...Western Europe, p. 2

Asia, p. 10

Soviet Union, p. 13

# KISSINGER IN PEKING, EUROPEAN CALLS FOR UNITY

## Summary

Media in many countries prominently played Secretary of State Kissinger's talks with Chinese leaders. Limited speculative comment was concerned with developing relations among the three big powers and their effects on Europe.

West German television said the reason for Mr. Kissinger's "rush" to Peking was probably that "he wants to prove that the U.S. believes that the discussion and solution of all world political problems should take place within the framework of the Washington-Moscow-Peking relationship." West Berlin's *Tagesspiegel* said he sought to "dispel" the Chinese notion of a "conspiracy of the two nuclear superpowers."

The bulk of West European comment deplored superpower handling of the Middle East crisis without Europe's aid and underscored the need for political cohesion in Europe. Speeches this week by Prime Minister Heath, Foreign Minister Jobert and Chancellor Brandt were widely cited to illustrate these themes.

--*Die Welt* of Hamburg expressed concern over "fissures" in the Atlantic Alliance under stress of the Middle East crisis, but remarked that "the Americans were bound to regard the European complaints as a pretext of unreliable and vacillating allies seeking to cover their hasty retreat into neutrality...America's impatience with Europe is assuming forms that are frightening."

--*Combat* of Paris saw Europe "finding its identity again in the demonstrated proof of its nonexistence" during the Middle East conflict.

--*Rome's Messaggero* asserted that "revision of the so-called 'Atlantic partnership' is needed under terms of equality and not of subordination of European interests to those of the so-called 'global' U.S. foreign policy."

Soviet media briefly cited a Reuter dispatch on the Kissinger-Mao Tse-tung talk, including mention that the Chairman "has not received any other foreign statesman as often as the U.S. Secretary of State."

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West German TV: "Kissinger Holds to U.S.-USSR-China Framework"

A commentator on West German television declared last night that Secretary Kissinger's authority as the architect of U.S. global foreign policy was such that "if the little green men from Mars landed their flying saucers on our planet and asked to be taken to the leader, they would be brought to the ex-Harvard professor for negotiations on behalf of Earth."

He said that a "simple answer" to the question of "why the rush" to Peking was that "Kissinger did not want to permit a regional conflict to disrupt his continent-spanning plans.

"He has often said that China was the biggest topic and that by comparison Vietnam was merely a footnote in world history. Then there is the more convincing reply that he wants to prove that the U.S. believes that the discussion and solution of all world political problems should take place within the framework of the Washington-Moscow-Peking relationship...

"A conciliatory China is a pawn in the hands of the U.S. against Soviet insolence. It appears that the degree of the conciliatory attitude does not depend so much on U.S. foreign policy as it does on the personality of Dr. Kissinger. His success can be explained by his ability to view problems from a standpoint other than that of the U.S."

West German papers today front-paged reports of Mr. Kissinger's visit to Peking under these headlines: "Mao Approves Kissinger's 'Accelerated Rapprochement'" (Frankfurter Allgemeine), "Kissinger: Friendship with China Is Constant Factor of U.S. Foreign Policy" (Die Welt), and "Kissinger Satisfied with China Visit-- Much Substance in Discussions With Mao" (Sueddeutsche Zeitung).

"Both Want to Keep USSR Out of East Asia"

Right-center Frankfurter Allgemeine declared today that "recent weeks have had a sobering effect on Kissinger with regard to Brezhnev, who was trying to exploit detente... The same period saw him disappointed in the West Europeans....

"But in Peking the Secretary is meeting with discussion partners who he believes will keep their promises. America has seen that

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it can rely on China... This unusual mutual confidence is traceable to their common interest to keep the USSR out of East Asia. America could not prevent the USSR from advancing in the Middle East or increasing its influence in India. Now America and China want to prevent the USSR from establishing itself in the Pacific....

"The Chinese also are afraid of Brezhnev's project of a collective security system for Asia. They consider the U.S. military presence in Japan, the Philippines, and even in Taiwan, the lesser evil. To exclude the USSR from Asia, Chou played a role in ending the Vietnam war. He also wants to close the door to Moscow in Cambodia. His position makes for increasing harmony of U.S. and Chinese policy in Asia."

The paper also carried a by-line article asserting that "the nature of Kissinger's mission to Peking leaves no doubt that the U.S. considers China of equal political significance as the USSR." Predicting that diplomatic recognition was merely a matter of time, it noted the "unusual distinction" of Mr. Kissinger's three-hour interview with Chairman Mao as indicative that the latter regards him as a person of "the greatest importance and in whom he takes a keen personal interest."

"This reflects Peking's view of the U.S. despite Watergate."

## "U.S. 'Atlas' Role and Atlantic Partnership"

Correspondent Hans Herbert Goetz reported yesterday that although "Washington is all mixed up, it is surprising how capable of action it is in foreign policy. Washington is able to negotiate without help with both the Arabs and the Israelis, its channels of communications with Moscow have worked and it can talk with Peking at the same time."

"All this confirms the U.S. view that no one can take over its role as Atlas in a time of crisis. The concept of this Atlas role is the core of the disputes over the future shape of the Atlantic partnership, whose outcome is still uncertain."

## "U.S. Resolve in Middle East Impressed China"

An analyst in independent *Stuttgarter Zeitung* today concluded that the Arab states "reluctance to pay for Moscow's moral and military assistance by settling for

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increased Soviet influence" in the Middle East was "making things difficult for the Kremlin and giving Kissinger's mission a chance....

"Even though Chinese policy has always been pro-Arab, Peking showed more understanding than Europe that the U.S. cannot leave Israel in the lurch....Washington's resolve to risk nuclear war rather than put up with Moscow's going it alone on the Suez Canal has impressed China...Thus again the emissary of a battered President found the gates wide open in Peking."

"The Limits of Detente and America's Patience"

Right-center *Die Welt* of Hamburg carried a Washington report by Heinz Barth under the heading, "Middle East Crisis Shows Limits of Detente," in which he asserted that while U.S.-USSR agreement had "prevented the worst" from happening to Europe as a result of the Middle East war, the crisis had also shown "that Washington and Moscow take opposing views of detente....

"Fissures have been emerging all over the 'new structure of peace' that Kissinger has mentioned so frequently. One now expects that Washington will see the limitations of detente in a more realistic light.

"Of even greater concern are the fissures that have become visible in the Atlantic Alliance. European NATO partners have been complaining about the lack of consultation by Washington--as if consultation were possible in view of the necessity to take an instantaneous decision to prevent Soviet intervention at the Suez Canal. The Americans were bound to regard the European complaints as a pretext of unreliable and vacillating allies seeking to cover their hasty retreat into neutrality.

"No alliance can survive in the long run if the solidarity of its partners is as one-sided an affair as was revealed in the Middle East crisis. The ill feelings in Washington run deep. America's impatience with Europe is assuming forms that are frightening."

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Brandt and Jobert Speeches

Papers gave top play today to Chancellor Brandt's speech to the Parliament of Europe yesterday in which he urged speed in achieving European political unity. Right-center Die Welt combined its report of Brandt's speech with an account from Paris of French Foreign Minister Jobert's "attack" on U.S.-USSR "dual hegemony."

"Brandt, Pompidou Initiatives to End Europe's Weakness"

A common editorial note on Mr. Brandt's address was struck by Munich's independent *Sueddeutsche Zeitung*, which declared today:

"West Europe's political and economic weakness, demonstrated once again in the Middle East crisis, sparks initiatives designed to end that state of affairs. Pompidou's proposal for an EC summit conference in Copenhagen has been followed by Brandt's outline of a crash program....

"Brandt's proposals are primarily inspired by the Middle East crisis which left the EC with no alternative to demonstrating individually and collectively good conduct to the Arabs.... That situation and the energy crisis might furnish a strong impetus to forming a common European policy..."

West Berlin: "Explanation of Kissinger Assurance"

Independent *Tagesspiegel* of West Berlin today declared that Mr. Kissinger went to Peking to "dispel" the Chinese notion of a "conspiracy of the two nuclear super-powers....

"The power relationships in the Middle East did not permit Peking to play a role in the crisis management, and barring a few propaganda attacks and voting maneuvers in the Security Council, Peking did not even try to play such a role.

"Thus Kissinger's main objective is to dispel the suspicion that Washington has returned to a bipolar political view of the world with the USSR. This explains the Secretary's assurance that friendship with Peking will always be a constant factor in U.S. foreign policy..."

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## Jobert and "Europe's Submission"

In an editorial yesterday on French Foreign Minister Jobert's address, the paper said that he had blamed the superpowers for actions "which are but the reverse side of the coin of Europe's own failures."

"How can Europe escape being treated as a nonentity when in an emergency it demonstrates a lack of common policy, when it shuns confrontations except when participation in a confrontation gives it the right to determine the limits and reduction of tensions?"

"How can Europe change from being a nonentity into an entity when it offers friends and foes nothing but the picture of gradual submission to blackmail?"

## Paris: "Europeans Speak Up But Differ"

French observers saw Western Europe "humiliated" as the superpowers handled the Middle East crisis. They reported calls for political unity.

Independent-left *Le Monde* of Paris today noted in an editorial that while Foreign Minister Michel Jobert in a speech to the National Assembly "was drawing the lesson from the Middle East crisis and calling Europeans to unite and redouble their efforts to win their independence, other European voices were expressing noticeably different concerns."

"As Chancellor Brandt in Strasbourg welcomed the fact that the European Community is on the move again, Mr. Scheel in Wiesbaden stressed that the alliance with America remains a pillar of West German foreign policy, along with European unity and the Ostpolitik; Mr. Heath in London asked that the importance of Atlantic difficulties not be exaggerated; and Mr. Luns in Paris declared that so long as Europeans do not make a sufficient military effort their defense will depend on the American commitment..."

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"At this juncture the Nine unanimously welcome the European summit in Copenhagen in December... But European unity won't be achieved simply because the heads of state and government consult together twice a year. It will require a constant purpose, a faith that can withstand disappointments and not vanish when the present humiliations and the great fear of an oil shortage are forgotten...

"European enthusiasm is satiated with words; now it can be nourished only with concrete achievements."

