT WHEN ASKED WHETHER HE WOULD SIMILARLY RULE OUT ECONOMIC WARFARE, THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT SAID, 'WHEN WE DISCUSS PEACE, WE SHALL BE DISCUSSING PEACE FROM ALL DIMENSIONS, BUT LET US FIRST DEFUSE THE EXPLOSIVE SITUATION AND THEN LET US DISCUSS PEACE.'

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"THIS APPEARED TO HINT AT THE POSSIBILITY OF MEETING SOME OF ISRAEL'S DEMANDS A STEP AT A TIME, POSSIBLY FOLLOWING AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL WITH MORE ECONOMIC INTERCHANGE."

"BUT SADAT AGAIN SAID THAT HE COULD NOT AGREE TO A NON-BELLIGERENCY PLEDGE 'WHILE ONE ISRAELI SOLDIER IS OCCUPYING MY LAND. THAT WOULD BE AN OFFICIAL INVITATION TO STAY. I'M NOT GOING TO EXTEND THAT INVITATION.' ..."

2. WSTAR (UPI, ASWAN) -- "EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT PREDICTED YESTERDAY THAT SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER WILL HAVE A 'VERY HARD ROUND' IN GETTING A NEW PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL -- HARDER AND LONGER THAN LAST YEAR."

"SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ ASSAD, MEANWHILE, DENOUNCED IN DAMASCUS 'DESPERATE ATTEMPTS' TO BURY THE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIANS AND PROPOSED JOINT SYRIAN-PALESTINIAN POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERSHIP. ..."

"AT A JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE AFTERWARDS, SADAT RULED OUT THE DIRECT PLEDGE OF NON-BELLIGERENCY THAT ISRAEL IS DEMANDING FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM THE ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS AND THE STRATEGIC PASSES IN THE SINAI."

"IF I AM GOING TO AGREE TO A DECLARATION OF NON-BELLIGERENCE WHILE ONE ISRAELI SOLDIER IS OCCUPYING MY LAND, IT IS AN OFFICIAL IMPLICATION FOR HIM TO STAY, AN INVITATION I AM NOT GOING TO EXTEND," SADAT SAID. ...

"HE SAID THE NEGOTIATIONS WOULD BE HARDER THAN THE FIRST STAGE MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT ALONG THE SUEZ CANAL WHICH HE NEGOTIATED WITH KISSINGER IN JANUARY 1974 AND A NEW AGREEMENT WOULD TAKE LONGER THAN THE WEEK IT TOOK THEN."

"SITTING BESIDE SADAT UNDER THE GLAPE OF THE TELEVISION LIGHTS, KISSINGER SAID, 'THE UNITED STATES FEELS VERY SIROLY THAT ANOTHER STEP IS IN THE INTEREST OF ALL THE PEOPLE'S OF THE AREA, AND I BELIEVE THAT PROGRESS IS POSSIBLE.'"

"BUT HE APPEARED UNCOMFORTABLE AT THE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT DREW FORTH SADAT'S ANSWERS. ..."

"SADAT INDICATED HE WOULD BE IN A BETTER POSITION TO TELL ABOUT THE PROSPECTS OF AN AGREEMENT WHEN KISSINGER RETURNS FROM ISRAEL. ..."

3. NYTIMES (GWERTZMAN, ASWAN) -- "... BUT THE GAP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPI STILL SEEMED TO BE WIDE. MR. SADAT SAID AT A NEWS CONFERENCE TO NIGHT THAT HE BELIEVED THE KISSINGER EFFORT WOULD BE 'VERY HARD.' TOUGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATION. ..."

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SUMMARY: AFTER CONCLUSION OF SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SADAT, KALB ON CBS RADIO FROM ASWAN SAID IT MAY TAKE THE SECRETARY A LONG TIME TO BRIDGE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. ON THE NBC-TV NIGHTLY NEWS, VALERIANI IN A BROADCAST FROM ASWAN BEFORE CONCLUSION OF THE MEETING WITH SADAT SAID THAT WHILE CONCLUSION OF ANOTHER AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL IS VIRTUALLY TAKEN FOR GRANTED HERE IN EGYPT, KISSINGER INSISTS THAT NOTHING HAS BEEN SETTLED YET AND THE NEGOTIATION COULD BLOW K. AND KALB IN A CBS-TV EVENING NEWS REPORT, ALSO BEFORE CONCLUSION OF FIRST MEETING, REPORTS THAT THE SECRETARY IS HOPING ARAB LDERATES WIY HAVE THE COURAGE TO BECOME THE DRIVING FORCE TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF ARAB-ISRAELI VIOLENCE.

1. CBS RADIO (KALB FROM ASWAN 3/8/75) -- "... IT MAY TAKE THE SECRETARY OF STATE A LONG TIME TO BRIDGE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. . . KISSINGER. #5.WAS CAUTIOUS WHILE SADAT STRUCK A TONE NOT OF PESSIMISM BUT ONE OF CONCERN THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS COULD BE QUITE ROUGH.

SADAT SAID THAT KISSINGER'S MISSION WAS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE ME IS WORKING ON TWO PROBLEMS AT THE SAME TIME: DEFUSING THE EXPLOSIVE SITUATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND PUSHING THE PROCESS OF PEACE. . . "

2. NBC-TV NIGHTLY NEWS (VALERIANI FROM ASWAN, 3/8/75) -- "... KISSINGER'S GOAL IN HIS ALL-DAY MEETINGS WITH SADAT WAS TO GET SOMETHING SPECIFIC FROM HIM TO TAKE TO ISRAEL. THE ISRAELIS WANT TO KNOW PRECISELY WHAT EGYPT IS WILLING TO OFFER IN EXCHANGE FOR THE RETURN OF TWO STRATEGIC PASSES IN THE SINAI AND SOME OIL PRODUCING WELLS AND ONE OF KISSINGER'S MAIN PROBLEMS IS TO GET SOMETHING IN WRITING THAT IS SPECIFIC ENOUGH FOR THE ISRAELIS, YET VAGUE ENOUGH SO THAT THE EGYPTIANS CAN CLAIM THAT THEY ARE NOT MAKING A SEPARATE PEACE WITH ISRAEL. THE CONCLUSION OF ANOTHER AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL IS VIRTUALLY TAKEN FOR GRANTED HERE IN EGYPT, BUT KISSINGER INSISTS THAT NOTHING HAS BEEN SETTLED YET AND THE NEGOTIATION COULD BLOW UP. . . "

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3. CBS-TV EVENING NEWS (KALB FROM ASWAN, 3/8/75) --
"... THE SECRETARY IS BANKING ON TWO THINGS REALLY TO
HOLD SADAT TO A COURSE OF MODERATION: FIRST, WHAT HE TAKES
TO BE HIS SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EGYPTIAN LEADER,
AND SECOND, SADAT'S NATIONALISM, HIS PRIDE IN AN INDEPEND-
ENT EGYPT RECOVERING OCCUPIED ARAB LAND WITHOUT TOO
HEAVY A DEPENDENCE UPON RUSSIA. THIS CRITICAL NEGOTIATION
IS ONLY STARTING AND ALMOST ANY JUDGMENT HAS TO BE PREMA-
TURE. BUT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER THIS NEGOTIATION WILL HELP
FASHION MIDDLE EAST HISTORY FOR SOME TIME TO COME.
KISSINGER IS HOPING ARAB MODERATES. SUCH AS PRESIDENT
SADAT, WILL HAVE THE COURAGE TO BECOME THE DRIVING FORCE
TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF ARAB-ISRAELI VIOLENCE."

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SUMMARY: IN PREVIEW PIECES, WIRES AND NEWSPAPERS COMMENT ON FOOD IN ME ON EVE OF KISSINGER-SADAT TALKS. BRIEF MENTION ALSO MADE OF MEETING WITH BITSIOS WITH VARYING DEGREES OF CERTAINTY EXPRESSED ON LIKELIHOOD OF KISSINGER - ESEIBEL MEETING IN NEAR FUTURE. AP REPORTS THAT SECRETARY WILI ALSO MEET WITH GROMYKO IN ABOUT A WEEK.

NEWSPAPERS

1. IYTIMES (GWERTZMAN, BRUSSELS, PAGE 3) -- HEADLINE: KISSINGER FLIES TO EGYPT TO SEEK ACCORD ON SINAI.

EXCERPTS: ... HAK EXPECTS DURING HIS FULL DAY OF TALKS WITH SADAT TOMORROW TO GET FROM HIM A MORE DETAILED EGYPTIAN PROPOSAL THAN HAS BEEN PUT FORWARD UP TO NOW IN THE PRE-LIMINARY DIPLOMATIC RECONNOITERING CARRIED OUT BY HAK...

DESPITE CONTINUING PRESS REPORTS FROM EGYPT SUGGESTING THAT A SINAI AGREEMENT WAS VIRTUALLY IN FINAL FORM, HAK AND HIS

TOP AIDES INSISTED AGAIN TODAY ABOARD THE AIR FORCE 707, DURING A FLIGHT TO BRUSSELS FROM LONDON, THAT NO DETAILS HAD BEEN FIXED AND THAT THE POSSIBILITY REMAINED THAT THE GAP SEPARATING EGYPT AND ISRAEL MIGHT NOT BE BRIDGED.

PRIOR TO DEPARTING FOR EGYPT, HAK MET ... WITH THE GREEK FM BITSIOS, FOR A DISCUSSION OF GREEK-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND THE CYPRUS CONFLICT.

THE U.S. BELIEVES THAT THE GREEK GOVERNMENT IS EAGER TO SETTLE THE CYPRUS ISSUE, AND HAK WAS READY TO OFFER HIS HELP IN SERVING AS AN UNOFFICIAL MEDIATOR WITH THE TURKS, PERHAPS SEEING THE TURKISH FM ESENBEL, SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE IN COMING WEEKS DURING A BREAK IN THE ME DIPLOMACY.

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HAK ... ALSO INDICATED CONCERN THAT THE ARAB GUERRILLA RAID IN TEL AVIV TWO DAYS AGO HAD MADE THIS ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS MORE DIFFICULT, POSSIBLY INCREASING PRESSURES ON SADAT NOT TO MAKE THE KIND OF COMPROMISES REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE AN ACCORD WITH ISRAEL.

ESSENTIALLY, THE SHAPE OF THE SECOND-STAGE SINAI AGREEMENT ENVISAGED BY HAK CALLS FOR A SUBSTANTIAL ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL, RETURNING TO EGYPT THE ABU RUDEIS OILFIELDS AND

STRATEGIC MOUNTAIN PASSES.

