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SUBJECT: TRAVELING PRESS REPORT, MORNING, MAY 19, 1975

FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PRS
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SUMMARY: TWO STORIES COME FROM HAK VISIT TO VIENNA, THE UPCOMING MEETINGS WITH GROMYKO AND THE POSSIBLE USE OF B-52S DURING THE MAYAGUEZ INCIDENT. OF THE MEETINGS, THE MAIN TOPIC OF INTEREST IS SALT AND MIRVS AND VERIFICATION THEREOF. THE U.S. SIDE IS REPORTEDLY WILLING TO COMPROMISE TO REACH SOLUTION.END SUMMARY

1. AP - FREED CITES THE SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL SAYING HAK "IS WILLING TO CONSIDER A COMPROMISE OF ONE OF THE KEY U.S. POSITIONS" IN SALT VERIFICATION PROCEDURES IN HOPES OF GETTING A TREATY BY THE SUMMIT NEXT FALL. THE OFFICIAL SAID THERE HAVE BEEN SOME INDICATIONS THAT MOSCOW HAS NEW IDEAS ON VERIFICATION. HAK AND GROMYKO WILL NOT DISCUSS THE ME AND GENEVA UNTIL TUESDAY, SAID THE OFFICIAL, WHO CONTINUED THAT HAK CANNOT MAKE COMMITMENTS UNTIL AFTER FORD MEETS SADAT AND RABIN.

2. UPI - GROWALD REPORTS HAK "GOING THROUGH THE SOCIAL NICETIES WITH HIS AUSTRIAN HOSTS" BEFORE MEETING WITH

GROMYKO AT TEA-TIME. GROMYKO WAS EXPECTED TO AVOID INDOA CHINA AND TALK ABOUT THE ME, LOOKING TO SEE IF U.S. SUPPORTS RESUMPTION OF GENEVA TALKS. GROMYKO ARRIVAL STATEMENT CITED.

3. WASHPOST - MARDER SAYS TALKS TO FOCUS OF ARMS LIMITS, EXPLORING A COMPROMISE IN VERIFICATION TO BREAK THE SALT DEADLOCK. ANY MISSILE TESTED WITH MIRV COUNTS AS A MIRV UNDER THE 1,320 CEILING, WHICH WAS OLD U.S. POSITION, TO BE SOFTENED IF SPECIFIC MISSILES CAN BE VERIFIED SINGLE OR MULTIPLE. HAK AND GROMYKO EXPECTED TO WORK FOR POLITICAL RATHER THAN TECHNICAL, COMPROMISE.

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TUESDAY TALKS WILL TURN TO ME, WITH SOVIET CALL FOR NEW GENEVA TALKS AGAINST U.S. DESIRE TO WAIT UNTIL FORD HAS SEEN SADAT AND RABIN.

THIRDLY, HAK COUNTING ON SENATE ACTION ON TURKISH AID CUTOFF TO HELP HIM WOO TURKS DIPLOMATICALLY.

4. WALL STREET JOURNAL - MILLER SAYS U.S. OPTIMISTIC AT GETTING SALT FLOWING AGAIN. DESPIITE DIFFERENCES ON KEY TECHNICAL PROBLEMS, SENIOR OFFICIALS ARE OPTIMISTIC. OFFICIALS AGREE U.S. WILL BUDGE FROM POSITION, BUT RUSSIANS MAY PROPOSE A NEW VERIFICATION PLAN LEADING TO COMPROMISE. DETAILED TECHNICAL TALKS WOULD RESUME NEXT MONTH, WITH FINAL AGREEMENT IN TIME FOR THE SUMMIT IN THE FALL. ON THE ME, OFFICIALS INDICATE "THEY WILL TRY TO AVOID ANY MOVE THAT WOULD DRAW THE SOVIETS MORE DEEPLY INTO ARAB-ISRAELI ISSUES." HAK HOPES SOVIETS WILL LET HIM RESTART NEGOTIATIONS OUTSIDE GENEVA, WHICH THEY FAVOR PUBLICALLY. GENERALLY, HAK-GROMYKO TALKS WILL LOOK FOR ANY CHANGE IN SOVIET ATTITUDE ON DETENTE, IN WAKE OF INDOCHINA AND RECENT VERBAL BARBS. OFFICIALS BELIEVE SALT TALKS HAVE THEIR OWN MOMENTUM, DUE TO THEIR IMPETUS FROM LEADERS AT VLADIVOSTOK, AND THIS WILL KEEP DETENTE ALIVE.

5. KALB - CBS RADIO - (FROM VIENNA): A GRIM FACED GROMYKO FLEW INTO VIENNA TODAY AND ... READ A PREPARED STATEMENT SAYING THAT HE HAD COME TO EXCHANGE IDEAS AND

VIEWS WITH SECRETARY KISSINGER IN A CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT. A REPORTER THEN ASKED HIS OPINION ABOUT THE RECONVENING OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON THE ME. NO QUESTIONS, GROMYKO RESPONDED. THEN HE PROCEDED THROUGH HEAVY SECURITY TO THE SOVIET EMBASSY WHERE HE BEGAN PREPARATIONS FOR HIS MEETING LATER TODAY WITH HAK. THE SECRETARY WAS NOT AT THE AIRPORT, HE TOOK HIS WIFE NANCY TO SEE A

PERFORMANCE AT THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL, FAMOUS FOR MORE THAN 400 YEARS. THE KISSINGER-GROMYKO MEETING FOCUSES ON THREE MAIN THEMES: BREAKING THE DEADLOCK ON STRATEGIC ARMS NEGOTIATIONS -- HAK SEEMS TO BE PREPARED FOR A COMPROMISE ON THE KEY OBSTACLE OF VERIFICATION, THE ME -- ANOTHER MAJOR THEME, AND FINALLY THE RECONVENING OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE. HANGING OVER THESE TALKS IS A QUESTION, HOW MUCH SOVIET-AMERICAN DETENTE HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY RECENT AMERICAN SET-BACKS I

INDOCHINA AND BY THE AMERICAN MILITARY ACTIONS IN THE MAYAGUEZ EPISODE OF LAST WEEK, IN WHICH FOR A TIME THE U.S. CONSIDERED USING THE B-52 STRATEGIC BOMBER.

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6. KOPPEL - ABC RADIO - (FROM VIENNA): SECRETARY KISSINGER IS SPENDING AN UNCHARACTERISTICALLY RELAXING DAY ATTENDING A PERFORMANCE AT THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL HERE IN VIENNA THIS MORNING THEN GOING TO SEE THE AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR BEFORE TAKING WIFE NANCY TO A PRIVATE LUNCH. IT IS NOT UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON THAT HAK MEETS WITH SOVIET FM GROMYKO WHO ARRIVED HERE IN VIENNA THIS MORNING. THE PRIMARY TOPICS OF DISCUSSION TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE WHICH IN EFFECT WOULD FORMALIZE THE POST WWII DIVISION OF EUROPE, THAT IS SOMETHING THE SOVIET'S WANT BADLY, AND THE STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS, WHICH ARE CURRENTLY STALLED AND WHICH HAK HOPES TO GET MOVING AGAIN IN HIS TALKS WITH GROMYKO.

7. REUTERS - NELSON LEADS WITH COMING TALKS ON SALT, CITING U.S. OFFICIALS SAYING THE SS-18 MISSILE IS "HORRENDOUS", SINCE IT CAN CARRY EITHER SINGLE OR MULTIPLE WARHEADS. THE OFFICIAL SAID THE PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED, THOUGH THERE WILL NOT BE A BREAKTHROUGH IN VIENNA. IF ALL GOES WELL, GENEVA TALKS RESUMING JUNE 2 WILL PRODUCE SALT-II AGREEMENT WHICH FORD AND BREZHNEV CAN SIGN THIS FALL.

OTHER ITEMS ON VIENNA AGENDA INCLUDE CSCE AND GENEVA CONFERENCE ON ME. OFFICIALS SAY DRAMATIC MOVEMENT IS UNLIKELY IN BOTH CASES.

8. KALB, CBS-TV, FROM VIENNA: THE U.S. CONSIDERED USING THE B-52 STRATEGIC BOMBER AGAINST THE CAMBODIAN MAINLAND DURING THE MAYAGUEZ EPISODE. A TOP AMERICAN OFFICIAL WHO SPOKE UNDER BACKGROUND RULES WHICH FORBID IDENTIFYING HIM, ADMITTED THAT THE B-52 WAS ONE LIVE OPTION UP UNTIL THE TIME LAST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER CORAL SEA ARRIVED ON THE SCENE

WITH TACTICAL JET FIGHTERS. THEN THE B-52 OPTION WAS SHELVED AND THE FIGHTERS WENT INTO ACTION. THE NSC,

WHICH FUNCTIONS UNDER HAK'S DIRECTION, ADVANCED THE B-52 OPTION TO PRESIDENT FORD AND IT WAS APPARENTLY CONSIDERED SERIOUSLY. IT IS CLEAR FROM A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EVENTS THAT ONCE THE MAYAGUEZ WAS CAPTURED THE ADMINISTRATION FOLLOWED A TWO-TRACK APPROACH, MAKING A DIPLOMATIC APPEAL FOR THE RELEASE OF THE SHIP AND THE CREW, WHICH NO ONE APPARENTLY THOUGH WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL, AND AT THE SAME TIME GRADUALLY ESCALATING AMERICAN MILITARY PRESSURE AGAINST CAMBODIA. THE ADMINISTRATION DECIDED IT HAD TO ACT BY WEDNESDAY IN ORDER TO FORESTALL A LENGTHY BARGAINING SESSION WITH THE CAMBODIANS. AND TO

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DEMONSTRATE THAT THE U.S. COULD ACT DECISIVELY IN A CRISIS TO PROTECT ITS INTERESTS, A POINT HAK MAY UNDERSCORE TODAY AND TOMORROW IN HIS TALKS WITH SOVIET FM GROMYKO.

9. NYTIMES - GELB CITES FLYING SENIOR OFFICIALS SAYING THAT USE OF B52S IN MAYAGUEZ INCIDENTS WAS CONSIDERED. NSC DECIDED FROM MILITARY ACTION HAD TO BE TAKEN BY WESDNESDAY BOMBERS WOULD HAVE BEEN USED TO HIT CAMBODIAN MAINLAND, BUT ARRIVAL OF CORAL SEA MADE THAT OPTION UNNECESSARY.

ON SALT, REPORTERS WERE TOLD U.S. IS CONSIDERING A

COMPROMISE ON VERIFICATION, THOUGH NO BREAKTHROUGH IS EXPECTED IN VIENNA SINCE GR MYKO DOES NOT SPEAK ON NUCLEAR ARMS. ON THE ME, DECISIONS WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL FORD SEES SADAT AND RABIN.

U.S. STANCE ON CSCE RELAXED, AS MOSCOW PRESSED FOR JULY SUMMIT TO LEGITIMIZE BOUNDARIES AND ALLIES OF U.S. WANTED TO END THE CONFERENCE.

"THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ... PARLEY WAS DESCRIBED AS A STOCK-TAKING OF SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS ... (AND) COMES AT A TIME WHEN ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN HINTING PUBLICALLY AT A SHIFT IN PUBLIC PRIORITIES -- AT LEAST IN THE SHORT RUN ... OFFICIALS HAVE SAID THAT AMERICAN ALLIANCES WILL BE GIVEN A GREATER RELATIVE EMPHASIS, WHILE THE ADMINISTRATION AVOIDS APPEARING TOO LENIENT IN A RANGE OF NEGOTIATIONS GOING ON WITH MOSCOW." ONE HAK AIDE EXPLAINED THIS IS A PRACTICAL SHIFT TO COMPENSATE FOR "THE INDOCHINA FAILURE", NOT A STRATEGIC CHANGE. OFFICIALS SAY MOSCOW IS STILL FIRMLY COMMITTED TO DETENTE.

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SUBJECT: DEPARTMENT PRESS BRIEFING, MAY 19, 1975

FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PRS.
NO. 2.

FOLLOWING IS SUMMARY ACTING SPOKESMAN FUNSETH'S RESPONSES
AT MAY 19 PRESS BRIEFING.

1. NOTE TO THAILAND -- CHARGE MASTERS DELIVERED NOTE TO THAI FONMIN CHARTCHAI AT 9:45 A.M. LOCAL TODAY. NOTE EXPRESSED REGRET OVER RECENT INCIDENTS AND PROVIDED AN EXPLANATION OF THESE EVENTS. NOTE WAS OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED BY RTG. WE HAVE SEEN REPORTS THAT RTG IS SATISFIED WITH THE NOTE.

2. MAYAGUEZ -- (A) REMAINS OF US MARINES-- DOD INFORMED US THAT REMAINS OF SOME MARINES MAY HAVE BEEN LEFT ON TANG ISLAND. WE ARE TRYING TO BRING ABOUT RETURN. FUNSETH CONFIRMED DOD STATEMENT THAT RED CROSS IS ONE CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH WE ARE ACTING, BUT AS NOT HELPFUL TO THIS EFFORT, DECLINED TO DISCUSS OTHER POSSIBLE CHANNELS.

