CAIRO

Tuesday

<table><tr><td>8:55 PM</td><td>Arrival - Proceed to Tahra</td></tr><tr><td>10:10 PM</td><td>Depart for Giza</td></tr><tr><td>10:30 PM</td><td>Meeting Begins</td></tr><tr><td>11:05 PM</td><td>Meeting Ends</td></tr></table>

Wednesday

<table><tr><td>9:10 AM</td><td>Depart Tahra for Foreign Ministry</td></tr><tr><td>9:30 AM</td><td>Meet with Fahmy</td></tr><tr><td>10:40 AM</td><td>Meeting ends - proceed to Giza</td></tr><tr><td>11:10 AM</td><td>Meeting with Sadat</td></tr><tr><td>12:45 PM</td><td>Meeting ends</td></tr><tr><td>1:00 PM</td><td>Lunch at Fahmy's House</td></tr><tr><td>2:10 PM</td><td>Lunch ends</td></tr><tr><td>2:45 PM</td><td>Wheels Up for Riyadh</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Flying Time: 2 hrs 45 mins</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Time Change: Plus 1 hour</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Elapsed Time: 3 Hrs 45 mins</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>6:30 PM</td><td>Arrive Riyadh</td></tr><tr><td>7:30 PM</td><td>Audience with the King</td></tr><tr><td>9:30 PM</td><td>Wheels Up for Amman</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Flying Time: 2 hrs 15 mins</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Time Change: Minus 1 hour</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Elapsed Time: 1 hr 15 mins</td></tr></table>

10:45 PM Arrive Amman

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A: Well, it is a complicated situation.

Q: Did you propose a peace treaty to Jordan on your last trip?

A: Absolutely not. I did not propose any peace treaty on the last trip--specifically not to the Jordanians.

Q: Do you predict any further disengagement?

A: I don't want to predict what exactly will happen; I will talk to Arab leaders and to Israeli leaders to see what we can do to contribute toward progress in the Middle East.

Q: Do you think the Geneva Conference will be resumed?

A: I think it can resume in a way whenever all the parties agree it can make a useful contribution. UNQUOTE.

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NO. 32

WIRES: AFTERNOON WIRES EX CAIRO. SCHWEID LEADS HAK ARRIVES IN CAIRO FOR A FAST TOUR OF THE MIDDLE EAST THAT WILL TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HIS PERSONAL DIPLOMACY AND ASSES PROSPECTS FOR NEGOTIATIONS HOLDING OFF ANOTHER ARAB-ISRAELI ARF. A SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIAL SAID HAK'S TASK WAS COMPLICATED BY NEWLY OBSTRUCTIONIST TACTICS BY SOVIET UNION. THE NEW SOVIET TACTICS APPEARED TO BE SIGNALED BY A SOVIET COMMENTATOR, IGOR BELAYEV, INTERVIEWED BY THE BEIRUT NEWSPAPER, "AN NAHAR." SCHWEID CONTINUES: HAK APPEARED TO BE WINNING HIS HOPES ON SADAT'S POSSIBLE INTEREST IN TRYING FOR AN INTERIM SINAI SETTLEMENT IN ADVANCE OF RECONVENING THE GENEVA PEACE CONFERENCE. UPI LEADS: HAK BEGAN A LIGHTENING FIVE-NATION TOUR OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO ASSESS THE PROSPECTS FOR A JUST AND LASTING PEACE IN MAKE OF RABAT SUMMIT. STRAIGHT-FORWARD COVERAGE OF CAIRO ARRIVAL STATEMENT.

TV:

ABC NEWS: REASONER, AFTER FILMED REPORT BY GEORGE WATSON ON WORLD HUNGER, HAD THIS 7 MINUTES INTO PROGRAM:

"DELEGATES FROM MORE THAN 100 NATIONS WERE THERE TODAY AS THE 12-DAY CONFERENCES OPENED. SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER WAS THERE TO ADDRESS THE OPENING SESSION AND TO MAKE AN APPEAL."

KOPPEL: "SECRETARY KISSINGER AND HIS STAFF HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS SPEECH FOR WEEKS, AND KISSINGER REGARDS IT

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["Department of State", "TELEGRAM", "STATE PAGE 2 STATE 244188", "UNCLASSIFIED", "Classification", "AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HE'S EVER DELIVERED.\"", "KISSINGER: \"WE NEED TO ADDRESS MAN'S MOST FUNDAMENTAL NEED: THE THREAT OF FAMINE, THE FACT OF HUNGER, HAVE HAUNTED MEN AND NATIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY. OUR PRESENCE HERE IS RECOGNITION THAT THIS ETERNAL PROBLEM HAS NOT TAKEN ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE AND URGENCY AND THAT IT CAN BE DELAYED WITH ONLY BE A CONCERTED, WORLDWIDE ACTION.\"", "KOPPEL: \"BUT WHAT MAY PROVE TO BE THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL PART OF KISSINGER'S SPEECH WAS HIS PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF NATIONALLY HELD FOOD RESERVES.\"", "KISSINGER: \"A WORLDWIDE RESERVE OF AS MUCH AS 60 MILLION TONS OF FOOD ABOVE PRESENT CARRY-OVER LEVELS MAY BE NEEDED TO ASSURE ADEQUATE FOOD SECURITY.\"", "KOPPEL: \"THE QUESTION THAT REMAINS UNANSWERED IS WHO, IN THE UNITED STATES FOR EXAMPLE, WILL ADMINISTER THE VATE SECTOR? AND IF THESE NATIONALLY HELD RESERVES ARE TO MEET GLOBAL NEEDS WHICH INTERNATIONAL BODY WILL DECIDE WHAT SIZE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TO BE MADE AND IN WHAT QUANTITY AND TO WHOM. AND WHAT OF THE COMMUNIST BLOC, WHICH IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PLAN AT ALL? KISSINGER ACKNOWLEDGED THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEMS, BUT REFUSED TO BE AWED BY THEM.\"", "KISSINGER: \"WE CANNOT TURN BACK, OR TURN AWAY. \"HUMAN REASON,\" THOMAS MANN WROTE, \"NEEDS ONLY TO WILL MORE STRONGLY THAN FATE, AND IT IS FATE.\"", "REASONER ALSO MENTIONED BRIEFLY HAK FLYING INTO CAIRO TONIGHT IN AN EFFORT TO MOVE FORWARD THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE. COUPLED THIS STATEMENT WITH RABIN COMMENTS BEFORE ISRAELI PARLIAMENT REJECTING NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE PLO.", "NBC: CHANCELOR, FIVE MINUTES INTO PROGRAM: \"THE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE OPENED TODAY IN ROME. IT'S A MEETING UPON WHICH THE FATE OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD MAY DEPEND, AND IT'S BEING ATTENDED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF MORE THAN A HUNDRED COUNTRIES, COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT AND COUNTRIES WHICH DO NOT.\"", "\"THE FOOD CONFERENCE WILL LAST ELEVEN DAYS, AND TODAY SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER ADDRESSED THE OPENING SESSION.\"", "FORM\n4-48", "FS-412(N)", "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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DAVID BURRINGTON BY SATELLITE FROM ROWE: "NO MATTER THAT HEWRY KISSINGER CAME HERE ON A FRIENDLY MISSION, TO HELP FEED STARVING PEOPLE: HE STILL HAD MAXIMUM SECURITY. POLICE TOOK NO CHANCES. IT WAS ABOUT A YEAR AGO THAT KISSINGER SUGGESTED THIS CONFERENCE: SINCE THEN THE FOOD SITUATION HAS GOTTEN SO MUCH WORSE THAT DELEGATES ARE TALKING ABOUT AN IMMEDIATE CATASTROPHE. THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES ARE "WELL KNOWN": DROUGHT, FLOODS, INCREASED PRICES. ALL THIS HAS ALREADY LEFT A HALF BILLION PEOPLE ON THE BRINK OF STARVATION, ACCORDING TO EXPERTS. KISSINGER CALLED FOR A JOINT WORLD EFFORT AND SAID THAT AMERICA WOULD DO ITS PART.

(KISSINGER ON CAMERA, PARAGRAPH 5 OF SPEECH: "WE RECOGNIZE THE RESPONSIBILITIES . . . THAT OUR CHILDREN INHERIT . . .")

BURRINGTON: "KISSINGER WENT ON TO OUTLINE A BROAD PROGRAM FOR WORLD GRAIN RESERVES AND FOR MASSIVE TECHNICAL HELP SO THAT POOR COUNTRIES CAN GROW MORE FOOD. BUT HE STRESSED THE NEED FOR TOTAL COOPERATION AND EMPHASIZED THAT THE NEWLY RICH CIL COUNTRIES MUST DO THEIR SHARE. HIS SPEECH WAS WELL RECEIVED, THOUGH MUCH HAGGLING LIES AHEAD.

"THE KISSINGER VISIT WAS PUNCTUATED BY SEVERAL UNPLEASANT INCIDENTS, INCLUDING THE FIRE-BOMBING OF THE AMERICAN OFFICE HERE OF HONEYWELL. ABOUT 20 LEFT-WING YOUNGSTERS INVADED THE BUILDING AND SET THE FIRE: SEVERAL PEOPLE HAD TO BE RESCUED. THEN TONIGHT, THE COMMUNIST PARTY HELD AN ANTI-KISSINGER RALLY CHARGING THAT THE AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE WAS MEDDLING IN THE ITALIAN POLITICAL CRISIS. SEVERAL THOUSAND PARTY MEMBERS SHOWED UP FOR THE EVENT. THERE IS SOME FEAR THAT THIS AGITATED POLITICAL CLIMATE WILL BE REFLECTED AT THE FOOD CONFERENCE ITSELF, THAT IT WILL BECOME A POLITICAL DEBATE. IF THAT HAPPENS, DIPLOMATS SAY, THE EFFORT TO FEED STARVING PEOPLE COULD TURN INTO JUST ANOTHER SHOUTING CONTEST."

CHANCELLOR: "EVEN BEFORE THE ROWE CONFERENCE OPENED, THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD WERE LOOKING TOWARD THE UNITED STATES TO CREATE HUGE STOCKPILES OF GRAIN. STOCKPILING BY THIS COUNTRY IS A SUBJECT OF GREAT CONTROVERSY BOTH HERE AND ABROAD."

IRVING R. LEVINE THEN GAVE A LONGISH ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE AND ITS DIFFICULTIES OVER THE PAST YEAR WHICH UNCLASSIFIED

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INCLUDED SEVERAL RECORDED REMARKS BY BUTZ ON STOCKPILING: "WHEN I BECAME SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE THREE YEARS AGO IT WAS COSTING THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ONE MILLION DOLLARS A DAY TO STORE THE INVENTORIES WE HAD. THEY WERE A BURDEN ON THE MARKET, THEY WERE AN EMPARRASSMENT TO ALL OF US. IF WE GIVE NATIONS WHEAT, WE WILL FEED THEM FOR THIS WHEAT SEASON. IF WE TEACH THEM HOW TO INCREASE PRODUCTION WE WILL ALLOW THEM THE MEANS TO EAT ON AND ON AND FEED THEMSELVES. I THINK THE US POSITION WILL ENCOUNTER SOME HOSTILITY. SOME OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD HAVE BECOME COMFORTABLE DEPENDING ON THE US CARRYING THE INVENTORY FOR THEM. AND I THINK THEY HAVE COME TO EXPECT THAT OF US, AS THEIR GOD-GIVEN RIGHT." ALL OF THE ABOVE AND LEVINE'S OWN COMMENTS WERE CAST AGAINST ORIGINAL PROPOSAL OF THE US, AS PRESENTED BY HAK BEFORE UN, FAVORING A STOCKPILING RESERVE PROGRAM.

CHANCELLOR ALSO REMARKED THAT THE CHANCES FOR A PEACE LOOKED GLOomy THIS WEEK WHICH IS WHY SECRETARY KISSINGER FLEW BACK TO CAIRO TODAY. SWITCH TO VALERIAN AT PLANE-SIDE IN ROPE. (PARAPHRASE) KISSINGER WAS FLYING TO CAIRO IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING HIS APPEARANCE BEFORE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE, HIS NINTH VISIT HERE DURING THE PAST YEAR AND 200,000 MILES LATER. HIS FIRST VISIT WAS TO STOP THE WAR: NOW IT IS TO STOP ANOTHER WAR FROM BREAKING OUT. SO HE IS ENGAGED IN A SORT OF SALVAGE OPERATION TO KEEP THE NEGOTIATIONS MOVING FORWARD. TOTAL TAKE LESS THAN ONE MINUTE.

CBS, CRONKITE EVENING NEWS: MARVIN KALB: "KISSINGER WAS THE KEY-NOTE SPEAKER. THIS CONFERENCE AN AMERICAN IDEA. FOOD, NO LESS THAN FUEL, HAS NOW BECOME A GLOBAL PROBLEM REQUIRING GLOBAL SOLUTIONS. KISSINGER APPEALED TO THE FOOD PRODUCERS TO BOOST THEIR OUTPUT AND NOW POOL THEIR RESERVES IN A NEW INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO DEFEAT HUNGER AND FAMINE. WE QUICKLY PLEDGED AMERICA'S HELP."

KISSINGER (ON FILM) "... TO MATCH ITS CAPACITY TO THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CHALLENGE. ..."

KALB: "KISSINGER EXHORTED EVERYONE TO MEET THE CHALLENGE."

KISSINGER (ON FILM) SUGGESTED THAT "THE TRADITIONAL DOORS AND THE NEW FINANCIAL POWERS PARTICIPATING IN THE COORDINATING GROUP FOR FOOD PRODUCTION AND INVESTMENT MAKE UNCLASSIFIED

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1. MARVIN KALB - CBS RADIO FROM ROME -- ROVE RESEMBLES A KIND OF ARMED CAMP, SECURITY IS MAXIMUM. THAT IS THE BACKDROP AS KISSINGER CONFERRED TODAY WITH ITALIAN LEADERS AND THEN WITH THE POPE. HIS FOCUS - THE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE AND THE ME WHERE HE IS SOON GOING. THE SECY'S ADDRESS IS EXPECTED TO SPELL OUT THE AMERICAN APPROACH TO FOOD AND FAVINE. THEN HE LEAVES ROME, AGRICULTURE SEC'Y. BUTZ WILL HEAD THE DELEGATION. ON THE ME, THERE IS IN KISSINGER'S VIEW, A CRACK OF DAYLIGHT THAT ON HIS VISIT TO EGYPT LATE TODAY AND TOMORROW, HE VIGHT BE ABLE TO PERSUADE SADAT TO ENGAGE IN ANOTHER SINAI NEGOTIATION WITH ISRAEL WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE EITHER TO THE WEST BANK OR THE GOLAN HEIGHTS. IN OTHER WORDS, ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS AN EVENTUAL ARAB-ISRAELI ACCOMODATION THAT FOR THE MOMENT SIDESTEPS THE ISSUE OF DIRECT DEALINGS WITH THE PLO. DURING THE SEC'Y'S SWING THROUGH THE ME THIS TIME HE SAYS HE WILL NOT BE SEEING ANY PALESTINIAN LEADER, NOR WILL ANY OF HIS OFFICIALS. GIVEN THE CURRENT STATE OF DIPLOMATIC PLAY AND SENSITIVITY THAT WOULD ONLY BE PREVATURE.

2. TED KOPPEL -- ABC NEWS -- WMAL RADIO -- ROVE: THE BASIC THRUST OF THE KISSINGER SPEECH IS EXPECTED TO BE INTERDEPENDENCE. HE WILL CALL ON THE MAJOR FOOD PRODUCING NATIONS OF THE WORLD LIKE THE U.S. TO EXPAND THEIR PRODUCTION TO THE ULTIMATE AND BE PREPARED TO JOIN IN AN

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INTERNATIONAL FOOD SHARING PROGRAM THAT WILL BUILD UP A WORLDWIDE FOOD SURPLUS OF UP TO SIXTY MILLION TONS OF FOOD THAT COULD BE DISTRIBUTED IN TIMES OF CRISIS.

3. MARVIN KALB -- CBS RADIO 1ST LINE REPORT: KISSINGER ON THIS CURRENT TRIP HAS ALREADY BEEN TO DENMARK, RUSSIA, INDIA, BANGLADESH, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, ROMANIA, YUGOSLAVIA AND NOW ITALY. LATER TODAY, HE FLIES OFF TO EGYPT AND FROM THERE, OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS, TO SAUDI ARABIA, JORDAN, SYRIA, ISRAEL AND HIS LATEST ADDITION TURKEY BEFORE RETURNING TO THE U.S. THIS COMING WEEKEND ...IF HENRY KISSINGER IS IN A PERIOD OF RELATIVE DECLINE AT HOME, HE IS STILL REGARDED AS A BRIGHT COMET ABROAD, AN INTELLIGENT DIPLOMAT WITH AN IMPRESSIVE TRACK RECORD WHO COULD PROBABLY CONTINUE HIS CAVALCADING AROUND THE GLOBE ENDLESSLY, ONE INVITATION AFTER ANOTHER EXTENDED AND ACCEPTED. SOMETIMES IT BORDERS ON THE LUDICROUS, CONSIDERING HIS LONG LIST OF CURRENT OBLIGATIONS, BUT EVERYONE WANTS HIM TO MEDIATE...BUT THE POINT IS, HE IS IN DEMAND, HIS REPUTATION PROCEEDING HIM INTO EVERY CAPITAL. IT IS A QUESTION REALLY WHETHER THIS IS THE PROPER ROLE FOR A SECRETARY OF STATE. THERE ARE SOME, EVEN ON HIS OWN PLANE, WHO ARGUE THAT KISSINGER OUGHT TO SPEND MORE TIME AT HOME, RUNNING THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND CARING FOR THE CONCERNS OF CONGRESS. THERE ARE OTHERS WHO DISAGREE, THEY CLAIM THAT KISSINGER HAS A SPECIAL GIFT AS A NEGOTIATOR AND HE OUGHT TO USE IT TO SOLVE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS AND LET OTHERS RUN THE FOGGY BOTTOM BUREAUCRACY...YESTERDAY, WHILE A GROUP OF REPORTERS WAITED OUTSIDE PRESIDENT TITO'S WHITE PALACE IN BELGRADE AN ARGUMENT AMONG THEM ERUPTED, ONE FACTION ARGUING THAT KISSINGER WAS WASTING TIME ON THIS TRIP VISITING COUNTRIES AND ATTENDING TO PROBLEMS BETTER LEFT TO SUBORDINATES. THE OTHER FACTION ASKED -- WHERE IS THE WASTE REALLY?, SURELY NOT RUSSIA, SURELY NOT THE SUBCONTINENT WHICH HAD BEEN IGNORED FOR TOO LONG, SURELY NOT ROMANIA AND YUGOSLAVIA, IF THE BALKANS EXPLODE SO DOES THE WORLD, SURELY NOT A FOOD CONFERENCE, SURELY NOT THE WE AND SURELY NOT CYPRUS. IS THAT WASTE? A RHETORICAL QUESTION BEGETTING ONLY RHETORICAL ANSWERS. THE ARGUMENT ENDED IN A DRAW. KISSINGER TRAVELS TOO MUCH, EVEN HE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT, BUT HIS TRAVELS ARE IMPORTANT ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND AT THE MOMENT NO ONE ELSE

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AND NO OTHER COUNTRY IS EVEN TRYING. DESPITE THE
POST-WATERGATE SLUES AT HOME THE U.S. IS STILL THE ONLY
COUNTRY WHICH CAN MOVE BETWEEN ARABS AND ISRAELIS,
INDIANS & PAKISTANIS, GREEKS & TURKS. THIS ABILITY IS A
MIXED BLESSING, IT IS A DIPLOMATIC ADVANTAGE RUSSIA DOES
NOT ENJOY BUT IT DOES ADD UP TO MORE PROBLEMS AND MORE
TRAVEL.

WIRES

1. UPI - ROME - HAK WARNED TODAY THAT WORLD FOOD CRISIS RAISED POSSIBILITY OF GLOBAL DISASTER AND PROPOSED AN INTERNATION 25-YEAR PLAN TO "FREE MANKIND FROM THE SCOURGE OF HUNGER." HE SAID RICH OIL-PRODUCING NATIONS SHOULD FINANCE IT.

HAK DELIVERED KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- ONE OF HIS OWN PET PROJECTS WHICH HE CALLED TO STUDY HOW TO STAVE OFF MASS STARVATION IN WORLD.

HAK'S FIVE PT BLUEPRINT PUT HIM IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH
BUTZ, OFFICIAL HEAD OF US DEL, ON QUESTION OF WHO SHOULD
CONTROL WORLD FOOD STOCKPILE. HAK LINKED FOOD CRISIS TO
POPULATION EXPLOSION AND SAID TWO PROBLEMS SHOULD BE
SOLVED TOGETHER. UPI LISTS HAK'S 5-PT PROGRAM.

2. AP - ROME - HAK PROPOSED THAT WORLD'S MAJOR FOOD PRODUCERS COORDINATE THEIR GRAIN RESERVES SO THAT "WITHIN A DECADE NO CHILD WILL GO TO BED HUNGRY...NO FAMILY WILL FEAR FOR ITS NEXT DAY'S BREAD." DELIVERING MAIN OPENING-DAY ADDRESS AT WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE, HAK CALLED THE AIM OF PROPOSED SYSTEM OF RESERVES "A SOLD OBJECTIVE" THAT WOULD COPE WITH "A SOURCE OF HUNGER." HAK ALSO URGED NEWLY RICH OIL PRODUCING STATES TO HELP POOR COUNTRIES BUY FOOD, FERTILIZER AND FARM EQUIPMENT.

A SENIOR US OFFICIAL SAID THE SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES EXCEPT ROMANIA ARE UNLIKELY TO APPROVE THE US PROPOSALS BUT HE EXPECTS ENDORSEMENT FROM MOST OTHER NATIONS.
EXPECTS ENDORSEMENT FROM MOST OTHER NATIONS.

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THE GRAIN RESERVES COORDINATION KISSINGER PROPOSED APPEARED TO CONFLICT SOMEWHAT WITH BUTZ* STATEMENT THAT INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF STOCKPILES WOULD BE INEFFICIENT.

HAK ASKED CONFERENCE TO ORGANIZE A RESERVE COORDINATING GROUP TO NEGOTIATE A DETAILED AGREEMENT FOR AN INT'L SYSTEM OF GRAIN RESERVES... "AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME."

3. UPI - VATICAN CITY - HAK N RIDING IN A BULLETPROOF LIMOSINE, SKIRTED ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS IN ROME, FOR TALKS WITH POPE ON JERUSALEM AND WE CRISIS. HAK SPENT MORNING CONSULTING WITH GREEK FONVIN BITSIOS ON CYPRUS, AND ITALIAN CARETAKER GOV'T LEADERS ON THEIR OWN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS.

SERIES OF BOMBINGS AGAINST US-LINKED FIRMS AND LEFT-WING DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE DENOUNCED HAK'S VISIT. THERE WAS HEAVY SECURITY WHEREVER HAK WENT.

NEWSPAPERS-

1. NYDAILY NEWS - CARTER P.6 - ROWE (2-COLUMN PIC POLICE INSPECT BOWS DAMAGE AT ROWE NEWSPAPER OFFICE)

HAK SAID TODAY THAT A STALEMATE WIGHT DEVELOP IN WE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IF ARABS & ISRAELIS DID NOT MODIFY THEIR POSITIONS. HAK SAID HIS TRIP WAS "TO SEE WHETHER USEFUL NEGOTIATIONS CAN BE CONDUCTED AND IN THAT MANNER... I PLEDGE THAT THE US WILL DO ITS utmost TO MOVE MATTERS IN WE TO A JUST AND LASTING PEACE." HAK WAS UNDERSTOOD TO BELIEVE THAT THE ARABS HAD NOT TOTALLY CLOSED THE DOOR TO FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. US OFFICIALS SAID THAT HE WOULD NOT KNOW FOR SURE UNTIL AFTER HIS TALKS WITH ARAB & ISRAELI LEADERS.

SECURITY FOR HAK'S VISIT IN ROWE EXTREMELY TIGHT BECAUSE ITALIAN CP HAD CALLED FOR A NATIONWIDE "CIVIL PROTEST" AGAINST HIS VISIT FOR ALLEGED US MEDDLING IN ITALIAN POLITICS. AN HOUR BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL EXTREMISTS SET OFF A BOW OUTSIDE OFFICES OF ROWE DAILY AMERICAN.

