EDITORIALS

NEW YORK TIMES 14 December 1973

Atlantic Dialogue

Secretary Kissinger's effort in Brussels and London to ease the strains between the United States and its NATO allies appears to have improved the tone of the relationship. But the shift on both sides from recrimination over the Mideast war toward a more constructive dialogue is, like taking one step forward after two backward, only the beginning of what needs to be done.

A reversal in the trend toward go-it-alone policies might well begin with joint work on critical common concerns, such as the long-term energy problem that all the industrial nations face. Mr. Kissinger's proposal for the United States, West Europe, Japan and Canada to appoint a high-level Energy Action Group to develop programs for large-scale collaborative action to overcome the energy shortage deserves favorable response.

The question is whether this work can go forward successfully while the allies remain divided over the immediate problems created by the Arab oil embargo. Progress toward a peace settlement might solve the problem, as Mr. Kissinger argues, but this is far from certain and unlikely to come soon.

A similar divergence between long- and short-range objectives bedevils the Secretary's offer of improved consultation in the alliance. Mr. Kissinger proposes to transform ties between the United States and a uniting West Europe into the same kind of intimate "special relationship" that the United States and Britain have enjoyed for decades. But this is a long-term goal.

More immediately, the Secretary of State complains of the difficulties the United States encounters in inject-

ing its views into the decision-making process of the European Community when American interests are affected. Consultation with the United States is precluded until a common policy is shaped and then, Mr. Kissinger asserts, "Europe appoints a spokesman who is empowered to inform us of the decisions taken but has no authority to negotiate." In contrast, the Secretary asserts that the failures to consult of which the United States itself is "repeatedly accused" are deviations from official policy and practice, "usually" because of rapidly moving situations.

This description is almost a complete inversion of reality. The European Community lives in a fishbowl. It takes few decisions without lengthy argument, most of it exposed to public view, within and among the nine Governments and among the Eurocrats in Brussels. The United States has only itself to blame if it fails to inject its views informally into this process in Brussels and bilaterally in the nine capitals. If anything is lacking, it is formal multilateral machinery.

In contrast, the Nixon Administration, with its phobia about leaks, has elevated secrecy and surprise into principles of diplomacy. The officials in the State Department and other agencies who normally consult with allied governments are usually kept in the dark during the decision-making process. Once decisions are made, the allies are told it is too late to change them.

> It has been an excellent system for negotiating with Communist dictatorships. But it is totally unsuited to alliance diplomacy, which demands relatively free and open multilateral discussion before positions are frozen by Presidential decision.

DALLAS MORNING NEWS
3 December 1973 (14)

Thanks

To The Dallas News:

Bill Clements has passed along to me the Oct. 26 editorial, Awake to Dan- ger. I want you to know that I join with him in expressing the appreciation of the Department of Defense for your support and understanding at a very complex and sensitive moment in our nation's history.

The capability of the Department of Defense to provide a credible response to potentially dangerous Soviet actions helped, we believe, to maintain a military balance in the Middle East, while paving the way for successful negotiation of a Middle East cease-fire agreement.

We hope the need to maintain a strong U.S. deterrent capability will be understood and supported by the public in the months and years ahead. The advice, support and constructive criticism of The News are deeply appreciated.

JERRY W. FRIEDHEIM,
Asst. Secretary of Defense.
Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON POST
14 December 1973

Iran's Stance

TEHRAN—A government spokesman said that Iran as an oil producer, is prepared to take part in the "energy action group" proposed by U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.

BALTIMORE SUN 14 December 1973

Mr. Kissinger's Energy Proposals

Secretary Kissinger's appeal for a massive North American, European and Japanese effort to deal with the world energy crisis will require "an act of will, a decision to do something," if its promise is to be realized. The words quoted were those of Dean Acheson, in describing NATO's early determinations to build up Western forces in the face of Soviet expansion. That they were repeated by Mr. Kissinger during his Pilgrims Society speech in London is an indication the Secretary of State realizes the time for concerted action is at hand if greater Western disarray is to be avoided.

Mr. Kissinger learned to his evident chagrin last April that the stage for U.S. grand designs and lofty rhetoric is past: His call for a "new Atlantic Charter" was a diplomatic mistake whose full dimensions became apparent in the trans-Atlantic recriminations that resulted from the Middle East war and its accompanying oil pressures. Mr. Kissinger has plenty of European company when it comes to sharing blame for divisions within the Alliance. But to his credit, he seems at last to have had the sense to make the best of the bad energy situation by using it as a catalyst for an Achesonian "act of will, a decision to do something."

Why not a common effort to conserve energy, seek out new sources of supply, develop alternatives to petroleum and co-ordinate technological research? Why not lessen the adversary relation-

ship between the consumer and producer nations by giving Persian Gulf states opportunities for Western investments that will stretch out their prosperity? These are eminently sensible ideas, provided nations would only conduct their political affairs in a rational manner, and they deserve the urgent attention Secretary Kissinger implied in his three-month timetable.

Mr. Kissinger's appeal for concerted action by the industrial democracies was timed to present the Common Market heads of government with a specific U.S. proposal during their current summit meeting. European leaders may indulge again in internecine quarrels over enriched uranium projects or in anti-American catcalls. But they would do so in the echo of Mr. Kissinger's warning that the energy crisis "is a challenge which the United States could solve alone with great difficulty and that Europe cannot solve in isolation at all."

The Secretary of State, if we read him correctly, was thus trying to convert the specific circumstances of the energy crisis from a divisive to a unifying force among the industrialized democracies. This will be a large undertaking, one dependent on many policy decisions rather than on one London speech. But if the U.S. now will keep attention focused on the energy problem plus the concrete military issues before NATO, its diplomatic objectives might be better served than in blueprinting "new Atlantic Charter" declarations.

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LOUISVILLE, KY. TIMES 4 December 1973 (14)

A tempest no teapot could hold

The Nixon administration has enough tempests on its hands without stirring up one in a teapot. Yet that appears to be what is brewing.

The other day Defense Secretary Schlesinger said the administration was checking into whether the new war-powers act passed last month over President Nixon's veto would permit new American combat activity, presumably bombing, in Vietnam despite earlier congressional restrictions.

As an exercise in legal niceties, this may well be acceptable. Perhaps, under other circumstances, it might even be prudent. It is worth recalling that some of those who were lukewarm about the war-powers act were unenthusiastic not because they were reluctant to limit the President's power to make war but because they feared the new legislation might make it easier for him to start a war.

The new law permits a President to commit American forces to combat, but he must obtain congressional authorization by the end of 60 days. For the first 60 days, however, he appears to have unfettered powers. Earlier, after years of wrangling and frustration, Congress had passed legislation requiring an end to American combat activity in Indochina. The question is whether the new law, with its 60-day carte blanche, supersedes the older prohibitions.

This is a respectable question. Sooner or later it probably will have to be answered. But to pose it publicly now, when the country has not even begun to recover from its decade-long involvement in Indochina, when the administration for an infinity of causes is under tremendous heat, and, perhaps most pressing of all, when the energy situation is being felt in every home and on every highway—well, to do anything that hints that we might resume bombing is incredible. It underlines the lack of sensitivity, not to mention lack of common sense, this administration has displayed so often.

Many Americans would be horrified by the Indochinese deaths that might result from renewed bombing. Nearly all would be outraged by the American casualties that necessarily would result from those raids. And virtually every American, we believe, would be livid at the thought that the fuel used in flying those raids might have been used to run American automobiles, to heat American homes, to operate American factories.

It is inconceivable that even the arrogant Nixon administration is thinking seriously of resuming the bombing if our clients in Indochina get in deep trouble. But this administration has done a number of inconceivable things. The tempest for the moment is only in a teapot, but if the bombing should be resumed not all the teapots in the world could hold the storm.

DES MOINES REGISTER 5 December 1973 (14)

Renewal of Vietnam War?

Critics of the presidential war powers bill warned that if it became law it might increase presidential powers rather than decrease them as intended. But nobody dreamed the bill could be interpreted to allow renewal of war by the United States in Vietnam.

It did become law, and now the Defense Department is exploring the possibility that the law may give the President power to go back to war in Indochina for 90 days in spite of the earlier law banning U.S. "combat activity ... in or over or from off the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia."

The Defense Department hunch is that perhaps the new war powers law repealed the earlier ban. No such repeal was stated or intended. Both laws were meant to restrict presidential war-making, not enlarge it.

One general principle for Interpreting law is that an attempt should be made to reconcile an apparent contradiction. If not possible, a specific provision may be treated as an exception to a general provision which contradicts it.

Both these considerations tend to reinforce the ban on renewing the war in Vietnam, not to treating it as repealed.

LOS ANGELES HERALD-EXAMINER 2 December 1973 (14)

We Must Be Strong

The latest war in the Middle East should serve as a lesson to those who tried to make deep slashes this year in the American defense budget. We hope the lesson is lasting. We doubt that it will be.

