TEXT OF HAYKAL ARTICLE ON KISSINGER CONTACTS

M051035 BEIRUT AL-ANWAR IN ARABIC 29 DEC 79 M

(AL-AHRAM CHIEF EDITOR MUHAMMAD HASANAYN HAYKAL'S WEEKLY ARTICLE ENTITLED: "KISSINGER AND I AND THE COLLECTION OF PAPERS." THE ARTICLE, REGULARLY PUBLISHED IN THIS PAPER AS WELL AS IN AL-AHRAM, WAS NOT MONITORED FROM CAIRO RADIO OR MENA. THE AL-AHRAM ISSUE FOR 29 DECEMBER IS NOT YET AVAILABLE.)

(TEXT) I HAVE RECENTLY BEEN SUBJECTED TO A CAMPAIGN, THE DRUMS OF WHICH ARE STILL BEING BEATEN.

THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, I HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO CAMPAIGNS, PREFERING TO ABIDE BY THE WELL-KNOWN SAYING: "SAY WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY AND WALK OFF."

KNOWING THIS ABOUT ME, SOME PEOPLE GO TO EXCESSES. WHAT I FEAR IS THAT SOMEONE WILL THINK MY SILENCE IS FORCED, NOT VOLUNTARY. THEREFORE, I WOULD LIKE NOW TO DOT THE I. PRIMARILY, MY OBJECTIVE IS TO MAKE THIS A PRACTICAL MODEL RELATING ITS STORY THROUGH FACTS, CASTING ITS LIGHT BEYOND ITS BOUNDARIES AND CONSEQUENTLY TRANSCENDING THE DRUMS WHICH ARE BEING BEATEN.

I HAVE CHOSEN ONE POINT WHICH SEEMS TO BE THE MAIN RHYTHM OF THE DRUM BEATING.

THIS POINT CAN BE SUMMED UP BY SAYING THAT I CLAIM FOR MYSELF SOMETHING TO WHICH I AM NOT ENTITLED. FOR EXAMPLE, IT WAS SAID THAT I CONVEY THE IMPRESSION OF POLITICIAN POSING AS A JOURNALIST, AND THAT I INSPIRED "A RIGHTIST NEWSPAPER IN BEIRUT-- MY PERSONAL PROPAGANDA TRUMPET--TO REPORT THAT I WILL FLY TO MINICH FOR A SECRET MEETING WITH WHITE HOUSE ADVISER HENRY KISSINGER. NEWS AGENCIES THEN QUOTED THE BIG NEWS, WHICH WAS CONSEQUENTLY OFFICIALLY DENIED BY KISSINGER. HOWEVER, THE CLAMOR IS AGAIN RAISED AND, FLYING INTO A RAGE, I AGAIN TAKE NOTE OF THE CLAMOR AND UPHEAVAL. "THAT IS WHAT IS SAID, VERBATIM!"

THEN VEN MORE WAS SAID--THAT I AM A MAN LOOKING FOR A ROLE AT A TIME WHEN I NO LONGER HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY. IT WAS THEN SAID THAT MY ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO MAKE EGYPT A U.S. SATELLITE-- ALSO VERBATIM.

HENCE, I HAVE CHOSEN ONE DOT WITH WHICH TO DOT AN I, OR, AS I HAVE SAID, I HAVE CHOSEN A PRACTICAL MODEL, RELATING ITS STORY THROUGH FACTS.

I CHOSE THE TITLE OF THE STORY BEFORE WRITING IT: "KISSINGER AND I."

I HAVE TAKEN ANOTHER LOOK AT MY PAPERS, TURNING THE PAGES ONE BY ONE SO THAT WHAT I TELL WILL BE MORE THAN JUST A STORY AND, ABOVE ALL, SO THAT THE FACTS AND DETAILS MAY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

AROUND THE END OF MAY 1971 MY FRIEND DR ZAKI HASHIM, THE PRESENT MINISTER OF TOURISM, CONTACTED ME. HE WAS THEN A CAPABLE, BRILLIANT INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED LAWYER.

ZAKI HASHIM TOLD ME: YOU OF COURSE KNOW DONALD KENDALL, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE PEPSI-CO COMPANY, AND YOU KNOW THAT HE IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF U.S. PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON, BECAUSE NIXON WAS THIS COMPANY'S LAWYER FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

I TOLD ZAKI HASHIM: I HAVE HEARD OF HIM AND HIS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH NIXON.

ZAKI HASHIM ADDED: DONALD KENDALL IS NOW IN CAIRO FOR A BRIEF VISIT. HE TOLD ME "HE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AND TO UNDERSTAND OUR STAND ON IT." IT OCCURRED TO ME TO BRING HIM TO YOU SO THAT HE WILL HEAR FROM YOU.

ZAKI HASHIM LAUGHINGLY CONTINUED: I WOULD LIKE FOR HIM TO HEAR IT FROM YOU IN HIS CAPACITY AS A CLOSE FRIEND OF NIXON, NOT AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF PEPSI-CO. I KNOW OF YOUR EXCESSIVE SENSITIVITY TO BUSINESSMEN GENERALLY. HOWEVER, I THINK THE TIME YOU SPEND WITH HIM WILL NOT BE WASTED.

I TOLD ZAKI HASHIM: I AM ONE WHO BELIEVES THAT WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO WITHHOLD OUR VIEWPOINT FROM ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HEAR IT. I THINK THAT BY EXPLAINING IT WE WILL ALWAYS BE WINNING, NEVER LOSING.

I INVITED DONALD KENDALL TO COFFEE AT MY OFFICE, WITH MY FRIEND ZAKI HASHIM. I SPENT WELL OVER 2 HOURS EXPLAINING TO HIM THE ARAB VIEWPOINT ON THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AS I SAW IT AT THE TIME.

ON 8 JUNE 1971 I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM DONALD KENDALL FOLLOWING HIS RETURN TO WASHINGTON. KENDALL AT THE SAME TIME SENT A COPY OF THE LETTER TO DR ZAKI HASIM. FOLLOWINT IS THE TEXT OF THE LETTER:

"IT WAS A GREAT PLEASURE TO MEET YOU WITH OUR COMMON FRIEND ZAKI HASHIM, AND TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS WITH YOU YOUR VIEWS ON THE CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION GENERALLY AND ON THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS IN PARTICULAR. I WAS CONSIDERABLY MOVED BY YOUR PROFOUND DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE MIDDLE EAST PROBLEMS--FROM THE TIME THEY BEGAN UNTIL NOW, AND BY YOUR REVIEW OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THESE ISSUES--INCLUDING THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE UNITED STATES AND BY THE SHARE IT SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TOWARD SETTLING THE ISSUE. AS I EXPLAINED TO YOU, I FEEL THAT IT WOULD DEFINITELY HELP PROPAGANDIZE THE ARAB CAUSE AND THAT IT IS A MUST THAT A PERSON LIKE YOU--SO CONVERSANT WITH THE ISSUE AND ITS DIMENSIONS--SHOULD COME TO THE UNITED STATES AND EXPLAIN THE ARAB VIEWPOINT TO SOME INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE. IT IS THEN TO HE HOPED THAT THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUE WOULD IMPROVE, THIS SERVING ARAB INTERESTS IN GENERAL.

"TAKING THIS INTO ACCOUNT, AND BECAUSE I TAKE PLEASURE IN CONSIDERING MYSELF A FRIEND OF THE ARAB NATION AND ITS PEOPLE, I AM HAPPY TO INVITE YOU TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES, WHERE I SHALL ARRANGE TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO MEET SOME PEOPLE WHOSE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARAB POSITION IN THE PRESENT MIDDLE EAST SITUATION SHOULD BE INCREASED. I AM CONFIDENT THAT SUCH A VISIT WILL ENHANCE SUPPORT FOR THE ARAB VIEWPOINT AND WILL PROVE RECIPROCALLY USEFUL FOR RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES.

"SINCE MY RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES, I HAVE HAD A GOOD VISIT WITH PRESIDENT NIXON. OUR CONVERSATION TOUCHED ON MY TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST. FURTHERMORE, I NATURALLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO RELATE IN EXTENSIVE DETAIL THE DEBATE I HAD WITH YOU. I HAVE INFORMED THE PRESIDENT OF MY INTENTION TO INVITE YOU TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES. HE ALSO EXPRESSED HIS HOPE THAT YOU WILL ACCEPT MY INVITATION.

"WITH MY SINCEREST PERSONAL REGARDS, YOURS SINCERELY, DONALD".

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XXX YOURS SINCERELY, DONALD."

(TEXT) I LEARNED LATER THAT PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON TOLD DONALD KENDALL WHEN HE MET HIM AT THE WHITE HOUSE THAT HE RECALLED LONG CONVERSATIONS WITH ME IN 1952 WHEN I COVERED THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WHICH NIXON FOUGHT AS VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ALONGSIDE GENERAL EISENHOWER. HE ALSO SAID HE RECALLED OUR MEETING IN 1963, IN CAIRO, WHERE HE SPENT 4 DAYS WITH HIS WIFE PAT AND DAUGHTERS JULIE AND TRICIA. IN THE 1963 MEETING WITH NIXON, I SPENT AN ENTIRE EVENING TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO HIM ISRAEL'S ROLE AND THE DEAD-END IT HAS HISTORICALLY FOLLOWED IN THE AREA.

I ALSO LEARNED AFTERWARD THAT PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON WELCOMED A VISIT TO WASHINGTON BY ME ON THE BAIIS THAT THERE WOULD BE, AS HE PUT IT, A COMPREHENSIVE DIALOG BETWEEN ME AND HIS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER HENRY KISSINGER. KISSINGER, WHO ATTENDED PART OF THE WHITE HOUSE MEETING BETWEEN NIXON AND KENDALL, SAID HE FOLLOWED SOME OF MY WRITINGS AND WAS WILLING TO DEBATE WITH ME. HE SAID HE HAD BEGUN STUDYING THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS, WANTED TO DEBATE IT WITH A PARTY REPRESENTING THE ARAB VIEWPOINT, AND DID NOT WISH TO DEBATE WITH A "AN OFFICIAL" OR "RESPONSIBLE SOURCE" BUT WOULD PREFER TO APPROACH THE ISSUE "THROUGH A BROADER STRATEGIC OUTLOOK."

WEEKS PASSED. I THEN RECEIVED AN ORAL MESSAGE FROM AMBASSADOR ASHRAF GHURBAL, WHO WAS THEN OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF EGYPTIAN INTERESTS IN WASHINGTON--HE IS NOW ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY HAFIZ ISMA'IL. THE MESSAGE, SENT WITH A FRIEND, SAID CIRCLES CLOSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA OF A MEETING BETWEEN ME AND HENRY KISSINGER.

I SENT AN ORAL PERSONAL MESSAGE TO AMBASSADOR ASHRAF GHURBAL, A MOST BRILLIANT STAR IN EGYPTIAN DIPLOMACY, SAYING: "ALTHOUGH I AM PREPARED FOR ANY DEBATE AT ANY TIME WITH KISSINGER, I DO NOT THINK MY SCHEDULE IN CAIRO WILL ALLOW ME TO TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON NOW." WITHIN A FEW DAYS I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM AMBASSADOR ASHRAF GHURBAL, IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING, SAYING THAT A DATE HAD BEEN PROPOSED THERE FOR A DIALOG "IN DEPTH" BETWEEN ME AND KISSINGER, THAT DESIRING AN INFORMAL DIALOG THEY HAD SUGGESTED HOLDING IT AT A FARM OWNED BY DONALD KENDALL IN CONNECTICUT, AND THAT WE WERE TO SPEND THE ENTIRE WEEKEND THERE TO PROVIDE A WIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS DIALOG--FOR HIM TO HEAR WHAT I HAD TO SAY AND FOR ME TO HEAR HIM OUT. THE DATE FIXED WAS THE FIRST WEEKEND IN OCTOBER 1971--2 AND 3 OCTOBER.

FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF AMBASSADOR GHURBAL'S LETTER:

"I WAS GLAD TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET TOGETHER IN CAIRO RECENTLY. I WOULD LIKE TO DO THIS AGAIN AND GOD WILLING, I HOPE IT WILL BE SOON. DONALD KENDALL CONTACTED ME SEVERAL TIMES, STRONGLY URGING THAT YOU COME AS HIS GUEST TO HIS FARM IN CONNECTICUT FOR A MEETING WITH HENRY KISSINGER DURING THE FIRST WEEKEND OF OCTOBER, 2 AND 3 OCTOBER. KISSINGER WAS AGREED TO RESERVE THESE 2 DAYS FOR A MEETING WITH YOU.

"I TOLD KENDALL THAT YOU FIND IT DIFFICULT AT PRESENT TO LEAVE CAIRO AND THAT YOU THANK HIM FOR HIS NOBLE EFFORTS. HE, HOWEVER, WONDERED WHETHER YOU SAW NO USE IN SUCH A MEETING. I EXPLAINED AGAIN THAT IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF YOUR BEING SO BUSY IN CAIRO AT PRESENT THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO GO ABROAD.

"KENDALL MENTIONED THAT HE THINKS YOU AND KISSINGER ARE SIMILAR IN "SPIRIT" AND "APPROACH" AND THAT YOU WILL GO WELL TOGETHER FROM THE FIRST MOMENT. I AGREED WITH HIM ON THIS, AND I REALLY AND FULLY BELIEVE IT. WE AGREED THAT I WOULD APPROACH YOU AGAIN, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU WOULD CABLE ME YOUR ANSWER AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS, SO HE CAN ANSWER KISSINGER.

