NEW YORK TIMES

12 June 1974

Kissinger Cool to European Bid to Arabs

By CRAIG R. WHITNEY
Special to The New York Times

BONN, June 11—Secretary of State Kissinger said today that the United States had reservations about some aspects of the European decision yesterday to begin a dialogue with 20 Arab countries, but he welcomed what he called “a change in spirit and attitude” on the troublesome issue of European-American consultation.

Mr. Kissinger said that the United States objected to the possibility of a conference of foreign ministers of the Arab and European nations, part of the proposal agreed on by the nine Common Market ministers in Bonn yesterday.

"We have no reservations on the offer of technical and scientific cooperation," Mr.

10 per cent to wholesale and consumer prices. Other major pushes came from the cost of oil, which has tripled, and imbalances resulting from Japan's rapid industrial progress in recent years.

Mr. Miyazaki said the agency estimated that wages must be held to a 15 to 20 per cent increase next year if the Japanese economy is to return to stability. He declined to advocate an incomes policy directly, indicating that was a decision for the nation's political leaders.

The slump in Japan's domestic economy has driven Japanese companies into an export drive, as usual when the economy falters. The respected Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's leading economic newspaper, has re-

Kissinger said. "We do have some hesitation about the prospect of 20 Arab foreign ministers meeting with nine European foreign ministers without a very clear idea of what's on the agenda, and we have made no secret of this. But it's up to our friends to make a decision."

The European proposal suggests a foreign ministers' conference only if earlier talks about cooperation in all fields prove fruitful. These are scheduled to begin shortly.

Mr. Kissinger made his comments after a meeting with the West German Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who had flown to meet him at a southern German spa, Bad Reichenhall, and to inform him of the results of the two-day foreign ministers' meeting that ended this morning in Bonn.

Mr. Genscher explained this

ported that exports in May were 60.5 per cent over those a year ago and reached $5 billion, the highest monthly figure in history. Much of that, however, was accounted for by higher export prices.

The paper predicted that the export drive would intensify as domestic demand continued slow and would be particularly sharp during the third quarter.

From the figures just made public, it appears that the Japanese economy has been in a slump for several months. Industrial production and producers shipments both dropped in the first quarter while inventories, as might be expected,

Orders for machinery in the first quarter were about half

morning that the Europeans, in their first "political" meeting since the recent government changes in Paris and Bonn had reached a "gentleman's agreement" to ease consultations between the Common Market and the United States.

There is nothing formal about the agreement, Mr. Genscher said. When asked what would happen if one country could block joint consultations, he said, "Then consultations wouldn't take place."

Mr. Kissinger, however, noted that "the element that is new is that there will be a greater use of bilateral consultations."

"There has been a change in spirit and attitude," he said.

He also hinted that President Nixon might stop in Europe on his way to Moscow later this month, after his tour of Middle East countries, but he said no plans had been made.

those in the preceding three months. Private construction was down 17 per cent and public works expenditures dropped 17.9 per cent. Business failures were up nearly 50 per cent over a year ago.

Wages paid for overtime work dropped 13.6 per cent under the preceding quarter, cutting into real income. Sales of department stores were up but at a slower rate. The registration of new cars was down 30 per cent from a year ago.

Oil imports told the story perhaps most graphically. Japan, which must import all of her oil, brought in 10.9 million barrels during the first quarter, almost the same as a year ago — and down 1.2 million barrels from the fourth quar-

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EDITOR

American study takes grim view
of world food shortages

whose daily life is already a fight for
any kind of happiness or even survival — would probably lead to the
break-up of the international system
through a series of conflicts on continental dimensions.

The report states that much of
mankind already lives in conditions of
misery and it challenges studies
made in industrialized countries
which dwell on ecological doom.

"Hunger, illiteracy, premature death, lack of adequate housing — in other words, miserable living conditions — are the common destiny shared by the greater part of the population of developing countries," it says.

"It is not necessary to wait 80 or 100 years until the effects of the eventual exhaustion of natural resources or of the increase of pollution reach the large centers of developed countries, to become aware of this catastrophe."

The report attacks studies by the
advanced nations for concentrating
on birth control, especially in devel-
oping countries. This policy has al-
ready been challenged by several
Latin American governments, in-
cluding that of President Peron in
Argentina, which is encouraging
people to have more babies and
recently limited sales of con-
traceptives.

The theory that population growth
must be controlled, compulsorily if
necessary, to avoid world cata-
strophe, implied that so-called 'un-

the social organization and system of
values on which their privileged posi-
tion is based," it says.

The report insists that "the devel-
oping countries, victims of the
present organization of the world, are
the only ones whose historical situ-
ation moves them to formulate solu-
tions that really take into account all
possible degrees of freedom."

The study concludes that if its
advice is followed, there would be no
danger of a critical shortage of min-
eral resources in the foreseeable
future, especially if consumption was
kept at the minimum to satisfy basic
human needs.

On an optimistic note the study says
the cost of exploiting natural re-
sources would remain essentially con-
stant, at least until man's basic needs
reached adequate levels. Energy
costs would also remain virtually
constant and would probably de-
crease in the short or medium term.

But it warns that at the present
unchecked rate of consumption, cal-
culations show the total mineral re-
sources still available in the earth's
crust would only meet man's needs
for the next 250 years. After the more
accessible reserves were mined, costs
would increase, it adds.

The findings of the study come
during the United Nation's World
Population Year.

Prior to a world population confer-
ence, opening in Bucharest on Aug.

Senate unit
BOLT SUN
votes to hold
6-12-74
tap hearing

By DEAN MILLS

Washington Bureau of The Sun

Washington—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed yesterday, immediately and unanimously, to comply with Henry A. Kissinger's request to review his role in the institution of wiretaps on his subordinates.