2. WASHPOST - WARDER P.16 (6 COLUMN PIC HAK & LEONE) TWO SEPARATE STORIES (A) HAK, TITO DISCUSS POSSIBLE ARMS

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SEPARATE STOCKFIRE (CA) HAK. TIT0 C12C022 B022IGE ARMS
S. #42HP02T - HARDER P.18 CE COLUMN BIC HAK & FEDER) TWO

BOMB OUTSIDE OFFICE OF HOME DAILY AMERICAN.
POLITICS. AN HOUR BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL EXTREMIS2 SET OFF A
AGAINST HIS VISIT FOR AFFEGRD US. MEDDING IN ITALIAN
ITALIAN CP HAD CALLED FOR A NATIONWIDE "CIVIL PROTEST."
SECURITY FOR HAK.2 VISIT IN HOME EXTREMELY TIGHT BECAUSE

188AELI LEADER8.
NOT KNOW FOR 20GE UNTIL AFTER HIS TALKS WITH ARAB &
TO FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. US OFFICIALS SAID THAT HE WOULD
TO BELIEVE THAT THE ARAB8 HAD NOT TOTALLY CLOSED THE DOOR
TO A JUST AND LASTING PEACE." HAK WAS UNDERSTOOD
BLEEDING THAT THE US WILL DO IT2 UNTIL TO MOVE MATTERS IN
NEGOTIATIONS CAN BE CONDUCTED AND IN WHAT MANNER...
POSITIONS. HAK SAID HIS TRIP #42 "TO SEE WHETHER USEFUL
NEGOTIATIONS IF ARAB2 & ISRAEL2 DID NOT MODIFY THEIR
HAK SAID TODAY THAT A STALENATE MIGHT DEVELOP IN US PEACE

INRESPET BOMB DAMAGE AT HOME NEWSPAPER OFFICE)
1. DAILY NEWS - CARTER P.6 - RONE CS-COLUMN BIC POLICE
NEWSPAPER2 -

HEAVY SECURITY WHEREVER HAK 'ENT.
DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE DEMONSTRATED HAK.2 VISIT. THERE WAS
SERIES OF BOMBINGS AGAINST US -LINKED FIRM AND LEFT-WING

OMN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS.
CARRUZ, AND ITALIAN CARIETTAES GOAT LEADERS ON THEIR
SENT MORNING CONSULTING WITH CREEK FOMM B112102 ON
FOR TALKS WITH BOBE ON JERUSALEN AND WE CR1212. HAK
FLORISINE. SKIRTED ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS IN BONE.
3. UBI - VATICAN CITY - HAK W RICING IN A BULLETPROOF
TIME."

SYSTEM OF GRAIN RESERVES... "AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE
GROUP TO NEGOTIATE A DETAILED AGREEMENT FOR AN INT'L
HAK ASKED CONFERENCE TO ORGANIZE A RESERVE COORDINATING
INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF STOCKBILES WOULD BE INEFFICIENT.
ABBEAMED TO CONFLICT SOMEWHAT WITH BOTS. STATEMENT THAT
THE GRAIN RESERVES COORDINATION KISSINGER PROPOSED

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SALES YUGO (B) HAK ADDS TURKEY VISIT CURRENT TRIP.

(A) HAK AND TITO DISCUSSED POSSIBLE US ARMS SUPPLIES
AMERICAN SOURCES SAID AFTER LEADERS WET TODAY IN BELGRADE.
US SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE US HAD AGREED TO CONSIDER
WHAT TITO HAS IN MIND, ALTHO THEY MADE A POINT OF RULING
OUT CONTEMPLATION OF ANY MASSIVE ARMS SUPPLY. THEY SAID,
AMERICAN YUGOSLAV COOPERATION, WERE UNDER CONSIDERATION.
THE AMERICANS SAID A MAJOR CONSIDERATION WAS SPARE PARTS
FOR WEAPONS SUPPLIED IN PAST. IT WAS SPECULATED THAT TITO
MAY NOW WISH TO OBTAIN SOME US WEAPONS TO REDUCE HIS
COUNTRY'S DEPENDENCE ON SOVIET SUPPLIES AND TO SHOW THAT
IT HAS A POWERFUL COUNTER-BALANCING FRIEND IN US.

(B) HAK WILL SEEK TO REOPEN NEGOTIATIONS ON CYPRUS
PROBLEM IN TURKEY AFTER QUICK TRIPS TO WE CAPITALS. FORD
ADVOCATES A CONGRESSIONAL DEADLINE OF DEC. 10 TO
PRODUCE EVIDENCE OF "SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS" TOWARD REMOVING
TURKISH MILITARY FORCES FROM CYPRUS. IF IT DOES NOT MEET
DEADLINE, CONGRESS WILL PLACE A COMPLETE BAN ON US MIL AID
TO TURKEY... KISSINGER IS STILL BRIDLING OVER CHALLENGE
TO HIS NEGOTIATING AUTHORITY, BUT IT IS ADAMANTLY DENIED
IN HAK PARTY THAT THE TRIP TO ANKARA IS SIMPLY "EYEWASH"
TO PLACATE CONGRESS. INSTEAD, IT IS SAID HAK IS NOW
PLANNING NEGOTIATIONS IN TURKEY WHICH WOULD HAVE UNDER-
TAKEN IF CONGRESS HAD NOT MOVED DIRECTLY INTO CYPRUS
ISSUE... HAK IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN "IN DETAILED CONTACT"
WITH GREEK GOVT ABOUT HIS TRIP.

3. WASHSTAR NEWS P.1, ROWE O'LEARY -- BANNER HEADLINE FOR US REVEALS WORLD FOOD PLAN - SUBTITLE UNDERLINED KISSINGER HURLS CHALLENGE TO ALL NATIONS. (NO PIC)

HAK TODAY CALLED ON NATIONS OF WORLD TO JOIN IN
ESTABLISHING AN INT'L FOOD RESERVE SYSTEM WHICH COMMITTS
THE US TO A RADICAL DEPARTURE FROM ITS TRADITIONAL METHOD
OF PERMITTING FREE MARKETS TO REGULATE FOOD SUPPLIES AND
PRICES. HE ALSO LINKED ENERGY CRISIS WITH FOOD CRISIS
DECLARING THAT THE OIL EXPORTING COUNTRIES HAVE A
"SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY" AND CALLED ON THE NEW FINANCIAL
POWERS TO JOIN WITH FOOD EXPORTING NATIONS TO MAKE A MAJOR
EFFORT TO PROVIDE THE FOOD AND FUNDS TO ELIMINATE STARVA-
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HAK MADE HIS PROPOSALS WHICH SENIOR OFFICIALS SATD"WERE FAIRLY REVOLUTIONARY " IN PREPARED SPEECH AT WFC.

HAK'S PROPOSALS IT WAS UNDERSTOOD WERE CLEARED WITH PREZ FORD AND REPRESENT OFFICIAL US POLICY DESPITE PRIOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HAK AND BUTZ. THE PROPOSALS WOULD GIVE THE STATE DEPT A GREATER ROLE THAN EVER BEFORE IN AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS.

A SR. OFFICIAL, NOTING THAT SOV UNION AND COMMUNIST BLOC NOW USE FREE MARKET, SAID THAT IF COMM NATIONS DO NOT JOIN RESERVE SYSTEM, PRIORITIES WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHICH DO JOIN. ADMITTEDLY, THE HAK PROPOSALS WILL LAY A HEAVY WEIGHT ON US TAXPAYER IN SHORT RUN BUT IN LONG TERM WILL PROBABLY HELP AMERICAN FARMERS WITH PRICES IN A MASS FOOD PRODUCTION.

HAK CLEARLY EXPECTS CONGRESS TO SUPPORT HIS PROPOSALS ON A NON-PARTISAN BASIS. US OFFICIALS EXPECT A FAVORABLE

REACTION FROM INDUSTRIAL NATIONS, THE DEVELOPING NATIONS WHICH SUFFER GREATLY FROM UNBRIDLED INFLATION AND TRADITIONAL FOOD-EXPORTING COUNTRIES...

4. BOSTGLOBE - JHABVALA - ROWE - P.2(2-CCL PIC HAK ARRIVES ROWE)

US & TURKEY ARE CLOSE TO AGREEMENT ON FORMULA THAT COULD LEAD TO REOPENING GREEK/TURKEY TALKS TOWARD PEACE SETTLEMENT ON CYPRUS, A RELIABLE YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL SAID. AGREEMENT WOULD INCLUDE SOME WITHDRAWAL OF TURKISH FORCES AND A PULL-BACK FROM ITS FRONT-LINE POSITIONS IN CERTAIN NORTHERN SECTORS OF CYPRUS. OFFICIAL ADMITTED NOT AWARE OF DETAILS BUT WAS CONFIDENT TALKS BETWEEN MACOMBER AND ECEVIT HAD PROGRESSED WELL. HE SAID THAT WHILE PROPOSAL IS NOT LIKELY TO MEET ALL DEVIANTS OF GREECE AND GREEK-CYPRIOT LEADERSHIP, IT WOULD TRIGGER RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF IN SEPTEMBER FOLLOWING SECOND WAVE OF TURKEY'S INVASION. OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE IS POINT THAT ANY SIGN OF PROGRESS TOWARD NEGOTIATIONS WOULD EASE CONGRESSIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON FORD AND PROVIDING MILITARY AID TO TURKEY.

5. NEWTON - GWERTZMAN P.2 - HAK SEEKING TO PREVENT MILITARY ACTION

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AID CUTOFF TO TURKEY ANNOUNCED HE WOULD WIND UP TOUR WITH TURKISH OFFICIALS IN ANKARA. NEWSWEN WERE LED TO BELIEVE THAT PURPOSE WAS TO DISCUSS WITH ECEVIT HOW TO GET NEGOTIATIONS STARTED WITH GREECE AND GREEK & TURKISH CYPRIOTES. THERE ARE NO PLANS FOR HAK TO STOP IN ATHENS BECAUSE GK OFFICIALS WOULD PREFER TO KEEP POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS OUT OF ELECTIONS SET FOR NOV. 17.

WE APPARENTLY FIGURED PROMINENTLY IN HAK'S DISCUSSIONS WITH TITO. SPEAKING TO NEWSWEN AFTER MEETING, HAK APPEAL-ED TO ARABS & ISRAELIS TO MAKE CONCESSIONS TO AVERT STALEMATE.

6. BALTSUYN - WILLS. P.1 (3COLUMN PIC HAK & MORO AIRPORT ARRIVAL): HAK ANNOUNCED HE WILL GO TO ANKARA TO FIND A WAY AROUND IMPASSE IN NEGOTIATIONS OVER CYPRUS. TITO IN A STATEMENT TO NEWSWEN OFFER AN UNEXPECTEDLY HEARTY ENDORSEMENT TO HAK'S PERSONAL PEACE EFFORTS IN ME.

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WIRES

AP -- SCHWEID EARLY LEAD FROM BELGRADE IS TRIP TO ME AND TURKEY, SAYING VISIT TO TURKEY IS TO CALM FEARS OF TURKS IN LIGHT OF AID CUTOFF AND TO INSURE CONTINUED TURK COOPERATION IN THE EASTERN MED. TOPPER QUOTES HAK AND TITO AFTER THEIR MEETING, SAYING ME PARTIES "MUST MAKE AN EFFORT TO ERING THEIR POSITION CLOSER" (HAK) AND "MUCH DEPENDS ON THE US WHICH SO FAR HAS HAD A MAIN INFLUENCE." (TITO) HAK QUOTED ON POSSIBILITY OF PREVENTING A STALEMATE.

UPI -- LEAD FROM BELGRADE IS ANNOUNCEMENT OF TURKISH VISIT. TOPPER QUOTES HAK AND TITO ROUGHLY. SAME AS AP.

ALL PAPERS LEAD WITH ANNOUNCED TRIP TO ME CAPITALS.

WT -- GWERTZMAN FROM BUCHAREST IN LEAD STORY SAYS NEWS MEN WERE CAUTIONED AS TO LIMITED POSSIBILITIES OF THE TRIP, WHICH IS MAINLY TO SEE WHERE THINGS STAND IN EACH CAPITAL. EGYPT AND JORDAN MAY HAVE FLEXIBILITY TO NEGOTIATE, WITHIN

RABAT DECISION. TALKS WITH CEAUSESCU CENTERED ON ME AND TRADE QUESTIONS, AS ROMANIA WANTS LOWER TARIFFS.

WASHPOST -- MARDER IN OFF LEAD TELLS OF TRIP TO ME, SAYS HAK WILL TALK WITH LEADERS TO DETERMINE THE DAMAGE DONE TO HIS PEACEMAKING EFFORTS. AMERICANS CONCEDE POSSIBILITY OF IMPASSE, LEADING TO ANOTHER ME WAR, WITH RISKS OF DANGER TO DETENTE, THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE, AND THE FLOW OF OIL.

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UNCERTAINTY RE AMOUNT OF FLEXIBILITY IN NEXT STEPS TO TAKE. IF ARABS ARE EXTREME, THEN STALEMATE WILL FOLLOW, BECAUSE US WILL NOT BEG ARABS TO NEGOTIATE. NO SPECIFICS EXPECTED FROM THIS TRIP, JUST CONSULTATIONS. CAUSESCU CITES FAVORING GENEVA FORUM, BUT US IS OPPOSED FOR FEAR OF STALEMATE THERE. (LARGE PHOTO OF HAK AND CAUSESCU WITH ADD-ON ON PAGE 9).

BALTSUN -- MILLS ON PAGE 1 SAYS TRIP TO ME IS "TO GET A FIRST-HAND ASSESSMENT FROM THE VARIOUS PARTIES ABOUT THE EFFECT OF THE RECENT ARAB SUMMIT." SAYS THIS TRIP WAS "A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY," BUT FINAL DECISION WASN'T MADE UNTIL HAK WAS SURE THERE WAS ENOUGH FLEXIBILITY FOR SOME HOPE. TALKS WITH LEADERS WILL SHOW HOW CLOSELY THEY FOLLOW RABAT DECISION, BUT TRIP WILL NOT PRODUCE DRAMATIC BREAKTHROUGH. VISITS TO BUCHAREST AND BELGRADE EMPHASIZE THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM MOSCOW. ROMANIA WANTS MORE FAVORABLE TRADE, SO IT MIGHT RELAX VISA REGULATIONS AS SOVIETS DID. (SAME PHOTO AS POST.)

NYDAILY NEWS -- CARTER ON PAGE 6 TELLS OF COMING TRIP TO ME CAPITALS "TO FIND OUT WHETHER FURTHER PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE WAS POSSIBLE" AFTER RABAT DECISION. ON PREVIOUS TRIP, HAK WAS TOLD ARABS COULD NOT DECIDE ON THE NEXT STEP UNTIL AFTER RABAT.

WASH STAR-NEWS -- O'LEARY HAS SECOND LEAD ON PAGE 1 WITH ME AND TURKISH STOPS ADDED TO TRIP, RETURNING TO DC ON SATURDAY. SHUTTLE NEGOTIATIONS DISCOUNTED, AS "IT IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO DISCOVER WHAT THE ARAB LEADERS ... THINK OF THE RABAT DECISION." THE ISRAELI POSITION IS ALREADY KNOWN RE THE PLO. LOOKING AHEAD, SECURITY PRECAUTIONS IN ROME ARE LISTED, AS WELL AS TOPICS FOR TALKS WITH CAUSESC AND TITO, SAME AS REPORTED ABOVE. (SAME PHOTO.)

IN ANOTHER PIECE, O'LEARY FROM BUCHAREST SAYS HAK MAKING NO EFFORT TO BRING OIL PRICES DOWN DURING THE CURRENT TRIP. TALKS WITH PRODUCERS WILL NOT LEAD TO REDUCTIONS IN PRICE UNTIL UNITY AMONG CONSUMERS IS REACHED. THE SHAW CAN GET FAISAL TO RAISE PRICES, BUT NOT TO LOWER THEM,

SINCE IRAN IS NOT AN ARAB STATE. IRAN WANTS TO CONSERVE ITS OIL RESOURCES, AND FAISAL AND THE SHAW PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK TOGETHER. FAISAL NEEDS RADICAL ARAB, E.G. BOUMEDIENNE, AS BACKING BEFORE HE MOVES ON OIL PRICING. THEREFORE US HAS MADE NO DIRECT PUSH TO LOWER PRICES, SINCE UNITY IS LACKING ON BOTH SIDES. VIENNA MEETING OF OPEC WILL NOT REDUCE PRICES IN AMERICAN MARKET. SHAW'S PLEASANT WORDS WERE UNREALISTIC IN LIGHT OF OIL REALITIES.

NOTE: GLOBE AND HEARST NOT AVAILABLE.

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NO. 30

1. WIRES: AP AND UPI AFTERNOON LEADS EX ROME. AP LEADS EXTREMISTS BOMBED OFFICE OF ROME DAILY AMERICAN A FEW HOURS BEFORE ARRIVAL HAK. MAJOR FOCUS IS ON SECURITY PRECAUTIONS AND STATE OF PROTESTS: SCANT MENTION OF WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE. UPI LEADS WITH HAK'S OBJECTIVE TO KEYNOTE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE ON HOW TO FEED THE WORLD. MAJOR BACKUP TO STORY IS ON SECURITY SITUATION IN ROME.

2. ABC, HOWARD SMITH (NO KOPPEL). SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER HAS BEEN TO EIGHT COUNTRIES AND TODAY HE ARRIVED AT THE NINTH, ITALY. THERE WERE RIVAL DEMONSTRATIONS FOR AND AGAINST KISSINGER IN ROME WHERE HE WILL MEET WITH POPE PAUL AND ITALIAN PRESIDENT LEONE AS WELL AS TO ADDRESS THE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE TOMORROW. THEN IT'S ON TO THE MIDDLE EAST FOR KISSINGER WHERE HE HAS STOPS SCHEDULED IN FIVE COUNTRIES TO BE FOLLOWED BY A VISIT TO TURKEY THIS WEEKEND TO DISCUSS THE CYPRUS QUESTION.

COMMENTARY - HOWARD K. SMITH. TOMORROW. IS A DAY OF ELECTIONS BUT IT IS ALSO THE OPENING OF THE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE, WHICH MAY BE MORE IMPORTANT. THE GENERAL SHAPE OF THE ELECTIONS IS IMPORTANT AND SO IS THE FOOD CONFERENCE. A GOOD MAJORITY OF THE 135 NATIONS WILL SCOLD THE U.S. FOR BEING FAT AND RICH AND NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR THE POOR. BUT BEFORE THE BLOWS START FALLING IT SHOULD BE SAID THEY

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WILL BE HITTING THE WRONG TARGET. WE CAN DO A FEW MORE THINGS LIKE STOP FERTILIZING OUR LAWS AND SENDING THE FERTILIZER TO THOSE WHO NEED IT FOR CROPS, BUT THE FACT IS THAT THE U.S. NOW FEEDS IN ADDITION TO OUR OWN PEOPLE NEARLY A QUARTER OF THE REST OF THE WORLD. WE ARE NEAR OUR LIMIT. THE SOLUTION UNFORTUNATELY LAYS IN THE POOR COUNTRIES THEMSELVES. THERE IS ENOUGH FERTILE SOIL IN THE WORLD TO FEED THE WORLD. IF IT WERE INTENSIVELY USED, AS IT IS NOT, THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEM. THE NEW OIL RICH COUNTRIES COULD USE THE MONEY THEY ARE NOW DROWNING IN TO HELP THE POOR LANDS WITH FUEL FOR INTENSIFIED MECHANIZED CULTIVATION. BUT THE MAIN PROBLEM IS NOT THE QUANTITY OF FOOD, IT IS BAD DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD. IT IS NOT KNOWN VERY WELL THAT LAST YEAR THERE WAS ENOUGH FOOD ALLOCATED TO FEED STARVING AFRICA, BUT LOCAL PROFITEERING AND INEFFICIENCY FAILED TO GET IT TO WHERE IT WAS NEEDED. AND OF COURSE THERE IS THE QUESTION OF POPULATION. THE POOR COUNTRIES ARE ADDING ONE AND A HALF MILLION NEW MOUTHS TO FEED TO THE WORLD EACH WEEK. WE CAN DO VERY LITTLE ABOUT THAT; THEY HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO DO IT. SO THE HARD TRUTH ABOUT THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS IS THE U.S. CAN AT BEST PRODUCE ONE-TENTH OF THE SOLUTION. NINETY PERCENT OF THE SOLUTION DEPENDS ON THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THEMSELVES.

3. NBC - CHANCELLOR. (NO VALERIANI) SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER ARRIVED IN ROME TODAY. HE WILL ADDRESS THE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE THERE TOMORROW AND THEN HE WILL FLY ON TO THE MIDDLE EAST ON A NEW PEACE MISSION. THAT MISSION WAS COMPLICATED BY THE ARAB DECISION IN RABAT LAST WEEK TO TURN OVER ANY WEST BANK TERRITORY GIVEN UP BY ISREL TO THE PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT, THE ARAB GUERRILLAS. CHANCELLOR THEN COVERED THE PROTESTS IN NEW YORK AGAINST THE DECISION TO ALLOW REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PLO ATTEND THE UNITED NATIONS DEBATE ON THE PALESTINE ISSUE. JACKSON WAS FEATURED PROMINENTLY IN THIS COVERAGE.

4. CBS - CRONKITE, (NO KALB). SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER'S ITINERARY TOOK HIM TO ROME TODAY WHERE HIS ARRIVAL WAS GREETED WITH UNUSUALLY HEAVY SECURITY BECAUSE OF THE BOMBING OF THE ROME DAILY AMERICAN NEWSPAPER, THE THIRD ANTI-AMERICAN BOMBING IN AS MANY DAYS. DAMAGE WAS FAIRLY HEAVY, BUT THERE WERE NO INJURIES. KISSINGER IS IN ROME FOR TOMORROW'S ADDRESS TO THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE WHICH IS BEING HELD AT HIS SUGGESTION. REPRESENTATIVES FROM MORE THAN A HUNDRED COUNTRIES WILL

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WRESTLE WITH THE PROBLEM OF MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE WHO FACE STARVATION EVERY DAY. A PANEL OF ECONOMISTS AND FOOD EXPERTS, PREPARING FOR THE CONFERENCE SUGGESTED TODAY THAT AMERICANS AND OTHER AFFLUENT PEOPLE EAT LESS OR FACE A CONFRONTATION WITH THE STARVING. ALSO IN ROME, AGRICULTURE SECRETARY EARL BUTZ CALLED ON THE SOVIET UNION AND THE OIL PRODUCING ARAB COUNTRIES TO DO THEIR SHARE IN PROVIDING ADEQUATE FOOD RESERVES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. HE SAID THE U.S. AND CANADA NO LONGER CAN CARRY THE ENTIRE BURDEN. CBS THEN LAUNCHED INTO A SERIES OF REPORTS ON THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS, WITH THE FIRST FROM MURRAY FROMSON IN BANGLADESH.

5. CBS/RADIO - KALB FROM ROME. SECRETARY KISSINGER NOW FEELS HE CAN ISOLATE AN EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATION OVER FURTHER SINAI WITHDRAWALS WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE TO NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE WEST BANK OF THE JORDAN RIVER.

CONCERNING CYPRUS, IT IS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE SECRETARY WILL VISIT TURKEY ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. IT NOW SEEMS CLEAR THAT THE SECRETARY WOULD NOT BE GOING THERE UNLESS HE FELT HE HAD TURKEY'S AGREEMENT TO WITHDRAW SOME OF ITS TROOPS FROM CYPRUS. SUCH A WITHDRAWAL AND FINALLY NEGOTIATION WILL GET THE SECRETARY OFF THE HOOK WITH CONGRESS WHICH HAS VOTED TO CUT OFF ALL MILITARY AID TO TURKEY BY DECEMBER 10 UNLESS THERE IS A WITHDRAWAL. THE TWO TOPICS ARE LINKED IN THE SECRETARY'S MIND BECAUSE HE FEELS IF ANOTHER WAR BREAKS OUT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THE U.S., HE FEELS, WILL NEED TURKEY. INGERSOLL

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FOLLOWING IS A REPORT OF FOREIGN MEDIA REACTION AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 1974, PREPARED BY USIA.

SUMMARY

FOREIGN MEDIA FOLLOWING SECRETARY KISSINGER'S VISITS TO SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES EMPHASIZED THE U.S. FOOD AID PROGRAM AND SPECULATED ON U.S. OPTIONS IN AN ALTERED MIDDLE EAST SITUATION.

ROME'S IL POPOLO SAID MR. KISSINGER HAD "PROVIDED A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF POLICY THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD FOLLOW. WHEN WE

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PROHIBITED THE MAXIMUM OF AVAILABLE AMERICAN FOOD STUFFS, A POLICY BASED ON MORAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE NEEDS OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES."

THE LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES SAID THE SOVIET POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST WAS "NOW STRONGER THAN IT WAS IN MR. NIXON'S TIME" BECAUSE OF USR SUPPLY OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO SYRIA AND "THE EMERGENCY AT RABAT OF THE PALESTINIANS AS A MAJOR NEGOTIATING FORCE..."

ROME: ITALIAN MEDIA PROMINENTLY TREATED THE SECRETARY'S MISSION. PAPERS

EMPHASIZED FAVORABLE RESULTS OF THE INDIAN AND PAKISTAN VISITS, FOCUSING ON THE U.S. FOOD AID PROGRAM FOR FAMINE-STRICKEN COUNTRIES.

STATE-CONTROLLED ITALIAN RADIO AND TV COVERED THE PAKISTAN VISIT. FRIDAY MORNING RADIO SAID THE SECRETARY'S "CAUTION CAN BE EXPLAINED BY THE PRECARIOUS RELATIONS BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND INDIA."

