Kissinger in Peking

# U.S. Keen to Normalize Ties

PEKING, Nov. 10, (R)--U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew to Peking Saturday on his sixth mission to China and announced that both countries were determined to press ahead quickly with the shared goal of putting their relations on a normal basis.

The process began two years ago with Kissinger's first secret visit to China-- a mission that paved the way for President Nixon's historic journey to the Chinese capital.

Kissinger arrived here fresh from his successful peace-seeking tour of Middle East states. American officials travelling with him expressed cautious optimism Saturday over the results of that tour, saying they expected talks-- of some yet unspecified kind -- to begin soon between the two protagonists.

Kissinger's visit, which was originally scheduled for August

but was delayed by various factors until now, is his first as secretary of state, a change in status which is reflected in the markedly different style of the current visit compared with his previous secretive missions.

He is accompanied for the first time by a party of newsmen-- many of them weary after the hectic round of Middle East visits-- and a group of foreign diplomats appeared at Peking capital airport to greet him despite the fact there was no formal protocol requirement to do so.

Kissinger's aircraft taxied past one of the American-built Boeing 707 airliners recently delivered to the Chinese national airline, an eloquent reminder of the rapid progress made in relations between China and the United States.

Saturday night he was guest of honor at a banquet in the

Greet Hall of the People given by his Chinese counterpart Chinese Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei. There he recalled how in July 1971 he had flown the same route as he followed Saturday from Pakistan for his first rendezvous with Chinese leaders.

He said nobody took that trip could forget the excitement they felt as they entered China. They knew that normalization of relations between the U.S. and China was "essential to the peace of the world."

Kissinger said goodprogress had been made since then, and added: "... But we are determined to do much more and to complete the process we started two years ago as quickly as possible."

He continued: "We have learned that the Chinese word counts and that every promise we have made to each other has

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KUWAIT, Nov. 10, (R)--Mo-
rocco's Foreign Minister, Ah-
med Taibi Benhima, had talks
in Kuwait Saturday on his coun-
try's proposal for a conference
of Arab foreign and defense
ministers, and on the Arab sum-
mit since promoted by Al-
geria.

As Benhima flew in Sa-
turday morning, from Iran, his
Sudanese counterpart Mansour
Khaled left here for Tehran,
following weekend talks on Mid-
dle East developments,

The Moroccan minister was
received soon after his arrival
by the Ruler Sheikh Sabah Sa-
lim Al Sabah, and handed him
a message from King Hassan,

He continued discussions la-
ter, on the Arab conference
schemes, with Kuwait's Foreign
Minister, Sheikh Sabah Ahmed

Though Egypt has been re-
ported lukewarm to the idea of
a foreign and defense minis-
ters meeting at this time, Ku-
wait is among several Arab
states which have approved the
idea at least in principle.

Meanwhile a special envoy
from Somalia's President Mo-

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