"Soviet-U.S. Condominium Makes Us Impotent"

Foreign editor Roger Massip of middle-of-the-road Figaro today agreed with the French Foreign Minister that "the Soviet-American condominium, as Mr. Jobert calls it, has rendered the international community impotent" and that "in the Middle East affair, Europe has been 'humiliated in its nonexistence' and is the victim of the situation." Massip said "enthusiasm" such as Mr. Jobert called for "can only spring from reasonable certainties."

"The memory of the previous European Community summit in October 1972 would rather caution prudence, but a prudence which certainly does not exclude hope."

"Superpower Noise Wakes Europe"

Today's independent-left Combat of Paris asserted that "the noise the superpowers make in fomenting wars which they then quickly halt would wake the dead. Thus it is not surprising that it is reawakening Europe."

The paper said that "Europe collectively resents the outrage" commited against it by the superpowers in the Middle East crisis but "is finding its identity again in the demonstrated proof of its non-existence..."

"The weakness of Europe is neither economic, nor commercial, nor monetary. It is military and political. What is needed is a

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policy-making power vested in effective institutions... Otherwise the coming EC summit will be just another exercise while we await the next insult from the 'condominium.'"

## "Jobert's Europe Speech Comes Late"

Yesterday the paper carried byliner Richard Liscia's remark that "the Foreign Minister chose the occasion of the funeral meditation over Europe's mortal remains to deliver his most positive speech about Europe. It was both a confession and a lament: Political integration, previously so heavily criticized, is now indispensable. What a pity this didn't come earlier!"

Liscia discerned in the speech a recognition that "the two superpowers...have an often useful way of sharing tasks between them." He predicted that "their supremacy is sure to endure because it is exercised effectively and in the interest of the very countries that might rebel against it."

Center-opposition **Aurore** today carried a byliner's characterization of Mr. Jobert's speech as "a rather sad report on damaging facts by a moody man reluctantly resigned to seeing the two superpowers impose their hegemony on the world."

## "Superpowers Played Same Game in 1956"

Catholic-left **La Croix** said that "in 1956, the British, French and Israelis were all under the same American protection, but when they were bold enough to tug a bit at their leash they were threatened with being thrown to the Soviet bear. Washington left it to Moscow to tell them to stop it. The two superpowers were already playing the same game, even before their formal rapprochement."

## "Finlandized or Latin Americanized?"

Assistant editor Marc Ullman wrote yesterday in the opposition weekly news magazine 1'Express that "the European nations, wedged between Russian missiles and Arab oil, cannot resist the pressure...

"Europe is in danger of being both 'Finlandized' by the USSR and 'Latin Americanized' by the U.S."

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London: "Chinese Fear USSR-Taiwan Alliance"

Correspondent Clare Hollingworth of the conservative London *Daily Telegraph* reported today that he "understood" the discussions during the meeting between Secretary Kissinger and Chairman Mao "centered on the establishment of full diplomatic relations between China and America." He said that Premier Chou En-lai "appears determined to prevent an alliance" between Russia and Taiwan "and is hopeful that Dr. Kissinger will repeat his fears to Mr. Tanaka" in Japan. In a story yesterday Hollingworth stated:

> "There are reports that the Chinese have recently ceased production and trials of their long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles which can reach the U.S. It may be no coincidence that this information began to circulate among diplomats in Peking at the time of Dr. Kissinger's visit. The Chinese are, however, pressing ahead with production of missiles which could penetrate the industrial centers of the Soviet Union."

"Heath Warned U.S., USSR"

The paper yesterday called Prime Minister Heath's Monday night speech "an implicit warning to President Nixon and Mr. Brezhnev that, in the nuclear age, other powers than the U.S. and Russia might influence the course of history."

Milan: "Need for Democratic Dissent"

Independent conservative *Corriere della Sera* of Milan headlined today: "Washington-Peking Friendship Irreversible."

In the first of a series of articles titled "The End of Ideals: NATO," the paper's foreign editor wrote:

> "It is mainly up to the Europeans to establish a new relationship of cooperation and of opposition toward America... There will have to be a democratic process in international relations that allows for agreement, dissent, victory and defeat...."

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Socialist Avanti of Rome today headed an article on an inside page, "Kissinger Forced to Reassure Chinese on Possible 'Post-Nixon' Period."

## Brandt, Jobert, and "So-called Partnership"

A writer in middle-of-the-road *Il Messaggero* of Rome, quoting extensively from the speeches of Chancellor Brandt and Foreign Minister Jobert, said:

> "Revision of the so-called Atlantic 'partnership' is needed under terms of equality and not of subordination of European interests to those of the so-called 'global' U.S. foreign policy."

## Vienna: "China Understands Kissinger Better"

Foreign affairs commentator Hugo Portisch said yesterday in Vienna's independent *Kurier* that no one knew better than Secretary Kissinger "how important it is not to leave China out in the cold, precisely at this moment and precisely in view of the Soviet-American test of strength in the Middle East."

> "More is at stake than the bilateral relations between the U.S. and China....Without China's presence in world affairs... America's position would be weaker in the Middle East too-- all the more so since Washington had to make do without European support. In any case, China seems to understand Kissinger better than Europe does."

## "Peking Creating New Order in Far East"

Semi-official *Wiener Zeitung* declared that the reason for the trip to Peking was "America's rapidly disintegrating position in the Far East." It said a "new order" was being created in Asia at Peking's initiative, asserting that evidence of that interpretation could be noted in the pro-Chinese bias of the new Thai Government, Peking's recognition of Sihanouk in the Cambodian civil war and Peking's support of North Korea in the U.N. The paper concluded:

> "Henry Kissinger's long march to Peking has not ended."

## Tokyo: "Great Expectations"

Moderate *Mainichi* of Tokyo declared today:

> "The fact that the Japanese Government has delayed, until hearing what Mr. Kissinger has to say, its decision on

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proposed emergency domestic measures to cope with the
energy crisis exemplifies the great expectations the Govern-
ment has on the talks with the globe-trotting trouble-shooter.

"The Government must be reminded, however, that the Japanese
and American interests in the Middle East are not identical.
Japan's dependence on oil from the Middle East...is a matter
of life and death....

"In any event, Japan should formulate its own Middle East
diplomacy. Just listening to what Mr. Kissinger says is not
enough."

"Japan Needs U.S. Understanding on Oil Policy"

Independent-moderate Yomiuri of Tokyo today judged that "it is conceivable the U.S. side will oppose Japan's attitude of leaning toward the Arab side, since the U.S. has criticized the uncooperative stand of Western Europe during the Middle East crisis." It added:

"But since the oil crisis may shake the very foundation of the Japanese economy, Japan should obtain the understanding of the U.S. side on its policy..."

Seoul: "Kissinger Should Seek ROK Views"

Seoul radio today confirmed earlier reports that Secretary Kissinger and party
would make a four-hour stopover in Seoul on Friday enroute back to the U.S.

The press today played up speculation that the U.S. and China might have reached an
important agreement on the Korean question and carried a UPI report that the U.S.
is possibly preparing to announce additional troop cuts in Taiwan and Korea in an
effort to improve relations with China.

Pro-Government Kyunghyang Shinmun said today of the Kissinger visit:

"He must not stop at reporting the results of his talks with
Chinese leaders or explaining American policy to Republic

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of Korea leaders, but should seek the ROK's opinion and views
as to conditions required for peace in Korea..."

In a reference to South Korean-Soviet Union diplomatic contacts in Washington,
leading _Donga Ilbo_ of Seoul said today:

"The Government should be able to perceive that the current
international situation provides a good chance for us to im-
prove relations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic
of China. Improvement of relations serves the interests of
this nation."

## Bangkok: Expect No Action on Taiwan

Newspapers in Bangkok differed in their views of the U.S.-Taiwan situation. A columnist in prestigious _Siam Rath_ suggested that "the wisest move would be for the U.S. to completely sever relations with Nationalist China..." Another columnist, in Chinese-language _Hsing Hsien_, predicted that there was little likelihood the U.S. would take such an action in order to normalize relations with the PRC.

An editorial in Chinese-language _Shih Chieh_ said the Taiwan issue would not be
solved during the Kissinger visit to China.

## Tel Aviv: "Peking Visit Could Make Moscow Cautious"

Independent influential _Haaretz_ of Tel Aviv judged yesterday that it was possible to presume that "any additional improvement" in U.S.-China relations as a result of Mr. Kissinger's visit to Peking "would require Moscow to weigh carefully its activities on the western front...to be more cautious in the Middle East...and to increase its efforts to expedite the disintegration of NATO."

(Israeli newspapers have received Mr. Kissinger's remark that the U.S. was considering a security treaty with Israel as welcome but imprecise in its terms. There was editorial consensus that such a treaty would require territorial concessions of Israel.)

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## Moscow Notes Length of Kissinger-Mao Meeting

Soviet media recorded Mr. Kissinger's visit to Peking in the briefest of news items.
Moscow radio domestic service yesterday said:

> "According to Reuter, U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger has been received by Mao Tse-tung. Their talk, which lasted for about three hours, was held at Mao's tightly-guarded residence in Peking....

> "As the agency notes, Mao Tse-tung has not received any other foreign statesman as often as the U.S. Secretary of State. This is already the second time this year that Kissinger has met with Mao."

Moscow TASS, under a Tokyo dateline, today reported the Kissinger arrival in Japan. It said:

> "Faced with political and economic difficulties as a result of the latest events in the Middle East, the U.S. tries to shift some of the burdens of these difficulties to its allies, including Japan."

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FBIS 67

KISSINGER MEETS WITH OHIRA IN TOKYO; OIL, MIDEAST DISCUSSED

T141234 TOKYO KYODO IN ENGLISH 1201 GM 14 NOV 73 T

(TEXT) TOKYO NOV 14 KYODO--VISITING U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER WAS QUOTED WEDNESDAY AS SAYING HE WOULD SPARE NO EFFORTS TO BRING ABOUT A SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE EAST DISPUTE.

INFORMED SOURCES SAID KISSINGER EXPRESSED HIS DETERMINATION WHEN HE CONFERRED WITH JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER MASAYOSHI OHIRA AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

THE SOURCES SAID THE KISSINGER-OHIRA TALKS WHICH LASTED FOR ABOUT 2 HOURS, 20 MINUTES CENTERED ON THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND THE CURRENT OIL CRISIS.