ALTHOUGH THE AREAS WOULD REVERT TO EGYPT SOVEREIGNTY, THEY WOULD PROBABLY BY UNDER DEMILITARIZATION CURBS.

BUT FOR THE ISRAELI CITIZENS TO ACCEPT THE LOSS OF THE STRATEGIC GIDI AND MITLA PASSES AND THE ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT OILFIELDS, SADAT WILL HAVE TO AGREE, AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAY, TO A PUBLIC DOCUMENT THAT INCLUDES AT LEAST SOME OF THE 'NONBELLIGERENCY' ASSURANCES SOUGHT BY THE ISRAELIS...

HAK HAS LONG BELEIVED THAT SADAT AND RABIN, IF ALLOWED TO ACT ACCORDING TO THEIR VIEWS, COULD PROBABLREACH AN ACCORD RATHER EASILY. RABIN IS UNDER CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL PRESSURE NOT TO RELINQUISH FURTHER SINAI TERRITORY EXCEPT IN EXCHANGE FOR CERTAIN AND VISIBLE MOVEMENT TOWARD PEACE. THE KIND OF SECRET ASSURANCES THAT WERE PART OF THE JANUARY 1974, DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT, CONVEYED TO ISRAEL BY HAK, ARE CONSIDERED UNACCEPTABLE TO MOST ISRAELIS FOR A SECOND-STAGE WITHDRAWAL...

HAK SYMPATHIZES WITH WHAT HE VIEWS AS SADAT'S PROBLEMS WITH OTHER ARABS IN MAKING A SEPARATE ACCORD WITH ISRAEL WITHOUT ANY ASSURANCES THAT A SIMILAR ARRANGEMENT CAN BE WORKED OUT WITH SYRIA OR THE PLO.

HE HOPE

S TO OBTAIN A FORMULA THAT WOULD SET UP NEW ISRAELI-SYRIAN TALKS, EITHER FOR A LIMITED AGREEMENT, UP TO NOW REJECTED BY ISRAEL, OR FOR A FINAL PEACE. SUCH TALKS COULD BE IN A RECONVENED GENEVA CONFERENCE OR OUTSIDE IT.

PRESSURE IS MOUNTING FOR A RESUMPTION OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE IT WILL BE CALLED WHATEVER THE SUCCESS OF HAK IN HIS LATEST MISSION. BUT HE REFUSES TO SAY DEFINITELY THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN.

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2. WASHPOST (BERGER, JERUSALEM, PAGE 8) - HEADLINE: IN ISRAEL: A HOPE FOR PEACE, AN ATMOSPHERE OF RESIGNATION EXCERPTS: ... MANY ISRAELIS EXPRESS A FERVENT LONGING FOR PEACE AND AN ALMOST MYSTICAL CONVICTION THAT IF THEY COULD ONLY TALK WITH THE NEIGHBORING ARABS, VISIT THEM, TRADE WITH THEM, SOME MIRACULOUS CHEMISTRY WOULD DISSIPATE THE DANGER OF WAR.

PARADOXICALLY, THE SAME ISRAELIS ARE DETERMINED TO MAINTAIN THEIR SEPARATENESS FROM THE ARABS, NEVER TO BE ABSORBED COMPLETELY INTO THEIR REGION ...

IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED BEFORE THE RECENT PALESTINIAN TERRORIST RAID ON TEL AVIV, A VISITOR FOUND SURPRISINGLY LITTLE HATRED FOR THE ARABS - THE ENEMY OF FOUR WARS - AND WIDE-SPREAD UNDERSTANDING FOR THEM ...

BUT IF MOST ISRAELIS DO NOT HATE THE ARABS, THEY ARE

CONVINCED THAT THE ARABS HATE THEM AND WANT TO DESTROY THEIR COUNTRY ...

EVEN MANY OF THE ISRAELIS WHO WANT TO GIVE BACK ALL THE CAPTURED ARAB TERRITORIES REMAIN UNCONVINCED THAT PEACE WOULD FOLLOW ...

EXCEPT IN JERUSALEM, WHERE MAYOR KOLLEK HAS ORGANIZED A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS WHERE ARAB AND JEWISH CHILDREN MEET IN THE JEWISH MUSEUM OR ON THE SOCCER FIELDS, THERE IS LITTLE CONTACT BETWEEN THE TWO SOCIETIES.

MOST SCHOOLS ARE SEPARATE.

WIRES

I. AP (SCHWEID, ASWAN) - KISSINGER OPENED A NEW ME PEACE MISSION TODAY, SEEKING CONCRETE PROPOSALS FROM SADAT FOR A BROAD SETTLEMENT IN SINAI WITH ISRAEL.

"I CAME TO EGYPT BECAUSE I BELIEVE PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE IS POSSIBLE," HAK SAID AFTER ARRIVING AT THE ASWAN MILITARY AIRPORT. "I WILL DO ALL IN MY POWER TO ACHIEVE THIS."

ASKED HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO ACHIEVE PROGRESS, HAK REPLIED: "AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, I HOPE." ...

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HAK PLANNED EXTENSIVE TALKS WITH SADAT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING WHEN HE FLIES TO DAMASCUS TO ASSURE SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD THAT U.S. STRATEGY IS NOT DIRECTED AT ISOLATING SYRIA FROM THE PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATING ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL.

HAK GOES TO JERUSALEM ON SUNDAY NIGHT. HIS AIDES SAID HE PLANS TO FLY BACK TO BRUSSELS IN ABOUT A WEEK TO MEET WITH GROMYKO ON THE ME AND WITH TURKISH FM ESENBEL ON CYRPU'S PROBLEMS.

2. UPI (LANDRY, ASWAN) - HAK SAID TODAY HE WOULD STAY IN THE ME UNTIL HE ACHIEVED "DEFINITE PROGRESS" TOWARD PEACE. ...

ARRIVING FOR THE FIRST LEG OF WHAT COULD BE A MARATHON DIPLOMATIC SHUTTLE, HAK SAID, I CAME TO EGYPT BECAUSE I BELIEVE PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE IS POSSIBLE. I'LL DO MY VERY BEST, AND I PLAN TO STAY IN THE AREA UNTIL WE HAVE ACHIEVED DEFINITE PROGRESS." ...

HIS FIRST JOB IS TO GET EGYPT'S CONCRETE PROPOSALS FOR AN AGREEMENT THAT WOULD PULL BACK ISRAELI FORCES FROM THE STRATEGIC GIDI AND MITLA PASSES AND FROM THE ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELD IN THE SINAI PENINSULA ...

AMERICAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE THAT EGYPT AND ISRAEL HAVE PUT THEMSELVES INTO SUCH A POSITION THAT REACHING AN AGREEMENT WOULD BE THE BEST THING TO DO. BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE PREPARED PUBLIC OPINION FOR IT.

A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL, HOWEVER, SAID HAK STILL WAS NOT SURE ABOUT THE MAJOR DETAILS WAS UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE COULD BRING IT ABOUT.

IN EXCHANGE FOR AN ISRAEL WITHDRAWAL, EGYPTIAN SOURCES SAID, CAIRO IS READY TO GIVE THE UNITED STATES A PLEDGE NOT TO ATTACK ISRAEL AS LONG AS NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE TOWARD AN EVENTUAL OVERALL ME PEACE SETTLEMENT.

THIS COULD BE MONTHS, IF NOT YEARS. EGYPT WANTS A SIMILAR PLEDGE FROM ISRAEL TO RULE OUT ANY ATTACK AGAINST SYRIA AS WELL AS EGYPT.

THE EGYPTIAN SOURCES SAID CAIRO WOULD ALLOW PASSAGE OF ISRAELI CARGO ON THE SUEZ CANAL AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT, BUT ISRAELI SHIPS WOULD BE BARRED UNTIL AN OVERALL ME PEACE HAD BEEN ACHIEVED.

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THE SOURCES ALSO SAID EGYPT WOULD NOT TAKE OVER SINAI POSITIONS VACATED BY ISRAEL BUT WOULD AGREE TO PUT THE STRATEGIC MOUNTAIN PASSED UNDER CONTROL OF U.N. PEACE-KEEPING FORCES.

THIS FALLS SHORT OF THE ISRAELI DEMAND FOR A DIRECT PLEDGE BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL TO END THE STATE OF BELLIGERENCY BETWEEN THEM WHATEVER HAPPENS ELSEWHERE IN THE ME. THIS MAY BE THE CRUCIAL POINT OF THE NEGOTIATIONS.

HANGING OVER THE TALKS WAS THE SHADOW OF THE PALESTINIAN GUERRILLA ATTACK ON A TEL AVIV HOTEL, IN WHICH 18 PERSONS, INCLUDING SEVEN COMMANDOS, WERE KILLED.

THERE WAS SPECULATION AMONG THE AMERICAN PARTY HERE ON WHETHER THE ISRAELIS WOULD RETALIATE AND WHAT EFFECT IT WOULD HAVE. ...

3. REUTERS (PRENTICE, ASWAN) - WITH A KISS ON BOTH CHEEKS FROM EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT, SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER TODAY BEGAN AN INTENSIVE EFFORT TO NEGOTIATE A NEW MILITARY DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. ...

HAK SAID ON HIS ARRIVAL HERE EARLIER TODAY: "I PLAN TO STAY IN THE AREA (THE ME) UNTIL WE HAVE ACHIEVED SOME DEFINITE PROGRESS."

AFTER DAY-LONG TALKS WITH SADAT, KISSINGER WILL FLY TOMORROW TO SYRIA AND THEN ON TO ISRAEL.

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MARVIN KALB, CBS RADIO, LONDON: IN LONDON THIS MORNING KISSINGER GAVE BRITISH PM WILSON A BLEAK REPORT ON CAMBODIA, CONCEDING THAT CAMBODIA IS NOT A VITAL INTEREST OF THE U.S. BUT STATING THAT IT WAS A VITAL TEST OF AMERICAN CREDIBILITY. ON THE FLIGHT HERE HAK HELPED DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN PHNOM PENH REFINING THE EVACUATION PROCEDURES FOR AMERICANS SHOULD THE CAPITAL FALL TO THE COMMUNISTS. NO HIGH OFFICIAL IS MAKING ANY PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE IMMINENT FALL OF CAMBODIA TO THE KHMER ROUGE, THE COMMUNIST-LED INSURGENTS, BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT THE OFFICIAL MOOD ON HAK'S PLANE IS QUITE STARK. IT IS THE BELIEF HERE THAT UNLESS CONGRESS APPROPRIATES ADDITIONAL AID FOR CAMBODIA THE REGIME WILL FALL WITHIN A MATTER OF DAYS, WEEKS AT MOST.

