Kissinger Meets Envoys
Amid Talk of Arab Rifts

NY Times 2/18/14

Separate Meetings Held at the Request
of the Egyptian and Saudi Envoys—
U.S. Aides Are Wary on Oil

By LESLIE H. GELB

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17— Secretary of State Kissinger met separately today with the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministers and a Syrian representative while high American officials sought to dampen optimistic speculation about the lifting of the Arab oil embargo against the United States.

"The oil embargo is not the principal purpose of these discussions," Mr. Kissinger said after escorting the Egyptian envoy, Ismail Fahmy, to his limousine.

Mr. Kissinger was understood to have two aims in the current round of talks—to maintain the momentum of the Middle East negotiations as a whole and to separate the lifting of the oil embargo from the issue of Israeli troop withdrawals from Syrian territory. He pursued these aims even as it appeared that Arab unity was showing signs of cracking.

Asked what message the envoys had brought from the meeting of Arab heads of state in Algiers last week, Mr. Kissinger replied, "I assume they

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Omar Saqqaf, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, leaving State Department with Joseph J. Sisco, aide to Secretary Kissinger.

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Kissinger Talks With Arabs Separately

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have a joint message, but I haven't heard it yet."

Mr. Kissinger tried to joke about the separate meetings, saying, "I decided to meet the Arab ministers separately because I can't handle the three of them together." The plan for a joint meeting had been changed, he said, by "mutual agreement," but it was learned that the Arab envoys themselves had sought the separate discussions.

Mr. Kissinger was joined at breakfast by the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Simcha Dinitz, for what an Israeli source called "comprehensive discussions."

At 11 A.M. Foreign Minister Omar Saqqaf of Saudi Arabia arrived, and he and Mr. Kissinger talked alone for an hour. Mr. Saqqaf was followed at noon by Dr. Sabah Kabani, head of the Syrian diplomatic mission in Washington. He conferred with Mr. Kissinger in the Secretary's seventh-floor suite for half an hour—again without aides present.

At 1 P.M. Mr. Fahmy was ushered into the suite for private talks followed by a working lunch.

Attending the lunch on the American side in addition to Mr. Kissinger were Ambassador at Large Ellsworth Bunker, Joseph J. Siscon, who has been nominated as Under Secretary of State, Alfred L. Atherton, the acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, and Harold Saunders of the National Security Council staff.

Attending with Mr. Fahmy was Ashraf Ghorbal, Egypt's Ambassador-designate to the United States, Omar Sirri, a roving ambassador and Ashwan Marwan of the Egyptian Foreign Office.

After lunch Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Fahmy continued the talks alone.

This was not the way the day's schedule had been planned. Mr. Kabani was supposed to have seen Mr. Kissinger separately, but the Saudi Arabian and Egyptian ministers had been scheduled for a joint meeting. This meeting according to the State Department spokesman, George West, will now take place on Monday.

The separate meetings seemed to confirm what officials said in interviews yesterday and again today about divisions among the Arab nations.

At the meeting in Algiers last week of the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Algeria, these officials said, President Anwar El-Sadat of Egypt and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia urged that the oil embargo be lifted without waiting for Israeli withdrawals from Syrian territory. This would have been in accord with what officials said was their private assurance to President Nixon before his State of the Union Address more than two weeks ago.

The officials said, however, that they believed President Hafez Al-Assad of Syria and President Houari Boumediene of Algeria had insisted on linking the oil issue to troop disengagement to force the United States to keep up pressure on Israel.

This explanation, however, does not make clear why the Saudi Arabian and Egyptian ministers asked for separate meetings with Mr. Kissinger. Officials hinted today that there were important differences between these two countries as well.

Pressed for some statement on oil, Mr. Kissinger said, "We

won't have anything to announce for some time." Other officials also told newsmen "to downplay the oil angle."

Foreign Minister Saqqaf was equally elusive. Answering reporters' questions he said, "Always I bring good news for my friends." But pressed for specifics he only smiled and said, "Ask Dr. Kissinger."

Mr. Kissinger seemed to be trying to break down an "oil is at hand" mentality comparable to the "peace is at hand" approach that he himself took before the Paris agreement on Vietnam in 1972.

This time the optimism was generated by President Nixon's statement in his State of the Union address that he had "been assured, through my personal contacts with friendly leaders in the Middle Eastern area, that an urgent meeting will be called to discuss the lifting of the oil embargo."

While high officials said that King Faisal and President Sadat had agreed to this precise language, some officials believe that the King has since promised Syria that the oil embargo will be lifted only after Israel has made commitments to withdraw from Arab territory.

They speculate that the King may have made this promise to keep Syria from forming a radical Arab alliance with Iraq and Libya. If true, this would leave Egypt alone among key Arab states in urging that the oil embargo be lifted.

Mr. Kissinger is understood to be arguing that the lifting of the oil embargo should not be tied to Israeli troop withdrawals. He has called the embargo a "form of blackmail," in view of his good-faith role as a mediator. The Implication is that his continued mediation depends on a show of Arab good faith on oil.

ARAB CHIEFS SEND
2 TO WASHINGTON
TO SEE KISSINGER

Oil Embargo. Negotiations
Between Syria and Israel
Are Expected Topics

By LESLIE H. GELB

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 —
The Egyptian and Saudi Ara-
bian Foreign Ministers headed
for Washington today for talks
with Secretary of State Kis-
singer, presumably about the
Arab oil embargo against the
United States and possible Is-
raeli-Syrian negotiations.

The two ministers were sent
here following a two-day meet-
ing in Algeria, which ended
Thursday, of the leaders of
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and
Algeria. The ministers. Ismail
Fahmy of Egypt and Omar
Saqqaf of Saudi Arabia, stopped
off in Paris on their way to
Washington.

Mr. Kissinger conferred with
President Nixon in Key. Bis-
cayne, Fla., today before flying
back to Washington for the
meeting with the Arab Foreign
Ministers.

The Possible Topics

American officials said that
they had "no clue" about what
the envoys would say but as-
sumed that something new was
to be proposed about the oil
embargo and Israeli-Syrian
talks.