And the Secretary of State's dramatic threat to resign if the matter is not cleared up drew strong expressions of support for him from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

But Dr. Kissinger's emotional statement at his impromptu press conference in Salzburg, Austria, also me with some skepticism.

Representative Joshua Eilberg (D., Pa.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told reporters yesterday that the committee had received "positive proof" that Dr. Kissinger had helped initiate the taps.

But two other members of the committee who normally refuse to comment on any of the evidence before it, broke with that custom to come to Dr. Kissinger's defense. "I don't like to comment on evidence," said Representative Don Edwards (D., Calif.), "but we don't have any evidence to that effect. We do not have any evidence that Dr. Kissinger ordered any wiretaps."

Representative John F. Seiberling (D., Ohio) said the evidence "is in between. . . . There's evidence, but it's not conclusive evidence." Mr. Seiberling said the evidence is of a "hearsay" nature and cited a memo in which he quoted J.

See REACTION, A8, Col. 1

which led to the naming of
the chief executive as an
unindicted co-conspirator in

JUDGE G. A. GESELL

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Milton B. Allen, the Baltimore
will ask federal prosecutors to
bribe to State Senator Clarence
heatedly denied the allegation

A white parents' "Free
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dents out of schools in South, S
Baltimore ...

The BP Oil Corporation, with
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them with gasoline-only stat
BP name ...

A taped conversation played
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gambler as saying he paid off
went to the captain of the Wes

Although the Justice Depart
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the office phased out ...

The state's highest court,
at least temporarily,
breathed new life into a law-
suit two years ago by a
group of Baltimore county
citizens seeking to void as
illegal the abolition of four
county planners' jobs by the
administration of Dale An-
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executive ... C3

Theodore K. Venetoulis,

A8 THE SUN, Wednesday, June 12, 1974

Senate panel votes to review
role of Kissinger in wiretaps

REACTION, from Al

Edgar Hoover, the late director of the FBI, as saying "Kissinger is raising hell because of leaking."

Reacting to the Kissinger statement in Salzburg, several congressional staff aides were saying privately yesterday that the White House, as much as the Congress, is responsible for the doubt that remains about Dr. Kissinger's involvement in the wiretaps.

"Can't get evidence"

"It's ironic," said one, "that here Kissinger is saying he wants to get the wiretaps behind him, and yet Foreign Relations can't get the evidence it wants out of the Justice Department."

The surveillance subcommittee of the Senate panel has requested, so far without success, all the FBI and Justice Department correspondence on the subject of the 1971 wiretaps.

There was no move yesterday to call Dr. Kissinger back to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sources close to the panel predicted that its members will wait until after Dr. Kissinger returns from the Mideast to invite him to testify on the wiretaps again.

Senator J. W. Fulbright (D. Ark.), the committee chairman and generally a strong supporter of Dr. Kissinger, said he will call William B. Saxbe, the Attorney General, before the committee in an attempt to get the requested documents.

Like most other congressional leaders, Senator Fulbright said he hoped Dr. Kissinger will not resign. "I think it would have a bad effect," he said "I would hate to see him resign over a matter like this."

REPRESENTATIVE EILBERG
... cites "positive proof"

A few senators and congressmen argued that there are discrepancies in Dr. Kissinger's testimony that still need to be explained.

In the letter yesterday to Senator Fulbright in which he requested the review of the wiretap matter, Dr. Kissinger argued that "the documents now being leaked" had been available to both him and to some senators of the committee at the time of his testimony before his confirmation as secretary of state.

"In a few cases," he said, "my recollection differed in emphasis from the documents. In those cases I pointed out apparent discrepancies and explained them at the time. The innuendoes which now imply that new evidence contradicting my testimony has come to light are without foundation. All the available evidence is to the best of my knowledge contained in the public and closed hearings which preceded my confirmation."

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## KISSINGER THREAT

# Scandal Trails Nixon's Tour

By a Star-News Staff Writer

SALZBURG, Austria—The Watergate scandal is fastened like a ball and chain to President Nixon and his hopes for a triumphant tour of the Middle East.

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger brought the issue of the scandal into sharp focus when he told a hastily called news conference that he would resign unless a cloud was removed from his "honor and credibility."

**Kissinger Was Warned on Hostile Questioning. A-17**

Only a little more than an hour before Kissinger faced reporters yesterday in the ornate drawing room of the Kavalierhaus Hotel, Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler had declared that Nixon's spokesmen would not answer Watergate questions during the President's 10-day foreign tour.

But Kissinger, the man they call a "Magician" in Egypt, suddenly transformed the atmosphere surrounding Nixon's 14,775-mile journey into a copy of the mood back home.

"I cannot conduct my office if I have to devote my energies to disproving allegations of perjury, nor do I believe that the United States can conduct an effective foreign policy with a secretary of State under such attack and, therefore, I am simply stating reality," Kissinger said.

"I HAVE attempted, however inadequately, to set some standards in my public life," he said. "If I cannot set these standards, I do not wish to be in public life."

The setting was Austrian. Kissinger stood in front of an antique tapestry showing a scene of Alpine seniority. Cut-glass chandeliers hung from the ceiling, outshown by the bright television lights.

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But the subject was strictly American. Kissinger's remarks pushed far into the background Ziegler's earlier announcement that when he returns home on June 19 Nixon will have gone to more countries —28—and traveled more miles outside of the United States—137,500—than any previous president.

Even at the foot of the Bavarian alps, the President and his traveling White House could not escape Watergate.

