# Q: Who's on first?
## A: Funny you should ask

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**Question:** Have you heard the news from Kansas City?

**Answer:** I've read every Republican speech and memorized every cliche.

**Q** — Okay, then what do they say is at stake in the election of '76?

**A** — The Freedom of Mankind.

**Q** — Of what?

**A** — Sorry, of all human persons.

**Q** — That's better. Anything else?

**A** — The critical issue is the future of the individual and the private enterprise system, which is under attack by the big spenders and big lenders of the Democratic party, the advocates of socialist tyranny and the...

**Q** — One answer at a time, please. We'll get to Jimmy Carter later. Where is America going?

**A** — Under this Democrat party, it is going the way of the Pharaohs of Egypt, the golden age of Greece, the Roman legions and the great colonial empires.

**Q** — And that way is?

**A** — Down into the unexplicable depths of the centuries.

**Q** — That's rather a good phrase. How is this unutterable tragedy to be avoided?

**A** — By the election of Gerald R. Ford of Michigan.

**Q** — Anybody else?

**A** — Oh yes, I forgot. Senator Robert Dole of Kansas.

**Q** — What do these two men have in common?

**A** — They are both four-letter words, men of the Middle West and the Middle Ages.

**Q** — No editorial comments, please. How do they propose to maintain the supremacy of Western Civilization?

**A** — By unifying the Republican conservatives,

sweeping the nation from Michigan to Kansas, and appealing to the common sense of the American people.

**Q** — For what purpose?

**A** — To oppose moral anarchy, stamp out abortion, eliminate all busing, and, if necessary, all busses.

**Q** — Anything else?

**A** — By fighting inflation.

**Q** — Where do they propose to fight it?

**A** — From the snowy banks of Minnesota to the sandy plains of Georgia.

**Q** — How do they propose to fight it?

**A** — In two ways: Tooth and Nail.

**Q** — Please name the three major threats to the peace, prosperity, and security of America today.

**A** — Jimmy Carter of Georgia, Walter Mondale of Minnesota, and the Democratic Congress.

**Q** — Very good, but isn't there a fourth major threat?

**A** — Yes, but we rather played him down in Kansas City: Henry Kissinger.

**Q** — How was Mr. Carter described in Kansas City?

**A** — Do I have to answer that?

**Q** — Yes, but you may be discreet.

**A** — Fuzzy and inexperienced.

**Q** — Anything else?

**A** — Sort of a pious hypothesis — a rich man in blue jeans, a sheep in wolf's clothing, a mass of contradictions, a quick-change artist, and a shrewd politician who might just take the South, the North, the East, the West, the cities, the suburbs, the...

**Q** — Wait a minute! Let's keep to the facts and skip the guesses. What did they say in Kansas City about the Congress?

**A** — Under-financed and over-sexed.

**Q** — Isn't that true of the whole country?

**A** — They didn't say.

**Q** — How did the Republicans describe themselves?

**A** — As the party of peace, prosperity, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower.

**Q** — What did they have to say about Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Nixon?

**A** — I don't seem to remember anything about them.

**Q** — What do the Republicans carry on their shoulders?

**A** — The hopes and fears of men and women everywhere.

**Q** — And how do they regard this responsibility?

**A** — As a sacred trust.

**Q** — When did America emerge from the valley of the shadow into the glorious uplands of...

**A** — Two years ago when it got a Ford in its future.

**Q** — Precisely. Who ended the war in Vietnam, brought prisoners home, and vetoed more wild-spending schemes in the Democratic Congress than anybody else in the history of human wickedness?

**A** — The Republicans.

**Q** — How then are the Republicans to win in November?

**A** — By closing ranks and joining hands with the American people who are wiser than Jimmy Carter thinks they are.

**Q** — What does Jimmy Carter offer the American people?

**A** — Peanuts!

**Q** — Anything else?

**A** — Soft ball in a hard ball, bean-ball world.

**Q** — Is everything then really up to date in Kansas City?

**A** — It was until just the other day.

Reagan's Plank Criticizes
Ford-Kissinger Policies

By RICHARD L. MADDEN

Special to The New York Times

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 16
—Setting up a probable floor
fight for tomorrow night, strat-
egists for Ronald Reagan pro-
posed today a platform plank
implicitly criticizing the for-
eign policies of President Ford
and Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger.