American officials said that
it was their understanding that
at the meeting in Algeria King
Faisal of Saudi Arabia and
President Anwar el-Sadat of
Egypt had urged the lifting of
the oil embargo and the begin-
ning of Israel-Syrian talks.
They were apparently opposed,
the officials said, by President
Hafez al-Assad of Syria and
President Houari Boumediene
of Algeria, who argued for get-
ting Israeli commitments on
withdrawal from Arab terri-
tories before restarting the
flow of oil.

Some American officials de-
clared that even if the Arabs
had agreed on a new formula,

Continued From Page 1, Col. 5

it was still likely to link the
lifting of the embargo with Is-
raeli withdrawals. "They'll tie
the two together," one official
said, "because they think that's
the only way for us to keep the
pressure on Israel."

Whatever the Arab position,
high American officials said in
interviews, the United States
strategy will be twofold.

First, they said, Mr. Kissinger
will continue trying to separate
the lifting of the oil embargo
from the start of Israeli-Syrian
negotiations.

Second, he will continue seek-
ing to reconcile the demands
of Syria for Israeli troop with-
drawals before turning over a
list of prisoners and Israeli's
insistence on receiving the pris-
oner list and arranging for Red
Cross visits before beginning
talks on any other subject.

After the Israelis and Egyp-
tians agreed an Jan. 18 to the
separation of their forces, offi-
cials said, President Sadat told
Mr. Kissinger that he would use
his influence to bring the oil
embargo to an end in return
for continued American good
offices in the negotiations.

King Faisal, according to the
same officials, went even fur-
ther in authorizing President
President Nixon to say in his
State of the Union address that
the Arabs would hold an urgent
meeting on lifting the embargo.
One high State Department
official said that the language
in the President's adress had
been negotiated with King Fai-
sal and President Sadat. An-
other official said that King
Faisal had used that exact
language in a letter to Presi-
dent Nixon.

Meanwhile, Mr. Kissinger has
said publicly and privately that
it would be dangerous and un-
fair for the Arabs to persist in
linking oil diplomacy to Israeli
troop withdrawals—dangerous
because American political opi-
nion could insist on economic
retaliation and unfair, because
Washington has already demon-
strated its good faith as a medi-
ator.

In close consultation with
Israel, Mr. Kissinger has ad-

vanced several proposals to
break the Syrian-Israeli dead-
lock. All of them, according to
American officials, seek to nar-
row the time difference be-
tween the presentation by
Syria of a list of Israeli prison-
ers list and the beginning of
Israeli withdrawals from Syrian
territory.

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["Cruelest punishment", "By HOYT HAGER\nStaff Writer", "KARNES CITY — Fancy new facilities are not the answer to jail reform, in the opinion of Allen R. Baca, chief probation officer for the 81st Judicial District.", "The new multimillion dollar Nueces County jail, even \"with innerspring mattresses and meals catered by Luby's Cafeteria,\" won't solve Nueces County's problems, Baca said.", "Boredom, more than any other condition, contributes to confrontations between inmates and guards and touches off riots, he said.", "Baca said of the Nueces County jail situation: \"If the new detention center does not have a program to combat boredom, you'll be wasting your money. It won't take psychiatrists — just someone to listen.\"", "Baca's opinions are based on several years of talking with inmates in the Nueces County jail when he was a probation officer in Corpus Christi and other South Texas jails.", "Baca is mildly critical of South Texas sheriffs in general and Sheriff Johnnie Mitchell of Nueces County in particular for not providing exercise yards, reading material, educational opportunities and other diversions in jails. (Mitchell said last week that he had requested a recreation area but had no response from the county commissioners.)", "Baca admitted, however, that his own program, called \"How to Be Somebody,\" is designed to motivate and set goals for inmates but could not be carried out by the sheriff or guards because the inmates do not trust them because of the positions they occupy. Such a counseling program would need to be carried out by an outsider, such as Baca was at the Nueces County jail in 1972. He said during that", "year there were \"no riots or serious confrontations between jail staff and inmates.\"", "Baca said when he was transferred from Corpus Christi to Karnes City to set up a probation system, the Nueces County jail library program and the motivation program were dropped.", "A similar combination of programs at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Brig, however, has been continued and improved until they have reduced the output of \"demerits\" substantially, Baca said. Baca and NAS personnel set up the programs several years ago in the brig which was \"as bad as any jail in its atmosphere of boredom,\" Baca said.", "Baca was reared in Orange Grove and lived in Corpus Christi from 1939 until he moved to Karnes City in January, 1973, to set up a new probation program in five counties — Karnes, Wilson, Atascosa, Frio and La Salle.", "He is a veteran. He is a former Marine. He was a war II. Fرض. He was a war II. Marine. He was a

'Bear hug'

C.C. Culler Jul 17-17 Jul 17-17

Kissinger greets officials

WASHINGTON (AP) — The foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia arrived here Saturday night for talks with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights.

"We have decided to come after being sure that something has to happen in these long, long difficulties," said Omar Sakkaf, the Saudi minister, following a bear-hug from Kissinger at Dulles Airport.

Sakkaf, with Egyptian foreign minister Ismail Fahmy at his side, said he hoped for a solution "during our visit to this country."

In Tripoli, Libya, informants close to Libyan President Moammar Khadafy said a full-scale Arab summit meeting will be held in Lahore, Pakistan, next Friday to learn the results of the Washington meeting from Sakkaf and Fahmy.

Most of the 19 Arab heads of state will be in Lahore then for a 30-nation Islamic summit conference.

Kissinger had flown up from Florida an hour before the Arab envoys arrived after charting strategy with President Nixon at

Key Biscayne. In brief remarks, the secretary said, "We will conduct our conversations with the friendship and

confidence that has characterized our relations."

Kissinger added, "We will listen with great attention and state our views with frankness."

Fahmy, stepping first from an entranceway to where Kissinger waited, kissed the secretary on both cheeks and received an embrace in return.

Sakkaf referred to Kissinger as "my friend, Henry" and said: "We are very hopeful that our talks with our friends here will be very good and very fruitful."

The Saudi minister noted that he and Fahmy are bringing views that have the endorsement of Syria and Algeria as well as Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Kissinger had scheduled a Saturday night dinner at the State Department for Fahmy and Sakkaf, but later it was canceled and a Sunday working luncheon was scheduled in its place. The State Department said the foreign ministers, whose plane was late arriving from Paris, were tired from their flight.