"I MENTIONED DURING THE CONCERSAION THE TRAGIC FACT THAT THERE IS NO MOVEMENT, RATHER TOTAL INACTIVITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE, THAT IF THERE WERE SOME OPENING THIS COULD BE EXPLOITED AND COULD EVEN HELP YOU TO COME, WE AGREED WITH ME ON THIS, BUT STRESSED THAT FOR THIS PARTICULAR REASON IT WILL BE MORE BENEFICIAL FOR YOU TO COME. KENDALL SAID HE SEES A TOTAL IMPASSE IN ISRAEL'S ATTITUDE, AND KISSINGER HAS TOLD HIM HE DAILY HEARS FROM THE ISRAELI SIDE THAT THERE IS NO ONE ON THE ARAB SIDE WHO WOULD TALK TO HIM 'FREELY AND WITHOUT FORMALITIES.' HENCE KENDALL FEELS THAT YOUR MEETING WITH KISSINGER IS ESSENTIAL AND WOULD BE USEFUL.

"I POINTED OUT THAT MINISTER MAHMUD RIYAD WILL COME TO NEW YORK, AND POSSIBLY TO WASHINGTON, AND THAT THIS WOULD PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR RIYAD AND KISSINGER TO MEET. I EXPECT THIS TO HAPPEN IF THE VISIT HERE TAKES PLACE. NATURALLY, HOWEVER, IT WILL BE A MEETING OF A DIFFERENT CALIBRE, AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING, GOVERNED BY THE FORMALITY OF THE WORK AND THE OFFICES INVOLVED.

"AS I SAID, WE ENDED BY AGREEING TO PLACE THE MATTER AGAIN BEFORE YOU. PLEASE CABLE WHETHER THIS WILL OR WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE. YOUR BROTHER ASHRAB."

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XXX YOUR BROTHER ASHRAF.

(TEXT) PRESIDENT ANWAR AS-SADAT CONTACTED ME THE NEXT DAY AND MENTIONED THAT HE WAS AWARE KISSINGER WANTED TO MEET ME. SURPRISED, I SAID: I RECEIVED A LETTER IN THIS RESPECT FROM ASHRAF GHIDAL ONLY YESTERDAY. ALLOW ME, PLEASE TO ASK HOW YOU KNEW OF IT SO SOON. PRESIDENT AS-SADAT SAID: I WILL SEND YOU A PERSONAL LETTER WHICH DR MUHAMMAD HASAN AZ-ZAYYAT (EGYPTIAN CHIEF DELEGATE TO THE UNITED NATIONS) HAS SENT TO (PRIME MINISTER) MAHMUD FAWZI. A VERY CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF NIXON HAS MET WITH DR AZ-ZAYYAT AND HAS BROACHED THE SUBJECT WITH HIM. DR AZ-ZAYYAT CONSIDERED THE SUBJECT IMPORTANT AND DID NOT WISH TO SEND A REPORT ON IT VIA THE FOREIGN MINISTRY. HE WROTE A PERSONAL LETTER TO DR FAWZI AND HE IN TURN RELAYED IT TO 'ABD AL-KHALIZ HASSUNAH (THE ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERAL) FOR DELIVERY TO DR FAWZI. HASSUNAH RETURNED FROM NEW YORK YESTERDAY, (WHERE HE ATTENDED THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION) AND TODAY HE VISITED DR FAWZI AND HANDED HIM THE LETTER. I HAVE READ THE LETTER AND I ASKED THAT IT BE SENT TO YOU. WE WILL THEN DISCUSS THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER WHEN WE MEET.

I RECEIVED THE LETTER. IT WAS IN (NOW FOREIGN MINISTER) DR MUHAMMAD HASAN AZ-ZAYYAT'S OWN HANDWRITING.

THE TEXT OF THE LETTER, ADDRESSED TO PRIME MINISTER MAHMUD FAWZI, FOLLOWS:

YOUR EXCELLENCY PRIME MINISTER MAHMUD FAWZI:

A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF PRESIDENT NIXON--A FACT WHICH I KNOW--HAS ASKED ME TO CONVEY A DIRECT, PRIVATE MESSAGE TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT. I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY OF SECRETARY GENERAL HASSUNAH PASHA'S DEPARTURE FOR CAIRO TO BEG HIM TO HAND THIS LETTER TO YOU, WHICH I WILL BE GRATEFUL IF YOU KINDLY HAND TO THE PRESIDENT.

NIXON'S FRIEND IS A MR DONALD KENDALL, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF PEPSI-CO. HE INVITED ME FOR LUCK ON TUESDAY, 26 OCTOBER. AFTER A GENERAL CONVERSATION, HE SAID HE CONSIDERS IT NECESSARY TO INFLUENCE THE WHITE HOUSE OUTSIDE THE MEANS OF OFFICIAL AND PUBLIC CONTACTS. SINCE WHAT IS REQUIRED NOW IS U.S. PRESSURE ON ISRAEL, IT WOULD BE BETTER IF KISSINGER HEARS THE ARAB VIEWPOINT IN A PROFOUND AND COMPREHENSIVE MANNER. KENDALL SAID KISSINGER IS CONFIDENT OF HIMSELF AND OF HIS KNOWLEDGE OF WORLD AFFAIRS AND THAT THWN HE (KENDALL) VISITED EGYPT HE MET A MAN WHO IS OF KISSINGER'S CALIBER--MUHAMMAD HASANAYN HAYKAL.

THEREFORE, KENDALL BELIEVES IT WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT IF
THE TWO MEET IN COMPLETE SECRECY. KENDALL SUGGESTS THAT THIS MEETING
TAKE PLACE DURING THE WEEKEND HOLIDAY AT HIS (KENDALL'S HOME ON
THE OUTSKIRTS OF NEW YORK (PURCHASE VILLAGE) NEAR GREENWICH
(CONnectICUT). KENDALL EVEN TOLD ME THAT A PRIVATE PLANE CAN BE
SENT TO CAIRO TO FLY KAYKAL TO GREENWICH AIRPORT (NOT) IN NEW
YORK) AND TO REURN HIM TO CAIRO AFTER THE WEEKEND (SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY).

KENDALL ALSO TOLD ME THAT HE HAD PREVIOUSLY EXPRESSED THIS
DESIRE TO DR ASHRAF GHORBAL AND HAD ASKED THAT IT BE CONVEYED TO
HAYKAL. ACCORDINGLY, KISSINGER HAS IN FACT SET A DATE BUT
NOTHING HAS HAPPENDED. KENDALL SAID HE WAS IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY
(MONDAY, 25 OCTOBER) AND HAD WATCHED WITH PRESIDENT NIXON, AT THE
WHITE HOUSE, THE RESULTS OF THE VOTING ON CHINA'S ENTRY TO THE
INITED NATIONS ON TELEVISION. AFTER TALKING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT--
THIS BEING NOT OUR TOPIC,--KISSINGER ASKED KENDALL WHETHER
ANYTHING HAD BEEN DONE ABOUT THE MEETING WITH HAYKAL. KENDALL
REPLIED IN THE NEGATIVE.

KENDALL ASKED ME TO CONVEY THIS MESSAGE TO CAIRO. I TOLD KENDALL
THAT I COULD ACCEPT HIS REQUEST IF IT IS ADDRESSED TO MY PRESIDENT.
HE ACCEPTED THIS IMMEDIATELY. I MENTIONED THAT THE PRESIDENT COULD
THEN DECIDE WHAT HE WANTS AND INFORM ME OF HIS VIEWS. I ALSO
MENTIONED THAT CAIRO WILL NOT LACK THE MEANS TO INFORM KENDALL
OF THE ANSWER TO HIS INVITATION.

CONTINUING THIS CONVERSATION, I ASKED KENDALL IF IT WERE NECESSARY
FOR KISSINGER'S DISCUSSION TO BE WITH HAYKAL HIMSELF. HE REPLIED
THAT THIS WOULD BE PREFERABLE BECAUSE OF THE SIMILARITY OF THEIR
PERSONALITIES AND BECAUSE HAYKAL HAS NO OFFICIAL CAPACITY. HE THEN
SAID THAT AFTER ALL, THIS WAS HIS PROPOSAL AFTER HE HAD LISTENED
TO A LONG TALK ON THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS FROM HAYKAL IN CAIRO.

I ASKED HIM IF HE BELIEVES THIS WILL LEAD US TO A SOLUTION.
HE REPLIED THAT HE HOPES THAT THIS MEETING, WHICH PRESIDENT NIXON IS
ENGHUSIASTIC ABOUT, WILL BE FRUITFUL AS FAR AS GETTING TO KNOW
VIEWPOINTS, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING AT THIS STAGE.

YOUR EXCELLENCY:

THIS IS A SUMMATION OF WHAT TOOK PLACE AT THIS MEETING. I PUT IT
INTO YOUR HANDS WITHOUT COMMENT OR ADDITION. I HAVE HANDED
THIS LETTER TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL TO GIVE TO YOU WHEN HE ARRIVES
IN CAIRO. I ADD NOTHING TO IT EXCEPT MY SINCEREST RESPECTS AND
BEST WISHES OF SUCCESS FOR YOU AND FOR OUR COUNTRY AND ITS
PRESIDENT.

SINCERELY, MUHAMMAD HASAN AZ-ZAYYAT.

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XXX MUHAMMAD HASAN AZ-ZAYYAT.

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(TEXT) I READ DR AZ-ZAYYAT'S LETTER TO DR FAWZI SEVERAL TIMES AND BROODED OVER THE MATTER FOR A LONG TIME. MY THOUGHTS STRAYED FROM THE DIRECT PROBLEMS FACING ME TO SIMILAR PAST EXPERIENCES I HAD HAD. I ASKED MYSELF: WHY IS IT MY FATE TO ALWAYS HAVE TO SPEAK AND EXPLAIN THINGS AND NEVER STOP SPEAKING AND EXPLAINING? SPEAKING AND EXPLAINING CAN BE SOMETIMES A RESPONSIBILITY AND A TORTURE.

I HAD A VERY SIMILAR EXPERIENCE WITH SOVIET LEADER NIKITA Khrushchev, BEFORE HE PAID HIS WELL-KNOWN VISIT TO EGYPT TO ATTEND CELEBRATIONS MARKING THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST STAGE OF THE HIGH DAM IN MAY 1964.

EARLY IN MAY OF THAT YEAR, I WAS IN SAN'YA, THE CAPITAL OF YEMEN, WITH OUR FORCES THERE WITNESSING SOME OF THE BATTLES ON THE SPOT.

MY FRIEND, CHIEF EDITOR OF THE SOVIET PAPER IZVESTIYA, ALEKSEY ADZHIBEY, NIKITA Khrushchev's SON-IN-LAW CONTACTED ME IN SAN'YA. HE TOLD ME ON THE TELEPHONE FROM MOSCOW: THE BIG MAN-- MEANING KHRUSHCHEV--IS COMING TO EGYPT. HE HAS SEVERAL QUESTIONS HE WANTS ANSWERED. HE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH THE REPORTS HE GETS. I HAVE AGREED WITH HIM THAT YOU SHOULD BE INVITED TO MOSCOW TO SPEND A FEW DAYS WITH US AND THEN RETURN, IN OUR COMPANY, ON THE SAME BOAT TO ALEXANDRIA. THIS, HE SAID, YOU WILL HAVE AN ENTIRE WEEK TO PLACE YOURSELF AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE BIG MAN, SO HE CAN ASK YOU WHAT HE LIKES.

I TOLD ALEKSEY: I SHALL BE RETURNING FROM SAN'YA TO CAIRO BECAUSE I FEEL I MUST DISCUSS THE PROPOSAL WITH PRESIDENT JAMAL 'ABD AN-NASIR FIRST. I DEPARTED SAN'YA BY PLANE AT DAWN, AND ARRIVED IN CAIRO THAT MORNING. WHEN I Landed I found someone waiting for me to tell me that PRESIDENT JAMAL 'ABD AN-NASIR WOULD SEE ME AT HIS HOUSE. I UNDERSTOOD THEN THAT HE HAD LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT ALEKSEY ADZHIBEY'S PROPOSAL. I FOUND OUT LATER THAT MY SUSPICIONS WERE CORRECT. JAMAL 'ABD AN-NASIR GAVE ME NO OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. AS SOON AS I ENTERED, THE FIRST THING HE TOLD ME WAS: GO AND PACK YOUR BAGS BECAUSE YOU WILL BE LEAVING FOR MOSCOW TODAY. THERE IS A PLANE THIS AFTERNOON.

AND SO IT WAS. THAT DAY I HAD HAD AN EARLY BREAKFAST IN SAN'YA, LUNCHED WITH 'ABD AN-NASIR IN CAIRO, AND DINED IN MOSCOW WITH IZVESTIYA'S CHIEF EDITOR ALEKSEY ADZHIBEY.

THE MORNING OF THE FOLLOWING DAY WE WENT TOGETHER TO YALTA PORT, WHERE KHRUSHCHEV WAS SPENDING A SHORT VACATION BEFORE EMBARKING ON HIS VISIT TO EGYPT. THE SHIP ARMENIA, WHICH WAS TO TAKE HIM TO EGYPT, WAS READY AT THE PORT.

