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Wed., Dec. 19, 1973

# The Des Moines Register
An Independent Newspaper

DAVID KRUENDENIER, President and Publisher

KENNETH MACDONALD, Editor

A. EDWARD HEINS, Managing Editor

LAUREN SOTH, Editorial Page Editor

LOUIS H. NORRIS, Business Manager

## Weak on Economics

Henry Kissinger possesses great skills as a diplomat, particularly as a negotiator with heads of totalitarian states, men who can make decisions for their countries and make them stick. Whether Kissinger can become a great secretary of State for dealing with democracies and for building the underlying economic and social foundations for peace in the world remains an open question.

Making a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Mao Tse-tung or King Faisal does not require a tedious process of convincing their people. But a lasting agreement with Britain, Germany or Japan must be acceptable to the citizens of those democracies: business men, labor union members, farmers, consumers.

If he is to become a successful secretary of State for such long-range foreign policy matters, Kissinger will have to begin to pay attention to economics, which so far he has scorned. He recently made a damaging remark about the unimportance of the foreign trade reform bill, on which President Nixon has laid such stress.

He gave some congressmen the impression that he thought the trade bill could be delayed indefinitely; the important things were the detente with Russia and a settlement in the Middle East. But this is not an either or question. Trade relations are the lasting snares of foreign relations, and the U.S. neglects them at its peril, regardless of meetings with heads of state.

President Nixon, who does understand the importance of trade in foreign affairs, needs to take Henry Kissinger into

hand on this. C. Fred Bergsten, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and former assistant for international economic affairs with the National Security Council in the Nixon administration, blistered Secretary Kissinger in an article for the New York Times.

Bergsten wrote that although Kissinger has been a superstar of diplomacy with the Communist countries, "he botched the textile negotiations with Japan... He contributed to the give-away of wheat to the Soviet Union in the pell-mell rush to reach concrete agreements at the Moscow summit. He ignored the economic issues which are central to the U.S.-European relations in his call for a new Atlantic charter."

Bergsten thinks Kissinger likes the limelight and the superstar role too much to dig into the tough problems of economics and negotiation with lesser lights.

Henry Kissinger understands the importance of Europe to America, and he gave a fine speech the other day in London, trying to repair damage done to Atlantic relations by U.S. solo policy in the Middle East.

However, it will take more than that to really firm up Atlantic relations, the main thing being trade.

President Nixon and Treasury Secretary George Shultz, who also understands the importance of trade, need to rein Henry Kissinger in on his travels and visits with dictators and kings long enough to indoctrinate him with some of the basic facts about economics in foreign affairs.

## Import Quota on Booze

Merchants in the border cities of Iowa face competition from out of state, and the way they meet it is by offering comparable or better goods and prices. It's a different story with liquor, because Iowa has an import quota against liquor from other states.

The state of Iowa has a monopoly on package liquor sales, and it discourages lowans from taking advantage of lower prices or a better selection elsewhere by limiting imports to one quart per person per trip.

The lack of success in enforcing this limit is shown in a liquor commission estimate that people in and around Davenport must be spending $2 million a year on Illinois liquor — or must be unusually abstemious — because state stores in "inland" cities of comparable size sell that much more than stores in the

the Davenport area.

But is it a good law?

If it dealt with anything but liquor, it probably would not be on the books long before some court found it an unconstitutional restraint on interstate commerce. Imagine the state of Illinois, for example, forbidding a Rock Island resident to buy a new car in Davenport as the complaining liquor store owner says he did because he got a better deal there.

But the Twenty-first Amendment, that ended Prohibition, gives states the power to interfere with interstate commerce in liquor. The authority to ban or restrict importation of liquor was intended to enable states to remain "dry" if they desired, not to insulate state liquor monopolies from competition. But the

## LETTERS to the EDITOR

### Defends Ambulance Standards

To the Editor:

The Dec. 11 issue of The Register contained a letter from a physician who felt that proposed laws for ambulances were unreasonable and unnecessary. I feel very strongly that Iowa does need effective emergency medical care statutes if its citizens are to be properly cared for in the event of accident or illness.

At present, Iowa's ambulances are only required to have a permit from the Department of Public Safety for their red lights and sirens; there is no such thing as an ambulance "license" on a statewide basis. This means that when you call for an ambulance, you might receive care from a well-trained attendant who has proper equipment and a vehicle that allows for continued patient care while en route to the hospital, or you might find yourself in the hands of an untrained guy in greasy overalls in a station wagon with only a blanket for first aid equipment. ...

Station wagons and similar vehicles with inadequate dimensions and insufficient space to carry proper equipment can provide nothing more than a horizontal taxi service, and it is going to take legislation to remove those vehicles from being used as ambulances.

The size of a town or city has little to do with its ability to provide proper emergency medical care. Dozens of small Iowa communities are proving that every day, with vehicles that are far better than average nationally and with crews (both paid and volunteer) that are well trained. ...

Inadequately trained ambulance personnel and inadequate ambulance and rescue vehicles are as much a threat to the health and well-being of our citizens as are the armed robbers and the drunken drivers. ... — Richard W. Vomacka, Box 1181, Sioux City, Ia.: Iowa state president, American Ambulance and Rescue Association.

## Violating Patients' Religious Rights?

To the Editor:

Regarding your Dec. 10 editorial, "Mental Patients Incommunicado": It should be expanded to say that the patients' rights to practice their faith, under our Constitution's guarantee, is not in effect as long as they are patients at either the Iowa Lutheran or Iowa Methodist psychiatric facilities.

When a hospital surrenders power to a psychiatrist to prevent all Bible contact, religious literature, as well as contact with what is often their closest tie outside of their family, namely their church family, then they are saying, "We believe your faith can only be practical if you are healthy."

Many of us believe that God is "a man for all seasons" — sick or healthy.

I wonder how many people in Des Moines realize what a unique problem

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BY JOHN F. BARTON

PARIS (UPI)-- U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER CALLED ON THE FOUR PARTIES TO THE VIETNAM CEASE-FIRE TODAY TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO AVOID A NEW WAR AND TO HONOR THEIR PLEDGES TO WORK FOR PEACE.

"WHAT IS IMPORTANT," HE SAID, "IS THAT THE SIGNATORIES OF THE AGREEMENT ON VIETNAM DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO REDUCE THE RANGER OF CONFLICT AND TO CONTRIBUTE, AS THEY PLEDGED, TO BRINGING PEACE TO VIETNAM."

KISSINGER SAID: "IT IS IN THAT SPIRIT THAT I WILL HOLD TALKS WITH LE DUC THO," THE HANOI PEACE NEGOTIATOR HE WILL MEET THURSDAY.

NORTH AND SOUTH VIETNAM, THE VIETNAM CONG AND THE UNITED STATES SIGNED AN AGREEMENT IN PARIS ENDING THE VIETNAM WAR LAST JAN. 27 BUT THE CEASE-FIRE HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY BREACHED SINCE THEN.

AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID KISSINGER AND THO WERE LIKELY TO PRESENT EACH OTHER WITH LISTS OF GRIEVANCES CONCERNING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CEASE-FIRE. SOUTH VIETNAM AND THE VIET CONG HAVE BLAMED EACH OTHER FOR VIOLATIONS WHICH HAVE STEPPED UP MARKEDLY IN RECENT WEEKS.

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KISSINGER ARRIVED TODAY FROM MADRID ON THE LAST STOP OF A WIDE-RANGING EUROPE-MIDLE EAST TOUR BEFORE THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS OPEN IN GENEVA FRIDAY.

EAST PEACE TALKS OPEN IN GENEVA FRIDAY.
OFFICIALS ACCOPANYING HIM SAID THAT DURING HIS VISIT TO DAMASCUS, SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ ASSAD ASSURED KISSINGER ISRAELI PRISONERS TAKEN IN THE OCTOBER WAR WERE IN GOOD CONDITION.

WERE IN GOOD CONDITION.
ASSAD DID NOT SAY HOW MANY THERE WERE BUT ASKED THAT THE ASSURANCE ON THEIR HEALTH BE CONVEYED TO THE ISRAELIS.

