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R. Laird with South Korean counterpart, Jung Nae Hiuk

can loan for establishment of a factory to manufacture the M-16 rapid-fire rifle and other modernizing assistance totaling $150-million. In the fiscal year that began July 1, the Nixon administration is proposing to allocate only $110-million for the modernization program, according to reports from Washington.

Mr. Laird is understood to have rejected the South Korean plea for a greater commitment of funds over a shorter period of time but to have stressed that the United States would honor its pledge to support the original five-year schedule. On this point, the joint statement mentioned "strengthening of self-reliant defense capabilities" and an "orderly implementation of the modernization program."

One dispute over the wording

of the statement is understood to have been resolved in favor of the South Koreans.

Before Mr. Laird began his conversations in Seoul, official American sources had said that the manpower of the South Korean armed forces might well be a topic of discussion.

This figure, which stands at 620,000 currently—while actual troop strength may be 50,000 less—is the level the United States undertakes to support through its military assistance program.

There have been rumors that the United States might try to reduce this bookkeeping level by as many as 125,000 men, thereby reducing its own military assistance program. However, it is understood that no conclusion regarding force levels emerged from Mr. Laird's discussions here.

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Commenting on the imminent Egyptian-United States acts on the Suez Canal issue, Egyptian spokesman emphasized that "a number of points remain to be clarified."

"Clarifications" have been un- way for the last two months, since Secretary of State William P. Rogers visited Cairo, but the terms outlined Egypt seem unchanged.

In the most explicit recent statement of Egyptian terms, June 15, Egypt's chief spokesman reiterated point by point the conditions laid down President Sadat before the act by Mr. Rogers. It was a port to a news conference re- mark by Mr. Rogers that areas of agreement" had been achieved on the canal plan.

According to Mr. Rogers, the points of agreement were that the canal should be reopened and operated by Egypt, that the interim arrangement must be part of an over-all settlement, that there should be a formal cease-fire and that Israeli troops must withdraw from the canal.

For reasons still not fully understood, the Egyptian spokesman reacted with anger to the other generalized remarks by Mr. Rogers.

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Ajmanis, 12,000 Strong, Face

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I WONDER WHO'S

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Henry Kissinger, sex symbol of the Nixon Administration, steps out of his office onto a sun-drenched San Clemente terrace with a cup of black coffee and sits in a white deck chair with his legs crossed.

The man who has pressured Moscow, drafted State of the World addresses, advised the President to enter Cambodia and paved the road to Red China appears as something of an anachronism in his baggy, midnight blue cotton trousers, black-tie shoes, bright blue unfitted blazer, blue and white striped shirt and striped tie.

"What are you trying to do? Seduce me?" Henry will tease as he notices his visitor's Hot-Pants. "You know I like these HotPants very much." Then he'll light your cigaret, touching your hand as all Continentals do, offer you a cup of coffee and discuss trivia as readily as he would a Sino-Soviet entente.

The impecably tidy image is perfect for dealing with Alexei Kosygin or Chou En-lai, or lecturing at Harvard, but one cannot help wonder if the movie stars mind that the ankle socks of Washington's greatest swimmer are falling down, that his wiry chestnut hair, which flashes golden in the intense white sunlight, is too close-cropped to run their fingers through or that at least 10 of his 178 pounds protrude over his thin black belt, somehow shortening his 5 feet 9 inches.

But suddenly an electric twinkle will flash through the intense blue of his eyes and one catches an inkling of that movie star magnetism ... that special quality which causes some people to call him "Cuddly Kissinger."

Henry is always friendly, particularly with women. Whether on the telephone, at parties or in person, this man who commands more of the President's attention than almost any other living person, is gentle, boyish, even a bit insecure. And he pays rapt attention to every question as though he had nothing in the world more pressing to consider. Columnist Mary McGrory attests to that.

"Henry is a superb listener, which I think is the secret of his power with the President. He pays total attention. He not only waits until you finish speaking, he gives you time for afterthought and revision."

When it is Henry's time to answer, he speaks slowly in deep, mellow Wagnerian tones, carefully weighing words and revising them himself. He is a man to whom semantics are vitally important.

He talks about his job, his hours, his relationship with the President. Foreign policy adviser was not a job Henry sought or expected, he says. After all, he had counseled two Democratic presidents — Johnson and Kennedy — and had a veritable fleet of Democratic friends. Strangely, it was Nelson Rockefeller who suggested Henry take the post.

Henry had been an associate of Rockefeller and was lunching with him in his 54th Street apartment one late November noon in 1968 when Dwight Chapin, the President's assistant, called and said, "The President-elect would like to see you in his office in Washington on Monday." Henry thought Mr. Nixon just wanted to discuss foreign policy. "I had no idea he was going to offer me a job."

And when the offer was made, Henry did not jump at it. "I told him I'd have to think about it." But Rockefeller persuaded Henry. "He said, 'Never talk to me again,' if I didn't accept. He thought it was my public duty." Henry dutifully accepted and ever since he's been working

round the clock from the minute he reaches the White House at 7:45 a.m. to the time he leaves ("Never before 8:30 p.m.").

Two Germans who live next door testify to that dawn departure, but also comment on Henry's aloofness. "We say, 'Guten Morgen, Herr Kissinger,' every morning when we walk our poodle, but he never replies." Henry says simply, "I'm probably preoccupied."

