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predict when the Arab oil embargo against the United States would be eased. "It will be discussed by the Arab oil ministers in March," he said in answer to reporters' questions after his meeting with Mr. Kissinger. He added that no more precise date had been fixed for that discussion.

### Sadat in Civilian Dress

This was Mr. Sadat's fourth meeting with Mr. Kissinger in four months. On the three occasions before he wore a military uniform without insignia. Today he was nattily dressed in a blue pinstripe suit.

A reporter wanted to know whether the change signified that the war was over.

"It doesn't mean the war is over," Mr. Sadat repied. Gesturing toward Mr. Kissinger, he added: "But it has significance, surely, after his efforts and after all that has been achieved in disengagement here. I think we are having a new era."

The Egyptian President spoke in English. He and Mr. Kissinger met reporters on the step of a one-story Government villa on a sandy hill 300 yards from the Pyramid of Cheops, the oldest and biggest of the Pyramids in Giza.

### A Sightseeing Interlude

Mr. Kissinger, who is almost as tireless a sightseer as he is a negotiator, took a quick drive to Sakkara between the end of his talks and dusk and then returned to the Giza pyramids after dark for a private sound-and-light show. In the show, a combination of powerful lights picked out details of the pyramids as a narrator told their story.

Yesterday in Jerusalem Mr. Kissinger handed the Israelis a list of 65 of their prisoners of war held by the Syrians. The main Israeli condition for talks on troop disengagement thus fulfilled, Mr. Kissinger will return to Jerusalem tomorrow to receive the Israeli Government's "ideas" about disengagement. He will then fly to Damascus to make these known to President Hafez al-Assad.

### Esteem for Sadat

His decision to come to Cairo—and the fact that his talks with Mr. Sadat stretched for more than four hours—was explained by American officials as reflecting the high esteem that Mr. Kissinger has developed for the Egyptian President and by the crucial role that he thinks the Egyptian example can serve in the forthcoming difficult exchanges between Israel and Syria.

Mr. Sadat appeared to accept this role today. He almost eagerly demonstrated his trust in Mr. Kissinger.

Informed sources said that their talks today covered a wide range of problems including the possibility of a second-stage Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai beyond the Mitla and Gidi Passes, which are the new Israeli positions as of next Tuesday.

The easy friendly relationship that has come about between Mr. Sadat and Mr. Kissinger was underlined by the two men being joined at lunch by Mrs. Sadat, their daughter Lubna and he rhusband of four weeks, and daughter Nuha and her fiance.

It was further emphasized when a reporter asked what

advice he was giving to the Egyptian President.

"To start, to continue, and to give Mr. Kissinger an opportunity to achieve what he has achieved here on the Egyptian front."

Mr. Sadat and Mr. Kissinger in the presence of Marshal Ahmed Ismail, the Egyptian War Minister, and Lieut. Gen. Abdel Ghany el-Gamasy, were studying a large map when photog-

raphers were allowed into the meeting room shortly before the end of the talks. When asked what map it was, Mr. Sadat said: "The Golan."

The agreement to resume relations between Egypt and the United States. A text of the accord was released in Washington and Cairo. It read:

"The Governments of Egypt and the United States have agreed to resume diplomatic relations on Feb. 28, 1974.

"The two Governments expressed the hope that this step will develop and strengthen relations between their countries and contribute substantially to better mutual understanding and cooperation.

The Government of Egypt has named Dr. Ashraf Ghorbal as Ambassador to Washington, and the President of the United States intends to nominate Mr. Hermann Eilts as Ambassador to Cairo."

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NEW YORK TIMES - 1 MARCH 1974 P-2

U.S. Group Detects No Hostility in China

By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Special to The New York Times

HONG KONG, Feb. 28 - Members of a delegation from Pennsylvania State University arrived here today after a 21-day visit to China and said that they had encountered no hostility. They said that Chinese officials appeared eager to reassure them that the current doctrinal campaign would not affect China's policy of improved relations with the West.