ASSURANCE ON THEIR HEALTH BE CONVEYED TO THE ISRAELIS.
(IN GENEVA TODAY ISRAELI SPOKESMAN AVI PRIMOR ACCUSED SYRIA OF MURDERING 42 ISRAELI PRISONERS AND SAID THE ALLEGED MALTREATMENT WAS ONE REASON SYRIA PULLED OUT OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE.

"WE KNOW THAT 42 AT LEAST OF OUR SOLDIERS WERE MASSACRED BY THE SYRIANS..." PRIMOR SAID.)
THE OFFICIALS SAID THEY FELT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS NOT SERIOUSLY UPSET OVER SYRIA'S ABSENCE FROM GENEVA WHICH, IN turn, COULD SOLVE SOME PROCEDURAL PROBLEMS.

THE OFFICIALS SAID THEY FELT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS NOT SERIOUSLY UPSET OVER SYRIA'S ABSENCE FROM GENEVA WHICH, IN turn, COULD SOLVE SOME PROCEDURAL PROBLEMS.
THEY SAID SYRIA COULD ALWAYS JOIN THE TALKS AT A LATER DATE.

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KISSINGER HELD TALKS WITH FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER MICHEL JOBERT TONIGHT. AND LATER WAS PINING WITH JOBERT AND TOP FRENCH DIPLOMATS.

HE SCHEDULED TWO MEETINGS WITH THE THURSDAY, THE FIRST STARTING ABOUT 9 A.M. (0800 GMT), AND A SESSION WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE's POMPIDOU.

KISSINGER ALSO PLANNED TO SEE ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABDELAZIZ DOUTEFLIKA TO DISCUSS THE MIDDLE EAST BEFORE FLYING TO GENEVA, PROBABLY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON.

THE U.S. SECRETARY FLEW TO PARIS FROM MADRID AFTER A TWO-PAY VISIT TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. HE SAID SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES ENJOYED A SUBSTANTIAL IDENTITY OF VIEWS.

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THE U.S. OFFICIALS, WHO ACCOMPANIED KISSINGER ON HIS LENGTHY TOUR THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST, EXPRESSED THE FEELING THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS NOT SERIOUSLY UPSET OVER THE FACT SYRIA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE GENEVA CONFERENCE SCHEDULED TO OPEN FRIDAY.

THEIR BELIEF IS THAT SOME DIFFICULT PROCEDURAL PROBLEMS PROBABLY WILL BE ELIMINATED BY SYRIA'S ABSENCE.

THE OFFICIALS SAID IT WAS STILL POSSIBLE FOR SYRIA TO TAKE PART IN THE TALKS AT A LATER DATE. THEY SAID THEY DID NOT EXPECT ANYTHING OTHER THAN A GENERAL STATEMENT PURING THE FORMAL OPENING CEREMONY.

KISSINGER WAS GREETED AT ONLY AIRPORT ON HIS ARRIVAL FROM MAPRID BY JOBERT, WITH WHOM HE WAS TO FINE TONIGHT.

HE WILL MEET WITH THO THURSDAY MORNING AND SEPARATELY WITH PRESIDENT GEORGES POMPIJOU AND ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA.

KISSINGER IS EXPECTED TO FLY TO GENEVA THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

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AS USUAL, KISSINGER HAD A JOKE FOR NEWSMEN AT ONLY AIRPORT.

"I UNDERSTAND THERE IS SOME DISPUTE AS TO WHO ASKED FOR THIS MEETING" WITH THO, HE SAID. "I WILL LEAVE THAT TO A BRANCH OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES."

THE AMERICAN OFFICIALS SAID KISSINGER AND THO WILL REVIEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CEASE-FIRE ACCORD SIGNED IN PARIS LAST JAN.27.

EACH SIDE IS EXPECTED TO PRESENT THE OTHER WITH A LIST OF GRIEVANCES, OFFICIALS SAID.

ASKED IF THE AGREEMENT WAS IN DANGER OF COLLAPSING, OFFICIALS SAID THEY BELIEVED THERE WOULD BE NO MASSIVE INVASION OF SOUTH VIETNAM BY THE NORTH.

THEY SAID THEY EXPECTED NOTHING NEWSWORTHY TO COME FROM THE MEETING.

ENDING A TWO-DAY VISIT TO IBERIA, KISSINGER SAID IN MAPRID THAT SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES HAD "A SUBSTANTIAL IDENTITY OF VIEWS."

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PHNOM PENH, (UPI) -- COMMUNIST FORCES CLOSED HIGHWAY 4 AT A POINT 18 MILES (29 KM) SOUTHWEST OF PHNOM PENH TODAY FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE DAY BUT GOVERNMENT TROOPS PROVE THEM BACK, FIELD REPORTERS SAID.

GOVERNMENT FORCES LOST ONE MAN KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED, AND SAID 23 COMMUNISTS WERE KILLED, SIX CAPTURED AND 35 WEAPONS SEIZED, THE REPORTERS SAID.

ELSEWHERE, A GOVERNMENT PUSH TO REOPEN THE LAST COMMUNIST-HELD STRETCH OF HIGHWAY 4 BOGGED DOWN 36 MILES (57 KM) SOUTHWEST OF PHNOM PENH WITH THE COMMUNISTS STILL HOLDING A THREE-MILE (4 KM) STRETCH OF THE HIGHWAY, PHNOM PENH'S GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, FIELD REPORTERS SAID.

THE HIGH COMMAND SAID TRAPEANG KRALOEUNG, THE TOWN AT THE 36-MILE (57 KM) MARK, WAS 35-(3, 573)'S-6. BUT FIELD REPORTERS SAID THE COMMUNISTS STILL HELP THE CENTRAL MARKET AND THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN.

GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST FORCES SKIRMISSED ON HIGHWAY 5, WHERE THE COMMUNISTS CUT THE ROAD 12 MILES (19 KM) NORTHWEST OF THE CAPITAL EIGHT DAYS AGO, FIELD REPORTERS SAID.

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IN SOUTH VIETNAM, THE VIET CONG FREED AN AMERICAN CONTRACT WORKER FOR PACIFIC ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS (PAE AND TWO SOUTH VIETNAMESE MORE THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER THEY WERE CAPTURED DURING AN AMBUSH IN THE MEKONG DELTA.

THE AMERICAN HOMER 1. ELM, 43, AND TWO SOUTH VIETNAMESE CAPTURED OCT. 6 WERE FREED IN A REMOTE HAMLET NEAR CAN THO, 75 MILES (128 KM) SOUTHWEST OF SAIGON, A PAE SPOKESMAN SAID.

ACCORDING TO A U.S. EMBASSY ACCOUNT, ELM AND THE TWO VIETNAMESE WERE RIDING IN A TRUCK WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CONTROL AND SUPERVISION (ICCS) MARKINGS WHEN THEY WERE AMBUSHED AND CAPTURED ON HIGHWAY 4 NEAR THANH TRI, ABOUT 105 MILES (170 KM) SOUTH OF SAIGON.

ELM, WHO WORKED UNDER A PAE CONTRACT AS AN ICCS OFFICER IN THE CAN THO REGION, WAS THE ONLY KNOWN AMERICAN CAPTURED BY THE COMMUNISTS IN SOUTH VIETNAME SINCE THE JAN. 28 CEASE-FIRE.

THE SAIGON COMMAND REPORTED 141 COMMUNIST CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS FOR THE 24-HOUR PERIOD ENDING AT NOON (Z400GMT) TODAY, THE HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE JUNE 15 WHEN 173 INCIDENTS WERE REPORTED.

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PARIS (AP) — Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met today with Hanoi's Le Duc Tho to discuss the failure of the cease-fire agreement they negotiated last winter to bring peace to Vietnam.

American officials expected Tho to renew North Vietnam's demand for eco-

nomic aid from the United States.