(B) DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEIZURE OF POLISH VESSEL OFF CALIFORNIA AND MAYAGUEZ CASE -- ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON.

COAST GUARD SEIZED POLISH VESSEL FOR FISHING ILLEGALLY IN US CONTIGUOUS FISHING ZONE (SEE ITEM 6 BELOW). ON OTHER HAND, MAYAGUEZ WAS A MERCHANT VESSEL IN NORMAL PASSAGE IN AN INTERNATIONAL SEA LANE.

(C) NOTICE TO MARINERS -- WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL CIRCUMSTANCES PERMIT IT TO BE LIFTED. WHEN FUNSETH CONFIRMED THAT NOTAM WAS OF ADVISORY NATURE AND PRESS SUGGESTED THAT OTHER AMERICAN VESSELS MIGHT SAIL THROUGH SAME AREA, FUNSETH STATED ONE SHOULD NOT "UNDERESTIMATE THE COMMON SENSE" OF AMERICAN SHIP CAPTAINS.

3. INDOCHINA -- (A) ALGERIA AND VIETNAMESE ASSETS IN US/US RECOGNITION OF AUTHORITY IN SAIGON/US INTERESTS IN SAIGON -- THESE AND QUESTIONS LIKE THESE ARE STILL UNDER STUDY.

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(B) CONTACT WITH CAMBODIANS IN PEKING -- NOT AWARE THAT US HAS HAD CONTACT WITH CAMBODIANS IN PEKING SINCE LAST WEEK.

4. AMERICANS IN SAVANNAHET -- NOT MUCH CHANGE SINCE WEEKEND. ARE STILL BEING DETAINED. WE ARE IN CLOSE CONSULTATION WITH RLG WHICH ASSURES US A CABINET-LEVEL OFFICIAL WILL GO TO SAVANNAHET TO DISCUSS THE RELEASE. HE DID NOT KNOW THE REASON FOR THE DELAY OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE OFFICIAL IN SAVANNAHET.

5. IRANIAN PRESS REPORT ON ENERGY CONFERENCE AND INDEXING AGREEMENT -- (REPORT APPARENTLY ALLEGES THAT US AGREED TO SHAH'S INDEXING SCHEME AND ALSO PARTICIPATED IN "SECRET MEETING" IN TEHERAN WITH IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, EC AND FRANCE TO PLAN FOR AN ENERGY CONFERENCE.) FUNSETH SAID IF THERE WAS A "SECRET" MEETING IT "WAS SO 'SECRET'" THAT WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT. HE ADDED HE WAS NOT AWARE OF ANY AGREEMENT ON INDEXING, STATING THE MOST RECENT COMMENT ON THE GENERAL SUBJECT WAS MADE BY THE SECRETARY IN KANSAS CITY SPEECH.

6. SEIZURE OF POLISH VESSEL -- POLISH VESSEL KALMAR WAS STGHTED ILLEGALLY FISHING 3 A.M. LOCAL SATURDAY ABOUT 10 MILES OFF CALIFORNIA COAST. COAST GUARD SEIZED VESSEL AND TOOK IT TO SAN FRANCISCO. POLISH EMBASSY AND POLISH MARITIME REPRESENTATIVE IN NEW YORK WERE INFORMED.
CIVIL CHARGES AGAINST THE VESSEL AND CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST THE MASTER WILL BE FILED TODAY IN SAN FRANCISCO.

7. NORTH KOREA -- FUNSETH TERMED AS "NONSENSE" REPORTED NORTH KOREAN CHARGE THAT U.S. PLANNING NUCLEAR WARFARE.

8. ILLNESS OF SATO -- FUNSETH OPENED BRIEFING WITH STATEMENT: "WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED THE NEWS THAT FORMER PRIME MINISTER EISAKU SATO HAS SUFFERED A STROKE. WE ARE DEEPLY DISTRESSED BY THE NEWS OF THE SUDDEN ILLNESS OF FORMER PRIME MINISTER EISAKU SATO, A STATESMAN WHO HAS LONG HAD CLOSE FRIENDLY TIES WITH THE UNITED STATES. WE PROFOUNDLY HOPE THAT HE WILL RECOVER SPEEDILY."

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AP PARIS UNSIGNED STORY SAID: HAK OFFERED INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD A PLAN TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC LINKS WITH UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND TOLD RICH NATIONS THEIR FUTURE STABILITY DEPENDS ON IT. STORY INCLUDED SHORT QUOTE FROM OECD SPEECH AND SAID U.S. OFFICIALS DESCRIBED SPEECH "AS A WAY OF HEADING OFF OVER THE LONG TERM, CONFRONTATIONS LIKE EMBARGOES ON OIL OR OTHER COMMODITIES." STORY SAID REACTION AMONG RICH COUNTRIES WAS GENERALLY FAVORABLE AND QUOTED SAUVAGNARGUES THAT VIEWS WITHIN OECD COUNTRIES HAD GROWN MUCH CLOSER ON SUBJECT.

UPI UNSIGNED FROM BRUSSELS QUOTED SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL TRAVELING WITH HAK THAT ISRAEL IS BEING NEITHER "HARD-NOSED NOR STONEWALLING" ON AN INTERIM SETTLEMENT WITH EGYPT. STORY CONTINUED:

"THE OFFICIAL SAID REPORTS THE ISRAELIS HAD ADOPTED A NO-GIVE POSTURE BECAUSE OF A SUPPORT PLEDGE BY 76 U.S. SENATORS WERE WRONG.

"I'M NOT SAYING THE ISRAELIS GAVE US NEW IDEAS, THE OFFICIAL SAID OF THE MOST RECENT U.S.-ISRAELI TALKS. 'BUT IN MOOD AND IN ATMOSPHERE, THEY GAVE NO SENSE OF A STONEWALL.'

"THE ISRAELIS, THE OFFICIAL ABOARD KISSINGER'S PLANE SAID 'WERE SIMPLY ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THEY WANTED TO TELL US BEFORE THE SALZBURG MEETING. THEY SPECIFICALLY

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WERE NOT ASKED FOR ANY NEW COMPROMISES.

"THE ISRAELIS TALKED BUT DID NOT VOLUNTEER ANY SUGGESTED COMPROMISES, THE OFFICIAL SAID.

"HE SAID FORD'S MEETING WITH SADAT AND LATER NEXT MONTH WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN WERE NOT INTENDED AS PART OF A BARGAINING PROCESS BUT WERE MEANT ONLY TO SOUND OUT THE TWO LEADERS.

"THE OFFICIAL SAID THAT ONCE BOTH POSITIONS ARE CLEAR, FORD AND KISSINGER WOULD DECIDE IF THE TWO WERE CLOSE ENOUGH TO ATTEMPT AGAIN THE FASHIONING OF AN INTERIM AGREEMENT.

"IF THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE, HE SAID, THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE WOULD PROBABLY BE A GENEVA CONFERENCE OF ALL PARTIES."

STORY SAID SENIOR OFFICIAL TOLD REPORTERS FORD'S AGENDA IN BRUSSELS WOULD INCLUDE DISCUSSIONS OF NATO DEFENSE MATTERS, ENERGY AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION, EAST-WEST RELATIONS, INCLUDING SOVIET-AMERICAN EFFORTS TO REACH A STRATEGIC ARMS AGREEMENT AND SUCH BILATERAL MATTERS AS CYPRUS AND PORTUGAL.

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LA TIMES NOT AVAILABLE HERE TODAY.

RADIO:

BOB WALKER, ABC NEW YORK, INCLUDED HAK REPLY TO QUESTION BY KOPPEL IN PARIS ON WHAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE DISCUSSING WITH NATO LEADERS. HAK: "WE WILL TAKE UP SOME OF THE CONVENTIONAL ISSUES SUCH AS SECURITY. WE WILL THEN TAKE UP SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED HERE AND THEN LATER NEW PROBLEMS THAT WE ARE ALL FACING ON ENERGY, ECONOMIC COOPERATION, RELATIONS WITH THE NEWLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, AND WE WILL TAKE UP RELATIONS WITH THE EAST."

BARRY SCHWEID, WTOP RADIO PARIS: "SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER ADVANCED A SERIES OF PROPOSALS IN PARIS TODAY TO HELP THE DEVELOPING THIRD WORLD NATIONS. AMONG THEM A TWO BILLION DOLLAR TRUST FUND TO HELP THE POORER COUNTRIES MEET RISING COSTS OF IMPORTED ENERGY, FOOD, FERTILIZER AND INDUSTRIAL GOODS, ALSO A ONE BILLION DOLLAR FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. KISSINGER INVITED THE NEWLY RICH OIL PRODUCERS TO FOOT PART OF THE BILL. ADDRESSING THE 24 NATION ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION KISSINGER SAID ANY NATION WITH A MORAL CLAIM TO WORLD LEADERSHIP MUST CONTRIBUTE TO EASING THE PLIGHT OF THE POOREST COUNTRIES.

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ABC'S H.K. SMITH ON HAK OECD SPEECH: "SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER FLEW TO BRUSSELS FROM PARIS TO JOIN THE NATO MEETING. IN PARIS, AS PART OF THE AMERICAN PLAN TO COMBAT WORLD HUNGER, HAK SAID THE UNITED STATES WILL TAKE PART IN A BILLION-DOLLAR-A-YEAR FARM FUND TO HELP NEEDY NATIONS FEED THEMSELVES FOR THE REST OF THE 20TH CENTURY. AT THE SAME TIME, HAK WARNED AGAINST WHAT HE CALLED THE SELF-INDULGENT RHETORIC AND SELF-RIGHTEOUS PROPAGANDA OF SOME THIRD-WORLD NATIONS. CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION, SAID HAK, CANNOT BE CARRIED ON AT THE SAME TIME."

FROM BRUSSELS, ABC'S KOPPEL HAD FOLLOWING ON NATO SUMMIT: "FOR ALL THE TALK OF UNITY IN NATO, IT IS DISUNITY THAT WILL OCCUPY MUCH OF PRESIDENT FORD'S ATTENTION HERE DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS. THE NATO ALLIANCE IS IN THE CURIOUS POSITION OF BEING UNABLE TO DISCUSS ANY SENSITIVE ISSUES DURING ITS GENERAL SESSIONS BECAUSE ONE OF THE NATO MEMBERS, PORTUGAL, IS MOVING SO FAR TO THE LEFT THAT IT MUST BE ASSUMED THAT NATO SECRETS COULD BE LEAKED TO THE SOVIET UNION. SO, ALL SENSITIVE DISCUSSIONS WILL BE HELD IN PRIVATE, BILATERAL MEETINGS FROM WHICH THE PORTUGUESE WILL

BE EXCLUDED. THEN THERE IS THE SUBJECT OF CYPRUS, WHICH HAS BROUGHT TWO NATO ALLIES, GREECE AND TURKEY, TO THE BRINK OF WAR. TOMORROW MORNING, PRESIDENT FORD MEETS SEPARATELY WITH THE GREEK AND TURKISH PRIME MINISTERS. ALTHOUGH NO CYPRUS BREAKTHROUGH IS EXPECTED TOMORROW, SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HOPE THAT AFTER PRESIDENT FORD HAS A CHANCE TO BRIEF THE HOUSE BACK IN WASHINGTON ON HIS TALKS HERE, THE CONGRESSMEN WILL AGREE TO LIFT THE ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST TURKEY AND THAT THIS WILL MOVE THINGS TOWARDS A CYPRUS SETTLEMENT. BUT AS FOR THE UNITY OF NATO, THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL FIND HERE; IT IS A CONDITION THAT HE WILL TRY TO HELP BRING ABOUT."

NBC ANCHOR MAN SAID "SECRETARY KISSINGER IS THE PRESIDENT'S ADVANCE MAN FOR THIS SIX-DAY TRIP AND HE SAID IN PARIS TODAY THAT THE OIL COUNTRIES TOGETHER WITH THE INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES OUGHT TO HELP THE POORER COUNTRIES, WHO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS THE THIRD WORLD, AND HE SUGGESTED A TWO BILLION-DOLLAR TRUST FUND HELD BY THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND." (NOTHING FROM VALERIANI).

CBS' CRONKITE: "EARLIER TODAY, AT A PARIS MEETING OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER URGED THE HAVE COUNTRIES TO

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SUMMARY: COVERAGE OF HAK SPEECHES IS LIGHT AS PRESIDENT LEAVES FOR NATO SUMMIT. MAIN LEADS ARE EFFORTS TO HEAD OFF CONFRONTATION AND HELP LDC'S, AS EXPRESSED IN IEA AND OECD SPEECHES. END SUMMARY.