But several of the 16 members said that despite the assurances the campaign did seem to have an adverse influence on the atmosphere of their visit.

According to a professor in the group—the first delegation of Americans to visit China since the doctrinal campaign began early this month—the Chinese turned down all requests for meetings with senior Chinese leaders. Moreover, the professor said, some Chinese on lower-levels expressed reluctance to talk with the visitors because they had to "study" for the group, and the group was repeatedly pressured at length on the meaning of the campaign.

6 Cities Visited

Officially, the movement has been publicized as criticism of Confucius, the sage of 25 centuries ago, and of Lin Piao, the late/Defense Minister who was once designated as Mao Tse-tung's successor, for advocating "restoring" of decadent, bourgeois tendencies.

Although the Pennsylvania delegation was able to visit six cities, including Peking, Canton and Shanghai, which are believed the bases of those leading the campaign, a scheduled stop in Wuhan, a large industrial city in central China, was canceled. Wuhan was the scene of the bitterest armed clash during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. There were reports of shooting at night there in the middle of this month.

Several members of the group said privately today that throughout their visit they thought they had been more closely supervised than previous Americans had been, and had less opportunity for personal contact with ordinary Chinese. In addition, a professor related, the group was instructed at each stop not to take photographs of the "big character posters" on walls and inside buildings, as posters were displayed during the Cultures of China, PAGE 2

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - 1 MARCH 1974 P-1

Middle East accord nearer now
as Kissinger helps set stage

By Geoffrey Godsell
Overseas news editor of
The Christian Science Monitor

Secretary of State Kissinger's delivery to Prime Minister Golda Meir of the list of Israeli prisoners of war in Syrian hands keeps the present open as the first moment in history in the past quarter of a century that a genuine Arab-Israeli accommodation is possible.

The moment opened up when Kissinger helped engineer an end to last year's October war closer to a stalemate than any of the conclusions to the three previous Arab-Israeli wars. Stalemate on the battlefield, of course, is a necessary prerequisite to settlement by mutually acceptable compromise to any armed conflict, and for compromise there has to be negotiation.

Dr. Kissinger has got negotiation — and disengagement of forces — going between Egypt and Israel. His current visit to the Middle East, the fourth in as many months, is aimed at getting negotiation going between Syria and Israel. Yet to come is negotiation between Jordan and/or the Palestinians and Israel.

Why—now?

Why, it might be asked, is there the possibility of compromise between Arabs and Israelis now when it has so stubbornly been lacking in the past?

On the Arab side, compromise has become worth exploring because of the radical change within Arab thinking wrought by Egypt's successful crossing of the Suez Canal on Oct. 6, and by Syria's holding out on the Golan front in the days that followed. This has given the Arabs a remarkable new feeling of confidence and self-worth in place of the chronic feeling of humiliation and degradation inflicted by repeated earlier defeats at Israel's hands.

Israel's military comeback before the end of the October fighting did not offset in Arab thinking the psychological gains resulting from Arab success at the beginning of the war.

Premises shattered

On the Israeli side, the initial Arab gains in the war and the inconclusiveness of its outcome have See ACCORD, PAGE 2.

WASHINGTON POST
1 MARCH 1974 P-1

U.S., Egypt
Resume
Full Ties

By Marilyn Berger
Washington Post Staff Writer

CAIRO, Feb. 28 — The United States and Egypt resumed full diplomatic relations today as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived to seek President Anwar Sadat's help in disengaging Israeli and Syrian troops on the Golan Heights.

The Secretary of State accomplished his objective early and spent the rest of his day sightseeing among the ancient ruins and enjoying a more modern Egyptian art — belly-dancing.

Kissinger arrived this morning from Israel and immediately went into talks with Sadat. At the end of more than three hours of discussion Sadat said that he had invited President Nixon to visit Egypt. The announcement indicated that the invitation had probably been accepted in principle.