With U.S. involvement in Vietnam at an end, with Russo-American detente the order of the day and with social planners crying for new billions, the McGovern-type thinkers argue that the defense budget was grossly excessive.

They did not perceive that the defense budget already had been reduced substantially, both in terms of constant dollars and as a percentage of the total federal budget. They did not recognize that the high pay and benefits necessary to attract manpower for a volunteer army already had eaten into the amount available for military hardware.

Worst of all, they forgot (and seem doomed always to forget) that we live in a dangerous and unstable world.

They didn't waken to reality again until this country found itself flying a billion dollars worth of military equipment to beleaguered Israel, under extremely difficult conditions, in a successful effort to match the massive air-lift and sea-lift of

Russian arms to Egypt and Syria. Some of them didn't really awaken until the day Soviet threats forced a worldwide alert of American forces.

Fortunately, most members of Congress had not been lulled. Even before the renewal of war in the Mideast, Congress substantially had approved the Defense Department's request for $213 billion in new weapons authorizations.

But the fighting has demonstrated that this may no longer be enough. The conflict has disclosed deficiencies in the U.S. airlift capacity, in countermeasures against the newest Soviet surface-to-air missiles and possibly in the relative strength of the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet.

The Defense Department has indicated it may ask for $3 to $4 billion more. If it can prove the need, the money should be appropriated.

We don't believe in a gold-plated military. Congress properly has rehearsed against million dollar tanks and $15 million fighter planes. Too, affluent American military forces always carry far more impediments than they need.

We do believe in a military strong enough to protect the nation at all times against all comers.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1973

Henry's So Right

HENRY KISSINGER gave the Europeans some straight talk on the challenge of the energy crisis this week. Readers of this page may find both his terms and his arguments familiar. You've been reading them here for years.

The energy shortage, Kissinger said, is not just a product of the Mid-East war. "It is the inevitable consequence of the explosive growth of worldwide demand outrunning the incentives for supply."

The global problem he defined has been particularly acute here. We Americans have long measured our material wealth not in gold and jewels but in the number of autos, refrigerators, televisions and other energy-using devices Americans enjoy. Yet, even as we have gauged our individual and national progress by the increase in energy use, we have never showed much concern about the available supplies of that energy. Until now.

Suddenly the Arab embargo has forced us to make a painful change in our thinking. Cheap, abundant fuel energy—a basic we've taken for granted—is no longer available. Using, abusing and even wasting fuel energy, we have squandered resources that we now see are not only valuable but scarce.

As Kissinger told the Europeans, all modern nations must take a new tack at once in their energy policy. Working together, we must find ways to reduce the growth in demand for energy, particularly that growth resulting from wasteful uses. At the same time, we must stimulate faster growth in the supplies of energy. We must provide incentive and the means for developing new reservoirs of the power every modern economy needs.

To slow demand, Kissinger said, we must conserve what we have. But on the other side of the equation, we must spur oilmen, scientists and investors to find new supplies—we need not only more of the old fuels, but breakthroughs that will allow use of energy sources never before tapped.

His plan calls for forming a top-level group of American, European and Japanese leaders to begin action on the energy challenge immediately. Kissinger compared the challenge to that of Sputnik in 1957. He is understanding the case, if anything.

What is at stake here means more than prestige or even technical leadership of the world. Unless we can solve the energy problem, the economic health of every industrial nation in the free world will be in peril.

Atlantic Dialogue

A reversal in the trend toward go-it-alone policies might well begin with joint work on critical common concerns, such as the long-term energy problem that all the industrial nations race. Mr. Kissinger's proposal for the United States, West Europe, Japan and Canada to appoint a high-level Energy Action Group to develop programs for large-scale collaborative action to overcome the energy shortage deserves favorable response.

A similar divergence between long- and short-range objectives bedevils Mr. Kissinger's offer of improved consultation in the alliance. Mr. Kissinger proposes to transform ties between the United States and a uniting West Europe into the same kind of intimate "special relationship" that the United States and Britain have enjoyed for decades. But this is a long-term goal.

More immediately, the Secretary of State complains of the difficulties the United States encounters in injecting its views into the decision-making process of the European Community when American interests are affected. Consultation with the United States is precluded until a common policy is shaped and then, Mr. Kissinger asserts, "Europe appoints a spokesman who is empowered to inform us of the decisions taken but has no authority to negotiate." In contrast, the Secretary asserts that the failures to consult of which the United States itself is "repeatedly accused" are deviations from official policy and practice, "usually" because of rapidly moving situations.

In contrast, the Nixon Administration, with its phobia about leaks, has elevated secrecy and surprise into principles of diplomacy. The officials in the State Department and other agencies who normally consult with allied Governments are usually kept in the dark during the decision-making process. Once decisions are made, the allies are told it is too late to change them.

New Talk Set
On Crumbling
Viet Truce

W. POST 12-14-75

By Murrey Marder

Washington Post Staff Writer

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnamese Politburo member Le Duc Tho will meet in Paris on Dec. 20 for the second major attempt within a year to prevent the total collapse of the Vietnam cease-fire.

The meeting was announced at the White House and in Hanoi, with the bland explanation that the purpose is "to discuss matters of mutual interest in the present situation." Kissinger and Tho, whose title is special adviser to the North Vietnamese government, last met in Paris June 11-13 and produced a joint communique intended to reinforce and repair the original Vietnam cease-fire agreement signed on Jan. 27.

Kissinger's new meeting with Tho will crowd still another broad subject into the secretary's round of aerial diplomacy. The meeting with Tho will be squeezed between the expected Dec. 18 opening of a Middle East peace conference in Geneva, and previously scheduled visits by Kissinger to Lisbon and then Madrid on Dec. 20-21.

U.S. officials declined to say if more than one Kissinger-Tho meeting is anticipated, although the usual pattern for them has been two or more

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Kohoutek's Tail
During Daylight

HOUSTON, Dec. 13 (UPI)—
The tail of comet Kohoutek,
blazing through space along
its yuletide loop around the
sun, was clearly visible to the
unaided eyes of the Skylab II
astronauts for the first time
day.

Crewman William R. Pogue
told flight controllers that in
just 24 hours the tail of the
"comet of the century" had
grown longer and brighter,
and the celestial traveler
could be seen even after sun-
rise.

Pogue, mission commander
Gerald P. Carr and scientist
Edward G. Gibson spotted Ko-
houtek first from a spaceship
window and later rolled their
eight-room orbiting home
around toward the comet to
collect more data on it.

T UNTIL 9:30
5:45

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the
World

Greece to Free 300 St

ATHENS—The Greek Education Ministry announced yesterday that it would release all 300 persons, most of them students and construction workers, arrested during last month's bloody antigovernment demonstrations.

Education Minister Panayotis Christou called the students who demonstrated against ousted President George Papadopoulos "misled."

The 300 prisoners have been held at military camps since the student occupation of the Athens Polytechnic Institute on Nov. 16 and 17. The releases are scheduled to begin tomorrow, and the freed prisoners will be ex-

empt from prosecution, informed sources said.

## Cambodian Threat

PHNOM PENH—Rebel forces surrounded Cambodian government troops along a major highway in an apparent prelude to an attack on the country's main military fuel storage yard, field reports said. Government sources said that the seven giant fuel tanks at Prek Phnou, six miles northwest of Phnom Penh, store the bulk of Cambodian military fuel.

In another Indochina development, the International Commission for Control and Supervision (ICCS) resumed its work in South Vietnam after nearly five months of inactivity. Commission sources said that work had

been started on 903 accumulated complaints by South Vietnamese government and the Vietcong of cease-fire violations.

## Danish Politics

COPENHAGEN — Queen Margrethe asked former Foreign Minister Poul Hartling to try to form a new government following last week's inconclusive elections. Earlier, acting Prime Minister Anker Joergensen had failed to create a coalition government among the 10 parties elected to the Parliament.

## Arrests in Uganda

KAMPALA — Uganda freed 33 foreign tourists arrested and charged with being "mercenaries" when they entered the country

JOSEPH LUNS
... sanity questioned

Tuesday. The British Foreign Office said the 33 men were members of a univer-

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Personalities

A Stitch in Time

The State Department, long accustomed to dealing with the perennial problem of The Emperor's New Clothes, coped beautifully Wednesday with the problem of Henry Kissinger's pajamas.

It seems the Secretary of State's PJs got lost in a London laundry the other day, so aides raced around to find a new pair that would fit him. The stores were closed. Consternation.

Finally a staffer donated a pair of his own, created by Paris designer Pierre Cardin. Dr. Kissinger, it is reported by reliable sources, slept well on Wednesday night.

