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dismissed as "travellers from the
company, one of the Soviet Union's two
leading ballet troupes.

Last month, Panov went on a hunger
strike, and the other day the Soviet au-
thorities advised him that permission to
emigrate was granted.

But to him alone, not his wife. "She
stays," the dancer said he was told by
the head of the Leningrad immigration
office, a Col. Viktor P. Bokov.

The episode is typical of the vindic-
tive malice displayed by Soviet authori-
ties toward its citizens, many but not all
Jewish, who seek to leave the country
or, staying, seek to speak their minds
freely.

Yet it also demonstrates something
else. For Col. Bokov or (more likely) his
superiors were not overwhelmed with
sympathy toward Panov's own suffering.

this cruel compromise but will keep up
the pressure. The Soviet authorities can
be moved by world opinion when they
perceive their own interests to be in-
volved.

Nor is emigration exclusively an in-
ternal affair, as the Soviet Union has
argued. Last September, responding to
congressional moves to link U. S. trade
concessions to freedom of Soviet emiga-
tion, the Soviet Union ratified an inter-
national covenant declaring that "every-
one shall be free to leave any country,
including his own."

The Soviet press has emphasized a
loophole—that the right to emigrate
may not impinge upon "national secu-
rity" or "public order." The Soviet
Union is in a precarious condition
indeed if the emigration of the 25-year-
old Galina Panov poses such a threat.

and disabled, and is trying to do so
thing about it.

My organization comm-
Congress's effort to boost the Fed-
monthly welfare payments to
aged, blind, and disabled and the
vision which would enable person
this category to remain eligible
food stamps and medicaid.

We also find encour-
Congress's effort to retain the
HEW guidelines on how states
Federal grants for social ser-
The old guidelines are
comprehensive, and permit gr-
flexibility in designing service
grams for the poor.

It is our hope that President I
will see the value of this measur
sign it into law.

LEROY SNYC

Executive Direc

Greater Philadel

Federation of Settle

Philadelphia.

Pudgy, with a dash of pepper

Phila. Ink. 12/26/73

In The Wall Street Journal the other
day a story on the Middle East peace
conference at Geneva referred to "the
pudgy yet somehow dashing figure of
Henry Kissinger." We detect in that "yet
somehow" an ominous implication that
pudgy people usually aren't dashing and
find it difficult to be so.

Well, dash it all, that's a slur hard to
swallow by the rotund — and even
harder to defend by historic reference
or contemporary observation.

To be pudgy, according to Webster's,
is to be "short and plump." Dashing is
defined as "marked by vigorous action"
and "marked by smartness, especially in
dress and manners." Just how short you
have to be to qualify as pudgy is a ques-
tion the dictionary people — probably
including some five-by-fives — tactfully
sidestepped.

What's in a name?

National Football League conference
championship games will pit the Cow-
boys against the Vikings and the Dol-
phins against the Raiders, while the
more ferocious sounding Lions, Bears
andREAMS are out of it. The name of
the game obviously is not the name of
the team, and it is with a touch of melan-
choly that we add these beasts to our
ever growing list of endangered specie

In any case, if the secretary of state is
pudgy — or stylishly stout as they say in
the men's stores — he is merely carry-
ing on a long tradition. You can't mea-
sure dash with a tape around the waist-
line.

Ben Franklin, perhaps the most das-
ing of the Founding Fathers, was pudgy
in the Kissinger mold. So was John
Adams, who certainly never wanted for
dash.

Across the seas, pudgy Napoleon cut a
dashing continental figure — at least be-
fore he was sent dashing from Russia.
Henry VIII was bloody well dashing in a
peculiar sort of way and Queen Victoria
was the epitome of dash of a very
different and very proper kind.

In our own time Chubby Checker has
been dashing all the way to the bank.
Portly Sen. Sam Ervin, besides having
Sam Dash, had dash of his own as the
television superstar of the year. Sidney
Greenstreet had dash when he wasn't
meditating. Jackie Gleason and Al Hirt
have shed a few pounds lately but rate a
mention nonetheless. And don't ever tell
Bella Abzug she doesn't have it.

The list could go on endlessly but the
record is clear: pudgy power is a force
to be reckoned with. And when Henry
Kissinger goes dashing around the
world, there's no denying he's got class.
It just comes naturally.

A special thanks

To the Editor:

I thought the readers of T
quirer might like to know t
players of St. Thomas More (C
Boys' High School football tea
kind enough to send my son,
the game ball from their vi
Thanksgiving Day game.

On behalf of Teddy, Mrs. F
and I would like to thank the
for the football, and for the ge-
and thoughtfulness which oc-
such a fine gift. We would like
to thank very sincerely all of
ple from the Philadelphia an-
sent letters, cards and pres
Teddy during this time of har
him.

EDWARD M. KEN

U. S. S.

Massac

Washington, D.C.

Bicentennial fu

To the Editor:

Detailed as Jan Shafer's
story concerning the Big
"Sellabration" may have
overlooked the basic point.

The purpose of any gove
agency's entry into the Big
memorabilia market is not
to flood the market, but to rai
for Bicentennial planning, th
ating (to an appreciable e

Meeting at White House on Mideast Today

WASH POST

12-24-73

# Kissinger and Nixon Confer by Phone

United Press International

President Nixon spent a restful Sunday with his family at Camp David, Md., and conferred several times by telephone with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to get a full rundown on the Middle East peace negotiations in Geneva.

A White House spokesman said Mr. Nixon scheduled a meeting today with Kissinger and advised him to get some rest. The secretary returned Saturday from Geneva, where he participated in the start of Arab-Israeli peace talks, winding up a 15-day, 13-nation journey through Western Europe and the Middle East.

White House spokesman Gerald L. Warren said today's meeting between the President and Kissinger would be at the White House.

Mr. Nixon made the 70-mile trip to Camp David by car early Saturday after confering with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger.

Administration officials said Mr. Nixon was preparing to seek a $5 billion increase in defense spending which, if approved by Congress, would raise appropriations to a record $84 billion.