THEY SAID KISSINGER ALSO EXPRESSED HOPE THAT JAPAN WOULD PARTICIPATE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IN THE SO-CALLED KISSINGER PLAN CALLING FOR A DECLARATION OF COOPERATION AMONG ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL NATIONS.

KISSINGER WAS QUOTED AS TELLING OHIRA HE HAS NOT GIVEN UP HOPE FOR WORKING OUT THE DECLARATION TO BE ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

KISSINGER AND OHIRA AGREED TO CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS ON THE ISSUE THROUGH DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS.

THE SOURCES SAID OHIRA WAS BRIEFED IN DETAIL ON THE PRESENT MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND FUTURE OUTLOOK.

AFTER THE MEETING OHIRA TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE HE FELT KISSINGER WAS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SETTLING THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL CRISIS. "I'M NEITHER OPTIMISTIC NOR PESSIMISTIC NOW," HE ADDED.

KISSINGER ARRIVED HERE WEDNESDAY EN ROUTE HOME FROM A VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND CHINA.

HE IS SCHEDULED TO MEET PRIME MINISTER KAKUEI TANAKA THURSDAY.

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY AND TANAKA'S SPOKESMAN QUSUMU NIKAI DO TOLD NEWSMEN HE EXPECTS TANAKA AND KISSINGER TO ENGAGE IN A FRANK EXCHANGE OF VIEWS ON THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND OIL CRISIS.

THE SOURCES SAID OHIRA ASKED KISSINGER FOR FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION TO INCREASE CRUDE OIL SUPPLIES TO JAPAN BY MAJOR AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES TO HELP JAPAN TIDE OVER THE CURRENT OIL CRISIS.

THEY QUOTED OHIRA AS TELLING KISSINGER THAT JAPAN DEFANS ON ARAB COUNTRIES FOR NEARLY 7% PER CENT OF ITS CRUDE OIL AND ANY REDUCTION BY AMERICAN FIRMS WILL HAVE AN IMMENSE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT IN JAPAN.

KISSINGER AND OHIRA ALSO DISCUSSED U.S.-CHINESE RELATIONS, THE SOURCES SAID. KISSINGER STOPPED IN CHINA EN ROUTE TO TOKYO AND CONFERRED WITH CHINESE LEADERS INCLUDING CHAIRMAN MAC TSE-TUNG AND PREMIER CHOU EN-

D-89, 7.S.-CHINESE RELATIONS.

OHIRA TOLD NEWSMEN AFTER THE MEETING HE COULD NOT DISCLOSE DETAILS OF HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH KISSINGER BECAUSE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL ARE UNDER WAY.

HE REITERATED THAT JAPAN'S BASIC STANCE TOWARD THE ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE REMAINS UNCHANGED.

HE MADE THE STATEMENT WHEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON PRESS REPORTS THAT ARAB COUNTRIES WANT JAPAN TO BREAK DIPLOMATIC AND OTHER RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL.

OHIRA ADDED THAT HE WAS BRIEFED ON U.S.-CHINESE RELATIONS AND HE DID NOT NOTICE ANY CHANGE IN UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD CHINA.

14 NOV 1451Z HT/GS

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS NBC TV 6:30 PM

NOV 14

## Emergency Airlift Ended

JOHN CHANCELLOR: The United States today ended its emergency airlift of weapons and ammunition to Israel, but will continue sending arms to Israel by ship.

## US-Chinese Communique

CHANCELLOR: Secretary of State KISSINGER ended his visit to China today and went on to Japan.

In a joint communique, the United States and China announced they will expand diplomatic, cultural and trade relations. They also said they'd oppose efforts by any country to dominate any part of the world, a possible reference to the Russians in the Middle East...

On the matter of Taiwan, the United States said in the communique that it recognizes there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China.

And in a separate announcement in Taiwan today, the United States said it is withdrawing three thousand of the eight thousand American airmen in Nationalist China.

## Singapore Cutting Off Oil

CHANCELLOR: And the government of Singapore today announced that it is cutting all oil and gas supplies to U. S. forces because of Arab oil cutbacks.

CBS EVENING NEWS CBS TV 7:00 PM

NOV 14

## Arms Airlift to Israel to End

WALTER CRONKITE: The Defense Department said today the emergency airlift of arms to Israel will end tomorrow, though sea shipments will continue. Almost twenty-three thousand tons of military supplies have been flown

to Israel since October 14th.

## US Confirms One China Principle

MARVIN KALB: CHOU suggested that if the U. S. confirms the principle of "one China," with Taiwan part of China, the negotiations on setting up formal embassies in one another's capitals, rather than liaison offices, can begin quite soon.

KISSINGER confirmed the principle. The process now begins, and it will accelerate quickly...

...It's now clear the U. S. and China will soon begin negotiations on establishing full diplomatic relations; this process itself a hint to Taiwan that it is becoming irrelevant, an anachronism in American policy in Asia. If Taiwan takes this hint and breaks relations with the United States, then the last obstacle to full and formal Peking-Washington relations will have been removed. That appears to be KISSINGER's scenario.

Marvin KALB, CBS News, Tokyo.

## First of Two Reports on Viet Cong

WALTER CRONKITE: Viet Cong envoys in Paris today refused to resume peace talks with South Vietnam. They warned Saigon at a news conference of severe punishment for any new attacks. The Viet Cong refusal meant the talks, already at a standstill, might not start again anytime soon.

In the past two weeks, the South Vietnamese have retaliated against Viet Cong attacks with heavy air strikes, and both sides say a third Vietnam war has begun.

CBS News correspondent Ed BRADLEY has spent some two weeks in Viet Cong controlled territory in South Vietnam, and here is the first of two reports from him.

ED BRADLEY: Each village we visited had its own guerrilla force, a group of men and women, some of them still really boys and girls, who were armed with modern weapons and trained to

2 Thursday, November 15, 1973

The unflappable Super-K

Some 10 months ago we remarked here that Henry Kissinger was entitled to a special niche in history for producing an agreement to end the Vietnam War. Having last week produced what may prove to be an even greater miracle — an embryonic peace in the Middle East — the doughty professor winged off to Peking for an evening at the ballet and a few earnest chats with Chairman Mao and Premier Chou. He fell asleep at the ballet, but we suspect he was alert enough while closeted with the China leaders. Dr. Kissinger always seems to have what he needs when he needs it. And the nation continues deep in his debt.

Whatever he brings to these top-level conferences (and the transcripts are seldom made public), it is surely a rare blend of personal and intellectual talents. Perhaps the greatest of these is a sense of perspective — a sense of humor in the very largest meaning of that term. Dr. Kissinger never seems overly impressed either with the trap-pings of office, or the occupants of those offices, or with his own exalted station. When Jordan's King Hussein invited him to fly to the airport in a helicopter piloted by Hussein, Kissin-ger accepted with a slight grimace: "If it were not for the honor, I'd just

as soon walk."

The common touch, graced by wit, is a marvelous key to unlock men's minds and souls. The grim problems dividing old enemies just don't appear so formidable when this amiable man begins to illuminate them. Even the press — at more or less constant odds with the President and some others high in the administration — understands and warms to Kissinger, probably because he troubles to come out and meet them halfway, with sympathy for their job.

After Kissinger met with Mao on Monday night, a Chinese spokesman reported that "a friendly atmosphere" prevailed. To create that kind of atmosphere is Kissinger's special genius, and it is making its positive mark on the history of our times.

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Kissinger Flies to Tokyo

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived in Japan from China today for meetings with Japanese leaders who are more interested in what he can tell them about their Middle East oil than

about their big neighbor on
the Asian mainland.

A joint communique covering Kissinger's four days of talks in Peking with Premier Chou En-lai was to be issued later today. It was expected to call for stronger

cultural and other ties between the United States and China.

In Seoul, the South Korean Foreign Ministry announced that Kissinger will visit Seoul on Friday to meet with President Chung

hee and other high-ranking
Korean officials. Kissinger
is expected to remain in
Seoul only for about five
hours before flying back to
Washington at the end of his
round-the-world trip.

Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira met Kissinger at the Tokyo airport and told newsmen the Middle East conflict and the resulting oil shortages would be at the top of the agenda for the American secretary's two-day visit.

"IT IS A problem I think about day and night," Ohira said. He added that the Japanese government faces a total change in its economic policy as a result of the curtailment of its oil supplies.

Japan is confronted with a 16 percent reduction in its oil supplies from Arab nations trying to pressure the Tokyo government into breaking relations with Israel. The shortage threatens to stop economic growth in the first quarter of 1974, and to halve the gross national product projected for 1973.

Ohira said he would ask Kissinger for "guidance" in deciding what steps Japan should take toward the Arabs and Israelis. Saudi Arabia has reportedly told Japan that until it breaks relations with Israel its oil supplies will remain limited.

KISSINGER before leaving China assured Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Chou that even a change in the administration in Washington would not loosen U.S. ties with China.

Kissinger Assures the Chinese
U.S. Policy Will Stay Constant

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

PEKING, Wednesday, Nov. 14
—Secretary of State Kissinger publicly assured Chinese leaders last night that American policy toward Peking would remain constant “no matter what happens in the United States in the future.”

At a banquet on the eve of
his departure for Japan, Mr.
Kissinger seemed determined to
reassure Premier Chou En-lai
and others that neither the cur-
rent Watergate scandal nor the
next Presidential election, in
1976, would retard American
efforts to improve relations
with China.

"I assure you that the progress that has been made in our relations will be continued in the years ahead, whatever happens in the future and whatever the administration," he

said in his five-minute toast.
His statement was translated
for Mr. Chou and other top
Government officials at the Chi-
nese dinner, given by Secretary
Kissinger as host, in the Great
Hall of the People.

His remarks seemed prompted
by uncertainty voiced privately
by Chinese officials in recent
months — and raised, at least
indirectly, during Mr. Kissin-
ger's current round of talks—
about the durability of the
Nixon Administration's policy
of conciliation with China.

Mr. Kissinger's decision to
make a public commitment for
the future was a sensitive one,
obviously aimed at building

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11-15-73

# Mr. Kissinger's Route

One way to assess the success of U.S. foreign policy is to count the number of conflagrations doused by the peripatetic Henry Kissinger. The Secretary of State receives a merit point, under such an assessment, for trying to bring lasting peace to the Middle East. But there is another aspect of success. It is seen in the ability or inability of U.S. foreign policy to prevent crises in the first place, or at least not to aid in their emergence.