SOCIALIST PARTY ADVANTAGE OF ROME THOUGHT "THIS NEW EQUIDISTANT POSITION OF THE U.S. BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN MAY CAUSE PAKISTAN TO FEEL SET ASIDE BY THE AMERICANS AND LEAD IT TO TAKE ACTIONS NOT TO KISSINGER'S SLIKING."

THE FOREIGN NEWS EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S IL POPOLO OF ROME WROTE UNDER THE SUBHEAD, "TEHRAN REAL KEY OF TRIP" THAT "KISSINGER IS STUDYING A NEW SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIPS BASED

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ON BASIC ENERGY AND FINANCIAL NEEDS AND ON IRAN'S CRUCIAL POSITION
IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY DESIGN. IN INDIA KISSINGER HAS GIVEN PROOF
OF THE DIFFERENT SORT OF POLICY FOLLOWED BY THE U.S. ON MATTERS OF
FOOD IN WHICH HALF OF THE WORLD IS DEPENDENT ON THE U.S. WE PROVIDED
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF POLICY TO BE FOLLOWED WHEN WE PROMISED
THE MAXIMUM OF AVAILABLE AMERICAN FOOD STUFFS -- A POLICY BASED
ON MORAL CONSIDERATIONS..." OF THE NEEDS OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES."
A CORRESPONDENT FOR INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE CORRIERE DELLA SERA
OF MILAN WROTE THAT IN HIS WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE SPEECH THE
SECRETARY WOULD "OUTLINE A STRATEGY TO FIGHT FAMINE AND WILL
PROBABLY ANNOUNCE A PROPOSAL FOR A GRAIN BANK... SOME SEE THIS AS
AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE AN INSTRUMENT THAT WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE CONTROLLED
BY THE U.S. DESPITE THE PARTICIPATION OF THE OTHER SUPERPOWERS.
OTHERS BELIEVE SUCH A BANK INDISPENSABLE IF WE ARE TO PREVENT MASS
CATASTROPHE IN FUTURE MONTHS OR YEARS." CENTER-LEFT LA SAAMPA
OF TURKEY'S FOREIGN EDITOR REMARKED ON THE MIDDLE EAST THAT THE
"SECRETARY WILL TRY TO AVOID THE MOST DRAMATIC AND APPARENTLY
INSOLUBLE KNOTS OF CONTROVERSY AND WILL CONTINUE WITH HIS GRADUAL
APPROACH, BUT THIS WILL NOT BE EASY. KISSINGER WILL FIND IN THE MIDDLE
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FOR MEDIA.

LONDON: BRITISH MEDIA REPORTED SECRETARY KISSINGER'S PROGRESS THROUGH THE SUBCONTINENT, BUT COMMENT FOCUSED LESS ON THE TRIP ITSELF AND MORE ON BROADER ISSUES BACKGROUNDING THE SECRETARY'S MOVES

THE INDEPENDENT LONDON WEEKLY ECONOMIST, OUT TODAY, SAW LITTLE
RESULT FROM MR. KISSINGER'S MOSCOW VISIT BEDES ARRANGING THE FORD-
BREZHNEV MEETING, BUT IT SAID THIS FACT "MAY BE INTERPRETED,
CONSIDERLY, AS REFLECTING THE SOVIET LEADER'S QUITE NATURAL WISH
TO MEET THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT BEFORE COMMITTING HIMSELF."
IT ADDED, HOWEVER, THAT "THERE IS STILL NO EVIDENCE THAT MR. K
KISSINGER'S LATEST FORMULATIONS HAVE BRUGHT THE TWO SUPERPOWERS
ANY CLOSER TO A NEW AGREEMENT ON STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION."

IN AN EDITORIAL, THE ECONOMIST DECLARED THAT "IF THE WORLD
DROWNS IT WILL NOT BE BECAUSE OF ITS INABILITY TO ADJUST TO ORTHODOX
ECONOMIC CRISES... IT WILL BE BECAUSE A RAIN OF PETROMONEY HAS WASHED
AWAY THE VERY FINANCIAL MECHANISMS BY WHICH SUCH THINGS AS
UNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION CAN BE CURED." IT SAID THE HOPE THAT THOSE
WHO CAUSE SUCH AN INUNDATION "WILL SEE THAT THEIR OWN INTERESTS
ARE IMPERILED WHEN GENERAL SABILITÉ... HAS LED BOTH MR. HENRY

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KISSINGER AND PRESIDENT GISCARD D'ESTAING... TO CALL, UNFORTUNATELY AT DIFFERENT MOMENTS, FOR A CONFERENCE... NOT ONE IN WHICH BLOCKS OF NATIONS WOULD BE RANGED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, BUT ONE ATTENDED BY ALL THOSE OF THE WORLD'S MAJOR POWERS (A TERM THAT NOW INCLUDES THE ARABS AND IRAN) WHO SHARE THE INSTINCT TO SURVIVE."

THE ECONOMIST ALSO CARRIED AN ARTICLE BY BARBARA WARD HOPING THAT THE WEALTHY NATIONS, "WITH MORE GENEROUS LEADERSHIP... WILL... USE THEIR WORTH WITH COMPASSIONATE INTELLIGENCE. BUT AS THE CONFERENCE

IN ROME OPENS, IT IS NOT ENTIRELY EASY TO DISMISS THE DARK PROPHECY MADE A FEW YEARS AGO BY LORD SNOW--THAT MEGADEATHS IN STARVING LANDS, WATCHED ON AFFLUENT PEOPLE'S TELEVISION SCREENS, COULD MARK THE END OF ANY MORAL COMMUNITY FOR MAN."

THE INDEPENDENT LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES JUDGED THE SOVIET POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST "NOW STRONGER THAN IT WAS IN MR. NIKON'S TIME." IT ARGUED THAT "THE EGYPTIANS HAVE NOT GAINED MILITARILY FROM THE U.S. BY SCORNING SOVIET MILITARY AID, WHILE THE SYRIANS WHO STUCK BY MOSCOW HAVE BEEN RECEIVING MIGS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT."

THE PAPER NOTED "THE EMERGENCY AT RABAT OF THE PALESTINIANS AS A MAJOR NEGOTIATING FORCE, SOMETHING THE RUSSIANS HAVE CONSISTENTLY

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ARRIVED FOR," AND "A GREATER URGENCY IN THE RUSSIAN DESIRE FOR WESTERN EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, AND THEIR WILLINGNESS... TO MAKE CONCESSIONS TO OBTAIN IT."

THE PAPER COCLUDED, "IT MAY TURN OUT THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE NOT CONCEDED ANYTHING THEY CANNOT TKE BACK IN ANOTHER WAY...(BUT) THEY ARE AFTER ALL IN THE THROES OF PREPARING BOTH THE NEXT FIVE YEAR PLAN AND A NEW LONG-TERM PLAN TO 1990, AND THEY MUST KNOW WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS EXACTLY WHAT THEIR RESOURCES WILL BE."

WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT RICHARD BEESTON OF THE CONSERVATIVE DAILY TELEGRAPH WROTE FRIDAY THAT "THE DANGERS OF A NEW WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE FELT IN WASHINGTON TO HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED FOLLOWING THE DECISIONS OF THE ARAB SUMMIT... IF ISRAEL IS FORCED TO FACE THE STARK CHOICE OF ACCEPTING A PLO STATE... OFFICIALS HERE BELIEVE THERE WOULD BE A STRONG LIKELIHOOD THAT THE ISRAELIS WOULD DECIDE ON A PRE-EMPTIVE MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST SYRIA AND EGYPT... ACCORDING TO SENIOR PENTAGON OFFICIALS... AMERICA WOULD HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO BACK ISRAEL..."

"TWO PAPERS CARRIED MOSCOW REPORTS ON THE SHAH'S CONCERN ABOUT THE CIA: THE DAILY MAIL CORRESPONDENT WROTE, "REPORTS FROM RUSSIA SAY THAT TO DETER ANY POSSIBLE AMERICAN PLOT, THE SHAH HAS ASKED TO GO BT

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MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1974

FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PAS

NO. 25.

SUMMARY: WIRKS REPORT SECRETARY'S ARRIVAL IN TEHRAN FOR CRUCIAL OIL TALKS WITH SHAH AFTER BRIEF STOPOVER KABUL. LIGHT COVERAGE WRAP-UP BANGLADESH & PAKISTAN VISITS.

1. AP REPORTS HAK'S CAMPAIGN TO GET PRICE OF OIL REDUCED IS IN FOR ANOTHER SETBACK FROM THE SHAH...ALI BASTANI SAID KISSINGER'S ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF LOWER PRICE WILL QUOTE DEFINETELY FAIL END QUOTE UNLESS HP AGREES TO SHAH'S FORMULA. BOMBS WENT OFF NEAR SOVIET AND UK EMBASSIES IN TEHRAN DAMAGING WAREHOUSES BUT NO CASUALTIES. ANONYMOUS TELEPHONE CALLER SAID MARXIST GUERRILLAS SET THEM OFF TO PROTEST KISSINGER VISIT.

2. UPI REPORTS HAK STOPPED BRIEFLY IN KABUL; HELD TALKS W/ PREZ DAOUD. TALKS EXPECTED TO SOLSTER INDEPENDENCE OF AFGHANISTAN. HAK THEN FLEW TO TEHRAN. HAK & FORD HAVE URGED OIL PRODUCING STATES TO ROLL BACK PRICES BUT HAVE MET STRONG OPPOSITION. FAISAL PROMISED SOME SLIGHT CUTS BUT SHAH HAS BEEN ADAMANT.

3. CBS RADIO -- KALB FROM KABUL -- HAK FLEW INTO AFGHANISTAN AND CONFERRED WITH PM DAOUD ABOUT GENERAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS IN THIS AREA. IN PAKISTAN, HAK TURNED DOWN BHUTTO'S APPEAL FOR A NEW PROGRAM OF AMERICAN ARMS ...BUT HE DID JOIN THE PM IN APPEALING FOR STRICT CONTROLS OVER ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

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4. NYT - GWERTZMAN PAGE 3 - RAWALPINDI - HAK ASSURED BHUTTO THAT THE US WOULD CONTINUE TO BACK QUOTE THE SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF A STRONG, SECURE AND PROSPEROUS PAKISTAN. END QUOTE. HAK CONVEYED MESSAGE FROM FORD TO BHUTTO. IT STRESSED THAT AMERICAN COMMITMENT TO PAKISTAN QUOTE WOULD REMAIN AN IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY END QUOTE. IN TOAST AT DINNER BHUTTO SAID HE WAS QUOTE SATISFIED END QUOTE. / RESULTS OF TALKS WITH HAK. IT SEEMED EVIDENT HOWEVER THAT QUESTION OF ARMS HAD NOT BEEN RESOLVED. AN AMERICAN SPOKESMAN SAID SUBJECT HAD ONLY BEEN TOUCHED UPON. BHUTTO SAID QUOTE WHEN I SAY I'M SATISFIED, WELL THEN THAT'S ENOUGH AND WHY SHOULD WE EXPECT RESULTS INSTANTANEOUSLY? RESULTS DON'T COME INSTANTANEOUSLY. WE ARE NOT GOING TO A CAFETERIA TO ORDER A HAMBURGER. END QUOTE. COMMUNIQUE SAID US WOULD FURNISH PAKISTAN WITH ABOUT ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND TONS OF WHEAT AT LONG-TERM, LOW-INTEREST CREDIT AND WOULD GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.

5. BALTSUN -- MILLS PAGE 1 - RAWALPINDI -- HAK REASSURED PAKISTANI OFFICIALS THAT NEW WARSHIP IN INDO-AMERICAN RELATIONS WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH AMERICA'S CLOSE TIES TO PAKISTAN. HAK CONSIDERED HIS ONE-DAY STOP HERE DIPLOMATICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY OBLIGATORY FOLLOWING VISITS TO INDIA & BANGLADESH. NO INDICATION THAT HAK'S 3 HOUR TALKS ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF CLOSE TIES. SPOKESMAN SAID TWO LEADERS TOUCHED ONLY "INCIDENTALLY" ON SUBJECT OF INCREASED ARMS TO PAK.

6. WASHPOST - ISLAMABAD - NEWS DISTCHUTES PAGE 19 - HAK PUT OFF A FINAL DECISION ON PAK'S REQUEST FOR NEW SHIPMENT ARMS BUT BHUTTO DECLARED HIMSELF QUOTE VERY HAPPY END QUOTE AFTER TALKS. JT STATEMENT ANNOUNCED US WOULD SUPPLY PAK WITH ABOUT 100,000 TONS SURPLUS WHEAT. STATEMENT ALSO SAID WOULD GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO PAK'S ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS END QUOTE. SPOKESMAN ANDERSON SAID PAKS REQUEST FOR MISSILES, ADVANCED AIRCRAFT & TANKS HAD ARISEN QUOTE ONLY TANGENTALLY END QUOTE IN TALKS. DIP OBSERVERS SAID REFERENCE TO QUOTE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION END QUOTE WAS AN INDICATION THAT US HAS NOT ENTIRELY CLOSED DOOR TO SHIPMENTS OF SPARE PARTS AND POSSIBLY WEAPONS THAT

IT FEELS WOULD NOT SPARK AN ARMS RACE ON INDIAN SUBCONTINENT.

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KISSINGER DISCUSSES OIL AND THE MIDEAST WITH THE SHAH (1,300)

BY MARIE KONIG

IPS DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

TEHRAN, NOV. 1--SECRETARY OF ENKARMVJEV'S NMXBZENBWGMKGQIV STATE KISSINGER HAS

COME TO IRAN TO DISCUSS THE MIDDLE EAST, THE INDIAN

OCEAN AND OIL PRICES WITH THE SHAH,
MOHAMMAD REZA

PAHLAVI.

ARRIVING IN TEHRAN NOVEMBER 1 AFTER STOPS IN
MOSCOW, NEW DELHI, DACCA, ISLAMABAD AND KABUL, DR.

KISSINGER WILL ALSO TALK WITH THE SHAH
ABOUT THE

INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.

IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT WHILE DR. KISSINGER WILL
DISCUSS THE OIL SITUATION WITH THE SHAH, HE DOES NOT
EXPECT TO TALK TO THE IRANIAN LEADER ABOUT ANY
SPECIFIC REDUCTIONS IN OIL PRICES.

OIL PRICES WILL NEVER COME DOWN, IN THE U.S.
VIEW, IF THERE IS NOT SOME UNITY AMONG THE CONSUMING
NATIONS.

IT IS SAID THAT DR. KISSINGER RECOGNIZES THAT THE
SHAH IS AN EXPERT ON THE ECONOMICS OF OIL AND WILL
DISCUSS WITH HIM THE OVERALL WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION
IN WHICH IRAN IS ALSO INVOLVED.

DRPM KISSINGER BELIEVES THE SHAH IS ALSO A
SOPHISTICATED OBSERVER OF THE ARAB-ISRELI SITUATION.

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AS SECRETARY KISSINGER ARRIVED IN TEHRAN
IT BECAME

CLEAR THAT THE UNITED STATES--CONTRAY TO SOME
PRESS SPECULATION -- IS NOT NOW UNDERTAKING A
REVIEW OF ITS MIDDLE EAST POLICY IN THE WAKE OF THE
RECENT ARAB SUMMIT DECLARATION AT RABAT AUTHORIZING THE
PALESTINIAN LIAR NBMN ORGANIZATION (PLO) TO ESTABLISH A
PALESTINIAN STATE ON ANY LAND FROM WHICH ISRAELI FORCES MIGHT
WITHDRAW ON THE WEST BANK OF THE JORDAN RIVER.

IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WILL BE NO U.S.
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION UNTIL DR. KISSINGER GOES TO THE MIDDLE
EAST -- POSSIBLY AT THE END OF HIS CURRENT TRIP ABROAD -- OR
FAILING TO DO THAT, RETURNS HOME AND CAREFULLY LOOKS
OVER THE SITUATION.

THE AMERICAN VIEW, ALSO, IS THAT THE ARABS
MUST NOT REFLECT ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OCTOBER
22 SUMMIT DECLARATION IN RELATION TO FURTHER STAGE-BY-STAGE
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE ISRAELIS WHO REPEATEDLY STATED THEY
WILL NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THE PLO.

THE KISSINGER DOES NOT YET HAVE A CLEAR
PICTURE OF WHAT THE ARABS LEADERS HAVE IWND AFTAV OR
WHAT IS POSSIBLE TO SALVAGE A SITUATION THAT HAS BEEN
MADE MORE COMPLEX.

THE RABAT DELCARATION DOES NOT FORCE HIM TO
MAKE A CHOICE AT THIS TIME OF GETTING PERSONALLY INVOLVED
WITH THE PLO OR OF ACCEPTING THE VIEW THAT FURTHER ARAB-ISRAELI
NEGOTIATIONS MUST NOW BE HELD AT GENEVA.

NIDUWKISSINGER IRAN

IT IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE THE AMERICAN CONSIDERATION
THAT THERE IS NO LAW OF NATURE THAT SAYS DR.
KISSINGER OR THE UNITED STATES MUST BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE
MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATIONS.

BUT IT IS ALSO THE AMERICAN VIEW THAT THE UNITED

STATES, WHICH HAS TWJCLE IN PEACE
EFFORTS, SHOULD NOT BECOME PARALYZED
COMMUNIQUE.

PARALYZED by The Rabat

EVERY STEP OF PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE --
SPECIFICALLY THE ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN AND THE ISRAELI-SYRIAN
DISENGAGEMENT ACCORDS -- IS THE RESULT OF U.S. EFFORTS
ALSO. NO OTHER SUBSTITUTE HAS BEEN PRODUCED FOR
THAT STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO PEAV.

THE UNITED STATES SEES NO REASON NOW TO PUSH
THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION. THERE IS STILL AN AMERICAN
BELIEF THAT SOME ARABS BELIEVE THAT WHILE A RHETORICAL
COMPROMISE WITH THE PLO WAS MADE AT RABAT, OPTIONS HAVE BEEN
LEFT OPEN.

IT IS ALSO CLEAR THAT AFTER RABAT, DR. KISSINGER
WILL HAVE TO HOLD FURTHER TALKS WITH THE ISRAELIS
ABOUT THEIR WHOLE PERCEPTION OF THE
SITUATION, COVERING NOT JUST THE NEXT THREE MONTHS BUT THE
NEXT TWO YEARS.

IF DR. KISSINGER GOES SOON TO THE MIDDLE EAST, THE
TRIP WOULD FOLLOW HIS NOVEMBER 5 SPEECH IN ROME TO
THE WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE. BUT IT SHOULD BE
RECOGNIZED THAT HE WILL NOT MEET WITH YASSER ARAFAT, THE PLO
LEADER. IT WOULD NOT BE DR. KISSINGER'S STYLE TO
MEET WITH ARAFAT IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE RABAT CONFERENCE.

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ON THE PRICE OF OIL AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF LOWERING THE
PRICE, THE AMERICAN VIEW, IT IS UNDERSTOOD, ENCOMPASSES
THE FOLLOWING POINTS:

QHH THE SHAK IS NOTWP A DECISIVE POSITION TO BRING
THE PRICE UP OR DOWN. BUT HE CAN CERTAINLY KEEP THE
PRICE FROM GOING DOWN IF HE OPPOSES SUCH A MOVE.

-- SAUDI ARABIA IS MORE THE KEY TO G2348,& OIL
PRICES, AND IRAN CANNOT GIVE THE SAUDIS THE POLITICAL
SUPPORT THEY WOULD NEED TO MAKE SUCH A MOVE. TO DO THAT, SAUDI ARABIA
NEEDS THE SUPPORT OF CERTAIN OTHER ARAB STATES AND, IN THIS RESPECT,
ALGERIAN BACKING IS WORTH MORE THAN IRN'S TO GET THE
PRICES DOWN AS FAR AS SAUDI ARABIA IS CONCERNED.

THE SHAH GENUINELY WANTS TO PUBLISH HIS OWN OIL RESOURCES BECAUSE HE WANTS TO TURN THEM INTO PETRO CHEMICALS. SO HE IS NOT EAGER TO EXHAUST HIS RESERVES.

GOSNIK - THE GENERAL AMERICAN APPROACH TO THE OIL SITUATION IS THAT WASHINGTON HAS NOT YET REALLY MADE A MAJOR MOVE TO GET THE PRICES DOWN EXCEPT THROUGH SPEECHES MADE LAST MONTH BY PRESIDENT FORD AND DR. KISSINGER AND WHATEVER IMPACT THOSE SPEECHES MAY HAVE HAD.

IT IS UNDERSTOOD DR. KISSINGER WILL TALK TO THE SHAH ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST BECAUSE HE CONSIDERS THE SHAH SOPHISTICATED OBSERVER OF THE PROBLEM.

ECONOMIC TALKS WILL ALSO BE HELD WHILE DR. KISSINGER ISINIRAN. ON NOVEMBER 2 THE KISSINGER PARTY GOES TO ISFAHAN AND ON NOVEMBER 3 TO SHIRAZ FOR SIGHTSEEINGS;

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IRAN WAS THE THIRD COUNTRY IN ONE DAY FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER. HE BEGAN NOVEMBER 11 WITH HIS DEPARTURE FROM ISLAMABAD FOLLOWING A DAY-LONG STOPOVER IN PAKISTAN. HE DESCRIBED IT AS "A VERY USEFUL VISIT, AND IT STRENGTHENED THE ALREADY VERY CLOSE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES."

AT MIDDAY HE LANDED IN ABUL FOR A FIVE-HOUR VISIT WITH PAKISTAN OFFICIALS, INCLUDING HEAD OF KREEMIRLIMP STATE AND PRIME MINISTER, MOHAMMAD DAoud, AND MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET.

FOLLOWING THE TALKS, BOTH SIDES ISSUED A JOINT STATEMENT SWINGING THAT THE DISCUSSIONS WERE "frank" AND COVERED A "WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES".

AMONG THE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED, THE STATEMENT CITED "BILATERAL RELATIONS, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEAR EAST AND SOUTH ASIA REGION, PROGRESS IN INTERNATIONAL DETENTE, AND THE MUTUAL INTERESTS OF BOTH NAIONANBWH SECURING A PEACEFUL, STABLE AND COOPERATIVE WORLD".

THE AFGHAN SIDE INFORMED SECRETARY KISSINGER OF ITS VIEWS

AND POSITION ON A NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, INCLUDING
THE SITUATION IN THE REGION, AND THE
SECRETARY INFORMED THE AFGHAN SIDE OF HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH OTHER
GOVERNMENTS IN THE REGION. BOTH SIDES AGREED THAT THE WAY TO
FIND LASTING DURABLE AND PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS TO
EXISTING PROBLEMS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STATES IS
THROUGH CONSTRUCTIVE AND THOROUGH DISCUSSIONS AMONG ALL
SIDES CONCERNED.

BOTH SIDES ALSO STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL
DEVELOPMENT IN STRENGTHENING INTERNATIONAL STABILITY AND PEACE.
THE AFGHAN SIDE EXPRESSED ITS PLEASURE AT THE CONTRIBUTION
TOWARDS THIS END BEING MADE BY THE UNITED STATES IN
AFGHANISTAN THROUGH BILATERAL ECONOMIC,
TECHNICAL, AND EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION. THE SECRETARY,
IN TURN, EXPRESSED THE CONTINUING DESIRE OF THE UNITED
STATES TO COOPERATE WITH THE REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN IN
ACHIEVING ITS ECONOMIC GOALS.

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IN THIS CONNECTION, THE SECRETARY INFORMED THE AFGHAN SIDE
THAT HE WILL ASK A SENIOR OFFICIAL OF THE U.S. AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO VISIT AFGHANISTAN IN THE NEAR
FUTURE TO REVIEW WITH AFGHAN AUTHORITIES JOINT
PROGRAMS AND PROGRESS IN BRINGING PROJECTS TO FRUITION.

AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, JUST PRIOR TO HIS DEPARTURE, THE
SECRETARY ADDRESSED THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN KABUL AND
NATIONAL EMPLOYEES OF THE AMERICAN MISSION.

"WHEN ONE TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD", THE SECRETARY SAID,
"WHEN ONE IS CONSCIOUS OF SO MUCH OF THE DEBATE IN AMERICA,
ABOUT WHERE AMERICA IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING, ONE CAN NEVER FORGET
HOW MUCH DEPENDS ON THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW. WE LIVE IN
A WORLD WHERE ALL THE BASIC PATTERNS WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH ARE
CHANGING, IN WHICH MANY COUNTRIES ARE LOOKING FOR PROGRESS AND
WHERE THE PEACE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS IMPORTANTLY ON WHAT WE DO."
ITEM.