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SECRETARY KISSINGER'S LONDON SPEECH

WEST EUROPEAN MEDIA COMMENT ON SECRETARY KISSINGER'S
WEDNESDAY EVENING SPEECH IN LONDON GENERALLY ENDORSED HIS
PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ACTION GROUP ON ENERGY PROBLEMS,
BUT COMMENTATORS DOUBTED THAT EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS WOULD
RESPOND WITH IMMEDIATE ACTION.

→THE LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES AGPUED THAT THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITY "SHOULD NOT MERELY WELCOME DR. KISSINGER'S PROPOSAL
FOR A JOINT EUROPEAN COMMUNITY "SHOULD NOT MERELY WELCOME DR.
KISSINGER'S PROPOSAL FOR A JOINT EUROPE-U.S.-JAPAN ENERGY
ACTION GROUP, BUT SHOULD PRESS FOR ITS IMMEDIATE ESTABLISHMENT."

→HAMBURG'S DIE WELT CHARACTERIZED THE PROPOSAL AS "OF
THE GREATEST IMPORTANCE" AND SAID IT "OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY
TO WREST THE SWORD BRANDISHED AGAINST THE WEST OUT OF ARAB
HANDS, TO TRANSFORM INTO A MEANS FOR ATLANTIC COOPERATION THE
VERY MANEUVER DESIGNED TO FRAGMENT THE WEST..."

COVERAGE ALSO STRESSED HIS CALL FOR CLOSER TRANSATLANTIC
CONSULTATION.

SOME COMMENT CALLED ATTENTION TO THE TIMING OF MR. KISSINGER'S
SPEECH IN RELATION TO THE EC SUMMIT MEETING TODAY IN COPENHAGEN.

THE KURIER OF VIENNA CARRIED A BYLINER'S CONCLUSION THAT
THE SECRETARY HAD "TACTFULLY AVOIDED" PRESENTING THE PROPOSAL
AT THE NATO MINISTERIAL MEETING BECAUSE "HIS EUROPEAN COLLEAGUES
MIGHT HAVE TAKEN IT AS AN ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE WITH THE SUMMIT."

WHEREAS AT COPENHAGEN "THE EUROPEAN HEADS OF GOVERNMENT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS IT WITHOUT BEING FORCED TO ANSWER IMMEDIATELY."

LE MONDE OF PARIS HELD A DIFFERENT VIEW: "THESE 'BITS OF ADVICE' ON THE EVE OF THE COPENHAGEN MEETING LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE A LAST-MINUTE EFFORT TO INTERFERE WITH THE DECISIONS WHICH THE NINE MIGHT MAKE."

MOSCOW TASS, IN A LONDON DATELINE DISPATCH, SUMMARIZED MR. KISSINGER'S SPEECH WITHOUT COMMENT.

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ISRAEL, EGYPT SEEN APPROACHING "NEGOTIATING RANGE" (280)

BY MARIE H. KOENIG

IPS DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA -- DEC. 14-- A HIGH U.S. OFFICIAL ABOARD U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER'S PLANE AS IT FLEW FROM CAIRO TO RIYADH DECEMBER 14 SAID IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT ISRAELI AND EGYPTIAN PERCEPTIONS ARE IN THE ANEGOTIATING RANGE.

REPORTING ON DR. KISSINGER'S VIEWS, THE U.S. OFFICIAL SAID THE FOCUS IN THE FIRST SUBSTANTIVE PHASE OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE, WHICH IS PROJECTED FOR DECEMBER 18 IN GENEVA. WILL BE ON THE DISENGAGEMENT OF THE MILITARY FORCES OF ISRAEL AND EGYPT.

DR. KISSINGER ARRIVED IN RIYADH ON THE EVENING OF DECEMBER 14 AFTER SPENDING PART OF DECEMBER 13-14 IN INTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS IN CAIRO WITH PRESIDENT SADAT. IN RIYADH, DR. KISSINGER WANTS TO REVIEW THE GENERAL PRE-CONFERENCE SITUATION AITH KING FAISAL.

DR. KISSINGER WILL GO TO ISRAEL DECEMBER 16-17 AFTER VISITING SYRIA, LEBANON AND JORDAN ON HIS SECOND PEACE MISSION TO THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE NOVEMBER.

HE WENT DIRECTLY FROM RIYADH AIRPORT TO THE PALACE FOR A DISCUSSION WITH KING FAISAL.

IN CAIRO, PRESIDENT SADAT SAID THAT HIS TALKS WITH DR. KISSINGER HAD BEEN "LONG AND FRUITFUL." THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT TOLD NEWSMEN HIS COUNTRY WOULD GO INTO AN ARAB-ISRAELI CONFERENCE IN THE "SPIRIT OF PEACE."

TALKING TO THE PRESS AT THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT'S SUMMER REST
HOME 20 MILES (32 KILOMETERS) OUTSIDE CAIRO, WHERE THEIR MEETINGS
TOOK PLACE. BOTH MEN SEEMED SATISFIED WITH THEIR CONSULTATIONS.
DR. KISSINGER SAID HE HAD CONVEYED TO PRESIDENT SADAT THE BEST
WISHES OF PRESIDENT NIXON.

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THE HIGH U.S. OFFICIAL TRAVELLING WITH-DR. KISSINGER DID NOT
EXPECT THE ARAB OIL EMBARGO WOULD BE LIFTED NEXT WEEK WHEN THE
PEACE CONFERENCE IS ANTICIPATED TO OPEN. THE OFFICIAL DESCRIBED
THE OIL CUT-BACK AS A DELICATE PROBLEM FOR ALL THE ARAB COUNTRIES.

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rman, in Washington Wed-
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xt Dec. 6-8, in Kansas City.

Policy Post

Rep. Lou Frey (R-Fla.), 39, a
third-termer, was elected with-
out opposition to succeed Con-
able as Research Committee
chairman.

Astronauts Spot

services bills.

The vote to cut off Harry F. Byrd's (Ind.-Va.) mini-filibuster against the Rhodesian bill achieved a 62-to-33 majority, but this fell two votes short of the required two-thirds.

The vote to end debate on
the legal services measure was
60 to 36, four short.

Sponsors of the bills said
they will persist. Another clo-
ture vote on legal services is
due today.

The Rhodesia bill is spon-
sored by Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn.) and Gale McGee (D-
Wyo.) and is endorsed by Sec-
retary of State Henry A. Kis-
singer. It would restore U.S.
participation in the U.N. trade
embargo, which began in 1966,
designed to force the break-
away British colony to broaden
political rights for its black
majority.

In 1971 Byrd won congres-
sional passage of an amend-
ment forbidding the United
States to take part in the em-
bargo. He argued that the
United States needed chrome
and other Rhodesian metals so
it wouldn't have to import
them from Communist na-
tions.

Humphrey and McGee say
the United States has a 12-
year defense stockpile of
chrome and isn't dependent on
Communist nations even
though it imports chrome
from the Soviet Union.

The legal services bill is
sponsored by Gaylord Nelson
(D-Wis.), Harrison Williams
(D-N.J.), Jacob K. Javits (R-
N.Y.) and other leading mem-
bers of the Senate.

Mondale (D-Minn.) charged
that Helms is leading a
“filibuster by amendment” be-
cause the Helms bloc has read-
ied nearly 100 amendments,
though it hasn't offered any so
far. Helms said yesterday that
the bill is so bad that oppo-
nents naturally will have
many amendments to offer if
their demand for referral to
Judiciary isn't met.

In yesterday's votes, both
Maryland senators voted for
cutting off debate, while both
Virginia senators voted
against.

An Offer One
Can Turn Down

MONTREAL, Dec. 13
(UPI) — The Montreal
Park has a New Year's
Eve offering for drinkers.

The cemetery is offer-
ing a free grave and
marker valued at $500 to
any motorist killed as a
result of his drunk driv-
ing. Last year, the ceme-
tery registered more than
100 persons. None was
killed.

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1. FOLLOWING IS EMBASSY TRANSLATION OF EDITORIAL IN LE MONDE DATED DECEMBER 14 ENTITLED "CALL TO ORDER."

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THE EFFORT PUT FORWARD BY MR. KISSINGER IN THE SPEECH HE GAVE WEDNESDAY IS PRAISESORTHY. NOT IN SEVERAL YEARS, EVEN LAST APRIL, WHEN THE FUTURE SECRETARY OF STATE LAUNCHED HIS PROJECT FOR AN "ATLANTIC CHARTER", HAD A RESPONSIBLE AMERICAN OFFICIAL DEFINED WITH SO MUCH CLARITY THE PROBLEMS POSED FOR HIS COUNTRY BY EUROPEAN UNIFICATION AND THE CONCEPTION DERIVED FROM IT. HOWEVER, BRUTALITY WAS ADDED TO FRANKNESS, SINCE THESE "COUNSELS", GIVEN ON THE EVE OF THE MEETING IN COPENHAGEN, STRONGLY RESSEMBLE A FINAL ATTEMPT AT INTERFERENCE IN THE DECISIONS WHICH THE NINE WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE.