A U.S. official confirmed that Sadat and Kissinger discussed a possible trip by the President. Al Ahram, the semi-official Cairo newspaper, wrote yesterday that the trip would come in April.

At the end of their talks, Kissinger and Sadat posed with their aides for photographs. To illustrate Egypt's involvement in settlement negotiations on the Golan Heights, Egyptian Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Mohamed Gassam held a map of the region in his hands.

Sadat, wearing civilian clothes instead of army uniform for the first time since he has been receiving Kissinger, repeated his theme that the Syrian and Egyptian fronts are one. This was apparently

NEW YORK TIMES
1 MARCH 1974 P-6
PROMOTIONS OF TWO
IN '71 RAIDS FOUGHT

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 - Senator Harold E. Hughes has urged his colleagues on the Armed Services Committee not to confirm the pending promotion of two Air Force generals who were involved in the unauthorized bombing of North Vietnam in 1971 and 1972.

In a letter to committee members made public today, the Iowa Democrat recalled that Brig. Gen. Charles A. Gabriel and Maj. Gen. Alton D. Slay testified during hearings in late 1972 that they "knowingly and unquestionably received and carried out orders" from Gen. John D. Lavelle of the Seventh Air Force to strike the unauthorized targets.

During those hearings, General Lavelle acknowledged that he had ordered more than 29 bombing raids on North Vietnamese targets that were falsely reported as being "protective reaction" strikes—that is, in response to North Vietnamese fire. The general subsequently was demoted and retired from the Air Force as a major general.

intended to justify Cairo's interest in a settlement.

A Syrian-Israeli disengagement is considered necessary for Sadat so that he does not appear too far ahead of the other Arab states in his own search for a settlement with Israel.

Meeting with reporters, Sadat also said full diplomatic relations had been established, jumping the gun on a formal announcement made in Washington and here 90 minutes later.

Deeply tanned and looking fit, Sadat was asked whether his wearing civilian clothes—a blue pin-striped suit and wide blue tie—indicated that the war was now over.

"It has a significance," Sadat told reporters, the Pyramid of Cheops providing a dramatic backdrop. "But it doesn't mean that the war is over..." In a reference to Kissinger, Sadat added: "After his tireless efforts and what has been done for disengagement we are beginning a new era. The significance is that for the first time we received any foreign visitor in civilian clothes we received my friend

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tural Revolution.

However, John W. Oswald, the president of the university and the head of the delegation, stressed at a news conference here this afternoon that "We encountered no hostility of any kind, nor did we hear about any to other foreigners. When we indicated what kinds of institutions we wanted to visit," he added, "they were very helpful."

The doctrinal campaign has included criticism of a documentary on China filmed by Michelangelo Antonioni, of a selection performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Peking last September, and of those "who worship foreign things." Mr. Oswald said he had heard no unfavorable references to the Philadelphia Orchestra and that "several friends informally mentioned to us that they had been very pleased to have the Philadelphia Orchestra there."

"We have not reached any clear idea of what underlies this campaign," Mr. Oswald said. "It seems to be another phase in the implementation of cultural revolution."

He said that he had spoken to officials at five universities about the possibilities of increasing cultural exchanges with the United States, and that he had heard "many expressions of hope that there would be more groups from America."

The highest official the Americans saw was Chou Pei-yuan, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Peking University and also of the Association for Science and Technology.

## TIES ... CONTINUED

Dr. Kissinger."

The formalization of diplomatic relations means little in practice because Egypt and the United States have had high-level representation in each other's countries for four months. But it will mean that the United States can expand its staff, and that now the U.S. flag will fly in Egypt again. Spain formally represented the Americans after Egypt broke relations in 1967.

A flag-raising ceremony will be held at the embassy here Friday, just before Kissinger's departure for Israel and Syria.

Ironically, the U.S. flag-raising will come only hours before Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrives to see Sadat, raising questions about what Egypt can do to equal its reception of Kissinger. The normalization of U.S.-Egyptian relations points up the waning of the Soviet-Egyptian relationship.