The preventive aspect of this policy was almost invisible in Mr. Kissinger's latest swing around the world. Only in China was there a vestige of last year's bold initiative, although even in Peking Mr. Kissinger hastened to assure his hosts that "whatever the Administration," U.S. friendship with China "is one of the constant factors of American foreign policy." Mr. Kissinger was apparently responding to Chinese concern over foreign policy aberrations caused by Watergate.

It is quite conceivable that, had it not been for our domestic turmoil, the U.S. and China could have proceeded with normalization by establishing full diplomatic relations. But that would have required the termination of official U.S. contacts with Taiwan, a move which would antagonize rightist elements in this country, elements which are sustaining the President in his domestic crisis. Thus, the U.S. double policy did not change as a result of Mr. Kissinger's visit. On the one hand, Washington refused to sever ties with Taiwan and, on the other, it assured Peking in a communique that the U.S. "acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China."

But the more serious U.S. foreign policy aberration took place in West Europe. Without advising our allies, the President announced on Oct. 25 a worldwide nuclear alert of U.S. troops. The basis for the alert was to be ex-

plained in full, within a week at the latest, as Mr. Kissinger then pledged. In the meantime, Washington served notice that it expected the allies to fall into line. When they refused, word was leaked out of the White House that Mr. Kissinger was "disgusted" with NATO and Defense Secretary Schlesinger expressed strong disappointment over the refusal of West Europeans to automatically side with the U.S.

Mr. Kissinger has yet to deliver his promised account of the reasons for the alert. Judging from the continuing reactions in Europe, the allies are still in a state of shell-shock, a condition quite familiar in Japan where the government had suffered from similar U.S. unilaterality a year earlier. In Tokyo, the Secretary of State had to assure his suspicious hosts that the latest contacts with China were not made at the expense of Japan and that Japan would not be victimized by sudden trade embargoes because of shortages in the U.S.

No such assurance has apparently satisfied the Europeans who, like the Japanese, are affected more severely than the U.S. by the Arab oil export controls. Mr. Kissinger negotiated with the Arabs without prior consultation with Common Market leaders and the fact that he was unable to persuade Saudi Arabia's King Faisal to lift his oil boycott contributes to further European frustrations.

Thus, Mr. Kissinger's latest journey may be seen as one of many that will be necessary for the purpose of mending fences. When and if the fences are mended, they will give the appearance of a successful foreign policy. But a better measure of success is to obviate the need for fences. Mr. Kissinger's time is consumed by reacting to one crisis or another when it might be better spent pursuing a policy of prevention--whether it be preventing a war in the Middle East or a breakdown of communication with West Europe and Japan.

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North Carolina's first licens-
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at Wake Memorial Hospital in
Raleigh.

"The clinic won't be an abortion mill, it will concentrate on all aspects of sexuality, contraceptives, sex education and counseling," Fleming said.

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# No Kissinger Affair

Earl
Wilson

NEW YORK — Beautiful Norwegian star Liv Ullman has had some dates with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and I rudely asked her, "What do you talk about — foreign affairs?"

She thought I said, "Do you have any foreign affairs?" And looking at me across the top of her vodka glass — we couldn't get aquavit at the Pierre — she said, "You'd be surprised!"

Lovely Miss Ullman laughed when I told her the question she'd answered, and shrugged. "We met at a party and I've seen him at times, but he sees many others — so do I!" With her long, reddish-blond hair falling against her black velvet jumper and knit sweater, she said, "You don't want to be with people who have only you in their life."

"It's ridiculous that every time you're with someone it's reported to be a love story and you have to blush. It's not that way in Norway — but it's getting to be."

Miss Ullman, here promoting three movies ("The New Land," "Zandy's Bride" and "The Abdication"), frankly discussed her one-time unwed togetherness with famous Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

"It was five or six marvelous years, both good and bad, and I am a better

person for that relationship. I don't regret it.

"When we broke up, I took the girl, my daughter Linn, who's 7, and he took the dachshund, who's 14. The daughter was his," she explained, "but the dog was with a psychiatrist in Norway."

"Will you be getting together with somebody else? Living together?"

"Sure, anyway hopefully! I think the best thing in the world is to have a hand to hold. Isn't that what we all need?"

Went she was 18, she was cautious about "not doing anything that would make the neighbors talk badly about me, but now I don't think the neighbors care that much. And if you do make a mistake, maybe you will make them happy to have something to talk about."

But about Dr. Kissinger?

"I'm not having a romance with Henry Kissinger! He's too important a man to be talked about like that. He's a very gracious, friendly man, a gallant man. There's much in the world I don't understand and he's the one who can explain it to me."

# $100,000 Quotas

of Gulf's 400 subsidiary companies.

He said that Nunn returned the next year and asked for another $50,000 which he said he raised from the same overseas source.

"The implication was that this was the kind of a quota they were expecting from a large corporation," Wild said. He said he made the donation after a personal meeting with Stans.

"Mr. Stans indicated he was hopeful of obtaining $100,000 from the large American corporations — ours being one of the top 10 — and he said he hoped we would participate," Wild said.

Wild said he also used corporate funds illegally to make a $15,000 contribution to the presidential campaign of Rep. Wilbur B. Mills, D-Ark., and gave $10,000 to the presidential effort of Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash.

Both Wild and Atkins said that last July Stans and Kenneth Wells Parkinson, a lawyer for the re-election committee, suggested the contribution be listed as a personal gift coming from the executives and their wives or from corporation employees.

Both men said they rejected that course, asked for and got the refund of their money and made voluntary disclosures to the special Watergate prosecutor.

Wild said he gave the money

Atkins, who heads a smaller petroleum company, said all Ashland executives wanted to accomplish was "to assure ourselves of a forum to be heard."

Under questioning, Atkins said American political fundraising methods border on extortion.

Atkins said he was asked for the $100,000 in a telephone call from Stans. He said the money was obtained in 1,000 $100 bills from a Swiss bank account the company maintained in Geneva.

He said those funds were used so as not to attract attention and said a courier delivered the money personally to Stans who thanked him and dumped the envelope containing the cash in a drawer without looking at it.

Both Atkins and Wild said that neither Stans nor any other campaign officials asked the source of the money. They said they did not know whether the Nixon fund raisers were aware the cash came from illegal corporate funds. But they asserted they knew of no other source from which to raise such large amounts.

The Watergate hearings are in their final phase of an investigation of campaign financing and Chairman Sam J. Ervin D-N.C., said he hopes to finish by Dec. 7.

Thursday's witnesses are include executives of American Airlines, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and possibly American Airways Inc. All three

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 5 NOVEMBER 1973

WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS - 5 NOVEMBER 1973

# Detente Is Tested, and Survives

## GARRY WILLS

The Middle East spasm gave us the chance to observe a strange double standard in action. Right-wingers objected to the suspicion that Nixon would use an international crisis to cover a domestic one. But they seized the opportunity, themselves, to say Mr. Nixon had been fooling the nation all along on the nature of detente.

Nixon's past statements on the era of negotiation rather than confrontation were now dismissed as fiction, deceptions or superstition. Nixon himself had called the Middle East crisis a serious confrontation, second only to the Cuban missile affair. What kind of detente had been achieved in the interval?

Such remarks reflect the all-or-nothing approach to foreign policy that Americans are peculiarly liable to. Detente does not mean a cancellation of all points of difference. It does not mean unity of viewpoint and interest, but a refusal to push these differences toward any ultimate showdown.

Relations will fluctuate, with probes and shoves and

little tests along the way, with response to immediate promises of advantage or threats of risk. But if, each time these jolts occur, we say the game is over and return to outright cold war, we have not learned anything since Kennedy refused a compromise on Turkish missiles and risked nuclear war to show how tough he was.

Unfortunately, the President fed these belligerent instincts by ranking the Soviet note with the presence of missiles in Cuba. I do not think the crisis was feigned, or less than serious. But Mr. Nixon did exploit it in personal terms, to show how cool he is in a crisis and how well Mr. Brezhnev knows his toughness from the December Bombings of last year).

You cannot have it both ways — simultaneously looking for detente, and yet swaggering like the world's top gunfighter. The difference in tone between Secretary Kissinger's press conference and that of his leader was very instructive, and should make us happy that Kissinger does most of the negotiating.

Kissinger stressed that our national measures were not part of a confrontation, but a means of preventing confrontation. He refused to characterize the Soviet note. He pointedly mentioned that cease-fire violations, no matter who began them, had resulted in Israeli gains.

He was not needlessly provocative or partisan. (His later private remarks on NATO were less prudent and considered.)

Kissinger also said we have the best chance for a peace settlement to be offered in a long time. That is true, and an Arab strike that — however unjustified — showed greater power and secrecy than was expected may have a sobering impact.

There was an unhealthy air of invincibility to Israel's swagger after the Six-Day War — just as there was in this country after World War II. It seemed the little giant could do anything, and meant to keep the land gained in order to protect itself.

But the land now looks more penetrable than it had, and the harsh truth

imposes itself — Israel is not protected by land buffers, but by American money, prestige and weapons.

In order to retain those, cold war rhetoric and militarism are not enough. There must be some concessions.

As one immensely learned rabbi said to me last week, "Israel once rejected a Quaker peace plan because it involved $2 billion in restitution to the Palestinians. The first week of the Yom Kippur war cost more than $2 billion — not to mention all the young men's lives."

It would be a strategic mistake for any Jews to join with right-wingers in calling for an end to detente now. Jews and Arabs ultimately need each other as much as Israel needs America or America needs oil.

Land and skilled labor and resources must be combined to be fruitful. There can be no "final solution" either way in the Middle.

America once thought it could "win" the cold war, get everything it wanted from the world — till we found we could not, and began settling for more realistic gains with less risk and rhetoric and loss. Israel must learn the same lesson. The detente has survived one test. There are others ahead.

WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS - 5 NOV. 1973 Pg 12D

# Live U.S. Bombs Litter Lao Landscape

debris.

By Tammy Arbuckle

Star-News Special Correspondent

Dong Hene, South Laos — "must be the end of a stick of bombs," mused the bronzed young American watching Dave, his fellow demolition team member, digging cautiously round the buried and unexploded U.S. Air Force 500-pound bomb about the 400 yards outside this Lao district capital.