MR. KISSINGER MOREOVER MAKES NO SECRET OF IT. IN "WELCOMING" THE UNIFICATION OF WESTERN EUROPE, THE UNITED STATES WOULD ALLOW THE MEMBER COUNTRIES TO TAKE DECISIONS WITHOUT INFORMING THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN ADVANCE ABOUT THEIR PLANS AND OBTAINING ITS OPINION. FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE, THE POLICY OF "FAITS ACCOMPLIS", WHICH HAS TENDED TO BE ESTABLISHED RECENTLY, RUNS COUNTER TO THE TIES OF SOLIDARITY WOVEN OVER THE CENTURIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE -- A SOLIDARITY WHICH EXPRESSES AT THE SAME TIME THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE AND THE FACT OF BELONGING TO A DEVELOPED, WESTERN WORLD WITH COMMON INTERESTS.

TO BE SURE, THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS RIGHT TO A LARGE EXTENT, AND NOT ONLY FROM HIS VIEWPOINT. NO WEST EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT SERIOUSLY CONTEMPLATES CALLING INTO QUESTION THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE, AND THE NEED FOR SOLIDARITY AMONG WESTERN ECONOMIES FACED WITH THE

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ENERGY CRISIS IS ALSO EVIDENT. IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT THE MECHANISMS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE CONSULTATION AMONG THE ALLIES HAVE TAKEN ON, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, A "FORMALIST" AND UNWIELDY NATURE, WHICH INJURES THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THE DIALOGUES WAS CONDUCTED NOT TOO LONG AGO. AT THE SAME TIME, THE FORMATION OF A EUROPEAN ENTITY DOES NOT MAKE SENSE IF IT DOES NOT LEAD TO AN EFFORT OF IDENTIFICATION -- OF AFFIRMATION IN RELATION TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN GENERAL AND TO THE PROTECTING POWER IN PARTICULAR. NO FEDERATION, TO BEGIN WITH THAT OF THE UNITED STATES, HAS BEEN BORN IN ANY OTHER WAY. AND ONE CAN HARDLY SEE HOW A RETURN TO BI-LATERAL AND MULTI-LATERAL CONSULTATIONS OF THE PAST WOULD FAIL TO PUT A DISASTEROUS BREAK ON THE POLITICAL UNIFICATION TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. MOREOVER, TO TAKE BUT TWO EXAMPLES, DID MR. NIXON AND MR. KISSINGER CONSULT THE EUROPEANS BEFORE TAKING THEIR ECONOMIC DECISIONS OF AUGUST, 1971, OR THE MILITARY MEASURES OF LAST OCTOBER 25?

MR. KISSINGER'S PROPOSAL TO FORM AN ACTION GROUP ON ENERGY IS ALSO A STONE IN THE EUROPEAN PUDDLE, OR AT LEAST, IN THE PLANS WHICH THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT IS FOLLOWING, AND NOT WITHOUT SUCCESS. WHILE MR. JOBERT, IN TAKING UP A SUGGESTION MADE TO HIM IN THE PAST BY VARIOUS ARAB COUNTRIES, IS TRYING TO ORGANIZE A CONFERENCE AMONG THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST, MR. KISSINGER IS LAUNCHING THE IDEA OF A MUCH LARGER GROUPING TO WHICH HE ALSO ASSIGNS A BROADER PLAN. THIS "GROUP" WOULD BE COMPOSED AT FIRST OF THE LARGE OIL CONSUMING COUNTRIES -- THE UNITED STATES, WESTERN EUROPE, JAPAN -- AND WOULD DISCUSS ALL PROBLEMS RELATIVE TO ENERGY CONSUMPTION, INCLUDING URANIUM ENRICHMENT, WHICH COULD WELL BE DIRECTED AGAINST EURODIF.

THE PRODUCER COUNTRIES WOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH ITS WORK TO DISCUSS QUESTIONS OF COMMON INTEREST BUT WOULD BE KEPT IN THE BACKGROUND. FRANCE, FOR ITS PART, PROPOSES A MORE REGIONAL JOINT MEETING WHICH APPARENTLY IS MORE ACCEPTABLE TO THE PRODUCERS, SINCE IT WOULD DEAL EXCLUSIVELY WITH THEIR COOPERATION WITH THE CONSUMERS. IT WILL NO DOUBT BE DIFFICULT TO PURSUE THESE TWO PROPOSALS TOGETHER.

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A-19

UNTANGLING TROOPS IN MIDEAST

Slow Job Seen at Geneva

Associated Press

Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger and President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt
agree that the Geneva
peace conference's first
task should be to work out a
separation of Arab and Is-
raeli forces along the Suez
Canal front, U.S. officials in
Cairo report.

But the officials said this
is not likely to come until
after the first of the year.

Arriving in Cairo from
London and Algiers yester-
day, Kissinger met with
Sadat for two hours and
termed the session "most
constructive." After anoth-
er session today, the Ameri-
can secretary was flying to
Saudi Arabia for the third

stop on his Middle East
tour.

U.S. OFFICIALS said
Washington was bringing
pressure on Tel Aviv to
reach a compromise with
the Arabs as quickly as pos-
sible because Kissinger felt
time was against Israel.

They said, however, Kissinger doubted Israel and Syria could engage in serious negotiations until both nations agree to exchange prisoners of war. Damascus has refused to discuss prisoners with Israel until Israel gives up Arab land it occupies.

Israeli Prime Minister
Golda Meir said yesterday
Israel may not even attend
the talks without first get-

ting the names of POWs
held by Syria.

"There are many ifs about Geneva," she told an election rally in Jerusalem. "If we arrive at negotiations and if there will be a conference and if we will attend."

CAIRO'S semi-official Al
Ahram newspaper said to-
day Kissinger believes he
can engineer a partial with-
d withdrawal of Israeli troops in
the opening stages of the
Geneva talks. Egyptian offi-
cials said Sadat impressed
on Kissinger the pullbacks
were crucial to successful
negotiations.

Mrs. Meir said Israeli
troops would remain mobi-
lized even if the talks con-
vene in Geneva. She also

said she will not bow to any
pressure to accept an unfa-
vorable peace when she sits
down for talks with Kissin-
ger Monday on the last leg
of his tour.

In fighting yesterday,
Israel said an unmanned
reconnaissance plane
strayed off course and
crashed in Egyptian territo-
ry. Egypt claimed the air-
craft was shot down while
spying.

THE MILITARY com-
mand in Tel Aviv reported
its second battle death in
two days — an Israeli sol-
dier killed yesterday in an
exchange of fire with Egyp-
tian troops on the west bank
of the Suez Canal.

Kissinger also met yester-
day with Vladimir Vinogra-
dov, the Soviet ambassador
in Cairo, to discuss the
Geneva conference.

Senior U.S. officials said
the American approach to
the conference was in keep-
ing with Kissinger's diplo-
matic style of tackling more
easily resolvable issues
first. Such complicated po-
litical problems as the fu-
ture of Jerusalem and the
Palestinians will be left for
later phases of the confer-
ence.

The first session of the
Geneva conference will
probably last three days
and will be largely ceremo-
nial, U.S. officials indicat-
ed.

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WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS

Oil Planners Miss

New York Times News Service

A Senate subcommittee investigating the causes of the national oil and gasoline shortages has been told that key officials of the White House Office of Emergency Preparedness "never saw" a 1972 staff warning that domestic oil production had "peaked" — leaving the country with fixed supplies of crude in the face of a known rise in demand.

Accordingly, import quotas were not sufficiently increased, the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee was told yesterday.

The subcommittee's investigators said that in 1971, 1972 and 1973, while the government's oil import quotas were consistently being set at levels too low to satisfy demand for finished petroleum products, the top White House oil man, Peter M. Flanigan, intervened at least once in the bureau-

ery to oppose a large increase in foreign imports — the position sought by several large American oil companies.

THE TESTIMONY, Flanigan told a reporter later, "doesn't indicate that I, too," had expressed "a concern about a possible oil shortage." The low-quota policy that he supported, Flanigan said, had been designed to encourage greater production from domestic oil fields and to reduce reliance on foreign supplies.

Another former administration official, Gene P. Morrell, who then headed the Interior Department's Office of Oil and Gas, was quoted by the subcommittee staff as having warned early in 1972 that insufficient oil quota allowances might precipitate a pre-election "petroleum shortage identified with oil import controls

major political issue" against the re-election of President Nixon.

Morrell has since left the government and is a vice president of the Lone Star Gas Co.

THIS EXAMPLE of apparent confusion of internal political advice affecting oil policy was one of scores of examples of conflicting admonitions, unread staff studies, failures to obtain or study oil statistics and "lost" programs that the subcommittee, headed by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., drew from witnesses at yesterday's public hearing or in previously filed affidavits made public then for the first time.