And he has every reason to be. He has lived Vietnam every step of the way, masterminded the Cambodian invasion, prepared Mr. Nixon's State of the World address and paved the way to Communist China. He negotiates with ambassadors, heads of state and visiting dignitaries, wages the President's war with the Cabinet and fends off the bureaucracy.

Henry probably spends more time than anyone in Washington with the President. He is in the Chief Executive's office every morning, and sometimes as often as four or five times a day. He dines with him once a week. On trips abroad, he is with the President constantly. Attorney General John Mitchell once told WWD Kissinger sees everything that goes to the President, including reports from the CIA and FBI.

Although Henry denies he sees anything "except those things that concern foreign policy," he admits he screens whatever messages or reports come from "lower level" department types. Whatever Henry considers irrelevant never reaches the President. "I see everything first to insure there is one central place for followup so the President doesn't have so many balls to juggle."

Sources also say Henry monitors his phone calls with the President — but Henry denies that too. "I simply keep a log of my schedule, of whom I talk to and what I talked to them about so I can refer back should problems arise."

He describes the President as "detached, precise, analytical and easy to work for," and says "when it comes to foreign policy, he never shows impatience."

Henry scuttles away from the subject of Vietnam except to assert that he does not believe war has "a positive side. It is, at best, the lesser of two evils." And he generalizes about China. "I was very moved and impressed by my experience. I look forward to returning so I can see the countryside and meet some of the ordinary people." He will not discuss his background as he does with friends who sit next to him at dinner parties either. But those friends tell you that Henry's past was not easy. Henry was not always the swinging single he is today.

He was born May 27, 1923, into a Jewish middle class family in Furth, just outside Nuremberg, and from 1930-38 during the Nazi occupation, Henry was a social outcast. He was kicked out of his school by the Nazis, forced to attend an all-Jewish school, and was often beaten up along the way. He was forbidden to use the public swimming pools or to mingle with other German youths. Eleven members of his family died at Nazi hands.

By the time Henry escaped to the United States with his parents he had become a withdrawn, suspicious young man. At George Washington High School on New York's Upper West Side, he avoided his classmates. Henry would cross to the other side of the street when he saw a group of his peers approaching.

"He was totally withdrawn," says Fritz Kraemer, director of a military government school for officers of the 84th Division of the U.S. Army, which Henry entered as a private in 1943. (It was Kraemer who discovered Henry's extraordinary mind and advised him to continue his

education. Henry's greatest desire in life until then had been to become an accountant.)

In 1949, Kissinger married Ann Fleischer, who also had come to this country from Germany. The marriage lasted until 1964, when they were divorced.

When Henry went to Harvard his intellectual enlightenment began, but the social awakening did not. "He was a total introvert," says a classmate, "brilliant but shy. It's hard to understand his popularity now."

Henry avoids that topic, but when it comes to discussing his life as "Playboy of the Western Wing," he lights up. It is a subject that has great appeal to him. As someone who has known him for 15 years says, "Henry likes to believe that although he's a serious Germanic scholar, he's really a frivolous playboy, that he's Metternich, the Papillon, light, gay and 18th Century."

In fact if you ask Henry how he likes being called "Washington's greatest swimper," he replies unabashedly, "That's no compliment. That's faint praise." Tease him about the bells in Jill St. John's alarm system going off recently when Henry and Jill walked out to her pool and he'll say, "What did you expect? ... I was teaching her chess." Or ask him if he likes Washington's social merry-go-round and he answers, "You haven't exactly seen me avoiding it have you?"

Although he'll tell you the only thing he dislikes about his present notoriety is that everyone is constantly staring to see which star he is with, there are those who suggest Henry not only loves to be seen, but even had photographers notified when he was going to appear at a certain restaurant once.

Just a couple of nights ago, Henry was in the news when a TV report had him "secretly married" to Jill St. John. Henry and Jill each denied it.

"There has never been a romance," Jill told WWD. "It has been a great friendship and still is. It has not been and will never be a great romance."

"Of course, I'm not married," snapped Henry. "Do you believe everything you hear on TV?"

Henry says, "I like women who are intense, intelligent and warm. And any woman who survives with me has to be very independent. It would be suicide for a woman to try and find identity through a man absolutely absorbed in his work."

Yet he will not delineate those qualities which attracted so many women to him. "Maybe it's my deep voice," he says with a mischievous grin. "You're a woman. Am I attractive to you?"

Henry is certainly attractive to some people, if not for his Tarzan physique, then certainly for his gifted mind, quick wit and adaptability. Joyce Haber, the society columnist he often visits on the West Coast, says: "In his brilliance Henry has a way of adjusting to any level. He can adapt to anybody. He is worldly, humorous, sophisticated and a cavalier with women." Barbara Howar says, "I have great respect for him as a human being." Gloria Steinem says, "Henry's the only interesting person in the whole Nixon Administration and he's not afraid of hostile reporters. I enjoy talking with him. He's the only person on the Nixon team who can talk."

And although Gloria adds, "If this were the Kennedy Administration nobody would pay attention to him . . . if it weren't for a vacuum of news, Henry would be forgotten." Margot Hahn, wife of D.C. Council chairman Gilbert Hahn, disagrees. Margot calls Henry, "witty, funny and one of the smartest men I ever met. He'd en-