The remark was prompted by the line of old water-filled bomb craters running to within a few feet of the digging. The American picked up a dirt-covered metal cone. "That's the striker on the bomb nose. It probably sheared off when the bomb hit. That's why it didn't go off," he said. Dave pulls out the bomb's battered tail fin but we still won't see the bomb. That, it turns out, can be one of the first problems. Sometimes bombs go into the ground sideways and travel a considerable distance from their entry, perhaps surfacing again many yards away.

Now the three Americans on the team and the accompanying U.S. Medical Corpsman view the surrounding well populated area and deliberate whether they'll need to "drag" the bomb to a safer place where nobody will get hurt by fragments. "It's funny," says the American commen-tator. "We drop it trying to kill people and it often doesn't but it's difficult to destroy it and make sure we don't hurt anybody."

The bomb is pointing straight down into the ground and it is decided it can be exploded on the spot as most of the fragments will go into the ground and not sailing into the town, particularly with plastic charges laid on top.

JOHN, WHO HAS been doing this sort of thing for eight years lays an unexploded 81mm mortar shell in beside the bomb "to help it along."

He had picked it up near the path on our way here. Fifteen pounds of plastic charges are squeezed down on top of the bomb. "We

tools of the trade, with them, leaving a light pack for John who as last man to leave the bomb has furthest to go in the shortest time.

Blue smoke spirals from the fuse. It's going well now and John lays it down, shoulders his pack and walks calmly to cover. At eight minutes almost exactly, it goes off.

Not the heavy boom of the 500-pound bomb bursting in battle, but instead, a dull pop. "Wait a minute" cautions John. "It takes time for the frags to come over."

Sure enough, two or three bomb fragments hum past. Back where the bomb burst was there's a huge crater. Underground rock formations have been split apart. Water is pouring into the crater. Children plunge into the hole to pick up the bomb fragments for scrap metal and shout with pain from still hot metal.

THE AMERICAN medic says he often treats the youngsters who rush into explosion areas to gather the scrap which sometimes pays more than their father can earn in a month.

The teams wear civilian work clothes, usually carry only knives and demolition tools. In unsafe areas they have Lao military security guards. Mac, one of the team, says their biggest problem is enemy booby traps such as Chine box mines and unexploded U.S. Air Force cluster bomb units. The enemy booby traps are complicated by the fact they are made to explode whenever they are interfered with and Communist ingenuity makes defusing them tricky to say the least.

The clusters come in different kinds and some of them, dropped from too low altitude, arm themselves while going through the air, then hang up in trees, failing to explode. Sometimes the enemy get an unarmed cluster, then arm them after placing them underneath such a tree, a ploy that could wipe out whole team, as all would be triggered off in the tree when the unwary trod on the armed one in the ground. "We don't move armed clusters, we just destroy them where they are," Mac says. At least one American team member has been killed in Laos.

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Minister Kol said the prime minister responded in the affirmative to his request and promised to hold a discussion on the matter as soon as possible. Minister Moshe Kol was speaking at a meeting of the Independent Liberal faction in the Knesset.

## Bomb Hoax Delays Eban

Paris Domestic Service in French 1500 GMT 9 Nov 73 L

[Text] At Orly there is a bomb alert concerning the El Al Boeing 707 used by Mr Abba Eban. The Israeli airline has received an anonymous telephone call. Bomb disposal units are at present inspecting the aircraft, but at Orly--which we have contacted by telephone--it is believed that the whole thing is probably a hoax.

## Additional Report

Paris Domestic Service in French 1600 GMT 9 Nov 73 L

[Text] It was a false alert: Officers of the French bomb-disposal services could not find any bomb in the Boeing 707 which Mr Abba Eban had boarded at Orly. The aircraft was able to take off not long ago, after some delay. Mr Abba Eban is now on his way to New York.

## Government Statement Due

Jerusalem Domestic Service in Hebrew 1600 GMT 9 Nov 73 M

[Text] The prime minister's office has announced that the government statement concerning the statement that has just been released in Washington will be issued after the cabinet meeting this evening.

## Rabin on Mideast Agreement

Tel Aviv IDF Radio in Hebrew 1605 GMT 9 Nov 73 M

[Excerpts] At the end of a week of intensive political activity, reports began to be published yesterday regarding the achievement of an agreement between Egypt and Israel through U.S. mediation. According to the reports, which have meanwhile been confirmed in a statement published in Washington, an agreement was reached between the parties regarding the establishment of a corridor for the movement of nonmilitary supplies to the 3d Army, an exchange of prisoners, an easing of the blockade at Bab el Mandeb Straits, the establishment of contacts between senior IDF and Egyptian army officers, and the start of diplomatic talks before the end of the year between Egypt and Israel.

According to the reports, the agreement was scheduled to be published simultaneously in Cairo, Washington and Jerusalem. The cabinet is meeting this evening and it is possible that a statement about the agreement will be issued at the end of the session.

We will begin with a brief review of the developments which have led to the agreement. Then we will present an interview with former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yizhaq Rabin, and an evaluation of the way U.S. Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger works.

In the wake of the report about the agreement between Egypt and Israel, Elon Shalev has interviewed former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yizhaq Rabin and asked him first to what degree the substance of the agreement is in line with the political objectives of the United States in our region.

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[Rabin--recorded] In my opinion, this agreement is in line with the immediate central objective of the United States, which is to bring about a situation whereby fighting will not be resumed. Therefore, Dr Kissinger concentrated primarily on the removal of the immediate reasons that could lead to a resumption of the fighting. As far as Egypt is concerned, this meant insuring a supply corridor mainly for non-military supplies to the 3d Army which could enable the 3d Army to exist as long as the agreement is honored. And as far as Israel is concerned, it meant insuring an exchange of prisoners and freedom of passage through the Bab el Mandeb Straits. These were the immediate problems which threatened a resumption of fighting. Dr Kissinger, therefore, concentrated on solving them.

He simultaneously laid the basis for two additional stages toward the achievement of an overall settlement. In the first stage, the Egyptians agreed to direct talks between senior officers from both sides to tidy up the cease-fire lines and consolidate the cease-fire arrangements. The third [as heard] stage is the establishment of a framework for talks between the parties under appropriate auspices for the achievement of a peaceful settlement. While the details of the first part have been outlined and are complete and clear and have been agreed upon, only objectives and frameworks have been set forth with regard to the two additional parts without entering--this is at least as far as I can tell at this stage--into the substance and details of the ideas between the consolidation of the cease-fire and the achievement of a peace settlement.

[Shalev] Can we assume from the conclusion of this agreement that the way has been opened for the fulfillment of the third condition or clause in Security Council resolution 338 regarding direct negotiations between the parties?

[Rabin] At least a door has been opened for hope that we will, indeed, reach that stage. It is still too early to tell whether we will indeed reach the stage of direct negotiations. However, there are more prospects today than at any other time that negotiations for a peace settlement will take place, at least from a procedural standpoint, in a manner which Israel wants and has been advocating since the 6-day war. At the same time, I do not suggest, at least for us, that we forget that there are contradictions in the positions and approaches between us and the Egyptians, and this business of negotiations will not be easy.

[Shalev] Mr Rabin, how, in your assessment, did Mr Kissinger lead the Egyptians to accept such an agreement with Israel?

[Rabin] What has led the Egyptians to accept this agreement was the military reality. The military reality at the end of the war was such that it left the Egyptians no choice but to accept the cease-fire. They realized that the United States will not yield in the military sphere. In other words, the United States had given Israel the means to be strong and to achieve those gains which forced Egypt to ask for the cease-fire. The Americans have proved to the Egyptians that it is doubtful whether the road to peace passes through Moscow. There are more prospects for the Egyptians to advance toward a settlement by way of Washington, and unless they do so, their military situation will be very grave.

[Shalev] I think I will not be mistaken if I say that we are now entering a new period, a very difficult period of political struggle. How, in your opinion, are we likely to be affected by the resumption of relations between the United States and Egypt in the political struggle we will face?

(our)

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[Rabin] There is no doubt that we will be involved in many struggles. Our struggle will mainly be with the United States. The United States has scored an achievement in the Arab world because of the reasons I mentioned earlier, and this achievement has enabled it to reach an agreement for the resumption of relations with Egypt. It should be remembered that the United States has an interest in a strong Israel, but its interest in the Middle East is not confined just to strengthening Israel. The United States wants to reach a situation in which its position in the Arab world will be better than it was before. The United States has done this not at the expense of Israel's interests--at least so far--but has done this--and I hope it will continue to do so--while maintaining the basic interests of both the United States and Israel. I think that contrary to views which existed in the United States in the past that the only way to the hearts of the Arabs is the abandonment of Israel, this method of support for Israel has enabled Dr Kissinger to come to Cairo, to be received as no other U.S. secretary of state has been received there, and to achieve--at least at this stage in his negotiations with the Egyptians--practical results, which, in my opinion, are satisfactory.

Incidents on Egyptian, Syrian Fronts

Jerusalem Domestic Service in Hebrew 1705 GMT 9 Nov 73 M

[Text] A senior IDF officer today told correspondents of two incidents which took place today, one on the Egyptian front and the other on the Syrian front. In the sector of the Egyptian 3d Army the Egyptians tried to advance certain positions in the Al-Jidi area during the night. Following warning shots by Israeli forces, the Egyptians withdrew. There were no casualties.

On the Syrian front, exchanges of fire took place for about 3 hours this morning, starting at 0700. The incident took place in the sector between Mizra'at Bayt Jinn in the north and Tall Shams in the central sector. The incident started with light arms fire and developed into intermittent artillery fire. The Syrian fire was directed at an Israeli patrol moving in our territory. The Syrians complained to the UN forces that our forces tried to take up positions in an area where they did not exist before. The complaint was checked and found to be untrue.

Agreement Release in Washington Reported

Jerusalem Domestic Service in Hebrew 1800 GMT 9 Nov 73 M

[Excerpt] It has officially been announced in Washington that Egypt and Israel have agreed to a 6-point plan which will consolidate the cease-fire and pave the way for negotiations on a durable peace. The White House has published the six clauses of the plan as detailed in a letter U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has sent to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.

The first clause says: Israel and Egypt agree to observe scrupulously the cease-fire called for by the UN Security Council.

The second clause says: Both sides agree to immediately begin talks between them to settle the question of returning to the 22 October positions in the framework of an agreement on the disengagement and separation of forces under UN auspices.