The testimony most potentially damaging to the administration was contained in affidavits, or sworn statements, obtained in interviews last month by LaVern L. Dardenne

Israeli Terms
Reported for
Major Pullback

Scripps-Howard News Service

Israel will make major territorial concessions in exchange for assured peace with the Arabs, according to Israeli sources here.

In what they called a change in Israeli policy, the sources said yesterday that Israel wants a formal "contract" to include:

* Agreement by both sides to renounce war.

* Establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel by all Arab nations which participated in the October war.

* Assured access for Israel to all waterways, and opening of normal commercial

discuss only military issues.

Representatives of Israel Egypt, Syria, Jordan, the United States and the Soviet Union are expected to make opening statements. There they will take up the problem of how to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces now behind each other's lines in the Suez Canal area.

After that the conference is expected to adjourn until January. Israel understands that it must wait until then to begin negotiations for a formal peace pact.

"But then the conference must become a peace conference," the sources said. (that's a withdrawal from

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THE FIRST U.S. REACTION TO THE SUCCESS OF THE EGYPTIAN FORCES IN CROSSING THE SUEZ CANAL WAS A U.S. DEMAND THAT THE FORCES RETURN TO THE POSITIONS THEY HELD BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHTING. THIS MEANT THAT THE EGYPTIAN FORCES SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM THE EGYPTIAN LANDS THEY HAD LIEBERATED.

THE UNITED STATES THEN BEGAN ITS AIRLIFT OF ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION WHICH WERE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE ISRAELI FORCES AT THE EATTLEFRONT. U.S. RECONNAISSANCE PLANES CARRIED OUT ESPIONAGE MISSIONS ON ISRAEL'S BEHALF. THIS IS NOT TO MENTION OTHER THINGS INCLUDED IN THE LARGE-SCALE U.S. EFFORT TO HELP ISRAEL. THE U.S. OBJECTIVE BEHIND THIS WAS TO ENABLE THE ISRAELI WAR MACHINE TO STAND ON ITS FEET AGAIN. THE NATURAL RESULT WAS THAT ISRAEL AGAIN RESORTED TO OESTINACY, REJECTION OF PEACE, AND CONTINUATION OF THE POLICY OF AGGRESSION AND EXPANSION.

CONCLUDING ITS ARTICLE, AL-AKHEAR MAKES THAT THE ONLY U.S. EFFORT THAT CAN SERVE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST SHOULD BE BASED ON THE SUSPENSION OF THIS ENORMOUS SUPPORT FOR ISRAELI MILITARY POWER, BECAUSE SINCE SIXTY SEVEN 1967 THIS SUPPORT HAS BEEN LEADING TO ISSRAEL'S DESTRUCTION OF ALL PEACE INITIATIVES. THE UNITED STATES SHOULD APPLY PRESSURE ON ISRAEL--AND IT IS CERTAINLY CAPABLE OF DOING SO--TO MAKE ISRAEL WITHDRAW FROM THE OCCUPIED ARAB AREAS AND RECOGNIZE THE PALESTINE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS. ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN THE UNITED STATES SERVE THE CAUSE OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. OTHERWISE, THE UNITED STATES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO PROLONGING THE CRISIS, TO THE EXTENSION OF A NEW WAR, AND TO AGGRAVATING THE DAMAGE DONE BY THE CRISIS TO MANY STATES, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES' EUROPEAN ALLIES AND THE UNITED STATES ITSELF.

CAIRO PAPERS ALSO SPEAK TODAY ABOUT THE PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR THE CONVOCATION OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE IN GENEVA NEXT TUESDAY. THE PAPERS REPORT THAT THE PREPARATIONS ARE ALMOST COMPLETE AND THAT KURT WALDHEIM WILL OPEN THE CONFERENCE, WHICH WILL BE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE HALL OF THE UN PALACE IN GENEVA UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION.

CAIRO PAPERS ALSO HIGHLIGHT THE SHOOTING DOWN BY THE EGYPTIAN AIR DEFENSE OF A PILOTLESS ELECTRONIC RECONNAISSANCE PLANE SENT BY ISRAEL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON OVER EGYPTIAN FORCES POSITIONS IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF THE FRONT WEST OF THE CAAL. 140526 GM/IRELAND/JAZ 14/0803Z DEC 8T

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# Kissinger and Tho Will Meet in Paris

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have built heavy-duty roads.

Mr. Friedheim said, however, that the majority view in the Defense Department was that there would be no North Vietnamese offensive in the next six months, or so comparable to the 1968 Tet attack.

That is apparently the view among Washington intelligence experts as well. Mr. Kissinger himself, speaking with reporters on his plane recently, said that he had once thought the odds to be 52-48 in favor of an attack but now considered them about 55-45 against an offensive.

Mr. Kissinger's bargaining position with Mr. Tho will ap-

parently be weakened by Congressional action forbidding the reintroduction of American land, sea or air forces into Southeast Asia. The Secretary said at a news conference on Dec. 6 that as he understood the legal situation, a specific Congressional authorization would be required for the United States to resume bombing Southeast Asia.

Asked whether the Administration was prepared to seek such authorization, even as simply a bargaining tactic, Mr. Warren refused to comment and then told reporters to deduce nothing whatever from his refusal to comment.

The reason for the Kissinger-Tho meeting thus remained

something of a mystery. If the United States has nothing to threaten Hanoi with, one analyst said, and it does not expect an all-out North Vietnamese attack, there would seem to be no urgency for a meeting now.

Mr. Kissinger arrived in Algeria today at the start of a tour of seven Middle East countries before the scheduled opening of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in Geneva Tuesday. The State Department said that the Secretary still planned to go to Lisbon and Madrid after his talks with Mr. Tho.

It was not disclosed whether he would also meet with South Vietnamese officials, as he sometimes has in Paris.

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It makes it more read-
ily available for domestic indus-
tries and workers injured by
import competition, permits the
President to reduce tariffs tem-
porarily at a time of inflation
and gives him new authority to
retaliate against nations indulg-
ing in "unfair" trade practices.

The danger was that if
House action were delayed un-
til next year, final passage at
best would come late in 1974,
and the Senate might never
pass it at all. The trade
negotiators are scheduled to
get down to hard bargaining
after mid-1974.

The President was finally
persuaded to ask the House
to proceed, but with one im-
portant caveat. As he wrote to
Speaker Carl Albert, he would
find the bill "unacceptable" —
meaning a veto—if it finally
reached him with the anti-So-
viet provisions in it. These
would bar lower tariffs on
goods from the Soviet Union
and would prohibit export
credits unless the President
could certify that Soviet emi-
gration restrictions were no
longer in force.

Hopes Center on Senate

The hope of all concerned is
that these provisions can be
modified or eliminated in the
Senate, where consideration of
the bill will begin in the Fi-
nance Committee early next
year. But that may be a vain
hope, as illustrated in an epi-
sode last month while the bill
was still in limbo.

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Define Their 'European Identity'

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speech asked the Europeans to consult with the United States before reaching decisions that affect American interests.

The declaration was deliberately issued at the start of the meeting and thus was not affected by the taut arguments developing among the Europeans on Middle East policy and how to face the Arab oil embargo.

The strains caused by the oil crisis tended to overshadow the theme of program toward unity, the purpose of the European community's third leadership meeting in four years. Nonetheless, participants looked back with considerable pride on the advances in the year since Britain, Denmark and Ireland joined the Common Market.

Reaction to U.S. Pressure

Much of their political cooperation has come in response to pressures from the United States, however, and the document pointedly committed the nine to the long-standing French view that they should "undertake the definition of their identity in relation to other countries or groups of countries."

In their internal relations, democracy, human rights and a "common heritage" were set as the hallmarks of Europe's new identity.

Throughout, the document strongly reflected French views on the need for European independence, the equality and sovereignty of member states, and the preservation of "the rich variety of their national cultures."

It showed how much had

shifted since last spring, when eight countries wanted to respond to the United States appeal for a "new Atlantic charter" made in a speech by Mr. Kissinger, and France balked.

That argument resulted in a compromise; the Europeans offered instead a declaration on relations between the Common Market and the United States and a separate declaration of purpose by the 15 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Both are still incomplete.

The document made public today was envisaged as a companion to the Common Market—United States declaration.

Security Parley Recesses

Special to The New York Times

GENEVA, Dec. 14.—The 35-nation European security conference recessed today after three months of debate without having reached the negotiation stage on ways to strengthen East-West relations.

The conference, which is all-European except for the participation of the United States and Canada, hopes to begin drafting texts of projected agreements when it resumes its current second phase here on Jan. 15. The drafting is expected to take at least three months.

The conference's initial phase was held in Helsinki last July when foreign ministers approved for study, a series of topics ranging from general principles to govern East-West relations to the freer mingling of ideas and people across frontiers.