AFTER SPENDING 1 DAY AT YALTA AS A GUEST IN KHRUSHCHEV'S HOUSE, I FOUND MYSELF ON BOARD THE ARMENIA. THE VOYAGE FROM YALTA ON THE BLACK SEA ACROSS THE BOSPHORUS AND THROUGH THE MEDITERRANEAN TO ALEXANDRIA LASTED 4 DAYS. WITH US ALL THE TIME WAS MARSHAL ANDREY GRECHKO, WHO IS SOVIET DEFENSE MINISTER TO THIS DAY, AND ANDREY GROMYKO, STILL THE SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER. WE NEVER STOPPED TALKING. WE TALKED AT BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER, AS WE STROLLED ON BOARD THE SHIP AND IN THE HALL ATTACHED TO KHRUSHCHEV'S CABIN. WE TALKED UNTIL LATE AT NIGHT BECAUSE KHRUSHCHEV WANTED TO KNOW EVERYTHING. WE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE AND THEIR HISTORY, THE ARAB NATIONALIST MOVEMENT AND ITS ROOTS, THE SOCIALIST CHANGE IN EGYPT AND ITS EXTENT, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

I FOUND MYSELF ENGAGED FOR SEVERAL CONTINUOUS DAYS IN ONE EXTENDED DIALOG WITH KHRUSHCHEV TOUCHING ON DIVERSE TOPICS. WE TAKED OF ISLAM AS A GREAT SOCIAL REVOLUTION AND WE DISCUSSED THE THINGS THAT INFLUENCE MODERN EGYPTIAN ART.

TO ME, THE EXPERIENCE WAS ENJOYABLE. I CONFESS THAT I DID NOT FEEL ANY HARDSHIP DURING IT, BECAUSE KHRUSHCHEV WAS A MAN OF NUMEROUS UNIQUE AND DISTINGUISHED QUALITIES.

YET, HERE I FACED ANOTHER EXPERIENCE. I MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO ACCEPT OR DECLINE THE INVITATION TO VISIT WASHINGTON.

MY INNER FEELINGS FAVORED DECLINING THE INVITATION, FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

1-- ACCEPTANCE OF THE INVITATION WOULD GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT I WAS PLAYING A POLITICAL ROLE AT A TIME WHEN I DID NOT WANT TO PLAY ANY POLITICAL ROLE AT A TIME WHEN I DID NOT WANT TO PLAY ANY POLITICAL ROLES. IF I DECIDED TO MEET WITH HENRY KISSINGER, WHO IS AN INTERESTING PERSONALITY, I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO DO SO IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND AT THIS WHITE HOUSE OFFICE, IN MY CAPACITY AS A NEWSMAN.

2-- I DID NOT CONSIDER THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE UNITED STATES FAVORABLE NOW, AND IT WOULD NOT BE FAVORABLE UNTIL THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST BEGAN TO MOVE. AT THIS MOMENT, ACTION MUST PRECEDE WORDS. SO LONG AS THERE IS NO ACTION, DISCUSSION WOULD BE MOOT.

3-- I REALIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPLAINING OUR POSITION TO A MAN OF KISSINGER'S STATUS AND POSITION, BUT I DID NOT WANT TO SEE MY ACTIONS MISINTERPRETED. I HAVE SUFFERED MUCH UNNECESSARILY BECAUSE I TRIED TO TALK TO AND WITH THE WORLD ABOUT OUR NATION'S CAUSES AND STRUGGLES THROUGH OTHER THEN RESOUNDING SPEECHES.

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XXX THAN RESOUNDING SPEECHES.

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(TEXT) THE NEXT DAY I WAS SUMMONED TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT AS-SADAT AT THE "BARRAGE" REST HOUSE WHERE THE PRESIDENT USUALLY GOES WHEN HE FEELS A YEARNING FOR THE GOOD EARTH. THE PRESIDENT ASKED ME: HAVE YOU READ AZ-ZAYYAT'S LETTER? I SAID YES; I HAVE IT HERE WITH ME. I ALSO HAVE WITH ME THE LETTER FROM ASHRAF GHURBAL.

IN HIS USUAL CORDIAL MANNER, PRESIDENT AS-SADAT SAID: MUHAMMAD, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY WORTH EXPLOITING. I FEEL THAT YOU SHOULD GO, TALK AND LISTEN. KISSINGER IS THE MAN WHO DECIDES THINGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF AUTHORITY AND DECISION. YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE SITUATION AND YOU HAVE LIVED THE CRISIS FROM WITHIN.

PRESIDENT AS-SADAT WENT ON: AS I UNDERSTAND FROM AZ-ZAYYAT'S LETTER, ALL THEY WANT IS TO HEAR OUR VIEWS. THIS IS A VITAL MATTER TO US NOW THAT THE YEAR OF DECISION DRAWS TO A CLOSE. IF THEY MANAGE TO UNDERSTAND THINGS, WE WOULD BE ACHIEVING A GREAT DEAL.

PREUDENT AS-SADAT STOPPED TALKING AND IT WAS MY TURN TO SPEAK. I EXPLAINED MY VIEWS TO HIM. WE HAD A LONG DISCUSSION DURING WHICH THE PRESIDENT WAS, AS USUAL, TOLERATNA DN HONORABLE. FINALLY HE SAID: I WANT TO PRESSURE YOU. THINK ABOUT THE MATTER.

I THOUGHT AND THOUGHT, AND THEN DECIDED. I CABLE D DONALD KENDALL, REPLYING TO THE LETTER: THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND INVITATION. MY SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS YOU HAVE MADE FOR AN INTERESTING, SERIOUS DISCUSSION. HOWEVER, I BEG YOU TO POSTPONE THEM. MY SINCERE WISHES.

THIS WAS MY POSITION AND MY ATTITUDE. BUT I MUST HASTEN TO SAY THAT BY RELATING ALL I HAVE SAID ABOUT "KISSINGER AND I AND THE COLLECTION OF PAPERS" I DID NOT MEAN TO SNUB KISSINGER. THIS COULD NOT BE TRUE NOR COULD ANY RATIONAL OR PATRIOTIC PERSON DO THAT. CHINESE PRIME MINISTER CHOU EN-LAI SPENT 10 HOURS IN CONTINUOUS SECRET MEETINGS WITH HENRY KISSINGER. SOVIET LEADER BREZHEV SPENT 17 HOURS IN CONTINUOUS SECRET MEETINGS WITH HENRY KISSINGER.

THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THIS PROMINENT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND POLITICAL PARACICE IS ONE OF THOSE MEN WHO WILL LEAVE HIS MARK ON THIS AGE AN THIS WORLD, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE DISAGREE WITH HIS INCLINATIONS.

BUT I HAD OTHER REASONS FOR DECLCIING AND I HAVE ALREADY EXPLAINED THEM. THERE IS ONE MORE THING I WISH TO SAY: CIRCUMSTANCES LATER TOOK ME TO LONDON WHERE, DURING MY MEETINGS WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME I HEARD OF A RUMOR WHISPERED IN INTERNATIONAL CIRCLES THAT EGYPT WAS ABOUT TO ACCEPT THE IDEA OF PROXIMITY, OR HOTEL, TALKS UNDER U.S. SUPERVISION, WHICH MEANS THAT EGYPTIAN AND ISRAELI DELEGATIONS WOULD SIT IN TWO SEPARATE QUARTERS OF ONE HOTEL, WITH U.S. ASSISTANT UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH SISCO SHUTTLING BETWEEN THEM VONVEYING VIEWS AND TRYING TO BRING THEM CLOSER.

I UNDERSTOOD ALSO THAT THE RUMOR EVEN HAD IT THAT EGYPT HAD ALREADY
NAMED ITS DELEGATE TO THE HOTEL TALKS, SPECIFICALLY DR MURAD GHALIB.

I RECALL THAT THE FIRST ARTICLE I WROTE UPON MY RETURN TO CAIRO
WAS ENTITLED "AN INVITATION TO A HAUNTED HOUSE." THE ARTICLE WAS
INTENDED AS A WARNING AGAINST THE PROPOSED PROXIMITY TALKS UNDER
U.S. SUPERVISION, AND THE DANGERS THEY INVOLVED.

I RECALL ALSO GOING TO THE OFFICE OF DR MURAD GHALIB, WHO WAS
FOREIGN MINISTER AT THE TIME, WHERE I ALMOST PLEADED WITH HIM TO
REJECT THE PROPOSED PROXIMITY TALKS UNDER U.S. SUPERVISION, IF
THE REPORTS I HEARD ABOUT EGYPT'S LIKELY ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH TALKS
WERE TRUE. ANYWAY, THE PROPOSAL WAS A BIRD WITHOUT WINGS, AS THE
SAYING GOES.

I HAVE RELATED THE STORY IN ALL DETAIL, TRYING TO RESTRICT MY
FEN TO MY OWN PRINCIPLES. I HAVE NO OLD OR NEW FEUDS TO INFLUENCE
ME, NOR IS THERE ANY AUTHORITY UNDER WHOSE WING I PLACE MYSELF;
NOT DO I AGREE TO DO SUCH A THING. I HAVE NEVER INSULTED ANYBODY
AND I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN AMBIGUOUSLY NOR HAPHAZARDLY. I HAVE NEVER
ATTRIBUTED TO PEOPLE ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE SAID, NOR HAVE
I TRIED TO DISCUSS WITH THEM WHAT I ATTRIBUTED TO THEM, RATHER THAN
WHAT THEY ACTUALLY SAID.

I HAVE NEVER ATTRIBUTED TO ANYONE WHO WAS ABSENT ANYTHING HE
DID NOT ACTUALLY SAY. I HAVE ONLY SPOKEN ABOUT STRONG, LIVING
PEOPLE AND ATTRIBUTED TO THEM THINGS THEY HAD SAID OR WRITTEN
THEMSELVES. ANYONE OF THEM CAN CONTRADICT WHAT I SAY.

IN CONCLUSION, I HAVE DOTTED ONE LETTER. BUT THERE ARE NUMEROUS
LETTERS WHICH NEED DOTTING. BUT I WILL NOT DOT THEM OUT OF WEAKNESS
BUT OUT OF ALOOFNESS, AND I SAY THIS WITHOUT MODESTY, BUT ALSO WITHOUT
ROASTING.

WE ARE BEING TOLD THAT SOME OF THE THINGS WE READ TODAY
CONSTITUTE PART OF THE BATTLECRY AND ITS REQUISITES. I RECALL IN
THIS RESPECT THE WORDS SPOKEN BY THE FAMOUS FRENCHWOMAN OF LETTERS
MADAME DE STAEL, WHEN THE RULE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BEGAN TO
CONFUSE FREEDOM AND TERRORISM BOTH MATERIALLY AND MORALLY. SHE
SAID IN ALL SORROW: O FREEDOM, HOW MANY CRIMES ARE BEING COMMITTED
IN YOUR NAME? I MAY CHANGE HERE WORDS TO BECOME: O BATTLE, HOW
MANY CRIMES ARE BEING COMMITTED IN YOUR NAME?

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LA QUESTION DES PRISONNIERS POLITIQUES AU VIETNAM:
UNE DECLARATION DU GRP

PARIS, 4 DECEMBRE (AFP)-

LE GOUVERNEMENT REVOLUTIONNAIRE PROVISOIRE SUD-VIETNAMIEN ACCUSE L'ADMINISTRATION DE SAIGON DE SE PREPARER A ASSASSINER, AVANT LE CESSEZ-LE-FEU AU VIETNAM, PLUSIEURS MILLIERS DE PRISONNIERS POLITIQUES, DANS UNE DECLARATION DIFFUSEE AUJOURD'HUI A PARIS PAR LA DELEGATION DU GRP A LA CONFERENCE DE PARIS.

DANS CETTE DECLARATION LE GRP DECLARE QUE L'ADMINISTRATION DU PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU A ELABORE, DES 1971, "SUR L'ORDRE DES ETATS-UNIS", UN "PLAN DE SECURITE" QUI PREVOIT, EN CAS DE REGLEMENT DU CONFLIT VIETNAMIEN LA SUPPRESSION DES LIBERTE DEMOCRATIQUES ET DES "MESURES D'ADAPTATION FACILES", C'EST-ADIRE "L'ASSASSINAT SECRET" DES DETENUS POLITIQUES CE QUI CONSTITUE, DIT LE GRP "UN PLAN EXTREMEMENT SERIEUX D'ESCALADE DU CRIME".

EN OUTRE, AJOUTE LE GRP, L'ADMINISTRATION DE SAIGON A "PROMULGUE UNE SERIE DE DECRETS-LOIS FASCISTES PREVOYANT LA MORT OU LA PRISON A PERPETUITE POUR LES PERSONNES PRESUMEES "VIETCONG" OU "PRO-VIETCONG".

ENFIN, SELON LE GRP, L'ADMINISTRATION DE SAIGON "A FAIT DRESSER DES LISTES DE PLUSIEURS MILLIERS DE DETENUS POLITIQUES QU'ELLE CONSIDERE COMME LES PLUS DANGEREUX, POUR LES ASSASSINER D'URGENCE AVANT LE CESSEZ-LE-FEU". DES DETENUS ONT ETE TRANSFERES D'UN CAMP DANS UN AUTRE POUR FACILITER LA REALISATION DE CE PLAN "D'ASSASSINATS", SELON LE GRP.

LE GRP DECLARE QUE "CETTE CAMPAGNE AMERICANO-FANTOCHE DE TERREUR ET DE REPRESAILLES FAIT RECULER LES POSSIBILITES DE METTRE FIN A LA GUERRE ET RETABLIR LA PAIX AU VIETNAM".