See Kissinger, page 18A

People just don't buy those accessories after they've been waiting in line for 45 minutes or an hour."

The new profit rule provides that dealers may continue charging the extra penny from month to month only if their allocations remain at the less-than-85 per cent level.

Sawhill said the FEO will announce new allocations "for states with critical needs" early next week. He did not indicate just what changes might be made.

## Congressional group going with Kissinger

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top-level congressional delegation will accompany Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to the meeting next week of Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Mexico City, State Department officials said Saturday.

Traveling with Kissinger will be Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana; Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania; House Speaker Carl Albert, D-Okla., and Sen. Gale W. McGee, D-Wyo., and Rep. Dante B. Fascell, D-Fla., the chairman of the Senate and House Latin American subcommittees.

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## Westernization

The Hungarian foreign minister, meeting newsmen at the close of a visit and official talks with Austrian Foreign Minister Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, also said his government is unable to abolish visas for journeys to and from neighboring Austria. He said this would entail similar agreements with other Western countries and Hungary's tourist facilities could not handle a sharp increase in foreign visitors.

WASHINGTON POST - 17 FEBRUARY 1974

# Political Analysis Comes Naturally to Old Cambodian

PHNOM PENH. The old man in the white T-shirt, sweating in the hot sun, his family crowding around, sat in a deck chair on the ashes of his house and talked about what it is like to lose everything you have and how it makes you feel about politics and government.

He spoke in reastained tones, wise with years, skeptical, disciplined with the special sophistication of a man who has watched political turmoil in Southeast Asia, who has stood in the swirl of events for decades seeing the promises of the leaders turn to ashes.

"I've lost all my possessions, and I am very angry with my government," he said. "The government is very bad because innocent people will continue to die if the government continues like this."

He stirred the black dust with his toe, then looked up again. "The government, all they do every day is say there is success on the battlefield, but they're unable to protect innocent people."

The government hasn't come here to us with any help either."

"But didn't the Communists shell and burn your

house?" he is asked. "How can you be angry at the government?"

The soft, dark eyes flickered a moment across the charred wasteland where a thousand houses had stood before Monday's insurgent shelling. He said gently, "You have to understand the people. The government promises the people to provide safety for them, but right now the government has forgotten its promise and there are rockets and artillery. The people are angry."

Life here during the first two months of the Communist dry season of fensive has become simpler direct and often brutal, with political formulas to match.

Surrounded by more than 20,000 insurgent troops and their Vietnamese Army advisors, the government of President Lon Nol is struggling to retain the confidence of thousands of people like the old man and his family.

The Communists are trying to shake that confidence and bring down the government by a deliberate terror campaign against Phnom Penn's civilian population.

It is a stark and horrible conflict—especially, perhaps,

to Americans who have tended toward a comfortable idealism about international politics, or who have framed their expectations about Asia in terms of the politics and patriotism of America and the West.

For this old man, idealism died a long time ago. And patriotism, for him, might have a definition that Americans would find strange.

Gathered around him as he spoke were his family, friends, a few charred pots, some tin roofing, the deck chair on the ashes—the last things in the world that have solid reality and meaning for him.

"In the time of Siha-nouk, we did not have war," he said. "Now we have war. I can't say whose fault it is, because I am not a politician."

"There is a Cambodian proverb that says fish will go to where the cold water is, and when the water is not, they will swim away."

He paused and added, "the cold water is here in Cambodia today."

The old man, a retired electrician, came to Cambodia from Vietnam in 1947. The man sitting beside him, his younger brother, had

served in the French army in Vietnam until 1954, when the French were defeated.

When they came to Cambodia, they both scrimped and saved to build their houses. They saw those savings disappear as prices rose 2,000 per cent in a decade.

They watched the Siha-nouk government fall. Then they saw the war come to their doorstep in the heart of Phnom Penh. Monday, they saw everything they worked for over a lifetime destroyed in a few minutes of firestorm.

Since Monday, they said, the government has made many pronouncements over the radio, many promises, but no official has been to see them nor has the government offered to help them in any way.

Three international relief organizations have been distributing food, mosquito nets and other necessities and making arrangements to distribute housing materials soon.

An official of one of these organizations asked what the government was doing to help, shrugged and said, "Nothing at all."

That is not entirely fair to the government, which

See ANALYSIS, Pg 13-F

MIKOYAN........CONTINUED

was in high gear — undoubtedly with Mr. Mikoyan's knowledge. Had Mr. Khrushchev been alone and then summoned to a "special meeting of the Presidium," as he was, he might have become suspicious. When he returned to Moscow, he was confronted with all his "close comrades-in-arms," including Mr. Mikoyan, demanding his head.

After the installation of the Brezhnev-Kosygin team, Mr. Mikoyan stayed on for a time in Mr. Brezhnev's former post, Chairman of the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet, or Soviet President. In a few months, however, Nicolai Podgorny assumed this post, but Mr. Mikoyan remained in the Presidium as a full member, along with Mr. Brezhnev and many other top leaders in Moscow as well as in the Soviet Republics.

On the matter of domestic liberalization and de-Stalinization, Mr. Mikoyan is known to be a strong opponent of KGB terror tactics, either against party members or intellectuals. Indeed, Mr. Mikoyan's own life, according to Mr. Khrushchev in the 1956 secret speech denouncing the late dictator, was in danger toward the end of Stalin's

reign, late 1952 and early 1953. It is sometimes forgotten that it was Mr. Mikoyan, not Mr. Khrushchev, who first suggested a denunciation of Stalin at the 20th party congress in 1956. Some have speculated that Mr. Mikoyan himself ignited the whole issue during the congress, literally forcing Mr. Khrushchev to make his expose of Stalin's misdeeds.

Mr. Mikoyan has always been a strong advocate of the principle of collective leadership, proclaimed immediately after Stalin's death in a major article in the Soviet press by one L. Slepov. He may see in Mr. Brezhnev the ideal leader, in the sense that the secretary-general, for all his tendencies towards pomposity and self-glorification, leans strongly on broad discussion of problems and policy in the upper councils of the party and the government. Mr. Brezhnev informed the Western journalists invited into his Kremlin inner office late last year that the Thursday meetings of the Politburo are sometimes expanded to include ministers and other non-Politburo members whose expertise may be in demand. If Mr. Mikoyan is one of those called in from time to time, he can probably be counted on to support a number of recently adopted policies, which have Mr. Brezhnev's imprimatur stamped

on them.