Plans call for the conference to be concluded in a third phase when ministers are to reassemble in Helsinki to put their stamp of approval on the draft accords reached here.

The Stops in Peking on Way To Meet Kissinger in Paris

HONG KONG, Dec. 14 (Reuters)—Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam arrived in Peking today on his way to Paris for talks Thursday with Secretary of State Kissinger, the Peking radio reported.

The radio, monitored here, said that Tho had cordial talks with Chang Chun-Chiao, a member of the Peking Poltboro, but gave no details of the discussions.

Mr. Tho, a member of Hanoi Poltboro, has invariably stopped in Peking and "Moscow for talks before his meetings with Mr. Kissinger in Paris.

The two men last met in

June to discuss the Vietnam cease-fire, which was the result of their negotiations.

It is believed that Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Tho will reappraise the deteriorating Vietnam truce at next week's meeting, which comes nearly a year after the signing of the Paris peace agreement.

Storms Named for Men

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 14 (UPI)—A radio station here has decided to name winter storms of four or more inches of snow after men. Yesterday, when it became obvious the storm that struck the area would go over four inches, the station christened it Adolph.

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# Kissinger Urges Faisal to Lift His Oil Embargo Against U.S.

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stated that she will not relinquish control over it.

King Faisal, who regards himself as a spiritual leader of the Moslem world, has made return of East Jerusalem a major condition for a final peace settlement and has also tended to link the lifting of the oil embargo to the Jerusalem question.

## Conference is at Hand

Procedural disagreement has so far delayed a formal announcement on the start of the Geneva Conference. When newsmen aboard the Air Force jet asked Mr. Kissinger if he had any doubt that the conference would start on time, he replied jokingly: "It is my judgment that a conference is at hand."

He was aluding to his famous remark Oct. 26, 1972, in which he said "peace is at hand" in Vietnam, a statement he was to regret because a cease-fire in Vietnam was not agreed upon until after three more months of negotiations and the heavy Christmas bombing of Hanoi.

Mr. Kissinger met twice—once shortly after midnight and again this morning—with the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo, Vladimir M. Vinogradov, to talk about plans for the conference. This morning Mr. Vinogradov brought a message from Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister, who plans to arrive in Geneva this weekend and to meet Mr. Kissinger on Monday night after he arrives.

Mr. Kissinger was pleased by his two rounds of talks with President Sadat last night and today, because while King Faisal represents much of the financial backing for the Arab movement, President Sadat is one

of the major political leaders. Mr. Sadat's open friendship for Mr. Kissinger was bein interpreted by American officials as useful in persuading Arab oil producers to ease the oil restrictions.

## Faisal Appears Grave

The meeting with King Faisal took place in the King's private study. The atmosphere was in sharp contrast with the easy conviviality of Mr. Kissinger's talks with Mr. Sadat. The king, who is strongly anti-Communit and anti-Zionist, appeared grave and made no effort to engage in banter with Mr. Kissinger while newsmen were present.

American officials said that Mr. Kissinger had been engaged in "extremely delicate talks" with Saudi officials and other Arab leaders in recent weeks to persuade them that the United States was determined to work for a peace that would be acceptable to both Israel and the Arabs. Therefore, Mr. Kissinger had agreed, the United States should no longer be regarded as "hostile" to the Arab cause, the astensible reason for the oil embargo.

Mr. Kissinger flies to Damascus and Amman tomorrow. His visit to the Syrian capital will be the first by an American Secretary of State since the visit in 1953 by John Foster Dulles. Mr. Kissinger is expected to discuss Syrias's refusal to exchange prisoners with Israel, causing the Israelis to threaten to refuse to discuss peace with the Syrians.

Mr. Sadat was asked by newsmen whether the Syrians might change their attitude. He replied that, while he could not speak for Syria, he believed that his "colleague," President Hafaz el-Assad, would "see to this," the first sign that a break might be imminent.

# Cabinet in Israel, Awaiting Kissinger, Holds Off Moves

By Alvin Rosenfeld

Special to The Washington Post

JERUSALEM, Dec. 14—Israel's Cabinet met for nearly five hours today to prepare for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visit and for the Geneva peace conference, but a communique said the deliberations were not concluded.

Apparently, Israeli moves were delayed pending firm word on Kissinger's talks yesterday in Cairo and those coming Saturday in Damascus.

Another Cabinet session was set for Sunday morning. But it is considered possible that the government's formal position will be taken only after Prime Minister Golda Meir and Kissinger confer Sunday afternoon.

Central to Israel's concern is the question of Israeli prisoners in Syrian hands. Israel has warned that it will not sit with Syrian delegates in Geneva unless their government first provides a complete list of Israeli prisoners and permits International Red Cross representatives to confirm that they are receiving proper treatment.

Israel has received details on the U.S.-Soviet plans for the conference. But the Cabinet decision to delay action apparently reflected a desire to see how the U.N. Security Council would handle the question of the relationship of U.S. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to the conference.

Israel has opposed the Egyptian proposal for U.N. sponsorship of the Geneva meeting because it did not want to see the conference turned into an organ for enforcement of anti-Israeli U.N. resolutions.

The Cabinet obviously wanted to make certain there were no hidden traps in the conference ground rules. A senior official said, "to make peace is quite a task and one which requires precision." The session was preceded by a 90-minute meeting between Mrs. Meir and U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Keating. The ambassador, who requested the meeting, described it as most satisfactory.

The Cabinet was understood to have discussed the draft of Foreign Minister Abba Eban's

opening statement at Geneva. It was described here as "most conciliatory."

In essence, it is said to be a plea to avoid polemics and to concentrate on achieving a true peace settlement. It defines Israel's concept of peace—normal diplomatic and commercial relations—and challenges the Arabs to define theirs.

The reported agreement between Kissinger and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, to give first priority to Geneva to disengagement and separation of the tangled forces on the Suez front, is not considered necessarily a major problem here.

The stance in Jerusalem is that, at the now suspended Israeli-Egyptian military talks at Kilometer 101 on the Suez-Cairo Road, Israel offered a reasonable deal involving abandonment of the Israeli bridgehead on the west bank of the canal and an Israeli withdrawal some miles into the Sinai against the thinning out of Egyptian forces on the Sinai side of the canal.

The problem, as the Israelis see it, is that Egypt wanted much more—namely, an Israeli commitment to leave the Sinai and a timetable toward that end. The Israeli view is that the extent of the final Israeli withdrawal will be a reflection of the overall Geneva agreement, meaning that Israel would be ready to make a major pullback in return for genuine peace but not otherwise.

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Wessels is the second former Godwin aide to be re-employed in the governor's office. Godwin earlier named Bruce Lee, one of his former assistants, as an executive aide. Godwin's other executive assistant is Jack Davis, former editor and general manager of the Winchester Evening Star, published by U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. (Ind.-Va.).

In other appointments yesterday, Godwin, a Democrat-turned-Republican, named Judy Peachee, a Republican who coordinated precinct activities during Godwin's campaign this year, as receptionist

and appointments secretary. He named Nancy Lee, who worked in his previous administration, as personal secretary.

Bangor News to Skip
2 Issues, Save Paper

BANGOR, Maine, Dec. 14 (AP)—The Bangor Daily News plans to halt publication of its Christmas and New Year's Day editions as part of a program to conserve newsprint.

The decision was reported in today's editions, which cited recent difficulties faced by two Maine paper mills in obtaining industrial oil. The News gets 90 per cent of its newsprint from the two companies.

United Press International

Henry A. Kissinger and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat meeting in Cairo yesterday.

Sadat Talks Inconclusive

By Marilyn Berger

Washington Post Staff Writer

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 14—Secretary of State Henry A. Kisinger came to Riyadh tonight, still searching for a formula that would get Israelis and Egyptians to the peace table and lead to an Arab relaxation of the oil embargo.

After almost five hours of private talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, which Kissinger characterized as "very good, very useful, very extensive," and two brief meetings with the Soviet ambassador in Cairo, the formalities of invitations to and

sponsorship of the peace conference still eluded him.

Although the meetings were said to have gone well, Kissinger left Cairo with the opinion that there is a less than 50-50 chance that the Arabs would end the oil embargo timed to the opening of the peace talks.

A U.S. official with Kissinger said there was "only slightly better than a 50-50 chance they will lift it after the conference opens."

[Wall Street reacted to an Associated Press version of this remark, which left out the word slightly, and stock prices rallied sharply in

heavy trading. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials closed up 15.22 points at 815.62, after having been down slightly earlier in the day.]

Kissinger met with King Faisal just after arrival here, but the Americans said the meeting did not result in a formula for moving ahead on the arrangements for the conference in Geneva. Kissinger hopes to convince the king that an oil embargo is inappropriate while the United States is trying to achieve a settlement.