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

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2. IN AN EDITORIAL NOVEMBER 15, THE VIENTIANE POST REMARKED THAT THE NAME MOST OFTEN HEARD THESE DAYS IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS IS THE NAME OF THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE. "HIS ACHIEVEMENTS, ABILITY, AND THE STORY OF HIS LIFE OUGHT TO BE STUDIED BY ALL WHO ASPIRE TO POLITICAL LEADERSHIP", SAID THE PAPER.

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SUBJ: PRESS REACTIONS TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF SECRETARY'S VISIT

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1. NOV 15 VERNACULAR AND ENGLISH PRESS GAVE FRONT-PAGE COVERAGE TO SECRETARY'S VISIT ANNOUNCED BY MOFA AFTERNOON NOV 14. STORIES REPORTED OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT THAT SECRETARY KISSINGER WILL DISCUSS WITH PRESIDENT PARK MATTERS OF MUTUAL US-ROK CONCERN, AND QUOTED GOVT SOURCE AS STATING THAT PURPOSE OF TRIP IS TO BRIEF PRESIDENT ON TALKS WITH CHINESE AND JAPANESE LEADERS. ARTICLES SPECULATED THAT SECRETARY WOULD ALSO DISCUSS US POLICY TOWARD CHINA, GRADUAL US WITHDRAWAL FROM ASIA, FUTURE OF UN FORCES IN ROK, AND US-ROK VIEWS ON KOREA QUESTION IN UNGA.

2. ARTICLES ON SECRETARY'S VISIT ALSO REPORTED SPECULATION BY "DIPLOMATIC OBSERVERS" THAT US AND CHINA MAY HAVE REACHED COMPROMISE AGREEMENT ON WITHDRAWAL ADDITIONAL U.S. FORCES FROM ROK, SEVERAL PAPERS EXPRESSED OPINION THAT PEKING VISIT WOULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON UN KOREA DEBATE.

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Visit to Mao

On his way home from arranging a negotiated truce between Israel and Egypt, Henry Kissinger dropped in to see his old friend Mao Tse-tung. Such is the pace of changing times that it is now possible for the American Secretary of State and the world's leading revolutionary hero to meet "in a friendly atmosphere"—and the visit seems like a mere way station on a round-the-world tour.

This was Mr. Kissinger's sixth visit, his first as Secretary of State, and had been in preparation far longer than his sudden sweep through the Arab world. As predicted, there were no dramatic results from the Peking stopover, though the continuing momentum of contacts at all levels is dramatic enough against the background of the past two decades. The old ideological venom may still flow at the United Nations but the toasts are warm and hearty in Peking. Chinese spokesmen at the U.N. heaped scorn on the Soviet-American peacemaking efforts for the Middle East, but their criticism was not backed up by vetoes.

The enthusiasm of China's re-entry into the practical affairs of the outside world is fairly astonishing. More than twice as many official delegations traveled abroad the first six months of 1973 than in all the year before: 91 missions of various kinds to Europe, 72 to Asia, 33 to North and South America and 32 to Africa. The Chase Manhattan Bank estimates that trade between China and the United States will reach the level of $600 million this year, compared with $92 million last year and $5 million in 1971.

To the dismay of the Maoist-chic movements of the West, China's leaders are uttering words of praise and encouragement for the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Communist leadership of Peking is warning Secretary Kissinger not to be lured into a mischievous détente with the Soviet Union; the obvious Chinese fear is that any reduction in tensions with the West would free Soviet military resources for redeployment toward the East.

In all this, China and the United States are gradually refining the language in which they describe the still unresolved question of Taiwan; if they cannot reconcile their opposing positions, they seem at least not to be letting their differences get in the way of other matters. The United States is carrying forward its plan to withdraw troops from Taiwan, but the United States commitment and obligations to preserve the island's security still stand.

There may be a general lesson here of relevance to the Arab-Israeli dispute and other world confrontations: No matter how intractable and emotional the point of contention may seem at one time, the passage of years and circumstances can reduce it to the kind of disagreement that both sides may be willing to live with.

# U.S. and China Are Closer To Full Diplomatic Ties

NYTimes 11-15-73

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

TOKYO, Nov. 14—Secretary of State Kissinger left China today after signing a joint communiqué that seemed to move Washington and Peking another step closer to the establishment of full diplomatic relations.

In the language worked out by Mr. Kissinger and Premier

can be established "only on the basis of confirming the principle of one China" by the United States.

The full meaning of this wording by the Chinese would have to be explored through further diplomatic discussion, American officials said. On the surface, the Chinese statement seemed close to the American position of not challenging the Chinese view that there "is but one China." This produced some optimism and a senior American official said—shortly after Mr. Kissinger arrived here for talks with Japanese leaders— that there was now hope for "a definite movement to normalization."

The communiqué was issued this evening by Mr. Kissinger's

Continued on Page 8, Column 1

Text of the joint communiqué is printed on Page 9.

Chou En-lai early this morning in Peking, the two sides appeared to have narrowed the gap on the complex Taiwan issue, the main obstacle up to now to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the former antagonists.

According to the 700-word document, the Chinese position is that diplomatic relations between Peking and Washington

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# Japan Economy Critical, Tanaka Tells Kissinger

TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka has told Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger that Japan faces its most critical economic situation since World War II because of the Arab oil squeeze.

In a one-hour meeting with the Japanese leader yesterday, Tanaka also gave Kissinger a preview of the steps the world's No. 1 importer of oil will take to cope with an estimated 20 percent cutback in its imports of crude oil next month.

The prime minister emphasized that Japan will forge its Middle East policy independently and that any

changes in it will take place without prior consultation with the United States. He made clear that he was asking for advice and information as a friend and major business partner.

THE QUESTION is what the United States can do to ease Japan's burden other than to point out that Kissinger has prodded the Arabs and Israel toward negotiations that could lead to a Middle East settlement.

Some American businessmen in Japan expect Tanaka's government to switch from its neutral position toward favoring the Arabs, perhaps by breaking rela-

tions with Israel. However, the government has repeatedly said it would not take so drastic a step.

With only a little coal and virtually no domestic oil, natural gas or uranium production, Japan depends on foreign sources for 85 percent of its total energy supply, and more than 80 percent of its oil has been coming from the Middle East.

THE NATIONAL Federation of Oil Dealers has decided to close the nation's 43,000 gas stations on Sundays and national holidays. And the stations will be open shorter hours on other days.

An overture from Libya, meanwhile, has given rise to hope that it may become a new source of supply for Japan. Ambassador Hassen Bukres asked yesterday for Japanese technical cooperation to build steel mills, oil refineries and petrochemical plants in Libya, where Japan buys little oil. And Libya has nothing to offer in exchange for Japanese help except its oil.

Besides briefing the Japanese on the Middle East situation, Kissinger is giving them an account of his visit to China and his views on the U.S.-Chinese commune to expand Washington-Peking relations. He is also briefing them on the status of his proposals to rejuvenate the North Atlantic alliance and arrange a close association for Japan with it.

Kissinger goes to Seoul tomorrow for talks with South Korean officials, then returns to Washington.

and the National Governors' Conference in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday.

At least some of the senators who met with Nixon for almost three hours last night expressed impatience with the President's failure to provide specific information.

Asked when he believes Nixon should release the White House tapes, Sen. Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland said, "Tomorrow is too late."

But Sen. John G. Tower of Texas said the President
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did not include Syria.

Syria, which fought with Egypt on the Golan Heights front, did not take part in the agreement. Israel says it captured 173 soldiers on the Syrian front and estimates Syria holds about 100 Israeli POWs.

The Israeli prisoners aboard the first flight home all wore striped pajamas. Some smiled, others looked dazed and still others stared without expression.

Most of the prisoners were on stretchers covered with green and red woolen blankets. The others either walked or hobbled to the aircraft.

THE BREAKTHROUGH on the prisoner dispute was hammered out by Israel and Egypt in a desert negotiating session yesterday.

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Thursday, November 15, 1973

Vol. 94

Another Kissinger Visit Advances
The New U.S.-China Era

The United States and mainland China are
moving inevitably toward full diplomatic recog-
nition. The official communique issued at the
end of Henry Kissinger's latest Peking visit did
not say so, but the continuing momentum in Chi-
nese-American relations points only toward the
upgrading of the two liaison missions in Pe-
king and Washington to ambassadorial status
sooner or later.

The sole hindrance is this country's problem of what to do about Nationalist China without seeming to have betrayed an ally. Perhaps an arrangement can be worked out with the Nationalist regime, whose governing control is limited to the island of Taiwan, having some kind of lessened presence in Washington. Taiwan of course would resent such a change but probably would accommodate to it reluctantly. If such a shift develops, Peking may simply ignore the Nationalists in Washington as though they do not exist.

In Peking this time Secretary Kissinger ac-
knowledged for the U.S. that "there is but one
China and that Taiwan is part of China." The
Nationalists also concur on this point, but they
contend that Taiwan not only is a province of
China but is currently the seat of the govern-
ment with legitimate authority over the Chinese
mainland.

This is Chiang Kai-shek's long-standing claim,
but it is made meaningless by the fact of the

Peking regime's firm control over its 800-million
population.

Until a couple of years ago the pro-Chiang
China lobby in this country would have effec-
tively fended off any suggestion that Washington
and Peking should have normal and formal dip-
lomatic relations. But the old China lobby saw
its influence die when President Nixon went to
Peking last year in quest of better relations with
the mainland Chinese. Now Kissinger has as-
sured Peking's leaders that friendship with Chi-
na is permanent policy no matter what the polit-
ical tides in Washington.

Kissinger has further agreed that the U.S. and
the Chinese will step up the activities of their
liaison offices in Peking and Washington. These
are already embassies in everything except
name. From Kissinger's sixth visit to China
also came a pledge of more trade and cultural
exchanges between the two countries during the
coming year.

Thus the new era in America's China policy
that came into being near the close of the first
Nixon administration has started to achieve
some maturity. Peking views friendly ties with
the U.S. as advantageous to China in its rivalry
with the Soviet Union. The U.S. simply wants no
more of the enmity that has closed this nation
off from the power that rules one fourth of the
earth's inhabitants. These are reasons enough
for the Chinese-American relationship that con-
tinues to advance and may yet flourish.