EN CONCLUSION, LE GRP, DECLARE QUE LE GOUVERNEMENT DES ETATS-UNIS DOIT ASSUMER LA RESPONSABILITE DE METTRE UN TERME A LA "CAMPAGNE DE TERREUR" DE L'ADMINISTRATION SUD-VIETNAMIENNE. IL INVITE LES DETENUS POLITIQUES A S'UNIR POUR LUTTER CONTRE LE REGIME PENITENTIAIRE QU'LEUR EST INFLIGE ET LES AGENTS DE POLICE, SOLDATS ET FONCTIONNAIRES DE SAIGON A S'OPPOSER AUX ORDRES DES "AMERICANO-FANTOCHES", A TRAITER CORRECTEMENT LES DETENUS ET LES AIDER A ECHapper AUX TORTURES ET MEURTRES COMMIS OU PREPARES PAR LES "ENNEMIS".

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EDITORS: THE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORT FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON NEWSPAPERS WILL INCLUDE:

(ULSTER) BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND--GUNMEN LAUNCHED ANOTHER ABORTIVE ROCKET ATTACK AGAINST BRITISH TROOPS IN NORTHERN IRELAND MONDAY. BUT VIOLENCE GENERALLY SUBSIDED IN THE PROVINCE. IN OTHER PARTS OF THE BRITISH ISLES POLICE TIGHTENED SECURITY AT AIR AND SEAPORTS TO PREVEN IRA MEMBERS FROM SEEKING SANCTUARY THERE FROM AN EXPECTED CRACKDOWN AGAINST THE ORGANIZATION IN THE IRISH REPUBLIC. 350 WORDS BY COLIN BAKER. MAY BE LED. CONTINUING PIX COVERAGE.

(TALKS) PARIS--HENRY A. KISSINGER AND HIS NORTH VIETNAMESE COUNTERPARTS GRAPPLED WITH THE LAST REMAINING OBSTACLES TO PEACE IN VIETNAM TODAY IN THE SECOND DAY OF THEIR 22ND ROUND OF SECRET TALKS. THE FLORIDA WHITE HOUSE SAID KISSINGER AND HANOI DIPLOMATS WOULD MEET AGAINST THIS MORNING AFTER COMPLETING FIVE HOURS OF TALKS MONDAY AT TWO DIFFERENT SITES. THERE WAS NO OFFICIAL WORD WHERE TODAY'S TALKS WERE TO BE HELD OR IF PROGRESS WAS BEING MADE. 300 WORDS. WILL BE LED. PIX. MOVED AS PLB002 ET SEQ.

(SECURE) HELSINKI--EUROPE'S SMALL AND NON-ALIGNED NATIONS SAID THEY EXPECTED ANY FUTURE SECURITY SYSTEM EMERGING FROM A FULL-FLEDGED EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE TO RESPECT NATIONAL SOVEREIGNITY AND NEUTRALITY. WHEN THE GENERAL DEBATE WINDS UP TODAY TWO NEUTRALS, AUSTRIA AND FINLAND, ARE SURE TO BRING UP THE ISSUES AGAIN, DIPLOMATS SAID. THE MEETING OF THE 34 NATIONS PREPARATORY TALKS WAS TO START AT 10:30 A.M. (0830 GMT). 400 WORDS. BY BJOERN F. HOEIJER. WILL BE LED. MOVED AS PLC001 ET SEQ.

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1ST ADD EDITORS ADVISORY UNDATED PLB004 XXX PLC001 ET SEQ.

(INDOCHINA) SAIGON--COMMUNIST TROOPS OVERRAN A SOUTH VIETNAMESE RANGER BASE IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS MONDAY, THE SAIGON COMMAND SAID. THE COMMAND SAID THE VIET CONG ISSUED ORDERS TO STEP UP ATTACKS TO FORCE THE UNITED STATES TO SIGN THE DRAFT CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT. COMMUNISTS SHELLED OR ATTACKED AT LEAST SEVEN OTHER SOUTH VIETNAMESE POSITIONS SUNDAY AND MONDAY. MILITARY SOURCES SAID. 400 WORDS. BY ALAN DAWSON. MAY BE LED. CONTINUING PIX COVERAGE. MOVED AS PLC004 ET SEQ.

(SPANTAX) SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN--AUTHORITIES TODAY POSTPONED THE FUNERAL MASS OF THE VICTIMS OF SPAIN'S WORST AIR DISASTER UNTIL THE WORK OF IDENTIFICATION WAS COMPLETED. THE SERVICE -- ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR MIDDAY -- WILL NOT TAKE PLACE WEDNESDAY AT THE CATHEDRAL OF LA LAGUNA, FOUR KM (2 1/2 MILES) FROM LOS RODEOS AIRPORT WHERE A CHARTER JET CRASHED SHORTLY AFTER TAKE-OFF KILLING 155, CHURCH SOURCES SAID. A GERMAN CONSULAR SPOKESMAN SAID THE WORK OF IDENTIFICATION WAS PROCEEDING SLOWLY. 350 WORDS. MAY BE LED. MOVED AS OLE002 ET SEQ.

(COFFEE) LONDON--THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COFFEE-IMPORTING NATIONS HAVE CALLED FOR A LOWERING OF WORLD COFFEE PRICES, BRAZIL AND OTHER MAJOR COFFEE-EXPORTING COUNTRIES. SAID THE PRICES SHOULD BE MAINTAINED. THE BARGAINING CAME DURING A MEETING OF THE 62-NATION INTERNATIONAL COFFEE COUNCIL WHICH OPENED MONDAY. 350 WORDS. BY PEGGY POLK. SHOULD STAND.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - UNDERSECRETARY OF COMMERCE JAMES T. LYNN IS PRESIDENT NIXON'S CHOICE TO TAKE OVER THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND SOUTH CAROLINA TEXTILE MANUFACTURER FREDERICK B. DENT PROBABLY WILL BE THE NEXT COMMERCE DEPARTMENT CHIEF, THE WASHING POST HAS REPORTED.

THE DENT APPOINTMENT DEPENDS ON WHETHER NIXON REASSIGNS THE PRESENT COMMERCE DEPARTMENT BOSS, PETER G. PETERSON, AS A PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, THE POST SAID IN ITS TUESDAY EDITIONS.

AT HUD, SECRETARY GEORGE ROMNEY ALREADY HAS ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION.

THE POST ALSO REPORTED THAT FRANK SHAKESPEARE, DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY, WILL LEAVE EARLY NEXT YEAR FOR A JOB IN THE BROADCASTING INDUSTRY.

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BY PAUL TRUTHARDT

BY PAUL TRUTHARDT

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

PARIS (AP)-PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER
AND HANOI'S LEADER THO MET TWICE HERE MONDAY FOR A TOTAL OF FIVE
HOURS AS THEY OPENED WHAT MAY BE THE FINAL ROUND OF SECRET
TALKS BEFORE A VIETNAM CEASEFIRE IS SIGNED.

A RESTRICTED MORNING SESSION OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN THE
TALKS WAS FOLLOWED BY A FURTHER 2 1-2 HOUR MEETING THIS
AFTERNOON IN WHICH THE FULL DELEGATIONS -- ABOUT TEN OFFICIALS
ON BOTH SIDES -- JOINED KISSINGER AND THO AT A NEW "SECRET"
RENDEZVOUS.

THE FLORIDA WHITE HOUSE SAID THE TALKS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY.

THE COMPLETE NEWS BLACKOUT THAT HAS BEEN IMPOSED THROUGHOUT
KISSINGER'S 21 PREVIOUS MEETINGS WITH THE HANOI
NEGOTIATORS CONTINUED IN FORCE. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE CHOSE
THE LUXURY VILLA OF A FRENCH INDUSTRIALIST AT SAINTF GEMME,
ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF PARIS, AS THE LATEST NEGOTIATING SITE.

IT WAS THE THIRD DIFFERENT "SECRET" MEETING PLACE USED SINCE
KISSINGER'S TRIPS TO PARIS WERE MADE PUBLIC. THE MORNING SESSION
HAD BEEN HELD NEAR THE NORTH VIETNAMESE HEADQUARTERS AT
CHOISY-LE-ROI SOUTH OF THE CAPITAL. (MORE)
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THE VILLA USED FOR THE AFTERNOON SESSION IS SET DEEP IN
A VAST STRETCH OF PARKLAND BEHIND HIGH WALLS AND CLOSED, GUARDED,
IRON GATES. IT WAS ONCE OWNED BY BRITISH FIGHTER ACE
GROUP-CAPTAIN PETER TOWNSEND, WHOSE ROMANCE WITH PRINCESS
MARGARET MADE WORLD HEADLINES OF ANOTHER KIND IN THE 1950S.

THE WHITE HOUSE SAID KISSINGER REPORTED TO PRESIDENT NIXON
AT KEY BISCAYNE AFTER THE MORNING SESSION, AND THAT THE "FULL
NEGOTIATING TEAM" WOULD TAKE PART IN THE AFTERNOON MEETING.

ADMINISTRATION SOURCES IN WASHINGTON SAY THE TALKS ARE
MOVING TO A CLIMAX, AND IT HAS BEEN DISCLOSED THAT THE SAIGON
ADMINISTRATION HAS ISSUED A DIRECTIVE TO SENIOR OFFICIALS
TO PREPARE FOR A CEASEFIRE.

BUT SAIGON'S CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR AT THE FOUR-POWER PARIS
TALKS, AMBASSADOR PHILIP HAM DANG IAM, SAID TODAY TWO QUESTIONS
CONSIDERED CRUCIAL. BY SOUTH VIETNAM REMAIN TO BE SETTLED. THEY
WERE:

-- AGREEMENT BY NORTH VIETNAM TO PULL OUT WHAT SAIGON SAYS IT
ITS 300,000 TROOPS FROM THE SOUTH,

--AND A CLEAR DEFINITITON OF THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE
PROPOSED NATIONAL COUNCIL. FOR RECONCILIATION AND CONCORD
THAT WOULD BE SET UP AFTER A CEASEFIRE.

ALM TOLD A MEETING OF FRENCH JOURNALISTS TODAY THE PRESENT
DRAFT AGREEMENT BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND HANOI " DOES NOT
MENTITON THE CAPITAL PROBLEM" OF THE NORTHERN FORCES. HE
INSISTED THAT THE "PRINCIPLE" OF NORTH VIETNAMESE WITHDRAWAL MUST
BE WRITTEN INTO THE AGREEMENT " IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER." (MORE)
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LAM SAID SOUTH VIETNAM " CANNOT ACCEPT " THE PROPOSED NATIONAL COUNCIL BEING DESCRIBED AS " A POWER OR GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE " WHICH, HE SAID, IS HOW THE PRESENT VIETNAMESE TEXT OF THE DRAFT AGREEMENT HAS IT.

HE SAID THE COUNCIL SHOULD CLEARLY BE CHARGED ONLY WITH THE FUNCTION OF HOLDING FUTURE ELECTIONS.

KISSINGER'S FULL DELIGATION TO THE TALKS INCLUDES HIS DEPUTY, GEN. ALEXANDER M. HAIG JR., DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM SULLIVAN, ASIAN EXPERTS WINSTON LORD, PETER RODMAN AND JOHN NEGROPONT, AND INTERPRETER WILLIAM ENGLE.

LE DUC THO'S PARTY INCLUDES MINISTER YUAN THUY, HEAD OF THE HANOI NEGOTIATORS AT THE FOUR-PARTY SEMI-PUBLIC TALKS, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DELIGATION, AND MAY ALSO HAVE INCLUDED NGUYEN CO THACH, A NORTH VIETNAMESE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER. HE RETURNED UNANNOUNCED TO PARIS SATURDAY AFTER A FLYING VISIT TO HANOI FOLLOWING THE LAST ROUND OF KISSINGER-THO TALKS. (END)

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PARIS (AP)-THE NORTH VIETNAMESE HAVE SWITCHED THEIR PREFERRED VENUE FOR THE SECRET TALKS WITH HENRY KISSINGER FROM A MODEST HOUSE OWNED BY THE FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY TO THE LUXURIOUS COUNTRY ESTATE OF A WEALTHY FRENCH INDUSTRIALIST AND SPORTSMAN.

PIERRE-FTIENNE GUYOT, WHO LEFT HIS RANCH-STYLE VILLA OUTSIDE PARIS SET DEEP IN VERDANT PARKLAND BEHIND HIGH WALLS AND IRON GRILL GATES FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON'S SESSION, IS THE CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF AN ELECTRIC CABLES MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

HE IS ALSO PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH FEDERATION OF GOLF, A SPORT FOR THE RICH IN FRANCE, AND A MEMBER OF THE EXCLUSIVE AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE, YACHT CLUB DE FRANCE, RACING CLUB OF PARIS AND THE CHIC PARIS CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING CLUB.

IN THE REALM OF POPULAR SPORTS, HE IS PRESIDENT OF THE NEWLY-FORMED PARIS FOOTBALL CLUB.

GUYOT COULD NOT BE REACHED TONIGHT TO COMMENT AS TO WHY HE MADE HIS PROPERTY AVAILABLE. IT WAS THE THIRD "SECRET" VENUE FOUND BY NEWSMEN SINCE THE LATEST SERIES OF KISSINGERS TALKS BEGAN. THE FIRST WAS A MODEST COUNTRY HOUSE WILLIED BY THE FRENCH ARTIST FERNAND LEGER TO THE FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY, THE SECOND A BUILDING RENTED BY THE NORTH VIETNAMESE NEAR THEIR DELIGATION HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS.