The aim of the Reagan move
in trying to add a plank enti-
tled "morality in foreign pol-
icy" to the document approved
by the Platform Committee
last Friday appeared to be to
score a psychological victory
over Mr. Ford when the plat-
form is considered tomorrow
night by the convention, only
24 hours before the Presiden-
tial balloting.

At the same time, a second

platform fight appeared to be
assured when 29 delegates, led
by women members of the
Platform Committee, filed a
minority report seeking to de-
lete the section endorsing a
constitutional amendment "to
restore protection of the right
to life for unborn children."

Those were the only two mi-
nority reports filed by the dead-
line this afternoon, when the
Platform Committee held its
final meeting.

Another attempt to try to
challenge the platform's en-
dorsement of the equal rights
amendment failed, according to
delegates, when Reagan aides
passed the word that they

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Continued From Page 1, Col. 7

wanted to concentrate their
floor flights on party rules,
which are to be considered to-
morrow just before the plat-
form, and on the foreign policy
proposal.

Aides to Mr. Ford said that
they wanted to preserve the
platform as written and in-
dicated that they would fight
both minority reports, especial-
ly the one on foreign policy.

## Challenge Is Possible

There also remained the pos-
sibility that Ford delegates
might make a parliamentary
challenge to consideration of
the foreign policy plank on the
ground that, while some of the
issues mentioned had been de-
bated by the Platform Com-
mittee, the language of the
plank had not been voted on
in committee.

John P. Sears, Mr. Reagan's
campaign director, insisted that
the proposed plank "doesn't
criticize any previous foreign
policy decision" and represent-
ed an effort to try to add what
he termed "some proper prin-
ciples" to the platform.

Representative John B. An-
derson of Illinois, a key Ford
delegate on the committee,
termed the Reagan plank "not
anything terribly devastating,"
but added, "I don't think the
party platform should go out
of its way to criticize our own
President."

The plank praised Aleksandr
I. Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dis-
sident, "for his compelling mes-
sage that we must face the
world with no illusions about
the nature of tyranny" without
mentioning Mr. Ford's refusal
to invite him to the White
House last year.

It added that in pursuing
détente with the Soviet Union,
a term no longer used by Mr.
Ford but still criticized by con-
servatives, "we must not grant
unilateral favors with only the
hope of getting future favors in
return."

The plank also said that

agreements, such as the one
signed last year in Helsinki,
"must not take from those who
do not have freedom the hope
of one day gaining it." In that
agreement, the Western allies
acknowledged the Communist
hold in Eastern Europe in ex-
change for an understanding
that the Soviet Union would
loosen the exchange of peoples
and ideas.

In addition, the plank pledged
commitment to a foreign policy
"in which secret agreements,
hidden from our people, will
have not part."

## Kissinger Not Mentioned

Asked if the plank amounted
to a repudiation of Mr. Kissin-
ger, Mr. Sears replied with a
smile, "Well, it doesn't men-
tion Mr. Kissiner."

The Reagan forces decided to
concentrate their platform ef-
fort on the one foreign policy
plank rather than diffuse it with

a series of minority reports
trying to overturn other planks
dealing with such issues as
what the United States posture
should be in negotiating a new
Panama Canal treaty and pledg-
ing continued support for Tai-
wan.

The minority report to delete
the antiabortion section of the
platform was organized by Ann
Peckham of Wisconsin and
Representative Millicent Fen-
wick of New Jersey, both Ford
delegates and other women on
the committee.

"We just don't believe it be-
longs in a party platform," Mrs.
Peckham said. "It is an issue
that should be decided pri-
vately."

An article on the equal right
amendment's proponents and
opponents at the convention
appears on Page 36.

# Kissinger Orders Building Contracts Probe

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Associated Press

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has ordered an investigation into charges of official favoritism in the awarding of construction and real estate contracts for American diplomatic facilities abroad.

A State Department announcement yesterday said Robert M. Sayre, inspector general of the Foreign Service, would conduct the investigation and that the findings would be made public.

The probe would include—but would not be limited to—allegations raised in a Washington Post article last Saturday, the department said.

According to the newspaper, a Mexican builder, Marcos Russek, received more than $5 million in State Department contracts as a result of "a pattern of official favoritism." The Post said Russek regards

himself as a good friend of Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) and has entertained Hays in Mexico on four or five occasions.

Also, according to the Post, Hays' father-in-law, Leonard Peak, a Chattanooga draftsman, is employed by the State Department as a $100-a-day consultant and the department has paid him and his firm more than $42,000.