NBC EVENING TELEVISION, CHANCELLOR: SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER STOPPED OFF IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, TODAY TO DISCUSS THE CYPRUS SITUATION WITH THE GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER. THEN KISSINGER FLEW ON TO EGYPT, TO BEGIN ONE OF THE MOST

DIFFICULT DIPLOMATIC TASKS HE HAS YET FACED -- GETTING A NEW WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT WITHOUT FURTHER ANGERING SYRIA, WHICH WANTS ISRAEL TO LEAVE ALL OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.

CBS EVENING NEWS: NO MENTION OF HAK TRIP.

WIRES --

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AP -- SCHWEID FROM BRUSSELS WROTE THAT HAK HEADED INTO ELEVENTH MIDDLE EAST MISSION "AMID QUESTIONS WHETHER HIS CHANCES OF SUCCESS WERE DIMINISHED BY THE PALESTINIAN GUERILLA RAID IN TEL AVIV." A LATER SCHWEID STORY SAID HAK'S MEETING WITH BITSIOS WAS AN ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE CYPRUS CRISIS AND "LIMIT THE DAMAGE IT HAS DONE TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE". QUOTED HAK THAT "U.S. WILL DO ITS BEST TO FACILITATE A SOLUTION BUT IT WOULD NOT BE PROPER FOR THE U.S. TO IMPOSE ITS OWN VIEWS".

UPI FROM BRUSSELS SAID HAK FLEW TO EGYPT FRIDAY ON WHAT IS EXPECTED BE "TOUGH MARATHON SHUTTLE MISSION" FOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. HAK, STORY SAID, MET BITSIOS IN BRUSSELS, EN ROUTE, IN ATTEMPT TO GET TALKS STARTED AGAIN ON CYPRUS QUESTION. BOTH MEN SAID THEY WOULD MEET AGAIN LATER DURING CURRENT HAK MISSION AND HOPED AT THAT TIME TO REPORT, AS HAK PUT IT, "SOME SPECIFIC STEPS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN" TOWARD RESUMPTION CYPRUS TALKS. UPI ADDED HAK SAID ALSO HE "EXPECTED" TO MEET SOON WITH ESENBEL, WITH SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAYING MEETING WOULD TAKE PLACE SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE AFTER MARCH 15. UPI SAID HAK MEANWHILE PLANS SEND HARTMAN TO ANKARA "TO REPORT TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HIS (HAK'S) TALKS WITH BITSIOS". STORY SAID HAK'S LONDON TALKS WITH WILSON INCLUED CYPRUS.

UPI CONCLUDED: "SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID KISSINGER AND SADAT WOULD SEEK TO CRYSTALIZE THE IDEAS THEY DISCUSSED LAST MONTH FOR A SECOND-STAGE AGREEMENT... KISSINGER THEN HOPES TO TAKE SADAT'S PROPOSALS TO ISRAEL SUNDAY, STOPPING ON THE WAY IN DAMASCUS TO TRY TO BLUNT THE OPPOSITION OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD TO ANY SEPARATE EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT WITH THE ISRAELIS."

AN EARLIER UPI FROM BRUSSELS QUOTED BITSIOS THAT HE EXPECTED "SOME PROGRESS" BY THE TIME HE SEES HAK AGAIN BUT THAT "NO SPECTACULAR RESULTS COULD BE EXPECTED".

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RADIO

1. CBS RADIO (FOLLOWING IS INTERVIEW BETWEEN LOCAL CORRESPONDENT AND KALB):

INTERVIEWER: "MARVIN, DOES KISSINGER THINK THAT TEL AVIV ATTACK WAS MEANT TO SABOTAGE HIS MISSION?"

KALB: "HE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY THAT, BUT THERE IS NO DOUBT AMONG KISSINGER'S AIDES THAT THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE PALESTINIAN ATTACK. IT IS OBVIOUSLY TO GAIN MAXIMUM PUBLICITY, THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN. NOW THE QUESTION IS, HOW DOES THAT PUBLICITY AFFECT THEIR CAUSE. OBVIOUSLY IF YOU LAUNCHED THIS KIND OF AN ATTACK WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS DISRUPT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ANY KIND OF FURTHER ARAB-ISRAELI ACCOMMODATION AND THE SENSE AMONG A NUMBER OF RATHER KEY KISSINGER PEOPLE, AT LEAST THIS MORNING, IS THAT IT MIGHT HAVE THE IRONIC OPPOSITE EFFECT ACTUALLY OF HASTENING THE AGREEMENT."

KALB: "FOR ONE THING, IT WOULD, OR AT LEAST WHAT KISSINGER AND HIS PEOPLE HOPE IT WOULD DO, WOULD BE TO DISCREDIT THE TACTICS OF PALESTINIAN EXTREMISM AND FURTHERMORE IT WOULD PERSUADE THE MORE MODERATE ELEMENTS IN THE ARAB WORLD THAT THIS KIND OF TERRORIST ATTACK REALLY DOES NOT LEAD TO ANY PULL BACK OF ISRAELI TROOPS. IF ANYTHING, IT IS LIABLE TO MAKE THE ISRAELIS ALL THE TOUGHER IN THE NEGOTIATION.

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BUT WITH EGYPT, ISRAEL WANTS SOME KIND OF SEPARATE AGREEMENT AND IT WILL MAKE THEM BELIEVE, PROBABLY, THAT THEY CAN GET SOMEWHERE WITH THE EGYPTIANS NOW AND IT SERVES AS A KIND OF IMPETUS. IT IS TERRIBLY INDIRECT, BUT EVERYTHING IN THE M.E. IS."

INTERVIEWER: "NOW THIS TERRORIST INCIDENT IN THE M.E. UNDERSCORES THE VIOLENCE THAT IS IN THE AIR IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD -- DOES KISSINGER WORRY ABOUT HIS OWN SAFETY?"

KALB: "KISSINGER IS EXTREMELY FATALISTIC ABOUT SECURITY. HE LISTENS VERY MUCH TO THE SECURITY PEOPLE WHO ARE WITH HIM. THERE IS LITERALLY AN ARMY OF SECRET SERVICE PEOPLE ON THIS TRIP, THEY ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE, THEY COMPLETELY SURROUND HIM WHEREVER HE GOES. BUT KISSINGER LISTENS IF THEY TELL HIM TO GO OUT THIS DOOR, DON'T GO OUT THAT DOOR -- HE IS NOT GOING TO ARGUE. THE ONLY THING HE HAS SO FAR REFUSED TO DO IS TO WEAR ONE OF THOSE VESTS WHICH THEY OCCASIONALLY ASK HIM TO PUT ON, BUT HE TURNS THEM DOWN. HE SAYS HE CAN WEAR A SOFT VEST, NOT ONE OF THOSE IRON ONES."

INTERVIEWER: "WHAT DOES HE WANT TO DO AND WHAT ARE HIS CHANCES?"

KALB: "AT THE MOMENT, I AM GUESSING NOW, BUT I THINK KISSINGER THINKS HIS CHANCES ARE FAIRLY GOOD. I DON'T THINK HE WOULD BE BACK HERE COMMITING HIS PRESTIGE IF HE DIDN'T THINK SO. NOW WHAT HE IS TRYING TO DO IS THE FOLLOWING: WORK OUT A VERY SUBSTANTIAL WITHDRAWAL IN THE SINAI INCLUDING THE ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS, INCLUDING TWO STRATETIC PASSES, MITLA AND GIDI, IN EXCHANGE FOR WHICH HE WANTS TO WORK OUT SOME FORM OF PUBLIC EGYPTIAN PLEDGE OF NON-AGGRESSION FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL."

INTERVIEWER: "THAT WOULD FLY IN THE FACE OF RHETORIC ABOUT ARAB UNITY, WOULDN'T IT?"

KALB: "THE RHETORIC COMES EASY, BUT IT IS TERRIBLY DIFFICULT TO GET THE TERRITORY AND IF PEOPLE LIKE SADAT, PEOPLE LIKE ASAD, FEEL THAT SECRETARY KISSINGER IS THE INSTRUMENT FOR THE RETURN OF ARAB TERRITORY THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY A PRICE. THAT IS THE ESSENCE REALLY OF THE NEGOTIATION NOW IN THE SINAI -- HOW MUCH OF A PRICE IS EGYPT PREPARED TO PAY IN THE DIRECTION OF NON-AGGRESSION OR NON-BELLIGERENCY, WHICH IS WHAT ISRAEL WANTS IN ORDER TO GET TERRITORY. KISSINGER'S GUESS IS THEY ARE PREPARED AT THIS POINT (TO PAY) A HIGH PRICE.

WIRES:

1. UPI (NO BYLINE) IN FIRST ACCOUNT FROM CARDIFF REPORTED ON DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE SECRETARY, STATING "THE INCI-

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DENT MARRED" THE CEREMONY HONORING CALLAGHAN AND THOMAS. SAID SECRETARY WENT "OUT OF HIS WAY TO MAKE A GESTURE OF PERSONAL AND OFFICIAL FRIENDSHIP FOR CALLAGHAN," TAKING A DETOUR FROM HIS ME PEACE-KEEPING MISSION TO FLY TO WALES. LATER UPI REPORT CARRIES HAK'S CONDEMNATION ON THE TEL AVIV GUERRILLA INCIDENT. NOTES THAT ON FRIDAY HE LEAVES FOR EGYPT WITH SHORT STOPOVER IN BRUSSELS FOR TALKS WITH BITSIOS. SAID "ARAB RAID APPEARED TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH KISSINGER'S MISSION. IT SEEMED PROBABLE ISRAELI REPRISALS AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS."

2. SUBSEQUENT UPI ITEM REPORTS THAT HAK ALSO CONDEMN THE RAID IN HIS SPEECH AT CARDIFF, SAYING THAT "IT COULD ONLY PROVOKE COUNTER STRIKES AND MAKE HIS ME PEACE EFFORT MORE DIFFICULT." SAYS THIS SPEECH COMES "ON THE EVE OF WHAT IS DESCRIBED AS HIS TOUGHEST ROUND OF SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY" -- ANOTHER WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. SAYS THE COMMENTS ON THE TEL AVIV INCIDENT "AND ITS EFFECT ON HIS MISSION WERE INSERTED INTO A PREPARED TEXT THAT ORIGINALLY EMPHASIZED THE NEED FOR US-EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN A TIME OF 'INSECURITY AND SCARCY.'"