Kissinger's day in the French capital was crowded with meetings to discuss the Arab-Israeli peace conference opening in Geneva tomorrow French-American relations and a variety of other problems as well as the continuing warfare in Vietnam.

U.S. officials indicated they did not expect spectacular results from the Kissinger-Tho meeting. The retary of State told newsmen on his arrival from Madrid yesterday:

> "What is important is that the signatories do everything in their power to reduce the angers of conflict and contribute, as they pledged themselves, to bringing peace to Vietnam."

American officials said Tho and Kissinger were expected to hand each other lists of cease-fire grievous accusing each other of the recent rise in violations. But Kissinger stressed that he and Tho did not plan to draft a new Vietnam agreement.

Article 21 of the cease-fire agreement provides that the United States will "contribute to healing the wounds of war and to the postwar reconstruction" of North Vietnam.

Hanoi views such American aid as reparations for the damage done by Ameri-

can bombing, and the two governments have discussed the matter in economic talks. But the aid has been held up by opposition in Congress and accusations from each side blaming the other for the continuation of fighting.

KISSINGER and Tho last met June 11-13. That meeting did nothing to improve the Vietnam situation.

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# DENIED SHREDDER

United Press International

The House Judiciary Committee, which is looking into destruction of Watergate records as part of its impeachment inquiry, requested and was denied permission to buy a "Destroy it Superspeed" paper shredder.

Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., requested purchase of the shredder from the House Administration Committee, the housekeeping panel for congressional supplies.

Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, chairman of the Administration Committee, replied to Rodino:

"Reference is made to your request of Dec. 14, 1973 to purchase a 'Destroy it Superspeed' Series 52AM paper shredder for use by your committee.

"I have been under the impression that your committee was going to investigate paper shredding and possibly other activities hiding public business for the public rather than to obtain a shredder and shredding on its own.

"The request is not approved."

Saxbe's term helping him organize his Capitol Hill office. During the past year, in which he has served as head of the Realtors organization, Sawyer has made major changes, bringing in large numbers of associate members and adopting a new symbol for the organization.

President Nixon, whose campaign organization received a $50,000 contribution from the Realtors in 1972, spoke at their annual convention here last month.
—ORR KELLY

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JERUSALEM (AP)--U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER SAID MONDAY HE IS ''OPTIMISTIC'' ABOUT CLEARING THE WAY FOR A GENEVA PEACE CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY AFTER 6 1-2 HOURS OF TALKS WITH PREMIER GOLDA MEIR AND OTHER ISRAELI LEADERS.

''THE TALKS WERE VERY FRIENDLY, VERY WARM, VERY CONSTRUCTIVE, AND THEY'LL CONTINUE TOMORROW,'' KISSINGER SAID AS HE RETURNED TO HIS HOTEL LOOKING TIRED BUT SMILING BROADLY.

THE CABINET, MEANWHILE, WENT INTO AN EXTRAORDINARY MIDNIGHT SESSION TO HEAR MRS. MEIR REPORT ON HER TALKS. SHE WAS ALONE WITH KISSINGER FOR THE FIRST PART OF THEIR MEETING, EXCEPT FOR NOTE-TAKERS. THEN THEY JOINED FOREIGN MINISTER ABBA EBAN AND OTHER ISRAELI AND AMERICAN OFFICIALS FOR A THREE-HOUR DINNER.

THE PREDOMINANT TOPIC REPORTEDLY WAS THE ROLE TO BE PLAYED BY THE UNITED NATIONS AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE. THE ARAB STATES, ENJOYING MAJORITY SUPPORT IN THE WORLD BODY, WANT THE TALKS HELD UNDER U.N. AUSPICES. BUT ISRAEL PREFERS U.S. AND SOVIET SUPERVISION. (MORE)

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ISRAEL IS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE FATE OF SOME 120 PRISONERS OF THE OCTOBER WAR WHO ARE IN SYRIAN HANDS. AS KISSINGER'S BLUE AND WHITE JET TOUCHED DOWN AT LOD AIRPORT OUTSIDE TEL AVIV IN A DRIZZLE, AN EMOTIONAL CROWD OF MOSTLY WOMEN PRESSED AGAINST BARRICADES MANNED BY HELMETED RIOT POLICE.

''I WANT TO BE ARRESTED, I WANT TO BE ARRESTED, MY SON IS IN SYRIA,'' SHOUTED AN ELDERLY MAN.

RABBI MEIR KAHANE AND 16 OTHER JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE -- JDL -- MEMBERS WERE DETAINED.

U.S. OFFICIALS HAVE MAINTAINED EVER SINCE KISSINGER SET OUT ON HIS MIDDLE EAST TOUR FIVE DAYS AGO THAT ONLY TECHNICAL DETAILS REMAIN TO BE WORKED OUT FOR THE CONFERENCE TO BEGIN. THEY HAVE DENIED KISSINGER ENGAGED IN PARGAINING AS HE MADE HIS WAY THROUGH ALGERIA, EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, SYRIA, JORDAN AND LEBANON BEFORE REACHING ISRAEL.

WHEN A REPORTER ASKED WHETHER KISSINGER BROUGHT A LIST OF PRISONERS WITH HIM TO MRS. MEIR, HE SHOULDERED HIS WAY THROUGH THE CROWDED LOBBY OF THE KING DAVID HOTEL WITHOUT REPLYING.

ISRAELI LEADERS HAVE SAID THEY WILL ATTEND THE CONFERENCE BUT REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE WITH SYRIA UNLESS THE LISTS ARE HANDED OVER.

LATER MONDAY KISSINGER FLIES TO PORTUGAL AS A SPECIAL GESTURE TOWARD THE ONLY EUROPEAN ALLY THAT AIDED THE UNITED STATES IN THE MILITARY RESUPPLY OF ISRAEL DURING THE WAR.

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ON TUESDAY HE GOES TO SPAIN TO REPORT ON THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE, ON WEDNESDAY TO FRANCE TO SEE HANOI POLITIBURO MEMBER LE DUC THO AND ON THURSDAY TO GENEVA FOR DINNER WITH SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI GROMYKO, THE PROSPECTIVE CO-CHAIRMAN, IN ADVANCE OF THE CONFERENCE OPENING. HE RETURNS HOME LATE SATURDAY.

AS KISSINGER ARRIVED FROM LEBANON, HE FACED PLACARDS READING ''KISSINGER -- YOUR PEACE WILL KILL ISRAEL.'' THE UMBRELLAS HELD BY SOME OF THE 250 PROTESTERS WERE NOT FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RAIN ALONE. THEY SYMBOLIZED THE SUBMISSION OF BRITISH PRIME MINISTER NEVILLE CHAMBERLIAN IN 1938 TO HITLER'S CONTROL OF THE SUDetenLAND IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. CHAMBERLAIN'S UMBRELLA WAS HIS HALLMARK.

THIS TIGHT-KNIT AND HIGHLY TENSE NATION APPEARS ANXIOUS THAT ITS SECURITY COULD BE SACRIFICED ON THE ALTAR OF A WORLD HARD- PRESSED FOR OIL AND SEEKING TO AVOID ANOTHER MIDDLE EAST WAR.

BEFORE LEAVING FOR PORTUGAL, THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY VISIT YAD VASHEM, A MEMORIAL TO THE SIX MILLION JEWS KILLED BY THE GERMANS AND THEIR ALLIES IN WORLD WAR II. AMONG THEM WERE SOME ONE DOZEN RELATIVES OF KISSINGER, WHO FLED TO AMERICA AT THE AGE OF 14 WITH HIS PARENTS.

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## SUMMARY

Secretary Kissinger's visit is reported very discreetly and without comment by the French morning press dominated by domestic affairs, especially the TV address President Pompidou is to make tonight. LES ECHOS, however, devoted its editorial to French-American relations. The main headline is it, AURORE underscores the "tightening of security measures in Geneva" on the eve of the conference. A front-page headline in FIGARO runs: "Geneva conference: uncertainties persist on the eve of opening." Foreign affairs commentators are more interested in the Common Market crisis in the wake of the Copenhagen summit.