The department's Foreign Buildings Office is headed by Orlan C. Ralston, described by the newspaper as a Hays protege. The FBO supervises the awarding of construction and real estate contracts for U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad.

Last week, Hays announced he will not seek re-election after 28 years in the House. He is chairman of the House International Relations subcommittee that oversees the FBO.

United Press International

ounces "houses to let."

War

of Salima repeatedly
for them, at least, Leba-
ar is not a religious one.
that though two-thirds of
residents belong to the
the others are Christian
who have not been forced
to instead are joining in de-
community.

for Lebanon's mountains
rent from that for Beirut.
there that

the area. In their zone-of-peace resolu-
tions, the Sri Lankans regularly make
what they say are veiled references to
increased Soviet naval activities and
use of naval facilities in Somalia,
which they also oppose.

A statement issued by the U.S. em-
bassy here says the United States fa-
vore "peace and tranquillity" and op-
pose "competitive expansion of mili-
tary presences" in the Indian Ocean,
but does not accept the premise that
"regional groups of states can impose
special legal regimes on a certain part
of the high seas."

The British Foreign Office in Lon-
don said there was no U.S. "base" on
the island and the "very limited facili-
ties" alloted the United States were
intended only for the refueling and
resupply of ships. No U.S. forces are
there, the British said, only small

cluding Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
of India, President Tito of Yugoslavia,
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and
Premier Pham Van Dong of Vietnam.

Representatives of more than 80 na-
tions are at this summit, a sharp in-
crease from the 25 countries that
formed the original group in 1960.

"The principal weapon used against us today is the strength of the currencies of the developed world, and in particular the reserve currencies," Bandaranaike said.

"If we really and truly want to blunt the weapons of imperialism and colonialism, we must surely fashion countervailing weapons, in the form of a currency backed by the immense economic potential of the nonaligned and other developing countries," she said.

She said such a currency would be

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# Kissinger Takes His Lumps at Convention

By John Fialka

Washington Star Staff Writer

KANSAS CITY — Henry Kissinger's big day at the convention started out pretty well. He was speaking before the "Presidentials," a carefully picked, highly enthusiastic group of young Ford supporters, when a plump brunette near the rostrum began whispering at him.

"Ah, this young lady has talked to me very intimately," announced the secretary of state, interrupting his prepared remarks. "Ah, which I like. Maybe you want to do it up here."

The woman jumped up on the rostrum and gave him a big kiss.

"Now I've lost my train of thought," said Kissinger, beaming.

From there it went downhill. Last night, when he appeared in a "V.I.P." box above the arena, Kissinger was the only Ford Cabinet member to receive loud booing.

THEN ONE OF HIS enemies, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. was nominated for vice president. When Helms went to the rostrum to decline the nomination, he pointed to the one achievement the conservatives accomplished at the convention — the party's platform.

"If this party doesn't make it on principle," Helms said, "It won't make it at all. . . . He must run on that platform."

Later on, after a stirring speech by Ronald Reagan, there was a man on the floor waving a big sign: "Mr. President. The U.S.A. Needs Ronald Reagan Secretary of State."

While the forces of President Ford have won the war, one of the skirmishes they lost along the way involves a plank in the platform entitled "Morality in Foreign Policy." It must pain Kissinger.

IT AMOUNTS TO a thinly disguised

attack on Kissinger's policy of detente with the Soviet Union. It states that "in pursuing detente we must not grant unilateral favors with only the hope of getting future favors in return." It also bars "secret agreements."

Helms' operatives, who drafted the section and successfully inserted it as an amendment on the convention floor Tuesday night, had made several stronger attacks on Kissinger before the subcommittees which wrote the party platform.

They were persuaded, however, to give up proposed planks damning Kissinger's new Africa policy and the negotiations over the Panama Canal after Reagan aides began to fear what such a debate might do to the party if it were unleashed on the convention floor.

Dr. John P. East, a North Carolina delegate, wrote the proposed foreign

policy planks for Helms. "Quite frankly," he explained. "We were out to see how much we could get in the platform and we did rather well."

AT ONE POINT in the debates East pointedly referred to the "confuspious absence" of Kissinger, noting that most of Ford's other Cabinet members were attending the convention. According to the State Department, the secretary of state was too busy to attend the conference until yesterday, after Ford was nominated.

When he did arrive, however, Kissinger obviously knew where to concentrate his fire. "I have noticed that the Republican platform in a section called 'Morality in Foreign Policy' used a word that had been prohibited — detente — and far be it from me not to follow the platform of the Republican party."