3. AP DID NOT CARRY AN AFTERNOON REPORT.

TV:

1. ABC (SMITH/REASONER) -- LED WITH REPORTS FROM TEL AVIV AND BEIRUT ON THE TEL AVIV INCIDENT. THEN SMITH SAID:

"SECRETARY KISSINGER WAS ALREADY IN LONDON, A STOPOVER ON THE WAY TO THE ME." (SWITCH TO KOPPEL):

KOPPEL: "KISSINGER HAS HAD PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH THE EFFORTS OF ARAB TERRORISTS, TRYING TO UNDERMINE HIS SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY. A THWARTED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN

DAMASCUS LAST YEAR, A ROCKET FIRED IN THE DIRECTION OF HIS HOTEL IN JERUSALEM AND, DURING THAT SAME TRIP. LAST MAY, THE DEADLY ATTACK ON MA'ALOT. KISSINGER'S REACTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN DELIBERATELY PHLEGMATIC, AS IT WAS AGAIN THIS MORNING. (CLIPS FROM HAK REMARKS IN LONDON: COMPLETELY CONDEMN, SENSELESS ACTS, NO ADVICE, A MESSAGE OF SYMPathy ... ) THERE WOULD REALLY BE NO POINT IN URGING RESTRAINT ON THE ISRAELIS; KISSINGER HAS EXPRESSED HIS OPPOSITION TO REPRISAL RAIDS FREQUENTLY ENOUGH IN THE PAST, WITHOUT MUCH SUCCESS. AND HE IS ENOUGH OF A REALIST TO RECOGNIZE THAT SINCE HE WILL BE ASKING FOR ISRAELI CONCESSIONS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT BEGIN THIS WEEKEND, NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO TRY THAT TACTIC AGAIN. IF ANYTHING, TODAY'S ATTACK MARKS THE DESPERATION OF THE PALESTINIANS. AFTER ALL, IF THEY EXPECTED THE KISSINGER MISSION TO FAIL, THE OPERATION IN TEL AVIV WOULD HAVE BEEN UNNECESSARY."

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2. NBC (CHANCELLOR) -- ALSO LED WITH THE TEL AVIV INCI-ÞNT. THEN CHANCELLOR SAID, "THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT
THE TEL AVIV RAIDERS TRIED TO MAKE IT LOOK AS THOUGH THEY
HAD COME FROM EGYPT. KISSINGER IS DUE IN EGYPT THIS WEEK,
AND THE RAID COULD HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO THROW THAT VISIT
OFF THE TRACK. THE ISRAELIS SAID FLATLY THAT THOSE RAID-
ERS DID NOT COME FROM EGYPT, AND IN EGYPT OFFICIALS THERE
SAID THE RAID POINTS UP THE URGENT NEED FOR A SETTLEMENT.
THE EGYPTIANS ALSO STRESSED AGAIN THEIR OPTIMISM THAT
KISSINGER WILL SUCCEED." (SWITCH TO VALERIANI REPORT)

VALERIANI: "KISSINGER ARRIVED IN CARDIFF AFTER CONDEMNING THE TERRORIST ATTACK AS A SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE AND SAYING IT UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE. HE CAME TO THE CAPITAL OF WALES BECAUSE FONSEC CALLAGHAN RECEIVED AN AWARD HERE AND CALLAGHAN ASKED THE SECRETARY TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY. KISSINGER ALSO SENT A MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCE TO ISRAEL. AMERICAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE THE TEL AVIV ATTACK WAS TIMED TO UNDERCUT HIS UPCOMING NEGOTIATING MISSION AND TO SERVE NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED THAT THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM CANNOT BE IGNORED. IT'S THE AMERICAN VIEW THAT TERRORIST ATTACKS ONLY HARDEN ISRAEL'S DETERMINATION NOT TO DEAL WITH THE PLO- AND THEY ALSO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE US EVEN TO CONSIDER MAKING CONTACT WITH THE PLO BECAUSE OF ISRAEL'S ATTITUDE. BUT KISSINGER STILL BELIEVES THAT CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS CAN BE MADE TOWARDS A SETTLEMENT IN THE ME WITHOUT COMING TO GRIPS WITH THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE."

3. CBS (CRONKITE) -- AFTER CARRYING LEAD REPORT FROM TEL AVIV, CRONKITE STATED: "PRESIDENT FORD STRONGLY DEPLORED THE GUERRILLA ATTACK SAYING THAT OUTRAGES OF THIS NATURE

CAN ONLY DAMAGE THE CAUSE IN WHOSE NAME THEY ARE PERPETRA-
TED. STRONG CONDEMNATION ALSO CAME FROM KISSINGER, WHO IS
IN LONDON EN ROUTE BACK TO THE ME TRYING TO NEGOTIATE AN
ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN PEACE." (SWITCH TO KALB)

KALB: "KISSINGER WASTED LITTLE TIME CONDEMNING THE TERROR-
IST ATTACK, AFTER TELLING HIS AIDES IT WILL NOT AFFECT HIS
EFFORT OR HIS TIMETABLE IN THE ME. (CLIP OF SECRETARY
MAKING STATEMENT) KISSINGER THEN LEFT FOR CARDIFF, WALES,
WHERE ABOUT 400 DEMONSTRATORS ADDED POLITICAL FLAVOR TO A
DAY OTHERWISE EARMARKED FOR CEREMONY AND SIGHTSEEING. SOME
OF THE DEMONSTRATORS DISAPPROVED OF AMERICAN POLICY IN
CAMBODIA, BUT MOST OF THEM ATTACKED THE SECRETARY'S APP-
ROACH TO THE CYPRUS CRISIS. IN THIS LAND OF THE STIFF
UPPER LIP, KISSINGER CONVEYED A PUBLIC INPRESSION OF COOL-
NESS UNDER PRESSURE, WHILE HIS AIDES GRAPPLED WITH THE
IMPLICATIONS OF THE SPIRALING VIOLENCE IN THE ME. THEY
ARE PERSUADED OF TWO THINGS: FIRST, THAT THE ISRAELI
POSITION WILL PROBABLY HARDEN; BUT THAT THIS NEW CYCLE OF
ATTACK AND COUNTER-ATTACK WILL NOT BREAK THE MOMENTUM TO-

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SUBJECT: COMBINED WIRE, R/TV & NEWSPAPER REPORT MORNING, FRIDAY, MARCH 7

FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PRS
NO. 5

SUMMARY: WIRES AND NETS REPORT HAK MEETINGS WITH BRITISH PM, SHIFTING ATTENTION TO CYPRUS QUESTION IN BRUSSELS, BEFORE PROCEEDING TO ME WITH AL AHRAM REPORTING SADAT QUOTE OPTIMISTIC END QUOTE THAT HAK WOULD ARRANGE AGREEMENT.

WIRES:

1. AP SCHWEID - LONDON: "HAK HEADED INTO HIS 11TH ME PEACE MISSION TODAY AMID SPECULATION WHETHER THE PALESTINE GUERRILLA RAID IN TEL AVIV DIMINISHED HIS CHANCES OF SUCCESS.

HAK WAS DUE IN EGYPT TONIGHT AFTER A STOP EN ROUTE IN BRUSSELS TO MEET WITH GREEK FM BITSIOS. THE SEMIOFFICIAL CAIRO PAPER AL AHRAM SAID PRESIDENT SADAT WOULD TELL HIS VISITOR THE TERRORIST ATTACK WEDNESDAY NIGHT PROVED THE NECESSITY OF "DEFUSING ALL REASONS FOR EXPLOSION IN THE AREA."

HOWEVER, AL AHRAM SAID SADAT TOLD IT HE WAS "OPTIMISTIC" THAT HE WAS NOT SELLING THEM OUT. ACCORDING TO AL AHRAM, HE SAID THAT HE HAS RECEIVED ASSURANCES FROM WASHINGTON THAT YASIR ARAFAT'S PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION WILL BE RECOGNIZED AS THE SOLE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PALESTINE PEOPLE AND AS A FULL PARTICIPANT IN THE FUTUREENEVA CONFERENCE ON THE ME.

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THIS WAS IN EFFECT CONTRADICTED BY HAK'S CHIEF AIDE FOR THE ME, UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE SISCO, IN A TELEVISION INTERVIEW BROADCAST IN NEW YORK THURSDAY NIGHT BUT FILMED BEFORE SADAT'S REMARKS WERE PUBLISHED. SISCO SAID THAT THE US COULD NOT RECOGNIZE THE PLO UNTIL THE PLO ACCEPTED THE LEGALITY OF ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE AS A NATION.

THE CAIRO NEWSPAPER AL GOMHURIA SAID SADAT AND HAK IN THEIR TALKS WOULD CONCENTRATE ON THESE POINTS: A NEW ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN THE SINAI; AN EGYPTIAN PLEDGE TO THE US THAT IT WILL REFRAIN FROM ENGAGING IN WAR AGAINST ISRAEL AS LONG AS ISRAEL RESPECTS THE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT AND DOES NOT ATTACK SYRIA EITHER; A US GUARANTEE THAT ISRAEL WILL NOT ATTACK ON EITHER THE EGYPTIAN OR SYRIAN FRONT; THE STATUS OF THE UN PEACE FORCE AND EXTENSION

OF ITS LIFE IF THERE IS ANOTHER WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT; AND AN EGYPTIAN PLEDGE TO OPEN THE SUEZ CANAL AFTER THE NEW AGREEMENT."

2. UPI - LONDON: "HAK TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE CYPRUS CRISIS TODAY BEFORE FLYING TO THE ME ON A PEACE MISSION ALREADY UNDER ATTACK FT PALESTINE GUERRILLAS.

AFTER A BUSY MORNING OF APPOINTMENTS IN LONDON, HAK ARRANGED TO FLY TO BRUSSELS THIS AFTERNOON FOR TALKS WITH GREEK FM BITSIOS, A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID THE TWO WOULD DISCUSS WAYS TO GET GREECE AND TURKEY TO RESUME TALKS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CYPRUS. THE NEGOTIATIONS BROKE DOWN LAST AUGUST. ...

YESTERDAY, HAK CONDEMNED THE ATTACK ON TEL AVIV BY PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS AS "SENSELESS" VIOLENCE BOUND TO LEAD TO ISRAELI REPRISALS AND COMPLICATE THE SEARCH FOR PEACE.

THE PLO DESCRIBED THE ATTACK AS A WARNING THAT THE PALESTINIANS MUST BE CONSIDERED IN ANY NEW PEACE AGREEMENT.

