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creatures, excessive Arap oil price hikes?"

re响应到的 invitation from a Machisavelli suddenly outwitted by his
easier to solve in emergencies....Under the circumstances, should we
"The Yom Kippur war? Klasinger has always said that problems were

orchestrate the whole thing.

This is why one can wonder whether the United States did not start and
companies; it also enhances the value of all American resources....

The rise in prices means not only incalculable profits for the pig oil
at that game,' he is right. The game, incidentally, is already over...

France and Saudi Arabia, says, 'We are stronger than the rest of you
Henry Klasinger, critically debriefing the pilferal agreements between
(perhaps after reading Le Monde in a coffee house), said: "When
This week, Jean Daniel, writing in the weekly Nouvel Observateur.

United States was enough to put it back in the seat of power?"
to the point where the advantage to be drawn from the situation by the
diplomacy has sought not to reverse but to channel the course of events
the oil weapon, how can you not see that the Grandmaster of America
which accelerated Arap awareness of the power they could derive from
ever, if you omit the actual start of hostilities along the Suez Canal,
the Super-Machisavelli, rigged the whole scene from the beginning. How-
that "it's only in the coffee houses that they believe that Mr. Klasinger,
About a week ago, Philippe Simonot, writing in Le Monde, asserted
becta--all (they say) at the expense of the Europeans and Japanese.

crisis--rising dollar, favorable trade and balance of payments pro-
that the U. S. is not entirely unhappy with the net effect of the Mideast
As you know, many French media commentators have suggested darkly
French Commentators on U. S. Mideast Role

IOP\M - Robert C. Haney

IOP - Mr. Walter M. Baatan, Jr.

January 12, 1974

# U.S. Presses Arabs on Oil

By Jeremiah O'Leary

Star-News Staff Writer

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Chances are about 50-50 that the Arab nations will lift their oil embargo within a month if they get favorable decision at the Geneva peace talks, U.S. officials traveling with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger feel.

The secretary conferred for 90 minutes last night with King Faisal here on the oil situation and the upcoming Middle East peace conference.

The officials said their estimate on the possible easing of the oil squeeze depends on results at the peace talks scheduled to open in Geneva on Tuesday. The Arabs are demanding Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 borders.

THERE WAS no hint here that the mere opening of the conference expected to be attended by Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria — in addition to the United States and the Soviet Union— would induce the Arabs to lift the

embargo and production cutbacks.

Kissinger flew here from Cairo, where he met twice with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. His next stop is Damascus, where he meets with President Hafez al-Assad.

Just a few hours before Kissinger arrived here, Saudi officials dropped a hint on the possible easing of the embargo the Associated Press reported.

They suggested that King Faisal might be willing to consider a resumption of oil deliveries if Kissinger or President Nixon were to make a public statement calling for Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory.

IN CAIRO, Kissinger said publicly that a settlement must be within terms of the 1967 U.N. resolution calling for Israeli withdrawal. This is apparently just what the Saudis want: Public reaffirmation of the U.S. commitment to the resolution.

While dealing with the Arabs, Kissinger has remained in daily touch with Israel through U.S. Ambas-

sador Kenneth B. Keating and Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz, who is now home from Washington.

Accompanying officials said the procedures for opening the Geneva peace conference may be worked out in the several capitals by late today, or certainly

by tomorrow, according to the Associated Press.

AT THE SAME time the Americans are consulting closely with the Soviets in order to draw them into the peace process and thereby neutralize any chance of
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their undermining Washington's efforts.

A senior U.S. official who declined to be identified said Egyptian and Israeli "perceptions" are within negotiating range.

Asked about the problem of getting the belligerents together for the first time at the conference table, senior U.S. officials said they believe the talks would be "direct" in the sense that Arabs and Israelis will be in the same room.

But, they said, the Arabs claim the talks cannot be direct because third parties are involved.

THIS VIEW reflects a remark mad by Sadat in Cairo yesterday indicating his delegation is willing to

be in the same room with the Israelis, "but if you are talking about direct negotiations, the answer is no."

Sadat said, however, he hoped the two sides would be able to bargain seriously about disengagement of Egyptian and Israeli forces before Christmas. This point is expected to be the first on the Geneva agenda.

A start of disengagement at the Suez front could be the basis for at least a limited resumption of oil shipments. Saudi Arabia has said it would coordinate a step-by-step resumption of oil shipments with an agreed timetable for Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands.

The U.S. officials said that the conference may be continued in committees after the ceremonial opening, which is expected to last only a few days.

The American delegation at the parley will be led by Ellsworth Bunker, former U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam and elder statesman in the State Department. Bunker, 7y, has been ambassador-a-large since his return from Saigon.

# Letters to THE ENERGY CRISIS

## Well Being

SIR: A recent Star-Times crisis failed to state clearly come before we regain well-being.

During the last 60 years mineral resources have been used and scrap metals exported blackmailed and squeezed for their political and economic strength.

I favor importation of metallic ores as may be necessary. So long as we are against those who seek to get worse material resources to oateness in the energy crisis, we must compete and determine other roadblocks that weak strength.

The ecologists, environmental Club and many other voluntary groups accomplish some good, but disregard the fact that by evolution from the c

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# Kissinger's Ship of State—Taking a Hard New Tack

## Secretary's One-Man Show in Perilous First 4 Months
## Renews Department Status

BY RICHARD RESTON
Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON—Since the death of John Foster Dulles in 1959, the State Department has settled into a traditional mold as the keeper and shuffler of diplomatic papers.

There were even times in the past 15 years when the department was ignored as the government's main instrument of foreign policy.

Under William P. Rogers and Dean Rusk, the department became a proper, dull bureaucracy, always talking of reorganization but seldom doing anything about it. But now there is a new and aggressive one-man show at the State Department.

Henry A. Kissinger, the first of its kind since the days of Dulles in the Eisenhower administration and Dean Acheson of the Truman administration.

In the nearly four months since Kissinger was confirmed by the Senate he has dealt with a war in the Middle East, friction in the Atlantic alliance, negotiations with China, difficulties with the Soviet Union and the reorganization of the State Department.

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