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NO. 27

RADIO

CBS RADIO - KALB - IRAN -- FOR WHATEVER COMBINATION OF REASONS, KISSINGER LEFT REPORTERS WITH THE IMPRESSION THAT OIL PRICES MAY BE STABILIZED AND PERHAPS EVEN GO DOWN AS A RESULT OF HIS TALKS HERE AND AFTER THE NEXT MEETING OF OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES IN DECEMBER. BUT THEN ONE HOUR LATER THE SHAH HELD HIS OWN NEWS CONFERENCE AND HE LEFT REPORTERS WITH A DIFFERENT IMPRESSION - THAT ALTHOUGH IRAN WILL PROPOSE A SLIGHT REDUCTION IN THE POSTED PRICE OF EXPORTED CRUDE OIL, THAT IS TO SAY FROM $11.65 DOWN TO $10.05, THAT DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THE CONSUMER WILL BENEFIT FROM LOWER OIL PRICES. THE SHAH DEFLECTED CRITICISM FROM HIMSELF AND INSTEAD DIRECTED IT AT THE OIL COMPANIES - WHY SHOULD THEY MAKE A TWO DOLLAR PROFIT ON EACH BARREL OF OIL, HE ASKED RHETORICALLY, WHY NOT FIFTY CENTS. ...

2. NBC RADIO - VALERIANI - IRAN - KISSINGER TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE IN TEHRAN THAT AFTER FOUR HOURS OF TALKS WITH THE SHAH LAST NIGHT, THE VIEWS OF IRAN AND THE U.S. ON THE IMPACT OF HIGH OIL PRICES ON THE WORLD'S ECONOMY HAVE COME CLOSER TOGETHER. BUT HE GAVE NO HINT THAT IRAN MIGHT SUPPORT AMERICAN EFFORTS TO PREVENT A PRICE INCREASE AT THE NEXT MEETING OF OPEC IN DECEMBER. THE SHAH HIMSELF IN A SESSION WITH NEWSMEN ACCOMPANYING KISSINGER INDICATED THAT THE PRICE OR OIL WAS ABOUT TO BRING ABOUT A LOWER PRICE OF OIL IN THE COUNTRIES WAS TO REGULATE THE PROFITS OF THE MAJOR OIL COMPANIES.

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3. CBS - KALB - TEHRAN FIRST LINE REPORT - HAK APPROACHING THE ME ONCE AGAIN, A PLACE HE HAS NEVER REALLY LEFT, IT IS FUNNY THE WAY HENRY KISSINGER HAS BEEN RUNNING AROUND THE ASIAN SUBCONTINENT THIS PAST WEEK, INDIA, BANGLADESH, PAKISTAN, AND THEN AFGHANISTAN, THE CROSS ROADS BUFFER BETWEEN RUSSIA, CHINA, AND INDIA BUT HE HAS BEEN REALLY THINKING ABOUT THE ME. HE HAS BEEN EVER SINCE EARLY LAST WEEK WHEN WHEN THE ARAB SUMMIT MEETING IN MOROCCO SPECIFICALLY

ISRAEL FOR THE RETURN OF THE WEST BANK. AND, WHEN A DAY LATER IN WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT FORD WAS ASKED ABOUT THIS ARAB SUMMIT DECISION, HE ADVISED ISRAEL TO NETOGIATE WITH EITHER JORDAN OR THE PLO FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE IN THE ME AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. FROM THE HAK PLANE CAME THE HINT THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD MISPOKEN AND FROM THE WHITE HOUSE CAME THE DENIAL THAT THERE HAD BEEN ANY CHANGE IN POLICY AT ALL. THE FACT IS WHETHER THE PRESIDENT MISPOKE OR NOT HIS WORDS ARE NOW PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD READ BY EVERYONE FROM RABIN TO ARAFAT AND THE DOOR THUS HAS BEEN PUSHED OPEN TO A MAJOR REVIEW OF AMERICAN POLICY IN THEME. STRATEGY AND TACTICS UNDER EXAMINATION AS SUDDENLY THE PALESTINIANS FEEL THEY ARE RIDING THE CREST OF POPULARITY AND PERHAPS NOTORIETY TOWARDS POWER. ...HAK SAYS THE SAME THINGS IN PUBLIC HE HAS ALWAYS SAID -- THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY OF SETTLING THE WEST BANK PROBLEM IS BY WAY OF BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JORDAN. ISRAEL WILL NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THE PALESTINIANS, HOWEVER, CONSIDERING THEM TERRORISTS AND MURDERERS; THEREFORE THE WEST BANK NEGOTIATION WHICH WAS ALWAYS CONSIDERED TOUGH MAY NOW HAVE BECOME IMPOSSIBLE. HAK THINKS THAT MAYBE THE BEST THING TO DO NOW, IS

NOTHING; JUST TO SIT BACK AND ALLOW THE ARABS TO CONTEMPLATE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, TO LET ALL THE IMPLICATIONS SINK IN. AND YET KISSINGER FINDS IT VERY DIFFICULT TO DO NOTHING, HE IS TRAPPED BY THE NEED TO DO SOMETHING -- TO HOLD OFF WAR, TO HOLD OFF ANOTHER ARAB OIL EMBARGO AND TO HOLD OFF WESTERN DEFECTIONS FROM ISRAEL'S INTERNATIONAL BANNER. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE STANDING AMONG THE ARABS AND THE ISRAELIS TO SERVE AS A MIDDLE MAN. IF THE ARABS WANT ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT WAR THEY MUST COME TO HIM. IF THE ISRAELIS WANT SECURITY WITHOUT MORE WAR, THEY MUST COME TO HIM TOO. HE IS THE NEGOTIATOR WHO WAS DOING MORE THAN ANY OTHER TO SPIN A WEB OF MUTUAL AND GRADUAL ACCOMMODATION IN THE ME; BUT HIS PLAN AND HIS TIMETABLE HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED BY THE ARAB DECISION ON THE PALESTINIANS. HIS PLAN WAS TO GO STEP-BY-STEP BEGINNING WITH DISENGAGEMENT AND ENDING WITH JERUSALEM AND

THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION. NOW THAT QUESTION HAS BEEN PUSHED FRONT AND CENTER AND THE U.S. MUST DEAL WITH IT SOONER, PERHAPS, THAN LATER. HIS TIMETABLE IS ALSO IN

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TROUBLE. HE THOUGHT HE COULD ANNOUNCE THE NEXT PHASE
OF ARAB-ISRAELI TALKS NEXT WEEK DURING HIS SWING THROUGH
THE ME. THAT NOW VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE. SO, THERE-
IS A LOT OF THINKING TO BE DONE BY EVERYONE.

WIRES

WIRES

1. AP - SCHWEID - TEHRAN -- HAK INDICATED LITTLE HOPE TODAY FOR A REDUCTION IN OIL PRICES. BUT A SHORT TIME LATER THE SHAH DECLARED HE WOULD URGE FELLOW OIL PRODUCERS TO LOWER THEIR PRICES BY ABOUT 14 PERCENT.

HAK MET FOR 4 HOURS WITH SHAH AND AFTERWARD SHIED AWAY FROM PREDICTING A PRICE DROP. QUOTE BEFORE YOU CAN HAVE LOWER PRICES YOU MUST HAVE STABLE PRICES END QUOTE HE TOLD NEWSMEN. BUT A SHORT TIME LATER, THE SHAH HELD HIS OWN NEWS CONFERENCE, REAFFIRMED HIS POSITION THAT OIL PRICES SHOULD BE LINKED TO THE PRICE OF OTHER COMMODITIES, AND ANSWERED HE WILL TRY TO PERSUADE THE OIL PRODUCING NATIONS TO REDUCE POSTED CRU OIL PRICES FROM ELEVEN DOLLARS SIXTY-FIVE CENTS TO TEN DOLLARS A BARREL. SHAH DECLARED HE EXPECTS ANY SUCH REDUCTION TO BE EATEN UP BY OIL COMPANY PROFITS AND SAID HE THINKS IT WOULD MEAN LITTLE CHANGE IN THE PRICE PAID BY AMERICAN CONSUMER.

HAK RULED OUT POSSIBILITY OF U.S. USING ITS FOOD RESOURCES AS A WEAPON TO FORCE LOWEROIL PRICES. BUT HAK SAID QUOTE ANY THOUGHTFUL PERSONS END QUOTE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT HIGH PRICES ARE CONTRIBUTING TO INFLATION.

HAK AGAIN DECLARED THAT THE U.S. IS NOT REEVALUATING ITS OPPOSITION TOWARD PLO AND HE SAID HE WILL PROBABLY AGAIN VISIT ME NEXT WEEK.

2. UPI - TEHRAN - SHAH AGREEING WITH HAK ON NEED TO CHECK INFLATION, ANNOUNCED HE INTENDX PROPOSE A SINGLE OIL PRICING SYSTEM THAT COULD RESULT IN LOWER GASOLINE PRICES. ASKED AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IF THIS WOULD RESULT IN A DROP IN AMERICAN GAS PRICES, HE REPLIED QUOTE IT SHOULD BE LESS BECAUSE THERE WILL BE THAT MUCH MONEY LESS IN POSTED PRICES, AND PROFITS FROM OIL PRICES WILL BE LIMITED END QUOTE. SHAH MADE STATEMENT AFTER HE AND HAK AGREED TO NEED TO FIGHT WORLD-WIDE INFLATION TO AVERT A MAJOR ECONOMIC CRISIS.

HAK AT A NEWS CONFERNECE HELD JUST BEFORE SHAH'S, SAID HE WAS ENCOURAGED BY HIS FOUR-HOUR MEETING THAT IRAN APPARENTLY REALIZED THAT INFLATION AND HIGH OIL PRICES MUST BE FOUGHT TOGETHER.

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HAK TOLD NEWSMEN HE PROBABLY WOULD VISIT ME NEXT WEEK.
DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID HAK PLANNED A LIGHTENING TOUR
OF EGYPT, JORDAN, SYRIA, ISRAEL AND POSSIBLY SAUDI ARABIA.
THEY SAID HE ALSO WAS LIKELY TO FLY TO TURKEY TO DISCUSS
CYPRUS PROBLEM AND STOP IN TUNISIA ON HIS RETURN
JOURNEY.

3. NYTIMES - GWERTZMAN -- TEHRAN PAGE 9 (NO PIX) --
HAK SOUGHT TO PERSUADE SHAH OF THE CRIPPLING EFFECT
CONTINUING RISES IN OIL PRICES COULD HAVE ON THE
WHOLE FABRIC OF WESTERN WORLD. TWO MEN COVERED A RANGE OF
PROBLEMS, BUT FOREMOST WAS SHARP POLICY DIFFERENCE
IN LAST YEAR BETWEEN IRAN, WHICH HAS PLAYED A LEADING ROLE
IN PUSHING PRICE OIL UPWARDS AND THE U.S., WHICH HAS
LED CAMPAIGN TO CURB RISE.

NEWSMEN WERE TOLD ABROAD HAK JET THAT HAK DID NOT INTEND
TO SEEK A REDUCTION IN OIL PRICES BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT
SUCH A REQUEST WOULD BE REJECTED.

HAK STRATEGY WAS TO DISCUSS OVER-ALL SITUATION CAUSED BY
FOURFOLD INCREASE AND TO STRESS EFFECT CONTINUED RISES

COULD HAVE ON MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. BEHIND THIS LINE
OF APPROACH LIES HAK'S HOPE OF AVERTING A FURTHER

PRICE RISE AT OPEC MEETING NEXT MONTH IN VIENNA.

HAK INTENDED TO DISCUSS ME SITUATION IN LIGHT OF RABAT
CONFERENCE AND SHAH'S PLAN FOR STRENGTHENING INDIAN
OCEAN AREA.

WASHPOST - MARDER - TEHRAN PAGE 10 (NO PIX) -- HAK
BEGAN TO TAKE SOUNDINGS WITH SHAH ON HIS PERCEPTION
OF WORSENING ARAB ISRAELI NEGOTIATING CRISIS AND WORLD OIL
SITUATION THAT IS INTERWINED. HAK STILL WORKING OUT
ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIS EXPECTED VISITS TO EGYPT, JORDAN,
SYRIA, ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIS, NEWSMEN WERE TOLD. AS
HAK COMPLETED HIS CIRCUIT OF ASIAN NATIONS WITH AGGRAVATED
ARAB-ISRAELI DILEMMA DOMINATING HIS PLANNING, AMERICAN
OFFICIALS DID THEIR BEST TO QUOTE PLAY IT COOL END QUOTE.
U.S., ACCORDING TO HAK PARTY IS A LITTLE WISER THAN
IT WAS THIS WEEK ABOUT IMPLICATIONS OF AB"" ARAB SUMMIT
LEADERS' DECISION AT RABAT, WHICH CUT ACROSS U.S. POLICY
ON NEGOTIATING A SETTLEMENT OF CONFLICT WITH ISRAEL.
DECISION AT ARAB SUMMIT.... IN AMERICAN VIEW CAN PRODUCE
THREE CONSEQUENCES: WAR, A STALEMATE OR SOME FORM OF
NEGOTIATED COMPROMISE. IF THERE IS TO BE NO NEGOTIATION,
NEWSMEN WERE TOLD, THE U.S. WILL HAVE TO BE INVOLVED
BECAUSE ONLY THE U.S. HAS PRODUCED ANY NEGOTIATING SINCE
LAST YEAR'S ARAB-ISRAEL WAR.

ON THE HAK PLANE FROM AFGHANISTAN, NEWSMEN WERE GIVEN A
FORMAL DENIAL OF REPORTS THAT THE U.S. ALREADY IS SHIFTING
TOWARD ACCEPTING NEGOTIATIONS WITH PLO AS ARAB COMMUNIQUE

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DEMANDED. BUT DENIAL CARRIED IMPORTANT QUALIFICATIONS THAT THERE IS NO SUCH POLICY SHIFT AT THIS TIME. THUS LEFT OPEN SUCH A POSSIBILITY. HAK IS DETERMINED TO AVOID ANY ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A NEED TO SHIFT POLICY UNTIL HE EXPLORES JUST WHAT SADAT, HUSSEIN AND FAISAL INTEND. HAK IT WAS SAID HAS NO INTENTION OF MEETING WITH ARAFAT ON THIS TRIP. FOR HAK OR ANY OF HIS AIDES TO MEET ARAFAT AT THIS STAGE WOULD VIRTUALLY CONCEDE SYMBOLICALLY WHAT THE PLO SEEKS.

WASHSTAR - PAGE ONE ABOVE MASTHEAD QUOTE MATA HARI SHE WASN'T END QUOTE. O'LEARY HAS HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF HIS RENDEZVOUS WITH LONESOME AND HUNGRY RUSSIAN LADY. SEPARATE CARRICATURES OF OLGA AND JERRY FRAME STORY.

5. WASHSTAR - OPED PAGE 9 - O'LEARY -- LEAD QUOTE ARAFAT NOT ON KISSINGER AGENDA. END QUOTE. HAK WILL NOT MEET WITH ARAFAT OR ANY OTHER PALESTINIANS ON CURRENT TRIP A SOURCE IN HAK PARTY SAID LAST NIGHT. HAK IS KNOWN TO BELIEVE THAT THIS WOULD BE THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME FOR U.S. TO HAVE ANY DIRECT CONTACT WITH PALESTINIANS. SENIOR SOURCE SAID HAK ACCEPTS THAT RABAT DECISION TO MAKE PLO RESPONSIBLE FOR FUTURE OF OCCUPIED WEST BANK HAS MADE ME PEACE NEGOTIATIONS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED. BUT IT IS SAID THERE IS NO REVIEW OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD ANY PALESTINIAN ROLE IN NEGOTIATIONS UNDERWAY AND NONE WILL BE INITIATED UNTIL HAK HAS HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO THE LEADERS MOST CLOSELY INVOLVED OR UNTIL HE RETURNS TO WASHINGTON AND CAN LOOK OVER THE NEW SITUATION CAREFULLY... IT IS CLEAR THAT PALESTINIANS WILL BE PART OF SETTLEMENT AND THAT THEY CANNOT BE IGNORED BY U.S., THE ISRAELIS OR ARAB STATES IN DIRECT CONFRONTATION WITH ISRAEL. BUT OBSERVERS ARE BEING TOLD THE U.S. WILL MAKE NO REVIEW OF PLO ROLE UNTIL HAK RETURNS TO WASH ABOUT NOV 9.... HAK SENIOR OFFICIAL SAID FEELS THE NEED TO HAVE A TALK WITH ISRAELIS TO GET THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON TURN OF EVENTS NOT ONLY FOR NEXT THREE MONTHS BUT FOR TWO YEARS AHEAD. IT IS SAID TO BE HAK'S VIEW THAT ARABS BELIEVE THEY HAVE MADE ONE OF THEIR RHETORICAL COMPROMISES WHICH LEAVES OPTIONS OPEN TO THEM. WHAT HAK HAS TO DISCOVER IS WHICH ARAB LEADERS ARE PREPARED TO TAKE CONSEQUENCES OF RABAT DECISION.

6. BALTSUN - MILLS - PAGE ONE (NO PIX) -- HAK SPENT 4-1/2 HOURS WITH SHAH SEEKING HIS ADVICE ON ME AND OIL CRISIS. SHAH NOT EXPECTED TO GIVE HAK ANY HELP IN LOWERING PRICE OF OIL. BUT AMERICAN OFFICIALS HOPE SHAH WILL BE A MODERATING INFLUENCE ON ARAB COUNTRIES. HAK CONCERNED THROUGHOUT MOST OF HIS TOUR ABOUT SUMMIT CONFERENCE. SENIOR OFFICIAL TRAVELING FROM KABUL TO TEHRAN SAID HAK WILL ADD A ME SWING TO PRESENT TRIP. HAK SAID TO BELIEVE ARAB RESOLUTION AMBIGUOUS ENOUGH LEAVE ROOM FOR DIP MANEUVERING. HAK AND SHAH ALSO TALKED ABOUT GENERAL INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND INDIAN OCEAN. INGERSOLL
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WORLD COUNTRIES... THERE WERE SIGNS IN DELHI THAT INDIA, PERHAPS A LITTLE FLATTERED AT BEING THIS ADMITTED INTO THE CLUB OF POTENTIAL EXPORTERS OF NUCLEAR KNOWLEDGE, WOULD JOIN THE NEW KISSINGER CONTROL PROGRAM. BUT THE REAL ISSUE--WHETHER INDIA WILL OR WILL NOT MAKE ITS OWN BOMB--SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN SHIPPED." THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SPECTATOR DUELT ON QUESTIONS OF U.S.-USSR RELATIONS IN THE WAKE OF MR. KISSINGER'S VISIT TO MOSCOW. IT DISCERNED "CERTAIN INDICATIONS...THAT PRESIDENT FORD WILL NOT ALLOW HIS SECRETARY OF STATE TO SELL THE PASS OF WESTERN DEFENSE TO THE RUSSIANS QUITE AS CHEAPLY AS HE APPARENTLY INTENDED."

FRENCH MEDIA DEVOTED LITTLE ATTENTION THURSDAY TO SECRETARY KISSINGER'S TRAVELS, PAPERS GIVING MOST OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL SPACE TO FOREIGN MINISTER SAUVAGNARGUES' VISIT TO ISRAEL AND TO FOLLOWUPS ON THE RABAT CONFERENCE. INDEPENDENT-LEFT LE MONDE CARRIED ITS NEW DELHI CORRESPONDENT'S CONCLUSION THAT "THE PARTICULARLY AWKWARD STYLE OF THE COMMUNIQUE PUBLISHED AT THE END OF MR. KISSINGER'S TALKS WITH THE INDIAN LEADERS IN ITSELF INDICATES THE FIELDS IN WHICH THE DIALOGUE WAS MOST DIFFICULT.... REFERENCES TO A WILLINGNESS TO TAKE CONCRETE MEASURES IN THE MATTER OF DISARMAMENT DO NOT ALTER THE FACT THAT EACH SIDE REMAINS IN ITS OLD POSITIONS... THE COMMUNIQUE REFERS TO MRS. GANDHI'S "INITIATIVES" AND TO "EFFORTS OF OTHER SOUTH ASIAN LEADERS TO PROMOTE PEACE AND COOPERATION IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD, BUT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THE EMEARGO ON AMERICAN ARMS FOR PAKISTAN... RUMORS ARE SPREADING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF U.S. ARMS DELIVERIES FOR PAKISTAN AFTER THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO ISLAMABAD." THE CORRESPONDENT THOUGHT MRS. GANDHI'S ABSENCE FROM NEW DELHI DURING THE SECOND PART OF MR. KISSINGER'S STAY WAS CALCULATED "TO SHOW THE CONGRESS PARTY THAT SHE KNEW HOW TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN DISTANCE FROM HER GUEST." CENTER PRO-GOVERNMENT AUFORE SAID "DEAR HENRY, THE DIPLOMATIC ULYSSES, IS PURSUING HIS VOYAGE WITH MORE OR LESS LUCK. YESTERDAY HE WAS IN BANGLADESH AFTER A THREE-DAY VISIT TO INDIA WHICH ENDED WITH THE PROMISE OF A RAPPROCHEMENT... THAT MIGHT SOON MATERIALIZE INTO AMERICAN WHEAT DELIVERIES."

WEST GERMANY: MEDIA:

REPORTED SECRETARY KISSINGER'S STATEMENTS BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FROM NEW DELHI. THE FRANKFURTTER ALLGEMEINE HEADLINED, "BETTER

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ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT THE KING SOON WILL RETRACT HIS SUPPORT FOR THE PLO, OR AT LEAST SO FORMULATE THIS SUPPORT THAT EVERYTHING WILL REMAIN AS IT HAS BEEN..." PRO-CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC BONNER RUNDSCNAU REPORTED THURSDAY FROM JERUSALEM THAT "WITH ARAFAT'S VICTORY, THE RUSSIANS HAVE ACHIEVED A CONSPERABLE GAIN IN INFLUENCE ON THE PALESTINE QUESTION. ..."

ITALY: ITALIAN NEWS MEDIA COVERED SECRETAY KISSINGER'S NEW DELHI PRESS CONFERENCE. THE SECRETARY'S FORTHCOMING ROME VISIT IS BEGINNING TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THE NEWSPAPERS WHICH CONCENTRATED ON PLANNED LEFTIST DEMONSTRATIONS. THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S IL POPOLO THURSDAY SPECULATED ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A KISSINGER-ARRAFT MEETING REGARDING IT AS "ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR PEACE ALONG A ROAD FULL OF DANGERS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS. BUT ONLY THE USUAL EXTREMISTS APPEAR NOT TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THIS MEETING FOR THE PROCESS OF DETENTE AND SOLIDARITY AMONG PEOPLE'S..." AN INSIDE PAGE EDITORIAL IN THE PAPER CRITICIZED PLANNED LEFTIST DEMONSTRATIONS WHEN THE SECRETARY VISITS ROME FOR THE FAO MEETING UNDER THE TITLE, "VIOLENCE WILL BE DEFEATED." INDEPENDENT IL MESSAGGERO TODAY HEADED AN INSIDE ARTICLE, "RECONCILIATION BETWEEN U.S. AND BANGLADESH." THE SAME ARTICLE DEALT WITH THE OUTCOME OF THE RABAT SUMMIT, COMMENTING THAT "RECOGNIZING THE PLO AS THE ONLY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FUTURE PALESTINIAN STATE HAS MADE THE POSSIBILITY OF PEACE MORE REMOTE." SIMILAR COMMENTS ON THE PLO WERE MADE ON STATE-CONTROLLED ITALIAN MV AND APPEARED IN CONSERVATIVE IL TEMPO. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S LA VOCE REPUBLICANA WONDERED TODAY "HOW THE EXTREME LEFT WOULD RESPOND TO THE MAN WHO RETURNS FROM MOSCOW AND IS CARRYING OUT DETENTE." IT ACCUSED THE LEFTIJOGFIOZBEING UNABLE TO SHED THEIR OLD CLOTHERS" AND OF "HAVING MISSED THE BUS OF COMMON SENSE AGAIN." THE PAPER SAID: "IT WILL BE NO EASY TASK TO TELL THE MASSES WHAT THE COMMUNISTS BLAME KISSINGER FOR. IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO SKIP DIFFICULT CONCEPTS LIKE DETENTE, PURITY, AND SALT WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN MOSCOW AND ARE PRESUMABLY DEAR TO THE PCI. BUT THE 'CALL OF THE WILD' IS STILL TOO STRONG FOR THE COMMUNIST PARTY, PARTICULARLY AS THE EXTREME LEFT IS PRESSING. BUT THE COMMUNISTS LACK THE COURAGE TO GO ALL THE WAY."

TOKYO: JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS GAVE MODERATE INSIDE PAGE COVERAGE THURSDAY TO REPORTS ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE KISSINGER VISIT TO INDIA AND HIS ARRIVAL IN BANGLADESH. THE RABAT SUMMIT

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TO THE SAME RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT IT HAS SHOWN IN RABAT SO THAT IT CAN FORGE AHEAD AND SIMULTANEOUSLY PROTECT ITS REAR." THE PAPER CALLED ON THE PLO TO "PREPARE FOR THE MEETING OF THE CONFRONTATION STATES AND FORCES, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BE HELD SOON, IN A MANNER WHICH WILL BLOCK THE WAY TO ISRAEL'S INSISTENCE ON NOT DEALING WITH ANY SIDE OTHER THAN JORDAN CONCERNING THE WEST BANK." IT ADDED THAT "ONE CAN NO LONGER IMAGINE, AFTER THE SUCCESS SCORED BY THE PLO IN RABAT AND AT THE U.N. THAT THE PLO WILL HESITATE IN ANNOUNCING THAT IT WILL ATTEND THE GENEVA CONFERENCE TO IMPLEMENT THE WORD OF LAW ON PALESTINE AND TO ISOLATE ISRAEL'S CLAIM THAT IT WILL NOT ATTEND THE CONFERENCE IF IT IS ATTENDED BY THE PLO."