Kissinger's voice frequently cracked with emotion during a 45-minute monologue that preceded about 15 minutes of questions and answers.

The secretary met with Nixon prior to the news conference but he said he did not inform the President that he would threaten to resign unless his name is cleared.

Ziegler said that he knew of no one on the White House staff who was informed beforehand that Kissinger planned to put his job on the line.

KISSINGER insisted that he was not guilty of anything. If that case, he was asked, could he not have waited until after Nixon's Middle Eastern and Soviet trips before venting his anger.

"Not while there were daily editorials asking for an explanation of a shady affair, not while editorials say his fitness for public office is at issue, not while headlines say 'A Blot on Mr. Clean.' Under what conditions do you suppose one can conduct one's affairs?" he said.

Kissinger was reminded that the attacks on him which caused him to threaten to resign if he were not publicly vindicated were only a pale copy of the charges which have been made against Nixon. By the Kissinger logic should Nixon not resign?

"The President is the only nationally elected official," Kissinger said. "For a president to resign under attack would raise the most profound issues of national policy and in my judgment a president can leave office only according to the constitutional process . . . an appointed official has no such responsibility to the elective process. An appointed official has a responsibility

only to the immediate conduct of his affairs."

From the White House standpoint, Kissinger's performance had one slim virtue. It quieted, for the time being at least, talk about the trip being intended to divert attention from the congressional impeachment investigation.

IF THE HIDDEN object was to push Watergate off the front pages, the effort was a dismal failure.

Ziegler insisted that nothing was really changed. Has Kissinger cast a pall over the Middle East trip, Ziegler was asked.

"No," the frequently volatile press secretary said, his face showing no emotion.

Should Nixon resign?

"No," he said. "I think Henry covered that. The constitutional situation is much different. The Secretary of State is not the President."

Is honor less important to a secretary of State than to a president?

"Not at all," Ziegler said. "It is just that the situations are completely different."

Nixon's time in Salzburg had been billed as a rest stop—a day of only light activity in preparation for the hectic swing through the Middle East that was to follow.

Members of the President's party, both the White House staff and the 122-member press contingent, had planned to spend the day wandering around the pictureque city, touring Mozsart's birthplace or just sampling the excellent local beer.

BUT INSTEAD, reporters spent virtually all of the daylight hours sequestered in the press center, turning out millions of words on Kissinger's appearance.

Senior staff members were closeted in meetings, presumably discussing the impact of the secretary's performance.

Only Nixon, it seemed, spent the day as originally planned. Ziegler said the President remained at Klemheim Palace, the 270-year-old baroque mansion where he was staying while in Austria. He conferred with Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky during the morning, before Kissinger's news conference.

—Norman Kempster

Upstaging
The
Queen

By Dorothy McCardle

The threat of resignation by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew shocked and dismayed comments from politicians and diplomats last night at the annual queen's birthday reception in the gardens of the British Embassy

Members of the Senate and House, the Nixon administration and ambassadors, who rarely talk openly about the internal affairs of

the U.S., gave their concerned reactions at the 1,500-guest party hosted by British Ambassador and Lady Peter Ramsbotham.

Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), outgoing chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declined to comment, but Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) was less restrained.

"It would be tragic if he should resign after his

near miraculous performance," Scott said.

At a press conference in Austria yesterday morning, Kissinger deplored what he considers slurs on his integrity concerning national security wiretaps to stop news leaks from 1969 to 1971. He said he could not conduct America's foreign policy while his "honor and

See BIRTHDAY, C3, Col. 4

WASH. POST
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Upstaging the Queen

BIRTHDAY, From C1

credibility are under attack," and suggested that the Foreign Relations Committee clear his name with a vote of confidence.

Scott gave assurances last night that the committee will do as Kissinger asks.

"I am sure that the committee will reaffirm his integrity," said Scott. "I explore the needless kind of questioning to which he has been subjected."

Rep. Robert McClory (R-Ill.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee now considering impeachment charges against President Nixon, was even more emphatic in his support of Kissinger.

"I'd rather lose all 38

members of the House Judiciary Committee than Henry Kissinger," said McClory. "He's the greatest thing we have. I just hope we can make amends."

Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), another member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he is "sure everything will work out as it should. Dr. Kissinger is a necessity of our country's welfare."

Two members of President Nixon's Cabinet, Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture, and Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, expressed their faith that Kissinger will stay.

"I hope it doesn't happen," said Weinberger about

the threat to quit. "I'd be very distressed if he resigned. He has been a great public servant."

Rep. Lindy Boggs (D-La.) said she "hopes it isn't true." Rep. Leonor K. Sullivan (D-Mo.) said she "just couldn't believe it."

Foreign diplomats supported Kissinger, too.

"He has been a great Secretary of State," said Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa of Nicaragua.

The Ambassador of Israel, Simcha Dinitz, expressed the hope that "it isn't true."

"The whole world would be that much poorer," said Dinitz.

door's opening. Surely the darkness which is so integral a part of the play's atmosphere would be even more oppressive if, at that moment, we actually saw the huge light that Bartok has there written into the orchestra.

The double bill will be carried over into the coming season, and the Met management says frankly that some changes could be made if they seem indicated. A few

in stage direction, lighting, and the materials projected would greatly strengthen the work before it hits the more reactionary audiences. The production is a gift of Francis Goelet.

Puccini's witty romp looks beautiful against a golden-tinted set, the work of another young Met staff man, Fabrizio Melano. Ehrling showed his wide versatility in turning from Bartok to Puccini, bringing the latter

its full measure of bright sparkle.