HAK MET WITH PM HAROLD WILSON FOR 35 MINUTES ACCOMPANIED BY US AMBASSADOR ELLIOT RICHARDSON. A SPOKESMAN AT 10 DOWNING ST. SAID, "THEY DISCUSSED MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST, INCL.UDING THE ME.,

RADIO/TV

1. MARVIN KALB - CBS RADIO FROM LONDON: AFTER A MORNING OF TALKS HERE WITH TOP BRITISH LEADERS, HAK SHIFTS GEARS AND LOCATION. IN BRUSSELS THIS AFTERNOON HE FOCUSES ON THE CYPRUS CRISIS - A MEETING THERE WITH GREEK FM BITSIOS AN EFFORT ON HAK'S PART TO LEARN WHETHER THE GREEKS HAVE ANY FRESH IDEAS FOR LAUNCHING A NEW ROUND OF TALKS WITH THE TURKS. ,F THEY HAVE, HAK MAY

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SEEK A MEETING WITH TURKISH FM ESENBEL. THE SECRETARY IS ANXIOUS TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK ON CYPRUS AND TO GET AMERICAN MILITARY AID FLOWING INTO TURKEY ONCE AGAIN. THIS EVENING HAK FLYS INTO ASWAN IN THE UPPER NILE REGION OF EGYPT, IN A WAY MORE EAGER AFTER THE PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ATTACK IN TEL AVIV TO PROVE THAT SOME ARABS CAN REACH AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL EVEN IF OTHERS ARE STILL WEDDED TO VIOLENCE. THE SECRETARY ... STILL REMAINS HOPEFUL ABOUT ARRANGING ANOTHER SINAI AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL SOMETIME THIS MONTH.

2. RICHARD VALERIANI - NBC TV - THE TODAY SHOW: FROM CARDIFF: HAK IS GOING BACK TO THE ME WITHOUT HAVING YET RECEIVED ANY SPECIFIC PROPOSALS FROM EITHER EGYPT

OR ISRAEL. ... HAK'S PROBLEM IS TO GET A PUBLIC DOCUMENT THAT IS SPECIFIC ENOUGH TO SATISFY ISRAEL'S CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY YET AMBIGUOUS ENOUGH TO PROTECT EGYPT'S STANDING IN THE REST OF THE ARAB WORLD. HAK INSISTS THAT ... IF THIS NEGOTIATION BLOWS UP AND HAK BELIEVES IT CAN BLOW UP THEN THERE WILL BE A CRISIS IN THE ME BY THIS SUMMER. ON THE OTHER HAND HIS AIDES SAY HAK WOULD NOT HAVE UNDERTAKEN THIS MISSION UNLESS HE FELT THAT HE COULD BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATING POSITIONS.

NEWSPAPERS

WALL STREET JOURNAL - PAGE 32-KEATLEY-JERUSALEM-STAGE SETTER FOR HAK'S ARRIVAL. HEADLINE "AS HAK SETS OFF AGAIN, CHANCES APPEAR GOOD THAT HE'LL GET AGREEMENT ON SINAV"

NYDAILY NEWS - CARTER FROM LONDON - PAGE 2 WITH 3-COL PIC CALLAGHAN, HAK AND RICHARDSON. HEADLINE SAYS HAK HITS GUERRILLAS, WILL CONTINUE PEACE TRY. BOX ITEM REPORTS 400 PROTEST HAK'S VISIT. EXCERPTS TEXT:

CARTER: (FROM LONDON): HAK DEPLORED TONIGHT WHAT HE

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DESCRIBED AS "THE SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE" BY ARAB GUERRILLAS WHO BLEW UP A TEL AVIV HOTEL AS IT WAS BEING STORMED BY ISRAELI TROOPS. BUT U.S. OFFICIALS DID NOT THINK THAT THE TERROR RAID WOULD DERAIL NEGOTIATIONS FOR A NEW DISENGAGEMENT PACT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.

... THE GUERRILLA RAID AGAINST ISRAEL'S LARGEST CITY WAS CLEARLY TIMED FOR THE EVE OF KISSINGER'S NEW ROUND OF SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY IN THE ME. SAYED HAMMANI, THE PLO REPRESENTATIVE IN LONDON, HINTED AS MUCH IN AN INTERVIEW ON BRITISH TELEVISION TONIGHT.

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AFTER HAK PUBLICLY CONDEMNED THE TERROR RAID, THE PALESTINIAN REPRESENTATIVE DECLARED: "WE CONDEMN DR. KISSINGER'S REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE US. HE WANTS TO BRING ANOTHER AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. ALL RIGHT, LET HIM TRY. NO PEACE IN THE ME IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE PALESTINIANS".

BUT A HIGHLY PLACED AMERICAN OFFICIAL IN HAK'S PARTY SAID HE DOUBTED THAT EITHER THE GUERRILLA RAID ON TEL AVIV OR ISRAELI RETALIATION AGAINST PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN LEBANON - WHICH HE CLEARLY EXPECTED - WOULD HAVE MUCH EFFECT ON THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.

HE CONCEDED THAT IF THE PALESTINIANS ARE ABLE TO CARRY OUT A SERIES OF SIMILAR ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL IN THE COMING DAYS, AS THEY HAVE THREATENED, IT COULD CREATE A PROBLEM IN THE NEGOTIATIONS.

BUT THE OFFICIAL SAID THAT HE WAS CONVINCED THAT BOTH SADAT AND ISRAELI PM RABIN WANT AN AGREEMENT FOR A SECOND-STAGE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN THE SINAI.

WHETHER SADAT IS PREPARED TO MAKE SUFFICIENT CONCESSIONS FOR THE AGREEMENT TO SATISFY THE ISRAELIS IS STILL A QUESTION, BUT THE OFFICIAL DID NOT THINK THAT SADAT WOULD FORSAKE HIS OWN COUNTRY'S BEST INTERESTS BECAUSE OF PALESTINIAN DEMANDS.

A SENIOR OFFICIAL IN HAK'S ENTOURAGE SAID THAT, IN THE ARAB WORLD, LEADERS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ARAB COUNTRIES "PLAY WITH THE PLO AS THEY NEED IT." THE IMPLICATION WAS THAT WHILE THE ARAB LEADERS PAY LIP SERVICE TO PALESTINIAN DEMANDS, THEIR OWN NATIONAL INTERESTS COME FIRST. END EXCERPTS

BALTSUN - MILLS - PAGE 2 - CARDIFF: HEADLINE: KISSINGER DEPLORES TEL AVIV RAID: EXCERPTS: HAK YESTERDAY CALLED THE PALESTINIAN GUERRILLA ATTACK IN TEL AVIV "A RANDOM AND SENSELESS ACT" THAT MAKES HIS LATEST NEGOTIATING MISSION IN THE ME PARTICULARLY URGENT.

... THE SECRETARY YESTERDAY INSERTED THE ME COMMENTS IN A PREPARED SPEECH. EARLIER IN THE DAY, HE SENT A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.

... ARRIVING AT THE CITY HALL IN THE BLACK, BULLET-PROOF CADILLAC LIMOUSINE THAT ACCOMPANIES HIM ON ALL TRIPS, HAK WAS GREETED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED DEMONSTRATORS PROTESTING HIS ROLE IN INDOCHINA, CYPRUS AND THE ME.

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NYTIMES - GWERTZMAN, PAGE 5 - CARDIFF: HEADLINE: KISSINGER ASSAILS TEL AVIV VIOLENCE SUBLEAD: SECRETARY, IN WALES ON HIS WAY TO ME, VOICES FEAR FOR PEACE EFFORT.
EXCERPTS: SECRETARY KISSINGER EXPRESSED CONCERN TONIGHT THAT THE ATTACK IN TEL AVIV YESTERDAY COULD ENDANGER HIS FORTHCOMING ME DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS. BUT HE PLEDGED TO PRESERVE ...

IN A SPEECH PREPARED FOR DELIVERY AT A DINNER TONIGHT HONORING TWO BRITISH POLITICAL FIGURES, HAK SAID THAT HE WOULD ARRIVE IN THE ME TOMORROW NIGHT ON THIS LATEST MISSION "SADDENED" BY THE "RANDOM AND SENSELESS" TERRORIST ACT WHICH "REMINDS US ONCE MORE OF THE TRAGIC DIMENSIONS OF THIS CONFLICT."

REPORTERS ACCOMPANYING HAK ON HIS AIR FORCE JET, WHICH FLEW HERE FROM LONDON THIS MORNING, WERE TOLD THAT HAK EXPECTED THE ISRAELIS TO MAKE A STRONG RETALIATORY STRIKE.

WHAT CONCERNED HAK WAS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE PALESTINIAN RAID IN TEL AVIV LAST NIGHT WAS LAUNCHED WITH HIGH-LEVEL ARAB BACKING - POSSIBLY FROM SYRIA - AS PART OF AN EFFORT TO INFLAME TENSIONS AND MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO BRING ABOUT A NEW EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT ON SINAI.

THERE WAS SPECULATION THAT THE ATTACK WAS INSTIGATED AS PART OF A CAMPAIGN TO DISSUAGE SADAT OF EGYPT FROM MAKING ANOTHER ARRANGEMENT WITH ISRAEL. END EXCERPTS.

LATIMES RESTON FROM CARDIFF P. 13 - EXCERPTS: KISSINGER ON WAY TO MIDEAST, CONDEMS ARAB RAID: HAK, PREPARING FOR A PEACE MISSION IN THE ME THURSDAY CONDEMNED AN ARAB GUERRILLA RAID IN ISRAEL THAT COST THE LIVES OF AT LEAST 14 PERSONS.

HAK'S TOP AIDES EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE GUERRILLA ATTACK IN TEL AVIV, BUT SAID THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THE NEW OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE WOULD DEFALL THE SECRETARY'S ATTEMPTS TO CONCLUDE A SECOND-STAGE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. ...

OFFICIALS CLOSE TO KISSINGER SAID THE SUDDEN OUTBURST OF HOSTILITIES IN ISRAEL WAS NOT LIKELY TO AFFECT THE RENEWED HAK NEGOTIATIONS IN THE ME IF IT PROVED TO BE ONLY PART OF AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. BUT THEY SAID THAT IF THE TEL AVIV RAID TURNED OUT TO BE THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF TERRORIST ACTS, THEN IT COULD PLACE THE KISSINGER MISSION IN JEOPARDY.

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REPORTS FROM BEIRUT SAID THE PLO HAD CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ISRAEL ATTACK.