Above all, these policies include the agreements reached with the United States in 1972 on trade, mutual security, and positive peaceful coexistence.

The present emphasis in speeches by top leaders on the role of savior-of-all-people's played by the Great Russians with respect to the borderlands also bears the mark of Mr. Mikoyan's influence. Like Stalin's attitude toward his native Georgia, Mr. Mikoyan has shown, by word and deed, that his native Armenia is profitably and indissolubly linked to the Great Russian center. And Mr. Mikoyan's Great Russianism extends to the non-Russian lands of the Soviet bloc as well. He participated in the recovery of Communist Hungary for the bloc when the October, 1956, "counterrevolution" threatened to detach the Hungarian satellite from its mother planet. The same may have applied to Czechoslovakia in August, 1968, when Mr. Mikoyan undoubtedly advised the crushing of the liberal-Communist Dubcek regime in Prague.

Mr. Weeks is professor of continuing education at New York University, and has written two books and many articles on Soviet affairs.

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AIR FORCE MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 1974 (19)

A POW's Story

The Passing of the Night: My
Seven Years as a Prisoner of
the North Vietnamese, by Col.
Robinson Risner. Random
House, New York, N. Y.,
1974. 264 pages. $6.95.

Less than a year ago, our POWs
came home. Since then, a curious,
yet for the most part unintruding,
American press has followed their
family reunions, readjustments,
medical problems, and demograph-
ics. We've read and heard of joy
and sadness, courage and suffer-
ing.

Yet questions remain. These re-
patriated professionals were differ-
ent from what their families and the
public had been preparing for. In
spite of record-shattering imprisonment,
the enemy's total abrogation of
the provisions of the Geneva
Convention, and our knowledge of
the Korean POW experience, their
resilience was surprising. It was all
the more surprising in view of the
tremendous political and social
changes in this country during their
absence. Yet their post-liberation
divorce rate is below the national
average. Serious mental illness is
less than expected; perhaps not
even statistically significant. Their
return to duty, especially flying
duty, has been more rapid than
anticipated Why?

When a Korean ace and winner of the Air Force Cross in Vietnam, USAF Col. Robinson "Robbie" Risner—whose preprison combat exploits had made the cover of *Time* magazine—decided to write a book about his seven years as a prisoner in North Vietnam, long-awaited answers seemed sure to be coming.

The Passing of the Night is the
answer of one man. It is a personal
story of a seemingly endless nightmare that will make even those
most familiar with the POW situation shudder. One cannot read it
without cringing at the suffering
and asking over and over, "How
did he do it? How could he stand
it?"

This book will leave its mark on
any reader. If it has a fault, it is
that, for this reader at least, it does
not answer some questions fully

enough: What wellspring brought
forth the emotional, intellectual,
and physical guts to hang on—no,
to do more than simply hang on—
to function meaningfully? Is there
something in the American ethic,
Air Force training, Colonel Risner's
or the others' personal back-
grounds?

In his introduction, the author says that he wrote the book because, "I believe that today's young people are searching for a dragon to slay. I want to help them find the right dragon. I want our young people to be proud of the things that count. I want to show that the smartest and bravest rely on their faith in God and in our way of life. I hope to show how that faith has been tried by fire—and never failed...."

Faith is most certainly the core
of Colonel Risner's life, and prayer
was the central manifestation of his
faith. In explaining how that faith
was formed and grew, he writes of
his mother's prayerful example and
of his family's spiritual solidarity
and religious activity.

In order to resist the horrors of
prison life, it was necessary, he
says, to put everything in a "pretty
simple package." He cites four "es-
sentials": "We were fighting the
common enemy of freedom—inter-
national communism. We were ful-
filling our duty to our country. I
was sure the American people were
behind us. I believed God would
bring me out of prison—better for
my stay."

The book is a vividly recalled
account of his imprisonment, ex-
cept for three flashback chapters in
which he writes of meeting his wife,
a post-World War II episode in
which he and his Oklahoma Air
Guard P-51 were down and missing
for days, and some highlights of his
Korean air combat and acedom. He
also takes the reader on several
SEA missions, including his last
one, and it's good fighter pilot nar-
rative.

The Rabbit, Mickey Mouse, the
Cat—a few of his North Vietnamese
guards, interrogators, and tor-
mentors—all are described in a
way that evokes images of some
1950s movie. And familiar names
of other POWs are sprinkled

throughout—Ev Alvarez, Jim Stock-
dale, Jerry Denton.

If one picks up this book expect-
ing a Vietnam version of "Hogan's
Heroes"—minus the humor—they
are in for a disappointment. Colonel
Risner doesn't try to show how the
men, as a whole, foiled and frus-
trated the enemy, beyond some de-
tails of how they communicated
and determined the SRO (senior
ranking officer).

It is, after all, a personal book,
and why shouldn't it be? When
Colonel Risner describes his panic
in the "sheer desolation" that "per-
meated the miserable dark cell I
lived in twenty-four hours a day
[during a ten-month stretch in soli-
tary confinement]," he puts a cap-
stone on his suffering. Doing as
many as a thousand sit-ups daily
or running twenty-five miles in
place, he sought his only salvation
—exhaustion.

One may be able to empathize
with his physical suffering, but no
one can possibly suffer with him
through that emotional crisis.

One important insight the book
does present deals with the united
stand the POWs took in support of
President Nixon. Colonel Risner
writes that his captors respected
strength. "Many times when we
were reasonable, they would as-
sume it was weakness and took
advantage of us . . . they respected
a person who was unyielding. . . ."
Risner, and one assumes others,
saw Nixon as meeting that North
Vietnamese model and influencing
the enemy. When their release
came, it is little wonder that they
were grateful.

The Passing of the Night is an
account of incredible personal suf-
fering and an assertion of faith in
the institutions that make up our
society—a virtue that often seems
in short supply these days. Colonel
Risner's book should be read not
only for its intended message, but
also as a reminder that most Amer-
cans have not fallen prey to the
decadence that has destroyed other
affluent societies.