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## Editorials

# It Is Essential For Senate Committee To Clear Up Charges Against Kissinger

The cause of American prestige and world peace would suffer an enormous setback if Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger resigned because of shadowy, unproven charges over his role in national security wiretapping.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee responded with commendable alacrity in agreeing to Kissinger's demand to reopen hearings to determine he did not order electronic surveillance of his subordinates.

It is a sign of the universal high respect for the Nobel Prize-winning diplomat that such prominent Democratic members as Senators Edmund S. Muskie, D-Me., and Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., urged him not to give in to the anonymous attacks.

Typical of the reaction, Muskie called Kissinger a brilliant servant whose record "deserves the support of his countrymen until there is a record to show the contrary." To do anything less is unthinkable.

In his confirmation hearings last September, the secretary said he had named officials who had access to sensitive documents but he did not suggest the taps in question.

Kissinger spoke up with evident emotion in Salzburg, Austria, yesterday because of stories implying new evidence contradicted his testimony. This, he said, defamed his honor and reputation and could not be allowed to go unchallenged.

Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., quickly came to Kissinger's defense and emphasized the latter's voluntary appearance before the Foreign Relations Committee to answer questions on the controversy satisfied the members.

It is hardly necessary to recite Kissinger's achievements in ending US involvement in Vietnam, in dealing with troublesome US allies in Europe and with hot-and-cold Russian leaders; in restoring relations

with Egypt and other Arab nations and, against all odds, getting Israel and Syria to pull away from the Golan Heights area.

The extraordinary record, however, shows what an absolute calamity it would be if he were driven out of office unjustifiably. As Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., commented, the secretary is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee cannot afford to waste a moment to clear the air and allow Kissinger to continue his mission as an ambassador for peace and as a precious asset to the well-being of his adopted country.

Dr. Donald W. Waind, executive privilege and would challenge at the appellate level Sirica's decision to release the tape.

## Public TV's Fate

A spokesman for the White House has denied reports that President Nixon has rejected a plan for long-range financing of public television. The New York Times said yesterday that Nixon axed the plan formulated by his White House Office of Telecommunications Policy.

Not so, said the spokesman. It's still "before the President and no decision has been made." Nixon was reported to have called for scaled down financing.

## Housing Money

The federal government is pumping $100 million into the nation's most problem-ridden public housing projects in an effort aimed at physical improvements and better security. Of the total, $35 million will be spent immediately from leftover funds of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The department will have to ask Congress for the rest. The District of Columbia will receive $2 million.

## Parking Tax Okayed

The Supreme Court has flashed a green light to cities searching for ways to lighten their downtown traffic congestion. It rules that cities may levy a high tax on private parking lots and gages.

The court acted in a fight between the

have agreed, by an overwhelming vote, to accept a new contract.

The details of the contract, which ends the union's first strike in over half a century, have not yet been made public.

## Crackpots and SLA

"All the crackpots and mental cases between Canada and Mexico who can hold a pen are drawing seven-headed cobras and writing 'kill the pigs' and 'death to the factist insect,'" says an FBI official in California. He believes its in response to publicity given each new purported "communique" from the Symbiontese Liberation Army, whose symbol is the cobra.

The latest in the list was a communication received yesterday by a Los Angeles radio station. It claimed that Patricia Hearst, Tania to the SLA, has died and been buried with full military honors. The FBI man, who declined the use of his name, says the only authenticated communications are those tape recordings on which Miss Hearst's voice was identified.

## Food Board Rapped

Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., says the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences is dominated and partly financed by the food industry. In a Senate speech yesterday, he called the board's recommended daily allowance of vitamins and minerals "capricious, unscientific and illogi-

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## Wheat Hunt

Authorities in some parts of India have begun intensive campaigns that include farm searches and round-the-clock roadblocks. Their aim? To flush out undeclared wheat.

The actions came after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's new plan to get wheat to the hungry poor fell drastically behind schedule due to hoarding and shady operations by traders. The police tactics are aimed at curbing black market activity.

## Refugee Routes

Russia has no desire for confrontation with the West over Berlin, says the Soviet ambassador to East Germany, just as long as less restrictive travel policies aren't used to smuggle refugees.

Michail T. Yefremov's warning came in an interview with the East German party newspaper. It marked the second anniversary of the signing of the Big Four agreement to lesson tension in the divided city.

second meeting — to discuss thearmistice—both the Viet Cong and Saigon negotiators said peace depended on the other party.

## Huk Leader Killed

Felix Salac, commander of Huk insurgents was reported killed when he and three bodyguards traded gunfire with Philippine troops at Abucay, about 35 miles west of Manila.

A former policeman, Salac, whose nom de guerre was Commander Pelaez, was designated supreme commander of the Huk after the capture of guerrilla leader Faustino del Mundo in 1970. Del Mundo, 71, is now in prison.

## French A-Blast

A French atmospheric test of a nuclear explosive in the Pacific could come as early as this week. France has banned all civilian shipping and airplane flights from the area around its testing ground at Mururoa Atoll, 500 miles southeast of Tahiti.

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A senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senate Majority Leader Mice Mansfield, D-Mont., said Kissinger had told him of his concern last week. Mansfield said he had advised Kissinger he should not quit. The senator today said the committee seemed unanimous in support of the secretary.

Another committee member, Sen. George Aiken, R-Vt., commented caustically: "The goddam fool. Can't he take it? Why, that's part of the business, being criticized."

KISSINGER summoned reporters to the ornate drawing room of a hotel on the grounds of the 18th century palace in Salzburg where President Nixon is resting prior to his trip to the Middle East.