With Mr. Nixon at the snow-covered Camp David retreat were Mrs. Nixon, daughter Tricia and son-in-law Edward

Finch Cox. Plans called for a family celebration at the White House on Christmas Day, but presidential aides said Mr. Nixon still had not made a final decision on whether to go to Key Biscayne for a vacation.

While at Camp David, Mr. Nixon had a chance to review some of the several dozen bills Congress passed before adjourning Saturday. White House officials declined to say which bills the President was studying.

awaiting presidential action were such measures as a $73.7 billion 1974 defense appropriation bill, legislation designed to merge and modernize seven Northeastern and Midwestern railroads, a manpower bill designed to create jobs and train unemployed persons, a $5.8 billion foreign aid measure which includes $2.6 billion in funds for Israel and a bill increasing Social Security benefits by 11 per cent for retired and disabled workers, widows and dependent children.

Kissinger plans to take a Mexican vacation next week and make two formal visits to Latin America and another European visit in early 1974, high U.S. officials said.

Details were not revealed because of security.

U.S. officials who traveled with Kissinger on his latest trip said he would like to take a vacation in Acapulco. The Mexico City newspaper Novedades reported that he will fly to Acapulco for a 12-day visit starting Wednesday.

Students in guerrilla-run school use sharpened poles in daily bayonet practice as part of training to fight Portugal.

# Angola: War Could Last Generations

Second of Four Articles

By Leon Dash

Washington Post Staff Writer

MOXICO DISTRICT, Angola — "Sasa! Sasa!" the children shouted as they jumped forward in unison, twisting their sharp, pointed poles into the abdomens of imaginary enemy soldiers.

Then the first line turned to face their classmates, pointed their make-shift bayonets at each other, and jabbed at their companions in mock combat.

Some of the children had bows and arrows, and others I saw carried handcarved replicas of the Belgian automatic rifles their parents use.

This is the daily hour-long morning drill for a

ANTS who live alongside them operate 10 elementary schools and four hospitals hidden in the vast forests that cover the eastern region of Angola.

Thousands of Angolan peasants and their children have chosen to live in the forests with the UNITA

## War in Angola-II

guerrillas rather than under the Angolan government because, I was told, the Portuguese treat them brutally and exploit them.

"Education and medical services have never been available to the peasants here from the government," said Savimbi referring to the sub-

supplies—and schools, to woo them away from the Angolan administration.

"With us, they don't have to pay taxes for which they get no services," Savimbi said. "And they don't have to do any forced labor on the coffee plantations or road building."

UNITA has organized its population into a commune-like society: farms are cultivated cooperatively, and families share in the resulting harvest according to their needs.

But with only a limited number of literate people, all of whom either taught or learned at missionary schools, the guerrillas say they are hard pressed to provide enough schools to meet what they say are expectations of the peas-

aid he felt that they come these problems as well more of the educated, black Africans; and as out- tion of their movement said they would be able to get medical donations. He these crucial advances made, but it was virtually

impossible for the people of the land to get the power.

Saving claims now live in the hearts of the 10,000 men and women who are about 50 years of age and going

But Angola while they are still young, Lunda areas are going

How long can they live? How long can they get the food they need or found to the people they want to not see or live in? How long can these crucial advances last, but it was virtually

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Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1973

THE WASHINGTON POST

Nixon, Kissinger
Discuss Mideast
Peace Prospects

President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger discussed the Middle East peace conference yesterday in an hour-long meeting at the White House.

Kissinger later told reporters only that he had had a "full discussion of the Middle East" with the President.

He did not reveal the substance of their talks and said they plan to meet again today for more discussions of the peace conference.

Kissinger also told newsmen outside the White House that he has cancelled a planned vacation in Mexico "because I have much work to do" on the Middle East situation.

The White House did not offer any clues to what the secretary reported to Mr. Nixon on his 15-day tour of Europe and the Middle East.

The President faces a desk loaded with bills passed by Congress as the Christmas vacation begins. He signed one—the District of Columbia home rule bill—yesterday.

Among the other pieces of legislation which Congress passed just before adjournment Saturday afternoon is a bill to raise Social Security

benefits by 11 per cent and a $73.7 billion defense appropriations bill. Also awaiting him is a proposal to merge seven northeastern and midwestern railroads into a single system.

Mr. Nixon and his family were planning to spend Christmas day in the White House, opening presents in the morning and then enjoying a turkey dinner. His daughters and their husbands were to be present.

The White House did not disclose yesterday whether the family has any travel plans for a holiday in Key Biscayne, Fla. He originally had planned to travel there on Wednesday, but aides have said that trip is now in question.

Kissinger had returned Saturday from his travels which took him to 13 countries and the opening of the Middle East peace talks in Geneva.

Officials who travelled with him reported he intends to visit two Latin American countries and Europe in 1974, but details are being withheld for security reasons.

Associated Press

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger waves to newsmen outside the White House after meeting with Mr. Nixon.

United Press International reported from Europe that Kissinger will return to Geneva late in January for further talks with diplomats from rael and Jordan.

The secretary declined to comment yesterday on reports the Soviet Union, Egypt, Israel Arab nations plan to double the price of crude oil they sell to the world,

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# “ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT”

In October, 1896, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs and the editors of The New York Times condensed their news policy into these seven words.

At the same time, Mr. Ochs offered a prize of $100 to anyone who could come up with a better slogan of 10 words or less.

Thousands of Times readers submitted slogans like “All the News That’s Fit to Read,” “All the News Worth Telling,” “Free From Filth, Full of News,” “News for the Million, Scandal for None.”

The prize winner, selected by Richard Watson Gilder, editor of Century Magazine, was “All the

## Ismet Inon

ANKARA, Turkey, De (AP) — Ismet Inonu, first mier of modern Turkey, her second President, died heart attack today at his here. He was 89 years ol

The Council of Minister Mr. Inonu would be bur the grounds of the maus of Mustafa Kemal A founder of the Turkish re with whom “he served ably and well.” The day funeral was not announ

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By GENE I. MAERO

Mr. Inonu ranked only to Ataturk in the of modern Turkey. He was in public life from the he became Under Secre War under Salih Pasha until his resignation as man of the Republican F party in May, 1972.