Reviewed by Maj. Robert
W. Hunter, USAF, Deputy
Assistant for Policy and
Programs. Internal Informa-
tion Div., Office of the Sec-
ry of the Air Force.

PEACE & WAR -- CONTINUED

One restraining factor in the present relative relaxation is Russia's need to acquire Western—above all American —machinery and technology. This requires Washington's goodwill and financial accounts impossible to obtain during times of political stress.

Moreover, Moscow would like to re-
duce the cost of its large forces facing
Europe in order to concentrate on
China. Such a posture facilitates U.S.
desires to economize in NATO Europe
by cutting its own garrison. Thus both
are edging toward a brush-fire peace
accord where their major alliance sys-
tems meet, an accord based on SALT,
European security negotiations and
talk of mutual force reductions.

Nevertheless, behind this screen of

goodwill, the basic fact remains that
Russia has attained approximately
armed equality with America and
seems to be forging gradually ahead.
This fact, which disturbs many of
Washington's NATO partners, lies
ominously behind the quiescent period
now prevailing.

Moscow wants to convince NATO
there is no use spending more on de-
fense since there is no need to fear
the newly affable Russia and anyway
funds can better be invested in other
fields. The West hopes a Russia spend-
ing relatively less on arms and more
on comforts will become committed
more to prosperity than revolution.

In certain areas this less truculent
mood seems to have fostered increas-

ing calm. Leonid Brezhnev has been
telling Premier Castro to cool his guer-
rilla operations on the Latin-American
mainland. Likewise, the U.S.A. rapidly
forgot is outrage over Moscow's 1968
Czechoslovakian rape. Both giants
avoided direct clashes in the Mideast.

Yet because this formula doesn't
spell out true peace but only avoids
total war, many lands are concerned
about where it could ultimately lead.
Both Yugoslavia and China fear Soviet
monkeyshines when Tito and Mao Tse-
tung depart the scene. And for its
part, Western Europe, whose very ex-
istence depends on the trans-Atlantic
tie, wonders increasingly how fully
American commitments would be ap-
plied in a sudden, unexpected crisis.

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# WALTER SCOTT'S
## Personality Parade

Want the facts? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Want informed opinion? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 733 3rd Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies impossible.

**Q.** Is it a fact that Richard Nixon will never permit former associates like Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Charles Colson to spend time in jail no matter what they are convicted of? Is it true that if some or all of these men are convicted Nixon will pardon them? Isn't that why Nixon wants to remain in office at least in part? So long as Nixon is President none of these men will tell what they know about him, or they will lose their last chance for executive clemency. Isn't that the Watergate scenario?—S.H., Washington, D.C.

**A.** President Nixon is not going to "finger" the men who were his closest associates. It is unrealistic to expect him to do that. He will maintain his policy as regards Watergate of accepting responsibility for everything in general but nothing in particular. Whether any of his associates will go to jail or even be found guilty of anything is difficult to determine at this time. Most probably Nixon, if still in office, will pardon the men you name, should they be found guilty of anything such as conspiracy to obstruct justice.

**Q.** Could you tell me if Barbra Streisand is paying for the divorce of her hairdresser, Jon Peters, so she can marry him?—D. Lewis, New York, N.Y.

**A.** Barbra won't pay for Peters' divorce, but if he does marry her, almost all creature comforts will be his, as Barbra is a tremendous wage-earner. Peters, several years younger than Barbra, is not only a most successful hairdresser but he is also entering the real estate business.

BARBRA STREISAND

JON PETERS

**Q:** What has Frank Serpico, the policeman who publicly revealed corruption in the New York City Police Department, been doing since leaving the force?—Maren Barcroft, Vienna, Va.

**A:** Frank Serpico has been living in Switzerland for the past year recovering from an on-duty bullet injury. He is unemployed at this writing, but receives royalties from the motion picture and the sale of Peter Maas' book Serpico.

EGYPTIAN PREMIER ANWAR SADAT AND WIFE JEHAN

**Q.** Isn't Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, married to an American woman?—O.T., Alexandria, Va.

**A.** No. Sadat is married to the daughter of an Englishwoman from Sheffield who married an Egyptian doctor in Suez. Mrs. Sadat—her first name in Arabic is Jehan—was married to Sadat in 1949 when she was barely 15 and Sadat was a lieutenant in the Egyptian army. The Sadats have four children, three daughters, and a son, Gamal, 17.

**Q:** Eddie Fisher had a daughter named Carrie by Debbie Reynolds. What's happened to the girl, and how old is she?—Peggy Marsh, Burbank, Calif.

**A.** Carrie, 17, has been dancing in the chorus of Irene, a Broadway musical in which her mother starred. Carrie wants to become an actress, and Debbie would like her to prepare for a show business career by studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, providing the academy will accept her.

**Q.** It seems to me that Richard Nixon is constantly appointing new Cabinet officers. I can't keep track of them. Has any President appointed more Cabinet officers than Nixon?—Ed Fisher, Cambridge, Mass.

**A.** As of this writing, Nixon has appointed 30 Cabinet members, surpassing the previous record of 26 set by President Grant during his eight years in the White House. During his almost four terms as President, Franklin D. Roosevelt named 25.

**Q.** Is it true that the military establishment in this country set up a spy ring in Henry Kissinger's national security office several years ago because they didn't trust a man of his background and religion to conduct the foreign policy of the U.S.?—D.P., Palo Alto, Calif.

**A.** That a military spy ring operated in Kissinger's office there is now little doubt. Why the military officers responsible for its installation and operation are still in the service of this country and have not been summarily discharged or retired is the more important question. Obviously they distrusted

Kissinger and his then ongoing negotiations with the Brezhnev Soviets and the Mao Chinese.

**Q.** Exactly one day after you printed in your column that Vice President Gerald Ford would not follow the partisan Spiro Agnew road and would not use White House speechwriters to excoriate a segment of the American public who are shocked at Watergate, Ford did exactly that at a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. How come you were so wrong so quickly?—Mrs. Samuel Lefkow, Atlantic City, N.J.

**A.** Simple. Vice President Ford's office lied to Personality Parade.

PRINCESS CAROLINE

**Q.** I understand that Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco want their daughter to marry Prince Charles, heir to the British throne. Is that so?—Henny Faris, Philadelphia, Pa.