Appearing tense, his voice frequently cracking, Kissinger said he wanted to respond to published accounts accusing him of misleading the Foreign Relations Committee about his

part in the wiretapping of administration officials and newsmen.

Kissinger insisted that he had not instigated the wiretaps and that he never saw verbatim transcripts of recorded conversations.

But he conceded that his concern over the leaks of government secrets had prompted Nixon to order the wiretaps. And he said he supplied names of individuals who might be responsible for the leaks with full knowledge that their telephones would be tapped.

"AT THE TIME, I found it (wiretapping) an extremely painful process," Kissinger said. "But I did not quarrel with the judgment of those who found it necessary."

Kissinger spoke for 45 minutes, pausing occasionally in his somewhat rambling monologue to sip from a glass of water on the leg-term.

He insisted that he was the victim of distorted interpretations of leaked documents, describing what he

counterpart Rudolf Kirchschlaeger; President Nixon, and Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.

Out for a morning walk in the gardens of Schloss Klesheim are (from left): Secretary of State Kissinger; his Austrian

-Associated Press

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>NBC NIGHTLY NEWS NBC TV<br>6:30 PM JUNE 11<br>No News of Relevance to DOD.</td><td>was 84 to 6.<br>One amendment to the bill proposed by Senator KENNEDY, to cut Vietnam military aid, was rejected 46 to 45.</td></tr><tr><td>CBS EVENING NEWS CBS TV<br>7:00 PM JUNE 11<br>Kissinger's Role In Plugging Leaks</td><td>ABC EVENING NEWS ABC TV<br>7:00 PM JUNE 11<br>No News of Relevance to DOD.</td></tr><tr><td>ROGER MUDD: Marvin Kalb, who regularly covers KISSINGER, has put together a report on the adminis- trations attempts to plug the leaks on the NSC and on the discrepancies in KISSINGER's description of his role in it.<br>MARVIN KALB: American bombers roaring into action against neutral Cambodia, spring 1969. That bombing was supposed to be secret, but when the secrecy was broken in May of that year in a front page news story KISSINGER, the President and others at the White House were furious. Who leaked, they wanted to know.<br>A program of wiretapping -- 13 officials and four newsmen un- folded as other leaks appeared in the press.<br>During his confirmation hearing last September, KISSINGER denied under oath that he had recommended wiretapping. He maintained that his role had been marginal.***<br>KISSINGER also denied under oath that he knew anything about the so-called White House "Plumbers" or about David YOUNG, one of their directors.<br>Four months later during a January news conference KISSINGER admitted that he knew something about David YOUNG, that YOUNG had interrogated an Admiral WELLANDER working at the White House in a bizarre pilfering case.***<br><u>Military Procurement Bill</u><br>MUDD: The Senate today passed a $21 billion 800 million military arms procurement bill, the vote</td><td>CBS MORNING NEWS CBS TV<br>7:00 AM JUNE 11<br>Military Procurement Bill<br><br>HUGHES RUDD: There's a bill now before the Senate that asks that $21.8 billion dollars for military procurement.<br>Part of it is for new sophis- ticated Intercontinental missiles wanted by the NIXON administration.<br>Yesterday the Senate voted on an amendment aimed at holding off on the development of the new armaments and George Herman.<br>GEORGE HERMAN: The guards cleared the chamber, closed the seldom used wooden doors and for three hours kept the rest of the world at bay.<br>It was one of the rare exec-utive sessions of the Senate and the subject was that most delicate of secret matters, the accuracy of our long range nuclear missiles.<br>Senator Thomas McINTYRE of New Hampshire had proposed an amend- ment saying that no funds should be spent on sophisticated new re-entry vehicles for our Minute Man missiles unless and until the President reports that the SALT talks have failed.<br>McINTYRE knew all along that his amendment was doomed but he said he wanted the Senate to discuss the dangers of starting a new round of arms escalation.<br>If he had any illusions they were soon dispelled. As he entered the chamber an unthinking staff</td></tr></tbody></table>

2 Wednesday, June 12, 1974

Disputed Issues

WASH. STAR NEWS 6/11/74

These are the issues in dispute on Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's role in the national security incidents:

* Was it President Nixon or Kissinger who initiated the wiretaps by the FBI of 17 individuals from 1969 to 1971 after the news of the secret bombing of Cambodia was leaked? Kissinger's version is that the President ordered the taps on 13 National Security Council employes and four newsmen and that the tapes were legally instituted through the Department of Justice at Nixon's specific request. But White House transcripts quote Nixon as saying he knew Kissinger had asked that it be done "and I assumed it was."

* Whether Kissinger, who admits obeying an order to supply the names of NSC employes with access to secret documents, was also the source for the names of the four newsmen.

* Whether Kissinger had any knowledge of the existence and activities of the White House "Plumbers" group or if he knew former NSC employe David Young was engaged in national security work, Kissinger has sworn under oath that he knew nothing of the "Plumbers" by that or any other name and thought Young was engaged in a project declassifying documents. Yet Kissinger has admitted in a press conference that he listened to a tape recording of Young interrogating Adm. Robert O. Welander about the taking of documents from Kissinger's briefcase by a Navy yeoman during a Kissinger trip.

* Whether Kissinger objected to the assignment of Young to the White House investigative unit, as former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman has sworn he did. Kissinger last week did not flatly deny that this conversation took place among Haldeman, Ehrlichman and himself on a helicopter ride on July 14, 1971, but said "it is improbable" that any complicated matters were discussed. The point is that if Kissinger had objected to Young's assignment it would appear to contradict his sworn testimony that he knew nothing of Young's role beyond the declassification assignment.