NEW DELHI:

ALL LEADING INDIAN PAPERS GAVE FRONT-PAGE TREATMENT THURSDAY TO THE SECRETARIES' NEW DELHI PRESS CONFERENCE. STATE-RUN ALL INDIA RADIO GAVE EXTENSIVE RADIO AND TV COVERAGE TO WEDNESDAY'S EVENTS, INCLUDING EXCERPTS FROM THE SECRETARY'S PRESS CONFERENCE AND HIS DEPARTURE STATEMENT. A PRESS TRUST OF INDIA CORRESPONDENT BROADCAST OVER THE NETWORK: "HENRY KISSINGER'S THREE-DAY GOOD WILL VISIT TO INDIA HAS OPENED UP NEW AVENUES FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND BROADER COOPERATION BETWEEN INDIA AND THE U.S...A BREAKTHROUGH HAS TAKEN PLACE. THIS IMPROVED RELATIONSHIP AND NEW ERA OF COOPERATION IS BASED ENTIRELY ON EQUALITY, MUTUAL RESPECT AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING." THE INDEPENDENT HINDUSTAN TIMES, IN AN EDITORIAL TITLED "OPENING A NEW CHAPTER" SAID, "DR. KISSINGER'S VISIT HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT AND SUCCESSFUL POSSIBLY FAR BEYOND THE MORE PEDESTRIAN EXPECTATIONS EARLIER ENTERTAINED THE REGARD TO ITS OUTCOME..." THE CONGRESS PARTY-ORIENTED NATIONAL HERALD DECLARED, "DR. KISSINGER'S VISIT TO THIS COUNTRY SHOULD HELP CLOSE THE BITTER MEMORIES OF THE DISTANT AND RECENT PAST AND OPEN A NEW CHAPTER IN INDO-U.S. RELATIONS. THE MAIN RESULT IS THAT PEACE AND SECURITY IN THIS REGION ARE TO BE STRENGTHENED..." INDEPENDENT, HINDI-LANGUAGE SWATANTRA BHARAT PREDICTED THAT "ANY HINDRANCES THAT STILL EXIST IN THE GY OF IMPROVING INDO-U.S. RELATIONS WILL BE FINALLY REMOVED AT THE TIME OF PRESIDENT FORD'S VISIT TO INDIA." THE INDEPENDANT STATESMAN CONSIDERED THAT INDO-U.S. RELATIONS HAD BEEN "PLACED IN PERSPECTIVE...NEITHER SIDE HAS GIVEN MUCH AWAY AS IS EVIDENT FROM INDIA'S UNALTERED POSITION ON DIEGO

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GARCIA AND DR. KISSINGER'S NONCOMMITTAL STAND ON RESUMING MILITARY SUPPLIES TO PAKISTAN DESPITE THE ASSURANCE THAT THE U.S. WILL NOT "ENCOURAGE" AN ARMS RACE IN THE SUBCONTINENT. THE INDEPENDENT AMRITA BAZAR PATRIKA WEDNESDAY PRINTED OUT THAT THE AZIINT COMMISSION HAS NO DIRECT POLITICAL IMPLICATION BUT ITS IMPACT ON THE POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES IS LIKELY TO BE CONSIDERABLE. "THE PRINCIPLE OF INTERDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY RRECOGNIZED; THIS INDEED IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE SMOOTH WORKING OF THE JOINT MACHINERY." THE MOSCOW-LINING PARTTIOT THURSDAY TERMED THE VISIT A "FLOP." IN AN EDITORIAL ENTITLED "UNCHANGED," IT SAID: "THE JOINT COMMUNIQUE IS FULL OF PLATITUDES BUT HAS NOT MUCH SUBSTANCE. THE MUCH-TALKED-OF JOINT COMMISSION HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A TREMENDOUS FIRST STEP. THIS HOWEVER WILL DEPEND ON HOW SUCCESSFUL INEVITABLE AMERICAN ATTEMPTS TO INFILTRATE THE INDIAN ECONOMY OR SABOTAGE OUR TECHNOLOGICAL STRUCTURE BY CASTRATING OF INITIATIVES FOR SELF-RELIANCE AND CONTAMINATING OUR EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS FURTHER WILL BE."

MOST DACCA NEWSPAPERS USED BANNER HEADLINES THURSDAY IN FAVORABLE COVERAGE OF THE KISSINGER VISIT. TV NEWSCAST WEDNESDAY COVERED THE SECRETARY'S ARRIVAL AND MEETINGS WITH NATIONAL LEADERS. SAMPLE HEADLINES TODAY WERE: "KISSINGER ASSURES HELP TO OVERCOME FOOD PROBLEM" (INDEPENDENT BANGLADESH TIMES); "ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE TONS OF FOOD FOR BANGLADESH; ALL HELP ASSURED FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT" (BENGALI-LANGUAGE ITTEFAQ); "BANGLADESH ECONOMY HAS POTENTIALITIES: KISSINGER" (INDEPENDENT PEOPLE). THE GOVERNMENT-ADMINISTERED MORNING NEWS OF DACCA SAID THURSDAY: "THE BANGLADESH-U.S. RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN GROWING STEADILY... BUT FRIENDSHIP WITH THE U.S. DOES NOT MEAN ENMITY WITH THE SOVIET UNION..." THE PAPER AGPUED THAT "THE NIXON ERA IS OVER AND SO SHOULD BE THE OLD ATTITUDE. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO TAKE A NEW LOOK AT NEW REALITIES..." THE PAPER HOPED THAT UPON HIS ARRIVAL THERE, SECRETARY KISSINGER WOULD BE ABLE TO "FRUITFULLY UTILIZE HIS UNDOUBTED INFLUENCE ON THE PAKISTANI LEADERSHIP TO MAKE THEM SEE THE REASONS" FOR RESOLVING OUTSTANDING ISSUES WITH BANGLADESH."

ALL PAKISTANI NEWS MEDIA PROMINENTLY COVERED THE VISIT OF SECRETARY KISSINGER. A BYLINER ON PRO-GOVERNMENT PAKIYCAN EMPHASIZED THURSDAY THAT THE DISCUSSIONS WERE EXPECTED TO CONCENTRATE ON BILATERAL RELATIONS--PARTICULARLY ECONOMIC

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ASSISTANCE -- AND THE RESUMPTION OF MILITARY SUPPLIES.
HE SAID THAT "PAKISTAN, IT APPEARS, EXPECTS DR. KISSINGER TO
INDICTE NOW WHETHER THE U.S. IS PREPARED TO HONOR ITS OBLIGATIONS
UNDER THE MUTUAL DEFENSE TREATY." A BYLINER WRITES IN THE
INDEPENDENT DAWN: "PAKISTAN WOULD NATURALLY LIKE THE VISIT
TO YEILD POSITIVE RESULTS UN A NUMBER OF WAYS... THE MOST IMPORTANT
SUBJECTS ARE FOOD REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEXT YEAR, ENLARGEMENT
OF ECONOMIC COLLABORATION, THE QUESTION OF LIFTING THE EMBARGO
ON U.S. ARMS SUPPLIES AND PAKISTAN'S CONCERN TO HAVE SOUTH ASIA
DECLARED A NUCLEAR-FREE-ZONE..."

KULA LUMPUR: THREE MALAYSIAN NEWSPAPERS COMMENTED THURSDAY ON THE ARAB SUMMIT IN RABAT. THE CONSERVATIVE STRAITS TIMES DECLARED THAT "THE COMPROMISE SETTLEMENT OF THE DISPUTE BETWEEN JORDAN AND THE PLO PRESERVES ARAB UNITY--PERHAPS ESTABLISHES IS THE RIGHT WORD--AND SHOULD ENSURE SUCCESS AT RABAT WHICH WILL OPEN THE ROAD TO NEGOTIATIONS, BRINGING MUCH NEARER THE POSSIBILITY OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST." THURSDAY'S NATIONALISTIC BERTIA HARIAN HELD THAT "THE AGREEMENT WAS A BIG BLOW TO THE U.S. WHO HAD NO WISH TO MEET THE PLO'S REPRESENTATIVES." NATIONALISTIC UTUSAN MELAYU STATED THAT THE NEW JORDANIAN STAND "STRENGTHENED THE ARABS BECAUSE THE U.S. NOW HAS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVES. ALL THIS HILE THE U.S. HAS BEEN PUTTING ITS HOPE ON JORDAN. DR. KISSINGER IS NOW ON TRIAL. TO WHAT EXTENT IS HIS SERIOUSNESS IN HELPING TO SOLVE THE CONFLICT?"

MANILA: PHILIPPINE MEDIA CONTINUED TO GIVE PROMINENT PLAY THURSDAY TO REPORTS ON MR. KISSINGER'S TRAVELS. ONE TELEVISION NETWORK REPORTED THAT MR. KISSINGER ASSURED INDIA THAT THE CIA WOULD NOT INTERVENE IN INDIAN AFFAIRS AND THAT HE DISCLOSED THAT THE U.S. WOULD RESUME FOOD SHIPMENTS TO INDIA.

RADIO MOSCOW'S "PEACE AND PROGRESS" BROADCAST IN ENGLISH FOR ASIA WEDNESDAY CARRIED A COMMENTARY assertiNG THAT "THE INDIAN PUBLIC IS WATCHING THE SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL IN THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL...THERE IS EVERY REASON FOR THE INDIAN PUBLIC TO BE ALARMEd. THE U.S. EMISSARIES IN INDIA REPORT TOO FREQUENTLY TO VARIOUS TYPES OF INVESTIGATION WHICH ARE MERELY A SHIELD FOR THEIR UNCEHFEMONIOUS INTERFERENCE IN THYIU ZEMBAZEEZ INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND SUBVERSIVXMTNTIVITIES AGAINST THE INDEPENDENCE AND

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SUBJECT: COMBINED TRAVELING PRESS REPORT - EVENING,
NOVEMBER 1, 1974.
FOR AMBASSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PRS
NO. 26.

WIRES.

1. AP, SCHWEID, EXTEHRAN, LEADS HAK "APPEALED" TODAY TO SHAH "TO HOLD DOWN OIL PRICES BUT INFORMED SOURCES HERE REDICTED AN INCREASE OF 30 TO 40 CENTS A BARREL WHEN THE PRODUCING COUNTRIES MEET IN DECEMBER." SAYS US OFFICIALS A FEW WEEKS AGO SUGGESTED SHAH AND SAUDI COULD WORK TOGETHER TO LOWER PRICE BUT "NOW THESE OFFICIALS ARE SAYING THEY SEE NO DEFINITE SIGNS OF SUCH A JOINT EFFORT." SAYS BEST WEST CAN HOPE FOR IS MAINTENANCE OF CURRENT PRICE LEVEL. SAYS HAK AND SHAH WOULD ALSO EXCHANGE VIEWS ON ME IN LIGHT OF RABAT SUMMIT.

2. UPI, EXTEHRAN, REPORTS HAK AND SHAH, "FOR WHOM KISSINGER IS KNOWN TO HAVE HIGH REGARD AS A WORLD STATESMAN," AT FIRST MEETING DISCUSSED PROSPECTS OF EASING OIL PRICES AND COMPLICATIONS IN ME CAUSED BY ARAB SUMMIT. STATES DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID HAK "ENGAGED IN DELICATE BEHIND THE SCENES MOVES TO VISIT" ME AFTER NOV 5 IN ORDER DETERMINE ISRAEL NEAR AND LONG-TERM REGARD FOR FUTURE OF ME, AND TO MEET SADAT TO SEE WHETHER ARAB SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE "LEFT ANY AREA OF FLEXIBILITY IN THE VARIOUS ARAB POSITIONS." CITES SOURCES TALKING OF HAK'S FEEL OR IMPORTANCE THAT US NOT "PANIC" OVER "CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AT THE SUMMIT." SOURCES ALSO STATED "THERE WAS NO CONVINCING INDICATION AT THIS STAGE THAT THE US MIGHT REVISE ITS POLICY AND DEAL WITH THE PLO, OR LEAN ON ISRAEL TO DO SO." NOR, SOURCES SAID, IS IT LIKELY HAK WILL MEET WITH ARAFAT DURING ME VISIT. ON OIL PRICE, UPI STATES OFFICIALS TRAVELING WITH HAK INDICATED NO EXPECTATION THAT PRICE DROP WOULD COME IN IMMEDIATE FUTURE.

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1. BOSTGLOBE (NOT AVAILABLE EARLIER), JHABVALA, P. 11, EX ISLAMABAD, LEADS WITH HAK PLEDGE OF US WHEAT AID TO PAKISTAN "BUT NO LETHAL ARMS." SAYS, "HOWEVER, HAK IN COMMUNIQUE SAID US "WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE "SECURITY OF PAKISTAN."" QUOTES CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR "SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY" STATEMENT FROM COMMUNIQUE BUT SAYS "COMMUNIQUE DID NOT SPECIFY US INTENTIONS FOR ARMS." SAYS FURTHER THAT "COMMUNIQUE COULD BE INTERPRETED AS A TACIT UNDERSTANDING TO ASSIST THE NATION WITH ARMS IN A WAY THAT WOULD NOT UPSET THE BALANCE OF POWER ON THE SUBCONTINENT."

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1. THE VOICE OF THE AP, BARRY SCHWEID, MONITORED ON WTOP, FROM TEHRAN" HENRY KISSINGER CONFERRED IN TEHRAN TONIGHT WITH THE SHAH OF IRAN. THE PRINCIPLE SUBJECTS -- THE HIGH PRICE OF OIL AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE. KISSINGER FLEW IN FROM AFGHANISTAN WHERE HE GAVE PRIMIN DAUD SOME SYMBOLIC FOOD IN HIS EFFORT TO KEEP A FRAGILE NATION INDEPENDENT. "WE RESPECT THE FIERCE SENSE OF INDEPENDENCE THAT HAS CHARACTERIZED THE HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN," KISSINGER SAID. THERE ARE TENSIONS BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN OVER TRIBES STRADDLING THE IP BORDER. KISSINGER ALSO TOOK THE BUZKASHI MATCH; THE RIDERS RACE UP AND DOWN A FIELD FIGHTING TO SNARE A HEADLESS CALF AND DEPOSIT IT IN A CIRCLE. IT DOESN'T LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE POLITICS. POLO."

2. KALB, CBS RADIO FROM TEHRAN, "THE RABAT SUMMIT DECISION TO EMPOWER THE PALESTINIANS TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE WEST BANK OF THE JORDAN, OCCUPIED BY THE ISRAELIS SINCE THE 1967 WAR, THAT DECISION IS NOW FORCING A MAJOR RETHINKING OF AMERICAN STRATEGY AND TACTICS. IT HAS BROUGHT THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION FROM SHORT TETHER READY

OR NOT FOR RESOLUTION THAT REACHED AN EFFORT FOR NEGOTIATION AT ONE END, WAR AT THE OTHER. SO FAR KISSINGER ADMITS NOTHING. IT IS PLAIN HERE NO RETHINKING IS ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE AND NONE WILL BE TAKING PLACE UNTIL AFTER KISSINGER RETURNS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST ROUGHLY NEXT WEEK AT THIS TIME. BUT IT IS PRESSING AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. KISSINGER, EVEN THE ISRAELIS, WHO MUST NOW COME TO GRIPS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, WITH THIS CENTRAL QUESTION. THE SECRETARY AND THE SHAH BEFORE DATING TONIGHT DISCUSSED THIS QUESTION AMONG OTHERS ON THE MIDDLE EAST PLUS THE HIGH PRICE OF OIL. IT WAS A 2 HOUR MEETING."

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NO KISSINGER COVERAGE ON ANY NETWORK. DOMESTIC CONCERNS PREVAIL.

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NO. 21

1. SCHWEID'S AP NITE LEAD GOES LIKE THIS: "HENRY A. KISSINGER CAME TO BANGLADESH TODAY FOR HIS FIRST LOOK AT THE STARVING COUNTRY HE PREDICTED 3 YEARS AGO WOULD BECOME AN 'INTERNATIONAL BASKET CASE.'" PLAYS STARVATION THE HEAVILY, QUOTING FONMIN MOSSAIN, (WHOM HE SAYS WAS ONCE HAK STUDENT) AT BANQUET IN HAK'S HONOR. NOTING SECRETARY JUST ARRIVING FROM INDIA WHERE HE TREATED "TILT" WOUNDS, SCHWEID REHEARSE'S ORIGIN/EVENTS OF 1971 INDO-PAK WAR AND CONCLUDES PIECE WITH STARK PICTURE OF BD'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, PROSPECTS.

2. DANILOFF ON UPI OVERNIGHT MORE RESTRAINED, LEADING WITH HAK'S PLEDGE U.S. WILL DO ITS BEST WITHIN ITS CAPACITY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT. DANILOFF UNDERSTANDS U.S. TO COMMIT ANOTHER 100,000 TONS OF GRAIN ADDING TO $25 MILLION IN FOOD AID PROFERRED BANGLADESH DURING SUMMER FLOODS. DRAMATIC TOUCH APPEARS WHEN HE REPORTS HAK'S SLEEK JET SWOOPED OVER STILL- SMOLLEN RIVERS SURROUNDING DACCA, EXISTENCE THERE OF GRUEL KITCHENS TO KEEP REFUGEES ALIVE AND NOXIOUS CONDITIONS OF REFUGEE CAMPS WHICH TRAVELING JOURNALISTS VISITED. DANILOFF ALSO PLAYS HIGH-UP HAK'S EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE ME PEACE NEGOTIATIONS STILL POSSIBLE DESPITE RABAT DECISION, AND THAT HE PLANNED VISIT AREA TO ASSAY PROSPECTS NOTWITHSTANDING ISRAELI OBDURACY ON PLO ISSUE.

"DURING THE BANGLADESH STOP ON HIS CURRENT TOUR, SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER SAID HE IS STILL CONFIDENT THE ME PEACE TALKS WILL GO ON, DESPITE RECOGNITION OF THE PLO AND DESPITE ISRAEL'S INSISTENCE THAT IT WON'T DEAL WITH THE ORGANIZATION.

"IN BANGLADESH, THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS CERTAIN TO BE FACED WITH APPEALS FOR HUGH QUANTITIES OF AMERICAN GRAIN. THERE'S WIDESPREAD STARVATION IN BANGLADESH. THE COUNTRIED IS FAR WORSE OFF ECONOMICALLY SINCE IT WON INDEPENDENCE FROM PAKISTAN. JACK REYNOLDS HAS A REPORT FROM BD."

REYNOLDS (VOICE OVER REVOLTING FILM CLIPS OF PEOPLE DYING): "IN THE DISTRICT OF RANGPUR ALONE, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 50,000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED OF STARVATION. THE GOVERNMENT HAS SET UP OVER 4,000 SO-CALLED "GRUEL KITCHENS", BUT THIS IS NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH. THE FAMINE IS CAUSED BY THIS YEAR'S RECORD FLOODS, WHICH DESTROYED MUCH OF THE CROP.

"NOW, THE PEOPLE OF RANGPUR ARE REAPING ANOTHER KIND OF HARVEST: DEATH BY SOURVATION. THE FIRST VICTIMS OF FAMINE ARE ALWAYS THE VERY OLD AND THE VERY YOUNG. SOME OF THE OLDER PEOPLE ARE ON THE POINT OF DEATH ALREADY.

IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE FOOD HAS COME TOO LATE. THE CHILDREN ARE BEWILDERED; THEY SEEM ALMOST PUZZLED THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE ENERGY TO RUN AND PLAY ANY MORE. MANY OF THEM ARE CLOSE TO DEATH, AND OF THOSE THAT SURVIVE, MANY WILL SUFFER PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE.

"THE SADDEST SIGHT IN RANGPUR IS THE MARKETPLACE. HERE, PEOPLE ARE COOKING GRASS AND GARBAGE. THESE ARE THE ONES WHO DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE STRENGTH TO MAKE IT TO THE GRUEL KITCHEN, LESS THAN A MILE AWAY."

SWITCH BACK TO CHANCELLOR ON TRIPLE VETO OF SOUTH AFRICAN EXPULSION QUESTION AT UNSC. AFTER A COMMERCIAL, 25 MINUTES INTO SHOW, CHANCELLOR PICKS UP AS FOLLOWS: "WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER AND HIS WIFE WERE IN NEW DELHI, MRS. KISSINGER LEFT HER HUSBAND BEHIND AND WENT

OFF TO AGRA TO SEE THE ANTIQUITIES, INCLUDING ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD. RICHARD VALERIANI WENT ALONG."

VALERIANI: "MRS. KISSINGER, SURROUNDED BY SECURITY AGENTS, INDIAN OFFICIALS, AND TRAILING NEWSMEN, WAS TREATED VIRTUALLY LIKE A FIRST LADY AS SHE WENT SIGHTSEEING IN AGRA WHILE MR. KISSINGER PERFORMED AS SECRETARY OF STATE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN NEW DELHI.

KVALI SINGERS IMPROVISED LYRICS ABOUT MRS. KISSINGER'S VISIT AS SHE ENTERED AN ALL-MARBLE MOSQUE BUILT TO HONOR THE HOLY MAN WHO FOUNDED THE CITY ITSELF. OUTSIDE THE MOSQUE, THERE WERE PERFORMERS OF ANOTHER KIND. (FILM OF MEN DIVING FROM ROOF OF BUILDING INTO A MOAT).

"THE HIGH POINT OF MRS. KISSINGER'S SIGHTSEEING WAS THE TAJ MAHAL, ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. A MASSIVE MONUMENT OF MARBLE, BUILT BY THE EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN MORE THAN 400 YEARS AGO, IN MEMORY OF HIS QUEEN, MUMTAZ MHAHL. IT WAS CLOSED OFF TO OTHER TOURISTS DURING MRS. KISSINGER'S VISIT. INSIDE, WE WERE IT WAS TOO DARK TO FILM, A GUIDE DEMONSTRATED THE DOME'S "ECHO CHAMBER" EFFECT. THE INDIANS CLAIM THE TAJ IS BEST SEEN BY

MOONLIGHT, BUT EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS HERE DURING A PERIOD
OF FULL MOON, MRS. KISSINGER DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME
FOR THAT.

"ALL OF THIS DOES NOT HAVE A GREAT DEAL TO DO WITH
DIPLOMACY, BUT IT DOES PROVIDE A LOT OF PRETTY PICTURES.
BESIDES, I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO SIGN OFF: RICHARD
VALERIANI, NBC NEWS, AT THE TAJ MAHAL."

CHANCELLOR: "THAT'S EVERYBODY'S AMBITION. GOODNIGHT,
FOR NBC NEWS."

5. CBS - NO KALB; BARE MENTION OF HAK'S HOPEFUL COMMENTS ON RABAT DECISION FROM CROMKITE.

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FOREIGN NEWS SLIM DUE PRIMARILY EXTENSIVE BROADCAST
COVERAGE NIXON CRITICAL CONDITION.

1. ABC RADIO - TED KOPPEL IN DACCA: KISSINGER WILL NOW ALMOST CERTAINLY VISIT THE ME DURING THE SECOND WEEK OF NOVEMBER. OUTCOME OF RABAT CONFERENCE HAS PUT KISSINGER PEACE-KEEPING EFFORT IN SOME CONSIDERABLE JEOPARDY AND THE SECRETARY NEEDS TO MEET PERSONALLY WITH ARAB AND ISRAELI LEADERS TO DETERMINE IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE THAT STEP-BY-STEP NEGOTIATIONS WHICH KISSINGER FAVORS, CAN CONTINUE. ALTHO KISSINGER INSISTS THAT U.S. POLICY REMAINS UNCHANGED, THERE APPEARS NOW TO BE SOME CHANCE THAT WASHINGTON MAY URGE ISRAELIS TO DEAL DIRECTLY OR IN-DIRECTLY WITH THE PLO. THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS A TOTAL BREAKDOWN OF PEACE EFFORTS.

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2. CBS RADIO - ANCHORMAN 10:00 A.M.: SIGNIFICANT CHANGES APPEAR TO BE TAKING PLACE IN THE ME SITUATION. KING HASSAN SAID TODAY THAT THE U.S. AND ISRAEL MUST RECOGNIZE THE PLO OR FACE THE THREAT OF ANOTHER ME WAR. HASSAN SAID IT IS UP TO ISRAEL TO MAKE NEXT MOVE. RABIN TOLD HIS PARLIAMENT TODAY THAT RESULTS OF ARAB SUMMIT BODE NO GOOD FOR HIS COUNTRY. MARVIN KALB REPORTING FROM DACCA SAYS PRESIDENT FORD SEEMED TO INDICATE A SHIFT IN AMERICAN POLICY WHEN HE TOLD NEWSMEN YESTERDAY THAT ISRAEL SHOULD NEGOTIATE WITH JORDAN OR WITH PLO. KISSINGER NOW IN DACCA DIDN'T MENTION PLO IN HIS LATEST PUBLIC REMARKS ON ME: BUT KALB SAYS OFFICIALS NOW SUGGEST THAT AMERICAN POLICY WILL HAVE TO BE JUDGED IN LIGHT OF ARAB SUMMIT AND THIS COULD MEAN FUTURE FLEXIBILITY.