SPECTRUM
Varying shades of personal opinion on current issues

MURRAY KEMPTON
CBS RADIO NETWORK

NOVEMBER 16, 1973

I'm Murray Kempton.

Secretary Kissinger's conjuring up of a Middle Eastern peace was not just
brilliant but, as seldom happens with brilliant exhibitions, may even be permanent.

The war was cruel and dreadful, but it at least left the parties closer to
a sense of reality than they have ever been before. What was needed was the resto-
ration of the pride of the Arabs and a tempering of the pride of the Israelis.
The events that now promise that process began with a very narrow scrape indeed.
The salvage of the Israeli position was made possible only by one of those daz-
zling and desperate improvisations that have made theirs the only brilliant army
to emerge in the post-war world. Still, the result left them short of the
absolute victory than which defeat would have been the only worse disaster; and
we are, by the blessing of Providence, in a situation where neither side is humil-
iated and neither in a mood to boast.

At last then we are entitled to hope that the racial contempt which has so
long afflicted the peace of the Middle East will either give way or be rendered
irrelevant by events. It was, of course, no sense of justice that brought foward
the Soviet Union as weapons merchant to the Arabs; it was rather Russia's greed
for cash and her hatred of the Jews. And as the Russians look down on the Jews,
the Israelis, while they do not hate them, had grown to look upon the Arabs with
the contempt for the vanquished that the habit of easy victory can too easily breed
in the victor.

All over the West, much more even than in Israel, the tragedy of Arab history
has been forgotten in the mockery of a ludicrous military present. Now the Arabs
have won respect in the West but only because no people can be thought of as ridic-
ulous once they are recognized as the possessors of oil. Israel has better reasons
to respect the Arabs; they can at last be seen as an enemy who however dishonorably
he began his war, at least bravely bore it.

It is this sudden new respect which suggests that this long agony may at last
be coming towards its end. The parties have begun to conceive of themselves as
living together. We can be proud of the skill and the subtlety with which
Secretary Kissinger has kept in balance the dignity of both sides. And we can
go on even to be proud of ourselves if we commence henceforth to be aware not just
of the Arab's dignity but of his terrible need, and if we commit our country to do
the most it can to assist the development of a Middle East where there is not only
peace where there used to be only war, but where there will be green where there
has until now been only desert.

I'm Murray Kempton with Spectrum.

The diverse opinions expressed on SPECTRUM are those of the commentators themselves and should not be attributed to CBS or any of its affiliates
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Rowland Evans and Robert Novak

Washington Post 11-16-73

# King Faisal: Adamant on Israeli Withdrawal

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—The exotic meeting in the Red Palace here between the king of the Arabs, surrounded by his Bedouin chieftains, and the German-born American Jew, a scene of contrast and irony, was a dramatic climax—but what followed raised staggering problems.

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger emerged from his two-hour private talk reinforced in his intuitions: austere King Faisal of Saudi Arabia will not “restore his faith” in the United States until Israel actually withdraws from occupied Arab lands.

For the U.S.—but most particularly for Europe and Japan—those words carried danger. Yet, Henry Kissinger could not shake the king of Saudi Arabia, who crystallized the following points with punctuated brevity (in deep contrast to the shrill rhetoric of some other Arab leaders):

First, he had kept his silence year after year since, the Israelis seized the Sinai peninsula, the Golan Heights and religious places in East Jerusalem sacred to the leader of Islam.

Second, he had done so in faith that the U.S. would respect its long friend-

ship with the Arabs and persuade Israel to do what two American Presidents had repeatedly promised and the United Nations had ordered after the six-day war of 1967.

Third, his silence had not endeared him to other Arabs. Now he could accept no more promises, even if he himself were willing to take one more chance, which he was not.

Fourth, the systematic increase in Saudi oil production was economic folly for his country. It could not spend the income and the earned dollars had a precarious future value less than oil in the ground. Yet he had agreed to a production increase to prevent oil famine in the West. All that was before the recent war.

For his part, Kissinger convinced the king that he was facing a “serious” man of genuine “sincerity” unlike, the king later told intimates, some other Americans who had claimed authority but failed to perform.

Kissinger opened his two-hour talk with the man whose possession of oil confers frightening power by saying he had read all the private correspondence between the king and three

American Presidents: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. From that record, said Kissinger, it was embarrassingly clear that the king had reason to complain.

But President Nixon was now unequivocally committed to Israeli withdrawal and he, Kissinger, would not have undertaken the negotiation if not convinced that settlement was possible.

With a familiar display of ego, Kissinger informed the king that he was not in the habit of failing and pointed to his success in negotiating an end to American participation in the Vietnam war after four years of work. The two then agreed that a peace conference, preferably in the U.S., should start before the end of the year.

But on the matter of softening the oil squeeze, a principal reason for his trip here, Kissinger failed to gain assurances on the basis of new American credibility. The king insisted again and again the proof was in the pudding, not in its promise.

This adamant stand was inescapably clear to us when we saw the king later in an exclusive interview. He declined

to agree that the visit marked “a turn of the corner” in the breakdown of Saudi Arabia’s confidence in the U.S. He said only that Kissinger had impressed him deeply as a man who meant what he said, and that he “hoped” the U.S. was now prepared to deliver. Clearly the king still quotes American willingness to take on Israel. This means that even though Kissinger has now established his own credibility with the king, that is not enough to loosen the tightening oil stranglehold.

This might change if Kissinger could persuade Israel to start a pullback from the Suez Canal and produces agreement on a phased withdrawal.

Otherwise, the absolute monarch, who rules a remote desert kingdom which still follows with astonishing precision the teachings of the prophet Mohammed, may prove to be as immovable in his demands as Israel has been in hers. The result of that could be incalculable chaos in the West, a well-known fact that Washington only very recently has begun to acknowledge.

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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (UPI) -- SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER, REMARKABLY REFRESHED IN SPITE OF AN EXHAUSTIVE 12-DAYS OF GLOBAL DIPLOMACY, RETURNED TO U.S. SOIL TODAY, BUOYANT OVER HIS SUCCESS IN SPURRING MIDDLE EAST PEACE BARGAINING AND CLOSER RELATIONS WITH MAINLAND CHINA.

THE SECRETARY STOPPED BRIEFLY AT ELMENDORE AIR BASE OUTSIDE ANCHORAGE FOR REFUELING BEFORE THE FIVE-HOUR, LAST LAP FOR HIS TRIP BACK TO WASHINGTON. SOON AFTER HIS SCHEDULED 4 P. M. EST SETDOWN IN WASHINGTON, HE REPORTS TO PRESIDENT NIXON. AND AFTER THAT, ONE OF HIS FIRST APPOINTMENTS WILL BE TO GET-TOGETHER WITH SOVIET AMBASSADOR A NATOLY DOBRYNIN.

KISSINGER SHOWED LITTLE OUTWARD EFFECTS OF HIS RIGOROUS, 10-NATION JOURNEY AND TO TIRED REPORTERS TRAVELING WITH HIM HE DEMONSTRATED HIS SENSE OF GOOD SPIRITS AND FLASHY SMILES, THOUGH SHOWING A BIT MORE WEIGHT FROM THE DIPLOMATIC BANQUETS THAT MARKED MANY OF HIS STOPS.

PLANNING AHEAD, HE WILL MEET WITH THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TUESDAY MORNING ON HIS SUCCESSFUL PEACEMAKING TOUR THROUGH THE ARAB WORLD AND CHINA. AND, HE INTENDS TO HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

WHILE KISSINGER FAILED TO GET THE ARABS TO LIFT THEIR OIL BOYCOTT OF THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF AMERICAN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL, HIS VISITS TO CAIRO AND OTHER ARAB CAPITALS HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR THE FIRST DIRECT ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE TALKS.

IN PEKING, LENGTHY TALKS BY KISSINGER WITH MAO TSE-TUNG AND CHOU EN-LAI APPARENTLY PRODUCED A THAW IN SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS TO THE POINT THAT ESTABLISHMENT OF FULL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO POWERS NOW APPEARS NOT FAR AWAY.

DURING A STOP IN JAPAN, KISSINGER HEARD OF SEVERE DISRUPTION CREATED BY OIL SHORTAGES AND PROMISED TO ASK AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES TO DO WHAT THEY CAN TO HELP THE INDUSTRIALIZED ISLAND NATION WITH THE MOST TO LOSE FROM FUEL CUTBACKS.

FROM JAPAN, KISSINGER FLEW TO SEOUL FOR A FOUR-HOUR, 55-MINUTE STOPOVER DURING WHICH HE CONFERRED WITH SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT PARK CHUNG-HEE, BEFORE FLYING HOME.

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TOKYO PAPER: KISSINGER BRAKES JAPAN'S PRO-ARAB MOVE

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(TEXT) FOLLOWING A ROUND OF TALKS WITH U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER, THE TANAKA GOVERNMENT APPARENTLY DECIDED THURSDAY TO GIVE UP ITS PLAN TO MANIFEST A CLEARER PRO-ARAB DIPLOMATIC POSTURE THAN IN THE PAST.

SUCH A POSTURE MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPRESSED IN A STATEMENT BEING ISSUED BY CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY SUSUMU NIKAIDO FOLLOWING THE FORMAL ADOPTION OF AN EMERGENCY OIL CONSERVATION PROGRAM AT FRIDAY MORNING'S CABINET MEETING.

AFTER THE TALKS WITH DR. KISSINGER, HOWEVER, FRIDAY'S NIKAIDO STATEMENT WAS EXPECTED TO BE TONED DOWN, EXPRESSING HOPES FOR A SPEEDY AND FAIR SOLUTION TO THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT AND SAYING THAT JAPAN WILL CONTINUE DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO SECURE OIL SUPPLIES.

PRIME MINISTER TANAKA AND OTHER JAPANESE GOVERNMENT LEADERS, IN THEIR MEETINGS WITH DR. KISSINGER, REPORTEDLY SOUGHT A U.S. UNDERSTANDING OF JAPAN'S NEED TO TAKE A PRO-ARAB STAND BECAUSE OF THE OIL PINCH.

IN RESPONSE, HOWEVER, MR. KISSINGER, WHILE EXPRESSING SYMPathy TO JAPAN'S DIFFICULT POSITION, APPARENTLY CALLED FOR RESTRAINTS BY JAPAN AND OTHER THIRD COUNTRIES IN MAKING NEW OVERTURES TO THE ARABS SO THAT U.S. DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS ON A MIDDLE EAST PEACE WILL NOT BE HINDERED.