Kissinger Letter to Fulbright

Here is the text of a letter which Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today he has sent to Sen. J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Dear Mr. Chairman:

You have no doubt seen the news reports and editorial comment relating to my testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time of my confirmation hearing. They involve fundamental issues concerning the truthfulness and completeness of my testimony: Hence they raise issues of public confidence and directly affect the conduct of our foreign policy.

You will remember that my testimony concerning the national security wiretaps ordered by the President and carried out by the FBI under the authority of the attorney general was in three parts: Public testimony, and extensive executive session, and a session with Sens. Sparkman and Case in which we went over relevant FBI files. The meeting with Sens. Sparkman and Case was conducted in the presence of the then Attorney General Richardson and the then Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus.

I emphasize this because no new material has appeared since my testimony except a brief excerpt from a presidential tape, a large part of which is described as unintelligible. The documents now being leaked were, to the best of my knowledge, available to me before my testimony, they were given to Sens. Sparkman and Case prior to my meeting with them. In a few cases my recollection differed in emphasis from the documents; in those cases I pointed out apparent discrepancies and explained them at the time. The innuendos which now imply that new evidence contradicting my testimony has come to light

You are familiar with the details of my testimony, so I shall not repeat them here. Nor do I have any reason to change the testimony presented to your committee in any particular. Nevertheless, at this sensitive period I feel it important that the committee which first examined the evidence, and which has a special concern with the conduct of foreign affairs, should have an opportunity to review it once again.

I should add that if the committee decides on a review, I would not object should it wish to examine relevant security files and reports on wiretaps sent to my office.

I, of course, stand ready to appear at any time.

## Nixon Statement

Following is the text of a statement by presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler commenting on Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's news conference today in Salzburg, Austria.

The President recognizes Secretary Kissinger's desire to defend his honor against false charges and the secretary's strong feeling that he be able to carry out his responsibilities unencumbered by the diversions of the kind of anonymous attack that has so poisoned our national dialogue. As far as the President is concerned, he is sure that those in the United States and in the world who seek peace and are familiar with Secretary Kissinger's contributions to international trust and understanding share his view that the secretary's honor needs no defense.

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William F. Buckley Jr.:

Quit Bugging Kissinger

The other day I turned on the television and was accosted by David Halberstam referring to Henry Kissinger as "that bugger." Halberstam lives in a glass house, one observes parenthetically. After all, what is obnoxious about bugging is the violation of privacy. And Halberstam's most famous book consists very substantially in violations of privacy.

If A tells B something in confidence, and B tells it to Halberstam who publishes it, that is different from Halberstam bugging a conversation between A and B, but not so very much different, it seems to me, as to justify homilies by Halberstam at the expense of buggers.

THEY ARE REALLY after Kissinger these days on the matter of did he or did he not initiate the bugging of some of his subordinates, or indeed of some members of the press, during the 1969-1971 period, and it is useful to consider the arguments and their progressive derailment at the hands of

Kissinger's most vehement critics.

* When the headlines report triumphantly that "No Security Information/Garnered By Wiretaps" really nothing very much is proved. It is not proved that the wiretaps should not have been installed. To say, "No Enemy Planes/ Detected by DOD Radar", is not an argument for disestablishing the DEW Line network. All it means is that the 13 government officials and four newsmen who were wiretapped did not, over the wiretaped telephone, discuss the national security secrets the Executive was seeking to protect. It does not even mean, by the way, that the gentlemen in question were conclusively innocent. All it means is that they were not caught.

* Kissinger was asked by Senator Fulbright, during the hearings on Kissinger's appointment as secretary of State, a question I remember at the time thinking of as highly indelicate. It was the question: Did Kissinger himself initiate a wiretap of any single

individual? Kissinger replied in the negative, and, when pressed, said only that he had acquiesced in the general notion that surveillance of some sort was proper under the circumstances.

THE REASON I thought Senator Fulbright's question indelicate, as also the questions of those who are now tormenting Kissinger on the point, is this: If the general principle is established that the Executive is entitled to guard the secrecy of its innermost deliberations — whether, for instance, to tilt towards India or towards Pakistan; what fallback position we are willing to take with the Russians at Helsinki, that kind of thing — then it follows that if the secrets are leaking, it is necessary to do something to stop the leak. (Who says A must say B.)

IF KISSINGER was pressed to give the names of one or more people whom he had observed to be a little loosemouthed, loyalty would re-

quire that he not disclose this publicly. Because, for one thing, to be a little loosemouthed is not necessarily a critical disqualification.

And finally, I return to the point of the "bonded bugger." No decent government official should permit himself to look at the logs of telephone conversations except insofar as they deal with government secrets. These excerpts, if they occur at all, should be pulled out of the telephone logs by an anonymous and highly trusted civil servant pledged with priestly gravity to guard the confidentiality of conversations extrinsic to the point in question. These logs should be instantly burned, and the bonded bugger protected by law against any questioning about them.

Why are these elementary subtleties escaping the attention of the refined inquisitors of the Nixon administration? Is it because they are becoming primarily inquisitors, and only secondarily men of refinement?

Simon told a House Banking and Currency subcommittee that he favors allowing Americans to own gold, which now is prohibited.

President Nixon has authority from Congress to remove the ban at any time and Simon said he hopes this will be possible "before the end of the year unless there are damaging developments."

Simon appeared before the House subcommittee, now considering U.S. contributions to the International Development Association, which makes interest free development loans to the world's poorest countries.

The Senate already has approved a $1.5 billion appropriation, but with a stipulation that Americans should be free to own gold effective Sept. 1.

The House subcommittee, which previously turned down the IDA bill, also is considering setting a gold owning date as a condition for passage of the bill, sources say.