THE US EMBASSY IN LONDON ISSUED ON HAK'S BEHALF A STRONG DENUNCIATION OF THE TERRORIST RAID. ...

AS HAK PREPARED TO DEPART FOR THE ME HE DESCRIBED THE CURRENT PHASE OF DISCUSSIONS AS THE "TOUGHEST, MOST COMPLEX NEGOTIATION WE'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN." ...

HAK IS GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT HIS CHANCES OF BRINGING OFF A NEW INTERIM DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT. ACCORDING TO A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL WITH THE HAK PARTY, THE SECRETARY ALREADY HAS CONCEIVED THE POSSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR A SECOND-STAGE SETTLEMENT IN THE SINAI.

THE OFFICIAL, HOWEVER, DENIES THAT ANYTHING HAS BEEN SETTLED AT THIS POINT, DESPITE RECENT REPORTS TO THE CONTRARY. ... INGERSOLL
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BY MARIE KOENIG

IPS DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, MARCH 6 -- WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER RETURNS TO THE MIDDLE EAST MARCH 7 TO TRY TO WORK OUT ANOTHER ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN DISENGAGEMENT ACCORD ON SINAI, HE WILL BE UNDERTAKING THE TOUGHEST OF ALL HIS SHUTTLE DIP-LOMACY MISSIONS.

NOT ONLY MUST HE WORK FOR A SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME ON THAT FRONT, BUT HE ALSO WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SYRIANS DO NOT FEEL THAT THEY ARE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD, ISOLATED.

DR. KISSINGER WILL FLY FROM LONDON MARCH 7 TO ASWAN IN EGYPT TO OPEN THE SHUTTLE EFFORT. ACCORDING TO A SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL ABOARD HIS AIRCRAFT FLYING TO LONDON MARCH 5, DR. KISSINGER AT THIS TIME HAS NO FORMAL POSITION FROM EITHER EGYPT OR ISRAEL ON NEGOTIATING A SECOND SINAI SETTELEMENT.

NOR DOES THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAVE A FORMAL POSITION OF HIS OWN TO PRESENT TO THE TWO SIDES. HE EXPECTS THAT REAL NEGOTIATIONS WILL START AFTER HE CONFERS WITH EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT AT ASWAN, SYRIA'S PRESIDENT HAFIZ ASAD IN DAMASCUS, AND ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN ABOUT MARCH 9.

AT THAT POINT THE EGYPTIANS AND ISRAELIS WILL HAVE TO "ZERO IN," THE SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAID, ON CONCRETE PROPOSALS. DR. KISSINGER CAN ALREADY SEE A WAY BY WHICH EGYPT AND ISRAEL CAN RECONCILE THEIR PUBLIC DEMANDS. EGYPT IS CALLING FOR AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM THE STRATEGIC PASSES IN SINAI AND FROM THE OIL FIELDS. ISRAEL IS DEMANDING AN EGYPTIAN NON-BELLIGENCE PLEDGE.

BUT THE SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAID THE NEGOTIATIONS WILL BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE PRESIDENT SADAT AND MR. RABIN HAVE TOUGH DOMESTIC SITUATIONS. THERE MUST BE AN ISRAELI CABINET MEETING BEFORE MR. RABIN COMES UP WITH A FORMAL POSITION, AND PRESIDENT SADAT HAS NOT ONLY HIS OWN DOMESTIC CONSTITUENCY TO SATISFY, BUT ALSO THE OTHER ARAB STATES.

THE SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL NOTED THAT DR. KISSINGER IS IN A POSITION OF ENTERING A NEGOTIATION WHERE THERE MUST BE FACE-SAVING ON THE ARAB AND ISRAELI SIDES. IF ANOTHER ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATING EFFORT DOES NOT SUCCEED, THEN THERE WILL BE A SUMMER OF CRISIS, THIS OFFICIAL WARNED.

WHAT, AT THIS POINT, IS THE U.S. VIEW OF PRESIDENT ASAD'S POSITION? THE SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID THAT THE SYRIAN PRESIDENT FEARS HIS COUNTRY WOULD BE ISOLATED BY ANOTHER ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN ACCORD. BUT THE SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL ALSO SAID THAT PRESIDENT ASAD HAS ACTED WITH RESTRAIMT AND SEEMS TO WANT TO KEEP OPEN THE OPTION OF PARTICIPATING IN ANOTHER SYRIAN-ISRAELI ACCORD WHICH WOULD BE A FOLLOWUP TO THE GOLAN HEIGHTS DISENGAGEMENT PACT BETWEEN THOSE TWO COUNTRIESTHAT WAS SIGNED LAST MAY 31ST.

THE AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID THAT, "ANALYTICALLY, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT PRESIDENT ASAD WOULD CALL FOR ANOTHER BILATERAL NEGOTIATION WITH ISRAEL BEFORE THE GENEVA PEACE CONFERENCE THAT MET FOR TWO DAYS IN DECEMBER 1973 IS RESUMED." THE SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED STATES ARE CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE.

OFFICIALS ACCOMPANYING DR. KISSINGER ALSO SAID THERE IS NO U.S.-SOVIET UNION UNDERSTANDING ABOUT A PARTICULAR TIME TO RETURN TO GENEVA, DESPITE SPECULATION THAT THIS COULD BE DR. KISSINGER'S LAST SHUTTLE EFFORT IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE ALSO HAS CONDEMNED AS "A SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE" THE ARAB COMMANDO RAID ON TEL AVIV. HE SAYS THE INCIDENT "UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

DR. KISSINGER MADE THESE COMMENTS TO NEWSMEN MARCH 6 AS HE LEFT HIS LONDON HOTEL EN ROUTE TO HEATHROW AIRPORT AND A FLIGHT TO CARDIFF, WALES. SECRETARY KISSINGER, WHO WILL FLY TO EGYPT, MARCH 7 TO BEGIN ANOTHER SHUTTLE DIPLOMATIC EFFORT, LATER ISSUED A FORMAL STATEMENT ON THE TEL AVIV RAID.

FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF THE KISSINGER STATEMENT:

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THE SECRETARY DEEPLY REGRETS THE LOSS OF INNOCENT LIFE IN THIS INCIDENT AND EXTENDS PROFOUND SYMPathy TO ALL THESE AFFECTED. HE HAS SENT A PERSONAL MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO PRIME MINISTER RABIN.

WE DEPLORE ALL RECOURSE TO VIOLENCE WHICH IS ENTIRELY CONTRARY TO ALL CIVILIZED NORMS AND TO THE SEARCH FOR A PEACE WHICH WILL BE JUST AND LASTING FOR ALL THE PEOPLE'S OF THE AREA. (END TEXT)

SECRETARY KISSINGER WAS ASKED BY NEWSMEN HOW THE TEL AVIV RAID WOULD AFFECT HIS COMING MISSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHERE HE HOPES TO NEGOTIATE ANOTHER SINAI SETTLEMENT BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.

"HE SAID "IT UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE."

DR. KISSINGER WAS ASKED IF HE HAD BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE ISRAELIS. HE SAID THAT HE HAD SENT THEM A MESSAGE BUT "I HAVE GIVEN THEM NO ADVICE. I HAVE SENT THEM A MESSAGE OF SYMPathy."

DR. KISSINGER WAS TO SPEND MOST OF THE DAY, MARCH 6 IN CARDIFF WHERE HE WAS ATTENDING A CEREMONY IN WHICH AN AWARD CALLED "FREEDOM OF THE CITY" WAS BESTOWED ON BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JAMES CALLAGHAN.

ABOARD DR. KISSINGER'S AIRCRAFT EN ROUTE TO CARDIFF, A FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE THAT THE SECRETARY ON HIS WAY TO EGYPT MARCH 7 WILL STOP IN BRUSSELS TO CONFER WITH GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER DIMITRIOS BISIOS.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE KISSINGER-BITSIOS MEETING SAID:

"THIS WILL BE ANOTHER IN THE SERIES OF MEETINGS BETWEEN THE SECRETARY AND THE FOREIGN MINISTER OF GREECE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE TWO, COUNTRIES INCLUDING THE PROBLEM OF CYPRUS."

A SENIOR OFFICIAL WITH DR. KISSINGER SAID THE SECRETARY WANTS TO SEE WHETHER MR. BITSIOS HAS ANY IDEAS ON CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS, WHICH MIGHT GIVE DR. KISSINGER A BASIS ON WHICH TO CONFER WITH THE TURKS.

THERE ARE NO PRESENT PLANS FOR DR. KISSINGER TO MEET WITH THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER ON THIS CURRENT TRIP. BUT THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH A MEETING IS NOT TOTALLY EXCLUDED. IF THE TWO DIPLOMATS DO SEE EACH OTHER THE MEETING WILL NOT TAKE PLACE IN ANKARA, ACCORDING TO U.S. OFFICIALS.

IT WAS SAID THAT DR. KISSINGER DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER WILL BE WILLING TO SEE HIM EVEN IF MR. BITSIOS DOES PRESENT SOME IDEAS FOR SOLVING THE CYPRUS SITUATION."

ABOUT 200 PRO-GREEK DEMONSTRATORS MARCHED IN A PICKET LINE AROUND THE CARDIFF CITY HALL AS DR. KISSINGER ENTERED THE BUILDING WHERE MR. CALLAGHAN RECEIVED HIS AWARD.

LATER AT A BANQUET HONORING MR. CALLAGHAN, SPECIAL TRIBUTE WAS PAID BY DR. KISSINGER TO THE TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES WHICH, HE SAID, HAS "SUSTAINED OUR MUTUAL SAFETY AND PROSPERITY."

WITHIN THAT RELATIONSHIP, THE CLOSE TIE OF BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES HAS HAD A SPECIAL PLACE," HE SAID.

"AS I LEAVE TOMORROW FOR THE MIDDLE EAST TO SEEK PROGRESS TOWARDS A PEACE WE ALL SEEK, I GO REINFORCED BY THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXCHANGE VIEWS WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND ESPECIALLY EXTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE FOREIGN SECRETARY," DR. KISSINGER SAID.

HE EMPHASIZED THAT HE IS ALSO GOING TO THE MIDDLE EAST "SADDENED BY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT INNOCENT LIVES HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ARABS AND ISRAELIS WHICH HAS CLAIMED SO MANY LIVES OVER THE DECADES."