GUYOT'S VILLA WAS ONCE OWNED BY GROUP-CAPTAIN PETER TOWNSEND, THE WORLD WAR TWO BRITISH FIGHTER ACE WHOM PRINCESS MARGARET WISHED TO MARRY. (END)(TRFUTHARDT)

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BY THEODORE M. STANGER

SAINTE GEMME, FRANCE (UPI)--THE VIETNAM NEGOTIATORS
LAUNCHED THEIR CRUCIAL NEW DRIVE FOR PEACE TODAY WITH TWO
INTENSIVE TALKS SESSIONS --ONE IN THE FORMER HOME OF AN EX-HOY
FRIEND OF BRITAIN'S PRINCESS MARGARET.

THE TALKS LASTED A TOTAL OF FIVE HOURS AND AFTERWARDS
BOTH SIDES WERE SMILING.

NEITHER AMERICANS NOR NORTH VIETNAMESE WOULD SAY HOW
THE TALKS WENT OR WHICH SUBJECTS WERE DISCUSSED. THE FLORIDA
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN SAID A THIRD MEETING WOULD TAKE PLACE
TUESDAY.

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1ST ADD 1ST NIGHT LP TALKS PARIS PLB124 X X X PLACE TUESDAY.
EACH SESSION LASTED TWO AND A HALF HOURS.

IN THE MORNING, WHITE HOUSE AIDE HENRY A. KISSINGER
ACCOMPANIED ONLY BY GEN. ALEXANDER HAIG, HIS DEPUTY, MET
WITH THE CHIEF HANOI NEGOTIATOR LE DUC THO AND HIS NUMBER
TWO, XUAN THUY.

IT WAS THE FIRST SESSION IN THE 22ND ROUND OF SECRET
TALKS PRESIDENT NIXON'S ENVOY HAS HAD WITH THE NORTH
VIETNAMESE.

THE MEETING TOOK PLACE AT THE MODEST VILLA OF A NORTH
VIETNAMESE DIPLOMAT IN SUBURBAN CHOISY LE ROI CLOSE TO
THE HANOI MISSION'S HEADQUARTERS.

WHEN IT ENDED AT 1 P.M. (1200 GMT) BOTH SIDES GRINNED
HAPPILY AS THEY EMERGED AND KISSINGER SENT PHOTOGRAPHERS INTO
A FLURRY AS HE BENT TO STORKE A CAT SITTING ON THE HOOD OF
HIS BLUE MERCEDES.

AFTER LUNCH, THE TWO SIDES PROVE SOME 30 MILES (50 KM) WEST
OF PARIS TO A NEW SECRET HIDEOUT, CHOSEN BY THE AMERICAN SIDE.
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2ND ADD 1ST NIGHT LP TALKS SAINTE GEMME PLB125 X X X SIDE.

THIS TIME FULL TEAMS --SEVEN A SIDE-- DREW UP AT A
LUXURY, 100-YEAR-OLD HOUSE THAT FORMERLY BELONGED
to GROUP CAPT. PETER TOWNSEND, EX-EQUERRY TO QUEEN
ELIZABETH AND ONE-TIME SUITOR OF THE QUEEN'S YOUNGER
SISTER, PRINCESS MARGARET.

THE HOUSE, SURROUNDED BY 10-FEET-HIGH, IVY-COVERED WALLS,
STANDS OFF THE MAIN STREET OF THE TINY HAMLET (100 PERSONS)
OF SAINTE GEMME NEAR THE TOWNSHIP OF FEUCHEROLLES IN
ROLLING GREEN COUNTRYSIDE.

TOWNSEND, A BATTLE OF BRITAIN FIGHTER PILOT WHOSE 1950S
ROMANCE WITH PRINCESS MARGARET CAUSED A STORM IN BRITAIN
BECAUSE HE WAS ALREADY DIVORCED, SOLD THE HOUSE TO A PARIS
INDUSTRIALIST, PIERRE-ETIENNE GUYOT.

HE TOLD UPI: "IT WAS A VERY CHARMING HOUSE WITH TWO LARGE
LIVING ROOMS, FIVE BEDROOMS AND THREE BATHROOMS. I PLANNED
THE GARDEN MYSELF. MR. GUYOT MAY HAVE REMODELED. IT, I DON'T
KNOW."

TOWNSEND SAID HE HAD NO IDEA WHY GUYOT, WHO IS CHAIRMAN
OF PARIS FOOTBALL CLUB, LENT THE HOUSE FOR THE MEETING.

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TOWNSEND'S ROMANCE WITH THE ENGLISH PRINCESS FOUNDERS
IN A STORM OF PUBLICITY AND MARGARET LATER MARRIED A SOCIETY
PHOTOGRAPHER, ANTHONY ARMSTRONG JONES. TOWNSEND ALSO MARRIED
AGAIN AND LIVES WITH HIS FAMILY NEAR PARIS.

THE CARS DREW UP SHORTLY BEFORE 4 P.M. (1500 GMT). A
LONG BLACK LIMOUSINE BELONGING TO THE AMERICAN DELEGATION
BUCKLE A WING AS IT NEGOTIATED THE NARROW ENTRANCE TO THE GROUNDS.

ALTHOUGH THE WHITE SHUTTERS WERE CLOSER, AS DUSK FELL
LIGHT SHONE FROM THE SECOND FLOOR WINDOWS OF THE HOUSE --POSSIBLY
THE ROOM IN WHICH THE TALKS WERE HELD.

TWO AND A HALF HOURS LATER, THE SESSION BROKE UP AND
DELEGATES HURRIED TO THEIR CARS THROUGH DRIVING RAIN. KISSINGER
WAS STILL SMILING HOWEVER AND SO WAS THUY AS THE TWO TEAMS
PROVE OFF.

ALTHOUGH NEITHER SIDE WOULD COMMENT ON THE PROGRESS OF
THE NEGOTIATIONS, THE MEETING OPENED TO FRENCH PRESS REPORTS
THAT THIS WOULD BE THE FINAL ROUND-UP.

U.S. ADMINISTRATION SOURCES SAID THEY HOPED A SETTLEMENT
COULD BE CONCLUDED IN A MATTER OF DAYS, POSSIBLY IN TIME
FOR THE RELEASE OF SOME WAR PRISONERS BY CHRISTMAS.

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4TH ADD 1ST NIGHT LD TALKS SAINTE GEMME PLB127 X X X CHRISTMAS.

DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID IT WAS POSSIBLE KISSINGER WOULD INITIAL A
DRAFT PEACE

ACCORD AND LEAVE A FULL-FLEGGED SIGNING CEREMONY FOR LATER
IN THE MONTH.

THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE CONFIRMATION IN PARIS THAT NIXON
TOLD SAIGON HE WOULD ORDER A SIGNING BY DEC.15 WITH OR WITHOUT
THE AGREEMENT OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU.

AS THE AMERICANS AND NORTH VIETNAMESE TALKED OUT THE
FINAL POINTS OF THE ACCORD, THE CHIEF SAIGON DELEGATE TO
THE WEEKLY PARIS PEACE TALKS SAID THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE IN
THEIR FINAL PHASE BUT KEY SAIGON DEMANDS REMAIN UNFULFILLED.

THE DELEGATION CHIEF, PHAM DANG LAM SAID SAIGON'S
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS WERE AN INDOCHINA-WIDE CEASE-FIRE AND THE
WITHDRAWAL OF NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS.

"SOUTH VIETNAM WILL SIGN THIS CEASE-FIRE TREATY LATER
IF THE KEY POINTS ARE RESOLVED IN A MANNER ACCEPTABLE TO US,"
LAM SAID.

ASKED ABOUT ACCEPTANCE OF VERBAL ASSURANCES ON A WITHDRAWAL,
LAM INSISTED: "IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE PRINCIPLE OF NORTH
VIETNAM'S RETREAT BE INSCRIBED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. IN THE
AGREEMENT."

HE SAID HE THOUGHT A TREATY MIGHT BE SIGNED SOON, BUT
ADDED "WE CANNOT SAY IF IT WILL BE THIS WEEK OR LATER."

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WASHINGTON (AP)-U.S. SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY SAID MONDAY THAT "DURING 1972 THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM HAVE TAKEN THE MOST FEROCIOUS BEATING OF THE WAR."

"THERE WERE MORE WAR VICTIMS THIS YEAR THAN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR OF THE WAR," HE SAID IN A STATEMENT. "AND DESPITE TODAY'S PLANS AND HOPES FOR AN EARLY PEACE, THE FLOW OF REFUGEE AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES CONTINUES AT AN ALARMING RATE."

KENNEDY, CHAIRMAN OF THE U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON REFUGES, SAID THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES HAS INCREASED BY AT LEAST 200,000 PERSONS SINCE EARLY OCTOBER.

"AND UNCOUNTED THOUSANDS ARE DRIFTING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE SLUMS OF URBAN AREAS," HE SAID. "CONDITIONS ARE DEPLORABLE AND CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE."

KENNEDY SAID OFFICIAL ESTIMATES PUT THE NUMBER OF NEW REFUGEES AT SOME 1,252,000 SINCE APRIL. OF THIS YEAR BUT HIS SUBCOMMITTEE PUTS THE NUMBER AT CLOSER TO TWO MILLION.

AND HE SAID HIS SUBCOMMITTEE ESTIMATES PUT THE CURRENT RATE OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES AT SOME 15,000 A MONTH--FOR A TOTAL OF SOME 200,000 SINCE JANUARY, INCLUDING UP TO 65,000 DEATHS.

KENNEDY SAID THAT OFFICIAL FIGURES ON WAR VICTIMS ARE "GROSSLY UNDERSTATED AND FAIL TO REFLECT THE FULL DIMENSION OF THE DEEPENING TRAGEDY WHICH THE WAR IS BRINGING TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM AND ALL OF INDOCHINA." (END)

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PERCY
BY FDITH M. LEFRER

SAIGON, DEC. 5 (AP)-- A PROMINENT U.S. SENATOR PREDICTED TUESDAY THAT A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT WILL BE SIGNED THIS MONTH AND AN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS WILL BEGIN BEFORE THE NEW YEAR.

SENATOR CHARLES H. PERCY, AN ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN, SAID HE BELIEVES THE CURRENT NEGOTIATING SESSION IN PARIS IS 'I TRUST THE FINAL TALKS' AND THAT 'WE ARE GOING TO FIND PEACE IN THIS AREA AT LONG LAST.'

AT A NEWS CONFERENCE BEFORE FLYING TO BANGKOK, PERCY SAID: 'IT WOULD BE MY HOPE THAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK FORWARD TO, BY THE END OF THIS MONTH, THE BEGINNING OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CEASE-FIRE, THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS AND ALL OF THOSE OTHER STEPS THAT HAVE TO BE TAKEN NOW.'

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HE REFUSED TO PICK A CEASE-FIRE DATE, COMMENTING: 'I SAID THIS MONTH AND I AM OPTIMISTIC...CONGRESS RECONVENED JAN. 5 AND THERE'S EVERY REASON TO FEEL THIS WILL BE A FAIT ACOMPLISHED BY THEM.'

DURING HIS TWO-DAY STAY HERE, PERCY MET WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR FLISWORTH BUNKER AND SPENT 45-MINUTES WITH SOUTH VIETNAM'S FOREIGN MINISTER TRAN VAN LAM.

HE REFUSED TO COMMENT ON WHAT LAM SAID ABOUT THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE SIGNING A CEASE-FIRE PACT. LAM HAS SAID PUBLICLY THAT THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE WILL NOT SIGN UNLESS ALL NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM THE SOUTH.

PERCY SAID HE TOLD LAM THAT IF THE QUESTION OF PRESIDENT NIXON'S EFFORTS TO END THE WAR WAS PUT TO A VOTF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 'THERE WOULD BE A 99 PER CENT MANDATE BY REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES ACROSS THE BOARD THAT OUR DESIRE FOR PEACE IS VERY GREAT.'

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FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA (UPI)--ATTORNEY'S FOR LT. WILLIAM L.
CALLEY ARGUED TODAY THAT THE SOLDIERS MURDER CONVICTION SHOULD
BE REVERSED ON GROUNDS HE BORE NO MALICE TO THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

SLAUGHTERED DURING THE 1968 MY LAI MASSACRE.

"CALLEY DID NOT KNOW THAT WHAT HE WAS DOING WAS MURDER," CAPT. J.
HOUSTON GORDON TOLD THE COURT OF MILITARY
REVIEW."... HE VIEWED HIS ACT AS DOING HIS DUTY, AS OBEIDENCE,
HE HAD TO INTENT OF KILLING ENEMY, THERE WAS NO MALICE, THERFORE
THERE CAN BE NO MURDER.

CALLEY'S LAWYERS--CIVILIAN GOEORGE LATIMER AND GORDON, ONE
OF TWO ARMY CAPTAINS ASSIGNED TO ASSIT HIM--WENT BEFORE THE THREE
JUDGE REVIEW TRIBUNAL TO DEMAND THAT THE 29-YEAR-OLD OFFICER
BE SET FREE BECAUSE OF 32 ALLEGED LEGAL ERRORS IN THE COURT
MARTIAL THAT SENTENCED HIM TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT MARCH 31, 1971
FOR THE SLAYING OF AT LEAST 22 VILLAGERS AT MY LAI, VIETNAM, MARCH
16 1968.

THEY CHARGED THAT PRE-TRIAL PUBLICITY AND STATEMENTS FROM TOP
U.S. OFFICIALS AFTER THE DETAILS OF THE MASSACRE BUEST INTO PRINT
TURNED CALLEY INTO THE "FALL MAN OF MY LAI" AND MADE A FAIR TRIAL
IMPOSSIBLE.