SIMON SAID he opposes fixing a date, because unless time is right, it could have an adverse impact on world finances.

He also said it could hamper current negotiations on international monetary reform. The future of gold is to be part of the reform package.

Simon also raised the possibility that the U.S. government might sell some of its $11 billion from its official gold stocks.

Private trading of gold in the United States could have an "appreciable anti-inflation impact" when the time is right, Simon said.

GOLD OWNERSHIP restrictions have been in effect since 1934.

Some administration officials believe the private ownership of gold would hurt the economy. Their theory is that if Americans spend their dollars on gold, they will be buying less of something else. World demand for gold has sent prices soaring. Prices have been driven even higher by speculators buying gold in

case until next month, the question of Nixon's compliance with the court order has been raised because White House spokesmen have refused to say whether the President would honor a decision that went against him.

Rhodes said the relatively recent emergence of "a very hard core of support for the President" within the electorate appears to have enhanced Nixon's chances of averting impeachment.

AMONG THE members of the House, that development appears to have "counterbalanced the belief that the best political vote was a vote to impeach," said Rhodes. When asked to predict the outcome on the floor if the Judiciary Committee recommends a bill of impeachment, Rhodes said, "I think that the House might say that they don't have a case."

Suggesting to the newsmen that "you have overestimated the importance of it (impeachment) as far as the people are concerned," Rhodes said, "The most pressing problem in the country today is inflation."

3-1 in support of Nixon.

## Waldorf Fire Probed

Charles County police and fire officials are investigating a fire that caused $225,000 damage to a commercial building in Waldorf early Sunday.

No one was injured in the blaze, which destroyed two-thirds of the one-story cinderblock and stucco building. Housed in the building were two auto body shops, a welding company, an engineering firm, a feed store and a repossession company.

## Pine Scent for City

BERLIN (UPI) — The East Berlin Department of Sanitation has announced that tank trucks will spray the city with the scent of spruce and pine when the temperature climbs over 70 degrees.

he has given, with which concur. It denies him the right of counsel."

BEFORE GESEN spoke, Ehrlichman's chief attorney, William S. Frate, said he, too, found the proposal "completely unacceptable and in violation the 6th Amendment," which guarantees a criminal defendant the right to have a lawyer.

Asst. Special Prosecutor William H. Merrill said could not understand why the President will not allow Frates into the vault, where the files of Ehrlichman and other former White House aides are stored, in order to advise his client on what documents might be relevant to the case.

Merrill argued, however, that the prosecutors have given Ehrlichman far more than a criminal defendant entitled to, and asserted that Ehrlichman has failed to show that any of the documents he is still seeing are relevant.

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William F. Buckley Jr.:

Quit Bugging Kissinger

STAR NEWS 6-11-74

* When the headlines report triumphantly that "No Securi ty Information/Garnered By Wiretaps" really nothing very much is proved. It is not proved that the wiretaps should not have been installed. To say, "No Enemy Planes/ Detected by DOD Radar", is not an argument for disestablishing the DEW Line network. All it means is that the 13 gov ernment officials and four newsmen who were wiretap ped did not, over the wiretap- ped telephone, discuss the na tional security secrets the Executive was seeking to pro tect. It does not even mean, by the way, that the gentlemen in question were conclusively innocent. All it means is that they were not caught.

* Kissinger was asked by Senator Fulbright, during the hearings on Kissinger's ap pointment as secretary of State, a question I remember at the time thinking of as high ly indelicate. It was the ques tion: Did Kissinger himself initiate a wiretap of any single

individual? Kissinger replied in the negative, and, when pressed, said only that he had acquiesced in the general notion that surveillance of some sort was proper under the circum stances.

THE REASON I thought Senator Fulbright's question indelicate, as also the ques tions of those who are now tor menting Kissinger on the point, is this: If the general principle is established that the Executive is entitled to guard the secrecy of its inner most deliberations — whether, for instance, to tilt towards India or towards Pakistan; what fallback position we are willing to take with the Rus sians at Helsinki, that kind of thing — then it follows that if the secrets are leaking, it is necessary to do something to stop the leak. (Who says A must say B.)

IF KISSINGER was pressed to give the names of one or more people whom he had ob served to be a little loose- mouthed, loyalty would re

quire that he not disclose this publicly. Because, for one thing, to be a little loose- mouthed is not necessarily a critical disqualification.

And finally, I return to the point of the "bonded bugger." No decent government official should permit himself to look at the logs of telephone con versations except insofar as they deal with government se crets. These excerpts, if they occur at all, should be pulled out of the telephone logs by an anonymous and highly trusted civil servant pledged with priestly gravity to guard the confidentiality of conversa tions extrinsic to the point in question. These logs should be instantly burned, and the bonded bugger protected by law against any questioning about them.

Why are these elementary subtleties escaping the atten tion of the refined inquisitors of the Nixon administration? Is it because they are becom ing primarily inquisitors, and only secondarily men of re finement?

cials charged with covering up the original Watergate break-in.

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When she discovered her
ing had been left at the air-
port, Miss Dreisbach and
driver headed back to
the terminal, arriving an
our after their initial de-
ture. The suitcase was
where to be found.

MISS DREISBACH and a
end searched National all
y yesterday, to no avail.
thought for sure I'd find
We walked around all
y. We looked in every
stroom . . . every cor-
cr...."

She contacted Red Top
ops, but they said no suit-
e had turned up. The
ef inspector wasn't in,
she still isn't sure if
e will be an offer to
burse her for the gown.
port officials told her
ing had turned up in
the found office.