Despite his slight but mild manner, Mr. Inonu sense of resoluteness displayed as a milit governmental leader. In may have been due to his tan upbringing and his education at the Military emy of Constantinople.

In association with A Mr. Inonu administered of the reforms that transform Turkey from ental sultanate to a state linked with Weste rope.

Reforms Mr. Inonu pioned included reduci power of religious westernizing the mod dress, abolishing polyg polygamy, introducing the Roman al and the Gregorian calen tablishing new civil and codes and stepping up trial growth.

Born on Sept. 24, 1884 seaport of Izmir, then as Smyrna, he was the a magistrate associated the Turkish Ministry of was not until Ataturk his countrymen to take names that Ismet adopt family name of Inonu, in of the small town where commanded Turkish for a victorious battle w Greeks in 1921.

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Nixon, Kissinger Discuss
STAR NEWS

Mideast, Energy Crisis
12-26-73

United Press International

President Nixon took time out from his family Christmas celebration yesterday to discuss the Middle East situation with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger and Nixon conferred by telephone for about 30 minutes. Gerald L. Warren, the White House deputy press secretary, said they discussed "the Mideast situation and the energy crisis."

Neither Warren nor a State Department spokesman would elaborate on the discussion.

It was the second day in a row that Nixon met with Kissinger for a review of

Middle East developments. Kissinger returned Saturday from a 15-day tour of Europe and the Middle East, where he participated in the opening of peace talks between Israel and Arab nations in Geneva.

Warren said Nixon conferred with his chief of staff, Alexander M. Haig Jr., who was working in his White House office.

The President was expected to work today on the 50 bills passed by Congress before it began its Christmas vacation, including a foreign aid and Defense Department appropriations bill, a manpower act, a Social Security increase mea-

sure and a bill to merge bankrupt railroads in the Northeast and Midwest.

The Nixons held a family Christmas celebration in the White House, with a breakfast gift exchange and a turkey-with-trimmings dinner in the afternoon.

Nixon had been scheduled to vacation in Key Biscayne, Fla., between Christmas and New Year's, but Warren declined to say if a decision had been made yet on the trip. The fact that the President would be working in the White House today indicated that the departure may have been postponed or cancelled, but Warren would not comment.

he was received with adu-
tion by his readers.

The tall, bespectacled
Gur is very much a family
man. Aides summoned to
his home often find him
playing with his four chil-
dren. His love for children
is universal. As military
governor the Gaza Strip and
northern Sinai, he frequent-
ly stopped to talk, through
an interpreter, to Arab
children and distribute
candy.

GUR, who has been mili-
tary attache in Washington
since August 1972, also has
a reputation for toughness.

prod. He selected the cap-
tain's company to liberate
the shrine.

GUR LOST more than 100
paratrooper reservists in
the capture of the old city.
Later he said: "I'm think-
ing of suggesting some
changes. The men shouldn't
be allowed to become too
attached to one another. We
shouldn't get to know one
another so intimately. It
isn't healthy. It opens the
door to emotional chal-
lenges and this is danger-
ous. War is not a matter of
emotions."

At 43 Gur is the youngest

Reprisal raids into Jordani-
an and Egyptian territories.
He was injured in an attack
near Khan Yunis in the
Gaza Strip and was decorat-
ed by Gen. Moshe Dayan,
then chief of staff.

RECALLING that period,
Gur said that his driver had
taken a wrong turn and
when ordered to reverse,
nervously stepped on the
gas and sent his jeep crash-
ing into the fence of an
Egyptian military camp.
Gur had no alternative but
to improvise an attack. He
was injured early in the
engagement but retained

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Nixon, Kissinger Meet Again

By Helen Thomas

United Press International

Kissinger and Mr. Nixon conferred at the White House for about 30 minutes. Gerald L. Warren, the White House deputy press secretary, said they discussed "the Mideast situation and the energy crisis."

Neither Warren nor a State Department spokesman would eleborate on the discussion.

Kissinger told reporters he had canceled plans for a long holiday in Acapulco, Mexico, because of Mideast developments. "I have much work to do on the (Geneva) conference over the next few weeks," Kissinger said.

The French newspaper Le Monde, quoting "well-informed State Department sources", reported in Paris yesterday that Kissinger would meet again with Le Duc Tho to discuss the fragile cease-fire in Vietnam. Kissinger and Tho met Dec. 20 in Paris for emergency talks on the cease-fire.

Warren would not comment on the Le Monde report.

Warren said Mr. Nixon conferred with his chief of staff, Alexander M. Haig, who was working in his White House office.

The President is expected to work today on the 50 bills passed by Congress before it began its Christmas vacation,

including a foreign aid and defense department appropriations bill, a manpower act, a Social Security increase measure and a bill to merge bankrupt railroads in the North-east and Midwest.

Warren said "there is a possibility" that Mr. Nixon will meet today with his energy

chief, William E. Simon, on new government steps to counter the energy shortage.

The Nixons held a family Christmas celebration in the White House, with a breakfast gift exchange and a turkey-with-trimmings feast in the afternoon. Nixon had been scheduled to vacation in Key

Biscayne, Fla., between Christmas and New Year's, but Warren declined to say if a decision had been made yet. The fact that the President would be working in the White House today indicated that the departure may have been postponed or cancelled, but Warren would not comment.

CEMBER 26, 1973

"When Do You Pass The Word To Him?"