"THE TERRORIST INCIDENTS IN TEL AVIV LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING -- A RANDOM AND SENSELESS ACT -- REMINDS US ONCE MORE OF THE TRAGIC DIMENSIONS OF THIS CONFLICT," DR. KISSINGER ADDED. "VIOLENCE DOES NOT FORWARD THE CAUSE OF PEACE. IT LEADS TO COUNTER-ACTIONS IN WHICH MORE LIVES ARE LOST, THE TRAGEDY IS COMPOUNDED AND THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE, WHICH BOTH SIDES SEEK, IS MADE MORE DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE."

DR. KISSINGER SAID THAT "THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH. THEY HAVE EARNED A SURCEASE FROM THEIR AGONY. WE SHALL, THEREFORE, CONTINUE OUR EFFORTS TO PROMOTE NEGOTIATIONS AND FURTHER STEPS TOWARDS PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- BECAUSE WE MUST AND BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS MORE TRAVAIL AND TRAGEDY, NOT ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE CONCERNED, BUT ULTIMATELY FOR THE WORLD."

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AP SCHWEID - LONDON: "HAK IS GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC THAT HE WILL BE ABLE TO ARRANGE TERMS FOR A BROAD ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN THE SINAI DESERT. BUT U.S. OFFICIALS IN HAK'S PARTY STRESSED THAT NEITHER ISRAEL NOR EGYPT HAS GIVEN HIM A FOR-MAL POSITION. HAK STOPPED IN BRITAIN TO ATTEND CEREMONIES TODAY HONORING BRITISH FS CALLAGHAN IN CARDIFF. HE ALSO PLANNED TO MEET GREEK FM BITSIOS IN BRUSSELS ON FRIDAY SEEKING A WAY TO REOPEN NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE GREEK AND TURKISH CYPRIOTS. THEN HE FLIES TO EGYPT. HAK'S MISSION WAS CLOUDED AT THE OUTSET BY THE BLOODY PALESTINIAN GUERRILLA RAID IN TEL AVIV. OFFICIALS POINTED OUT THAT A SIMILAR TERRORISTS RAID ON AN ISRAELI SCHOOL LAST MAY HAD NO NOTICEABLE EFFECT ON HAK'S NEGOTIATIONS AT THE TIME FOR AN ISRAELI-SYRIAN DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT."

TV/RADIO:

1. KALB, CBS RADIO ("FIRST-LINE REPORT") - LONDON: "HOW DID SECRETARY KISSINGER PREPARE FOR ANOTHER NEGOTIATION IN THE ME? HE GOES SIGHTSEEING IN CARDIFF, WALES, THAT IS HOW. HAK LEAVES TOMORROW FOR THE ME -- ASWAN HIS FIRST STOP; ANOTHER MAJOR NEGOTIATION DECKONS. HAK IS TRYING TO ARRANGE AN EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AGREEMENT IN THE SINAI RESULTING, HE HOPES, IN A SUBSTANTIAL ISRAELI PULLBACK IN EXCHANGE FOR A MEANINGFUL EGYPTIAN PLEDGE OF NON-AGGRESSION. IF THE SECRETARY SUCCEEDS THE RESULT MAY BE HISTORIC; IF HE FAILS, TO QUOTE ONE OFFICIAL, 'A SUMMER OF CRISIS WILL UNFOLD.' THE STAKES ARE OBVIOUSLY ENORMOUS.

"WHAT IS HAK DOING TODAY? HE IS SIGHTSEEING IN CARDIFF, WALES. WHY CARDIFF? BECAUSE THE BRITISH FS, JAMES CALLAGHAN, IS RECEIVING AN AWARD THERE AND HE WANTS THE SECRETARY TO BE PRESENT FOR IT. HAK LIKES CALLAGHAN SO HE ACCEPTED THE INVITATION, HENCE CARDIFF, HENCE THE TOUR OF OLD CASTLES BANK AND DAMP WITH THE MOSS OF TIME AND HENCE AN AFTER DINNER SPEECH COMPLETE WITH THE USUAL RHETORICAL FLOURISHES. CARDIFF SUGGESTS THAT HAK FEELS HE NEEDS NO ADDITIONAL PREPARATION FOR THIS ME EFFORT. IN A WAY THAT IS CORRECT. HE HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS NEGOTIATION SINCE LAST AUGUST WHEN HE INVITED A NUMBER OF ARAB FMS AND THE ISRAELI FM TO COME TO WASHINGTON TO DISCUSS THE NEXT STAGE IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI NEGOTIATION. AT THAT TIME HAK WAS CONSIDERING A TWO-PRONGED APPROACH -- ONE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JORDAN FOCUSSING ON THE WEST BANK; THE OTHER BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL FOCUSSING ON THE SINAI. THAT APPROACH CONTINUED THROUGH SEPTEMBER THROUGH FOLLOW-UP TALKS AT THE UN. THEN HE JOURNEYED OUT TO THE ME IN EARLY OCTOBER TO KEEP ALL OF HIS DUCKS IN LINE. THEY ARE IN LINE, BUT THERE WAS A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM ON THE HORIZON-- AN ARAB SUMMIT MEETING IN LATE OCTOBER WHICH DECIDED TO ELEVATE THE PLO INTO A PRIME NEGOTIATOR FOR THE WEST BANK. BECAUSE THE PLO CONTINUES TO CALL. IN EFFECT, FOR

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A NEW PALESTINIAN STATE TO REPLACE ISRAEL THE ISRAELIS DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT. THAT EFFECTIVELY SHUT OFF ANY POSSIBILITY OF A WEST BANK NEGOTIATION. A DEEP GLOOM SETTLED OVER THE AREA IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. HAK COOLED HIS HEELS IN WASHINGTON.
"IN JANUARY HE BEGAN TO PLAY HIS ONLY OPTION, THE SINAI NEGOTIATION. THAT WAS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE TO ISRAEL AND EGYPT. THE ISRAELI FM RETURNED TO WASHINGTON IN MID-JANUARY AND BY MID-FEBRUARY KISSINGER WAS BACK IN THE ME WANDERING BETWEEN CAIRO AND JERUSALEM WITH SIDE TRIPS TO RIYADH, DAMASCUS AND AQABA, TESTING THE POSSIBILITIES OF A DEAL. HE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE POSSIBILITY LOOKED PROMISING AND HE DECIDED TO RETURN TO THE ME AT THIS TIME TO COMPLETE -- THAT IS HIS VERB -- TO COMPLETE THE NEGOTIATION. IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY TOUGH NEGOTIATION; ON THAT EVERYONE AGREES. NOTHING IS YET FIXED AND YET THE SHAPE OF A SETTLEMENT IS ALREADY IN HAK'S MIND THOUGH HE KEEPS THAT SHAPE A TIGHTLY HELD SECRET. STILL, SOME IDEAS HAVE EMERGED. FIRST, HAK IS THINKING OF A MAJOR DEAL. SECOND, HE IS CONSIDERING A FOLLOWUP NEGOTIATION ON THE GOLAN FRONT BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL. AND FINALLY, IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THE TERRORIST ATTACK IN TEL AVIV WILL CHANGE THE SECRETARY'S PLANS ABOUT VISITING EGYPT AND ISRAEL. HE FIGURES TOO MUCH IS ON THE LINE TO STOP NOW."

2. TED KOPPEL, ABC-TV (VIA TELEPHONE FROM CARDIFF) -- AM AMERICA:

JENNINGS: "WHAT WAS HAK'S REACTION WHEN HE HEARD THE NEWS?"

KOPPEL: "WELL, PETER, THE SECRETARY'S REACTION WAS PRE-DICTABLE IN JUST ABOUT EVERY ASPECT BUT ONE. HE SAID THAT WE, OF COURSE, COMPLETELY CONDEMN SUCH SENSELESS ACTS OF VIOLENCE, BUT HE UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE AND THAT HE HOPED THAT THE PROGRESS

TOWARDS PEACE WOULD CONTINUE. HE THEN SAID THAT HE HAS SENT A MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY TO ISRAELI PM RABIN BUT HE ADDED HE HAS SENT NO ADVICE AND THAT I THINK IS THE ONLY UNPREDICTABLE PART OF HIS STATEMENT."

JENNINGS: "UNPREDICTABLE, I THINK, TED, BECAUSE IN THE PAST THE SECRETARY HAS ADVISED THE ISRAELIS TO REFRAIN FROM REPRISALS, HASN'T HE?"

KOPPEL: "THAT IS CORRECT."

JENNINGS: "AND WHAT DO YOU IMPLY FROM THIS?"

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KOPPEL: "WELL, YOU MUST REMEMBER, PETER, THAT JUST TEN MONTHS AGO WHEN THE SECRETARY WAS SHUTTLING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL, THERE WAS A SIMILAR INCIDENT WHEN ARAB TERRORISTS ATTACKED A SCHOOL HOUSE IN MA'ALOT AND THAT TIME, OF COURSE, THE SECRETARY DID URGE THE ISRAELIS AGAINST REPRISALS. I THINK HE NOW FEELS THAT IT WOULD BE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE. HE HAS MADE THAT POINT SO MANY TIMES IN THE PAST THAT HE DOESN'T FEEL THAT REPRISALS ADD TO THE PROCESS OF PEACE MAKING. BUT I THINK HE NOW FEELS THAT HE WOULD ONLY OFFEND THE ISRAELIS AT A TIME OF NATIONAL SORROW BY DOING ANYTHING MORE THAN SIMPLY EXPRESSING HIS OWN PERSONAL SYMPATHIES TO ALL THOSE AFFECTED."

JENNINGS: "AND IT PROBABLY SHOULD BE POINTED OUT TOO, TED, THAT IN THE WIDER CONTEXT OF EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS THE MA'ALOT ATTACK LAST TIME DID NOT IMPEDE DR. KISSINGER'S PROGRESS, DID IT?"

KOPPEL: "THAT IS CORRECT. IN FACT, IN THE EYES OF ARAB MODERATES -- AND WE WOULD, OF COURSE, HAVE TO INCLUDE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT SADAT IN THAT GROUPING -- I THINK THIS ONLY UNDERLINES THE NECESSITY OF CONTINUING THIS PROCESS LOOKING AT IT FROM A VERY COLD BLOODED AND OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW. I DON'T THINK IT IS GOING TO MURT THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS AT ALL; IN FACT, IT MAY EVEN GIVE IT THAT ADDED SHOT OF IMPETUS."