DR. KISSINGER WAS ALSO BELIEVED TO HAVE WARNED THAT A CLEARER JAPANESE POSTURE IN FAVOR OF THE ARABS WOULD PROVOKE THE JEWS IN AMERICA AND CAUSE FRICTIONS AGAIN IN IMPROVING JAPAN-U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TIES.

A BY-PRODUCT OF MR. KISSINGER'S VISIT TO TOKYO CAN BE THE CANCELLATION OF THE PLANNED RESHUFFLE OF THE TANAKA CABINET AND EXECUTIVES OF THE RULING LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

BECAUSE THE TANAKA-KISSINGER MEETING DID NOT PRODUCE THE RESULTS TOKYO HAD HOPED FOR, LDP FACTIONAL LEADERS CAME OUT IN FAVOR OF THE RESHUFFLE PLAN BEING SCRAPPED, SAYING THAT EFFORTS TO DEAL WITH THE OIL CRISIS AND GALLOPING INFLATION SHOULD COME BEFORE ANY CABINET SHAKE-UP.

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The Statesman

President Nixon has been severely criticized for his often dubious choices for top positions in government. The critics have plenty of examples to point out. But one of Nixon's choices in perhaps the most crucial field of all—foreign policy—has achieved a solid place not only in American history but in world history as well. We mean Henry Kissinger.

The man never ceases to amaze. He was the chief architect on our side in defusing the Cold War between East and West—a confrontation that might have led to nuclear war and perhaps even to the end of the human race. He was the chief negotiator in the torturous talks leading to a Vietnam cease fire, ending America's involvement in what was widely regarded as a bloody, useless and devisive war as far as Americans were concerned. And now he seems to have waved the magic wand over the Israeli-Arab conflict that has sputtered and exploded off and on for a generation. Kissinger achieved in the Middle East what nobody has ever achieved before—the beginnings of a dialogue between the warring parties. After six days of nation-hopping in the Middle East, he went on to China for further talks with the leaders of the most populous and potentially powerful nation in the world.

Historians, pundits and students of the diplomatic scene are comparing Kissinger to Metternich and Tallyrand and other world shapers of the past. The comparisons are not apt. Metternich was an Austrian statesman in the period after Napoleon, a reactionary at a time when his world was inexorably changing. Tallyrand was a diplomat committed to Napoleon until it was convenient to be committed against him. Assuming that Kissinger's achievements to date are real and not illusory, he towers over those 19th century statesmen like a colossus. Few men in history have played so prominent a part in changing the complexion of the world in so short a time as Kissinger has. And, unlike all too many statesmen of the past, he has been essentially a peacemaker.

Whatever the final judgment on President Nixon's administration may be, there is no denying that Kissinger's diplomacy and the President's key decisions have brought all the people of the world closer to peace. We explore Watergate and government scandal—but our guess is that a hundred years from now historians will see Watergate as merely a piquant footnote in a chapter that tells how the United States took the initiative in persuading former implacable enemies to lay aside their weapons and reason out their problems.

Kissinger Is Taking a Peking Message to Seoul

NYTimes

11-16-73

Special to The New York Times

SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 15—Secretary of State Kissinger is due tomorrow to deliver a message from Peking that South Korean leaders are not sure they want to hear.

Mr. Kissinger, who met with Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai in China two days ago, is scheduled to discuss those conversations during a brief visit.

with President Park Chung Hee

Korean officials said that Mr. Kissinger conferred with the Chinese about the Korean question—specifically about the continued presence of American troops, long the major issue between the United States and Korea.

The United States, which has reduced its force to 42,000 men, has plans for further cuts for budgetary and military reasons, but the South Koreans have persuaded it to leave troops here, where they are a

symbol of the American commitment.

The officials said Mr. Kissinger's visit was arranged at the last minute because something came up in Peking. They said they were notified 10 days ago that he might be coming if developments warranted.

Mr. Kissinger was not expected to present a blueprint for withdrawing the troops, which include the Army's only combat division in Asia, the officials said, but they expect a clear signal about what is to happen.

Senior American military officers here have conceded that there is no sound military reason for maintaining the American contingent. The South Korean forces are bigger and probably better than those of their North Korean adversaries except perhaps in air power, where the United States makes up the difference.

Keeping the combat division,

the Second Infantry, may even be a military liability since it cannot be sent elsewhere in an emergency without causing a political fuss.

The major reason for its presence is political. With one battalion manning a short but strategic segment of the demilitarized zone, it is a tripwire intended to bring the United States into hostilities if North Korea attacks.

The American force is under debate in the United Nations, where North Korea's allies are trying to have the United Nations Command dismantled. Americans have served here under the United Nations flag since the Korean war began in 1950.

Q: Is there any truth to the rumors that actress Liv Ullmann will go back to Ingmar Bergman, the father of her child? — E. B., Quincy, Mass.

A: A reconciliation is unlikely. Meanwhile Liv, who is in Naples doing a movie, is getting regular overseas phone calls from both David Frost and Dr. Henry Kissinger, who, she says, "is the most interesting man I have ever met."

Robin Adams Sloan welcomes questions from readers. While Sloan cannot provide individual answers, questions of general interest will be used in the column. Write to Robin Adams Sloan, care of The Star-News, Washington, D.C. 20003.

STAR-NEWS

11-16-73

Kissinger Returns, Moves
To Allay Japan's Oil Fears

SEOUL (UPI) — Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger flew home today from a round-the-world trip in which he used personal diplomacy to get Middle East truce talks started and move China and the United States one step closer to full diplomatic ties.

Kissinger failed, however, to get the Arabs to lift their oil boycott of the United States. He promised to ask American oil companies to help Japan, the industrialized nation with most to

lose by fuel cutbacks, meet its petroleum needs.

Kissinger was scheduled to arrive back in Washington later today and immediately report to President Nixon on the outcome of his 11-day, 10-country global journey.

He planned to meet with top military and diplomatic officials in Washington tomorrow to bring them up to date on developments in the Middle East and China.

The secretary left Seoul after meeting President

Park Chung-Hee during a five-hour stopover in South Korea.

Kissinger appeared sympathetic to the fuel plight of Japan — which depends on imports for all its oil supplies.

Officials said he plans to meet soon with representatives of major American oil companies supplying Japan in an effort to allay Tokyo's fears of being unfairly treated by U.S. firms in the allocation of scarce supplies.

Kissinger stopped in Seoul to assure President Chung Hee Park that he did not work out a deal in China to reduce the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. Chinese and North Korean representatives at the U.N. General Assembly are currently demanding a withdrawal of the U.S. force, but members of Kissinger's party said Washington has no intention of bringing the men home yet.

The 68-unit, brick building was overwhelmed shortly before mid-

the fire moved up open floors of the U-shaped building, which has wings of three

floors. Place was all aflame," President of the building局
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cape. . . I could hear

ington said by the time
ies arrived the fire had
by the time our firemen
the flames had shot

persons were rescued
by firemen who guided
and fire escapes. Others
the structure, officials

al Burnetti said he ar-
thin 15 minutes of the
central lobby was ful-

er the fire was extin-
guished to search through
missing persons among
residents.

undetermined number
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Begins rising

CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — Three rookie astronauts rocketed toward Skylab today to wind up America's ambitious space station project with a holiday voyage that could last a record three months.

Skylab 3 commander Gerald P. Carr, physicist Edward G. Gibson and pilot William R. Pogue rode an Apollo ferry ship packed with extra food, film and repair gear toward a late afternoon rendezvous with the orbiting lab.

The big space station has been circling earth unoccupied for seven weeks since the Skylab 2 astronauts' record 59-day journey.

This is the United States' last manned launch until a joint orbital mission with the Soviet Union in mid-1975. After that, there will be an even longer lull until the space shuttle program is activated in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

THE ASTRONAUTS were awakened at 3:50

# News Summary and Index

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1973

## The Major Events of the Day

### International

Twenty-six wounded Israeli prisoners of war came home to tears, flowers and warm applause as Israel and Egypt began their prisoner exchange, which is expected to last a week. The soldiers arrived in Tel Aviv aboard a Red Cross plane that later returned to Cairo with 44 wounded Egyptian prisoners. Afterward, another plane took 250 wounded Egyptian prisoners to Cairo. [Page 1, Column 1.]

The United Nations began exercising its right to supervise the daily flow of food, water and medical supplies to Suez city under the cease-fire arrangement, but in other respects Israeli forces remained in control of all access roads. [3:1-2.]

Secretary of State Kissinger ended two days of talks with Japanese leaders, apparently without giving them assurances on when the Arab nations would lift their oil embargo. The talks reportedly focused almost exclusively on oil, and statements by Japanese Cabinet ministers left the impression that they had been disappointed by the lack of assurances on oil, which has become the major political issue in Tokyo. [12:4-5.]

the agent of the Congress.

Under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, "The Congress shall have the power . . . to coin money [and] regulate the value thereof. . . ."

Congress created the Federal Reserve as its agent to carry out the day-to-day duties of the "money power" provision.

Congress has every right, indeed

continue their criminal careers while serving five years' probation for the possession of $100,000 worth of stolen clothing." Later it is related that the eight men were arrested a total of seventeen times during the five-year probationary period "on a variety of charges, including hijacking, auto theft, possession of weapons, bribery and burglary."

No convictions on these charges are reported: Mr. Marino is quoted as claiming that "not one of these fellows . . . was taken off probation and sentenced to state prison." The implication, of course, is that probationers who are arrested (but not necessarily convicted), especially for crimes similar to the one for which they are on probation, should have their probation revoked and be sent to prison to serve out their previously suspended sentences.

variety when they an individual very damagingly front-page of The Times the National Criminal points out.

In summing up the eight were "people" criminal We only and not at all on which Marino's problems ones of the

## Wit-Picking' at Buchanan

To the Editor:

I should like to take issue with some of the charges Ben H. Bagdikian makes in his Nov. 1 Op-Ed article on how badly he thinks Mr. Nixon is being informed.

During the 1968 Presidential campaign and for a few months thereafter, I (and two others) contributed

Mr. Nixon's daily news summary

words like "Bagdikian" "slovenly" by the F.B.I. handling reported by

"Boggs" the standard F.B.I. habit of tend to mains sup-