David S. Broder

Evaluating
The 93d
Congress

frustrated and frustrating 93d
s ended its first session in a
of characteristic futility, with
ouse and Senate unable to agree
s of the emergency energy bill.

the predictable fingerprinting
allowed this final fiasco of the
good portion of the blame
assigned to the Nixon admin-
istration, which contrived to stalemate
ation, rather than accept a leg-
outcome it disliked.

another form of the veto
applied earlier in the year to
ations bills and such legisla-
the minimum wage bill, by
resident Nixon won his point,
the country's expense.

the complicity of the administra-
this plot does not obliterate the
on the energy issue, as on so
thers, the members of Congress
easier to find excuses for inac-
tion to do their job of framing na-
policy on issues of major impor-

tatalog of issues this Congress
led with but not decided is a
It includes the trade bill, tax
pension reform, budget re-
l to education, housing, health
e, auto insurance, consumer
n, land use and legal services.

asy to put this Congress down,
at ducked the tough questions
shortages and wage-price con-
sought to curry favor by cou-
ending the home town tele-
blackout of sold-out football

at indictment is overdrawn,
me areas—particularly those
authority was needed to

CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1973

5

Kissinger alternately stings Western allies
with scorn and seduces them with charm

# 'Le magicien' puzzles Europe

By Milt Freudenburg

Daily News Foreign Service

PARIS — Sec. of State Henry Kissinger's famous "Year of Europe" has turned out to be Europe's "Year of Kissinger."

Resentment of Kissinger's tactics and consideration of
how to cope with them occupies a large share of the atten-
tion of European government chiefs and their ministers.

Senior United States officials in Europe have been privately dismayed at Kissinger's public critical broadsides at "the allies." "At least he could distinguish between friends and the less friendly," one top diplomat complained.

The Europeans are alternately stung by Kissinger's scorn and reduced by his German-accented charm.

French President Georges Pompidou calls him "le magic-
len Kissinger." British Foreign Sec. Sir Alec Douglas-Home
went out of his way to praise Kissinger at the Atlantic Al-
liance ministers' meeting.

BUT EUROPEAN OFFICIALS also see Kissinger as "su-
persensitive," "a man of complexes," "a competitor in
Washington power struggles."

"He thinks he can treat us like Vietnamese or Arabs," said a British diplomat testily. "But of course we don't accept that."

Europe's upsetting Kissinger Year was launched with his April 23 speech calling for a "new Atlantic Charter," a slogan since dropped. It was a call for Western Europe and America to redefine and strengthen their ties.

The speech annoyed the Europeans by separating their
regional role from America's worldwide responsibility.

Kissinger aides later conceded these remarks were tact-
less. But when the Arab-Israeli war broke in October, Eu-
ropean behavior provoked open U.S. anger. "They proved
Henry was right about them," U.S. diplomats said.

BASICALLY, THE EUROPEANS sided with the Arabs. Their industries run on Arab oil, and they hope to develop Arab markets for European weapons and trade.

But the United States was faced with the emergency of
preventing Israel from being swamped by Soviet weaponry,

The day after their celebrated clash at NATO headquarters, Sec. of State Henry Kissinger (left) and French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert had a breakfast described as "Jovial."

which the Arabs used with surprising effectiveness.

Kissinger perceived a threat of major Soviet gains in the Mideast, spearheaded by a massive injection of Russian forces. He advised President Nixon to call the Oct. 25 worldwide nuclear alert, which shocked the Europeans and apparently cooled off Moscow.

Soon after, he was promoting a Geneva peace conference,
with Soviet help. The Europeans were out of it and resentful.

"They made the wrong choice, and they are paying for it," said an American official. "Only Washington has preserved influence with both Arabs and Israel and can hope to bring them together."

In October and November, Kissinger repeatedly hit out at the Europeans in news conferences and talks with senators and congressmen. President Nixon also spoke the public tough line, as did Defense Sec. James Schlesinger.

But most Europeans see it as a Kissinger tactic, forgetting the Nixon shocks of 1971 over money and trade. At the time, Treasury Sec. John Connally was the tough guy, and Kissinger was credited with blowing the whistle on Big John because he was harming the alliance.

One German official thinks he detects competition between Kissinger and Schlesinger to show Congress who is the hard-headed realist in European relations. Another theory is that Kissinger, who was born in Germany, feels a need to show his Americanism.

MEANWHILE, OTHER FRICTIONS arose over the new definition of U.S.-European relations called for in the April speech.

Instead of a new Atlantic Charter that would reach out and include Japan in an industrial world triangle, the Europeans have insisted on no less than three separate declarations, with more likely later.

Ironically, the first to be finished is a declaration of ex-
clusively European identity that crosses swords with one of
Kissinger's main aims.

It pledges the nine Common Market nations to close ties with Washington, especially on defense. But it asserts Europe's determination to make its own decisions without first consulting others — meaning America.

Kissinger has objected strenuously to what he calls being presented with "faits accompli" (accomplished facts) by the allies. But British, Dutch, French, German and even Danish officials are unanimous in public and private in their insistence on their right to be separate.

"We are talking both as an open group wanting contact

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Europe puzzled
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(with the United States), but also as a group given the opportunity and the time to find its own identity before it hands out its visiting card," said K. B. Andersen, the Danish foreign minister.

ANDERSEN UNWITTINGLY INFURIATED Kissinger when he was sent by the Common Market members to present their proposals for a Common Market-U.S. declaration. (The third declaration is being drafted in the 15-nation NATO alliance.)

When Kissinger asked questions about the proposals, Andersen said he had no authority to reply. This was not the kind of partnership Kissinger had in mind, and he exploded.

Britain's Sir Alec explains that the call for Atlantic unity had come at an awkward time, when the Common Market was feeling its way after taking in the British, Danes and Irish.

He contends, also, that European unity is a plus for both the United States and the Atlantic alliance: The rivalries that brought two world wars now are submerged in the European community.

AFTER THE FIASCO WITH the Danish foreign minister, the Europeans agreed to a series of consultations with Asst. Sec. of State Walter Stoessel. But before each meeting with him, they agreed on a joint stand.

"We want to present our single communitywide view the same as the U.S. government composes its internal differences before negotiating with us," a German official said.

The dispute is somewhat artificial. The United States continues to have direct relations with each of the European nations, in some cases very intimate ties as with Holland, Belgium, Italy and Germany.

For that matter, allies with vital interests in Washington decisions, such as Germany and Israel, obviously keep direct contacts with agencies such as the Pentagon and White House as well as the State Department.