1. LA TIMES NOT AVAILABLE, NO REPORTS FROM NETWORKS.

2. WASHPOST - MARDER ON PAGE 14 SAYS THAT HAK BIRTHDAY CAKE "IS THE LATEST INDICATION THAT FOOD HAS BECOME A SYMBOL OF COMPROMISE BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE U.S.," AS GISCARD ACCEPTED INVITE TO DINNER WITH KING BAUDOUIN TO MEET FORD. HAK CITED AFTER HIS MEETING WITH GISCARD: BILATERAL RELATIONS EXCELLENT, U.S. WILL SUPPORT FRENCH CALL FOR NEW PREPCON. DESPITE OCCASIONAL TACTICAL DIFFERENCES, MUTUALITY OF APPROACH LED TO VERY SATISFACTORY DISCUSSION.

NOSSITER IN FRONT-PAGE ARTICLE DISCUSSES IEA SPEECH AS A NEW FORMULA TO BRING OPEC BACK TO BARGAINING TABLE. ONE COMMISSION WOULD DO REAL WORK, TWO OTHERS WOULD BE ONLY

TALK SHOPS. REACTION WAS FAVORABLE WITHIN IEA. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HAK AND SIMON ACKNOWLEDGED.

3. NYTIMES - FARNSWORTH ON PAGE ONE SAYS HAK SHOWED WILLINGNESS FOR GREATER PRICE STABILITY FOR PRIMARY MATERIALS. FIRST PREPCON FAILURE TAUGHT LESSON, COMMISSIONS OFFERED AS ONE SOLUTION.

4. AP - SCHWEID LEADS WITH HAK STATEMENT IN OECD SPEECH THAT GROWTH MUST ACCELERATE AND THIRD WORLD MUST BE

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HELPED OR DESTABILIZING POLITICAL PRESSURES COULD DEVELOP. OIL EMBARGO NAMED AS "MISUSED ECONOMIC POWER" AND WHILE THE U.S. WILL RESIST BLOC PRESSURES, IT WILL TRY TO AID DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. PROPOSALS INCLUDE $2 BILLION TRUST FUND, NEW TRADE PROCEDURES, AND $1 BILLION AGRICULTURE FUND.

5. UPI - GROWALD LEADS WITH $1 BILLION PER YEAR FARM FUND TO HELP FEED THE WORLD FOR THE REST OF THE CENTURY. FOOD PROBLEMS ARE MORAL AND POLITICAL CHALLENGE; IF WE DON'T ACT SOON, FOOD CRISES WILL BECOME UNMANAGEABLE. PRESIDENT ASKED HAK TO ANNOUNCE U.S. PARTICIPATION IN

FOOD FUND; IEA AND OECD SPEECHES TOGETHER OUTLINE U.S. ECONOMIC POLICY. RHETORIC AND PROPOGANDA ARE NOT HELPFUL; CONFRONTATION DOES NOT MIX WITH COOPERATION.

6. REUTERS - HARRIS LEADS WITH HAK URGING PRODUCERS AND INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES TO HELP THIRD WORLD. U.S. SUPPORTED IMF TRUST FUND, HOPEFULLY WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OPEC TOO. FORD HAD AGREED THAT U.S. WOULD JOIN FOOD FUND. NEW TRADE ARRANGEMENTS PROPOSED FOR FOOD, ENERGY, AND RAW MATERIALS, ARRANGEMENTS. OECD POINTS ALREADY MADE IN KANSAS CITY,

BUT URGENT NATURE OF PROBLEM WAS STRESSED IN PARIS.

UPI IN LATE ADD CITES HAK SIDEWALK PRESS CONFERENCE, SAYING HE WAS HEARTENED BY RESPONSE TO U.S. PROPOSALS. CONFRONTATION MENTIONED IN SPEECH REFERRED NOT TO OECD BUT TO NATIONS ACTING IN LARGER FORUMS, EG THE UN. ASKED ABOUT NATO SUMMIT, HAK SAID FORD WILL DISCUSS SECURITY, ECONOMIC MATTERS, AND CYPRUS RELATED QUESTIONS. ALGERIAN PRESS SERVICE REPORTED TO REJECT HAK PROPOSALS FOR NEW PREPCON, REFLECTING U.S. DESIRE TO DOMINATE THE THIRD WORLD.

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1. NO STORY FROM ABRAMSON, LATIMES.

2. AFTERNOON WIRES FROM PARIS:

UPI(GROWALD) LEADS WITH HAK APPEALING TO OIL-PRODUCING AND DEVELOPING NATIONS TO COOPERATE WITH INDUSTRIAL NATIONS ON WORLD ENERGY CRISIS AND AVOID ECONOMIC WARFARE, AT PRESS CONFERENCE AT EMBASSY. HAK SAID PROPOSAL FOR SETTING UP COMMISSIONS TO STUDY RAW MATERIALS & COMMODITIES QUESTIONS, AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT OF POORER NATIONS WAS NOT DESIGNED TO JUST FOB OFF OIL PRODUCERS. BUT HE MADE IT CLEAR HE DIDN'T WANT COMMISSIONS TO GET IN WAY OF OIL CRISIS TALKS BETWEEN PRODUCERS & CONSUMERS.

AP(SCHWEID) LEADS "HAK VEERED FROM PREVIOUS U.S. POLICY BY GOING ALONG WITH DEVELOPING WORLD'S INSISTENCE THAT RAW MATERIALS BESIDES OIL BE INCLUDED IN PRODUCER-CONSUMER CONFERENCE." ALTHOUGH HAK MODIFIED U.S. POSITION, HE MAINTAINED RELATIVELY HARD-LINE ON OIL QUESTIONS, STRESSING U.S. OPPOSITION TO RAW MATERIAL PRICE-FIXING SCHEMES OR INDEXING OIL PRICES TO CORRELATE THEM TO A GROUP OF

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS. HAK SAID PREPCON COULD BE RESUMED IN A MONTH. EUROPEAN DIPLOMAT SAID THIS COULD BE OPTIMISTIC ASSUMPTION BECAUSE NATIONS LIKE ALGERIA MIGHT FEEL HAK WAS ONLY PAYING LIP SERVICE TO THEIR DEMANDS. THE DIPLOMAT SAID THE REFERENCE IN HAK'S PROPOSAL TO NO PARTICULAR DEADLINE FOR CONCLUSION OF COMMISSIONS'

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WORK COULD BE INTERPRETED AS A DIPLOMATIC MOVE TO SIDE-
TRACK THE ISSUES.

REUTERS - NO STORY FROM HARRIS.

ABC EVENING NEWS:

SMITH: SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER WHO WILL BE ATTENDING THE NATO SUMMIT IN BRUSSELS WITH PRES FORD WAS IN PARIS TODAY WORKING ON ANOTHER MATTER -- A FRESH EFFORT TO GET THE WORLD'S OIL-PRODUCING NATIONS AND OIL-CONSUMING NATIONS TO COOPERATE. KISSINGER'S DAY BEGAN HOWEVER ON A LIGHTER NOTE.

KOPPEL: FRENCH PRES GISCARD D'ESTANG MARKED THE OCCASION

OF HAK'S 52ND BIRTHDAY BY INVITING HIM TO THE ELYSEE
PALACE FOR BREAKFAST, PRESENTING HIM WITH AN
8-VOLUME SET ON METTERNICH AND A BIRTHDAY CAKE THAT
MATERIALIZED UNDER A BRUTALLY FRANK FOREST OF CANDLES.
AS IF THAT WEREN'T BAD ENOUGH, A CROWD OF FRENCH NEWSMEN
AND PHOTOGRAPHERS ADDED THEIR GOOD WISHES IN SONG (SINGING
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU"). KISSINGER'S PRIMARY PURPOSE
IN COMING HERE TO PARIS THOUGH IS TO TRY TO GET A
DIALOGUE STARTED BETWEEN OIL-CONSUMERS AND OIL-
PRODUCERS. AN EARLIER EFFORT LAST MONTH BROKE DOWN.
THE U.S. HAD WANTED THE DISCUSSION LIMITED TO OIL PRICES
AND SUPPLY, BUT OTHER MEMBERS OF THE IEA INSISTED THAT ANY

DISCUSSION OF OIL MUST BE LINKED TO A BROADER DISCUSSION
OF OTHER RAW MATERIALS. TODAY, SPEAKING BEFORE A
CLOSED SESSION OF THE ENERGY AGENCY, KISSINGER PROPOSED
THE CLASSIC AMERICAN COMPROMISE -- COMMISSIONS, AS MANY
OF THEM AS MAY BE NECESSARY. IT WAS A POINT THAT KISSINGER
MADE AGAIN REPEATEDLY AT A NEWS CONFERENCE THIS EVENING,
ADDING ONLY THAT IT WAS AMERICA'S CONCERN FOR THE
WISHES OF THE UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
THAT CAUSED THE U.S. TO BACK OFF FROM ITS HARDER STANCE
OF LAST MONTH. WETHER OR NOT THAT IS TOTALLY
ACCURATE, A CONSUMER-PRODUCER DIALOGUE ON OIL IS NOW
ONCE AGAIN A LIKELY PROPOSITION.

NGC NIGHTLY NEWS

CHANCELLOR: SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER TODAY ANNOUNCED
A CHANGE

IN U.S. POLICY ON THE QUESTION OF OIL AND RAW MATERIALS.
AT THE IEA MEETING IN PARIS, KISSINGER SAID THAT THE U.S.
NOW IS WILLING TO TAKE UP THE MATTER OF PRICES FOR RAW.
MATERIALS AS WELL AS OIL AT ANY CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE
OIL-PRODUCING AND OIL-USING NATIONS. THAT REFLECTS THE
RECENT AND SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLICY. LAST
MARCH A PREPARATORY MEETING BROKE UP BECAUSE OF U.S..
INSISTENCE ON TALKING ABOUT ENERGY ALONE. THE SECRE-
TARY OF STATE ALSO CELEBRATED HIS 52ND BIRTHDAY TODAY IN
PARIS.

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VALERIANI: KISSINGER WALKED THE SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'S HOUSE TO THE ELYSEE PALACE FOR A BREAKFAST MEETING WITH ONE OF HIS FORMER HARVARD STUDENTS, FRENCH PRES GISCARD D'ESTANG AND A SURPRISE. BREAKFAST INCLUDED A BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH 52 CANDLES, WHICH KISSINGER BLEW OUT. USUALLY WELL-INFORMED SOURCES WOULD NOT SAY WHETHER OR NOT HE MADE A WISH. WHEN KISSINGER CAME OUT, WAITING NEWSMEN, MOST OF THEM FRENCH, SERENADED HIM IN ENGLISH (SINGING "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR HENRY"). IN ADDITION TO EATING CAKE, GISCARD AND KISSINGER DISCUSSED THE PROSPECTS FOR A SUMMIT MEETING OF COMMUNIST AND WESTERN ALLIANCE LEADERS TO WIND UP THE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE THIS SUMMER AND THEY ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE ME AND ENERGY PROBLEMS. ENERGY WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS KISSINGER CAME TO PARIS. HE PROPOSED TO FELLOW OIL CONSUMERS THAT THEIR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE MAJOR OIL PRODUCERS BE RESUMED BY SETTING UP SPECIAL STANDING COMMISSIONS TO DISCUSS LONG-TERM PRICE AND SUPPLY ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER RAW MATERIALS BESIDES OIL, AS THE PRODUCERS HAVE INSISTED. THIS WAS A SHIFT IN U.S. POLICY AWAY FROM THE CONCEPT OF COMPLETELY FREE INTERNATIONAL MARKETS. WHILE IT REFLECTED THE FACT THAT THE OIL PRODUCERS STILL HAVE THE UPPER HAND, IT MAY ALSO SERVE TO HOLD DOWN THE PRICES OF OTHER ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES AS WESTERN ECONOMIES BEGIN TO REVIVE AND THE DEMAND FOR RAW MATERIALS GOES UP AGAIN.

CBS EVENING NEWS

CRONKITE: ON THE GLOBAL ENERGY FRONT THE ATTEMPT TO BRING THE OIL-PRODUCING AND CONSUMING NATIONS TOGETHER WAS STYMIED IN PARIS SIX WEEKS AGO. THE U.S. INSISTED ON LIMITING ALL DISCUSSION TO ENERGY, RULING OUT THE DEMAND BY UNDER-DEVELOPED NATIONS THAT OTHER RAW MATERIALS LIKE FOOD AND MINERALS BE INCLUDED. BUT IN PARIS TODAY SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER ANNOUNCED A SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN U.S. POLICY AND SAID HE NOW IS

PREPARED TO INCLUDE DISCUSSIONS OF RAW MATERIALS IN THE CONSUMER-PRODUCER TALKS.