3. CBS-TV - TOM FENTON FROM WEST BANK: THE DECISION IN RABAT SUMMIT WAS HARDENED ISRAEL'S POSITION. ALTHO ISRAELI OFFICIALS HOPE A COMPROMISE IS STILL POSSIBLE, CHANCES THAT KISSINGER WILL BE ABLE TO ARRANGE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JORDAN ARE NOW DIMMER THAN EVER AND CHANCES OF ANOTHER ME WAR ARE CORRESPONDINGLY GREATER.

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AP -- SCHWID, FROM DACCA, CITES HAK THAT DOOR TO NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ARABS STILL APPEARS TO BE OPEN, AND THAT WE WILL PROBABLY GO TO ME NEXT WEEK. ANDERSON QUOTED SATING STEP-BY-STEP NEGOTIATIONS ARE BEST HOPE FOR SUCCESS. SENIOR US OFFICIAL REFERS TO SITUATION AS "A MINEFIELD." HAK HAS NO PLANS TO MEET WITH ARAFAT. HAK IN BANGLADESH AFTER PROMISING INDIA AMERICAN GRAIN.

UPI -- NO BYLINE, FROM DACCA, CITES HAK RE OPEN DOOR, TRIP NEXT WEEK. ANDERSON STATEMENT CLARIFYING FORD STATEMENT QUOTED RE RABAT SUMMIT AND STEP-BY-STEP ROUTINE. HAK TO DISCuss FOOD AID WITH MUJIB BEFORE FLYING TO SEE BHUTTO.

NEWSPAPERS

NYTIMES: PAGE 1 STORY BY WEINRAUB ON INDIA VISIT, LEADS WITH US PLEDGE OF 500,000 TONS OF GRAIN AT REDUCED PRICES.
COMMUNIQUE CITES RE FOOD COSTS AND SCARCE MATERIALS. HAK VISIT LINKED THREE FACTORS: US-INDIAN RELATIONS, POSSIBLE INDIAN NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN EXCHANGE FOR OIL, MONEY, AND FOOD. HAK MET WITH FOOD MIN, DEFMIN AND /IN MIN, THEN CANCELLED TRIP TO VILLAGE TO WORK ON UFC SPEECH AND STUDY REPORTS FROM RABAT; VISITED RED FORT IN AFTERNOON. COMMUNIQUE CITED RE NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND NONPROLIFERATION.

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PAGE 18, IN SEPARATE ARTICLE, GWERTZMAN EX NEW DELHI SAYS HAK WAITING FOR REPORTS FROM ARAB LEADERS ON RABAT BEFORE MAKING JUDGMENT. SADAT, FAISAL, HUSSEIN NAMED AS KEY FOR SUPPORT IN NEGOTIATIONS, BUT NEXT MOVES UNCLEAR.

ISRAELI RELUCTANCE TO DEAL WITH PLO, AND DOUBTFUL FUTURE OF GENEVA TALKS, MENTIONED.

WASHPOST, PAGE 13, "FROM NEWS DISPATCHES" (NO MARDER)

CITES DELHI COMMUNIQUE ON NUCLEAR RESTRAINTS, FOOD PROBLEM; SAYS FORD ACCEPTS INVITATION TO VISIT INDIA NEXT YEAR. REFERS ALSO TO ASSURANCE OF CONTINUED EMBARGO OF ARMS SHIPMENTS TO PAKISTAN.

BALTSUN, PAGE 2, NEW DELHI STAFFER (NOT MILLS) LEADS WITH WARMER RELATIONS BETWEEN US AND INDIA, CITES COMMUNIQUE. INDIANS REPORTED PLEASED WITH VISIT, SAYING FUTURE DEALINGS WITH WASHINGTON WILL BE EASIER. PHOTO OF HAK AT RED FORT.

BOSGLOBE, DARIUS, PAGE 8, SAYS US AND INDIA SPLIT ON NUCLEAR QUESTIONS. CITES COMMUNIQUE WITH DIFFERING VIEWS FROM EACH SIDE RE CONTROL AND STABILITY. US SAID TO FEAR EITHER INDIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR EXPORTATION OF NUCLEAR KNOW-HOW. IN ANOTHER ARTICLE, GLOBE USES AP STORY THAT "KISSINGER WOULD PREFER JORDAN" SAYING US CONSIDERS NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JORDAN WOULD BE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD.

NYDAILY NEWS, PAGE 6, CARTEK LEADS WITH NANCY

KISSINGER VISIT TO TAJ MAHAL, WHILE HAK MET WITH MINISTERS OF FINANCE, DEFENSE, COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE. CITES COMMUNIQUE ON IMPROVING RELATIONS, PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY.

WASHSTAR-NEWS, JERRY O'LEARY, PAGE 12, SAYS DOOR TO PEACE NOT CLOSED BY RABAT DECISIONS, ACCORDING TO HAK. TRIP NEXT WEEK TO DAMASCUS, AMMAN, JERUSALEM, CAIRO, MAYBE RIYADH, AND IUNIS BEFORE ETA WASHINGTON NOV. 9. ANDERSON QUOTED ON ME. VISIT TO DACCA TO FOCUS ON FOOD AID, AS INDIA TO GET NEARLY 100 MILLION TONS OF GRAIN NEXT YEAR. RELATIONS IMPROVED, ARMS TO PAKISTAN REMAIN STOPPED, AND NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO BE CONTROLLED.

NOTE: BALT NEWS-AMERICAN (HEARST) TUESDAY USED UPI STORY FROM DELHI, NOTHING FROM WALLACH.

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FOR AMSSADOR ANDERSON FROM S/PRS

NO. 22
SUMMARY: ALL PAPERS LEAD WITH PLANNED TRIP TO ME NEXT WEEK, TO "SALVAGE" PEACE EFFORTS OF HAK. END SUMMARY.

1. **NYTIMES:** GWERTZMAN ON P. 1 HAS LONG STORY ON HAK CONTACTS WITH ARAB LEADERS TO ASSESS RABAT DECISIONS. REPORTERS ON PLANE TOLD THAT DESPITE OBVIOUS COMPLICATIONS, SOME ARAB LEADERS STILL HOPEFUL FOR NEGOTIATIONS. THIS CRISIS IS HAK'S MOST SEVERE PROBLEM IN A YEAR'S WORK FOR PEACE, PLUS UNCERTAINTY OF ARABS' NEXT MOVE. POSSIBILITY OF "BEHIND-THE-SCENES SCENARIO", DELHI PRESS CONFERENCE ANSWER ON PLO QUESTION, AND ANDERSON STATEMENT ON ARRIVAL AT DACCA ALL CITED. OTHERWISE, STORY SAYS U.S. WILL DO ALL IT CAN TO HELP BANGLADESH FOR FOOD AND FERTILIZER.
REMAINDER OF ITINERARY LISTED, INCLUDING TURKEY, EGYPT, SYRIA, JORDAN, ISRAEL, AND POSSIBLY SAUDI ARABIA.

2. **WASHPOST:** MARDER ON P. 1 SAYS RABAT DECISION WENT AGAINST U.S. POLICY FOR WORKING THROUGH JORDAN, BUT CITES HAK THAT DOOR IS NOT CLOSED, EVEN THOUGH ISRAEL REJECTS THE PLO. REPORTERS WERE CAUTIONED AGAINST A SENSE OF

PANIC OR HOPELESSNESS, WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO ANOTHER FRONTATION. "THE 'MINEFIELD' METAPHOR THAT KISSINGER WAS USED IN DESCRIBING THE HAZARDS OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI NEGOTIATING PROCESS IS NOW MORE HEAVILY SEEDED WITH EXPLOSIVES TO THwart HIS STRATEGY, IT IS CONCEDED." CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF REAL ARAB MOTIVES IS NOW NECESSARY. TRIP TO ME LISTED AS ABOVE, WITH TUNISIA ON THE WAY HOME AND TURKEY BEFOREHAND. ARTICLE (PROBABLY NOT MARDER BUT WASH EDS) CONTINUES WITH STATEMENT ON PLO ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT AFTER FORD "MISSTATED" U.S. POLICY. HAK ARRIVAL IN BANGLADESH BROUGHT OUT EAGER AND OVER-EXPECTANT CROS. HAK SAID U.S. WILL DO WHAT IT CAN. 100,000 TONS OF GRAIN ADDED FOR THE YEAR, BUT EXPERTISE IS NEEDED TOO.

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IN SEPARATE "REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK," PAGE D-8, JERRY O WRITES OF MAK IN "HUNGER LAND," SAYING OTHER WORRIES DID NOT AFFECT MAK VISIT TO TRAGIC BANGLADESH. RABAT, ENERGY/FOOD, SALT, CYPRUS, AND NIXON'S HEALTH ARE ON HIS MIND, "YET HE CARRIED OFF HIS STAY IN BANGLADESH FOR ALL THE WORLD AS IF DACCA WAS CENTRAL TO THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS."
CONTINUES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF BANGLADESH'S PROBLEMS, POVERTY, HUNGER, FLOODS, AND A LEADER WHO IS "NOT MUCH AT RUNNING A GOVERNMENT," 'BUT POLITICALLY SAVVY'.
ECONOMIC FUTURE OF BANGLADESH SEEN AS GLOOMY AT BEST.

7. WIRESERVICES: AP AND UPI DISCUSS THE REQUESTS FROM BHUTTO FOR ARMS, WHICH THE U.S. WILL PROBABLY NOT HONOR. AP SAYS PAKS DON'T ACCEPT INDIAN ASSURANCES RE NUKE SPREAD. UPI CITES MRS. K AFTER SIDE TRIP TO MURREE: "I THINK YOU CAN SAY I SEE MORE OF HENRY ON TRIPS THAN I DO IN WASHINGTON."

RADIO REPORTS, OCTOBER 30, 1974, 10 A.M.

1. TED KOPPEL - ABC - WMAL RADIO - FROM - RAWALPINDI SECRETARY KISSIMBER'S PAKISTANI HOST WILL CERTAINLY WANT TO MEAR HIS ASSESSMENT OF INDIAN INTENTIONS. THERE IS CONCERN BORDERING ON PARANOIA HERE THAT INDIA IS DETER-

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SUBJECT: COMBINED MORNING WIRE, NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE REPORT, OCTOBER 29, 1974

NO. 17

WIRES - AP - SCHWEID.EX DELHI, SCHWEID LEADS THAT HAK HAS APPARENTLY ASSURED INDIAN LEADERS THAT US WILL NOT RESUME SHIPMENT OF LETHAL WEAPONS TO PAKISTAN. INDIAN OFFICIALS ARE AVOIDING PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF THIS SENSITIVE SUBJECT BUT NEWSMEN WITH KISSINGER ARE BEING ADVISED EMBARGO WILL BE MAINTAINED. AS HAK'S VISIT COMES TO CLOSE, SCHWEID QUOTES SENIOR INDIAN OFFICIAL: "THERE IS NOTHING BUT COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING" BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. REMAINDER OF TAKE IS DEVOTED TO JOINT COMMUNIQUE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS POINTS THAT OUTSIDE POWERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO GAIN POSITIONS OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGE IN THE REGION; NO CONFLICT OF NATIONAL INTERESTS BUT CONSIDERABLE SCOPE FOR STRENGTHENING BILATERAL RELATIONS; AND INDIA'S REITERATION NOT TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS WHILE US CONCEDING VALUE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

UP. EX DELHI. MORNING TAKE DEVOTED HAK'S SCHEDULE, ESPECIALLY CANCELLATION OF SIGHTSEEING TRIP IN ORDER TO WORK ON ROME SPEECH. ALSO CONSIDERABLE COVERAGE GIVEN TO JOINT COMMUNIQUE, WHICH IN ADDITION TO POINTS MENTIONED ABOVE (AP) INCLUDES REFERENCE TO WORK TOGETHER TO PREVENT FURTHER DETERIORATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND ACCEPTANCE OF GANDHI AND FORD VISITS. IN AFTERNOON LEAD, UPI REPORTED THAT INDIA EXPECTS TO RECEIVE A MINIMUM OF ONE MILLION TONS OF GRAIN THIS YEAR TO EASE FOOD SHORTAGE, ACCORDING TO INDIAN OFFICIALS. OFFICIALS SAID ASSISTANCE WOULD BE PROVIDED ON VERY CONCESSIONAL TERMS AND WILL

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PROBABLY BE ANNOUNCED SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER HAK'S RETURN.
INDIAN OFFICIALS AGREE THAT ARRANGEMENTS FOR SHIPMENTS
HAD BEEN LARGELY WORKED OUT BEFORE VISIT BUT FINAL ANNOUN-
CEMENT HAS BEEN DELAYED IN ORDER TO AVOID IMPRESSION OF
HAK COMING TO INDIA "BEARING GIFTS".

NEWSPAPERS.

1. BOSTON GLOBE, JHABVALA, PAGE 11, NO PIX. DARIUS LEADS HAK'S URGING THE INDIANS TO JOIN OTHER POWERS IN A NEW MULTILATERAL EFFORT TO STEM THE POSSIBLE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY TO SMALLER POWERS. HE REPORTS THAT HAK HELD SEVERAL NEGOTIATING SESSIONS WITH FM AND ONE WITH MRS. GANDHI AND NOTES THAT TWO DAY STAY IS LOOKED UPON WITH "COOLNESS AND EVEN HOSTILITY" (BY PRESUMABLY SOME INDIAN CIRCLES.) DARIUS LISTS TRIP'S OBJECTIVES AS COOPERATION TOWARD RESTORING FRAYED RELATIONS AND AMERICAN CONCERNS ABOUT PROGRESS OF INDIAN NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES. AFTER CITING GANDHI INTERVIEW, DARIUS REPORTS THAT DESPITE SUCH TENSIONS BENEATH THE SURFACE, HAK AND GANDHI CLAIMED THAT RELATIONS WERE "GOOD BUT WE WANT TO MAKE THEM BETTER." AFTER DISCUSSING AGREEMENT ON JOINT COMMISSION, DARIUS REPORTS THAT IT WAS LEARNED THE US WILL PROVIDE INDIA WITH NEARLY 500,000 TONS OF FOODGRAINS IN COMING YEAR. HE ALSO SAYS NEITHER US NOR INDIAN OFFICIALS WOULD SPECIFY FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD SOME OF THE ISSUES DISCUSSED BUT PRIVATELY REPRESENTATIVES OF BOTH SIDES CLAIMED MORE EMPHASIS WAS PLACED ON BETTERING RELATIONS AND ON INDIA'S DEMAND FOR A LARGER VOICE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE SUBCONTINENT.

CONCLUDES WITH: "INDIANS HAVE BEEN REACTING WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF CRITICISM TO REPORTS OF US INVOLVMENT IN CHILE (THEY FEAR THAT MRS. GANDHI'S GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE A SIMILAR VICTIM), THE ADMINISTRATION'S WARMTH TOWARD CHINA AND THE TACIT EFFORTS TO PREVENT INDIA FROM DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONRY."

2. NY DAILY NEWS, CARTER, P.2, WITH PHOTO OF HAK, MME. GHANDI, AND ASSORTED TRAVELING PRESS MEMBERS, LEADS

WITH HAK'S STATEMENT TO INDIAN COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS (ICWA) THAT US TAKES "SERIOUSLY INDIA'S AFFIRMATION THAT IT HAS NO INTENTION TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS." IMMEDIATELY ADDS THAT HAK URGED INDIANS TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT IN PROVIDING NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO OTHER NATIONS." NOTES THAT

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HAK, INTER ALIA, SIGNED JOINT COMMISSION AGREEMENT. CARTER DEVOTES MOST OF HIS PIECE ON NUKE ISSUE, INCLUDING REFERENCE TO "FEARS" THAT INDIA MIGHT BE TEMPED TO TRADE NUKE TECHNOLOGY FOR OIL AND HAK'S URGING INDIANS TO RESIST. NOTES "STRAIN" IN US-INDIAN RELATIONS SINCE 1971 BUT SAYS HAK'S VISIT "MARKED AN UPTURN" IN THESE RELATIONS.

3. WASHPOST, MARDER, P.1, WITH PHOTO ON PICKUP PAGE OF GANDHI GREETING HAK, SAYS HAK "WARMLY WELCOMED INDIA'S CHAMPIONSHIP ON 'NONALI GEMENT' BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, FORMALLY OVERTURNING THE GENERATION-OLD AMERICAN SUSPICION OF 'UNCOMMITTED' NATIONS." REPORTS EMOTIONAL REACTION BY SOME OLDER MEMBERS OF ICWA TO HAK'S ADDRESS. SAYS HAK WAS APPEALING TO AND FLATTERING INDIA NOT TO EXPORT ITS NUKE INFORMATION, MADE THIS "SAME REQUEST EVEN MORE POINTEDLY" PRIVATELY TO MME. GANDHI. MARDER REPORTS AMERICAN DIPLOMATS IN INDIA ARE TELLING INDIANS THAT NUKE EXPLOSION HAS LED TO "HEIGHTENED PAKISTANI DEMANDS" FOR THE RESUMPTION OF ARMS SHIPMENTS. DIPLOMATS IMPLY US CAN RESIST PAKISTAN'S APPEALS FOR ARMS IF INDIA COOPERATES AND PREVENTS THE EXPORT OF ITS NUKE TECHNOLOGY. STATES "ACCORDING TO SEVERAL AMERICAN AND INDIAN SOURCES TONIGHT, MRS. GANDHI INDICATED SOME RECEPTIVITY TO HAK'S APPEAL...ALTHOUGH INDIA IS UNLIKELY TO SAY SO PUBLICLY." STATES THAT AFTER FIRST ROUND OF TALKS "BOTH SIDES EXPRESSED SATISFACTION WITH THE PROGRESS MADE IN REPAIRING AMERICAN-INDIAN RELATIONS." NOTES SIGNING OF JOINT COMMISSION AGREEMENT AND SAYS HAK "COUPLED HIS PRAISE FOR THE NEW SPIRIT OF COOPERATION WITH THE ADMONITION THAT "CONSTANT CRITICISM OF ONE BY THE OTHER IN ALL INTERNATIONAL FORUMS" WILL JEOPARDIZE THE NEW, MORE MATURE AND DURABLE RELATIONSHIP." REPORTS MOYNIHAN'S SAYING PRESIDENT HAS ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE INVITATION TO VISIT INDIA.

4. BALTSUN, MILLS, P. 1, WITH SAME PHOTO AS POST, LEADS WITH HAK'S PROMISE OF AID FOR INDIA'S FOOD SHORTAGE AND STRONG SOLICITATION OF INDIA'S COOPERATION IN DEALING WITH ENERGY CRISIS AND NUKE PROLIFERATION. SAYS IN ICWA ADDRESS HAK STRESSED "LINKAGE OF THE FOOD CRISIS IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO THE ENERGY CRISIS." REPORTS THE KIND OF FOOD AID WAS NOT SPELLED OUT BUT US OFFICIALS HAVE TOLD INDIANS SOME AID WILL COME UNDER FOOD FOR PEACE PROGRAM. REVIEWS CONTROL OF NUKE TECHNOLOGY QUESTION AND

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NONALI GHTMENT FOR NATIONS LIKE INDIA." ALSO REPORTS JOINT
COMMISSION AGREEMENT SIGNING.

5. NY TIMES, P. 1, NO BYLINE BUT PRESUMABLY GWERTZMAN, WITH SAME PHOTO AS SUN AND POST, LEADS HAK "CALLED ON INDIA... TO PREVENT SPREAD OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY THAT COULD BE USED TO DEVELOP WEAPONS." SAYS HAK ALSO "URGED INDIA... TO SUPPORT EFFORTS TO DRIVE DOWN THE COST OF OIL." SAYS DESPITE DISCUSSION OF SENSITIVE SUBJECTS, HAK'S SPEECH TO IWAC "WAS BASICALLY CONCILIATORY." TIMES STATES INDIAN OFFICIALS SAID HAK'S VISIT "HAD CLEARED THE WAY" FOR AN EARLY FORD-GANDHI MEETING. AMERICAN OFFICIALS, PLEASED BY THE ATTENTION GIVEN HAK IN INDIA, SAID "NEW TURN IN RELATIONS WAS DUE IN LARGE MEASURE TO INDIA'S DESIRE TO AVOID TOO MUCH DEPENDENCE ON THE SOVIET UNION AND TO PLAY MORE OF HER FORMER ROLE BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR NUCLEAR POWERS."

ON MRS. GANDHI'S ATTITUDE TOWARD VISIT, TIMES HAS THIS TO SAY: "ALTHOUGH SHE SEEMED LESS THAN ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE VISIT IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL, SHE APPEARED WILLING TO JOIN IN THE RELAXED MOOD. ... US OFFICIALS WERE BAFFLED BY MRS. GANDHI'S INTERVIEW. ... MOREOVER, THERE SEEMED TO MR. KISSINGER'S PARTY TO BE NO OVERWHELMING REASON FOR HER TO LEAVE NEW DELHI TOMORROW BEFORE HIS VISIT ENDS. ... THE INDIAN PRESS HAS NOT REGARDED HER TRIP TO KASHMIR AS A SNUB AND THE AMERICAN OFFICIALS WERE INCLINED TO MAKE LESS OF IT THAN SOME WERE YESTERDAY."

STATES THAT HAK IN HIS ADDRESS "WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO
APPEAR RESPONSIVE TO INDIAN SENSITITIVIES." ALSO QUOTES
HAK'S COMMENT ON THE EXCLUSION OF A MUTUAL DEPENDENCY
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S. ON FOOD AID, TIMES
SAYS ESTIMATES ARE THAT U.S. WILL PROVIDE 300,000 TO
500,000 TONS OF GRAIN ON LONG TERM, LOW INTEREST RATES.
ON JOINT COMMISSION AGREEMENT, TIMES STATES "OFFICIALS
SAID THAT ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMISSION WAS MAINLY A
POLITICAL MOVE TO ENCOURAGE THE BUREAUCRACIES OF BOTH
COUNTRIES TO WORK HARDER TO IMPROVE RELATIONS IN SPECIFIC
AREAS."

6. TIMES ALSO CARRIES, ON P. 2, GWERTZMAN "REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: KISSINGER AND LENINGRAD AFFAIR* WITH MOSCOW DATELINE. MENTIONS "MOCK QUESTION" WHETHER IT HAD BEEN TRUE HAK HAD BEEN MEETING WITH BREZHNEV, WHICH HAK

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"DISPOSED OF WITH A LAUGH", AND HAK AND GROMYKO JOKING
"PUBLICLY ABOUT THE ROUGH BARGAINING" OVER HAK'S DOUBTS

AS TO THE EXISTENCE OF LENINGRAD. ALSO REPORTS BREZHNEV'S
GRADUAL RISE AS FIRST AMONG POLITIBURO EQUALS AND SOVIET
DISCREET QUESTIONING OF NEWSMEN "ABOUT UNSETTLING REPORTS
IN THE AMERICAN PRESS ABOUT THE POLITICAL SCENE IN
WASHINGTON," IMPLYING CONCERN "NOT SO MUCH ABOUT
PRESIDENT FORD'S FUTURE AS ABOUT MR. KISSINGER'S."
GWERTZMAN ALSO REPORTS MORE RELAXED WORKING
ATMOSPHERE DIPLOMATS ARE FINDING WITH SOV OFFICIALS
WHICH THEY ATTRIBUTE TO DETENTE, AND FINALLY LAMENTS THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE "DEZHURNAYA."

7. STAR-NEWS, O'LEARY. USED AP COPY.

MAGAZINES.

1. NEWSWEEK. PLO TUG OF WAR LEADS INTERNATIONAL SECTION.
NEWSWEEK FOLLOWS WITH 700 WORDS ON "KISSINGER'S TOUR D'HORIZON," COMPLETE WITH HAK-BREZHNEV HANDSHAKE PHOTO AND ILLUSTRATED MAP SETTING FORTH SECRETARY'S SCHEDULE UNDER CAPTION "UP AND AWAY WITH HENRY THE K.". MOOD SET WITH GRIM SECRETARY, IN NO MOOD FOR JOKES, ARRIVING AT KREMLIN ON BLEAK AND RAINY MORNING TO BEGIN TOUGHEST TRIP OF HIS CAREER. APART FROM GRUELING SCHEDULE THAT WILL TAKE HIM TO SASIA, EUROPE, ROME CONFERENCE AND BACK TO ME, HE CONTINUED TO WORRY THAT U.S. BARGAINING POSITION BEING ERODED BY UNENDING POLITICAL TURMOIL HERE. IF TO CHEER HIM, SOVS INDICATED THAT INSTEAD OF PREPARING CRISIS TO TEST NEW ADMINISTRATION, THEY ARE BENT ON BUILDING STRONGER RELATIONS WITH FORD THAN WITH NIXON.

BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN HAK AND SOVS ON VLADIVOSTOK SUMMIT
OUTLINED, WITH HAK FINALLY AGREEING. IN EXCHANGE, HE
INSISTED ON SOME PROGRESS IN CURRENT TALKS SO PRESIDENT,
BREZHNEV COULD ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING AT NOVEMBER MEET.
ONE ISSUE THE TWO SIDE AGREED TO, BVV SAID HE LEARNED,
WAS TO CLOSE MAJOR LOOPHOLE IN THRESHHOLD TEST BAN BY
OUTLAWING ALL UNDERGROUND TESTS OVER 150 KTS. MAJOR
EFFORT ALSO MADE TO BREAK SALT STALEMATE;
PRODUCED DISCUSSION BEYOND CONCEPTS TO NUMBERS: THAT TWO
POSITIONS ON NUMBERS NOW "IN THE SAME BALL PARK," SEEMING
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TO DISCUSS ALONG HIS LONG ROUTE AND FINAL, MORE PERSONAL PARAGRAPH ABOUT HARRIED STATE HE FINDS HIMSELF OWING TO SCHEDULE RIGORS. "BUT THE GRUELING PACE SEEMED TO BE PAYING OFF AND BY THE END OF HIS MOSCOW VISIT KISSINGER SEEMED A BIT MORE HOPEFUL ABOUT THE FUTURE." HAK QUOTES ON AIRPORT DEPARTURE END IT.

IN NEWSMAKERS SECTION REPORTS ON HAK FILMING TRIBUTE TO BOB HOPE FOR NBC TV SPECIAL, INCLUDING TWO JOKES...

2. TIME MAGAZINE. PAGE 40, HEADLINE: OF ARMS CONTROL AND THE MAN - 2-1/2 COLUMNS. TOP PRIORITY OF THE MOSCOW VISIT IS STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL. UNLESS BERAKTHROUGH ACHIEVED, DETENTE MAY BE IN DANGER FROM AN ARMS RACE. HAK HAD SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR LASTING AND TIGHT CONTROLS, INCLUDING SEVERAL FORMULAS FOR "ESSENTIAL EQUIVALENCE". THOUGH HE EXPECTED GOOD TALKS, PRIVATELY HAK WAS LESS OPTIMISTIC. SOVIETS UNCERTAIN OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN NIXON AND FORD POLICIES, AS WELL AS HAK TENURE. VLADIVOSTOK SUMMIT LINKED TO SOVIET ASSURANCE OF PROGRESS IN SALT.

HAK BOTHERED BY LEAKS OF SOVIET SALT VIOLATIONS, IN AW&ST, ESPECIALLY JUST BEFORE HIS TRIP TO MOSCOW. U.S. SALT NEGOTIATORS INDICATED PENTAGON SOURCES FOR THE LEAKS: ANOTHER INDICATION OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STATE AND DOD.

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October 30, 1974, 6:00 a.m.

"No Intervention in Sub-Continent" Tops Independent Dailies

English-language papers appearing in New Delhi on Wednesday morning led front pages with stories and photos covering the Indo-U.S. joint communique and Secretary Kissinger's meetings on Tuesday with Indian ministers. Special correspondents reporting in independent general-interest dailies chose agreement on exclusion of big-power intervention in the sub-continent as lead on the top story, derived from the communique: "India, U.S. Against Outside Intervention in Sub-Continent" (Indian Express). Most papers carried the full text of the communique inside.

Variations on Lead in Party Press

Variations on this lead in party-oriented papers included "USA Hails PM's Initiative for Peace in Region" (headline in Congress Party-oriented *National Herald*); "U.S. Hails Delhi Stance on Use of N-Knowhow" (Moscowlining *Patriot*), and "Question of Not Supplying Arms to Pindi Evaded" (right-wing opposition, nationalist *Motherland*). Economic papers headlined: "No Specific Commitment" (on food or economic assistance -- independent *Financial Express*), and "Concern at Inflation" (the independent *Economic Times* account of the joint communique).

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# U.S. Pressure on Transfer of Nuclear Technology?

The *Hindustan Times* and the *National Herald* carried inside a Press Trust of India story from New Delhi asserting that "American correspondents accompanying the Secretary of State would appear to be continuing to lay stress and paint Dr. Henry Kissinger as seeking assurances from India that it would not transfer its nuclear technology to others for oil or food." And the *Times of India* carried on page one another PTI story, datelined United Nations, October 29: "The continuance of the U.S. embargo on arms supply to Pakistan may be made conditional on India agreeing not to part with its nuclear know-how to other nations.... All U.S. newspapers have highlighted the nuclear question in their coverage of Dr. Kissinger's discussions with Mrs. Indira Gandhi in New Delhi."

## Warmer U.S. Press Reaction Reported

U.S. press reaction to the Secretary's visit was reported in front-page stories by Washington correspondents of the *Indian Express* ("Media Give Up Theme of Frosty Indo-U.S. Ties") and the *Hindustan Times* ("American Press Notes Cordiality"). (Copies of both clips attached.)

## Favorable Editorials in Four Independents

Favorable editorials appeared in four independent dailies. The *Times of India* said that in his discussions and speeches, Secretary Kissinger "has outlined a conceptual framework which holds out the promise of

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reasonably amicable relations between the two countries. His address under
the auspices of the Indian Council of World Affairs deserves special attention
because this is as lucid an exposition of the present American approach towards
South Asia as one can expect from any Secretary of State." The *Indian Express*
hailed the setting up of the Joint Commission, which, it said, "could grow into
a welcome influence in several areas without having to excite fears of American
domination of Indian affairs as has happened in the past." The *Statesman*
knocked down the contention of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) that the
Joint Commission would allow U.S. interference in India's affairs; rather, it
will provide the "proper channels" for cooperation. An editorial-page piece by
political commentator Kuldip Nayar in the same paper said of the talks that "the
old patronizing tone was pleasantly missing. The American side admitted it had
committed mistakes in the past but added that India too had not been a paragon
of virtue; probably both expected too much from each other." *Financial Express*
said that "American policy has come a long way...." In the context of
expectations of greater Indo-U.S. understanding, it declared "While India has
been sympathetic to the oil-producing countries, it cannot be indifferent to the
global repercussions of a policy which has administered a rude shock to the
economies of the advanced countries and threatens to upset the international
payments system."

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A Sour View in the Motherland

The opposition paper Motherland, however, expressed a sour view in
an editorial entitled, "ITT, Here I Come": "It has already been conceded
that U.S. business being what it is, the Joint Commission will be
dominated at the American end not by the U.S. Government but by the U.S.
private sector."

Extensive Radio, TV Treatment

All India Radio gave extensive radio and television news coverage last
night to the joint communique and to Tuesday's events, including film clips
of Secretary Kissinger's visit to the Red Fort.

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FOLLOWING IS A REPORT OF FOREIGN MEDIA REACTION AS OF 1200 EST
OCTOBER 29, 1974, PREPARED BY USIA:

SUMMARY:

FOREIGN MEDIA GAVE MODERATE COVERAGE TO THE SECRETARY'S TRIP
TUESDAY. BRITISH AND JAPANESE MEDIA STRESSED HIS CONCERN FOR
PREVENTING NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST. FRENCH
NEWSPAPERS TALKED OF A NEW BALANCE BEING ESTABLISHED IN THE
SUBCONTINENT. WEST GERMAN AND PHILIPPINE MEDIA CONTINUED TO
SPEAK OF "COOLNESS" BETWEEN INDIA AND THE U.S. OPTIMISM OVER
INDO-U.S. RELATIONS DOMINATED THE INDIAN COVERAGE. A SOUTH
KOREAN PAPER SAID THE VLADIVOSTOK MEETING COULD DOWNQAY THE
IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO TOKYO. RADIO MOSCOW
CONTINUED TO INTERPRET THE BREZHNEV-KISSINGER TALKS AS ANOTHER
POSITIVE STEP IN AN ONGOING PROCESS OF IMPVEMENT OF U.S.-USSR
RELATIONS.

LONDON: BRITISH MEDIA REPORTED SECRETARY KISSINGER'S ACTIVITIES
IN INDIA WITH STRESS ON HIS CONCERN FOR THE NUCLEAR QUESTION. THE
TIMES OF LONDON HEADED ITS STORY: "DR. KISSINGER URGES NUCLEAR
CURB BY DELHI"; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: "KISSINGER APPEAL TO INDIA
FOR ATOMIC SAFEGUARD"; THE GUARDIAN: "KISSINGER TAKESOFT LINE
ON INDIA." THE INDEPENDENT LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES SAID THE
SECRETARY SOUGHT "ASSURANCES FROM INDIAN LEADERS THAT THE
COUNTRY'S NEWLY ACQUIRED NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY WOULD BE USED SOLELY
FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES. HE WAS PARTICULARLY CONCERNED THAT IT SHOULD
NOT BE PASSED ON TO THE ARABS IN RETURN FOR CONCESSIONS ON OIL."
THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN'S MAN IN NEW DELHI CONSIDERED, HOWEVER,
THAT THE SECRETARY HAD TAKEN "A SOFT LINE ON THIS COUNTRY'S
NUCLEAR INTENTIONS--A SUBJECT ON WHICH HE HAD PREVIOUSLY EXPRESSED
GRAVE FEARS... HIS SPEECH" TO THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL "CAME AS
AN ANTICLIMAX AFTER EARLIER INDICATIONS THAT HE WOULD SEEK TO
DEFLECT INDIA FROM NUCLEAR MOBILIZATION."

PARIS: FRENCH MEDIA ON TUESDAY WERE OVERWHELMINGLY CONCERNED
WITH THE COUNTRY'S INTERNAL PROBLEMS BUT CONTINUED TO COVER THE
SECRETARY'S TOUR. THE ONE EDITORIAL ON THAT SUBJECT APPEARED
IN FINANCIAL LES ECHOS OF PARIS, WHICH SAW "EVERY INDICATION

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IS, DID SHE GIVE KISSINGER THE COLD SHOULDER OF HER OWN ACCORD BECAUSE SHE DISLIKES U.S. POLICY, OR IS SHE TAKING HEED OF THE CLOSE MOSCOW-DELHI RELATIONSHIP? ...WHETHER THE PERIOD OF ACCUSATION AND COUNTER-ACCUSATION... BETWEEN THE U.S. AND INDIA" "HAS FOUND ITS END IN KISSINGER'S VISIT TO NEW DELHI IS STILL TO BE BE LEARNED..." INDEPENDENT SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG OF MUNICH RAN A BYLINER'S OBSERVATION THAT "THE CLIMATE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP AND THE INDIRA GANDHI GOVERNMENT HAS COOLED CONSIDERABLY...MOROOVER, INDIA SEEKS A BALANCE IN RELATIONS WITH THE BIG POWERS...AN ADROIT U.S. AMBASSADOR IN DELHI HAS SOUGHT TO MAKE USE OF THAT SITUATION... KISSINGER WANTS PERSONALLY TO CONTINUE THIS EFFORT IN DELHI, AND THUS SOMEWHAT LOOSEN INDIA'S FORMERLY TIGHT BONDS WITH MOSCOW..." WEST BERLIN'S Morgenpost reported that the "FROSTY CLIMATE" OF U.S.-INDIAN RELATIONS APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN IMPROVED. TAGESSPIEGEL OF WEST BERLIN SAID THAT "AS EXPECTED, IN MOSCOW KISSINGER DID NOT ACHIEVE A BREAKTHROUGH IN THE AREA OF STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION BUT HIS MORE THAN 20 HOURS OF TALKS WITH BREZHNEV AND GROMYKO HAVE OBVIOUSLY IMPROVED THE CHANCES OF CONCLUDING A SECOND SALT ACCORD ENVISAGED BY THE TWO SUPERPOWERS."

TOKYO: MR. KISSINGER'S VISIT TO INDIA ARECEVIED MODERATE COVERAGE TUESDAY IN JAPANESE TELEVISION AND NEWSPAPERS. COMMERCIAL NTV SAID THAT ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THE INDIA SOJOURN "IS TO SEEK PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN THE WEST ASIAN REGION." INDEPENDENT LIBERAL ASAHI, SAID TUESDAY OF THE PROPOSED SUMMIT IN VLADIVOSTOK, "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS MEETING IS GREAT BECAUSE IT INDICATES THAT THE RAILS HAVE BEEN LAID AGAIN FOR THE REOPENING OF U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS." THE PAPER ALSO HELD THAT "

THE BOLD COMPROMISE STEPS TAKEN BY THE USSR INDICATE SOVIET ENTHUSIASM FOR 'DETENTE' AND SHOW THAT BREZHNEV'S LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN CONSOLIDATED FIRMLY IN THE KREMLIN." IT POINTED OUT THAT "PEKING'S SUPICION HAS BEEN REPORTED ABOUT 'SOVIET DESIGNS'" IN REGARD TO THE CHOICE OF VLADIVOSTOK AS THE SITE OF THE SUMMIT MEETING, BUT IT SAID "THE USSR FEELS THAT VLADIVOSTOK IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE SITE FOR THE SUMMIT TALKS IN ORDER TO COPE WITH THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SITUATION, WHICH HAS ENTERED A FLUID STAGE WITH PRESIDENT FORD VISITING JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA AND POSITIVE RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA." INDEPENDENT MODERATE YOMIURI WROTE TUESDAY THAT AT THE VLADIVOSTOK SUMMIT THE PRESIDENT AND MR. BREZHNEV "ARE EXPECTED TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE WORLD THAT THEIR POLICY OF DETENTE IS STILL VIABLE AND CONTINUING. BUT PRESIDENT FORD HAS ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC TASK AHEAD AS HE MUST REHABILITATE RELATIONS WITH JAPAN AND WESTERN EUROPE, WHICH WERE NEGLECTED BY THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION FOR THE PAST FIVE AND A HALF YEARS."

NEW DELHI: OPTIMISTIC FRONT-PAGE HEADLINES DOMINATED INDIAN NEWSPAPERS TUESDAY WITH RESPECT TO THE KISSINGER-GANDHI TALKS. THESE WERE EXAMPLES: "INDO-U.S. VIEWS ON PEACE CONVERGE" (INDEPENDENT HINDUSTAN TIMES) "SUMMIT LIKELY--INDO-U.S. TALKS OFF TO GOOD START" (INDEPENDENT AMRITA BAZAR PATRIKA "LONG INDO-U.S. TALKS TO END MISTRUST" (INDEPENDENT STATESMAN)

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"ALL MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN INDU-U.S. RELATIONS REMOVED" (URDU LANGUAGE PRATAP)

"INDO-U.S. TALKS MAKE WAY FOR MUTUAL RESPECT, COOPERATION" (RIGHT-WING MOTHERLAND)

"NEW LEAF IMQINDO-U.S. TIES" (GUJARATI-LANGUAGE SAMACHAR)
THE INDEPENDENT HINDUSTHAN STANDARD RAN THE HEALINE, "FORD MAY VISIT INDIA," ATTRIBUTING THE INFORMATION TO "HINTS" DROPPED BY BOTH SIDES FOLLOWING THE TALKS ON MONDAY. A BYLINER WORTE

IN CONSERVATIVE HINDU: "THE TALKS TODAY MADE A RAPID STRIDE IN CLEARING UP THE INDO-AMERICAN MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF THE PAST AND HELD OUT THE PROSPECT OF A MATURE AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL

RELATIONSHIP FOR THE FUTURE." INDEPENDENT STATESMAN SAID, "THE TALKS APPEAR TO HAVE PAVED THE WAY FOR A MORE MATURE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES...THEREBY OPENING "EXTREMELY GREAT POSSIBILITIES" FOR THE FUTURE." THE INDEPENDENT INDIAN EXPRESS REMARKED THAT "THE LONG NIGHT OF INDO-AMERICAN BICKRING APPEARED TODAY TO HAVE ENDED IN A NEW DAWN OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. THE PAPER'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT,

T.V. PARASURAM, WROTE ON ITS EDITORIAL "UNLIKE SOME FOOLISH AMERICANS WHO FAIL TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE PRESENT DIFFICULTIES AND FUTURE POTENTIAL, KISSINGER KNOWS THAT INDIA WILL PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS AND IN ANY CONCEPTUAL SCHEME FOR WORLD ORDER THERE HAS TO BE A PLACE FOR INDIA." THE CONGRESS PARTY'S NATIONAL HERALD OF NEW DELHI AND LUCKNOW asserted: "THE INDO-U.S. TALKS HAERE TODAY WERE MARKED BY A CLEAR ASSURANCE THAT AMERICA HAD NO DESIRE TO INTERVENE IN THE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SUBCONTINENT, THAT IT WOULD NOT BE INFLUENCED BY ANY

CONSIDERATIONS OF BALANCE OF POWER, AND THAT IT WOULD GENUINELY LIKE TO SEE INDIA PLAY ITS ROLE IN PROMOTING STABILITY AND GOOD NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS IN THE REGION." WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

M.V. KAMATH FOR THE INDEPENDENT TIMES OF INDIA SAID THAT THE SECRETARY "ARRIVES IN NEW DELHI TODAY...AT A TIME WHEN HIS FORTUENS SEEM TO BE AT A LOW EBB. DOBUTS ARE EVEN BEGINNING TO BE EXPRESSED AS TO WHETHER HE WILL LAST THE COURSE...THERE ARE SIGNS THAT CONGRESS, AT LEAST, IS DISILLUSIONED WITH MR. KISSINGER" AND THAT "THESEDAYS THERELEVANCE OF HIS FOREIGN POLICY AS WELL AS THE NATURE OF ITS COSMETICS ARE UNDER QUESTIONING..." A BYLINER FOR THE PAPER CRITICIZED THE OPPOSITION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA TO THE SECRETARY'S VISIT WITH THE WORDS, "THE COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERS MAY NOT BE AWARE THAT THERE IS A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THEIR WELCOME OF THE RUSSO-AMERICAN DETENTE AND THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE INDO-U.S. RECONCILIATION. BUT THEY CENNOT EXPLAIN IT AWAY." THE PATRIOTassertED THAT MRS.

GANDHI SOUGHT A "DEMARCATION OF AREAS OF ACCORD AND DISCORD" AND RAN A THREE-COLUMN PHOTOGRAPH ON ITS FIRST PAGE CAPTIONED, "UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST KISSINGER." THE

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PICTURE WAS TAKEN OUTSIDE A BOMBAY HALL IN WHICH THE SECRETARY DELIVERED AN ADDRESS WHICH THE PAPER TERMED "FULL OF PLATITUDES." ELSEWHERE IN THE PAPER IT SAID THAT INDIA HAS"NT TO COME TO THE FIRM CONCLUSION THAT THE AMERICAN POLICY OF CONTAINING A NON-ALIGNED AND SELF-RELIANT INDIA HAS BEEN REVERSD..." STATE-RUN ALL INDIA RADIO GAVE EXTENSIVE RADIO AND TELEVISION COVERAGE TO MONDAY'S EVENTS. ABOUT HALF OF THE SECRETARY'S SPEECH BEFORE THE INDIAN COUNCIL OF WORLD AFFAIRS WAS TELECAST FROM FILM FOOTAGE ON MONDAY.

DACCA: SEVERAL PAPERS FRONT-PAGED THE IMMINENT KISSINGER ARRIVAL. THE MORING NEWS HEADLINED, "WARM WELCOME AWAITS KISSINGER." AZAD REPORTED ON PAGE TWO THAT THE "KISSINGER VISIT WILL ENSURE AMERICAN AID." THE INDEPENDENT BANGALADESH TIMES RAN ON PAGE ONE A DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT'S VIEW THAT MR. KISSINGER WOULD DISCUSS POSSIBLE AMERICAN ASSISTANCE WITH BANGLADESH'S LEADERS. PEOPLE'S FRONT RAN AN IDENTICAL REPORT SERVICED BY DACCA'S EASTERN NEWS AGENCY. OF THE NEW DELHI TALKS, ITTEFAQ HEADLINED, "NEL CHAPTER IN INDO-U.S. RELATIONS." THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER HEADED ITS ACCOUNT, "INDIRA-KISSINGER HAPPY OVER TALKS," AND PRO-AWAMI LEAGUE JANOP FRONT-PAGED, "TALKS FRUITFUL."

SEOUL: TUESDAY'S SOUTH KOREAN PRESS GAVE CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION TO THE VLADIVOSTOK SUMMIT. MEDIA NOTED THAT THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST U.S.-USSR SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN THE FAR EAST, HELD THAT THIS WAS EVIDENCE OF U.S. AND SOVIET INTEREST IN THE REGION, AND SPECULATED THAT KOREA WOULD BE AMONG THE MAJOR SUBJECTS DISCUSSD. CONSERVATIVE INDEPENDENT CHOSUN ILBO AGGERED TUSDAY THAT "THE UMMIT PLAN MAY HURT JAPANESE PRIDE NOW THAT THE FORD TRIP IS REDUCED TO A STOPOVER IN TOKYO TO VLADIVOSTOK. ALSO IT MAY INCITE CHINESE FEELING BE AUSE THE CONFERENCE SITE IS CLOSE TO THE DISPUTED TERRITORY OF CHINA." INDEPENDENT MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD JOOGANG SPECULATES TUESDAY THAT PRESIDENT FORD'S ASIAN TRIP MAY TURN OUT TO BE AN EVENT OF THE GREATST SIGNIFICANCE FOR KOREA SINCE THE YALTA MEETING BECAUSE IT INVOLVES A SERIES OF SUMMIT MEETINGS AMONG THREE OF THE FOUR BIG POWERS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA." CONSERVATIVE PRO-GOVERNMENT KYUNGHYANG SHINMUN STATED TUSDAY THAT THE SUMMIT "DRAWS OUR SPECIAL ATTENTION BECAUSE IT COMES AFTER PRESIDENT FORD'S VISIT TO SOUL. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT KOREA WILL BE AMONG MAJOR TOPICS OF DISCUSSION. WE THINK THAT THE ROKG'S POSITION WILL BE FULLY REFLECTING THE FORD-BREZHNEV TALKS. HOWEVER, WE WOULD REMAIN VIGILANT AGAINST ANY ATTEMPT ON OUR DESTINY BY ANOTHER YALTA TREATY."

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RECEPTION IN INDIA AS "COOL." THE TIMES JOURNAL OF MANILA, COMMENTING TUESDAY ON THENBHOICE OF VLADISVOSTOK AS THE SITE OF THE FORD-BREZHNEV SUMMIT, SAID THAT THIS "MAY BE SYMBOLIC OF THE HIGH PRIORITY THAT BOTH THE U.S. AND THE USSR ARE NOW GIVING TO ASIA AND THE PACIFIC." IT WENT ON TO SAY, "THE NEW POWER BALANCE IN THE REGION IS ACUTALLY A FOUR-POWER CONDOMINIUM AMONG CINA, THE USSR, JAPAN AND THE U.S. IT IS PERHAPS THE BEST GUARANTEE THAT SOUTHEAST ASIA CAN LOOK FORWARD TO FOR A PERIOD OF UNINTERRUPTED PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT....THUS, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS, A RELATIVELY BENIGN SITUATION PREVAILS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, PARTICULARLY IN THE MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE ASEAN." HOWEVER, THE PAPER WARNED THAT BECAUSE THE U.S. AND THE USSR "HAVE OFTEN BEEN ACCUSED BY THIRD COUNTRIES INCLUDING THE U.S. PARTNERS IN NATO, OF ARRIVING AT AGREEMENTS WITHOUT SCRUPULOUS REGARD FOR THE VITAL INTERESTS OF OTHER COUNTRIES, THE SECURITY PARTNERS OF THE U.S. IN THE PACIFIC AREA, NOTABLY THE PHILIPPINES, SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN CAUSE TO AIR A SIMILAR PROTEST ABOUT THE VLADIVOSTOK SUMMIT. THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT HAS AN OBLIGATION TO ITS OWN NATIONAL INTEREST TO DEMAND THE RIGHT OF CONSULTATION WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CONCERNING THE WORK OF THAT SUMMIT AND MUST DEMAND GUARANTEES THAT THE INTERESTS OF THE PHILIPPINES AND ASEAN WILL NOT BE COMPROMISED..."

MOSCOW: RADIO MOSCOW'S INTERNATIONAL SERVICES CONTINUED TO INTERPRET THE BREZHNEV-KISSINGER TALKS AS ANOTHER POSITIVE STEP IN AN ONGOING PROCESS OF IMPROVEMENT OF U.S.-USSR RELATIONS. EAST EUROPEAN MEDIA FOLLOWED A SIMILAR LINE; FOR EXAMPLE, PRAGUE RADIO DOMESTIC SERVICE LAST EVENING CARRIED A DISPATCH FROM ITS MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT REPORTING "CONCRETE PROGRESS" ON ARMS LIMITATION, THE MIDDLE EAST AND OTHER SUBJECTS.

YUGOSLAV MEDIA ALSO CONCLUDED THAT PROGRESS WAS MADE IN MR. KISSINGER'S MOSCOW TALKS, ALTHOUGH "NOBODY EXPECTS THAT THE FORD-BREZHNEV MEETING WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER SALT AGREEMENT" (POLITIKA, BELGRADE).