## TELEVISION

The hijacking of the Lufthansa Boeing was, again the major item on both nets, which emphasized the strong condemnation of the terrorists by the French government, and also by Libya. ORTF 1 reported that "Egyptian newspapers are positive the hijackers are actually Israeli agents."

ORTF 2 reported on the security measures taken in Geneva on the occasion of the conference. Clips of the arrivals of Egyptian and Soviet Foreign ministers were aired. The anchorman added, "Yet Syria won't come: for Damascus, evacuation of Israeli-occupied territories and the Palestinian problem have priority. Only the opening session of the conference will be presided over by Mr. Waldheim. This has caused disappointment at the UN."

ORTF 1 aired a film report on the Palestinian problem stressing that "the Palestinians are the most peaceful Arabs despite the fact that they were ousted from their lands by Jewish settlers." and that "Arafat would accept a partial solution that would not require the elimination of Israel." Later in the evening, the same net aired a special program highly favorable to Israel. ORTF 1 aired a few clips of Secretary Kissinger's arrival at Orly airport while reporting that he would review international problems with Pompidou and Jobert and discuss with Le Duc Tho "eleven months of a false cease-fire which looks very much like a real war, an embarrassing problem for the two signatories of an increasingly problematical peace."

The Secretary's arrival was reported very briefly, without picture, on ORTF 2.

## Written Press Comment

### France and the United States

LES ECHOS editorial: "Relations between Paris and Washington have been rather unsettled recently. This was made conspicuous by the open Kissinger-Jobert confrontation at the Atlantic ministerial meeting in Brussels; and more recently by the rather airy manner in which the Americans excluded France and other European countries from the Geneva conference.

"If is thus in an atmosphere leaving much to be desired that Mr. Kissinger meets with President Pompidou today. Besides the Mideast negotiations, two other fundamental questions will command their attention. Concerning the world-wide energy crisis, should the great dialogue with the oil producing countries be initiated by Europe or by the West as a whole? And should European defense be sought within a specific framework, or continued within that of the Atlantic alliance?

'On both points, conceptions appear to be totally divergent and the gap won't be easy to fill.

""But it is, so to say, traditional that private meetings of French and American leaders are expressed at least for some time, in terms of a renewal of mutual understanding. After all, the historic friendship between the two nations is so deep-rooted that it seems unaffected by the rancor and misunderstandings that so frequently occur at the level of the two governments.

**Kissinger-Tho meeting:** Jean-Claude Pomonti from Saigon in LE MONDE; "The second Vietnam war is going through a bogged-down phase. Since September, incidents have been proliferating. Each side admits more openly that reprisals are being carried out, speaks of punishing the adversary, and sometimes does it. Once again there is an escalation. But on both sides, it is still limited. The Saigon army attacks above all to defend itself. It has no plan to reconquer the regions abandoned to the adversary.... While protecting and reorganizing their own zones, the Communists are trying to prevent the Republic of Vietnam from getting a second wind and, in particular, from overcoming the social and economic crisis begun with the recession of 1972 and now spreading to a number of overpopulated cities. They intend to maintain sufficient military pressure to prevent a demobilization of the Saigon army, discourage possible foreign investment, preclude economic reconversion, and thus force the regime to become the victim of contradictions.... Saigon's calculation seems to be that Mr. Kissinger has obtained at least a partial freeze of the military situation as sufficient to enable his SVN allies to last, and even to become stronger for later negotiations in a favorable position. If such is the case, the question is to what forbidden level can the present escalation in the fighting rise."

"Washington has made it known to Saigon it should not count on USAF support to contain a possible Communist offensive. But the Americans are feeling Hanoi just the opposite. According to Saigon, the fighting has already caused more than 50,000 deaths on both sides since the signature of the Paris accords....

"Saigon expects nothing decisive from the new Kissinger-Tho meeting. In the coming weeks fighting will continue, even if a token truce for Christmas and the New Year is decided.... Washington continues to support, unreservedly but with more limited means, Thieu's efforts to keep the situation under control. The Communists still set the overthrow of the Saigon regime as their objective. Nothing foreshadows any change on either side in the immediate future. The Paris accords have not brought peace, far from it, but they have brought a certain number of interdictions. It is perhaps primarily to refresh their memory that the two negotiators are meeting again. And this may be why the war, without spreading, seems to be bogging down."

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HEREWITH FULL TEXT JEREMIAH O'LEARY WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS
DECEMBER 19 ARTICLE HEADED "HENRY KISSINGER'S COURT OF
THE SKIES":

COVERING THE TRAVELS OF SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER
PRESIDENT NIXON'S MAN-IN-MOTION, IS A LITTLE BIT LIKE
ATTENDING AN AIRBORNE PUNCH-AND-JUDY SHOW.

THE NEWSmen ACCOMPANYING KISSINGER HAVE DUAL ROLES. THEY
ARE PARTICIPANTS, UP TO A POINT, ACTING AS A SORT OF
GREEK CHORUS IN COUNTERPOINT TO THE STAR. AND THEY ARE
AN AUDIENCE AS BEST THEY CAN BE AT THE NARROW STAGE
AFFORDED BY THE AISLE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL 707 WHERE
KISSINGER MAKES HIS APPEARANCES.

ON THE ROAD NOW SINCE DEC. 8, KISSINGER HAS PERFECTED A
PATTERN THAT HAS THE PRESS DROOLING LIKE PAVLOV'S
DOGS EVERY TIME HIS PLANE TAKES OFF. AS SOON AS THE
WHEELS ARE UP AND LOCKED, THE REPORTERS, ISOLATED FROM
KISSINGER AND HIS AIDES IN A SEPARATE REAR CABIN, HAVE
LEARNED TO WATCH THE CABIN DOOR FOR THE STAR TO APPEAR.

INVARIABLY, KISSINGER EMERGES WITHOUT FANFARE AND IN
SHIRT SLEEVES. BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN, THE APPEARANCE
IS ALWAYS MADE WHILE THE PLANE IS STILL CLIMBING AND
THE ENGINE NOISE IS AT ITS SCREAMING PEAK. HIS PATTERN
IS TO MEANDER ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE CABIN, THEN LEAN
AGAINST A SEAT TO HOLD COURT.

NEVER KNOWING WHEN THE CURTAIN WILL GO UP FOR WHAT IS
ESSENTIALLY A PERFORMANCE RATHER THAN A PRESS CONFERENCE,
THE PRESS CORPS HAS BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO READING, WRITING,
PLAYING GIN OR MAPPING WITH ONLY ONE EYE. THE OTHER
EYE WATCHES THAT DOOR. WHEN IT OPENS, THERE IS AN
UNSEEMLY BUT NECESSARY SCRAMBLE FOR POSITIONS AND THE
SHOW BEGINS.

AS IF IN THE PROMPTER'S BOX, BUT SILENTLY TAKING NOTES
BEHIND KISSINGER IS GEORGE S. VEST, THE AFFABLE PRESS
SPOKESMAN WHO SEEMS TO HAVE AN ALMOST COSMIC THRESHOLD
OF PAIN AND A TOTAL COMMAND OF CALCULATED AMBIGUITY.
KISSINGER HIMSELF RANGES FROM EXTREME CANDOR TO DIPLOMATIC
JARGON DEPENDING ON HIS MOOD AND ON WHETHER A REPORTER
HAS MANAGED TO PINK HIM IN A SENSITIVE SPOT WITH A
QUESTION.

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KISSINGER FANCIES HIMSELF A BANTERER, ENJOYS IT AND IS
GOOD AT IT.

AFTER THE BANTER-PHASE, THE SECOND ACT FINDS KISSINGER FIELDING A BARRAGE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ABSTRUSE FOREIGN POLICY PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE MADE THE SECRETARY A VIRTUAL NOMAD IN HIS THREE MONTHS IN OFFICE: NATO, THE FRENCH, OIL, ENERGY, KILOMETER 101, EAST-WEST TROOP CUTS, DETENTE, THE PEACE CONFERENCE. THE QUESTIONS SHOWER ON KISSINGER LIKE RAIN. IN THIS PHASE, THE NEWSMEN BECOME HARVARD STUDENTS AND HE THE PROFESSOR CASTING PEARLS OF WISDOM MORE IN THE VULGATE THAN IN THE MEASURED EXPRESSIONS HE USES AT HIS FORMAL PRESS CONFERENCES.