KALB: WITH A TOUCH OF FRENCH SAVOIR-FAIRE, PRES GISCARD CELEBRATED THE SHIFT IN AMERICAN POLICY BY SURPRISING THE SECRETARY WITH A BIRTHDAY CAKE, WITH 52 RED, WHITE AND BLUE CANDLES SITTING IN A FIELD OF CHOCOLATE. IT TOOK KISSINGER THREE PUFFS TO BLOW OUT THE CANDLES AND A LITTLE MORE THAN 2 HOURS TO OUTLINE THE SHIFT. AS THE SECRETARY LATER TOLD THIS FIRST MINISTERIAL MEETING OF THE 18-NATION IEA, THE U.S. IS NOW PREPARED TO DISCUSS NOT ONLY ENERGY WITH THE OIL PRODUCERS BUT ALSO A WIDE RANGE OF OTHER ISSUES, SUCH AS THE PRICING OF FOOD AND OTHER COMMODITIES. HIS IDEA IS TYPICALLY AMERICAN -- SET UP DIFFERENT COMMITTEES TO TACKLE DIFFERENT PROBLEMS, HOPEFULLY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. BUT THE SECRETARY MADE IT CLEAR HE STILL OPPOSES THE

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1. AP, SCHWEID: IN AN AMERICAN POLICY SHIFT, HAK PROPOSED A SERIES OF PRODUCER-CONSUMER COMMISSIONS ON RAW MATERIALS AS A MEANS OF REOPENING PREPARATORY MTGS OF WORLD ENERGY CONFERENCE WITHIN AS LITTLE AS A MONTH. WHILE DENYING SUPPORT FOR PRICE-FIXING OR INDEXING "US OFFICIALS" ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HAK PROPOSAL COULD LEAD TO CONTROLS AGAINST "EXCESSIVE PRICE VOLATILITY". AN "OBSERVER" SUGGESTED THAT HAK WAS TRYING TO TRADE A "LONG, LEISURELY" CONSIDERATION OF RAW MATERIAL PRICES AGAINST A UNITED FRONT NOW OPPOSING OIL PRICE INCREASES WHICH ARE EXPECTED SOON "IN THE RANGE OF 20 PERCENT". WITH OIL PRODUCERS IN CONTROL OF MARKET, CONSUMERS MUST MOVE VIGOUROUSLY TO COOPERATE ON CONSERVATION AND ON DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES.

2. UPI, GROWALD: "KISSINGER MARKED HIS 52ND BIRTHDAY WITH WHAT FOR HIM WAS A TYPICAL WORKDAY: HE ARRIVED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT MONDAY FROM WASHINGTON, MADE A MIDNIGHT AIRPORT ADDRESS, BREAKFASTED WITH PRESIDENT VALERY GISCARD

D'ESTAING, DELIVERED HIS 3200 WORD SPEECH TO IEA, HELD HALLWAY AND BACKROOM CONFERENCES, READ AND DISPATCHED MESSAGES TO AND FROM WASHINGTON. LATER TODAY HE HOLDS A NEWS CONFERENCE AND PREPARES A MAJOR SPEECH" FOR OECD. GROWALD ALSO COVERS ALL MAJOR ASPECTS OF HAK'S OUTLINE OF A "$1 TRILLION DOLLAR PLAN FOR FREEING THE 18 (IEA) COUNTRIES FROM DICTATION BY ARAB AND OTHER OIL PRODUCERS. IN A "MAJOR SHIFT" OF POLICY, HAK ALSO OFFERED A "COMPROMISE" ON GENERAL CONSIDERATION OF RAW MATERIAL PRICES TO RESTART TALKS WITH "THE ARAB DOMINATED OIL PRODUCING NATIONS." PRESIDENT FORD IS ACTING NOW TO ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION, HAK SAID IN HIS SPEECH.

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3. REUTERS

VARIOUS PARIS DATELINES COVER THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:
ENERGY - US HAS NOW WITHDRAWN ITS OPPOSITION TO DISCUSSING
RAW MATERIALS OTHER THAN OIL BUT IS STILL OPPOSED TO
INDEXING; ME - HAK SAYS US WILL NOT ACCEPT A DIPLOMATIC
STALEMATE, WHILE "A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL" WARNS THAT
BEIRUT CLASHES COULD DRAW SYRIA AND ISRAEL INTO A NEW
CONFLICT; HAK'S BIRTHDAY - CAKE AND 1830 EDITION OF
METTERNICH AT ELYSEE BREAKFAST.

NEWSPAPERS

NYTIMES - SMITH AND GWERTZMAN ARTICLES ON ME BEING SENT
SEPTEL. INGERSOLL

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NO. 12

SUMMARY: SEARCH FOR CYPRUS SETTLEMENT OVERSHADOWS CENTO MEETING, BUT OTHER NEWS IN THE WORLD PUSHES HAK TRIP TO SECONDARY RANK IN NEWS BUDGETS. END SUMMARY.

1. L.A. TIMES -- ABRAMSON LEADS WITH HAK VISIT TO TURKEY AS RENEWED EFFORT FOR CYPRUS SETTLEMENT. "SENIOR OFFICIAL" SAID HAK BELIEVES POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE IS MORE FAVORABLE AND WAS ENCOURAGED BY SENATE VOTE. WHICH GAVE ADMINISTRATION A FEW MORE WEEKS. WEDNESDAY IN BERLIN HAK GAVE STRONG ASSURANCES THAT U.S. WILL STAND BY BERLIN. ALL THIS TRIP AN EFFORT TO SHOW THE FLAG.

WIRES--

2. REUTERS -- NELSON FROM ANKARA LEADS WITH TURKISH FM'S WARNING TO U.S. TO RESUME ARMY DELIVERIES OR ENDANGER RELATIONS, SPEAKING AT CENTO MEETING IN HAK'S PRESENCE. HAK REPLIED "WE WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT" TO RESTORE

NORMAL RELATIONSHIP, IN WAKE OF SENATE VOTE WHICH BOUGHT TIME. IRANIAN DELEGATE WARNED THEIR AID MIGHT DROP IF OIL INCOME DROPPED FROM INFLATION; HAK APPEALED FOR COOPERATION. UK DELEGATE GAVE U.S. A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. AFTER BILATERAL TALKS WITH TURK FM, HAK ADMITTED CYPRUS DISCUSSED, BUT PARTIES INVOLVED MUST TALK. U.S. WOULD ONLY HELP PARTIES EXCHANGE VIEWS. ADMINISTRATION WOULD CONTINUE CAMPAIGN TO LIFT ARMS RESTRICTIONS, HAK SAID.

3. AP -- FREED CITES U.S. OFFICIAL SAYING HAK TOLD TURKISH LEADERS HOUSE PROBABLY WILL NOT REPEAT NOT LIFT ARMS BAN. HAK REPORTEDLY TOLD TURK FM MOVEMENT NECESSARY ON CYPRUS PROBLEM BEFORE HOUSE WILL ACT. PROGRESS HAS BEGUN, BUT TURKEY SHOULD CONSIDER STEPPING UP THE PACE. "I'M ALWAYS BASICALLY OPTIMISTIC."

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4. UPI -- ADD-ON TO EARLIER STORY CITED HAK CENTO ADDRESS AND REMARKS AFTER MEETING TURK FM. HAK ALSO TOLD NEWSMEN OF "A VERY SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION" OF U.S. PERSONNEL IN LAOS.

TV NEWS PROGRAMS: LEAD STORY ON ABC, NBC, CBS IS COMING REDUCTION OF U.S. PERSONNEL IN LAOS.

5. ABC -- (IN MIDST OF REPORT BY TOM JARRIEL FROM WHITE HOUSE:) SEC STATE KISSINGER IN ANKARA TODAY TOLD ABC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT TED KOPPEL THE REDUCTION WILL BE VERY SUBSTANTIAL. I KUSSIGER SAID IT MAKES NO SENSE TO CONTINUE U.S. MILITARY AID, WHICH HAD BEEN RUNNING UP TO 30 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR...

HKSMITH: SEC. KISSINGER TODAY ALSO WELCOMED SYRIA'S DECISION TO EXTEND THE PRESENCE OF A UN BUFFER FORCE ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS FOR SIX MORE MONTHS. HE SAID IT SHOULD HELP CREATE A CALMER ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH TO CONTINUE PEACE EFFORTS.

(NO REPORT FROM KOPPEL ON ANKARA VISIT)

6. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS -- CHANCELLOR, 17 MINUTES INTO PROGRAM: SEC. OF STATE KISSINGER IS IN TURKEY TODAY, AND HE TOLD THE TURKS THAT A RESUMPTION OF AMERICAN ARMS AID IS DEPENDANT ON PROGRESS IN A SETTLEMENT OF THE CYPRUS QUESTION...THE SENATE VOTED THIS WEEK TO RESTORE THE AID, BUT KISSINGER TOLD TURKISH LEADERS TODAY THAT THE HOUSE PROBABLY WON'T GO ALONG UNTIL IT SEES SOME MOVEMENT TOWARD A CYPRUS SETTLEMENT.

(NO VALERIANI.)

7. CBS -- CRONKITE AT TEN MINUTES PAST THE HOUR: SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER WAS IN ANKARA TODAY TRYING TO REASSURE TURKEY THAT THE U.S. IS A TRUSTWORTHY ALLY. BUT TURKEY QUESTIONED THESE REASSURANCES. MARVIN KALB REPORTS FROM ANKARA THAT TURKEY WAS NOT ENCOURAGED BY THE ONE-VOTE MARGIN THE U.S. SENATE GAVE EARLIER THIS WEEK TO END THE BAN ON ARMS SALES TO TURKEY. KALB SAYS TURKEY NOW IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN CLOSING AMERICAN BASES THERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

(NO KALB REPORT)

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FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM FUNSETM, S/PRS
NO. 11

1. MYTIMES - GELB REPORTS HAK'S REAFFIRMATION OF LINK BETWEEN WBERLIN, WESTERN EUROPE AND U.S. SECURITY. "FOR MR. KISSINGER WESTERN EUROPE WAS MEANT PRIMARILY WGERMANY AND WBERLIN." AN AIDE SAYS "TO HENRY, WASHINGTON AND BONN ARE THE TWO KEY PLAYERS." CHANCELLOR SCHMIDT IS HELD IN HIGH REGARD BY STATE DEPT. AS REPRESENTATIVE OF "NEW STRONG GERMANY." HAK TAKING CARE THAT MBFR DOES NOT LEAD TO BONN'S ISOLATION. CONCERN IS THAT A "FREE FLOATING"

WGERMANY WOULD UNHINGE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE.

2. WASHPOST - MARDER REPORTS TIGHT SECURITY ON HAK VISIT TO WBERLIN. SOVIET DISPLEASURE WITH VISIT AND SOVIET DIMENSION OF BERLIN SITUATION ARE EMPHASIZED. "AUTHORITATIVE AMERICAN SOURCE" SAID SOVIET UNION STILL SEEMS TO MOLD TO OLD OBJECTIVE OF DETACHING WBERLIN FROM WEST. RESTATING KENNEDY'S PLEDGE TO CITY, HAK TOLD BERLINERS THAT "THEY HAVE GAINED MANY BENEFITS OF NORMAL LIFE" THANKS TO 1972 ACCORD. BERLIN OFFICIALS SAY THEY HAVE CONFIDENCE IN GUARANTEES OF PROTECTING POWERS. AS A

RESULT OF SENATE VOTE ON TURKISH ARMS, HAK BELIEVES IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO MAKE PROGRESS ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN U.S. AND TURKEY.

3. UPI - CAGLAYANGIL WARNED HAK THAT UNLESS U.S. CONGRESS LIFTS EMBARGO IN IMMEDIATE FUTURE RELATIONS WILL BE SERIOUSLY IMPERILLED. LEFT WING STUDENTS IN IZMIR BURNED AMERICAN FLAG AND SHOUTED "KISSINGER MURDERER" AND "DOWN WITH AMERICAN IMPERIALISM."

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KISSINGER'S PREDECESSORS JOHN FOSTER DULLES, A PACT BUILDER IN THOSE DAYS, PULLED STRINGS IN PAKISTAN, IRAN, IRAQ, TURKEY AND GBRITAIN AND CREATED THIS DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION AGAINST THE POSSIBILITY OF DIRECT SOVIET AGGRESSION. IN 1958 IRAQ HAD A REVOLUTION AND PULLED OUT OF THE BAGDAD PACT. LOSING ITS HOME BASE IN THIS FASHION THE OTHER MEMBERS RECONSTITUTED THEMSELVES AS CENTO, THEIR PURPOSE, HOWEVER, THE SAME. THE U.S. BECAME AN OBSERVER THROUGH A VERY ACTIVE ONE. THROUGH THE 1960'S AMERICANS BECAME LESS AND LESS CONVINCED OF CENTO'S UTILITY. CONGRESS RAN A STUDY WHICH PRODUCED THE LESS THAT STARTLING CONCLUSION THAT CENTO HAD OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS AND THE U.S. OUGHT TO CUT ALL TIES TO IT. EVEN IF NAM WANTED TO CUT AMERICAN TIES HE COULD NOT AT THIS POINT BECAUSE THE ACTION WOULD SURELY BE MISINTERPRETED. SO, OF NECESSITY BY THE SHEER PULL OF CIRCUMSTANCE HE BECOMES A PRISONER OF A DECAYING INSTITUTION, DRAWN TO PARTICIPATE IN A TWO-DAY MEETING WHICH HE KNOWS IS NOT REALLY WORTHY OF HIS TIME. HE IS HERE, AS ONE OFFICIAL PUT IT, TO SHOW THE FLAG. THERE ISN'T MUCH TO TALK TO PAKISTAN ABOUT, OR IRAN OR GBRITAIN. AND A TALK WITH TURKISH LEADERS IS REALLY AN OCCASION TO DISCUSS

CYPRUS WHICH COULD BE DONE NEXT WEEK WHEN EVERYONE WILL BE GETTING TOGETHER IN BRUSSELS FOR A NATO SUMMIT MEETING. IT IS CLEARLY A TIME FOR A RECOMMITTMENT, BUT TO WHAT?