U.S. RELATIONS WITH FRANCE are more strained, but Kissinger and Foreign Minister Michel Jobert had a breakfast described as "iovial" the morning after their headline-making clash at NATO headquarters. A French official suggested that there might have been elements of the later on both sides of the clash, with the home audience in view.

With an OK telephoned from Pompidou (whom Kissinger later visited in Paris), the French then agreed to a meeting between Kissinger and ministers of the Common Market nations to discuss differences over the declaration.

With deliberate symbolism, it took place in the Brussels Hilton, outpost of a multinational company. The French don't want political co-operation associated with Common Market headquarters, also located in Brussels.

Andersen said later that the Hilton meeting was important and that further meetings between the nine and the United States are planned.

Stoessel, who has just been named ambassador to Moscow, is expected to stop in Western Europe in January for possibly the final session on the declaration.

A BRITISH DIPLOMAT said Kissinger was clever in his handling of the Brussels meeting with the nine. This took the United States vs. Europe sting out of the nine's Copenhagen summit a few days later, he said.

From Brussels, Kissinger flew to London, where he presented the summit with a new challenge — to join with the United States and Japan in an energy action group to guarantee oil and nuclear power supplies.

British Prime Minister Edward Heath warmly welcomed the idea, comparing it to the famous Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II.

But the French, who heard a preview of the proposal at the Kissinger-Jobert breakfast, saw a trap. Pompidou persuaded the summit to keep Europe's oil policy separate from the Arab-boycotted United States.

That is a short-range political tactic. For the longer range, French officials conceded they need American co-operation in a system of investment and trade ties with the oil nations. These ties would supplant unwanted dollars as incentives to keep oil flowing.

Danish Premier Anker Joergensen, chairman of the summit, said the Kissinger proposal is included in the summit's decision to take up energy policy in the 24-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The United States and Japan are members along with the Europeans.

KISSINGER SWITCHED ON the charm at Brussels and said the spirit was more important than particular words in relations between the allies.

An American insider gave this account of the secretary's choice of tactics:

"In the first place, Henry was very angry when the Europeans didn't see the Soviet threat to their own well-being in October. He stayed mad when the British and French went around playing down his concern by asserting they were on best of private terms with him.

"By making his anger public, he forced them to admit to a serious split that had to be resolved. As a result, when he arrived in Europe, he got the allies to move faster and further in his direction than they otherwise would have."

At NATO, Kissinger established new machinery for consultation — which the Europeans wanted anyway, after the shock of the Oct. 25 nuclear alert. He also got his Hilton meeting with the nine.

But the final word still is in dispute. It is "partnership," and the nine European nations so far are holding out against using it in the declaration describing their relationship with the United States.

It's all a matter of calories

Food to keep you warm?

By Arthur J. Snider

Daily News Science Editor

There's no magic food that will give you extra body heat to help withstand the energy crisis.

No matter what you eat, it all winds up as calories to be burned or to be stored as fat, points out Dr. Lawrence Frohman, director of the division of endocrinology.

For most efficient use, fats must be accompanied by protein.

IF THERE IS anything good to be said for the energy problem, it will enable some people to eat more without gaining weight, especially if they are willing to shiver.

Shivering is a form of exercise the body engages in to

temperature at a normal 98.6 degrees, he pointed out.

A study conducted during World War II by Dr. Robert E. Johnson, a physiologist at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., showed that troops in the Arctic consumed 58 per cent more calories than troops in the desert when both were allowed to eat as much as they chose

pansion of the peripheral blood vessels, sending more heat to the skin.

WILLIAM SAFIRE

STAR-NEWS

12-27-73

# Who's the Next Kissinger?

As the sound of the fakir's flute hypnotizes the deadly cobra, the gabble of speculation about "the next president" holds Washingtonians spellbound.

Someday, of course, there will be a next president, as there always has been, and the transition of power from trembling hands to fumbling hands will be worth studying. But the central question is: Will there ever be a "next Kissinger?"

Hastily slamming together a conceptual framework, we can ask ourselves: Will the next Kissinger be a superkissinger or an antikissinger? Will the next national security adviser to a president be a manager or an advocate? Who is around today who could step into the shoes of the indispensable man?

Keeping in mind that the job of secretary of State will one day return to a status independent of — and perhaps equal to — that of a national security adviser, let us look over the pool from which the next national security adviser could be drawn.

If Henry were to disappear from the scene overnight — in a fit of pique or a peak of pfft — his replacement at the National Security Council staff helm would be Al Haig, 49, who knows the job well; a secretary of State would then be chosen who, like some sturdy wines, traveled well.

The only other man who could step in as national security adviser immediately, not missing a beat, would be Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 47, already called

"Kissinger's Kissinger." Sonnenfeldt, a longtime hardliner, is incongruously the target of right-wing suspicions, and thus would require a president with some hardline identification; he would likely serve a Regan, Jackson, Baker or Brock administration.

In foreign affairs, being able to pronounce and spell Zbigniew Brzezinski is akin to being able to pronounce "Pedernales" in the Johnson administration or "R. Tkach" in the Nixon entourage—(answers; Purd'nallis, Cha-Kosh, and Brzezinski is called "Zbig" for short).

Zbig is a serious analyst whose strategic ideas and humanist philosophy would attract a liberal-centrist president, perhaps a Mondale or a Percy. Ted Kennedy might be comfortable with Brzezinski, 45, though he would probably choose Adam Walinsky, 36, with columnist Joseph Kraft, 49 — once a John Kennedy speechwriter — not to be overlooked.

A president whose world view was conservative-moralist might turn to Richard Allen, 37, a foreign policy adviser to Richard Nixon before 1969; a liberal-activist president might go for Anthony Lake, 33, who broke with Kissinger over Cambodia, Ed Hamilton, 32, ex-deputy mayor of New York, or Richard Holbrooke, 32 now editor of Foreign Policy magazine, though all four of these men are some years away from the top job at the NSC.