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SECRETARY KISSINGER'S OCTOBER-NOVEMBER TRIP - VI
FOLLOWING IS A REPORT OF FOREIGN MEDIA REACTION AS OF 1200
EST OCTOBER 28, 1974, PREPARED BY USIA:

SUMMARY:

THE BRITISH PRESS WITHDREW A BIT FROM THE OPTIMISTIC TONES EXPRESSED YESTERDAY ON THE MOSCOW MEETING; FRENCH AND WEST GERMAN MEDIA WERE CAUTIOUS IN THEIR REPORTS OF SUCCESS WHILE THE ITALIAN PRESS WAS 'OPTIMISTIC, ESPECIALLY IN REGARD TO PROGRESS ON SALT. THE JAPANESE FELT EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE UPCOMING SUMMIT MEETING. RADIO MOSCOW HAILED THE TALKS AS A SIGN OF CONTINUING GOOD RELATIONS. WORLD-WIDE COVERAGE OF THE INDIAN PORTION OF THE TRIP STRESSED THE HOPE FOR RESUMPTION OF GOOD INDO-U.S. RELATIONS.

LONDON: THE BRITISH PRESS WAS LESS OPTIMISTIC THIS MORNING THAN IT HAD BEEN OVER THE WEEKEND ON THE RESULTS OF MR. KISSINGER'S MOSCOW VISIT, HIGHLIGHTING DIFFICULTIES IN REACHING AN AGREEMENT ON LIMITING STRATEGIC WEAPONS. "DAILY TELEGRAPH'S" WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT RICHARD BEESTON SAID DR. KISSINGER "ENCOUNTERED CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTIES IN HIS LATEST TALKS IN MOSCOW TO WORK OUT A BASIS FOR LIMITING OFFENSIVE STRATEGIC WEAPONS. AMERICAN OFFICIALS EXPECT NO NEW AGREEMENT AT NEXT MONTH'S SUMMIT MEETING."
CORRESPONDENT JOHN MILLER OF THE "DAILY TELEGRAPH" SAID: "IT IS CLEAR THAT HOWEVER PLEASED DR. KISSINGER WAS WITH THE GOOD ATMOSPHERE AT THE TALKS, HE HAS SO FAR FAILED TO PIN THE KREMLIN DOWN ON THE CRUCIAL PROBLEM OF FURTHER LIMITATION OF STRATEGIC ARMS." THE "DAILY EXPRESS" EDITORIALIZED THAT "DESPITE THE BLAND OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE, IT SEEMS THAT ALL DID NOT GO QUITE AS SMOOTHLY AS WAS HOPED IN THE TALKS BETWEEN DR. KISSINGER AND MR. BREZHNEV. THE MAIN REASON SEEMS TO BE THAT THE RUSSIANS ARE INFURIATED BY THE PUBLICITY GIVEN TO ASSURANCES FROM MOSCOW THAT RUSSIA WOULD ALLOW JEWS TO EMIGRATE IN RETURN FOR FAVORABLE TRADE TREATMENT FROM WASHINGTON." TURNING TO INDIA, THE "TIMES" NEW DELHI CORRESPONDENT MICHAEL HORFBY WROTE: "THE VISIT "IT IS HOPED WILL BEGIN A NEW AND LESS ACRIMONIOUS CHAPTER IN INDO-AMERICAN RELATIONS... ONE POSSIBILITY, WHICH IS KNOWN TO CONCERN THE AMERICANS AND ON WHICH DR. KISSINGER MAY SEEK AN ASSURANCE, IS THAT INDIA MIGHT OFFER ITS NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO A MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY, SEIKE IRAN, IN RETURN FOR CHEAP OIL." THE "GUARDIAN"

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DELHI CORRESPONDENT WALTER SCHWARZ FELT THAT "BASICALLY DR. KISSINGER NEEDS TO TELL MRS. GANDHI WHERE INDIA FITS INTO THE NEW, POST-DETENTE AMERICAN VIEW OF ASIA. IF HE CAN DO THAT, HE MAY FIND A BETTER CLIMATE FOR THE LOOSENING OF ECONOMIC CONSTRAINTS THAN HAS PREVAILED FOR MANY YEARS. FOOD AID WILL NOT DOMINATE THE TALKS... THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH WHEAT AVAILABLE TO MAKE A DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE." SCHWARZ DOES NOT SEE ANY "SHOWY BREAKTHROUGHS" ON ANY OF THE TOPICS UP FOR DISCUSSION SUCH AS ARMS FOR PAKISTAN, INDIA'S NUCLEAR INTENTIONS AND DIEGO GARCIA: "THE ESSENTIAL HOPE, AS OFFICIALS ON BOTH SIDES ARE SAYING, IS TO STOP SHOUTING AND START TALKING AND IF THAT IS ACHIEVED, THE KISSINGER VISIT CAN BE COUNTED A SUCCESS."

PARIS: THE FRENCH PRESS WAS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR REAL PROGRESS IN THE SALT TALKS. "LE QUOTIDIEN" SAID THE ATMOSPHERE AT THE MOSCOW TALKS "REMAINED CONSTANTLY TENSE" AS THE SOVIETS ARE NOT PLEASED WITH U.S. MIDEAST POLICY AND TO REPORTS BREZHNEV "SURRENDERED" TO AMERICAN PRESSURES ON EMIGRATION OF SOVIET JEWS.

"NOTHING HAS FILTERED OUT CONCERNING THE RESULT OF THE DISCUSSIONS ON STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION. BUT THESE RESULTS HAVE BEEN JUDGED POSITIVE ENOUGH TO MAKE THE AMERICANS AGREE TO A BRIEF SUMMIT MEETING.... (THE LOCATION) CONSTITUTES A CERTAIN SUCCESS FOR MOSCOW IN ITS STRUGGLE FOR INFLUENCE WITH CHINA." "AURORE," HOWEVER, TALKS ABOUT CHANCES FOR A NUCLEAR ARMS LIMITATION AGREEMENT IN 1975 AND LAYS OUT A TIMETABLE FOR THE TALKS. "IT IS AT THE SOVIET-AMERICAN SUMMIT THAT THE UNBLOCKING OF THE SALT NEGOTIATION WILL BE PROCLAIMED ..... THE GENEVA NEGOTIATORS WILL THEN BE INSTRUCTED TO AGREE WITHIN LESS THAN A YEAR .... THE FINAL ACCORD MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED ON THE OCCASION OF MR. BREZHNEV'S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES NEXT JULY." ON INDIA, FIGARO SAID: "NO ONE HERE EXPECTS THE KISSINGER VISIT TO END IN WARM EMBRACES. IF MRS. GHANDI NOW REORIENTS HER DIPLOMACY, IT IS PRIMARILY FOR FEAR OF A FAMINE.... MRS. GHANDI WISHES TO PROFIT FROM THE DETENTE BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS WITHOUT FALLING INTO THE TRAP OF DOUBLE ALIGNMENT."

BONN: KISSINGER'S TRIP TO MOSCOW WAS GIVEN MODERATE COVERAGE, PEGGED TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FORD-BREZHNEV MEETING AND THE SECRETARY'S DEPARTURE STATEMENT THAT HE IS "VERY SATISFIED" WITH THE RESULTS OF THE TALKS. "FRANKFURTER" "ALLGEMEINE'S" WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JAN REIFFENBERG SAID THE SUMMIT MEETING "WILL HAVE TO BRING THE SALT NEGOTIATIONS OUT OF THEIR PRESENT DEADLOCK. AS WAS THE CASE IN THE LAST NIXON-BREZHNEV CONFERENCE, THE SERIOUS TECHNICAL OBJECTIONS OF MILITARY EXPERTS WILL HAVE TO BE OVERCOME.... WHETHER PROGRESS IN THE DIFFICULT AREA OF MUTUAL CONTROLS OVER WEAPONS QUALITY IS POSSIBLE AT ALL REMAINS IN THE AMERICAN VIEW QUESTIONABLE." "DIE WELT" EDITORIALIZED THAT: "PROGRESS PROBABLY WAS MADE IN THE (TALKS) BUT IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN LARGELY IN THE THEORETICAL AREA. THE SOVIETS

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APPARENTLY WILL MAKE MUCH DEPEND ON THE OUTCOME OF THE TALKS WITH FORD AT THE END OF NOVEMBER.... THE BEST HOPE FOR THE WORLD IS SURELY THAT THE RESPONSIBLE FIGURES ON BOTH SIDES ARE PREPARED TO REACH AGREEMENT ON A FRAMEWORK IN WHICH ALSO ON ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENT COULD BE FITTED. THIS WILL REQUIRE ABOVE ALL RUSSIAN RESTRAINT; TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR THIS IS KISSINGER'S GOAL." TURNING TO INDIA, MR. KISSINGER'S ARRIVAL WAS ALSO GIVEN BRIEF COVERAGE. "SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG" EDITORIALIZED THAT:

> "IN KISSINGER'S 60 HOURS IN DELHI HE SCARCELY CAN REPAIR ALL THE CROCKERY THAT HAS BEEN BROKEN SINCE THE INDIAN-AMERICAN EUPHORIA OF THE EARLY 1960'S. EVEN A BUSINESSLIKE NORMALIZATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP WOULD BE A GREAT SUCCESS." KOELNER STADT-ANZEIGER SAID THE QUESTION "WHETHER RELATIONS CAN BE IMPROVED RAPIDLY DEPENDS UPON THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KISSINGER AND INDIRA GANDHI."

ROME: THE SECRETARY'S MISSION CONTINUES TO BE TREATED AS LEADING FOREIGN ITEM BY ALL MEDIA. TEXT OF MOSCOW COMMUNIQUE QUOTED EXTENSIVELY AND OVERALL TON OF COVERAGE REFLECTS BELIEF THAT MISSION WAS SUCCESSFUL AND RESULTS OF TALKS BEYOND EXPECTATIONS. LAST NIGHT'S MAIN TELEVISION NEWSCAST NOTED THE "COMMUNIQUE CONFIRMS THE EXISTENCE OF A BASIC UNDERSTANDING ON THE GREAT GUIDELINES... THE GREATEST SUCCESS OF KISSINGER'S MISSION REMAINS THE ACCORD ON THE MISSILES." A FRONT-PAGE EDITORIAL IN "CORRIERE DELLA SERA" CLAIMS THAT "KISSINGER'S MISSION TO MOSCOW ENDS WITHOUT TRIUMPHS AND WITHOUT DISAPPOINTMENTS." ALL OTHER MATTERS SEEM "TO BECOME MARGINAL IN RELATION TO SALT AND ALL OTHER EXPLOSIVE ISSUES HAVE BEEN SET ASIDE ... ANY EVOLUTION IN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVING DEPENDS ON THIS AGREEMENT." BOTH "CORRIERE DELLA SERA"

AND "IL TEMPO" SAID THAT THE COMMUNIQUE IS "OPTIMISTIC IN TONE BUT TOO VAGUE AS FAR AS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE TALKS IS CONCERNED." "PAESE SERA" SAID "THE RESULTS OF THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE AMERICAN SECRETARY AND THE SOVIET LEADERS ARE EXTREMELY POSITIVE AND GO BEYOND ANY EXPECTATION." "L'UNITA" DISCUSSED THE "POSITIVE CONCLUSION OF KISSINGER'S MISSION TO MOSCOW." ON THE VISIT TO INDIA ITALIAN TELEVISION SAID "MRS. GANDHI'S STATEMENTS RAISE SERIOUS DOUBTS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF OVERCOMING THE LACK OF CONFIDENCE WHICH HAS POISONED RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S. SINCE WASHINGTON CHOSE PAKISTAN IN THE 1971 WAR. KISSINGER, HOWEVER, HAS ALREADY STRUCK THE NOTE OF RECONCILIATION IN HIS ARRIVAL STATEMENT." "CORRIERE DELLA SERA", IN A CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT, CONCLUDED THAT "THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MOST OVERPOPULATED AND MOST POWERFUL DEMOCRACIES IN THE WORLD ARE BAD; INDIA'S TIES WITH THE SOVIET UNION ARE WELL KNOWN AND WASHINGTON, OF COURSE, COUNTS ON AN ALLIANCE WITH PAKISTAN. THE MEETING BETWEEN GHANDI AND KISSINGER WILL SERVE THE PURPOSE OF KNOWING THAT THE U.S. IS READY TO DO FOR AN INDIA ON THE VERGE OF TRAGEDY. THE NEW DELHI LEADERS WILL HAVE LITTLE SPACE FOR MANEUVERING." "IL GIORNO" STRESSED THAT "KISSINGER'S RECONSILIATION MISSION

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IN INDIA WILL PROVE TO BE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT," WHILE "IL TEMPO" STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MISSION TLICH "AIMS AT A SUBSTANTIAL RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S. AND INDIA."

TOKYO: JAPANESE TELEVISION AND NEWSPAPERS GAVE MODERATE TO PROMINENT COVERAGE TO REPORTS ON THE CONCLUSION OF SECRETARY'S VISIT TO MOSCOW. COMMENT INDICATED LITTLE OF A CONCRETE NATURE WAS ACCOMPLISHED ON SALT AND THE SUBJECT WILL BE CARRIED OVER TO THE SUMMIT MEETING. NHK SAID: "SECRETARY KISSINGER MADE A NEW PROPOSAL AND THE SOVIET SIDE RESPONDED WITH A COUNTER-PROPOSAL. BUT THE GENERAL VIEW IS THAT NO AGREEMENT CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL THE FORD-BREZHNEV TALKS." "ASAHI" FELT "THE GENERAL TONE OF THE COMMUNIQUE WAS WEAK. THE VIEW IN MOSCOW IS THAT U.S. - SOVIET DIFFERENCES ON KEY PROBLEMS BECAME MUCH CLEARER AS A RESULT OF KISSINGER'S VISIT... A FINAL CONCLUSION ON THE PENDING PROBLEMS HAS BEEN CARRIED OVER TO NEXT MONTH'S FORD-BREZHNEV TALKS." "YOMIURI" FELT THAT PROGRESS WAS MADE TOWARD CONCLUSION OF A NEW SALT AGREEMENT AND THE EXCHANGE OF VIEWS "WAS BENEFICIAL AND NEGOTIATIONS WILL CONTINUE." "MAINICHE" REPORTED THAT THE SOVIET VIEW IS THAT THE AGREEMENT FOR A SUMMIT "WAS THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOSCOW TALKS," WHILE "SANKEI" SAID THE AGREEMENT FOR A SUMMIT "WAS THE ONLY RESULT OF SECRETARY KISSINGER'S VISIT TO MOSCOW." THE SECRETARY'S ARRIVAL IN NEW DELHI WAS COVERED BRIEFLY. INSIDE PAGE WIRE SERVICE REPORTS STATED THE SECRETARY WAS OPTIMISTIC ON THE PROSPECTS FOR STRENGTHENING U.S. -INDIAN RELATIONS.

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THE KISSINGER VISIT DOMINATED INDIAN MEDIA SUNDAY AND MONDAY. COMMENTATORS DISCERNED SIGNS OF THE "NEW, MATURE AND REALISTIC RELATIONSHIP" URGED BY THE SECRETARY AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER CHAVAN. INFLUENTIAL CONSERVATIVE HINDU OF MADRAS SAID "THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE WIDE-RANGING INDO-U.S. DIALOGUE... IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT ANY DRAMATIC AGREEMENTS... BUT TO ESTABLISH BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EACH OTHER'S POLICIES AND PERCEPTIONS BY REMOVING THE EMOTIONAL AND DISTORTED ATTITUDES ON EITHER SIDE." THE INDEPENDENT STATESMAN OF NEW DELHI AND CALCUTTA DECLARED, "HAPPILY... FOR THE TWO SIDES, THE EARLIER EUPHORIA OVER POSSIBILITY OF INSTANT RECONCILIATION AND MUTUAL FORGIVENESS WAS NOT REFLECTED IN WHAT THE TWO LEADERS (KISSINGER AND CHAVAN) SAID." THE PAPER THOUGHT MR. KISSINGER "WAS SATISFIED THAT THE WORLD'S TWO GREATEST DEMOCRACIES HAD REDISCOVERED THEIR COMMON PURPOSE... HE HAS STRUCK A POSITIVE POSTURE." ON SUNDAY THE PAPER'S BOMBAY CORRESPONDENT SAID SPECULATION WAS "RIFE IN COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL CIRCLES ON HOW FAR DR. KISSINGER'S VISIT TO INDIA WILL PAVE THE WAY FOR IMPROVING INDO-AMERICAN TRADE RELATIONS," BUT A HEADLINE IN MONDAY'S INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL EXPRESS OF DELHI AND BOMBAY AGRESSED: "TALKS MAY NOT HAVE ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS." THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS TODAY DEVOTED ITS LAST FIVE PAGES TO A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON INDO-U.S. ECONOMIC COOPERATION SPONSORED BY THE INDO-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF

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COMMERCE. THE LARGE-CIRCULATION HINDI LANGUAGE NAV BHARAT TIMES OF DELHI URGED INDIA AND THE U.S. NOT TO REMAIN "BOGGED DOWN IN THE BITTER MEMORY OF THE PAST, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD IS BEING SWEPT BY THE NEW WAVE OF COOPERATION." IT CAUTIONED, "UNLESS THEY FULLY UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSIBILITIES WHICH HAVE BEEN THRUST UPON THEM IN THEIR OWN AREAS BY CIRCUMSTANCES, IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO COOPERATE IN FULFILLING THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES."
A BYLINER IN MONDAY'S INDEPENDENT TIMES OF INDIA DECLARED THAT INDIAN COMMUNIST LEADERS "MAY NOT BE AWARE THAT THERE IS A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THEIR WELCOME TO THE RUSSO-AMERICAN DETENTE AND THEIR OPPOSITION TO INDO-U.S. RECONCILIATION. BUT THEY CANNOT EXPLAIN IT AWAY." SEVERAL PAPERS CARRIED BIOGRAPHICAL AND ANALYTICAL PIECES ON SECRETARY KISSINGER. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT T.V. PARASURAM WROTE IN THE INDEPENDENT INDIAN EXPRESS (NEW DELHI, BOMBAY AND MADRAS) THAT "THERE ARE MANY KISSINGERS. ONE KISSINGER PRESIDES OVER THE COVERT ACTION GROUP... IN THAT CAPACITY HE CAN BE RUTHLESS AND AMORAL... BUT THERE IS ANOTHER KISSINGER WHO IS CONCERNED OVER THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY, GENUINELY UPSET OVER THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND POOR, OVER THE FAILURE OF THE PARLIAMENTS OF THE RICH NATIONS TO SEE HOW THIS LEVEL OF POVERTY AND DISCONTENT MUST ONE DAY DESTROY WORLD ORDER... ABOVE ALL, KISSINGER IS A REALIST." IN A DIFFERENT TONE, TIMES OF INDIA WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT KAMATH, AUTHOR OF A FORTHCOMING BOOK TITLED "KISSINGER, THE INCOMPLETE DIPLOMAT," AGRESSED THAT "THERE ARE SIGNS THAT CONGRESS, AT LEAST, IS DISILLUSIONED WITH MR. KISSINGER" AND ADDED, "INCREASINGLY THESE DAYS BOTH THE RELEVANCE OF HIS FOREIGN POLICY AS WELL AS THE NATURE OF ITS COSMETICS ARE UNDER QUESTIONING."
MONDAY EVENING INDIAN-DOMESTIC RADIO COVERED THE SECRETARY'S ACTIVITIES, HIGHLIGHTING HIS ADDRESS TO THE COUNCIL OF WORLD AFFAIRS IN NEW DELHI. EARLIER IN THE EVENING A RADIO REPORT ON HIS "WIDE-RANGING TALKS WITH INDIAN LEADERS" OBSERVED, "THE AMERICAN SIDE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE FULLY SUPPORTED THE SIMLA AGREEMENT. IT IS REPORTED TO HAVE GIVEN THE ASSURANCE THAT THE U.S. HAS NO DESIRE TO INTERFERE IN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SUBCONTINENT. NOR DOES IT HAVE ANY INTENTION OF EQUATING INDIA WITH ANY OTHER COUNTRY AND BRINGING INTO PLAY A BALANCE OF POWER IN THE REGION."

DACCA'S PRESS HAS COVERED THE SECRETARY'S TOUR DAILY, GIVING IT INCREASING PROMINANCE WITH THE APPROACH OF THE DACCA VISIT. HIS ARRIVAL IN INDIA WAS THE MAIN STORY TODAY; EARLIER REPORTS ON HIS DEPARTURE FROM MOSCOW AND TALKS WITH BREZHNEV SCATTERED. THERE HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY FEW EDITORIAL COMMENTS TO DATE WITH THE CONSENSUS OF SPECULATION ON THE AGENDA IS THAT THE WHOLE RANGE OF BILATERAL RELATIONS, INCLUDING FOOD AID, WILL BE DISCUSSED.
BANOPAD, IN A FRONT-PAGE EDITORIAL SAID: "IT CANNOT BE DENIED THAT FOREIGN ASSISTANCE CAN STILL PLAY A FRUITFUL ROLE IN REVITALIZING STAGNANT ECONOMIES OF DEVELOPING AND POOR NATIONS, WITH WHATEVER ATTITUDE ONE MAY VIEW U.S. ASSISTANCE... IF DR. KISSINGER CAN

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REMOVE THE STALEMATE NOW EXISTING BETWEEN BANGLADESH AND PAKISTAN, IT WILL BE REGARDED AS HIS BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT... IT WILL ALSO MARK SUCCESS OF THE TRIP IF HE CAN MOVE FORWARD THE TREND OF PROGRESSS ALREADY VISIBLE IN INDO-U.S. RELATIONS." GANOKANTHA SAID: "IT IS NOT YET CLEAR TO US IF TAJUDDIN WAS REMOVED BECAUSE HE WAS AN OBSTRUCTION TO BANGLADESH'S ADOPTING A PRO-U.S. FOREIGN POLICY... BUT WE CANNOT REGARD THIS INCIDENT AS ISOLATED FROM THE GAME OF INTERNATIONAL CHESS, ONLY FOUR DAYS PRIOR TO KISSINGER'S DACCA VISIT."

RADIO MOSCOW'S WEEKLY INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS ROUNDTABLE, BROADCAST IN RUSSIAN TO BOTH DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES ON SUNDAY EVENINGS, TOOK THE KISSINGER VISIT AS THE FIRST TOPIC. THE FIRST DEPUTY CHIEF EDITOR AND A POLITICAL OBSERVER OF THE IZVESTIA STAFF ALTERNATED IN HAILING THE SECRETARY'S VISIT AS A SIGN OF CONTINUING GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND THE USSR. THEY CITED THE SIMON VISIT TO MOSCOW AND RESUMPTION OF SALT AS EVIDENCE THAT "THE AGREEMENTS SIGNED EARLIER BETWEEN OUR COUNTRY AND THE U.S. ARE NOT JUST PAPER PACTS, BUT ARE BEING SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED," ADDING HOWEVER THAT "THEY ARE BEING SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED NOTWITHSTANDING THE CONTINUING OPPOSITION OF CERTAIN QUARTERS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OCEAN... TO CITE AN EXAMPLE... A STATEMENT BY U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY SCHLESINGER... A NEW APPEAL FOR A BUILDUP OF U.S. ARMED FORCES, PRIMARILY STRATEGIC ONES. IT IS, HOWEVER, INTERESTING THAT NOW SUCH APPEALS ARE MEETING WITH AN EVER MORE NEGATIVE RESPONSE FROM THE BROAD AMERICAN PUBLIC." IN ITS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE RADIO MOSCOW PLUGGED MUCH THE SAME LINE. A COMMENTARY ON THE KISSINGER-BREZHNEV TALKS BROADCAST SUNDAY EVENING IN SERBO-CROATIAN TO YUGOSLAVIA DECLARED THAT "THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP RESOLUTELY ADVOCATES THAT THE COURSE WHICH HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY SET IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SOVIET UNION AND THE U.S. BE CONTINUED. PRESIDENT GERALD FORD'S ASSURANCES THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION WILL AIM AT THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTRUCTIVE AND MUTUALLY USEFUL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES FILLS US WITH SATISFACTION... NO STATE AND NO GOVERNMENT NEED FEAR THIS IMPROVEMENT" IN SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS "PROVIDED THEY UNDERSTAND OUR POLICY CORRECTLY."

BELGRADE'S OWN DOMESTIC RADIO BROADCAST A COMMENTARY AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER SUGGESTING THAT "THE SPECTACULAR NATURE OF SECRETARY KISSINGER'S LONG DIPLOMATIC VOYAGE SUITS THE AMERICAN MENTALITY BUT, IN ADDITION TO THIS, IT SEEMS TO BE IMPOSED BY THE NEED... TO RENEW THE SHAKEN CHANCES OF THE REPUBLICANS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WHICH WILL BE HELD IN TWO YEARS... BUT IT IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR US NOW TO NOTE THAT PEACE GREATLY DEPENDS ON AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS... ON THE EVE OF KISSINGER'S TRIP REPORTS WERE LEAKED--IT SEEMS IN A CALCULATED MANNER--STATING THAT FORD WOULD AGREE TO A MEETING WITH BREZHNEV IF KISSINGER A

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