"COMMAND INFLUENCE PERMEATES THIS ENTIRE CASE," GORDON SAID.
CONTENDING THAT ACTIONS OF TOP CIVILIAN AND MILITARY OFFICIALS
FROM PRESIDENT NIXON ON DOWN VIRTUALLY DICTATED THE COURT MARTIAL'S
VERDICT.

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1ST ADD CALLEY FALLS CHURCH PLA059 X X X VERDICT.

THE OFFICER TOLD THE THREE JUDGES

THAT LOWER RANKING OFFICERS AT FT. BENNING "DID NOT HAVE TO BE BEATEN
IN THE FACE TO GET THE POINT," THE COMMAND STRUCTURE, HE SAID
WANTED CALLEY CONVICTED TO CLEANSE THE ARMY'S HANDS OF THE AFFAIR
AND THE OFFICERS WHO SERVED ON THE COURT MARTIAL WERE AFRAID
TO BUCK THE ORDERS FROM "UPSTAIRS."

GORDON QUOTED ONE FT. BENNING COLONEL INVOLVED IN THE COURT
MARTIAL AS SAYING HE WOULD BE "A FOOL OR A JACKASS IF HE DIDN'T DO
WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTED."

UNDER THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE, THE REVIEW COURT
PROCEEDING IS AUTOMITC. BUT THERE WAS NOTHING ROUTINE ABOUT
MONDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. THE COURT ALLOCATED SIX HOURS FOR ORAL
ARGUMENTS IN THE CASE, INSTEAD OF THE USUAL HOUR. BOTH SIDES SUBMITTED
VOLUMIOUS BRIEFS--247 PAGES FOR THE PROSECUTION AND 461 FOR THE
DEFENSE.

BECAUSE OF ALL THE LEGAL GROUNDWORK, IT HAS TAKEN 20 MONTHS
SINCE CALLEY'S CONVICTION FOR THE CASE TO REACH ITS FIRST STEP IN THE
APPEALS PROCESS.

AMONG THE OPTIONS FOR THE REVIEW COURT IS TO ORDER A NEW TRIAL,
OR REDUCE CALLEY'S SENTENCE, WHICH ALREADY WAS LOWERED BY THE
COMMANDING OFFICER AT FT. BENNING TO 20 YEARS.

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URGENT

INDOCHINA WRAPUP

BY DENNIS NELFD

SAIGON (AP)--GOVERNMENT TROOPS AGAIN FLUNG BACK

ASSAULTS AGAINST THEIR DEFENSIVE POSITIONS NORTH OF KONTUM CITY
IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF SOUTH VIETNAM, THE SAIGON COMMAND
REPORTED TUESDAY.

BUT FIELD REPORTS SAID 65 SOUTH VIETNAMESE INFANTRYMEN WERE
MISSING AFTER ONE BATTLE, INDICATING THAT THEIR POSITION MAY HAVE
BEEN OVERRUN.

TWO SOUTH VIETNAMESE FIREBASES, FOUR AND SEVEN MILES FROM KONTUM,
HAVE COME UNDER REPEATED GROUND AND ARTILLERY ATTACK IN THE LAST
SEVERAL DAYS.

AN ARMY COMMUNIQUE REPORTED NORTH VIETNAMESE FORCES SHIELFD
AND THEN LAUNCHED A GROUND ASSAULT AGAINST THE OUTER DEFENSES
OF THE BIG NGO TRANG BASE CAMP MONDAY.

'THE ENEMY WAS REPULSED, LEAVING BEHIND 65 DEAD AND 16 ASSORTED
WAPONS,' SAID THE COMMUNIST. GOVERNMENT CASUALTIES WERE PUT AT
FOUR KILLED AND 15 WOUNDED.

THE PREVIOUS DAY, 62 COMMUNIST-LFD TROOPS WERE REPORTED KILLED
IN A SERIES OF FIREFIGHTS AROUND NGO TRANG.

COMMUNIST GUNNERS FIRED 40 ARTILLERY AND MORTAR ROUND INTO
FIREBASE NOVEMBER, CLOSER TO KONTUM, ACCORDING TO FIELD REPORTS.
'EVERY DAY WE GET INCOMING AT NOVEMBER,' SAID ONE SOUTH VIETNAMESE
OFFICER.

A THIRD ATTACK MONDAY WAS LAUNCHED AGAINST A SOUTH VIET-
NAMESE OUTPOST NINE MILES NORTH OF KONTUM, ACCORDING TO FIELD
REPORTS. FIFTEEN NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS WERE SAID TO HAVE BEEN
KILLED BUT 35 GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS WERE LISTED AS MISSING. THE
FATE OF THE OUTPOST IS UNCLEAR.

(MORE)

SAIGON -- INDOCHINA WRAPUP 2

KONTUM, WHICH HELD AGAINST FEROCIOUS ATTACKS EARLY IN THE
COMMUNIST OFFENSIVE LAST APRIL, LIES 27 MILES FROM WHERE THE
BORDERS OF CAMBODIA, LAOS AND SOUTH VIETNAM COME TOGETHER AND THE
AREA IS FASTLY ACCESSIBLE TO COMMUNIST SUPPLIES AND REINFORCEMENTS.

THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE TWO REGIMENTS IN THE
KONTUM REGION BUT ONE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY DEPILED
BY CASUALTIES AND U.S. MILITARY SOURCES DO NOT BELIEVE THE
CITY IS THREATENED.

TWELVE B52 STRIKES WERE MOUNTED AGAINST COMMUNIST TROOP CONCEN-
TRATIONS AND STAGING AREAS IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, ALONG THE
CAMBODIAN BORDER, DURING THE 18 HOURS ENDING AT 8 A.M. TUESDAY, THE
U.S. COMMAND REPORTED.

MORE THAN 30 OF THE GIANT STRATOFORTRESSES HIT THE NORTH VIET-
NAMESE FURTHER NORTH IN QUANG TRI PROVINCE WHERE A COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
BY GOVERNMENT MARINES AND PARATROOPERS HAS BEEN BOGGED DOWN BY
RAIN AND MUD.

SUPPLY CACHES AROUND THE NORTH VIETNAMESE PORT OF DONG HOI,
27 MILES ABOVE THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE, WERE HIT BY 12 B52 STRIKES,
THE U.S. COMMAND ANNOUNCED.

(END)

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CHINA-JAPAN

TOKYO (AP)-COMMUNIST CHINA AND JAPAN WILL ESTABLISH
EMBASSIES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CAPITALS NEXT MONTH AND
EXCHANGE AMBASSADORS PROBABLY COMING APRIL, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
REPORTED TUESDAY IN A DISPATCH FROM PEKING.

THE JAPANESE NEWSPAPER ATTRIBUTED ITS INFORMATION TO
JAPANESE DEPUTY FOREIGN VICE MINISTER FUMIHIKO TOGO
WHO IS NOW IN THE CHINESE CAPITAL DISCUSSING THE MATTER
WITH CHINESE OFFICIALS.

CHINA AND JAPAN ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS SEPT. 29.
BEFORE THAT JAPAN MAINTAINED DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH NATIONALIST
CHINA.

THERE WAS NO COMMENT FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTRY IN TOKYO ON
THE ASAHI REPORT.

TOGO AND A DELEGATIXLOF JAPANESE OFFICIALS REPRESENTING
OTHER GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES HAVE BEEN IN CHINA THE PAST WEEK
DISCUSSING DETAILS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMBASSIES,
AND SUBJECTS RELATING TO TRADE AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE
TWO COUNTRIES.

THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THE COMMUNIST CHINESE WILL EVENTUALLY
TAKE OVER GROUNDS WHERE THE NATIONALIST EMBASSY WAS LOCATED
AND MAKE USE OF IT FOR THERE MISSION.

NATIONALIST CHINA AND JAPAN HAVE ESTABLISHED CIVIC
ORGANIZATIONS IN TAIPEI AND TOKYO TO SERVE AS UNOFFICIAL
DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS BETWEEN THEIR COUNTRIES.

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CHINA-CHARTER

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - MAINLAND CHINA CHARGED MONDAY
NIGHT THAT THE SOVIET UNION 'AIMED AT GAGGING' U.N. MEMBERS
WHO WANT TO DISCUSS REVISING THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER.

CHINESE DELEGATE PI CHI-LUNG ADDRESSED THE GENERAL AS FMBLY'S
LEGAL COMMITTEE IN SUPPORT OF A PHILIPPINE-AUTHORED PROPOSAL.
FOR A THOROUGHGOING REVIEW OF THE 27-YEAR-OLD CHARTER, HE
LINED UP ON THE ISSUE AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, THE UNITED
STATES, BRITAIN AND FRANCE, THE OTHER FOUR BIG POWERS WITH
A SECURITY COUNCIL, VETO.

PI CHI-LUNG DID NOT NAME THE SOVIET UNION BUT HE REFERRED
TO A SPECIFIC STATEMENT SOVIET AMBASSADOR JAKOB MALIK HAD
MADE TO THE SAME COMMITTEE LAST THURSDAY IN OPPOSING CHARTER
REVIEW.

WHEN CHARTER REVISION COMES UP, PI CHI-LUNG SAID, 'CERTAIN
PEOPLE FLY INTO A RAGE, SHOUTING THAT THE MERE RAISING OF
THE QUESTION LEADS TO THE UNDERMINING OF THE POLITICAL AND
LEGAL STRENGTH OF THE ORGANIZATION AND ITS MORAL, PRESTIGE
... SUCH ARBITRARY assertions are UNFOUNDED AND UNCONVINCING
AND ... OBVIOUSLY AIMED AT GAGGING ALL MEMBERS STATES,' HE
ADDED.

MALIK HAD SAID '...THE MERE RAISING OF THE QUESTION ABOUT
A REVISION OR ABOUT A NEED FOR SUCH A REVISION ... EXPRESSES
DOUBT AS TO THE CORRECTNESS OF THE CHARTER AND, THEREFORE,
LEADS TO THE UNDERMINING OF ITS POLITICAL AND LEGAL STRENGTH
AND ITS MORAL PRESTIGE....'

THE CHINESE DELEGATES SAID ALL U.N. MEMBERS-LARGE AND SMALL-SHOULD
BE ON AN EQUAL FOOTING AND 'IT IS IMPERMISSIBLE FOR SOME
TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF SUPERPOWERS, LORDING IT OVER THE OTHERS.
THE U.N. CHARTER IS NOT SOME UNALIERRABLE ETERNAL LAW OR RELIGIOUS
PRECEPT...'

(FND)

0411688 12-05

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FAST GERMAN-U.N.

BY FORD BURKHART

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - THE FIRST FAST GERMAN OFFICIAL EVER AT THE UNITED NATIONS CAME TO TOWN WITH CARTONS OF PHONOGRAPH RECORDS.

AN FASY-GOING ARCHAFOLOGIST, DR. HORT FRUNERT COMBINES SENTIMENTAL MUSIC WITH HIS DIPLOMACY.

IN HIS COLLECTION ARE STRAUSS WALTZS, TEMPERED WITH STAVINSKY AND OTHER GERMAN AND RUSSIAN COMPOSERS OF THE CURRENT CENTURY.

IN BERLIN, THE 44-YEAR-OLD CAREER DIPLOMAT ONCE HEADED THE CULTURAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY.

DIPLOMATIC ASSIGNMENTS TOOK HIM TO POLAND, THEN TO DAMASCUS AS CONSUL GENERAL WHERE HE SEARCHED THE DESERTS FOR ANCIENT SECRETS.

HE FOUND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATING EVENTS IN THOSE SAME MIDDLE EAST DESERTS WHEN HE ARRIVED FOR HIS FIRST SESSION MONDAY.

GRUNERT TOOK A SEAT BESIDE THE SIX OTHER U.N. OBSERVERS INCLUDING WEST GERMANY-HERE SINCE 1953, BANGLADESH, SOUTH KOREA, SOUTH VIETNAM, SWITZERLAND, MONACO AND THE VATICAN. (MORE)

UNITED NATIONS - FAST GERMAN-U.N. 2

GRUNERT, THE SON OF A CARPENTER, MOVED INTO DELMONICO'S HOTEL ON PARK AVENUE, A POSH OLD BUILDING IN NEW YORK'S CULTURAL DISTRICT.

HE IS MARRIED TO A SCHOOL TEACHER AND IS THE FATHER OF FOUR CHILDREN, RANGING IN AGE FROM 12 TO 20 YEARS. HIS ELDEST GIRL, STUDIES FRENCH.

GRUNERT'S WORKING LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH. HOLDER OF A DOCTORATE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM BERLIN'S INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, GRUNERT WAS RESEARCH DIRECTOR AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY IN BERLIN WHEN HE WAS PICKED TO OPEN HIS COUNTRY'S FIRST U.N. OFFICE.

• HE'S NOT SUCH A SERIOUS TYPE. HE HAS AN OPTIMISTIC NATURE, SAID A MEMBER OF HIS FIVE-MAN STAFF.

GRUNERT'S WORK HERE WILL CENTER ON PREPARING FOR IMPFECTED ADMISSION OF FAST AND WEST GERMAN IN THE FALL OF 1943.

HE HAS SPENT HIS CAREER IN HIGH CIRCLES OF THE SOVIET-LOCK BERLIN GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING A FEW YEARS AS PERSONAL AIDE TO FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER DR. IOTHAR BOLZ.