**A.** Caroline, daughter of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, is only 17. Her parents want her fully educated before she even contemplates marriage.

**Q.** The Lucy Saroyan who has been dating Marlon Brando—is she any relation to the writer William Saroyan?—Neva Comstock, New Rochelle, N.Y.

**A.** Lucy Saroyan, 27, who has been dating Marlon Brando, 49, is the daughter of author William Saroyan and the former Carol Marcus, who is now married to actor Walter Matthau.

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2

Which One Is the Real Henry?

Did you guess that Kissinger is the man on the left? Sorry, he's Harry Sholl of Chicago, and on the right, of course, is the U.S. Secretary of State.

# Should Kissinger Use a Double?

by Lloyd Shearer

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Henry Kissinger is the single most irreplaceable man in the U.S. Government.

Should anything happen to him, President Nixon would find it extremely difficult to provide a comparable replacement.

Kissinger is unique not only in life style, but in the highly personal manner of his diplomacy. Close to the vest, he runs what amounts to a virtual one-man State Department... and he runs it impatiently—a kind synonym in his case for “ruthlessly.” He insists that the bureaucracy become almost immediately responsive to his constantly mounting demands, a sharp contrast to

his predecessor, William Rogers, who ran a slow traffic department.

It is Kissinger's misfortune to be part of the most tarnished Federal Administration since Warren G. Harding's, but in this sea of mediocrity and moral insensitivity, he rolls on like a huge wave breaking on the shores of achievement.

## Accomplishments

The détentes with China and the Soviet Union, the peace negotiations with the Middle East nations, the ability to withstand the daggers of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and the spy network planted in his office by an un-

trusting military—these are under any circumstances, outstanding accomplishments.

Considering his value to the nation, Henry Kissinger must survive, must be accorded the maximum protection by the various security agencies of the country. Already, an Arab plot to kill Kissinger has been uncovered.

The Arab terrorists who killed 32 people at Rome and Athens airports several weeks ago originally planned to assassinate Kissinger.

According to military and diplomatic sources in Brussels, a machine-gun and grenade attack on Kissinger's plane at Beirut Airport was scheduled for this

past Dec. 16th.

Luckily, Lebanese intelligence learned of the terrorist plot and diverted Kissinger's plane to Rayak air base, 35 miles east of Beirut. Eighteen hours later the Palestine terrorists struck at Rome instead.

## Black September plot

The plot to kill Kissinger was fo-mented by the guerrillas of the National Youth for the Liberation of Palestine, an arm of the Black September group, financed by the Libyan fanatics, say foreign sources.

The plan for the attack supposedly called for it to coincide with the sched-

6

PARADE • FEBRUARY 17, 1974

uled Egyptian-Israeli peace meetings at
Geneva.

Since Kissinger is an assassination
target, would it not be a prudent idea
for the U.S. Secret Service or the State
Department security apparatus to pro-
vide him with a double?

One such candidate for the job is
Harry Sholl, 54, vice president of Gate-
way Houses, an anti-drug-addiction
project in Chicago.

Sholl and Kissinger, as you can see
from the photos, are look-alikes.

Both are heavy-framed, bespectacled,
and amply nosed. In fact, Sholl's phy-
sical resemblance to Kissinger is so
striking that he is constantly stopped
on the streets of Chicago and asked,
"Do you know you look like Henry
Kissinger?" or, "Excuse me, sir, but are
you Henry Kissinger?"

The similarities

Sholl, who is 5 feet 8½, Kissinger's
height, and weighs 180—10 pounds
more than Kissinger—says he has been
asked those questions so many times
that he is now running out of gag
answers.

"No one paid much attention to me,"
he explains, "until Kissinger started
achieving great exposure. That's when
it began—people asking me if I were
Kissinger. For a while, my stock answer
was, 'No, but I sure wish I'd get some
of his action.' Then I would say, 'No,
but I wouldn't mind—especially if he'd

let me handle some of his Hollywood
overflow.'

"Kidding aside," Sholl declares, "I don't want to be Henry Kissinger's food-taster. I just want to be myself. I have my own identity. I was vice president of a marketing company for 15 years. I've been married for more than 25. I have two adopted children, David, 9, and Margaret, 7. I understand Kissinger also has a boy and a girl, and the boy is named David. Like Kissinger's, my background is Jewish. I was born in the United States and got my degree in sociology at the University of Chicago, so my accent is not Teutonic, but people tell me my voice does sound like Kissinger's. I don't think so.

"I'm very happy with what I'm doing.
We run four Gateway Houses which
provide shelter to some 200 addicts
trying to kick the habit. The drug pro-
blem in Chicago is a difficult one, and
I'm frequently on television myself, ex-
plaining things.

'Here comes Sholl'

"You ask if I would consider a job
as Kissinger's double? The answer is
no. I've got my own thing. And Kis-
singer has his. Maybe if he came into
one of our Gateway Houses, some of
our guys would say, 'Here Comes
Sholl.'"

As for Kissinger, currently protected
by at least five Secret Service agents, his

first reaction, when asked if he would
consider having a double, was char-
acteristically humorous. "Sure," he said,
"Then maybe he can come on this trip
with me to the Middle East and catch
the flak." But then in a more serious
vein, "No, I wouldn't have a double.
I think one has to be fatalistic about
such things. If you start worrying about
your personal safety, trying all the time
to protect yourself, then you're dead,
because then you're thinking about
yourself and not your job. Besides, if I
had a double, just think what it would
do to my social life. The girls wouldn't
know whether they were getting the
real Kissinger or some ersatz substi-
tute."

Another matchup: Kissinger (left) does his homework on a plane, while Sholl is shown at work in his office.

After recent Paris meeting with President Pompidou: Kissinger emerges as security men lock hands. U.S. assigns five Secret Service agents to protect him.

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Kissinger
Confers With
Fulbright

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger flew to Little Rock, Ark., yesterday and met with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) before going on to Key Biscayne for conferences with the President.

Later in the weekend Kissinger will meet with the foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who will arrive this afternoon on a special mission from the Arab mini-summit that was held in Algiers Wednesday and Thursday. The meeting is expected to give new impetus to talks on a Syrian-Israeli disengagement, which in turn could result in a lifting of the oil embargo. The Arab oil-producing states have linked the two.