3. MARVIN KALB, CBS-TV - LONDON: "HAK QUICKLY SENT A MESSAGE OF SYMPathy TO PM RABIN BUT HE OFFERED THE ISRAELI LEADER NO ADVICE AND HE LIMITED HIS PUBLIC REACTION TO ONE OF CONDEMnation. WHEN HAK GOT THE NEWS OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK, HE MUST HAVE SAID SOMETHING LIKE 'HERE WE GO AGAIN.' THE FACT IS THAT LAST MAY DURING HIS STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO GET A DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL, PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS STRUCK AT MA'ALOT, DISRUPTING BUT ONLY TEMPORARILY THE SECRETARY'S DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS. THIS TIME HAK EXPECTS NO DISRUPTION AT ALL, THOUGH HE WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF ISRAEL IN REPRISAL STRUCK AT PALESTINIAN CAMPS IN LEBANON."

NEWSPAPERS:

1. NYTIMES (PAGE 3) CARRIES BRIEF AP STORY UPON HAK'S ARRIVAL LONDON DESCRIBING HAK'S DEPARTURE FROM WH WITH HEARTY HANDSHAKE FROM PRESIDENT FORD AND KISS FROM MRS. FORD.

2. NYDAILY NEWS (PAGE 6) CARRIES BRIEF CARTER STORY DATE-LINE WASHINGTON DESCRIBING HAK'S DEPARTURE WH. ACCOMPANIED 3-COLUMN PIC PRES FORD, HAK KISSING FIRST LADY.

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3. BALTSUN (PAGE 4) MILLS FROM LONDON STATES HAK ARRIVED FOR SOME CEREMONIAL DIPLOMACY BEFORE ANOTHER ROUND ME SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY. REPORTERS ABOARD HAK'S PLANE WERE TOLD THAT DILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL MIGHT FOLLOW NEW DISENGAGEMENT OF SINAI DESERT. BUT SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL EMPHASIZED THAT THIS ONLY ONE OF SEVERAL POSSIBILITIES FOR NEXT PHASE OF NEGOTIATIONS. ANOTHER IS THAT NEGOTIATIONS WOULD MOVE BACK TO GENEVA.

4. LATIMES (PAGE 4) CARRIES UPI CURTAIN-RAISER FROM WASHINGTON DESCRIBING HAK'S DEPARTURE ON 11TH PEACE TRIP TO ME WITH HAK MODERATELY OPTIMISTIC.

LATE AP WIRE ITEM, SCHWEID FROM CARDIFF:

"HAK RAN INTO A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION BY JEERING CYPRIOTS TODAY DURING A SIDE TRIP TO THIS WELSH COAL PORT. THE SECRETARY IS IN BRITAIN ON THE WAY TO THE MIDDLE EAST, WHERE HE HOPES TO ARRANGE A BROAD ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL IN THE SINAI PENINSULA.

"ABOUT 400 DEMONSTRATORS CARRYING BANNERS READING "KISSINGER -- WAR-MONGER" AND "KISSINGER -- HANDS OFF CYPRUS" SHOUTED OBSCENITIES AT HIM AND HIS WIFE NANCY AS THEY LEFT CEREMONIES HONORING BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JAMES CALLAGHAN AT THE CITY HALL. OFFICIALS SAID THE DEMONSTRATORS, SOME USING DULLHORNS, WERE MAINLY YOUNG MARXISTS AND CYPRIOTS WHO BLAME THE UNITED STATES FOR THE PLIGHT OF THEIR DIVIDED ISLAND. SECURITY OFFICIALS KEPT THE DEMONSTRATORS FAR FROM THE OFFICIAL PARTY. HAK AND CALLAGHAN PAID LITTLE HEED TO THE PROTESTERS."

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1. VALERIANI (NBC RADIO, 2:00 PM FROM WASHINGTON): "IN THE TWO WEEKS SINCE KISSINGER'S LAST TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST THE OUTLINE OF AN AGREEMENT HAS BEGUN TO EMERGE. IT INVOLVES AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM TWO STRATEGIC PASSES IN THE SINAI DESERT AND THE RETURN OF THE ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS TO EGYPT IN EXCHANGE FOR SOME STILL UNDEFINED POLITICAL CONCESSIONS FROM EGYPT, INCLUDING SOME KIND OF A PLEDGE NOT TO ATTACK ISRAEL. BUT KISSINGER INSISTS THAT ANOTHER DEAL IS NOT ALREADY IN THE BAG, AND HE EXPECTS A LOT OF TOUGH BARGAINING. THIS IS HIS 11TH TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE BECOMING SECRETARY OF STATE AND PERHAPS THE MOST CRITICAL, SINCE THE RESULTS OF THIS WILL SURELY SHAPE THE FUTURE COURSE OF ARAB-ISRAELI RELATIONS.

2. ABC EVENING TV NEWS, HOWARD K. SMITH: "THE SECRETARY OF STATE LEFT WASHINGTON TODAY TO BEGIN ANOTHER ROUND OF MIDDLE EAST PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. PRESIDENT FORD SAYS HE IS HOPEFUL FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE MISSION." (NO REPORT FROM KOPPEL)

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3. NBC EVENING TV NEWS, CHANCELLOR: "SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER HAS BEEN TALKING AGAIN ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF USING FORCE AGAINST OIL-PRODUCING STATES. KISSINGER TOLD SOME CONGRESSMEN YESTERDAY THAT UNLESS THE UNITED STATES DEVELOPS INDEPENDENT SOURCES OF ENERGY, IT COULD BE FORCED INTO WHAT HE CALLED SURRENDER OR USING MILITARY FORCE. THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY DESCRIBED THAT AS A WARNING OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN, NOT A PREDICTION. KISSINGER LEFT TODAY FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND RICHARD VALERIANI BRINGS US THAT STORY. VALERIANI: ONCE AGAIN PRESIDENT FORD TOOK PERSONAL CHARGE OF THE DEPARTURE CEREMONY FOR KISSINGER, THIS TIME ON THE SOUTH AWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE. MR. FORD WANTED TO UNDERLINE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS MISSION, AS WELL AS TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE FULL AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED IN THE UPCOMING NEGOTIATIONS. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE QUESTIONER: MR. PRESIDENT, IS THAT GOING TO BE A SUCCESSFUL MISSION? THE PRESIDENT: WE'RE ALWAYS HOPEFUL. VALERIANI: KISSINGER IS HEADING FIRST TO LONDON FOR SOME CEREMONIA DIPLOMACY. HE'S DUE IN EGYPT ON FRIDAY TO START THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH PRESIDENT SADAT. THEN HE'LL FLY TO SYRIA AND ISRAEL THIS WEEKEND. AFTER THAT, THE TRIP IS OPENENDED, AND KISSINGER EXPECTS TO SPEND TWO TO THREE WEEKS SHUTTLING BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL, WITH FREQUENT SIDE TRIPS TO DAMASCUS. IN THE TWO WEEKS SINCE KISSINGER'S LAST TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST, THE OUTLINE OF AN AGREEMENT HAS BEGUN TO EMERGE. IT INVOLVES AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM TWO STRATEGIC PASSES IN THE SINAI DESERT, AND THE RETURN OF THE ABU RUDEIS OIL FIELDS TO EGYPT, IN EXCHANGE FOR SOME STILL-UNDEFINED POLITICAL CONCESSIONS FROM EGYPT, INCLUDING SOME WIND OF A PLEDGE NOT TO ATTACK ISRAEL. BUT KISSINGER INSISTS THAT ANOTHER DEAL IS NOT ALREADY IN THE BAG, AND HE EXPECTS A LOT OF TOUGH BARGAINING. THIS IS KISSINGER'S 11TH TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE HE BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE, AND IT IS PERHAPS THE MOST CRITICAL, SINCE THE RESULTS OF THIS MISSION WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE COURSE OF ARAB-ISRAELI RELATIONS.

A. CBS EVENING TV NEWS, CRONKITE: SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER HAS LEFT WASHINGTON EN ROUTE TO THE MIDDLE EAST, HIS ELEVENTH TRIP THERE TO TRY TO NEGOTIATE AN ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE. BEFORE LEAVING TODAY, KISSINGER ASSESSED AS FIFTY-FIFTY THE CHANCES FOR A NEW ISRAELI TROOP PULLED BACK IN THE SINAI. JUST BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE TODAY,

THE WHITE HOSUE CONFIRMED THAT KISSINGER HAD REPEATED HIS HYPOTHETICAL WARNING OF U.S. MILITARY FORCE AGAINST ARAB COUNTRIES. THE WARNING WAS MADE YESTERDAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE BREAKFAST MEETING WITH 70 DEMOCRATIC FRESHMEN CONGRESSMEN. KISSINGER WAS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID

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THAT UNLESS THE UNITED STATES ACHIEVES ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, THE COUNTRY MIGHT EVENTUALLY HAVE ONLY TWO OPTIONS -- SURRENDER TO ARAB OIL DICTATES OR THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE. (NO TV PIECE FROM KALB).

5. UPI (UNSIGNED FROM WASHINGTON SHORTLY AFTER DEPARTURE): "HAK LEFT TODAY ON WHAT MAY BE HIS HARDEST MISSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- PERSUADING ISRAEL AND EGYPT TO AGREE ON FURTHER ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM LAND EAST OF THE SUEZ CANAL.

STORY SAID. "HAK WAS MODERATELY OPTIMISTIC OF SUCCESS AS HIS SPECIAI JET TOOK OFF FROM ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE SHORTLY AFTER NOON EDT. HE WILL VISIT BRITAIN, AND POSSIBLY BRUSSELS, BEFORE LANDING IN EGYPT FRIDAY.

THE LATEST SHUTTLE IN HAK'S STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO PEACE IN THE VOLATILE AREA COULD LAST A MONTH OR MORE. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS BELIEVE THE DANGER OF A NEW WAR BETWEEN ARAB AND JEW WILL INCREASE IF HE FAILS TO GET AN ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT.

PUBLICLY, EGYPT AND ISRAEL ARE FAR APART ON ANY EXCHANGE OF PEACE ASSURANCES FROM THE ARAB NATION IN RETURN FOR STRATEGIC PASSES AND RICH OIL FIELDS LOST TO ISRAEL EIGHT YEARS AGO.

"WE'VE ALWAYS HOPEFUL, FORD TOLD REPORTERS AFTER HE PERSONALLY ESCORTED HAK TO THE LIMOUSINE. ...."

STORY FURTHER REPORTED HAK ON FRIDAY WILL FLY TO EGYPT, PERHAPS STOPPING IN BRUSSELS TO CONFER WITH GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER DIMITRIOS BITSIOS ABOUT THE STALLED GREEK-TURKISH NEGOTIATIONS OVER CYPRUS.

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