The U.S. relations were severed on June 6, 1967, by the

Mr. Chou attended a dinner given for the visitors, but he did not appear at a reception for the delegation at the United States liaison office in Peking. Members of the Pennsylvania group said that only 5 of 13 officials invited to the reception attended it.

A professor in the group reported that interviews had been requested with a variety of ranking officials, including Premier Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, the Politburo member and wife of Chairman Mao.

late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who charged that American planes had flown cover for Israeli air attacks during the Six Day War. He closed the Suez Canal at the same time.

Kissinger, in seeking Sadat's help in the Syria-Israel disengagement talks, has hopes that the negotiations will start soon. When Sadat was asked if he would have any advice for Syrian President Hafez Assad, he suggested that Assad start the talks and continue them, giving "Dr. Kissinger the opportunity to work out and achieve what he has achieved here on the Egyptian front." At another point he said he would "certainly" counsel patience.

Egyptian sources said Sadat was dispatching a high-level envoy to talk to Assad before Kissinger arrives in Damascus late Friday.

U.S. officials said Syria now holds the key to a settlement in the Middle East. According to this thinking, if Syria gets a disengagement it could be the first radical Arab state to sign an agreement with Israel, making further progress possible on the Egyptian and Jordanian fronts.

Asked whether further disengagement on the Sinai was discussed today, Sadat told reporters that the most important thing now is a disengagement on the Syrian front. He said he was in complete agreement with his friend Kissinger. Things must be taken in stages, Sadat said.

Sadat also was asked about

the possibility of ending the oil embargo. "The oil ministers will be meeting in March and they will take the decision," he said. "It is not my decision. It is the decision of all the Arabs."

The ministers were to have met in Tripoli on Feb. 14 but the session was postponed until an unspecified date in March. Sadat said negotiations were under way to fix a day.

Kissinger's talks with Sadat lasted about an hour longer than scheduled. Kissinger then took off in a motorcade for the 5,000-year-old Pyramid of Sauggara. He scrambled down steps covered with sand to see the ancient wall paintings and to visit a 4,500-year-old sarcophagus, containing the perfectly preserved mummy of Nefer.

Then he went on to see a sound-and-light at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Five minutes into the production it started to rain heavily. As everyone scrambled for shelter Kissinger looked up through rain-speckled eye glasses to ask: "Have you ever been rained on in the desert before?"

Later, Kissinger attended a dinner given by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi at the Sheraton Hotel nightclub with entertainment by belly-dancer Nagwa Fuad.

As the stunning woman — looking much like Rita Hay worth in "Sheba" — finished her act, Kissinger told his dinner companions:

"She will be the first to receive a cultural exchange visa."

## ACCORD ... CONTINUED

shattered the basic premises on which Israel has based its security ever since its establishment in the teeth of Arab opposition 26 years ago. These were (1) the Israelis' belief in their inherent superiority as fighting men and as handlers of sophisticated modern weaponry; and (2) the Israelis' belief in their ability to hold indefinitely natural lines of defense — the Suez Canal as an anti-tank ditch, for example — provided its borders coincided with such lines.

The October war was in fact very different from the three earlier Israeli wars. It was not a short, sharp clash won by the Israelis in the first few hours. This time it was not all over in six days with only a handful of casualties. It lasted 18 days, ended short of victory — and with 2,400 Israelis killed. Adjusting the figures, that is the equivalent of a loss of 170,000 men for the United States, over three times the number of Americans killed in 10 years of fighting in Vietnam.

## Heart searching now

In Israel, this has inevitably caused heart searching and has understandably prompted many many Israelis to ask what would be the cost of a fifth or sixth war with the Arabs, even if such

wars ended with Israeli military advantage on the battlefield. There is also a nagging concern lest any new round of fighting — given the increased use of rocketry in the October war — bring destruction for the first time to Israel's centers of civilian population. In a word, there is an incipient awareness that the balance is shifting away from Israel's favor and may never be regained.