THE THIRD ACT IS WHERE PUNCH GETS IT IN THE NECK FROM
THE REST OF THE CHARACTERS. IN THIS PHASE COME THE HARD
QUESTIONS AND IT IS THEN THAT KISSINGER'S GUARD SOMETIMES
COMES DOWN. THE LAUGH-LINES ON HIS FACE DISAPPEAR AND

THERE MAY BE COUNTER-ATTACKS. A REPORTER MIGHT BE ASKED
WHAT HE WOULD HAVE DONE FACED WITH SOME CONTINGENCY
UNDER SPIRITED REVIEW.

HE DOES NOT STORM, OR RANT, OR GO ICILY COLD AT THE
DARING SOULS WHO VENTURE TO ASK THEM. BUT HIS EYES
REMAIN FIXED ON THE INTERROGATOR, THE LOWER LIP PROTUDES
AND HE ANSWERS WITH A MIXTURE OF CONTROLLED IMPATIENCE
AND INTENSITY.

PETULANCE SHOWS AND HE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO INQUIRE WHERE
THE QUESTIONER HAD BEEN POSTED BEFORE AS IF SEEING HIM
ON THE PLANE FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THE QUESTIONS KI SINGER DOES NOT LIKE ARE SAVED UNTIL
LAST BECAUSE THE SCRIPT USUALLY FINDS HIM RETREATING
TO HIS SANCTUM UP FORWARD WHEN THE TOUCHY PHASE
BEGINS. THE LAST ACT FINDS KISSINGER EDGING AWAY
FROM THE REPORTERS AS IF HE HAD STAYED LONGER THAN HE
INTENDED. WHEN THE DOOR CLOSES BEHIND HIM, THE TYPE-
LAUNCHES INTO THE FINE ART OF LAP-WRITING STORIES.

THE PRESS HARDLY SEES KISSINGER ON OTHER OCCASIONS.
ONCE LANDED, KISSINGER IS SWEPT AWAY IN A CLOUD OF
OFFICIALDOM AND IS LARGELY AS SEGREGATED FROM HIS
TRAVELING PRESS CORPS AS IF THEY HAD NEVER MET THE MAN.
VEST GIVES HALLWAY BRIEFINGS IN HOTELS AND CONFERENCE
HALLS, BUT KISSINGER IS INVOLVED AND SEQUESTERED WITH
THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WITH PRESSING BUSINESS.
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Kissinger in Paris for Vietnam Talks

By Marilyn Berger
Washington Post Staff Writer

PARIS, Dec. 19—With his 12th stop in as many days, Henry A. Kissinger brought his airborne diplomacy here today for negotiations on Vietnam.

The secretary of state arrived from Madrid to discuss the continuing fighting in Vietnam Thursday with North Vietnam's chief peace negotiator, Politburo member Le Duc Tho.

He is to go to Geneva later Thursday for the opening of the Mideast peace talks Friday.

Kissinger said on arrival that the United States would not again become the principal negotiator in the Vietnam situation. But in his visits to seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa, followed by stopovers in Portugal and Spain, Kissinger was very much the central negotiator.

In Damascus, according to a high official on the Kissinger plane, the secretary was told by Syrian President Hafez Asad that Israeli prisoners of war were being “well treated.” Assad’s denial that atrocities had been committed did not reassure the Israelis, who had said they would refuse to negotiate with the Syrians until a list of POWs is supplied.

Assad told Kissinger that Syria was emulating the North Vietnamese in refusing to supply a list of POW's. Hanoi found the POWs a powerful

bargaining chip in the Vietnam negotiations.

Kissinger meets tomorrow night with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. The two men will serve as cochairmen of the Geneva peace conference scheduled to open at 10:30 Friday morning.

The first stage of the conference will be largely ceremonial, with opening speeches from Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as cochairmen, followed by speeches by the Egyptian, Jordanian and Israeli Foreign Ministers. U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim will convene the conference. U.S. officials said working groups will be set up before adjournment, but the real work is not expected to start before the Dec. 31 Israeli elections.

While Egypt and Israel discuss disengagement, U.S. officials said, Jordan and Israel can also be expected to begin talks. But these will concern political matters and will immediately raise the problem of the Palestinians whom Israel refuses to recognize as a separate nation. A solution on this is “less visible,” U.S. officials added and Kissinger hopes to put that issue off until there is progress on the Egyptian side to create a momentum.

The arrangements for the working subcommittees will include some third party so that Egypt and Jordan can describe their encounter with Israel as indirect while permitting Israel to consider the

talks as direct bilateral discussions. U.S. officials said that while Israel opposes a strong U.N. presence at Geneva, it might prefer a U.N. representative to U.S. and Soviet representatives as the third party because the United Nations could be less intrusive. They said that this was Israel's experience during the kilometer 101 talks.

The U.N. role was one of the major problems causing delay in issuance of the Soviet and American letters requesting the secretary general to convene the conference. Other problems, a high U.S. official said, included whether the Palestinians should be specifically mentioned and whether U.N. Resolution 242 should be cited. Both references were excluded.

The last problem involved finding proper wording to permit the conference to go forward even if Syria dropped out. Syria's refusal eases the opening of the conference. It can now be convened without an Israeli boycott over the POW issue, and there is expected to be less procedural wrangling than there would otherwise have been. The absence of Syria will allow subgroups or working groups to be established and may permit early progress on the disengagement of Israeli and Egyptian forces.

On the negative side, however, Syria may feel freer to resume military activity on the Golan Heights and can put some pressure on other Arabs not to make concessions. How-

ever, a high U.S. official said Kissinger, as a result of his talks, believes progress can be made in steps and that the Arabs will not insist on a package deal to get any implementation of agreements.

Before taking on the complex of Middle East problems once again, Kissinger meets twice tomorrow with Tho, with whom he was to have shared the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Tho, however, rejected the prize, saying that peace had not arrived in Vietnam.

When he landed in Paris, Kissinger said that “what is important is that the signatories of the agreement on Vietnam do everything in their power to reduce the dangers of conflict and contribute as they pledged themselves to bring peace to Vietnam.”

There has been a buildup of North Vietnamese forces in the South, but a high U.S. official travlelling with Kissinger said he did not anticipate a “massive offensive.” Others in Washington have predicted trouble within the next few months.

The high official said Kissinger expect his talks with Tho to involve problems about the Vietnam agreement and the situation in Cambodia. But with U.S. forces now withdrawn from Vietnam, there is less pressure on the United States than before. “We are not going to make ourselves the principal party for negotiation of the Vietnam issue,” said a senior official.

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((TEXT)) GENEVA DECEMBER 21 TASS--ADDRESING THE GENEVA PEACE CONFERENCE TODAY, HENRY KISSINGER EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT IT WILL LEAD EVENTUALLY TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, OVER WHICH THE SHADOW OF WAR WAS HOVERING STILL. THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE, HE SAID, MUST MAKE EVERY EFFORT FOR ATTAINING THE MAIN GOAL--ENSURING PEACE. IN THE OPINION OF THE U.S., THE FIRST NECESSITY IS FOR THE CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT, TO WHICH THE SECURITY COUNCIL HAS CALLED, TO BE SCRUPULOUSLY ADHERED TO BY ALL CONCERNED.

THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE NOTED THAT THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF DISENGAGING THE ARAB AND ISRAELI TROOPS ON THE SUEZ FRONT WOULD HELP REDUCE THE DANGER OF THE RESUMPTION OF MILITARY ACTIONS, WOULD CREATE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT AS CALLED UPON BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION OF NOVEMBER 22, 1967. OUR FINAL GOAL, KISSINGER SAID, SHOULD BE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT RESOLUTION IN ALL ITS PARTS.

PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BRING WITH IT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATES OF THIS AREA, WILL LET THE PEOPLE'S LIVE TOGETHER IN ACCORD AND SECURITY. THIS PRESUPPOSES THE ADOPTION OF CONCRETE MEASURES THAT WOULD EXCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW WAR FLARING UP.

H. KISSINGER VOICED THE BELIEF THAT THE TALKS SHOULD PROCEED ON A REALISTIC BASIS. THE UNITED STATES INTENDS TO FACILITATE THESE NEGOTIATIONS, ENCOURAGING MODERATION AND MUTUAL AGREEMENT.

PEACE CANNOT LAST UNLESS IT IS BASED ON AGREEMENT BY THE PARTIES CONCERNED. OF COURSE, SECURITY MEASURES AIMED AT PREVENTING AGGRESSION ARE ESSENTIAL, YET TRUE SECURITY MUST REST, ABOVE ALL, ON ARRANGEMENTS CONSIDERED SO JUST, THAT NO ONE WISHES TO OVERTHROW THEM.

IN OPENING THIS CONFERENCE A STEP OF EXCEPTIONALLY GREAT IMPORTANCE IS BEING MADE.

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TO STATE THAT THE U.S. WILL WORK FOR A JUST AND LASTING PEACE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST. IT DOES NOT THINK THIS TASK EASY,
HE SAID, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST REAL CHANCE FOR PEACE THE
MIDDLE EAST HAS HAD IN THREE DECADES.

THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE A.R.E. I.
FAHMI AND THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JORDAN

ZAYD AR-RIFA'I MADE SPEECHES OUTLINING THEIR COUNTRIES POSITIONS.
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GENEVA (UPI) -- A US SPOKESMAN WOULD NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY REPORTS THAT SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER WOULD MARRY NEW YORK SOCIALITE NANCY MAGINNIS DECEMBER 28. REPORTS THAT KISSINGER WOULD MARRY MISS MAGINNIS, WHO HAS BEEN HIS FREQUENT COMPANION AT SOCIAL EVENTS FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, HAVE BEEN CIRCULATING AROUND WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. BUT A REPORT ON THE NBC TODAY SHOW FROM NEW YORK WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT A SPECIFIC DATE WAS MENTIONED.

DURING HIS CURRENT TWO-WEEK TRIP ABROAD, HIGH-RANKING AMERICAN OFFICIALS TRAVELING WITH KISSINGER HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT KISSINGER, WHO IS DIVORCED FROM HIS FIRST WIFE, DOES PLAN TO MARRY AGAIN SOMETIME. BUT THEY HAVE STOPPED SHORT OF SAYING EITHER TO WHOM OR WHEN ON GROUNDS IT IS TOO PERSONAL. END TEXT. RUSH BT
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((EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON SOVIET COMMENTS TO YASIR 'ARAFAT DURING RECENT MOSCOW VISIT: "GO TO GENEVA... A SETTLEMENT IS INEVITABLE"; SUBHEAD READS: "A MEMBER OF THE PALESTINIAN DELEGATION WHICH WENT TO THE KREMLIN REVEALS WHAT THE SOVIET LEADERS ADVISED THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT"))

((TEXT)) "A FINAL SETTLEMENT IS INEVITABLE, IT IS BOUND TO COME. THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOTT, WHETHER YOU DECIDE TO PARTICIPATE OR NOTT, WE CAN TELL YOU THAT IN OUR VIEW NOTHING WILL NOW BE ABLE TO STOP THEM. THIS IS LAID DOWN BY THE FACTS OF WORLD STRATEGY..."

THIS WAS SAID IN THE KREMLIN TO THE MOST IMPORTANT LEADERS OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE, AND PARTICULARLY TO YASIR ARAFAT. AND IT WAS IN THESE TERMS THAT THE SOVIET LEADERS SPELLED OUT AT LENGTH, A FEW DAYS AFTER THE START OF THE ALGIERS SUMMIT, THE IR GOVERNMENT'S POSITION AND THE ADVICE WHICH THEY DEEMED IT USEFUL TO GIVE THE PALESTINIANS. ACCORDING TO AN INFLUENTIAL MEMBER OF THE PLO DELEGATION WHO WAS PRESENT, THE SOVIETS ALSO HAD THE FOLLOWING TO SAY:

PNE--THE SOVIET UNION BELIEVES THAT THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE SHOULD AGREE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GENEVA CONFERENCE FROM THE OUTSET. MOSCOW PROMISES TO "DO EVERYTHING" TO GET THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS (PRIMARILY THE UNITED STATES) TO SUPPORT SUCH PARTICIPATION.

TWO--IF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE REFUSES TO PARTICIPATE, IT CANNOT BE RULED OUT THAT THE "OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED IN THE

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CONFLICT" WILL ACCEPT A SETTLEMENT LEAVING THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM WITHOUT AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION. IN SUCH AN EVENT THE POSITION OF THE RESISTANCE WOULD BE PARTICULARLY DELICATE. "THERE IS A DANGER," STATED BORIS PONOMAREV, WHO IS IN CHARGE OF ARAB PROBLEMS WITHIN THE CPSU CENTRAL COMMITTEE, "OF SEEING SEVERAL ARAB GOVERNMENTS BRINGING PRESSURE TO BEAR ON YOU AND HOUNDING, EXILING AND PERHAPS LIQUIDATING YOU. WOULD IT NOTT BE WISER AND MORE REALISTIC FOR YOU TO PLAY AN INTEGRAL PART IN THESE TALKS AND IN A FINAL SETTLEMENT IN ORDER TO STOP A SOLUTION LIABLE TO BE DETRIMENTAL TO YOUR INTERESTS?"

THREE-THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THAT IT IS SOMEWHAT PREMATURE TO PROCALAIM A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

IN VIEW OF THE HOSTILE ATTITUDE OF THE JORDANIAN GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GENEVA CONFERENCE, THE PROCLARATION OF A PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT IS LIABLE TO FRUSTRATE THE CONFERENCE'S WORK. BY OBLIGING US TO RECOGNIZED YOU, THE SOVIETS SAID, YOU WOULD RUN THE RISK OF PROVOKING CRISIS AT THE CONFERENCE, BUT IF AMMAN DECIDED TO REFUSE TO GO TO GENEVA OR IF ITS POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE ROLE AND STATUS OF THE RESISTANCE BECAME INTRANSIGENT, THEY STATED WE WOULD THEN BE FAVORABLY DISPOSED TOWARD THE PROCLAMATION OF A PROVISIONAL RESISTANCE GOVERNMENT.

FOUR--THE KREMLIN BELIEVES THAT THE RESISTANCE SHOULD MAKE PROVISION FOR THE CREATION OF A PALESTINIAN MINI-STATE WHICH WOULD NOTT NECESSARILY BE THE ONE ENVISAGED BY THE 1947 FOUR SEVEN PARTITION PLAN; "THE TIME HAS COME," MR PONOMAREV WENT ON, "TO ASSUME YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND HAVE YOUR OWN LAND WHILE PERSISTING WITH YOUR DEMANDS AND YOUR DETERMINATION TO CREATE, SOONER OR LATER, A DEMOCRATIC SECULAR STATE WITH JEWS AND CHRISTINNS, MEANWHILE, THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE MUST REGROUP AND THUS GET BACK PART OF ITS TERRITORY INSTEAD OF REMAIN IN PERMANENT EXILE."

FIVE--THE SOVIET UNION WILL BRING ALL ITS POLITICAL AND MATERIAL INFLUENCE TO BEAR TO INSURE THAT A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT IS BASED ON AN ISRAELI WITHDRAWL FROM ALL THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES WHILE AT THE SAME TIME INSURING THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S NATIONAL RIGHTS.