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with us about
they see as af-
world. There is
the flow of this

Atlantic is not
as comfort in a
for it — but a
It. The dryness
and is severe
has been the
records.

Cрыside, grass-
autumn leaves
at. Water con-
tact of the artifi-
light preserve
Britons can do
singly frequent
neighbors fac-
linking to save
ern Wales have
ght and are not
are on the way,
to emergency

more serious.

production have suffered. Tight water supplies
threaten shorter work weeks for some indus-
tries. Industrial recovery could be hindered, as
well as the effort to control inflation.

It is possible to take a relatively unserious
view of Europe's drought and hot spell as a one-
or two-year phenomenon that will be replaced
soon by a long period of more characteristic
weather. If one's taste runs to more pessimistic
climatological theories, there are plenty of
these. *The Economist* of London recalls "times
of crumbling drought" in the late 1850s and
1890s. "What if those dry Victorian years were
real normality to which Europe is now return-
ing?" In the long view, Europe's 20th Century
wetness rather than this year's dryness could
appear to have been the aberration. Or, in a pro-
found shift of climate such as many through
which the planet is known to have gone, the
Atlantic clouds that ordinarily drench north-
western Europe may have adopted a more
southerly landfall, creating green prospects for
such arid areas as northern Africa. There is
said to be agreement among climatologists that
a belt of westerly, rain-carrying winds has
moved south.

I regret Safeway's decision to
close its downtown F Street Interna-
tional.

May I offer what I believe to be
some contributing factors for this
store's failure to survive? (1) An
inconvenient location and lack of
adequate parking facilities (perish-
able foods were relatively safe for
consumption with surety only when
purchased during the cold weather
months, considering the distance
from store to home); (2) recent pre-
packaged products, a practice not
distinguishable from regular Safe-
ways stores; (3) inadequate store
space often causing unpleasant con-
gestion.

It is hoped that the revived Safe-
way International (now planned as
part of a new Safeway on Chain
Bridge Road in McLean), although
apparently not intended for the con-
venient patronage of most urban
persons, will at least serve
suburbanites in a more accommo-
dating manner.

Pearl Burton

Washington, D.C.

stand shrank, was moved to the
back of the store and now offers
produce that is inferior to what can
be bought in an ordinary market.
The cheese has been cut up in
chunks, wrapped in plastic and put
in a cold case. The meats have all
but disappeared.

And so have the customers.
Serves them (the store) right.

Miriam Hapgood DeWitt
Washington, D.C.

Let there be light

As a suddenly blinded per-
son, I settled down to a life of
just sitting. No more sewing,
needlepoint or books I so
loved.

But fortunately my husband
was not so easily discouraged.
He called the Library of Con-
gress section for the blind and
the Columbia Lighthouse for
the Blind. Immediately the
wheels were moving. We were
not alone; we had friends, and

Associated Press

uto battle against striking Soweto workers Thursday. Soweto calmed yesterday.

## Soweto Quiets Down

military and political support it receives from the United States and other Western countries.]

"The South African government has done more for black people than anyone in the world," he said. And we are still prepared to do more than anybody in the world. We want to keep our (black) people happy as possible."

Kruger also denied charges that police had sided with migrant workers in fighting against Soweto residents and students. The press said police had openly encouraged the migrant workers to retaliate against students who were promoting a three-day strike.

There have also been allegations that a "pact" was formed between police and Zulu tribesmen, who led the migrant workers' retaliation. But Kruger said there was no evidence

that the Zulu "Inkatha" organization had been involved as ringleaders.

Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, who flew up from the Zulus' Kwazulu homeland last night, also strongly condemned the allegations after a tour of Soweto today.

"It is tribalist and racist to say the Zulus alone are responsible," he said. "But I am not shocked by these accusations. It is part of a calculated campaign against me."

Meanwhile, peace also returned to South Africa's other trouble spot, the Colored (mixed race) suburb of Bontehuwel outside Cape Town after three days of rioting.

Police reinforcements and riot squads brought violence under control last night after a series of skirmishes with Coloreds, who demonstrated in sympathy with Soweto blacks.

Britain

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Bestseller; Dutch

THE WASHINGTON POST

Saturday, July 17, 1976

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working for $3 an hour, carrying luggage, washing walls and mopping floors. He says he needs the money for college.