7. KALB, CBS FROM ANKARA - HAK MADE A VERY SPECIAL POINT OF STRESSING THE ADMINISTRATION'S HIGH REGARD FOR TURKEY, A VALUED FRIEND AND ALLY, THE SECRETARY SAID,

DURING HIS ADDRESS TO THE OPENING SESSION OF THE CENTO. IT DID NOT APPEAR TO MAKE TOO MUCH OF AN IMPACT. THE TURKISH PM QUICKLY ISSUED A VERY BLUNT WARNING TO THE U.S. THAT IMPLIED AMERICAN MILITARY BASES IN TURKEY WOULD SOON BE CLOSED DOWN BECAUSE OF THE CONGRESSIONAL

BAN ON THE SNIPMENT OF AMERICAN ARMS TO TURKEY. THE SENATE VOTE EARLIER THIS WEEK, A SQUEAKER 41 TO 48 IN FAVOR OF LIFTING THAT BAN, HAD A RATHER DEPRESSING EFFECT ON THE TURKS WHO HAD BEEN LED TO BELIEVE THAT THE VOTE WOULD BE MUCH MORE POSITIVE. HAK IS STILL HOPING HE CAN HOLD OFF THE TURKS AND KEEP AMERICAN BASES OPEN HERE BUT HE KNOWS HE IS RUNNING OUT OF TIME.

8. FREED - WHAL, AP FROM ANKARA - HAK CAME TO TURKEY WEDNESDAY FOR THE OFFICIAL REASON OF REPRESENTING THE U.S. AT THE FMS CONFERENCE OF CENTO. BUT AS IS OFTEN THE CASE WHEN HAK DOES SOMETHING OR GOES SOMEWHERE THE REAL REASONS AND THE OFFICIAL REASONS DIFFER. THE ACTUAL

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NEWSPAPERS

LA TIMES - ABRAMSON FROM VIENNA REPORTS END OF HAK/GROMYKO TALKS WITH MAJOR ISSUES UNSETTLED BUT BOTH APPARENTLY EN-COURAGED RATHER THAN DISAPPOINTED. ANNOUNCEMENT THEY WILL MEET AGAIN SHORTLY BROUGHT SPECULATION THE TIMING WOULD BE JULY, WITH U.S. OFFICIALS HOPIG FOR SUBSTANTIVE MOVEMENT ON BOTH ME AND SALT. MEETING PRODUCED "ABOUT WHAT HAD BEEN EXPECTED" - AGREEMENT TO WORK TO RECONVENE ME PEACE CON-FARENCE, POSITIONS LAID OUT ON NEW ARMS LIMITATION PACT, AND AGREEMENTS ON LESSER ISSUES.

ON ME, U.S. OFFICIALS SAW NO REASON TO SUSPECT RUSSIANS WORKING AT CROSS PURPOSES WITH U.S. MAK CONSIDERED IT WRONG TIME FOR FIRM COMMITMENTS BECAUSE OF UPCOMING FORD/ SADAT TALKS, BUT HAS COME TO ACCEPT LARGER ROLE FOR SOVS IN ME.

ON ME PEACE CONFERENCE, U.S. OFFICIALS INSIST ON CAUTION BECAUSE OF CONCERN IF CONFERENCE SHOULD FAIL.

"SALT, U.S. OFFICIALS EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL QUESTIONS ON ARMS CONTROL TREATY CAN BE RESOLVED. THERE WAS NO EXPECTATION OF A BREAKTHROUGH ON SALT AT THESE MEETINGS. GROMYKO CHARACTERIZED VERIFICATION ISSUE AS "A SMALL DETAIL", HOWEVER, U.S. OFFICIALS DISAGREED WITH THAT CHARACTERIZATION.

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EARLY AFTERNOON LEADS ALL WIRES REMASH BERLIN SPEECH, SAYING BERLIN IS LIVING PROOF U.S. KEEPS ITS WORD TO ITS ALLIES AND IS "ACID TEST" FOR EAST-WEST DETENTE. UPI NOTES THAT ALL FOREIGN CONSULS GENERAL PRESENT IN HOUSE OF DEPUTIES EXCEPT SOVIET UNION. AP INCLUDES SEVERAL QUOTES FROM HAK EMOTIONAL ADDRESS TO U.S. EMPLOYEES IN BERLIN.

LATE AFTERNOON UPI, GROWALD FROM ANKARA LEADS WITH SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL INDICATING SOLUTION TO GREEK-TURKISH CONFLICT OVER CYPRUS APPEARS TO BE IN MAKING. HE SAID ON PLANE, "IN MY OPINION IT'S BEGINNING TO MOVE"; HOWEVER, IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME AND MUCH DIPLOMACY. THE SENIOR OFFICIAL SAID FORD WOULD BE TAKING ACTIVE PART IN CYPRUS DIPLOMACY WHEN HE MEETS WITH TURKISH AND GREEK PM'S NEXT WEEK IN BRUSSELS.

AP, FREED FROM ANKARA LEADS WITH U.S. EXPECTATION THAT SOVS WILL BACK AWAY FROM INSISTENCE ON DIRECT PLO PARTICIPATION IN ME PEACE CONFERENCE, BECAUSE THEY WANT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD. HAK DID NOT GET ANY DIRECT INDICATION OF AN BASED SOVIET POSITION DURING HIS TALKS WITH GROMYKO; HIS ASSESSMENT BASED ON IMPRESSIONS AND LOGIC OF THE SITUATION.

LATE AFTERNOON REUTERS LEAD FROM ANKARA FILEDBY ALAN COWELL. WE REPORTS HAK WILL RESUME EFFORTS TOWARD CYPRUS SETTLEMENT AND WANTS TO REAFFIRM U.S. WILL "STAND BY ITS FRIENDS IN FORCEFUL AND UNDERSTANDING MANNER."

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1. ABC NIGHTLY NEWS - HOWARD K. SMITH: "SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER SAID TODAY IN WEST BERLIN THAT BERLIN IS THE ACID TEST FOR EAST-WEST RELATIONS. ONLY IF BERLIN FLOURISHES WILL DETENTE FLOURISH, HE SAID. THEN THE SECRETARY FLEW ON TO TURKEY TO REVIEW TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND THE CYPRUS SITUATION.

SYRIA AND ISRAEL HAVE AGREED TO EXTEND THE MANDATE OF THE UN OBSERVER FORCE IN THE MIDEAST FOR SIX MONTHS, UNTIL THE END OF NOVEMBER. UN SOURCES BELIEVE SYRIA'S AGREEMENT STEMS FROM THE FRIENDLY TALKS BETWEEN SECRETARY KISSINGER AND SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER GROMYKO IN VIENNA THIS WEEK."

2. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS - CHANCELLOR: SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER SPENT PART OF THE DAY TODAY IN WEST BERLIN BEFORE FLYING ON TO TURKEY. IN BERLIN, HE TOLD THE CITY'S PARLIAMENT THAT THE U.S. STANDS SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER WITH THAT CITY AS IT HAS FOR 30 YEARS AND WE ALSO SAW BERLIN AS AN IMPORTANT TEST FOR DETENTE WITH THE SOVIET UNION.

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VALERIANI: KISSINGER WENT FIRST TO THE U.S. MILITARY HEADQUARTERS WHERE HE WAS GREETED WITH MILITARY HONORS. THIS VISIT WAS CONCEIVED AS A CEREMONIAL EVENT WHEN IT WAS LAID ON SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, BUT BY ACCIDENT IT CAME AT A TIME WHEN THERUSSIANS FOR UNEXPLAINED REASONS ARE CHALLENGING PART OF THE 1971 AGREEMENT ON BERLIN. AGAINST THAT BACKGROUND, KISSINGER'S SPEECH TO CITY HALL AMOUNTED TO A RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIANS.

KISSINGER: IN A NEW ERA OF EASED CONFRONTATION IN EUROPE, THE FATE OF BERLIN WILL DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF THE EFFORTS TO INSURE SECURITY THROUGH NEGOTIATION AND COOPERATION. AS BERLIN WAS THE GREATEST SYMBOL OF THE HEROISM OF THE IMMEDIATE POSTWAR PERIOD, IT IS ALSO THE ACID TEST OF THE PERIOD WE NOW HOPE TO ENTER.

VALERIANI: SURROUNDED BY EXTRA-TIGHT SECURITY, KISSINGER STAYED FOR LUNCH, BUT DID NOT MAKE THE RITUAL TRIP TO THE BERLIN WALL, APPARENTLY BECAUSE OF THREATS OF VIOLENCE MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE BEGINNING OF A TRIAL OF SOME EXTREME LEFT-WING TERRORISTS. TOP-RANKING U.S. OFFICIALS COME TO BERLIN TO REAFFIRM THE AMERICAN COMMITMENT TO THIS CITY PERIODICALLY, BECAUSE THE GERMANS LIKE TO HAVE THAT REASSURANCE. BUT IN THE WAKE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, KISSINGER'S MESSAGE TODAY WAS MEANT FOR A MORE WIDER AUDIENCE.

3. CBS NIGHTLY NEWS - CROMKITE: SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER TRAVELED TO WEST BERLIN TODAY, AND THIS IN SPITE OF COMPLAINTS BY THE SOVIETS WHO SAID A TRIP TO THAT CITY, WHICH THEY CALLED A SYMBOL OF THE COLD WAR, COULD PUT A DAMPER ON DETENTE. HAK, HOWEVER, SAID WEST BERLIN IS THE BEST SYMBOL OF U.S. DETERMINATION TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF ITS ALLIES.

KISSINGER: THE SECURITY OF WEST BERLIN REMAINS A VITAL INTEREST OF THE U.S. FOR US, MUCH MORE IS AT STAKE HERE THAN THE SECURITY OF A CITY. TO US, YOU SYMBOLIZE MAN'S UNQUenchABLE YEARNING FOR FREEDOM; YOU REPRESENT THE CAPACITY OF DEMOCRACY TO SUMMON THE STRENGTH TO DEFEND ITS VALUES. INGERSOLL

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SUMMARY: A MIXTURE OF STORIES AS SECRETARY MOVES FROM ONE TOPIC AND ONE CITY TO ANOTHER. LEADS INCLUDE SALT, MEETINGS WITH FRG AND PORTUGUESE OFFICIALS, AND SPEECH IN BERLIN. END SUMMARY.

1. WALL STJOURNAL - MILLER FROM VIENNA SAYS HAK AND GROMYKO AGREED ON LITTLE ELSE THAN TO MEET AGAIN IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS. LACK OF AGREEMENT ON ME DID NOT UPSET U.S. SIDE, WHICH PREFERS TO WAIT UNTIL PRESIDENT HAS SEEN SADAT AND RABIN. LACK OF AGREEMENT ON SALT "WAS SOMETHING ELSE," AS ISSUE OF VERIFICATION REMAINED UNRESOLVED. "THE SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL, WHO CAN'T BE IDENTIFIED UNDER GROUND RULES SET BY MR. KISSINGER, INSISTED IT IS STILL LIKELY A DETAILED SALT AGREEMENT WILL BE READY FOR SIGNING AT A SCHEDULED SUMMIT MEETING THIS FALL ..." TECHNICAL NEGOTIATIONS RESUME NEXT MONTH. U.S. OFFICIALS REFUSED TO DETAIL THE PROGRESS THEY INDICATED. HAK AND GROMYKO WILL PROBABLY MEET IN JULY, WHEN BOTH SALT AND THE ME WILL BE BACK ON THE AGENDA. "BY THEN, MUCH MORE MOVEMENT MAY BE NECESSARY ON BOTH ISSUES, OR THE SALT-RELATED

SUMMIT MEETING COULD BE THREATENED AND THE MULTINATION MIDEAST CONFERENCE THE U.S. DOESN'T WANT COULD BE HARDER TO AVOID."

2. WASHPOST - MARDER FROM VIENNA SAYS HAK AND GROMYKO "MADE MARGINAL PROGRESS" ON TALKS AND AGREED TO MEET SOON, PROBABLY IN JULY. SECOND TALKS PLANNED TO PERMIT DECISIONS ON ME AFTER FORD MEETS SADAT, RABIN. "AMERICAN SOURCES SAID TODAY THAT GROMYKO GAVE THEM THE IMPRESSION

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THAT THE SOVIET UNION IS PREPARED TO "EXPLORE A COOPERATIVE APPROACH" WITH THE U.S. IN RESOLVING THE ME DILEMMA AT GENEVA." THERE WAS DISCUSSION OF WIG MIGHT PARTICIPATE AT GENEVA AND PROCEDURES FOR THE MEETING. OFFICIALS DEPTED THAT MEANT AN OPENING SEAT FOR THE PLO. SAYING U.S. REMAINS OPPOSED TO SEATING PLO, ESPECIALLY AS LONG AS IT IS COMMITED TO DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL. GENEVA CONFERENCE PROBABLY IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER.