SIX--IT IS TO BE EXPECTED THAT THE AMERICANS, THE JORDANIANS AND THE ISRAELS WILL OPPOSE PARTICIPATION BY THE RESISTANCE. BUT MOSCOW WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO COUNTER SUCH MANEUVERS. IT HAS ALREADY INFORMED MR KISSINGER OF THIS FUNDAMENTAL POSITION.

SEVEN--THE SOVIET UNION WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE RESISTANCE'S VIEWS ON ALL THESE PROBLEMS AND WILL DO EVERYTHING TO INSURE THAT IS ACCEPTED AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE, THE USSR RECOGNIZES THAT THIS PROBLEM IS PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT AND DELICATE. BUT IT REGARDS ITS SOLUTION AS FUNDAMENTAL FOR A DEFINITIVE SETTLEMENT.

EIGHT--WHATEVER THE RESISTANCE'S POSITION, THE USSR WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND STRENGTHEN THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S NATIONAL RIGHTS AT THE POLITICAL AND MATERIAL LEVEL. FINALLY, IT BELIEVES THAT THE RESISTANCE IS THE ONLY LEGITIMATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.

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OVER 10 TEN HOURS. THE LATTER INFORMED THE KREMLIN THAT THE FLO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WOULD MEET SHORTLY AFTER THE ARAB SUMMIT AND THAT ITS DECISIONS WOULD THEN BE SUBMITTED FOR RATIFICATION BY THE RESISTANCE NATIONAL COUNCIL.

IN ADDITION TO YASIR ARAFAT (ABOUT AMMAR), THE PALESTINIAN DELEGATION CONSISTED OF NAYEF HAWATMEH (PDFLP) ZOUHEIR MOHSEN (AS-SAIQA, THE PRO-SYRIAN ORGANIZATION), AHMED AL-YAMANI (OF DR GEORGE HABASH'S PFLP) AND (ANDEL WAHAB KAYALI) ((AS PUBLISHED)) (OF THE PRO -IRAQI ARAB LIBERATION FRONT). 10-23 DEC AB/AIREY/LL 21/1615Z DEC BT

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["TELEGRAM", "Foreign Service of the\nUnited States of America", "INCOMING U.S. MISSION GENEVA", "SS-15", "0 211936Z DEC 73 ZFF4", "FM SECSTATE WASHDC\nTO USMISSION GENEVA IMMEDIATE 9095\nBT\nUNCLAS STATE 249027", "UNCLASSIFIED", "21 DEC 73", "2130", "TOSEC 365", "E.O. 11652: N/S\nTAGS: OVIP (KISSINGER)\nSUBJECT: PRESS MATERIAL", "HEREWITH FULL TEXT LEAD EDITORIAL WASHINGTON POST\nDECEMBER 21, HEADED \"FINALLY, A MIDEAST PEACE CONFERENCE\"", "AFTER 25 YEARS, FOUR WARS, AND HUMAN AND PHYSICAL\nLOSSES ON A TERRIBLE SCALE, AN ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE CONFER-\NCE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. WHILE NONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS--\nat first, egypt, Jordan and israel--is likely to yield up\nany of its bargaining positions simply to satisfy senti-\nment, no responsible leader or citizen in any of these\ncountries can fail to grasp the transcending importance\nof this occasion. for the first time, states which have\nknown only war or uneasy armistice for all the years of\ntheir joint existence, have the formal opportunity to make\na peace. they have not only that opportunity but an\nobligation to confront the destinies of their nations. no\none should have any doubt about the abyss into which the\nregion, and perhaps not only the region, could plunge if\nthe outcome is not a success.", "SUCCESS, OF COURSE, IS FAR FROM ASSURED. HE DIFFICULTIES ARE ALL TOO APPARENT. CHIEF AMONG THEM IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE ARAB SIDE WILL USE ITS LARGE ADVANTAGE", "ENTERING THIS NEGOTIATION TO FORCE UPON ISRAEL OR THE\nUNITED STATES TERMS WHICH ONE OR THE OTHER OF THEM MAY\nFIND INTOLERABLE. IT IS INCONTESTABLE THAT THE ARAB SIDE\nDOES HAVE SUCH ADVANTAGE. ARRAYED AGAINST ISRAEL ARE NOT\nONLY ITS ARAB ADVERSARIES AND THEIR SOVIET PATRONS AND\nTHEIR EUROPEAN OIL-DEPENDENCIES BUT IN AN IMPORTANT SENSE\nTHE UNITED STATES TOO, FOR THE REASON THAT WASHINGTON\nHAS ITS OWN COMPELLING ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC\nNEEDS TO DEFUSE THE MIDEAST BOMB. IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES,\nTHIS MEANS FIRST OF ALL INDUCING ISRAEL TO NEGOTIATE,\nWITHIN A REASONABLE TIME, A SETTLEMENT ACCEPTABLE TO ITS\nARAB NEIGHBORS. ISRAEL, MEANWHILE IS NOT ONLY DIPLOMATICALLY\nISOLATED BUT--BECAUSE OF WAR COSTS AND THE\nEXPENSES OF SUSTAINED MOBILIZATION--UNDER GREAT ECONOMIC\nSTRESS. MANY ISRAELIS FEEL, MOREOVER, THAT WHAT IS AT\nSTAKE IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE WHOLE FUTURE OF THEIR\nNATIONAL LIFE.", "UNCLASSIFIED"]

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AS THE PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS, HOWEVER, THE ARABS--
BY CONTINUING TO WITHHOLD OIL--HAVE GONE A VERY LONG WAY
TOWARD SHREDDING THE FABRIC OF ARAB-AMERICAN GOODWILL.
WHICH IT IS THEIR PROFESSED INTEN TO STRENGTHEN. INDEED,
THE LONGER THE ARABS MAINTAIN THE OIL EMBARGO, THE LESS
INCENTIVE THE UNITED STATES HAS TO ACT IN A WAY TO
ENSURE GOOD LONG-TERM RELATIONS WITH THEM. GRANTED IT IS
AN UNUSUAL AND REVEALING SPECTACLE TO FIND THE UNITED
STATES EXPECTING OTHERS TO USE THEIR POWER IN MODERATION.
YET THE UNITED STATES IS, WE ARE PERSUADED, APPROACHING
THE GENEVA TALKS IN GOOD FAITH, DETERMINED TO HELP FACILI-\TATE A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION BASED ON THE UNITED NATIONS'
KEY MIDEAST RESOLUTION OF 1967. FURTHER ARAB PRESSURE
AT THIS POINT RISKS UNDERMINING THE AMERICAN COMMITMENT TO
THE PROCESS AND RESULT WHICH WERE CONTEMPLATED IN THAT
RESOLUTION AND WHICH WERE REAFFIRMED IN A FRESH RESOLUTION
AT THE U.N. DURING THE WAR LAST OCTOBER. JUST HOW IT
IS IN THE ARAB INTEREST TO PUSH WASHINGTON DOWN THAT PATH
REMAINS UNEXPLAINED.

ON ITS PART, ISRAEL IS SO DISTURBED BY THE CIRSUM-
STANCES IN WHICH THE PEACE CONFERENCE IS OPENING THAT IT
HAS A HARD TIME APPRECIATING THE BREAKTHROUGH WHICH THE
CALLING OF THE CONFERENCE REPRESENTS. UPPERMOST ON
ISRAEL'S MIND IS THE NEED AND DIFFICULTY OF MAINTAINING
CLOSE AMERICAN SUPPORT AT A MOMENT WHEN THE UNITED STATES'
TRADITIONAL FRIENDSHIP WITH ISRAEL IS BEING STRAINED AS

NEVER BEFORE. AMONG AMERICANS, THERE ARE TWO SCHOOLS ON
HOW TO DEAL WITH ISRAEL IN THIS PERIOD. ONE SCHOOL HOLDS
THAT ISRAEL SHOULD BE FORCED, UNDER THREAT OF ADANDONMENT,
TO ACCEPT THE SETTLEMENT LAID OUT IN THE OPENING ARAB
BARGAINING POSITION. THE OTHER SCHOOL HOLDS THAT ISRAEL
SHOULD BE AT ONCE PUSHED AND ENCOURAGED TO NEGOTIATE A
SETTLEMENT MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE TO IT AND THE ARABS.
FORTUNATELY, BOTH THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE CONGRESS--TO
JUDGE BY THE HEAVY VOTES FOR THE ISRAEL AID BILL--BELONG
TO THE SECOND SCHOOL. AMERICAN SUPPORT IS PERHAPS BEING
TENDERED ON THE IMPLICIT PREMISE THAT A SETTLEMENT WILL
BE PURSUED WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED, BUT THAT SUPPORT IS
REAL AND IT ALLOWS THE UNITED STATES TO GO TO GENEVA IN A
POSITION AT ONCE FIRM, HONORABLE AND CONSISTENT WITH THE
BROAD RANGE OF AMERICAN INTERESTS INVOLVED.