It was easy to tell the host from the guest of honor at the State Department luncheon **Henry Kissinger** gave yesterday for West German Chancellor **Helmut Schmidt**. "The man who speaks with a slight accent is the chancellor," said the Secretary of State in his guttural voice.

Schmidt, however, contrary to diplomatic custom, endorsed the Republican administration's foreign and economic policies. "The outside world thinks you have a great secretary of state," he said and the American "economy is running fine." In fact, he commented, everything seemed "greater and better than 18 months ago."

—Judith Martin
and Dorothy McCardle

By Ken Fell—The Washington Post

Henry Kissinger

THE WASHINGTON POST

E 4

Saturday, July 17, 1976

# The Total City: New Ideas

CITYSCAPE, From E1

would run for cover when preservationists told them about the beauties and rich architectural heritage of their Victorian rowhouses.

There were other reasons why neighborhood rehabilitation has not worked in the past.

One of them was that many working class people saw nothing very chic in charming moldings and mantles and postage stamp-sized yards. Their prevailing idea of progress was a detached house you can walk around, with a yard for the kids to play in, two bathrooms and a picture window. They wanted to get out of the inner city. Most low-income blacks still want out, simply because they can't imagine that the city ever pick up the garbage efficiently, clean their streets and provide other essential

money for a few cans of paint and maybe new pipes and a new roof, was frustrated by some bankers. They decided that most black or racially mixed working class neighborhoods in the center city were hopelessly on the skids and a poor risk—and if they weren't they ought to be—and drew a red line around them. If you lived within the red line, they would take your deposit money and lend it to people in suburbia. But you would never get a loan.

Jane Jacobs exposed redlining and made her eloquent plea for neighborhood preservation in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," which was published in 1961. Everyone thought it was a great book, and no one paid any attention.

Now, suddenly, a number of things have changed.

The most decisive change, I believe, is that the cost of building construction

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The Decency for U.S.

Georgian Seeks
A Health Program,
Overhaul of Taxes

By Lou Cannon

Washington Post Staff Writer

NEW YORK, July 15 — Jimmy Carter tonight gratefully accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party he united with a pledge to work for "an America that lives up to the majesty of our Constitution and the simple decency of our people."

"Our country has lived through a time of torment," Carter said. "It is now a time for healing."

In a speech that sought to unite his party and his country behind the banner of traditional Democratic liberalism the 51-year-old former Georgia governor called for an end to joblessness, enactment of a national health program and an overhaul of the nation's tax system. Beyond any specific reforms, however, Carter called for a "new mood in America" dedicated to just and equitable treatment of the underprivileged.

"I have spoken many times about love, but love must be aggressively translated into simple justice," Carter told an audience of 20,000 in Madison Square Garden and a television audience of many millions.

His speech was studded with references to the Water-gate scandals of the Nixon administration.

"It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than the humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America," Carter said. "I see no reason why big shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail."

The crowd responded with a roar of applause.

And the crowd answered with loud applause, also, when Carter repeatedly punctuated his list of promises by adding the words, "You can depend on it."

"We have been a nation adrift too long," Carter declared. "We have been without leadership too long. We have had divided, deadlocked government too long. We have been governed by veto too long. We have suffered enough at the hands of a tired, worn-out administration without new ideas, without youth or vitality, without vision and without the confidence of the American people."

Carter's carefully prepared acceptance speech culminated a week of triumph for the Georgian. His day began when he ended the only suspense of the convention by

By Frank Johnston—The Washington Post

His wife, Rosalynn, at press conference yesterday.

Problem for Carter
w Minnesotan Came to Be Chosen

By Helen Dewar
Washington Post Staff Writer

YORK, July 15 — Jimmy
me to choose Sen. Walter
le by a winding, detour-
il of questionnaires, inter-
statements, polls, rumors.

dale was—far fewer than other vice
presidential finalists such as Sens.
Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and
John Glenn of Ohio.

Moreover, Carter thought Mon-
dale might be too liberal for the
South and perceived of him as a

Kissinger Tries Again on Korea Talks

By Murrey Marder

Washington Post Staff Writer

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger launched another attempt yesterday to draw China and North Korea into a conference with South Korea and the United States.

Speaking in Seattle, Kissinger said, "President Ford has asked me to call again for such a [four-power] conference" to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula. The same approach was spurned by China and North Korea at the United Nations last year.