If Nelson Rockefeller became president, and Secretary Kissinger decided to give up one of his titles,

they would probably appoint Winston Lord, 36, a longtime Kissinger aide, to be national security adviser, or take on Ben Read, 48, a former Dean Rusk deputy now on the foundation circuit.

Henry Owen, 53, now at the Brookings Institution, would suit a president who preferred a thinker rather than an executive at the NSC. Contrariwise, Richard Neustadt, 54, at Harvard, would suit a president who wanted the job to be that of policy manager.

One of the young men being groomed for a top foreign affairs post in somebody's administration is ex-congressman Don Rumsfeld, 41, now our ambassador to NATO. Like Sonnenfeldt, Neustadt and Read, he could suit a presidential preference for operations; if the president wanted an advocate for a point of view, he would more likely turn to a Brzezinski or a Walinsky.

Whoever the next national security adviser turns out to be, he or she is likely to come from outside "The Neighborhood" — the section of Cambridge, Mass., that spawned McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and Henry Kissinger, all three of the men who have held that post up to now.

With no academic slur intended, perhaps that change of roots will be for the better: The "next Kissinger" should be a man who will neither compete with his predecessor's superstardom nor usurp his president's power, but will come to grips with the unspectacular job of creating situations of trust.

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An Editorial

# The Impossibility Of Dr. Kissinger

At the top of our back page today we re-
print an interesting article by William Randolph

Hearst, Jr., editor-
in-chief of the
Hearst Newspapers.
It is interesting be-
cause Editor Hearst
has long been an ad-
mirer of Dr. Henry
Kissinger, some-
thing which, as the
readers of this new-
paper know, we are
NOT.

Now even Mr.
Hearst is beginning
to wonder whether
Dr. Kissinger isn't
spreading himself a
little thin in his at-
tempts to do the im-
possible.

DR. KISSINGER

Perhaps Mr.

Hearst eventually will come to realize that Dr. Kissinger really is not the wizard in international relations that Mr. Hearst thought he was, but rather just another Harvard professor, full of theories, who is in over his head in the world of international power.

Mr. Hearst himself shows some under-
standing of reality when he says (referring
to the Middle East and Vietnam), "the
simple fact is that wars are never settled
unless there is a distinct victor and a van-
quished. One side has got to be defeated
and admit it. When there is no such defini-
tive showdown, both sides or at least one
of them is going to use any agreement as a
chance to lick wounds and start all over."

Editor Hearst then goes on to say, "Not even Kissinger is going to get the Arabs and the Israelis to lie down together like lambs. Nor is he going to get Communists and non-Communists in Vietnam to perform any similar miracle in Vietnam. The enemies have been fighting each other too long and too indecisively for that."

What Mr. Hearst has not yet understood is
that Dr. Kissinger has created many of his ap-
pearances of success but has not really succeed-
ed. This is because Dr. Kissinger doesn't under-
stand the reality of military power.

As long ago as Columbus Day, 1970, in
Hartford, Connecticut, when Dr. Kissinger pre-
ceded the President's speech and gave a lecture
to some members of the press from the Eastern
part of the United States, this publisher asked

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Dr. Kissinger how he expected to succeed in his attempt to bring about worldwide agreement when the United States was constantly deteriorating in military strength.

DR. KISSINGER REPLIED THAT HE COULD NOT SEE THAT OUR MILITARY STRENGTH HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE SITUATION!

Right then and there, it was proved to this publisher that Dr. Kissinger lives in some sort of dream world in which he thinks that his alleged charm and skill can bring about the results he seeks.

Dr. Kissinger apparently does not understand that only overwhelming military strength on the part of a nation can enable that nation successfully to conclude agreements such as he proposes. His agreements with Communist China and Soviet Russia have no real meaning beyond the fact that they have given the Russian and Chinese Communists access to American goods and technology which they desperately needed to prep up their sagging and impractical economies.

The so-called peace in Vietnam is nothing but a breathing space for North Vietnam and the South Vietnamese Communists to regroup their forces and replenish their supplies for the eventual takeover of South Vietnam.

Likewise, the temporary cease-fire in the Middle East represents only a breathing space for the Arabs to realign and regroup their forces after the heating they were given by the Israelis.

Without that essential ingredient of overwhelming military strength on the part of the United States, Dr. Kissinger can NEVER succeed, no matter how fast he travels the globe or how fast he talks.

It is not a question of Dr. Kissinger becoming involved, as Mr. Hearst says, in the wrong places; rather, it is a question of the wrong man being involved for the wrong reasons in the wrong places.

If Doctor Kissinger stayed home and went back to teaching at Harvard, and if the United States concentrated on rebuilding its military strength and its internal economic situation, the rest of the world would pay attention when this nation spoke. Very soon thereafter the problems which now seem so insoluable even to one of Dr. Kissinger's theoretical brilliance would in many cases take care of themselves.

William Loeb, Publisher

by a decisive 54-36 per cent
margin.

Jackson does less well with Democrats, but does relatively better than Kennedy among Republicans and independents.

Also revealing is the Ford showing by education, in recent years a key and sensitive division among the electorate:

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>8th Gr.</th><th>High<br>or Less School</th><th>Col-<br>age</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Ford vs. Kennedy</td><td>%</td><td>%</td><td>%</td></tr><tr><td>Ford</td><td>41</td><td>45</td><td>57</td></tr><tr><td>Kennedy</td><td>30</td><td>46</td><td>36</td></tr><tr><td>Not sure</td><td>9</td><td>9</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Ford vs. Jackson</td><td>%</td><td>%</td><td>%</td></tr><tr><td>Ford</td><td>40</td><td>43</td><td>45</td></tr><tr><td>Jackson</td><td>41</td><td>40</td><td>42</td></tr><tr><td>Not sure</td><td>19</td><td>17</td><td>13</td></tr></tbody></table>

When the electorate is divided by education, the Kennedy and Jackson patterns take quite different shapes. Kennedy's appeal is to the less well educated, but he fades badly among the rapidly growing college-educated group. By contrast, Jackson runs only three points behind among the college educated, although he does not roll up Kennedy's lead among those who never went to high school.