Secretary Kissinger sees this and is apparently going ahead on the conviction that Israel is unlikely ever to have again as favorable a moment for a compromise settlement with the Arabs that the Arabs are likely to honor. He has said clearly that the basis for settlement is United Nations Security Council resolution 242 of 1967 which offers Israel a peace treaty with the Arabs in return for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war.

## Implementation — how?

Implementation of the resolution would return Arab sovereignty to lands seized by Israel in 1967 against an Arab guarantee of Israel's security within its pre-1967 borders. But for Israel, this is easier said than done. As Israelis see it, they are being asked to give up something very tangible to the Arabs in return for

intangible Arab promises — and they simply do not trust the Arabs. Secretary Kissinger's difficult task is to persuade both sides, inch by inch, that it is worth the effort to make the deal and honor it.

## Tough task ahead

With the Syrians and Israelis, the task is likely to be tough. Mutual mistrust is deep indeed. Hitherto the Syrians have obdurately refused even to consider any United Nations resolutions implying Israel's right to exist. But now Syrian President Assam seems willing to do so, and his supporters say Israel should take him up on this before the opportunity is lost. Perhaps Secretary Kissinger is saying the same thing to Mrs. Meir.

After Syria will have to come Jordan, the Palestinians, and Jerusalem. To quote President Nixon's "state of the world" message, "all important aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict must be addressed at some stage. ... A comprehensive settlement must cover all the parties and all the major issues."

But the ball for the moment is in the Syrian-Israeli court. If it is well played, we can move to the next stage — and President Nixon may be able to announce that the Arab oil embargo is being lifted, and be right.

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# U. S. and Egypt Renew Relations

NY Times 3-8-74

By HENRY TANNER

Special to The New York Times

CAIRO, Feb. 28—Egypt and the United States announced today that they would immediately resume diplomatic relations after a seven-year breach.

The announcement came after President Anwar el-Sadat met with Secretary of State Kissinger within sight of the pyramids. Tomorrow, the American flag will be raised over the United States Embassy in downtown Cairo for the first time since Egypt broke relations during the Arab-Israeli war in June, 1967. Mr. Kissinger will attend the ceremony before flying back to Israel.

Mr. Sadat was asked whether he expected President Nixon to visit Egypt in the near future. Reports to that effect have been published by the authoritative Cairo daily Al Ahram several times. "I hope so," Mr. Sadat said. When asked whether an invitation had been extended to Mr. Nixon Mr. Sadat said "yes," but he added that no date for a visit had been set.

Mr. Sadat was not able to
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Dr. Ashraf Ghorbal, Egypt's envoy to U.S., waves from his Washington resident as Egyptian flag is raised.

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Many got them was the lights
of Paris on the way home in
the evening."

10,000 in the Slum

About 10,000 of Nanterre's
100,000 inhabitants live in the
industrial slum called Petit
Nanterre. Few French are
among the slum dwellers, and
almost all the children have
the faces of Algeria and Moroc-
co, although they speak the
French of the Paris working
class.

Most of the people of Petit
Nanterre live in grimy one-
family houses that were sold
by their French owners as the
number of foreigners in the
neighborhood grew, or in "temp-
orary" housing put up a
decade or so ago, or in "cités
de transit."

These "cities of transit" are
shoddy tenements built to pro-
vide short-term housing for the
people of the shantytowns. The
buildings, often high-rise, are
not meant to last indefinitely
and they look it.

Few of the people of Petit
Nanterre have been able so far
to realize their highest hope for
housing: to move into an
H.L.M. The initials in French
stand for moderate-rent housing.
These joyless concrete struc-
tures enclose large masses of
people in minimal comfort.