Simultaneously, North Korean President Kim Il Sung renewed his own call for the opposite approach to divided Korea. From Pyonggyang, the North Korean leader reiterated his proposal for "a great national congress" of Koreans from North and South "to drive the U.S. imperialist aggression troops out of Korea at an early date," and overthrow the government of President Park Chung Hee, which North Korea calls "the U.S. lackey."

The opposing declarations set the stage for another collision on the perennial Korean dispute when the U.N. General Assembly convenes in New York in September.

Kissinger reviewed U.S. policy in Asia in a speech to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Rotary Club. The speech was also made public in Washington.

Fears of a "general American retreat from Asia" following the Communist victory in South Vietnam last year, Kissinger said, "have subsided." But he said "Asia remains a region of potential turbulence".

"Three times in the past 35 years," Kissinger said, "many thousands of American lives have been lost on the Asain continent." He said, "We have learned the hard way that our own safety and well-being depend upon peace in the Pacific, and that peace cannot be maintained unless we play an active part."

"Soviet activity in Asia is growing," he said, "North and South Korea remain locked in bitter confrontation," and "Hanoi represents a new center of power and its attitude toward its neighbors remains ambiguous and potentially threatening."

In emphasizing the Korean tensions, Kissinger said the United States "will not undermine stability and hopes for negotiation by withdrawing its forces unilaterally," but will seek "a resumption of serious discussions between North and South Korea."

This contrasts with the position taken by Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter.

Carter said last month, "I believe it will be possible to withdraw our ground forces from South Korea on a phased basis over a time span to be determined after consultation with both South Korea and Japan." There are 41,000 U.S. troops in South Korea.

Carter has been far more critical of the American-supported government in South Korea than Kissinger. Carter said the United States should make clear to that government that "its internal oppression is repugnant" to Americans.

Kissinger said more mildly yesterday, "... We will continue to remind the South Korean government that responsiveness to the popular will and social justice are essential if subversion and external challenge are to be resisted."

"... This administration cannot and will not negotiate behind the back of our South Korean ally over issues which affect its very existence," Kissinger said.

The United States, he added, "is prepared to meet with South Korea, North Korea and the People's Republic of China during the

coming session of the United Nations General Assembly," in New York, or at another agreed site.

Kissinger said the objective would be "to discuss ways of preserving the armistice agreement" of 1953 "and of reducing tensions in Krea."

North Korea's proposals, he said "are designed not to promote peace but to isolate

our ally, to precipitate unilateral American withdrawal and to dissolve the existing legal arrangements into amorphous general negotiations."

"The United States will never accept such proposals," he said.

Last year the U.N. General Assembly adopted conflicting resolutions on Korea, with North Korea refusing any negotiations with South Korea. Both Koreas are observers at the United Nations.

North Korea and its supporters blocked U.N. membership for South Korea, and in retaliation, the United States vetoed the admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations. Vietnam is now unified under Communist rule.

benefits from these increases.

**Q.** Why is the cost of gasoline so high today?

**Garvin:** Because the price of foreign and domestic crude oil is up. In 1973, the average U.S. pump price of regular gasoline was 39 cents a gallon. Since then, the price (average domestic and foreign) of the crude oil which goes into that gallon has risen 15 cents. Over the same period dealer margins have gone up 2 cents a gallon and filling costs went up 1 cent a gallon. These

energy technology and orderly access by industry to the large domestic resources of oil, natural gas, coal and shale owned by the federal government. This will help decrease our dependency on foreign oil and gas.

**Q.** What is Exxon and the industry doing to find more oil and natural gas in the U.S.?

**Garvin:** Last year, Exxon drilled 357 wells from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. This year we'll drill more than 500 wells to explore for, and find natural gas. And it's been the entire oil and gas industry will drill new wells in the U.S. in 1976. However, there appears to be little chance of enough to significantly reduce our need for oil in the near term. The fact is, we have to stand still. Only a handful of free states outside of OPEC have the potential to become self-sufficient in petroleum. By 2015—and unfortunately America is on a list. Since 1971 our country has developed petroleum faster than we can find it. We can develop alternative fuels, or else we'll have to import an amount of oil.

**_Don't we switch over to coal, or use less oil?_**

That's easier said than done. Other countries will certainly supplement oil, but expected to totally replace it in this time frame is our nation's most abundant fossil fuel. The development of coal will take time. It not be directly substituted for all oil uses. Nuclear power offers potential, but concerns over safety and environmental factors have limited nuclear reaction. Solar power is promising, and it's still on a small scale. But years of research still lie ahead before it can become a source of energy. Based on Exxon's