She said she doesn't know
what she's going to do for
another wedding gown. "I
guess I'll wait 'til the last
minute to see if it turns up,"
she said. Her take-home
pay of $180 every two weeks
isn't enough, she said, to
replace it.

"The thing that got me
was the cab driver," she
said. "When I finally got
home last night he said to
me, 'Boy, you sure made
my day end bad.' I felt like
saying, 'Buddy, you did the
same for mine.'"

Blame Shakespeare,

NEW YORK — A few
starlings were introduced to
the United States in 1850 by
members of a Shakespeare
society so that all the birds
mentioned in the play-
wright's works would be
represented in this country.
They have multiplied until
today they are considered

then. But they could gather
earlier at a special confer-
ence to deal with the mat-
ter.

The "motion to unseal"
the papers was submitted to
the justices by Special
Prosecutor Leon Jaworski,
who said he was also speak-
ing on behalf of the Presi-
dent's lawyers.

The documents, which
indicate Nixon was cited by
a 19-0 grand jury vote, are
being held in the Supreme
Court vault under the
supervision of Michael
Rodak, the clerk of the
court.

The tape sought by Ja-
worski, of a Sept. 15, 1972
meeting with Nixon and
then presidential aides H.
R. Haldeman and John W.
Dean III, is one of several
turned over to Sirica in re-
sponse to the prosecutor's
first subpoena last summer.

Sirica gave the procur-
tors 33 minutes of the Sept.
15 conversation, and retain-
ed the remaining 16 or 17
minutes, which he ruled as
not relevant to the cover-
up.

Late last month, however,
Jaworski said another
grand jury investigating
possible misuse of the IRS
and other government agen-
ties.

Rhodes.

"In my opinion, that's the
one thing he probably
couldn't survive," the
Arizona congressman told a
group of reporters last
night when asked about the
possibility that the Presi-
dent might refuse to honor a
Supreme Court ruling
ordering him to produce
materials related to the
Watergate scandals.

When asked to explain his
phrase, "couldn't survive,"
Rhodes said: "I don't think
he could do that and keep
from being impeached by a
majority of the House."

COMPLIANCE with a
Supreme Court decision has
become an issue because
the court on May 31 agreed
to hear a case in which Nix-
on has refused to produce 64
tapes of Watergate-related
White House conversations
being sought by Special
Prosecutor Leon Jaworski.

Although the Supreme
Court is not scheduled to
hear oral arguments in the

for the
electorate appear
have enhanced Nixon's
chances of averting im-
peachment.

AMONG THE members
of the House, that develop-
ment appears to have
"counterbalanced the belief
that the best political vote
was a vote to impeach,"
said Rhodes. When asked to
predict the outcome on the
floor if the Judiciary Com-
mittee recommends a bill of
impeachment, Rhodes said,
"I think that the House
might say that they don't
have a case."

Suggesting to the news-
men that "you have over-
estimated the importance of
it (impeachment) as far as
the people are concerned,"
Rhodes said, "The most
pressing problem in the
country today is inflation."
He reiterated his earlier
statement that "evidence
has not been presented yet
which would justify a vote
of impeachment."

ONE MONTH AGO

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# Trust, Humility Seen
As Kissinger's Assets

Evening Outlook (Santa Monica)
6-10-74
By NORMAN COUSINS

With each passing day, the negotiating feats of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Middle East loom larger and may, in fact, represent the high point of American diplomacy since the end of World War II.

No matter what happens in the Middle East — even if for some reason the agreements between Israel and her Arab neighbors should fall apart — the astounding achievement of this one man will light up the human imagination for many years to come.

Foreign policy is supposed to be a grim and impersonal business. It is played for high stakes by men who are trained in cold formalities. The notion that one man, through the warmth of his personality, his ability to inspire trust and the sheer candle power of his intelligence, can bring about profound historical change is a notion that doesn't square with the general view of diplomacy. Yet this is precisely what Henry Kissinger has done. It has not been done by any of the other statesmen who tried — and some of the mightiest names in diplomacy in the past 25 years are on the list of those who sought to mediate in the Middle East.

If we ask why it is that Henry Kissinger has been able to accomplish the seemingly impossible, we are not likely to find any single answer. The fact that he was willing to commit himself fully to this enterprise is certainly one of the reasons. The fact that he was not too proud to serve as a messenger boy in running back and forth between opposite camps is another reason. So is the fact that he understood thoroughly the position of each side and was able therefore to eliminate the kind of misunderstandings that so often produces impasse or breakdown in negotiations. But perhaps

the single most important reason for his success is that both sides believed in him and knew that if they accepted any agreements he helped to negotiate they would not be tricked.

Nothing was more dramatically characteristic of the adversaries in the Middle East controversy over the years than the fear each side had of being tricked by the other. The Arab nations had contended they would never sit down with Israel at the conference table because they had no confidence in any agreement that Israel would sign. Israel was beset by the same doubts about the Arab nations.

Henry Kissinger was shrewd enough to keep the sides apart during the negotiations. This was the reason for his shuttle diplomacy. So long as each side dealt with him, there was a chance that the old problem of mistrust could be surmounted. In his own person, he supplied the trust that had always been missing. If he gave assurances to one side that an agreement would be honored by the other, it was his endorsement that made that agreement credible and acceptable.

In an age of onrushing depersonalization, computerization and technological abstractions, it is heartening to see the dramatic proof that an individual human being can make a difference, and that qualities of personal warmth, intelligence and integrity can change history for the better.

This is not to say that enduring peace has finally come to the Middle East. But at long last people can derive hope from the fact that a start has been made, and that the arduous and complicated task of peacemaking can now go forward with the evidence that there are ways of doing even the impossible.