Long Waiting Lists

Waiting lists for this housing
are long, and while many such
buildings have been erected in
Nanterre, Petit Nanterre has
not been favored. Most of the
residents live crowded into di-
lapidated or temporary facili-

there are few places but the
street for the children of Petit
Nanterre. As a result, petty 'de-
linquency, mainly vandalism,
is a major problem.

Little Control Over Children

Now and then, the police
pick up children and keep
them for a day or two before
releasing them. Parents hesi-
tate to go to the police station
to pick them up because if they
do they would have to pay a
fine. They know that the chil-
dren will be released anyway.

Miss Emmick reported that
migrant parents had little con-
trol over their children.

Because the children speak
the language of the country
better and are more attuned to
its ways, they are often the in-
termediaries on whom parents
depend in their dealings with
authorities. Mostly illiterate
the parents also depend on
their children to serve as their
scribes. As a result, the mi-
grants' children often feel su-
perior to their parents and pa-
rental authority suffers.

Unlike their parents, who
often speak of eventually re-
turning to their homelands, the
children appear to give no
thought to leaving France
which for most is the only
country they know. At the
same time, they express aware
ness that they will always be
considered foreigners.

Children born here may op-
pose French citizenship at ag-
18, but few adults consider ap-
plication for the show proces-
s of naturalization. Throughout
Western Europe, migrant work-
ers appear to prefer to cor-

Is Contrition
B—shit?

KT

The Washington Post reported Feb. 1 that both Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger had unsuccessfully urged President Nixon last summer to abandon his allegiance to departed White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Charles Colson. The essence of the President's reaction to the advice was summed up in a quote attributed to his press secretary, Ron Ziegler. "Contrition is bullshit." Ziegler had said, according to former White House speechwriter John Andrews, who found the quote in notes of a talk with Ziegler last July 27.

Post reporters Bob Woodward wanted the quote to be published in full and managing editor Howard Simons agreed. But shortly after the story was read to the White House press office on the eve of its publication, Woodward got a call from Andrews. "I just got a call from Ron," Andrews said. "He thinks that if that 'bullshit' quote appears, somebody will translate it into Lafen or something and put it under the Ziegler coat of arms. He thinks it will come back to haunt him more than the 'inoperative' statement." Andrews wondered if the quote shouldn't be dropped. Woodward thought it should stay and so did Simons, who ordered it run in full.

But when the first edition came out later that evening, with the story on page one and the quote in the last two lines before the jump to an inside page, it read, "contrition is bull-..." Woodward called the office to complain and was assured the error would be corrected. It was. But in subsequent editions, the quote had disappeared from the front page. A makeup editor, whom Woodward insists has now fallen from grace, had dropped two lines of lead into the front page and moved Ziegler's naughty quote to page 14.

For his part, Kissinger was reported to have said that "contrition is not bullshit."

—BRIT HUME

## Corrections

In bestowing rosebuds on Philadelphia Inquirer oil muckrakers James B. Steele and Donald L. Barlett last month we managed to misspell Barlett's name throughout. When Brit Hume, who wrote the piece, dictated it from Washington to New York he spelled the name correctly. Amanda Harris, our proofreader, took the dictation and got the name right, too. But the picture sent us by the Inquirer had "Bartlett" written on the back of it. So we checked with the Inquirer switchboard and were told that, indeed, that was the proper spelling. Hume, with astonishing good nature, urges that in the future we give more weight to his reporting than to the word of Philadelphia telephone operators, a suggestion we promise to take.

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In one area, the achievements by the Nixon Administration are so outstanding in this present world of our's, that historians will look back in awe at what has been accomplished in a short period of time. It's in the area of foreign policy that I speak to today where the things that have been accomplished by President Nixon and more particularly, by Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State, are almost unbelievable in their successes. But if you are busily digesting your daily dosage of Watergate fed to you by the paranoid section of the press, you probably even haven't taken time to notice what has been accomplished in a positive way for the good of this country, and more particularly, for the good of the entire world.