IN HIS FIRST DAY ON THE JOB, GRUNERT PAID A VISIT MONDAY TO SECRETARY-GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM, AN AUSTRIAN, AND LISTENED TO A SPEECH IN THE ASSEMBLY BY CHILEAN PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLENDI, A MARXIST.

GRUNERT HAD NOT BEEN IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK SUNDAY NIGHT.

THE UNITED STATES HAS NO DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH FAST GERMANY, AND GRANTING OF U.S. VISAS TO HIS TEAM OF DIPLOMATS WAS A KEY STEP IN ALLOWING THE FAST GERMANS TO QUALIFY AS U.N. OBSERVERS. (END)

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PAY LP SECURE

BY BJOEEN F. HOEIJER

HELSINKI (UPI)--EUROPE'S SMALL AND NON-ALIGNED NATIONS SAID THEY
EXPECTED ANY FUTURE SECURITY SYSTEM EMERGING FROM A FULL-FLEGGED
EUROPEAN SECURITY CONFERENCE TO RESPECT NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
AND NEUTRALITY.

THE SMALL NATIONS STET WITH FORCEFUL VOICES AGAINST
BIG POWER DOMINANCE AT THE 34 NATIONS TALKS PREPARING THE
CONFERENCE PROPER.

ROMANIA, YUGOSLAVIA, NORWAY, DENMARK, SWEDEN, IRELAND,
ICELAND AND LIECHTENSTEIN HAVE ALL MADE CLEAR THEY HAVE COME
TO THE TALKS AS INDEPENDENT NATIONS ON EQUAL FOOTING WITH THE
BIG POWERS TO CONSTRUCT A SCHEME FOR PEACE AND SECURITY
IN EUROPE AND HAPPINESS FOR THEIR PEOPLE.

WHEN THE GENERAL DEBATE WINS UP TODAY, TWO NEUTRALS, AUSTRIA
AND FINLAND ARE SURE TO BRING UP THE ISSUES AGAIN, DIPLOMATS SAID.

THE TALKS RESUME AT 10:30 A.M. (0832GMT) WITH CYPRUS,
SPAIN, MALTA, HUNGARY AND THE TWO VOICED NEUTRALS SCHEDULED
TO SPEAK.

BOTH THE PRINCIPAL POWERS THE UNITED STATES AND THE
SOVIET UNION HAVE SO FAR PLAYED LOW KEYED ROLES.

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THE UNITED STATES IN HER DECLARATION MONDAY LISTED

AS THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES FOR SUBSEQUENT FORMAL NEGOTIATIONS:

--GENERALLY ACCEPTED PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL BEHAVIOR
SHOULD APPLY, WITHOUT QUALIFICATION, TO RELATIONS BETWEEN ALL
STATES AND MEASURES WHICH COULD BUILD CONFIDENCE THAT
MILITARY MOVEMENTS AND MANEUVERS WILL NOT CREATE INSTABILITY OR
MISUNDERSTANDING.

--REMOVAL OF SOME OF THE REAL IMPEDIMENTS TO FREER CONTACTS
AMONG PEOPLE'S AND A GREATER EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS.

SHE ALSO PROPOSED CLOSER ECONOMIC, SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL
COOPERATION.

ESSENTIALLY THE AMERICAN POSITION PRESENTED BY AMBASSADOR
VAL PETERSON ECHOED AN AGREED ALLIED APPROACH TO THE CONFERENCE.

AMERICA LIKE OTHER WESTERN POWERS AND NEUTRALS WARNED AGAINST

"TAKING THE PATH OF THE LAST RESISTANCE AND TO CONFINE
OURSELVES TO SEEKING AGREEMENT ONLY ON ARRANGEMENTS FOR AN EVENTUAL
CONFERENCE."

"TO DO THIS WOULD BE TO MISS THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE US
TO PREPARE FOR A CONFERENCE WHICH CAN HAVE MEANINGFUL RESULTS,"
PETERSON SAID.

HE SAID ONCE THE NATIONS HAVE REACHED SUFFICIENT AGREEMENT
ON MATTERS OF SUBSTANCE IT WOULD BE TIME TO TURN THE ATTENTION
TO THE LEVEL AND VENUE OF THE CONFERENCE ITSELF.

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THE AMERICAN PROPOSAL CONFLICTED WITH THE KREMLIN'S CALL
FOR A EUROPEAN SECURITY SYSTEM TO BE BUILT IN THREE PHASES:
THROUGH A MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE, COMMITTEE WORKS AND A "MEETING
ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL TO ENDORSE IT."

THE SOVIET UNION ALSO CALLED FOR A SET OF PRINCIPLES
TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN STATES OF EUROPE, BROADENING
OF TRADE, ECONOMIC, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL RELATIONS AND
COOPERATION IN THE DOMAIN OF PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT.

THE SOVIET UNION SECOND BY SOME OF HER PARTNERS, ALSO
PROPOSED CREATION OF A PERMANENT COUNCIL FOR SECURITY AND
COOPERATION TO OVERSEE THAT A PEACE SYSTEM IS NOT BEING VIOLATED.

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NEW YORK (AP)-COMMENTING ON A SPEECH BY PRESIDENT SALVADOR
ALFONSO OF CHILE AT THE U.N. MONDAY, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE
INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION HERE SAID THAT
"ITT HAS NEVER INTERVENED ON INTERFERRED INTO THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
OF CHILE IN ANY WAY".

THE ITT SPOKESMAN STRONGLY DENIED THAT THERE WERE ANY FACTS
"TO SUPPORT SUCH A CHAGRE".

"ITT HAS BEEN INTERESTED ONLY IN THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF
ITS EMPLOYEES IN CHILE AND IN RECEIVING JUST COMPENSATION FOR THOSE
ASSETS WHICH THEY CHILEAN GOVERNMENT MIGHT ACQUIRE.

"THE RECORD SHOWS THAT OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS ITT HAS ALWAYS
RESPECTED A HOST COUNTRY'S DESIRE TO NATIONALIZE AN ITT
PROPERTY. THIS HAS BEEN TRUE IN ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, MEXICO AND
PERU," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

"MUTUALLY SATISFACTORY NEGOTIATIONS AND PAYMENT OF JUST
COMPENSATIONS HAVE CHRACTERIZED ALL SUCH NATIONALIZATIONS.

"AS A MATTER OF FACT, ITT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF FORMER
CHILEAN PRESIDENT EDUARDO FREI HAD ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT IN
1967 WHEREBY A PROGRESSIVELY INCREASING SHARE OF THE CHILEAN
TELEPHONE COMPANY OWNERSHIP WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CHILEAN
GOVERNMENT.

"HOWEVER, WHEN IN OCTOBER 1971, THE PRESENT CHILEAN GOVERNMENT
ASSUMED CONTROL OF THE CHILEAN TELEPHONE COMPANY WITHOUT PAYMENT
OF ANY COMPENSATION, IT CLEARLY VIOLATED ESTABLISHED RULES OF
INTERNATIONAL LAWS.

"ITT REGREETS THAT THESE UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS HAVE AGAIN BEEN
AIRVED AND THE CORPORATION STILL HOPEST THAT A MUTUALLY
SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED." (END)
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WASHINGTON (AP)-AFTER 10 YEARS OF PROTRACTED HAGGLING,
THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION SIGNED AN AGREEMENT
MONDAY ON THE BUILDING OF NEW FMBASSISTS IN WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW.

THE AGREEMENT, SIGNED BY ASST. SECRETARY OF STATE WALTER
J. STOFSSON AND BY AMBASSADOR ANATOLY F. DOBRYNIN, WAS THE
101ST PACT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES SINCE THEY ESTABLISHED
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS IN 1955. ALMOST HALF OF THEM, 42, WERE
CONCLUDED DURING THE FOUR YEARS OF THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION
AMBASSADOR DOBRYNIN SAID IN BRIEF REMARKS AT A STATE DEPARTMENT
CEREMONY.

"WE DESPERSATELY NEEDED NEW FMBASSISTS, ONLY THOSE WHO WORK
THERE WILL REALLY APPRECIATE THIS," STOFSSON SAID.

THE BUILDING OF NEW FMBASSISTS, DOBRYNIN SAID, SHOULD BE THE
PROOF OF "BUILDING NEW RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES."

FINDING NEW AND ADEQUATE SITES IN THE TWO CAPITALS AND U.S.
INSISTENCE ON HAVING COMPLETE CONTROL OVER CONSTRUCTION WORK
IN MOSCOW CAUSED THE LONG DELAY.

THE SOVIET FMBASSY WILL BE BUILT ON SOME 13 ACRES ON WISCONSIN
AVENUE, THE SITE OF THE FORMER MT. ALTO VETERANS HOSPITAL.
THE U.S. FMBASSY WILL BE CONSTRUCTED ON A 10 1/2 - ACRE PLOT
ON KONYUSHHKOVSKAYA STREET IN MOSCOW.

BOTH COUNTRIES GUARANTEED TO THE OTHER AN 85-YEAR LEASE FREE
OF CHARGE. THIS ALSO INCLUDES SPASO HOUSE, THE RESIDENCE OF
U.S. AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW OCCUPYING 1.55 ACRES. (END)
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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS (UPI)--ARMY GEN. OSWALDO LOPEZ ARELLANO SEIZED PICTORIAL POWER IN HONDURAS FOR THE THIRD TIME IN 16 YEARS MONDAY BY OUSTING THE CIVILIAN PRESIDENT AND GOVERNMENT IN A BLOODLESS COUP D'ETAT, HONDURAN RADIO REPORTED.

THE OVERTHROW OF CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT RAMON ERNESTO CRUZ WAS ACCOMPLISHED SO QUIETLY THAT THERE WERE NO ARRESTS, NO REFUGEES SEEKING ASYLUM IN ANY EMBASSIES AND NO INTERRUPTION IN THE DAILY LIFE OF THIS CAPITAL OF 200,000.

HONDURAN RADIOS UNDER DIRECTION OF THE NEW MILITARY GOVERNMENT SIMPLY ANNOUNCED IN THE EARLY MORNING BROADCASTS THAT LOPEZ HAD SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED OUT A COUP.

THE BROADCASTS SAID CRUZ, 69, WHO WAS ELECTED LAST YEAR, WAS SAFE IN HIS HOME WITH HIS CHILDREN. HIS WIFE, LUZ MARINA, IS IN MIAMI, FLORIDA ON A PERSONAL VISIT.

LOPEZ, 49, WHO PREVIOUSLY HAD TAKEN POWER WITH COUPS IN 1956 AND 1963, BANNED ALL POLITICAL MEETINGS AND RALLIES AFTER OUSTING CRUZ BUT MADE NO OTHER IMMEDIATE CHANGES. TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATIONS WERE CUT DURING THE MORNING BUT RESTORED DURING THE AFTERNOON.

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BUENOS AIRES (UPI)--THE CHIEF OF FORMER PRESIDENT JUAN D. PERON'S POLITICAL PARTY WARNED MONDAY OF THE POSSIBILITY OF CIVIL WAR IF THE ARMED FORCES CONTINUE TO MOVE AGAINST PERONIST DEMONSTRATIONS SUCH AS ONE SUNDAY IN WHICH A TEEN-AGER WAS KILLED.

THE DEMONSTRATION WAS THE FIRST VIOLENT CLASH BETWEEN POLICE AND PERONISTS SINCE PERON RETURNED LAST MONTH FROM 17 YEARS IN EXILE.

"WE WARN THE ARMED FORCES THAT, IF THEY CONTINUE WITH THIS VIOLENCE, THEY WILL LEAP US INTO WAR," SAID JUAN MANUEL ABAL MEDINA, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE JUSTICIALISTA PARTY, IN A BRIEF STATEMENT OUTSIDE PERON'S HOME.

POLICE USED TEAR GAS TO BREAK UP A DEMONSTRATION BY SOME 700 PERONIST YOUTHS CALLED TO COMMEMORATE THE 1970 DEATHS OF TWO PERONIST EXTREMISTS, WHO WERE KILLED IN A SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE, TRYING TO ARREST THEM AS SUSPECTS IN A MURDER AND KIDNAPING.

ONE OF THE EXPLODING TEAR GAS GRENADES FATALLY WOUNDED ONE OF THE DEMONSTRATORS, RAMON CESARIS, 18, IN SUNDAY'S DEMONSTRATION. A COMMUNIQUE SAID 15 POLICEMEN WERE INJURED IN THE DEMONSTRATION.

ABAL MEDINA TOLD NEWSMEN IN FRONT OF PERON'S HOME THE PERONIST YOUTHS HAD ASSEMBLED TO PLACE WREATHS OF FLOWERS AT THE SITE WHERE HIS BROTHER, FERNANDO LUIS, AND GUSTAVO RAMUS WERE KILLED IN THE SHOOTOUT IN SEPTEMBER 1970.

"THEY ONLY WANTED TO PAY HOMAGE TO TWO VALIENT, FALLEN COMRADES, MY BROTHER AND GUSTAVO RAMUS," SAID THE JUSTICIALISTA PARTY LEADER. "THEY WERE VIOLENTLY AND TREACHEROUSLY REPRESSED. ONE DIED. WE REPUDIATE THE BARBARITY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

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BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND (UPI)--BRITISH TROOPS KILLED A GUNMAN IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC AREA OF BELFAST DURING THE NIGHT IN THE FOURTH FATAL SHOOTING IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN THREE DAYS.

A MILITARY SPOKESMAN SAID THE GUNMAN WAS SHOT LATE MONDAY NIGHT AFTER AN ARMY SARACEN ARMORED CAR CAME UNDER FIRE IN THE ARDOYNE DISTRICT. COMRADES LATER TOOK HIS BODY TO THE CITY'S CATHOLIC MATER HOSPITAL.