ON SALT, PROGRESS ON LESSER ITEMS REPORTED. WRITTEN STATEMENT WAS JUARDEDLY PHRASED, BUT HAX WAS MORE POSITIVE ORALLY.

3. **NYTIMES - GELB FROM BONN SAYS FLYING REPORTERS TOLD HAX AND GROMYKO "AGREED TO TRY TO COOPERATE ON A FRAMEWORK FOR RECONVENING THE GENEVA CONFERENCE."** THOUGH THE AGREEMENT REMAINED TO BE TESTED AND NO DETAILS WERE DISCUSSED. JULY MEETING TO DISCUSS DETAILS MENTIONED. PROGRESS ON SALT REPORTED TOO, WITHOUT SPECIFIC INFORMATION. "WITH REGARD TO THE ME CONFERENCE, NEWSMEN WERE INFORMED THAT MR. GROMYKO HAD REITERATED THAT THE PLO MUST PARTICIPATE, BUT HE SAID TO BE FLEXIBLE ON THE TIMING OF THAT PARTICIPATION.

4. **KEN FREED, AP, FROM BONN - AFTER TWO DAYS OF HARD DISCUSSIONS IN VIENNA WITH SOVIET FM GROMYKO, SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER FLEW TO BONN TUESDAY LOOKING FORWARD TO A RESTFUL OVER-NIGHT STOP WITH ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF BUSINESS TO BE DONE WITH GERMAN LEADERS. HOWEVER, GERMAN FM GENSCHWER SUGGESTED TO HAX THAT HE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PRESENCE IN BONN OF PORTUGUESE FM ANTUNES. A MEETING WAS ARRANGED AND HAX INVITED THE PORTUGUESE OFFICIAL TO HIS GUEST HOUSE JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT BONN TIME. THE DISCUSSIONS WERE TO TOUCH ON THE TOUCHY RELATIONS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND THE NEW LEFT LEANING GOVERNMENT IN LISBON, PARTICULARLY AS IT AFFECTS NATO.**

5. **MARVIN KALB, CBS FROM WBERLIN - (TV AND RADIO) HAX FLEW INTO WBERLIN AND FROM THE SAME CITY WALL WHERE PRES**

KENNEDY SPOKE IN 1961 PROCLAIMING, "I AM A BERLINER" IN BROKEN GERMAN. THE SECRETARY PROCLAIMED IN ENGLISH THAT THE SECURITY OF WBERLIN REMAINS A VITAL INTEREST OF THE U.S. HAX REVIEWED A GUARD OF HONOR AT THE U.S. COMMAND BERLIN WHERE MORE THAN 6,000 TROOPS ARE BASED TO BACK UP THAT KISSINGER VERBAL COMMITMENT, THREE INFANTRY BATTALIONS, ONE SPECIAL FORCES BATTALION PLUS A SIZEABLE AIR FORCE CONTINGENT. HAX KEPT REPEATING THE SAME STRONG COMMITMENT TO THE SECURITY OF WBERLIN REGARDLESS

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OF HIS AUDIENCE. DURING THE PEP-TALK TO THE AMERICANS
WORKING IN HIS DIVIDED CITY, HAK SAID THE U.S. WILL
NEVER SACRIFICE THE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF ITS ALLIES.
WE CAME HERE DESPITE A VERY STRONG RUSSIAN PROTEST TO
UNDERSCORE THE AMERICAN COMMITMENT.

6. WALKER (ABC) FROM NYC WITH HAK FROM WBERLIN - SEC-
RETARY OF STATE KISSINGER IN WEST BERLIN THIS MORNING
REAFFIRMED THE U.S. COMMITMENT TO THE ISOLATED CITY.
HAK TOLD THE WEST BERLIN PARLIAMENT:

HAK: ONLY IF BERLIN FLOURISHES WILL DETENTE FLOURISH.
ONLY IF YOU ARE SECURE WILL EUROPE BE SECURE. THIS HAS
BEEN AMERICA'S ATTITUDE FOR THIRTY YEARS. THIS
ATTITUDE HAS NOT CHANGED. ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT FORD
AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, I HAVE COME HERE TO REAFFIRM
OUR HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP TODAY.

7. WERE SERVICES: ALL THREE REPORT ON HAK SPEECH AT
BERLIN SENAT, CITING AT LENGTH REAFFIRMATION OF LINKS
BETWEEN BERLIN AND U.S., DETENTE; AND SAYING THAT
QUADRIPARTITE AGREEMENT SHOULD BE STRICTLY IMPLEMENTED.
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO PEACE IN THE THERMUGLEAR AGE.
BERLIN IS THE ACID-TEST OF EAST-WEST RELATIONS.

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ALL OF EARLY AFTERNOON WIRE ACCOUNTS REPORTED FROM VIENNA CLOSE OF HAK-GROM TALKS AND AGREEMENT "TO MEET AGAIN IN NEAR FUTURE." UPI (GROWALD) NOTED PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE, WHILE AP (FREED) AND REUTERS (NELSON) REPORTED "GOOD AND CONSTRUCTIVE" DISCUSSIONS. AP STATED TUESDAY MEETING LASTED "AN HOUR LONGER THAN SCHEDULED" AND BOTH AP AND REUTERS QUOTED FROM GROM'S "THIS IS ONLY A SMALL DETAIL" RESPONSE TO A QUESTION ON WHETHER VERIFICATION COMPROMISE HAD BEEN REACHED. REUTERS ALSO REPORTED BOTH HAK AND GROM "INDICATED THEY WERE LEAVING A NUMBER OF SUBJECTS OPEN FOR LATER DISCUSSION" AT A MEETING, WHICH HAK SAID WOULD TAKE PLACE BEFORE NEXT GENEVA ME PEACE CONFERENCE (MEPC) SESSION. SUBSEQUENT WIRE ACCOUNTS FROM BONN CARRIED REPORTS FROM SENIOR U.S. OFFICIALS ON BOARD HAK'S AIRCRAFT.

AP - SENIOR OFFICIAL STATED HAK AND GROMYKO AGREED TO WORK OUT COOPERATIVE APPROACH TO HOLDING GENEVA MEPC AND HAD

MADE "'REAL PROGRESS' TOWARD AGREEMENT ON THE TIMING AND MANNER OF CONVENING" MEPC. NO DATE SET BUT WOULD LIKELY TAKE PLACE IN AUGUST OR EARLY SEPTEMBER. OFFICIAL SAID NEXT HAK-GROM MEETING "WILL PROBABLY TAKE 'PLACE IN EUROPE' SOMETIME DURING THE SECOND HALF OF JULY AND WILL DEAL PRIMARILY WITH" ME. FREED STATES "KISSINGER REPORTEDLY ASKED FOR THE ADDITIONAL TALKS." OFFICIAL TERMED MEETING "MORE POSITIVE THAN NEGATIVE" AND SAID HAK WAS SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS. GROM "CLARIFIED" SOV VIEWS ON SALT TALKS AND HAK "NOW HAS BETTER IDEA OF SOVIET THINKING TOWARD REACHING A COMPROMISE" ON

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VERIFICATION. SAYS VERIFICATION PANEL WILL MEET SATURDAY IN WASHINGTON TO CONSIDER HAK'S REPORT AND NSC MEETING WILL LATER BE HELD TO DEVELOP "FULL-FLEDGED U.S. POSITION IN TIME TO MAKE TREATY READY FOR SIGNING" DURING BREZ VISIT. "OFFICIAL SAID THE PROSPECTS OF THE SUMMIT MEETING, THEREFORE, WERE GOOD."

UPI - LEADS WITH OFFICIAL STATING HAK AND GROM AGREED "TO TRY FOR A JOINT SOVIET-AMERICAN PEACE EFFORT FOR" ME. BOTH "AGREED FIRST TO TRY FOR A 'COOPERATIVE ATMOSPHERE'" FOR A GENEVA MEPC. QUOTES OFFICIAL STATING, "WE THEN WILL TRY LATER TO SEE IF WE CAN WORK OUT A COOPERATIVE APPROACH" ON ARAB-ISRAELI PROBLEM. ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS, GROM DISPLAYED GENUINE FRIENDLINESS IN VIENNA. "'THE MOOD WAS COOPERATIVE ... (GROM) WAS WILLING TO LISTEN,'" AND HAK NEVER FOUND GROM SO RELAXED. UPI SAYS OFFICIAL "STRESSED THAT KISSINGER SURRENDERED NO AMERICAN POSITION ON" ME AND "WAS ESPECIALLY EMPHATIC ABOUT THE CONTINUING AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR THE ISRAELI POSITION AGAINST SEATING PLO AS A SEPARATE PARTY" IN GENEVA.

REUTERS - LEAD SAYS "SOVIET UNION AGREED TO DELAY RECONVENING (MEPC) ... UNTIL AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER, AND TO REFRAIN FROM PRESSING ITS ARAB FRIENDS TO SEEK A RADICAL SOLUTION TO ME CONFLICT." SAYS LATTER CONCESSION WAS ONE OF U.S. GOALS DURING THESE TALKS AND THAT FORMER "WAS ALSO VIEWED AS A SOVIET CONCESSION." STATES "ON NUCLEAR ARMS ... SOME PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE ON TECHNICAL QUESTIONS SURROUNDING THE (VLAD AGREEMENT) ... BUT NOT ENOUGH PROGRESS TO RESUME SALT TALKS ON JUNE 2." ON ME, "OFFICIAL SAID HE WAS LESS SURE THAT SOVS WOULD ACTIVELY COOPERATE WITH U.S. IN ACHIEVING A SETTLEMENT ... GROM'S APPARENT WILLINGNESS TO EXPLORE COOPERATION WAS STILL UNTESTED," CHIEF PROBLEM REMAINING THAT OF PLO REPRESENTATION. ON SALT, OFFICIALS INSISTED PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE. "HAK CAME TO VIENNA HOPING TO START WORKING TOWARDS A COMPROMISE WITH GROM ON (VERIFICATION) ... -- BUT HIS IDEAS MUST BE STUDIED IN MOSCOW BEFORE

ANY PROGRESS CAN TAKE PLACE.

SEPARATE REUTERS ITEM FROM BONN REPORTED HAK "WILL HOLD UNSCHEDULED TALKS HERE TONIGHT WITH HIS PORTUGUESE COUNTERPART" AND WERE EXPECTED TO DISCUSS NATO. EARLIER REPORT MENTIONS HAK'S DISCUSSIONS TOMORROW WITH SCHMIDT AND GENSCHER.

NEWSPAPERS

LATIMES (ABRAMSOM) LEADS WITH HAK AND GROM TALKING FAR INTO MONDAY EVENING, "SEEKING TO CLOSE CRUCIAL LOOP-HOLES IN LAST YEAR'S NUCLEAR ARMS UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN FORD AND BREZ.

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"IT WAS THE FIRST TOP-LEVEL MEETING BETWEEN OFFICIALS OF THE TWO COUNTRIES SINCE THE COMMUNIST VICTORY IN SOUTH VIETNAM. THE SESSION WAS BROUGHT ABOUT IN PART BY SOVIET INTEREST IN GAUGING THE U.S. MOOD IN THE WAKE OF ITS DEVASTATING SETBACK, AND A DESIRE BY THE FORD ADMINISTRATION TO ASSURE THE WORLD THAT ITS MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVES REMAIN INTACT..."

"WHILE U.S. OFFICIALS PREDICTED KISSINGER AND GROMYKO WOULD END THEIR MEETING IN VIENNA TODAY WITHOUT MAKING A BREAKTHROUGH ON ARMS ISSUES, THE MEETING SHOWED THAT CRUCIAL DECISIONS WILL BE MADE APART FROM THE FORMAL GENEVA NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

THE FIRST STRATEGIC ARMS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES ... WAS NEGOTIATED LARGELY BY KISSINGER THROUGH 'BACK CHANNEL' CONTACTS WITH SOVIET LEADERS."

"... DURING AN HOUR AND 15 MINUTE SESSION, KISSINGER WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BROUGHT UP THE VIETNAM ISSUE AND TO HAVE REMINDED GROMYKO THAT CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THE DETENTE BETWEEN THE TWO SUPERPOWERS REQUIRES RESTRAINT IN SECONDARY MATTERS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES."

"... THE FIRST SPECIFIC SUBJECT TAKEN UP ... WAS THE PROPOSED SUMMIT MEETING ON EUROPEAN SECURITY ..."

"THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN LUKEWARM ABOUT THE MEETING, BUT OFFICIALS TRAVELING WITH KISSINGER SAID ENOUGH U.S. ALLIES IN EUROPE ARE COMMITTED TO THE CONFERENCE THAT THE UNITED STATES COULD DO LITTLE TO DELAY OR BLOCK IT..."

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ABC: SMITH: HAK AND GROM WOUND UP THEIR VIENNA TALKS TODAY AND THE FIRST RESULTS WERE POSITIVE.