Although President Nixon actually carried the union vote in 1972 against George McGovern, Vice President Ford trails both Kennedy and Jackson among union members. However, the Ford showing among union members must be viewed as quite strong: 40 per cent against Kennedy and 38 per cent against Jackson:

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Union<br>Members</th><th>%</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Ford vs. Kennedy</td><td></td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Ford</td><td>40</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kennedy</td><td>52</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Not Sure</td><td>1</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Ford vs. Jackson</td><td></td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td>Ford</td><td>45</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Jackson</td><td>17</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Not Sure</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

Despite the loss of the union vote by relatively narrow margins, Ford lost the

GOLDA MEIR

SHIRLEY CHISHOLM

PAT NIXON

ROSE KENNEDY

INDIRA GANDHI

... top five on 1973 list of women most admired by American people.

## The Gallup Poll

# Mrs. Meir Is Most Admired Woman

By George Gallup

PRINCETON, N.J.—Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel heads the 1973 list of women most admired by the American people, winning more than twice as many votes as the woman with the next-highest total, Pat Nixon.

Rounding out the top five are Rose Kennedy, Rep. Shirley Chisholm and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India.

Mrs. Meir has topped the list twice in the last three years. In 1972, she was second to Pat Nixon in the balloting. The Israeli leader has now been among the top ten "most admired women" for five successive years.

Pat Nixon topped the 1972 list, while she was runner-up to Golda Meir in the 1971 list, and runner-up to Mamie Eisenhower in the 1970 list.

Pat Nixon has figured prominently among the top 10 in 10 of the last 14 annual audits.

Mamie Eisenhower has the sixth greatest number of votes. Rounding out the top ten are Lady Bird Johnson (7th place), Jacqueline Onassis (8th), Queen Elizabeth II (9th), and Ethel Kennedy and Margaret Chase Smith (tied for 10th).

These annual audits were started in 1948 and are based on samples designed to represent the views of the entire adult population. Survey respondents are asked to give their choices, without the aid of a list of names. This procedure, while opening the field to many possible choices, tends to favor women who receive wide news coverage.

In the latest survey, a total of 1,514 persons, 18 and older,

were interviewed Dec. 7-10. The following two questions were asked to determine first and second choices:

What woman that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?

Who is your second choice?

Following are the top ten in the voting, with first and second choices combined:

1. Golda Meir

2. Pat Nixon

3. Rose Kennedy

4. Shirley Chisholm

5. Indira Gandhi

6. Mamie Eisenhower

7. Lady Bird Johnson

8. Jacqueline (Kennedy) Onassis

9. Queen Elizabeth II

10. Ethel Kennedy and Margaret Chase Smith (tied)

For comparison, here is last year's list (1972):

1. Pat Nixon

2. Golda Meir

3. Indira Gandhi

4. Mamie Eisenhower

5. Jacqueline (Kennedy) Onassis

6. Shirley Chisholm

7. Queen Elizabeth II

8. Margaret Chase Smith

9. Rose Kennedy

10. Coretta King

Receiving honorable mention in the 1973 survey were (in alphabetical order): Bella Abzug, Shirley Temple Black, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Julie Eisenhower, Billie Jean King, Coretta King, Ann Langers, Loretta Lynn, Dr. Margaret Mead, Bess Myerson, Sylvia Porter, Gloria Steinem, and Barbara Walters.

© 1973, Field Enterprises, Inc.

## Nebraska's Martin To Leave House

KEARNEY, Neb., Dec. 26 (UPI)—Rep. Dave Martin, (R-Neb.), the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, said Tuesday he will step down at the end of his seventh two-year term in January of 1975.

The 66-year-old congressman told the Omaha World-Herald in an interview that he decided to retire about 10 days ago. He said his decision was based on personal and family reasons and the Watergate scandals had nothing to do with it.

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The White House decided to

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12-27-73 LA Times

# Arabs' Plot to Kill Kissinger Reported

## Hit in Rome Instead When Beirut Plans Were Foiled

BRUSSELS (UPI) — The Arab guerrilla organization that killed 32 persons at Rome and Athens airports last week originally had planned to assassinate Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in Beirut a day earlier but was thwarted, military and diplomatic sources said Wednesday.

The sources said the Libyan government leadership had ordered the submachine gun and grenade attempt on Kissinger's life at Beirut International Airport Dec. 16, but that Lebanese authorities learned of it in time and ordered Kissinger's plane diverted to Rayak Air Base instead.

Rayak Air Base is 45 miles east of Beirut. The U.S. Embassy in the Lebanese capital said the Kissinger plane went there for security reasons. Security throughout his Middle East swing was intense because of what American officials described before his trip as threats against his life.

In Washington, State Department spokesman George Vest refused to discuss the report saying, "We do not wish to discuss security matters at all. We do not have at hand information to confirm or deny those reports."

Asked if the department knew

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Trailways bus as he drove along U.S. 82 near New Boston, Tex., with about 20 passengers aboard. The driver, Billy Fred Young, reportedly edged his bus off the highway and brought it to a halt while struggling with his assailant. Then Young stumbled out of the bus and collapsed. After a night-long search, police arrested a hitchhiker, James Edward Morris, 31, of Salem, Va., and charged him with murder.

A 40-year-old native of Hungary was arrested on the international bridge at Brownsville, Tex., for allegedly threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.), the FBI reported. Held on $75,000 bond in Cameron County jail was Istvan Kispal Kovacs, a resident of Beaverton, Ore. No motive was given for the alleged threat on Hatfield's life.

Heavy rains and high winds buffeted the Gulf Coast states, with one death and numerous reports of property damage in Mississippi and Alabama. The unidentified victim died in Jefferson Davis County, Miss., where a mobile home was destroyed. The Tennessee Valley Authority prepared for a major flood control effort and a tornado watch was in effect for much of the day for central and eastern Kentucky, northeastern Tennessee and part of western Virginia. Snow fell across the Central Plains and rain was falling in Oregon as a new storm system moved inland.