See MIDEAST, A18, Col. 1

term sentences and other
cases of national interest.

Daniel Schultz, attorney
for the three men, said their
families were disappointed
to say would not be home for
Christmas. "They will cele-
brate Christmas late,"
Schultz added.

Schultz is also attorney
for Bernard L. Barker, who
also pleaded guilty to the
break-in but is not eligible
for parole until next sum-
mer.

Coconspirator E. Howard
Hunt, who also entered a
guilty plea, is eligible for
parole in 1975.

James W. McCord, who
was convicted after a
month-long trial, was sen-
tenced to a term of one to
five years, and has been free
pending appeal. G. Gordon
Liddy, who also was con-
victed in the case, is serving
a minimum of six years and
eight months in jail.

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THE WASHINGTON POST Saturday, Dec. 15, 1973

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Around the World

Bomb Kills 4 in Marseille

MARSEILLE, France—A plastic bomb exploded yesterday at the Algerian consulate in this racially tense port city, killing four persons and injuring 23, many of them seriously, police said.

Witnesses said the bomb, which was concealed in a brown paper parcel in a ground-floor corridor, blasted the consulate building's heavy main doors off its hinges, wrecked furniture, ripped plaster from ceilings and blew out windows.

With the exception of an Armenian businessman, all the victims were Algerian. Consul General Majid Gao-

a group of banks led by Morgan Grenfell and including the First of Chicago.

Douglas-Home said that the loan could be used to finance Arab arms from the Soviet Union and that many banks had refused to participate because it "would put them in bad odor with their Jewish depositors."

A. Robert Abboud, vice chairman of First Chicago, said: "We wish to formally and totally disassociate ourselves with Mr. Douglas-Home's remarks concerning this credit. He does not speak for us, and we do not agree with what he said."

Abboud said his bank would enforce a loan clause forbidding use of the money for purchase of arms.

Cyprus Extension

UNITED NATIONS—The Security Council voted 14-0, with China abstaining, to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Cyprus for another six months.

Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said in his latest report that the danger of military confrontation continues and talks between leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities have made "only limited progress, respite our persistent efforts."

The contingents now number more than 2,700.

Rice for Cambodia

PHNOM PENH—The United States agreed to increase rice shipments to Cambodia from 135,000 tons to 265,000 in fiscal 1974, under the Food for Peace program. The agreement raises the value of American food aid to $208.4 million.

Cambodia, which used to export rice, now has to import more than two thirds of its needs.

Czech Blast

TACHOV, Czechoslovakia—Approximately 80 persons, most of them teen-agers,

were reported to have been killed in an explosion that demolished a dormitory for apprentice workers in this western Bohemian town.

The apprentices were sleeping in the two-story building when the explosion occurred at about 3:15 a.m. Thursday. A spokesman for the regional interior ministry said the explosion was caused by a faulty heating system.

Argentine Exodus

BUENOS AIRES—Five U.S. companies have evacuated their executives from Argentina in the past two weeks for fear of leftwing guerrilla attacks, informed sources said.

The companies are IBM, Chrysler, Ford, Cities Service Oil and St. Joseph's Mining. The sources said they did not know how many executives had left, but at least 27 American children had been withdrawn from schools here.

For the Record

* Unusual fingerprints and creases in the palm may be telltale signs of children who run a greater risk of developing leukemia, or blood cancer, two Australian researchers suggested.

* Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Peter was replaced, after 12 years' service, by former typographer Frigyes Puja, 62.

* The League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva asked 28 members for urgent aid to Tunisia, which has suffered 60 dead and 1,000 left homeless in heavy rains.

* A comparatively strong underground nuclear blast was set off in the Soviet testing area of Semipalatinsk, Sweden's Uppsala Seismological Institute reported.

From staff reports and news dispatches

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THE WASHINGTON POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1973

William S. White

# Kissinger's Awesome Power

Granted that the phrase may sound
as frivolous as the title of an Alfred
Hitchcock thriller, the trouble with
Henry is far from amusing—and very
far from the fault of Henry Kissinger.

Secretary of State Kissinger has
reached that most dangerous of all
high plateaus in a democratic society.
He is becoming something close to the
indispensable man in a political struc-
ture that resents and ultimately re-
jects indispensable men. The two hats
he is wearing—the one as Secretary of
State and the other as the operating
head of the National Security Council
and the President's powerful alter ego
in the White House—create problems
of a kind never before experienced.

Henry Kissinger can, in fact, become
in his own person and being that ordi-
narily impersonal thing called a con-
flict of interest. For three powers with
three often competing interests—the
State Department, the Department of
Defense and the intelligence apparatus
—form the core of the National Secu-
rity Council over which Henry Kis-
singer must preside.

As Secretary of State he ought pri-
marily to concern himself with push-
ing State's views and aims. But as chief
of the NSC, subject only to the ulti-

mate authority of the President him-
self, Henry Kissinger cannot safely
downgrade the views and demands of
the Pentagon or the intelligence com-
munity.

In-built here is the latent danger of
a Kissinger divided within himself and
ultimately of one of those high-bureau-
eratic "feuds" of which Washington is
so fond between those charged with
the physical defense of the country
and those responsible for its diplo-
macy.

The danger of such a "feud" lies pri-
marily between the State Department
and the Pentagon, which are never go-
ing to see some kinds of crises in the
same light. A "feud" could have broken
out, to the nation's peril, in the recent
renewal of war in the Mideast over
the proper scope and tempo of Ameri-
can assistance to Israel.

That it did not break out was due to
two things: While the Pentagon chief-
tains, Secretary of Defense Schles-
inger and Undersecretary Clements,
are plenty tough when they must be,
neither will flex his muscles except as
the very last resort. Kissinger, for his
part, is both more patient and more in-

tellectually tolerant than his "public
image" would suggest.

Nevertheless, it was still necessary
for the President himself to step in de-
cisively before American military sup-
plies got moving to the embattled
Israelis.

The question of which side—Penta-
gon or Kissinger—was "dragging its
feet" is a moving target and no at-
tempt to answer it will be made by
this columnist. Anyhow, it is periph-
eral to the central issue: Has too much
power been thrust upon Henry Kis-
singer by a President so domestically
embattled over Watergate? And has
Henry Kissinger in consequence been
spread too thin and is too much being
asked of him?

The proper response seems to me in
both cases to be "yes." The best single
example is that in all his famous sor-
ties overseas his best and brightest ef-
fort has been both his most recent and
his less than successful. This was his
brilliant essay at getting our Western
Allies off our backs and onto some
constructive projects with us—such,
for example, as jointly doing some-
thing real to reduce the West's depend-
ence on the oil shieks.

© 1973. United Feature Syndicate

MARVIN KALB
CBS RADIO FIRST LINE REPORT

December 15, 1973

TEXT: KISSINGER'S PURPOSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

By now the pattern is set, the Secretary of State says goodbye to one foreign minister or another and boards his blue and white jet. Within minutes the plane is airborne and within minutes after that Kissinger wanders into the rear compartment of this compartmentalized aircraft to brief the sixteen reporters who cover his "jet-loose" diplomacy. Most of the time Kissinger is on background, meaning he cannot be quoted. That accounts for the running stories ascribed to"United States officials" or a "high American official" or "American sources." Actually they are all Kissinger because he does most of the substantive briefing on the plane.

The Secretary prides himself on his humor and his wit; his high domed intelligence and legendary energy are clear. No self-puffery is required. There are insights into the man, his personality and his policy.
First of all he wants a settlement in the Middle East. He feels Israel cannot tolerate another series of wars with the Arabs and survive. He also feels the U.S. cannot risk new confrontations with the Soviet Union caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict. One day that conflict might so embroil the super powers that world war would start. The Balkan analogy all over again: little wars sucking big countries into big wars. For the first time, the United States is playing a direct role with both sides. Leaning on Israel to make peace by giving up most occupied Arab lands in exchange for security and perhaps even peace treaties with her neighbors and coaxing the Arabs

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into recognizing and dealing with Israel all the time accentuates his unique
role. Kissinger is in fact the only one who can connive Israel into giving
up Arab territory. The Russians cannot, no one else either; he might.
There is another wrinkle to all this: as a Jew, Kissinger is being courted
by Arabs who wish to prove they are not anti-semitic and who are prepared to
believe that only a Jew can get Israel to withdraw. The former Secretary
of State, William Rogers, tried to do what Kissinger is doing but he did
not succeed. The diplomat atmospherics were wrong. Israel was not yet
ready for a deal. The Arabs had not yet tested their armors, mettle and
emerged with pride and dignity. The President was not so weak and therefore
so in need of a deal to bolster his own prestige on the one hand, and so
fearful of his own incapacity to act if, for example, there should be another
Soviet push to airlift troops to the Middle East.