In contrast to previous administrations who felt the way you got things done on the international scene, was to buy results by tremendous grants of money or supplies, you realize what we have accomplished by nothing more spectacular than just good old-fashioned diplomacy conducted by a man who has to be the outstanding foreign affairs expert in the world today, Dr. Kissinger. We seem to take for granted that Dr. Kissinger can be like the fireman who answers the alarm and no matter how big the blaze, he has the solution to the problem. He puts out the fire and it seems that Dr. Kissinger is, to steal a phrase from the sports world, batting about a thousand percent in his achievements in these areas. Of course, the detente with Russia, the opening of communications with Communist China will be major milestones in the history of this country, but Dr. Kissinger's recent success in resolving a good measure of the problems existing in the explosive Middle East, is almost, unbelievable and it appears the good Dr. is going to continue resolving the situation so that at sometime in the future, the Middle East will know peace for the first time since World War II.

The amazing thing about Dr. Kissinger's accomplishments are the facts that he has such violent hatred to overcome among the principles involved. But even more amazing, is the fact that he has accomplished these things in the very shadow of the Soviet Union. it must be a source of great embarrassment to the diplomats of the Soviet Union to realize that in their very backyard, an American diplomat is the one that is bringing order out chaos and resolving all sorts of problems. This can probably explain the frantic broadcasts in Arabic language to the Middle East from the short-wave transmitters in Moscow urging the Middle Easterners to take all possible steps to hinder and embarrass the United States.

President Sudat of Egypt who pushed hard for the lifting of the oil embargo, demonstrates as clearly as anyone can, the debt he feels to the United States for the results achieved by Dr. Kissinger. The Israeli's are going to have to continue to give up some of the gains made in their recent wars but in return, the Israeli's are going to find that in a few years they'll be living in peace with the Arabs. We will continue to see American influence of prime importance in the Middle East, an achievement accredited to Dr. Kissinger and to the man who named him Secretary of State, President Nixon.

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At the end of their talks, Kissinger and Sadat posed with their aides for photographs. To illustrate Egypt's involvement in settlement negotiations on the Golan Heights, Egyptian Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Mohamed Gamaşi held a map of the region in his hands.

Sadat, wearing civilian clothes instead of army uniform for the first time since he has been receiving Kissinger, repeated his theme that the Syrian and Egyptian fronts are one. This was apparently intended to justify Cairo's interest in a settlement.

A Syrian-Israeli disengage-

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day.

Factional and ideological lines shifted from vote to vote at the sometimes tense day-long meeting at the Sheraton Park Hotel, which was punctuated by a three-hour, closed-door luncheon of the committee where, Strauss said, "we were able to vent our particular strong feelings—emotionally, in some instances."

But at the end, only the opposite extremes of the 25-member executive committee, new politics spokesman Arnold Alperstein of Colorado and Mickey Griffin, Alabama Gov. George Wallace's representative, voted against sending the modified rules package to the national committee.

The new politics leaders, backed by the four blacks and chicano on the panel, lost, 15 to 8, on a fight to prevent any changes in the delegate selection rules hammered out last year by a liberal-controlled commission headed by Baltimore City Councilwoman Barbara Mikulski.

But the committee, which will have power to supervise state affirmative action plans designed to guarantee participation in party affairs by minorities, women, youths and others, will have a moderate-to-liberal majority.

Strauss has designated former New York City Major Robert F. Wagner Jr. as its chairman. With a representative of the state chairmen still to be named, the 25-member committee includes 12 women six blacks, two chicanos, and Puerto Rican and three labor representatives.

Strauss, who notified the executive committee of the $775,000 settlement of the Democrats' civil damage suit against the Committee for the Re-election of the President over the Watergate break-in, made his main fight on the expansion of the compliance panel to 20 from the 17 members the Mikulski Commission had recommended.

While Alperstein and Bas Patterso, the black vice chairman of the party, protested against what they called "the elemental unfairness" of the increase, Strauss insisted he needed the extra appointments to "represent the different constituencies in the party."