WE WOULD OFFER A BRIEF WORD HERE ON DR. KISSINGER,
WHO ACTS, TO BE SURE, FOR PRESIDENT NIXON. BUT FOR HIS
INITIATIVE AND SERIOUSNESS, THE COMBATANTS OF OCTOBER
WOULD NOT NOW BE GATHERING IN GENEVA. THAT THE PARTIES
ARE FINALLY AT THE PEACE TABLE, AFTER 25 YEARS, IS
BECAUSE THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOUND THE WAY FOR THEM
TO GET THERE. THIS IS A CONSUMMATION WHICH NO OTHER
AMERICAN HAD PRODUCED IN 25 YEARS, AND WHICH NO
REPRESENTATIVE OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY COULD HAVE PRODUCED
TODAY. PEACE IS FOR THE PARTIES TO MAKE THEMSELVES--
AS THEY WELL KNOW. NEITHER THE ISRAELIS NOR THE ARABS
COULD BE EXPECTED TO TRUST A SETTLEMENT NOT OF THEIR OWN
MAKING. YET DR. KISSINGER'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE BEGINNING
OF A PROCESS THAT COULD LEAD TO PEACE CANNOT BE DENIED.
(CEND TEXT). RUSH

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WASH POST 12-21-73

# Mideast Talks Start
Today in Geneva

By Jonathan C. Randal and Marilyn Berger

Washington Post Foreign Service

GENEVA, Dec. 20—Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived here tonight for Friday's opening of the first Middle East conference in 24 years of intermittent warfare.

"It is essential for the voice of reason to be heard," he said in an airport statement upon arriving from Paris, where he conferred with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. "Now is the time to break the cycle of uneasy truce and violent war" in the Middle East.

"In my meetings with Arabs and Israeli leaders over the course of the last 10 days, I have found none who wanted war to continue," said Kissinger, who was the driving force bringing about the conference.

"There is no acceptable alternative to the negotiated settlement of the issues so long in dispute," he added,

"and to a determination on the part of all parties who will assemble here tomorrow to make the negotiations succeed."

Despite the acknowledged desire of all participants to get the conference going, diplomats had to work throughout the night to find a mutually acceptable compromise on seating arrangements for the inaugural session scheduled for 10:30 a.m.

Conference sources said that Egypt was seeking a seating arrangement that would physically separate Israel from the Arab delegations. English alphabetical order, accepted U.N. protocol, would place Israel directly between Egypt and Jordan.

Also up in the air was whether all the foreign min-

See GENEVA A19, Col. 1

taken to guard the President's
security.

Mr. Nixon met with Anna
Clinkscales, a Baltimore
woman who said she had gone
door to door in her neighbor-
hood to obtain signatures on a
petition in support of the
President.

The President called her
pledges of support "a very
nice Christmas present." Mrs.
Clinkscales said the support
for the President "really came
from our hearts."

In another action, the Presi-
dent announced that he would
nominate G. McMurtrie God-
ley, former ambassador to
Laos, to be ambassador to Leb-
anon.

Earlier this year, Godley
was nominated to be assistant
secretary of state for East
Asian affairs, but when strong
opposition developed in the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee the nomination
was withdrawn. Senators op-
posed his nomination because
of his strong support for the
Vietnam war and because he
directed secret military opera-
tions in Laos.

The President also said he
would nominate Robert S.
Smith, deputy assistant secre-
tary of state for African af-
fairs, to be ambassador to the
Ivory Coast.

cent from what it otherwise
would be next year, the
study concludes. "A 20-cent
increase would save 7.9 per

Finally, A Mideast Peace Conference

AFTER 25 YEARS, four wars, and human and physical losses on a terrible scale, an Arab-Israeli peace conference is about to begin. While none of the participants—at first, Egypt, Jordan and Israel—is likely to yield up any of its bargaining positions simply to satisfy sentiment, no responsible leader or citizen in any of these countries can fail to grasp the transcending importance of this occasion. For the first time, states which have known only war or uneasy armistice for all the years of their joint existence, have the formal opportunity to make a peace. They have not only that opportunity but an obligation to confront the destinies of their nations. No one should have any doubt about the abyss into which the region, and perhaps not only the region, could plunge if the outcome is not a success.

Success, of course, is far from assured. The difficulties are all too apparent. Chief among them is the possibility that the Arab side will use its large advantage entering this negotiation to force upon Israel or the United States terms which one or the other of them may find intolerable. It is incontestable that the Arab side does have such advantage. Arrayed against Israel are not only its Arab adversaries and their Soviet patrons and their European oil-dependencies but in an important sense the United States too, for the reason that Washington has its own compelling economic, political and strategic needs to defuse the Mideast bomb. In the circumstances, this means first of all inducing Israel to negotiate, within a reasonable time, a settlement acceptable to its Arab neighbors. Israel, meanwhile, is not only diplomatically isolated but—because of war costs and the expenses of sustained mobilization—under great economic stress. Many Israelis feel, moreover, that what is at stake is nothing less than the whole future of their national life.

As the peace conference opens, however, the Arabs—by continuing to withhold oil—have gone a very long way toward shredding the fabric of Arab-American goodwill which it is their professed intent to strengthen. Indeed, the longer the Arabs maintain the oil embargo, the less incentive the United States has to act in a way to ensure good long-term relations with them. Granted, it is an unusual and revealing spectacle to find the United States expecting others to use their power in moderation. Yet the United States is, we are persuaded, approaching the Geneva talks in good faith, determined to help facilitate

a negotiated solution based on the United Nations' key Mideast resolution of 1967. Further Arab pressure at this point risks undermining the American commitment to the process and result which were contemplated in that resolution and which were reaffirmed in a fresh resolution at the U.N. during the war last October. Just how it is in the Arab interest to push Washington down that path remains unexplained.

On its part, Israel is so disturbed by the circumstances in which the peace conference is opening that it has a hard time appreciating the breakthrough which the calling of the conference represents. Uppermost on Israel's mind is the need and difficulty of maintaining close American support at a moment when the United States' traditional friendship with Israel is being strained as never before. Among Americans, there are two schools on how to deal with Israel in this period. One school holds that Israel should be forced, under threat of abandonment, to accept the settlement laid out in the opening Arab bargaining position. The other school holds that Israel should be at once pushed and encouraged to negotiate a settlement mutually acceptable to it and the Arabs. Fortunately, both the administration and the Congress—to judge by the heavy votes for the Israel aid bill—belong to the second school. American support is perhaps being tendered on the implicit premise that a settlement will be pursued with all deliberate speed, but that support is real and it allows the United States to go to Geneva in a position at once firm, honorable and consistent with the broad range of American interests involved.

We would offer a brief word here on Dr. Kissinger, who acts, to be sure, for President Nixon. But for his initiative and seriousness, the combatants of October would not now be gathering in Geneva. That the parties are finally at the peace table, after 25 years, is because the Secretary of State found the way for them to get there. This is a consummation which no other American had produced in 25 years, and which no representative of any other country could have produced today. Peace is for the parties to make themselves—as they well know. Neither the Israelis nor the Arabs could be expected to trust a settlement not of their own making. Yet Dr. Kissinger's contribution to the beginning of a process that could lead to peace cannot be denied.

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