So Kissinger travels the wandering sea of State in search of peace.
Peace with the West Europeans whom we used to call Allies and now often
refer to a competitors. Peace among the Arabs and Israeli's who have
known little peace in recent decades and peace too in Indochina where the
peace for which Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Duc Tho were awarded a Nobel
Peace Prize seems on the verge of collapsing. Kissinger is clearly not
shy. He loves to see his name in bold print and his pictures in the papers
and on television. He also loves to mock himself before a group of stuffy
Englishmen. The other night he told them that his accent might betray
the fact that his forbearers missed the Mayflower by some 300 years. Not
quite. They arrived in the United States from Germany in 1938.

NATIONAL OBSERVER-15 DECEMBER 1973(10)

Kissinger on the Geneva Talks

## Arab Oil Embargo

We understand the Arab point of view, that the United States prior to Oct. 6 perhaps did not see the situation with the same degree of urgency that some of the Arab countries did. And we can understand also the decisions that were made during military operations.

Now that the United States is taking an active part in the negotiations, and has affirmed that it will work for the implementation of Security Council Resolution 242, we continue to believe that discriminatory measures against the United States and pressures are no longer appropriate.

We have not engaged in a public discussion as to the methods by which the oil embargo might be mitigated, because we recognize that this is also a difficult problem for the Arab countries that have to make the decision. . . . We do not think that it's helpful for us to negotiate prior to a conference, which will address these questions, a separate agreement relating oil to particular issues at the conference table.

You all heard Minister Yamani [Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani] when he appeared yesterday. And while we are in the process of engaging in these discussions before my trip, I don't want to speculate on that. [After a 90-minute meeting with Kissinger, Yamani said the Arabs were prepared to increase oil production "step by step" with a phased Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.] . . . The minister pointed out that we both expressed our views frankly and I believe he said constructively. This usually means we did not necessarily agree to each other's formulas precisely.

## The Palestinians

The question of the Palestinians has at least three aspects. One is, who speaks for the Palestinians in general? Secondly, what is their relationship at the peace conference to Jordan, to Israel, and to the other parties? Thirdly, what are the concrete terms that are going to be advanced for the solution of the Palestinian question?

Our view is, with respect to the participation of the Palestinians and the role they might play at the conference, that this would best be settled by the parties at the conference. With respect to the specific terms, this, of course, also will have to be discussed at the conference. Some relationship will have to be found

between the rights of Palestinians, to which the United States has made reference in several international documents, and the limitations of absorption in the mandated territory of Palestine.

## Mideast Guarantees

We are prepared to consider the question of guarantees in its broadest sense, and we're willing to examine any idea that any of the parties might put forward as to what would constitute adequate guarantees. We believe, however, that the issue of guarantees can be faced in detail only after a settlement has been reached on borders and on security arrangements between the parties. That is to say such issues as demilitarized zones, joint inspection teams, and so forth that might constitute the body of the security arrangements between the parties. Then we will know what it is that outside countries should guarantee.

Now the question of U.S. and Soviet guarantees, or anybody else's guarantees, has two aspects. One, the form of guarantee, and second, the force that might be used to implement it. We are prepared to consider—I say to consider, not necessarily to agree to—either individual or joint guarantees.

As to the permanent stationing of U.S. and Soviet forces in the Middle East, we are somewhat dubious. We do not rule it out totally, but we are reluctant to get into this. And our position was expressed at the Security Council discussions that formed the UNEF [United Nations Emergency Force]. But I think we can make a more reasonable decision on the nature of guarantees after the other elements of the settlement are in place.

## U.S. and Vietnam

With respect to the war-powers legislation [limiting Presidential use of combat forces abroad], there has been speculation that it supersedes existing legislation [prohibiting further U.S. fighting in Southeast Asia]. It was a question asked of me in executive session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and I promised the committee I would make a legal study. Our legal adviser has concluded that the war-powers legislation does not supersede any existing legislation.

Therefore any military action that would be contemplated would be taken only in accordance with the provisions of both the joint resolution [the war-powers bill] and existing legislation. In other words, it would be fully discussed by the country . . . for congressional approval, and that is what we would seek.

♦ Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in a press conference predicted that the Mideast peace conference due to begin Dec. 18 in Geneva would start despite current cease-fire problems. He also talked about the Palestinians, future Middle peace guarantees, and the Arab oil embargo, as well as other subjects. Here are excerpts:

## Mideast Peace Talks

We consider it extremely probable that the conference will begin on Dec. 18 in Geneva. There are some technical details to be worked out as to the form of invitations and matters of this kind. We believe them to be easily solvable. . . . But we have no reason as this moment to doubt that the conference will take place. We believe that once the conference starts, the negotiating process will be under way dealing first with issues of a military nature, and then turning to the over-all settlement in accordance to [United Nations Security Council] Resolution 242. The United States, as I have stated repeatedly, will use its influence to bring about such a settlement. . . .

The Kilometer 101 talks [between the Israelis and Egyptians on the Cairo-Suez City road] concern the implementation of the cease-fire agreement, and while we regret that they have been broken off, we believe that the issues that were raised are solvable and can be dealt with, particularly when other countries can play a more active role in relation to them.

The high state of alert of both sides is to a considerable extent produced by the military dispositions that now exist. Both sides have their forces in the rear of the other. And both sides are in danger of imminent encirclement if military operations resume. Therefore, the penalty for being surprised is extremely serious.

This calls attention to the fact that there is a need of a separation of forces that reduces this danger. And I believe that the experience of the last two months will have brought this home to both of the parties. . . .

In a situation where the forces are as closely mixed as they are, and in which we, of course, do not control the conditions of either side, any prediction is somewhat hazardous. We do not believe that the cease-fire will come apart and that the conference will be jeopardized. But I must add the caveat that we do not, of course, control the decisions.

To Play Aspin Concerto?

THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL-2 DEC. 1973(10)

# Critic of Military Bands Requests One for Show

"I am writing in behalf of Mr. Chuck Costello," Aspin wrote the Pentagon Nov. 15. "I would appreciate receiving a fact sheet or letter of explanation on what groups might be available and (how) to go about placing a request."

Jerry W. Friedheim, assistant defense secretary for public affairs, could not resist needling Aspin in a letter in response.

"We are, as you know, very

proud of our military music and drill teams and pleased that they are regularly requested by members of Congress and by their constituents throughout the country," Friedheim said.

"These units are most important in assisting us with our recruiting efforts for the all-volunteer force...

"The name of the event in Janesville suggests that it might be fund-raising or commercial

in character. If this is the case, an exception to policy will be required for us to support it. We will be pleased to consider such an exception if you request it."

A spokesman for Aspin, squirming that the matter had been made public, said Aspin tried to talk his constituent out of his effort to get a military band. And he said Aspin would never request an exception to the Pentagon's policy of denying

bands for fund-raising events.

Just two weeks ago Aspin said in a news release: "Top officials at the Pentagon always complain that all the fat has been squeezed out of their budget. But by curbing this extravagant band program, the military could either cut their budget by at least $40 million or use those funds to really defend the country rather than polishing the Pentagon's image."

SPACE BUSINESS DAILY-7 DECEMBER 1973(10)

## RELIEF OF U.S. INDIAN OCEAN FLEET DELAYED

The Department of Defense said yesterday that a fleet task force of five ships commanded by the carrier USS Oriskany will relieve the present Indian Ocean task force commanded by the carrier USS Hancock within the next two days.

The Pentagon had reported two days ago that the transfer of commands had already taken place. The Oriskany force is already in the Indian Ocean at an undisclosed location, while the Hancock task force is about 950 miles west of India.

Defense Secretary James Schlesinger said last Friday that the arrival of the Oriskany force marks the beginning of regular visits to the Indian Ocean by the U. S. fleet, apparently in an effort to offset the growing Soviet presence in that area.

A Navy spokesman said yesterday that the Hancock force may or may not leave the Indian Ocean after the transfer. The announcement follows a report that 32 Soviet ships are now in the Indian Ocean, including 14 combat vessels. Earlier in the week, the Soviets were reported to have about 25 ships in the Indian Ocean.

One of the objectives of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev's recent visit to India was believed to include the initiation of negotiations for Soviet naval port facilities in India for its Indian Ocean fleet, especially the port of Vishkapatnam.

While the Soviet fleet has been devoting much attention to the area of the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, the U. S. fleet has also been active in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea areas.

South Yeman and the Arab League have protested the U. S. fleet activities off the territorial waters of South Yeman and the Bab El Manueb entrance to the Red Sea. A report earlier this week indicated that Egypt and Yeman had lifted the Red Sea blockade and that Israel had sent ships through the Red Sea to test the blockade lifting.

The Pentagon said yesterday that ships of the new task force under the Oriskany have not entered the Red Sea since arrival in the Indian Ocean area.

In the meantime, the U. S. and Soviet fleets in the Mediterranean have dropped --