By going out of his way to see Fulbright in his home state, Kissinger in effect esplanated his already-intensive efforts to develop close ties with Congress. Fulbright has been one of Kissinger's most frequently invited guests.

The State Department said Kissinger would review with Fulbright the results of the 13-nation energy conference that was concluded Wednesday and the situation on the oil embargo. The announcement said Kissinger would also discuss his plans for the foreign ministers' meeting in Mexico City starting Thursday.

State Department spokesman George Vest said Kissinger would also be discussing these issues, as well as the efforts to get negotiations started between Syria and Israel, with President Nixon.

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KISSINGER 2-16
BY ROBERT CAREY

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (UPI) -- SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER SAID FRIDAY "CONDITIONS SEEM LIKELY" FOR AN END TO THE ARAB OIL EMBARGO.

HE WAS IN ARKANSAS TO CONFER WITH SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT ABOUT A WEEKEND MEETING WITH THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA.

"THE CONDITIONS SEEM LIKELY THAT THEY WILL END THE EMBARGO," HE SAID, ADDING IT WOULD BE "PREMATURE" TO SPECULATE ON THE TIME BECAUSE OF THE UPCOMING MEETING WITH THE FOREIGN MINISTERS.

"ONE OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SENATE IS NOT ONLY TO CONSENT, BUT TO ADVISE," KISSINGER TOLD REPORTERS AFTER HIS MEETING WITH FULBRIGHT. FULBRIGHT SAID KISSINGER HAD BEEN DOING A "MAGNIFICENT JOB" IN THE MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATIONS.

KISSINGER SAID THAT THE RECENTLY COMPLETED 13-NATION ENERGY CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON WAS "VERY HEARTENING," DESPITE FRANCE'S REFUSAL TO GO ALONG WITH AN AGREEMENT TO SEEK A CONFERENCE WITH OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THE 11 OTHER NATIONS PARTICIPATING IN THE CONFERENCE JOINED IN THE AGREEMENT WITH THE UNITED STATES.

"I AM VERY SATISFIED WITH THE OUTCOME OF THE ENERGY CONFERENCE," KISSINGER TOLD NEWSMEN. "WE KNOW THAT THE PROBLEM OF ENERGY CANNOT BE SOLVED ON A STRICTLY NATIONAL BASIS."

KISSINGER AND FULBRIGHT PLAYED DOWN ANY POLITICAL OVERTONES TO THE LITTLE ROCK MEETING.

"I'M NOT GETTING INTO DOMESTIC POLITICS," KISSINGER JOKED. FULBRIGHT, WHO IS UP FOR RE-ELECTION THIS YEAR, SAID KISSINGER HAD SOUGHT THE MEETING BECAUSE OF FULBRIGHT'S POSITION AS CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE.

UPI 02-16 01:47 AED

020A

Saturday, Feb. 16, 1974

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## Around the World

### Philippines City Razed By Fighting

**ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines**—More than two-thirds of Jolo City has been razed during the fighting between Moslem rebels and government troops, according to reports issued here yesterday.

The Department of Social Welfare said 10,000 persons were either dead or unaccounted for in Jolo, 620 miles south of Manila. Last week there were reports that several thousand persons had fled the fighting in the city.

Moslem insurgents have been battling government troops since President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law 18 months ago. The Moslem minority say the Christian majority in the Philippines discriminates against them in housing, jobs and other areas.

### Cambodian Accident

**PHNOM PENH—**Cambodian fighter-bombers accidentally bombed government infantry positions twice, killing at least 13 soldiers, according to field reports.

One of the incidents occurred near Ang Tapoeu, six miles northwest of Phnom Penh, the other at Do Kanh Chor, 36 miles southwest of the capital.

The Cambodian high command said that more than 10,000 villagers have fled into the provincial capital of Kompong Thom, 80 miles north of Phnom Penh. The town is under government control while the rest of the province is in the hands of the rebels.

### Korean Clash

**SEOUL—**South Korea protested to North Korea over what it called a "serious, deliberate armed provocation" by a North Korean gunboat which sank a South Korean fishing boat and seized another off the west coast of the peninsula.

It was the first shooting incident reported between North and South Korea since they issued a joint communiqué on July 4, 1972, pledging to refrain from hostile actions.

### Martinique Strike

**FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique** — One man was killed and three were injured when police fired into a group of about 100 demonstrators during the second day of a general strike, officials said. They said four policemen were injured, two of them seriously.

The unrest began last week with a three-day strike by electrical workers. This escalated into a call for a general strike, and on Wednesday, fighting broke

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Kissinger
von Nahost
nach Bonn

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Bonn/Jerusalem. US-Außenminister Henry Kissinger wird auf der Rückreise vom Nahen Osten am Sonntag und Montag in Bonn mit Bundeskanzler Brandt und Außenminister Scheel zusammentreffen. Die Themen der Bonner Gespräche mit Kissinger reichen von der Energiekrise über Abrüstungsprobleme bis zur Ost-West-Entspannung und dem Verhältnis zwischen der Europäischen Gemeinschaft und Amerika.

Im Nahen Osten konnte Kissinger gestern einen weiteren Erfolg verzeichnen: Er brachte aus Syrien der israelischen Regierung eine Liste mit den Namen von 65 israelischen Kriegsgefangenen mit nach Jerusalem. Am Freitag können diese Gefangenen erstmals von Vertretern des Internationalen Roten Kreuzes besucht werden. Israel hatte bisher alle Verhandlungen mit Syrien über eine Truppenenflechtung auf den Golan-Höhen von einer Übermittlung der Gefangenenliste und einer Kontrolle durch das Rote Kreuz abhängig gemacht.

 Wenige Stunden nach der Abreise Kissingers aus Damaskus traf dort der sowjetische Außenminister Gromyko ein. Er wird möglicherweise auch nach Kairo fliegen und dort am Freitag mit Kissinger zusammentreffen.

Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger

Kissinger
kommt
nach Bonn

Vorher Treffen mit Gromyko?