KOPPEL: GROM RARELY GIVES AWAY ANYTHING IN PUBLIC. THIS MORNING HE OUTDID HIMSELF.

GROM (ON CAMERA): ONE, TWO, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FOUR.

KOPPEL: HE WAS SAVED FROM GIVING ANYTHING MORE AWAY BY THE ARRIVAL OF HAK. SOME OF THE CORDIALITY APPEARS TO HAVE SPILLED INTO THE MEETING ITSELF. FOR FIVE AND A HALF HOURS THE SOVS AND U.S. NEGOTIATING TEAMS EDGED THEIR WAY TOWARD A NEW STRATEGIC ARMS AGREEMENT. THE NEW TENTATIVE TARGET DATE FOR COMPLETION IS OCTOBER. AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT A DECISION TO TRY AND SOLVE THE ME PROBLEMS THROUGH SOV-U.S. COOPERATION.

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HAK: I CAN SAY NOW THAT WE AGREED TO MEET AGAIN IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR A FURTHER DETAILED REVIEW OF THE SALT TALKS, THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE IN THE ME, AND OTHER MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST.

GROM: I AGREE WITH THE SECRETARY.

KOPPEL: FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF, HAK HAS TRIED TO EXCLUDE THE SOVS FROM THE ME NEGOTIATIONS. HE MAY NOT HAVE TOTALLY GIVEN UP YET ON SEPARATE U.S. PEACE INITIATIVES BUT THE SESSION IN THE NEAR FUTURE WITH GROM DOESN'T GIVE HAK MUCH TIME FOR INDIVIDUAL DIPLOMACY. SENIOR U.S. OFFICIALS ARE STILL INSISTING THAT NO FINAL DECISIONS ON AMERICA'S ME REASSESSMENT WILL BE REACHED UNTIL AFTER PRES FORD MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELT LEADERS IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. BUT THESE SAME OFFICIALS INDICATE THAT A NEW SPIRIT OF SOV-U.S. COOPERATION IS NOW SHAPING UP ON GENEVA EVEN THOUGH THEY INSIST THAT COMPROMISE ON THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE WILL HAVE TO COME FROM THE SOV SIDE.

NBC: CHANCELLOR: HAK AND GROM ENDED TWO DAYS OF TALKS TODAY IN VIENNA. A SENIOR OFFICIAL ABOARD HAK'S PLANE SAID LATER THAT THE TWO MEN AGREED TO TRY TO WORK TOGETHER ON RECONVENING THE MEPC IN GENEVA.

VALERIANI: TODAY IT WAS GROM'S TURN TO BE THE HOST SO HAK WENT TO THE SOV EMBASSY FOR ANOTHER MEETING AND LUNCH. DURING THEIR SIX HOURS OF TALKS HAK REPORTEDLY FOUND

THE SOVS WILLING TO BE MORE COOPERATIVE ON THE ME IF THE GENEVA MEPC IS RECONVENED. BUT IT WAS NOT CLEAR HOW THEY WOULD COOPERATE. THE TWO MEN ALSO DISCUSSED STRATEGIC ARMS AND HAK CAME AWAY MORE CONFIDENT THAN BEFORE THAT AN AGREEMENT ON LIMITING OFFENSIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WOULD BE READY IN TIME FOR A WASHINGTON SUMMIT MEETING THIS FALL. AFTERWARD BOTH MEN WERE UPPET AND GROM EVEN MADE LIGHT OF ONE OF THE MAJOR STICKING POINTS IN THE ARMS TALKS, HOW TO COUNT MISSILES WITH MORE THAN ONE WARHEAD ONCE THEY'RE DEPLOYED.

GROM: A SMALL DETAIL.

VALERIANI: AS HE WAS LEAVING VIENNA HAK SUMMED UP HIS MEETING WITH GROM THIS WAY:

HAK: ON THE WHOLE, I AM SATISFIED WITH THE VISIT HERE. I LEAVE WITH THE CONVICTION THAT RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND THE USSR ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE AND FOR THE PROGRESS ON MANKIND, AND THAT WE WILL DO OUR UTMOST TO KEEP THEM ON COURSE.

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VALERIANI: HAK THEN CAME TO GERMANY TO FULFILL A PROMISE TO VISIT WEST BERLIN. HE'LL ALSO BRIEF GERMAN OFFICIALS ON HIS MEETINGS WITH GROM, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE ESSENTIALLY A HOLDING ACTION. NO DECISIONS ARE POSSIBLE ON THE ARMS TALKS UNTIL EACH GOVERNMENT REVIEWS THE LATEST IDEAS OF THE OTHER. AND THE U.S. WANTS TO PUT OFF A DECISION ON THE ME UNTIL AFTER PRES FORD HAS MET WITH EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI LEADERS NEXT MONTH. SO HAK AND GROM WILL GET TOGETHER AGAIN IN EARLY JULY TO MAKE SOME MEASURABLE PROGRESS ON THESE ISSUES.

CBS: MUDD: HAK TOOK HIS DIPLOMATIC ENTOURAGE TO BONN TODAY AFTER TWO DAYS OF TALKS IN VIENNA WITH GROM.

KALB: GROM HOSTED THIS CONCLUDING SESSION, DEVOTED AMONG OTHER THINGS TO THE EXPLOSIVE ISSUE OF THE ME. HAK GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT GROM WANTED TO COOPERATE ON ARRANGING THE CONDITIONS FOR A GENEVA CONFERENCE. NOT MANY SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES WERE DISCUSSED, MOSTLY PROCEDURAL, BUT HAK STRESSED THAT THE U.S. WOULD NOT DEAL WITH THE PLO UNTIL IT RECOGNIZED ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE. THE OTHER MAJOR TOPIC WAS THE STRATEGIC ARMS NEGOTIATIONS. THERE WERE ABOUT A HALF-DOZEN OTHER UNRESOLVED ISSUES INCLUDING VERIFICATION, MEANING THE WAY OF CHECKING ON HOW MANY MISSILES EACH SIDE CLAIMS TO

HAVE. THREE MINOR ISSUES WERE RESOLVED BUT NOT VERIFICATION. BY THE TIME THEY EMERGED, MORE THAN SIX HOURS LATER, HAK WAS READY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WOULD MEET AGAIN, HE AND GROM, PROBABLY IN JULY.

KALB: HAS ANY COMPROMISE BEEN REACHED, SIR, ON THE ISSUE OF VERIFICATION? COULD YOU TELL US?

GROM: IT IS A DETAIL, A SMALL DETAIL.

KALB: VERIFICATION IS A SMALL DETAIL? ITS BEEN TAKEN CARE OF?

HAK: WE CAN'T GO INTO THE DETAILS OF THE VARIOUS ISSUES THAT WERE DISCUSSED. BUT, AS I SAID, THE TALKS WERE USEFUL AND CONSTRUCTIVE.

KALB: HIS STOP OVERNIGHT HERE IN BONN FOR TALKS WITH WEST GERMAN LEADERS IS REALLY A WAY-STATION ON THE ROAD TO WEST BERLIN, WHICH HAK WILL VISIT TOMORROW, MUCH TO GROM'S UNHAPPINESS. ON THE ME THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN LEARNED: FIRST, THAT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE HAS BEEN DELAYED UNTIL LATE AUGUST. PERHAPS EARLY SEPTEMBER. AND

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SUBJECT: TRAVELING PRESS REPORTAGE, MAY 19, 1975

FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PRS (FUNSETH)

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AP'S FREED, IN EARLY-AFTERNOON VIENNA STORY, QUOTES HAK AS TELLING NEWSMEN "WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS' WITH SOVIET UNION BUT THAT HE HOPES "WE WILL MAKE SOME PROGRESS" IN OVERCOMING THEM. FREED SAYS HAK WAS "VAGUE" ABOUT THE PROBLEMS, BUT SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL TOLD REPORTERS ON PLANE SUNDAY THAT DIFFICULTIES EXIST IN CURRENT SALT NEGOTIATIONS. OFFICIAL, WRITES FREED, SAID GROMYKO "WAS EXPECTED TO HAVE SOME IDEAS THAT MIGHT LEAD TO A COMPROMISE, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF HOW TO VERIFY COMPLIANCE WITH WHATEVER (SALT) AGREEMENT IS REACHED". FREED SAYS HAK INDICATED THAT THE NEED FOR U.S.-SOVIET COOPERATION GOES BEYOND NEEDS OF TWO COUNTRIES, AND THAT WORLD SECURITY DEPENDS ON MOMENTUM OF PEACE.

UPI'S GROWALD, IN VIENNA PIECE DATED NOON EDT, SAYS U.S. DRIVE FOR SALT AGREEMENT AND SOVIET PUSH FOR KREMLIN'S MIDDLE EAST PEACE PLAN HEAD VIENNA AGENDA. GROWALD WRITES THAT SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL TOLD REPORTERS HAK HOPES VIENNA MEETING "COULD UNLEASH A STRING OF EVENTS LEADING TO SIGNING" OF SALT PACT DURING BREZHNEV VISIT IN THE FALL. OFFICIAL, HOWEVER, STRESSED THAT HAK WOULD MAKE NO NEW PROPOSALS TO GROMYKO, ACCORDING TO GROWALD; HAK WANTS GROMYKO TO "INSTRUCT SOVIET DISARMAMENT NEGOTIATORS IN GENEVA TO WORK ON TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE TREATY -- SUCH AS HOW ONE SIDE COULD BE SURE THE OTHER WAS ABIDING BY THE LIMITATIONS". U.S. OFFICIAL IS FURTHER QUOTED THAT GROMYKO IS SURE TO PROBE HAK ON U.S. ATTITUDE TOWARD GENEVA CONFERENCE. HAK, OFFICIAL IS REPORTED AS SAYING, WILL GIVE GROMYKO "LITTLE DATA" AND AMERICAN POLICY ON MIDDLE EAST "WILL NOT BE FIXED" UNTIL AFTER PRESIDENT'S MEETINGS WITH SADAT AND RABIN.

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REUTERS' NELSON, IN EARLY-AFTERNOON VIENNA STORY, SAYS HAK-GROMKYO BEGAN TALKS "IN SEARCH OF A COMPROMISE TO ENSURE STRICT VERIFICATION" OF FUTURE SALT ACCORD.
OFFICIALS, SAYS NELSON, EXPECTED FIRST DAY IN VIENNA TO COVER NUCLEAR ARMS ISSUE, SECOND DAY TO GO TO MIDDLE EAST QUESTIONS. U.S. OFFICIALS, SAYS STORY, CAUTIONED AGAINST EXPECTING TOO MUCH FROM VIENNA TALKS BUT SAID THEY HOPED FOR SOME HEADWAY ON GUIDELINES ON VERIFICATION. "U.S. SOURCES", SAYS NELSON, ALSO EXPECTED DISCUSSION ON NEXT STAGE OF CSCE.

EARLIER NELSON PIECE SAID SENIOR OFFICIAL ON HAK PLANE SAID SUNDAY U.S. "HAD DETECTED HINTS OF A SOVIET PROPOSAL THAT COULD PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR A COMPROMISE SOLUTION" ON INCLUSION OF SOVIET SS-19 IN MIRV-ED MISSILE COUNT.

LATER STORY FROM NELSON SAYS HAK AND GROMYKO REPORTED MONDAY NIGHT THEY HAD MADE "SOME PROGRESS" IN FIVE HOURS OF TALKS ON SALT, EUROPEAN SECURITY AND OTHER WORLD PROBLEMS. NELSON QUOTES HAK THAT "THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND I HAD A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. WE ALSO DISCUSSED THE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE AND WE BEGAN A DISCUSSION OF THE SALT. THE TALKS WERE CONSTRUCTIVE AND WERE CONDUCTED IN A CORDIAL AND FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE. I WOULD SAY ON THE TOPICS DISCUSSED SOME PROGRESS WAS MADE." STORY SAYS GROMYKO DESCRIBED TALKS AS USEFUL AND SAID HE AGREED WITH HAK ASSESSMENT.