James Earl Ray has written a document in which he names several persons he claims were involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, a Nashville television station quoted "highly placed source" as saying. Ray's statement was reportedly attached to a writ

# KISSINGER

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anything about a possible link between Libya and the group, Vest added: "We do not have any independent information to confirm that, or to draw any conclusion about that."

According to the sources, the Libyans told the group to attack instead at Rome, where they killed 31 persons at Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Dec. 17 before hijacking a Luft-hansa airliner and killing one more person during a stopover in Athens.

The sources said the airport attack was ordered to be carried out at all costs to coincide with the originally scheduled opening of the Arab-Israeli peace conference in Geneva Dec. 18.

They said the guerrillas were members of the National Youth for the Liberation of Palestine, a Libyan-financed and run arm of the Black September guerrilla organization.

The group split off from the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine about a year ago, the sources said, and linked up with Black September before launching its first operation in Nicosia April 9, an attack against an Israeli airliner and the Israeli ambassador's residence.

One of the attackers was killed and seven were arrested, later to be released by the Cypriot authorities.

Since then, the sources said the group has been responsible for killing four persons and wounding 55 at Athens International Airport Aug. 5 and for planning to use surface-to-air missiles against an Israeli airliner in Italy.

Italian police on Sept. 5 arrested five Arabs in the Rome area after finding two portable Soviet-made antiaircraft missiles in an apartment near Leonardo da Vinci Airport. The police said the missiles were to be used hours later against an El Al plane.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1973

# Soviet Envoy Confers With Nixon and Kissinger

By DAVID BINDER

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin conferred for an hour this morning with President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger at the White House, mostly about Soviet-American relations, a spokesman reported.

It was the Soviet Ambassador's second call on Mr. Nixon in five days.

A White House spokesman, Gerald R. Warren, said the discussion concerned "general foreign policy matters." Later Mr. Kissinger's spokesman, George S. Vest, said there had been "a review of Soviet-American relations, general international affairs and some discussion of the Middle East."

Mr. Vest quoted Mr. Kissinger as having said that the Middle East situation "was not predominant in the total context."

Some United States officials who were not acquainted with the content of the meetings said they thought the talks had served in part to readjust communications between Mr. Nixon and Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet party leader, after they were interrupted Oct. 24 in a series of events that culminated in the alert of United States armed forces around the world.

## No Warnings Given

Mr. Nixon authorized the alert after American officials detected what were called "signs" that the Soviet Union might send forces into Egypt in support of Egyptian Army units trapped by Israeli troops.

The military alert moves by the two great powers were made without exchanging specific warnings. Some officials said this tended to call into question the value of the com-

## Hour's Talk Said to Have Dealt With U.S.- Soviet Relations and the Middle East

munications channels used by Moscow and Washington to promote their agreed policy of improving East-West relations. Chief among these channels is Mr. Nixon's good relationship with Mr. Dobrynin.

The Soviet Ambassador and Mr. Kissinger conferred briefly this morning and then Mr. Kissinger spent a few minutes with President Nixon before he and Mr. Dobryning saw the President together.

After the meeting, Mr. Nixon signed a bill authorizing $2.2-billion in emergency aid for

Israel. The measure gives Mr. Nixon the right to provide Israel with as much as $1.5-billion in grants and $700-million in credits for the purchase of military supplies.

Close to $1-billion will be used to pay back the Defense Department for weapons shipped to Israel during and after the October fighting. The rest would be available to strengthen Israeli forces in the event of a new conflict.

The bill provides that the United States share for supporting the United Nations Emergency Force's operations in the Middle East should come out of the $2.2-billion. That share is expected to be about $17.4-million for the 12 months that began in November.

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LOUIS L. FISHER
Palo Alto

IN AN EDITORIAL last Sunday we predicted that gasoline prices would "go up, up and up" because of the monopoly position of the oil-rich countries. We don't mind being prophets, but would prefer out prophecies not be fulfilled so quickly. The huge jump in the Persian Gulf oil price was decreed the same day the editorial appeared.

## A mockery

THE FIVE ARAB air terrorists who killed 32 persons in Rome and Athens are still being held in Kuwait, which is considering turning them over to the Palestine Liberation Organization for trial.

The PLO earlier expressed disapproval of the bloody incident, so presumably it would make some gesture toward punishment.

But that is not the point. The crime centered in Rome — 31 dead there and an American jetliner virtually destroyed. The Italian government, as the injured party, should try the murders.

To deal with the PLO as a sovereign government, with talk of "extradition," is a mockery of international law and an insult to the government of Italy.

## Kissinger's gesture

SECRETARY OF STATE Henry Kissinger now has been formally presented with his Nobel Peace Prize. He earlier announced he would donate his half share of the $122,000 that goes with it to scholarships for the children of American servicemen killed or missing in action in Indochina. Kissinger's decision is generous and appropriate, the more so because he is not a man of extensive means.

I concur with John Roche ("An awakening to the Soviet's strategy." Dec. 15) that the build up of Arab forces prior to the Yom Kippur assault showed the true Russian foreign policy - detente on one side, while arming their clients to the teeth and encouraging military confrontation on the other. However, Roche did not go far enough.

The Russians wanted the war and the Arabs to make a good showing, win or lose, so they would play their ace — the oil boycott. This boycott is a part of the grand strategy to weaken the Western world. The Arabs who are making helpless people suffer by this move, are unwittingly aiding the Communists because of their hatred for Israel...

While many in our government and some others believe that we can work and live on friendly terms with Communists, is it just possible that they plan on the Western world being so weakened that Communism can make further inroads?...

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San Mateo

## Impeachment

When Congress has reason to believe that a President has seriously misused his power Congress is then constitutionally obliged to use its checking power and impeach the President. Impeachment does not establish guilt. It is an accusation resulting in a trial.

It is the only way to answer satisfactorily the questions of guilt or innocence since a President, when impeached, cannot withhold evidence or refuse to testify.

If Nixon is innocent of illegal use of power, he has nothing to fear. But if Congress refuses to impeach, it will have abdicated one of the most important powers given it by the Constitution.

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