Bonn/Damaskus (dpa) — Der amerikanische Außenminister Kissinger wird auf seiner Rückreise von seiner Nahostmission am Sonntag und Montag Bonn besuchen. Das teilte am Mittwoch das Bonner Auswärtige Amt auf Anfrage mit. Kissinger trifft am Sonntagabend mit Bundesaußenminister Scheel und am Montagvormittag mit Bundeskanzler Brandt zusammen. Nach Auskunft der Deutschen Botschaft in Washington geht der Aufenthalt Kissingers auf amerikanische Anregung zurück. Kissinger werde die Bundesregierung vor allem über seine Nahostreise unterrichten.

Uberraschend startete der sowjetische Außenminister Gromyko bereits am Mittwoch in Moskau zu einer Nahostreise, die ihn zunächst nach Damaskus führt. Sein amerikanischer Amtskollege hatte kurz zuvor die syrische Hauptstadt verlassen und war nach Tel Aviv weitergeflogen. Kissinger hat offenbar in Damaskus einen Durchbruch erzielt. Als sichtbares Zeichen für Fortschritte bei den Bemühungen um eine Truppenentflechtung übergaben die Syrer die Liste der israelischen Kriegsgefangenen.

Moskauer diplomatischen Kreisen zufolge soll Gromyko die Hoffnung geäußert haben, während seiner Nahostreise mit Kissinger zusammenzutreffen.

(Siehe auch Bericht Seite 6)

February 28, 1974

General-Anzeiger (Bonn)

Henry Kissinger am
Sonntag nach Bonn

Treffen mit Brandt und Scheel

Il Bonn. (Eig. Ber.) Der amerikanische Außenminister Kissinger wird auf seiner ge- genwärtigen Ost- und Europareise auch Bonn besuchen. Er trifft am Sonntagnach- mittag in der Bundeshauptstadt ein. Noch am Abend wird er von Bundesaußenminister Scheel, am Montagvormittag von Bundes- kanzler Brandt empfangen. Eine feste Ta- gesordnung für den knapp eintägigen Be- such ist nicht vorgesehen.

Politische Kreise mutmaßen, daß Kissin-
ger die Bundesregierung nicht nur über den
Stand seiner Friedensbemühungen unter-
richten, sondern sich von Scheel in seiner
Eigenschaft als Ratspräsident der EG auch
über den europäischen Wunsch informieren
lassen will, an der Friedenssicherung in
Nahost mitzuwirken. Dieses Thema ist auch
ein wichtiger Tagesordnungspunkt der neun
EG-Außenminister, die am Montag in Brüs-
sel im Rahmen der Europäischen Politischen
Zusammenarbeit (EPZ) zusammentreten. Ein
zweiter Schwerpunkt der Gespräche mit
Kissinger dürfte der Stand der Bemühungen
um die Neuformulierung der europäisch-
amerikanischen Beziehungen sein.

Die Welt

Tagesschau

Kissinger spricht in Bonn
mit Brandt und Scheel

Der amerikanische Außenminister Kissinger wird am Sonntag und Montag auf seiner Rückreise aus dem Nahen Osten Bonn besuchen. Er wird am Sonntagabend, noch vor den Brüsseler Konferenzen der EG-Außenminister und des Minis- terrats, in Bonn mit Bundesaußen- minister Scheel zusammentreffen, der in beiden Gremien den Vorsitz führt. Am Montag wird er von Bun- deskanzler Brandt zu einem Ge- spräch empfangen. Als Gesprächs- themen sind ein umfassender Mei- nungsaustausch über aktuelle Fra- gen vorgesehen.

Frankfurter Neue Presse

FNP
2/28

Kissinger
nach Bonn

Bonn, 27. Februar (dpa)

Bonn, 27. Februar (dpa)
US-Außenminister Kissinger wird
auf seiner Rückreise aus dem Nahen
Osten am Sonntag und Montag Bonn
besuchen. Das teilte am Mittwoch das
Auswärtige Amt mit.

Kissinger trifft am Sonntagabend mit Außenminister Scheel zu einem ersten Gespräch zusammen. Für Montag vormittag ist eine Begegnung mit Bundeskanzler Brandt vorgesehen. Als Inhalt der Gespräche nannte das Auswärtige Amt eine „allgemeine Tour d'Horizont" über aktuelle Fragen, die beide Länder berühren. Auf seiner Rückreise wird Kissinger außerdem in Brüssel Zwischenstation machen. (Siehe auch Seite 2.)

Bonner Rundschau

Kissinger
kommt auch
nach Bonn

Bonn. (dpa) Der amerikani-
sche Außenminister Henry Kiss-
singer wird auf seiner Rückrei-
se aus dem Nahen Osten am
Sonntag und Montag Bonn be-
suchen. Das teilte am Mittwoch
das Auswärtige Amt auf Anfra-
ge mit. Kissinger trifft am Sonn-
tagabend mit Bundesaußenmi-
nister Walter Scheel zu einem
ersten Gespräch zusammen.
Für Montag vormittag ist eine
Begegnung mit Bundeskanzler
Willy Brandt vorgesehen. Als
Inhalt der Gespräche nannte
das Auswärtige Amt eine „all-
gemeine Tour d'horizon" über
aktuelle Fragen, die beide Län-
der berühren. Kissinger macht
auch in Brüssel Zwischensta-
tion.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sunday, Feb. 24, 1974—3-C

# Henry's Marks High

[LC]

HENRY A. KISSINGER

BRUSSELS (UPI) — Henry A. Kissinger gets generally high marks from the world statesmen who deal with him.

"Flexible ... a dreamer ... remarkable ... tireless ... a success addict," were some of the comments from admiring government officials in Europe and the Middle East who were asked to size up the U.S. Secretary of State and his role in history.

"When Kissinger sticks his finger into something, he usually succeeds," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi said.

In the Middle East, the scene of Kissinger's latest virtuoso diplomatic performance, both Egyptians and Israelis were effusive.

Initial Egyptian skepticism has given way to comments by President Anwar Sadat that Kissinger is a "friend" and even a "brother."

Both Egyptians and Israelis single out Kissinger's integrity in representing their positions during his Cairo-Tel Aviv "shuttle diplomacy," and his diligence in working

out delicately balanced compromises.

In Europe, Kissinger's reviews are also positive, if a bit mixed.

In his native Germany, officials give him high marks for his ability to get along with both Congress and President Nixon, his escape from the snares of Watergate and his ability "to accept the validity of another man's argument."

"He is as good at listening as at talking," said an official who has sat in on several sessions with Kissinger.