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LA TIMES: ABRAMSON LEAD SAYS SENIOR U.S. OFFICIALS INDICATED SUNDAY THE U.S. IS WILLING TO COMPROMISE WITH SOVIETS ON A "KEY ISSUE POTENTIALLY THREATENING EFFORTS TO WRITE". A NEW SALT TREATY. WITHOUT EXPLAINING HOW COMPROMISE MIGHT WORK, HE WRITES, OFFICIALS SUGGESTED U. S. "MIGHT AGREE TO ALTER ITS DEMANDS FOR METHODS TO VERIFY WHETHER CERTAIN SOVIET ICBS WERE EQUIPPED WITH MULTIPLE WARHEADS". ABRAMSON QUOTES OFFICIALS THAT THERE IS A "GOOD CHANCE" UNDERSTANDING CAN BE WORKED OUT FOR VERIFYING WHETHER SS-18 SOVIET MISSILES ARE MIRV-ED. RUSSIANS HAVE ALWAYS REJECTED ON-SITE INSPECTION CONCEPT, AND "U.S. OFFICIALS CONCEDED SUNDAY THIS METHOD OF VERIFICATION IS INDEED FALLIBLE". AS IF TO DE-EMPHASIZE IMPORTANCE OF MIRV-ED SS-18, HE WRITES, U.S. OFFICIALS "NOTED THAT IN SOME WAYS AN SS-18 WITH A SINGLE WARHEAD IS MORE DANGEROUS". OFFICIALS, ABRAMSON SAYS, SAID THEY DO NOT EXPECT HAK AND GROMYKO TO MAKE A BREAKTHROUGH IN VIENNA, BUT THAT IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH ENOUGH "TO GET TECHNICAL NEGOTIATORS ON BOTH SIDES PAST THE VERIFICATION SNAG" WHEN GENEVA MEETINGS RESUME NEXT MONTH. THIS WEEKEND, HE ADDS, VERIFICATION PANEL OF THE SALT DELEGATION MEETS IN WASHINGTON TO REVIEW CURRENT SITUATION AND ANY RESULTS FROM VIENNA MEETINGS.

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APART FROM SALT, SAYS ABRAMSON, VIENNA TALKS WILL DEAL MOSTLY WITH MIDDLE EAST AND SCHEDULED CSCE SUMMIT.

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MARVIN KALB, CBS RADIO FROM VIENNA: "I HOPE YOUR INTELLIGENCE IS BETTER THAN MINE," HAK QUIPPED, "I WAS TOLD IT WAS VERY COOL HERE." "IT IS HOT IN MOSCOW, TOO," CAME GROMYKO'S DEADPAN RESPONSE. AND WITH THAT LESS-THAN-ILLUMINATING EXCHANGE OVER, THE REPORTERS AND CAMERAMEN WERE QUICKLY USHERED OUT OF THE SECRETARY'S HOTEL AND THE TWO DIPLOMATS BEGAN TWO DAYS OF CRITICAL TALKS, FOCUSING TONIGHT ON THE STRATEGIC NUCLEAR NEGOTIATION WHICH IS DEADLOCKED BUT OVERSHADOWED BY A KISSINGER CONCERN THAT BECAUSE OF RECENT AMERICAN SETBACKS IN INDOCHINA THE RUSSIANS MAY PERCEIVE THE UNITED STATES TO BE A PAPER

TIGER, UNWILLING OR, MORE IMPORTANT, UNABLE TO PROTECT ITS NATIONAL INTERESTS. THE SECRETARY HOPES THAT THE RUSSIANS DRAW A DIFFERENT IMPRESSION FROM THE SHOW OF AMERICAN FORCE LAST WEEK DURING THE MAYAGUEZ INCIDENT. HAK DOES NOT ARTICULATE THAT HOPE BUT IT'S CLEAR HE HAS IT, AND IN THIS CONTEXT THE MEETINGS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW ARE REGARDED AS CRUCIAL TO FURTHER EVOLUTION OF EAST-WEST DETENTE.

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ABC'S SMITH, INTRODUCING PIECE FROM KOPPEL: "THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE TODAY ON WHAT HENRY AND NANCY KISSINGER HAD FOR LUNCH AND WHO LED WHOM INTO THE ROOM FOR THE FIRST VIENNA SESSION BETWEEN SECRETARY KISSINGER AND SOVIET FOREIGN-MINISTER GROMYKO. THAT'S WHAT REPORTERS SEND BACK TO THE HOME FOLKS WHEN THEY HAVEN'T GOT MUCH SUBSTANTIVE TO REPORT. WHILE NOT MUCH YET TO REPORT, THERE'S CONSIDERABLE WEIGHT TO THE MEETING. FROM VIENNA TED KOPPEL TALKS ABOUT THAT".

KOPPEL: "THERE IS A LIMITED CHOICE OF NEUTRAL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. KISSINGER WANTED TO AVOID SWITZERLAND THIS TIME AROUND, BECAUSE IT CALLS TO MIND THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON THE MIDDLE EAST, WHICH THE UNITED STATES STILL HOPES TO BYPASS. SO THE CHOICE WAS VIENNA, KISSINGER ARRIVING LAST NIGHT, GROMYKO THIS MORNING. THE SCHEDULED AGENDA FOCUSES ON THE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE, THE EFFORT TO GET A NEW STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION AGREEMENT, AND THE SMOLDERING POWDER KEG IN THE MIDDLE EAST. FOR MOST OF TODAY, HOWEVER, KISSINGER WAS A VISIBLE STUDY IN NONCHALANCE, VISITING

VIENNA'S FAMOUS SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL IN THE MORNING, AND THEN ESCORTING HIS WIFE, NANCY, TO LUNCH AT ONE OF THE MORE RENOWNED RESTAURANTS IN TOWN. THE ANIMATED CHATTER THAT PRECEDED THIS AFTERNOON'S FIRST MEETING MASKED AN OMINOUS UNDERCURRENT TO THESE TALKS. THIS IS THE FIRST HIGH-LEVEL SOVIET-AMERICAN MEETING SINCE THE

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FALL OF CAMBODIA AND SOUTH VIET-NAM, AND KISSINGER IS DETERMINED TO LEAVE NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER IN GROMYKO'S MIND ABOUT THE CONTINUING FORCEFULNESS OF AMERICAN INTENTIONS. THE OVERRIDING ATMOSPHERE OF CAUTION GIVES LITTLE PROMISE OF SPECTACULAR DIPLOMACY. AND SO, OVER TEA AND COOKIES AT THE IMPERIAL HOTEL, KISSINGER AND GROMYKO LAUNCHED A DISCUSSION, THE RESULTS OF WHICH WON'T BECOME VISIBLE FOR WEEKS TO COME. NEITHER SIDE IS EXPECTING A BREAKTHROUGH, IN EITHER THE STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS OR IN THE AGONIZINGLY SLOW PROCESS TOWARDS PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. BUT THESE TALKS ARE ESSENTIAL NEVERTHELESS TO RESTORE MOMENTUM TO THE SALT NEGOTIATIONS, WHICH STALLED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO IN GENEVA, AND TO THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS, WHICH ARE NOW A NECESSITY LOOKING FOR A QUORUM".

ABC'S CHANCELLOR: "SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER AND SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI GROMYKO SAT DOWN TODAY TOGETHER IN VIENNA FOR TWO DAYS OF TALKS DEVOTED TO DETENTE, STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEAPONS, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OTHER MATTERS AFFECTING BOTH SUPERPOWERS. KISSINGER TOLD REPORTERS 'I THINK WE'LL MAKE SOME PROGRESS HERE'. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS FRIENDLY -- AND, AS RICHARD VALERIANI REPORTS FROM VIENNA, THIS MEETING IS ONE IN WHICH ATMOSPHERE MAY BE AS IMPORTANT AS SUBSTANCE".

VALERIANI: "GROMYKO ARRIVED TODAY AND WENT TO KISSINGER'S HOTEL FOR A LATE-AFTERNOON MEETING AND A WORKIN$8,334. THEY HAD AN EXTRA-LONG HANDSHAKE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PHOTOGRAPHERS BEFORE GOING INSIDE TO BEGIN TALKING ABOUT AMERICAN-SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS ON LIMITING OFFENSIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE CURRENTLY STALLED ON THE PROBLEM OF COUNTING MULTIPLE-WARHEAD MISSILES ONCE THEY'RE DEPLOYED. BUT THE AMERICAN SIDE IS CONFIDENT THE PROBLEM OF VERIFICATION, AND OTHER TECHNICAL

DIFFICULTIES, WILL BE WORKED OUT IN TIME FOR A FORD-BREZHNEV SUMMIT THIS FALL. TODAY'S AGENDA ALSO INCLUDED A DISCUSSION OF THE LONG-DRAGGED-OUT EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE, WHICH IS LIKELY TO END WITH AN EAST-WEST SUMMIT MEETING OF 35 HEADS OF GOVERNMENT SOMETIME THIS SUMMER. KISSINGER AND GROMYKO CAME TO VIENNA THIS TIME, RATHER THAN GOING TO GENEVA, THEIR USUAL MEETING PLACE, BECAUSE GENEVA IS TOO CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE CONFERENCE, SOMETHING WHICH THE RUSSIANS ARE PUSHING BUT WHICH THE AMERICANS ARE STILL TRYING TO FINESSE. THE TWO MEN WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO RENEW

THEIR DISAGREEMENT OVER THE MIDDLE EAST DURING TOMORROW'S TALKS. NOTHING CONCRETE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT FROM THESE MEETINGS, AT LEAST NOT IMMEDIATELY, BUT IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT SETBACKS TO AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AROUND THE WORLD, THE ATMOSPHERICS HERE WILL PROBABLY BE AS IMPORTANT AS THE SUBSTANCE".

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CBS'S KALB: "KISSINGER HAD JUST TAKEN HIS WIFE NANCY TO ONE OF THOSE FAMOUS VIENNESE LUNCHEONS -- TOPPED BY CHOCOLATE CAKE AND WHIPPED CREAM -- WHEN HE CAME UPON AN

EXAMPLE OF MIDDLE AMERICA IN MIDDLE EUROPE: A YANKEE TOURIST BELLOWING OUT HIS PRIDE AT THE WAY THE U.S. USED ITS POWER TO RECOVER THE MERCHANT SHIP MAYAGUEZ. BUT EVEN AS KISSINGER, SITTING IN DARK SHADOW, WATCHED A PERFORMANCE OF THE HIGH-STRUTTING HORSES OF THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL, HE SEEMED PREOCCUPIED BY INDOCHINA, BY THE OBVIOUS PROBLEMS OF SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS. CLEARLY, THE BLOOM IS OFF DETENTE. AFTER A COURTESY CALL ON AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR KREISKY, A REPORTER ASKED ARE YOUR

EXPECTATIONS HIGH FOR THIS GROMYKO MEETING? NO, BEGAN KISSINGER'S CAUTIOUS RESPONSE." KISSINGER: "NO, WE HAVE SOME PROBLEMS TO REVIEW AND I HOPE WE'LL MAKE SOME PROGRESS". KALB: "THE USUAL HANDSHAKES PRECEDED THIS MEETING, THEIR FIRST SINCE THE AMERICAN DEBACLE IN VIET-NAM. BUT THEIR SMILES WERE THIN. TONIGHT THEY FOCUS FOR THE MOST PART ON THE STRATEGIC ARMS NEGOTIATIONS, NOW DEADLOCKED OVER THE ISSUE OF VERIFICATION. KISSINGER WANTS TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK; APPARENTLY, GROMYKO DOES, TOO -- BOTH SIDES LOOKING TOWARDS FINAL AGREEMENT, IF POSSIBLE, BY THE TIME SOVIET

LEADER BREZHNEV VISITS PRESIDENT FORD THIS FALL. MORE IMPORTANT, PERHAPS, THAN ANY ONE ISSUE, KISSINGER WANTS TO DISABUSE THE RUSSIANS OF ONE DANGEROUS NOTION -- THAT BECAUSE OF RECENT AMERICAN SETBACKS IN INDOCHINA, THE U.S. HAS BECOME A KIND OF PAPER TIGER. OVERALL, THEREFORE, KISSINGER IS STRESSING A REASONABLY HARD LINE IN POLICY, BACKED UP BY THAT SHOW LAST WEEK OF AMERICAN MILITARY STRENGTH DURING THE MAYAGUEZ EPISODE."

EARLY EVENING FREED STORY SAID: "BOTH TERMED THEIR TALKS CONSTRUCTIVE....

MOST OF THE DISCUSSIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND AT A WORKING DINNER FOCUSED ON ARRANGING A LARGE-SCALE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE, AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID.

THE TWO DIPLOMATS ALSO BEGAN PRELIMINARY TALKS ON A STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TREATY, THE OFFICIALS SAID, AND THIS WILL BE THE SUBJECT WHEN THEY MEET AGAIN TUESDAY MORNING, WITH EMPHASIS ON HOW TO VERIFY COMPLIANCE.

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MIDDLE EAST PROBLEMS ALSO WILL BE TOUCHED ON TUESDAY BUT ONLY IN A PRELIMINARY FASHION, THE U.S. OFFICIALS ADDED....

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY SAID SOME PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE ON THE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE, BUT OTHER AMERICAN SOURCES INDICATED THIS WAS VIRTUALLY PROCEDURAL. ..."

LATE STORY FROM UPI S GROWALD SAID: "SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER SAID MONDAY NIGHT HE AND SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI GROMYKO HAVE MADE SOME PROGRESS TOWARD AN OFFENSIVE NUCLEAR ARMS TREATY. ... KISSINGER TOLD REPORTERS, "WE HAD A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. WE DISCUSSED THE EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE AND BEGAN A DISCUSSION OF SALT (STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS). THE DISCUSSION WAS CONSTRUCTIVE AND WAS CONDUCTED IN A

FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE.

DID YOU TWO MAKE PROGRESS ON SALT? ASKED A NEWSMAN. SOME PROGRESS WAS MADE, KISSINGER REPLIED." ...

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