THE OTHER THREE VICTIMS, TWO PROTESTANTS AND A CATHOLIC, WERE SLAIN IN SECTARIAN KILLINGS DURING THE WEEKEND IN THE CITY'S PREDOMINANTLY PROTESTANT EASTERN DISTRICT.

THE FOUR DEATHS BROUGHT NORTHERN IRELAND'S THREE-AND-HALF YEAR FATALITY TOLL TO 650. THE THREE SECTARIAN KILLINGS BOOSTED THE YEAR'S TOTAL OF REVENGE ASSASSINATIONS AMONG THE MAJORITY PROTESTANT AND MINORITY CATHOLIC COMMUNITIES TO 104.

VIOLENCE GENERALLY SUBSIDED ELSEWHERE IN THE PROVINCE MONDAY IN THE WAKE OF NEW LEGISLATION ENACTED IN THE IRISH REPUBLIC AGAINST THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY (IRA).

IN DUBLIN POLICE SOURCES SAID SECURITY FORCES, THERE HAVE ISSUED POLICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND OTHER PARTS OF BRITAIN WITH LISTS OF SUSPECTED IRA MEMBERS WANTED FOR QUESTIONING IN THE REPUBLIC.

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THE LEGISLATION, SIGNED INTO LAW SUNDAY, IS AIMED AT PREVENTING THE IRA FROM USING THE REPUBLIC AS A BASE FROM WHICH TO WAGE ITS BOMBING AND SHOOTING CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH.

THE IRA SEEKS TO UNITE THE PREDOMINANTLY PROTESTANT PROVINCE WITH THE MAINLY CATHOLIC SOUTH.

PROMINENT IRA MEMBERS WENT UNDERGROUND IN THE REPUBLIC SHORTLY BEFORE THE BILL BECAME LAW. POLICE IN THE REPUBLIC HAVE MADE NO MOVE YET TO SEEK THEM OUT.

IN LONDON GOVERNMENT SOURCES SAID POLICE HAVE STEPPED UP SECURITY AT AIR AND SEAPORTS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT IRA MEMBERS FROM SEEKING SANCTUARY THERE FROM THE EXPECTED ROUNDUP IN THE REPUBLIC.

THE SOURCES SAID BRITISH HOME SECRETARY ROBERT CARR HAS ASKED AIPES FOR A REPORT ON WHETHER HIS LEGAL POWERS ARE SUFFICIENT TO PREVENT IRA MEMBERS FROM USING BRITAIN AS A REFUGE. THE IRA IS NOT ILLEGAL IN BRITAIN, ALTHOUGH IT HAS LONG BEEN OUTLAWED IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE IRISH REPUBLIC.

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UNITED NATIONS (UPI)--U.S. AMBASSADOR GEORGE BUSH WENT BEFORE
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TODAY TO URGE WHAT DIPLOMATS TERMED
MODERATION IN DEALING WITH THE MIDDLE EAST.

THE ASSEMBLY HOPED TO WIND UP GENERAL DEBATE ON THE MIDDLE
EAST BY THURSDAY BEFORE VOTING ON ANY RESOLUTION THAT
MIGHT BE PLACED BEFORE IT. COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RAPHA KRISHNA
RAMPHUL OF MAURITIUS LISTED AT LEAST 48 SPEAKERS AWAITING
THEIR TURN IN THE GENERAL DISCUSSION.

BUSH WAS EXPECTED TO COUNSEL AGAINST ADOPTION OF ANYTHING
AS STRINGENT AS A NON-ALIGNED POWER'S DRAFT RESOLUTION IN
CIRCULATION FOR SEVERAL DAYS BUT NOT YET FORMALLY SUBMITTED
TO THE 132-NATION COMMITTEE, DIPLOMATS SAID.

THE DRAFT RESOLUTION DIPLORES ISRAEL'S FAILURE TO COMPLY
WITH PAST RESOLUTIONS OR TO RESPOND FAVORABLE TO INITIATIVES
INPORTAKEN BY SWEDISH AMBASSADOR GUNNAR V. JARRING, SPECIAL
U.N. PEACE ENVOY TO THE MIDDLE EAST.

IT DECLARES ANY CHANGES IN THE STATUS OR STRUCTURE OF ARAB
TERRITORIES OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS
ILLEGAL AND URGES ALL COUNTRIES NOT TO RECOGNIZE SUCH
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THE NON-ALIGNED PROPOSAL:

--CALLS FOR THE "IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL" WITHDRAWAL OF
ISRAELI FORCES FROM ARAB TERRITORIES OCCUPIED IN THE SIX-DAY
WAR OF 1967.

--URGES ALL COUNTRIES TO WITHHOLD MILITARY OR OTHER
ASSISTANCE THAT WOULD ENABLE ISRAEL TO CONTINUE ITS OCCUPATION
OR EXPLOIT THE RESOURCES OF THE ARAB TERRITORIES.

--REQUESTS THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO TAKE "ALL APPROPRIATE
MEASURES" TO ASSURE THAT THE CEASE-FIRE RESOLUTION OF NOV. 22,
1967--THE BASIC U.N. BLUEPRINT FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE--BE
CARRIED OUT, INCLUDING REACTIVATION OF THE JARRING MISSION
WHICH HAS BEEN DORMANT SINCE LAST SPRING.

ISRAELI AMBASSADOR YOSEF TEKOAH TOLD JARRING LAST WEEK THAT
IF ANY ACTION WERE TAKEN TO CHANGE THE WORNING OF THE 1967
RESOLUTION, WHICH IS THE BASIS FOR U.N. PEACE EFFORTS IN THE
AREA, ISRAEL WOULD WITHDRAW ITS SUPPORT OF THE MEASURE.

BUSH WAS LISTED AS THE THIRD SPEAKER THIS MORNING AT ABOUT
11:45 A.M. (1645 GMT), PRECEDED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF SPAIN
AND OMAN. HE WAS TO BE FOLLOWED BY DELEGATES OF HUNGARY,
GREECE, ROMANIA, IRAN, INDONESIA, KUWAIT, THE SOVIET UNION,
BELGIUM, FRANCE, POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, CHINA AND CYPRUS,
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Nixon's efforts to find a substitute for Watergate.

Third, is there a Nixon-Kissinger split on what to do⁵ According to the gossip Nixon feels he has Hanoi on the rope and now wants to drive a harder bargain than he got with the October accorda Kissinger supposedly is willing to push hard, but at less risk of losing what he has already accomplished. Few know whether the gossip is true or false, but whichever, it is of little consequence. The operational result is the same. Kissinger returns again to Paris tomorrow not merely to dot the i's and cross the t's, but as part of an effort to reopen the basic terms of agreement.

## Endangering the Accords

IN OTHER WORDS, the United States position has moved from acceptance of ambiguity to pressing for greater precision. This is documentable on the public record. At his Oct. 26 briefing, Kissinger struck the ambiguity theme by calling the arrangement "a compromise settlement in which neither side achieves everything, and in which both parties have the necessity of posturing themselves for their constituency." On Oct. 31, the President began the move to precision when he said he would not be rushed into an agreement that did not offer "the best hope for a lasting peace." Then, on Nov. 2, Mr. Nixon drove the point home: "There are still some provisions of the agreement which must be clarified so that all ambiguities will be removed."

In the process of moving from one horn of the dilemma to the other, the President is endangering the October accords. Both sides are stepping up military activities. Washington has flooded South Vietnam with massive new military equipment. There is evidence that Hanoi has instructed its forces to take advantage of the period between an agreement and the actual cease-fire to launch a series of attacks in the South. Since late October, Thieu has been jailing "suspect Communists" at the rate of hundreds daily.

Negotiating positions are hardening all around. Saigon is insisting, for example, on total and explicit North Vietnamese troop withdrawal from South Vietnam, not just an understanding on partial withdrawals. It wants to see the proposed National Council of Reconciliation and Concord stripped of any power at all.

Washington seems to be supporting the thrust of Saigon's claims, although it is unclear how far it is pressing them. And, according to reports, Hanoi has refused to become less ambiguous on these points. Indeed, it has hardened its terms on other issues. For example, Hanoi now seeks the release of its political supporters in Thieu's jails at the same time it returns the Americans it holds captive—a point not previously covered, and a terribly sticky point, since Thieu would then hold the key to the release of U.S. POWs and have an interest in not using it.

The American effort to bring about greater precision serves several purposes. It is a way to keep Thieu happy, or make him less unhappy, by tilting the terms of agreement more in his favor. If Thieu is screaming about an American sellout, it may spark some serious questioning of the agreement—particularly from the American right wing, but also by those who find in

stinctive pleasure in criticizing anything this administration does. It is also a way of narrowing the chances that any near-term disruption of the agreement by either or both Saigon and Hanoi will necessitate U.S. military reintervention. The period of maximum danger of reinvolvement is the first two years after the agreement. During this period, the President may still feel that American prestige and responsibility remain committed to enforcing the settlement.

## Ambiguity Is the Price

MANY WOULD ARGUE that these purposes are worthy ones. But we should face the fact that whatever our desires for precision, there must and will be important ambiguities in a Vietnam agreement—if there is to be one. Indeed, all Americans should welcome an agreement that is ambiguous on some key points. The imprecision is the price of agreement.

Why? The reason is that there are two kinds of negotiations. One, for example on arms control, involves identifying mutual interests; a high degree of precision is then possible. The other, like the Vietnam negotiations, seeks to strike a balance between interests which are in irreconcilable conflict. Hanoi still seeks the eventual reunification of Vietnam, that is, the completion of the Vietnam revolution of the late 1940s. The Saigon government remains unalterably opposed.

It seems to be a law of diplomacy that in such cases, successful negotiations depend on agreement about carefully devised ambiguities. Any Vietnam agreement which both sides can countenance will have to provide each with some chance for gaining its ends. Indeed, each would want to be able to interpret an agreement as giving it a better than even 'chance of ultimate success, or it won't go along. Hence, the necessity of ambiguity about the future.

This means that Hanoi must insist, at the least, on retaining some measure of imprecision on such key questions as the status of its forces now in the South and the future of the political process there. Anything less would be surrender. While Kissinger may gain some concessions on these or other points (such as a simultaneous Indochina-wide cease-fire and the reinstitution of the DMZ), he will get no iron-clad understanding on the troop withdrawal and political issues. So the "right" agreement on which the President is insisting may not be negotiable. An effort to achieve the "best" may be the enemy of what is good and achievable.

## Some of Both

THUS, THE administration, Saigon and Hanoi should make sure that in their negotiating minutet they do not allow their bargaining on precise terms to destroy the chances for agreement itself. For an agreement such as that worked out in October is in the interests of all concerned.

It gets the United States out of a barbaric war. It gets Hanoi out from under American bombs and diplomatic pressures of Peking and Moscow, while leaving the future open. And it is the best negotiated agreement that Saigon is likely to get. Sal-

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WALL STREET JOURNAL 4 DEC 1972

KISSINGER RETURNED to Paris to resume private peace talks with Hanoi.

Many diplomats believe the talks resuming today will be the White House national security aide's last negotiating session with Hanoi's Le Duc. Theo before an Indochina cease-fire is reached. Before leaving Washington, Kissinger conferred twice by telephone with President Nixon at the Florida White House. Press Secretary Ziegler said Nixon would relay personal instructions to Kissinger while the talks are in progress. Ziegler declined comment on reports that the President has told South Vietnam he will sign the cease-fire by Dec. 15 regardless of whether South Vietnam's President Thieu agrees.

Meanwhile, Hanoi asserted that all of Vietnam is one country and demanded an end to U.S. influence in the South. It accused the U.S. of disregarding a pledge to respect the Vietnamese people's right to self-determination.

Kissinger will continue as the President's assistant for national security affairs, the White House said. Also exempted from the President's announced governmental shake-up are Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, and Chief Domestic Affairs Aide John D. Ehrlichman. One senior adviser, however, is leaving. Charles W. Colson, sometimes referred to as the President's hatchet man, will depart after the staff reorganization is completed.

## THIEU GIRDS FOR CEASE-FIRE BY
DEC. 15 -- CONTINUED

before mid-December. It is apparently feared that once a cease-fire is declared, the Communists will block some roads, making the movement of supplies more difficult.

Orders such as these, geared to a Dec. 15 deadline, have led to heightened speculation that a cease-fire might be signed by that date. But there is still no direct indication from the government that it would be prepared to sign an agreement by that date. There are persisting indications, in fact, that the government would like to postpone the signing beyond that date.

Some of President Thieu's intelligence officers are reported to have told him that if he can hold out longer against a settlement, Saigon's Army can improve its position in the countryside. Government intelligence assessments insist that the Communists are in a weak position, having been badly hurt when they initiated a series of small-scale attacks toward the end of October.

But despite such rosy assessments, many South Vietnamese Army officers appear to lack confidence in the government's ability to cope with a post-cease-fire struggle. "The problem is that on our side, we're not confident that we can face the Communists in a political, social, and economic struggle." said one Saigon informant.

"We are not sure that the masses of the people are with us," he said.

"We feel more confident in our ability to cope with a wartime situation than we do with a peacetime situation."

gon's interest is admittedly at variance with that of the United States and North Vietnam: It would prefer no agreement at all and continued military protection by massive U.S. military forces. But such protection is not in the cards, and an agreement that leaves the future uncertain is better than no agreement and no protection.

In short, in this "final" effort to achieve "precise agreement," the President should not risk what is already accomplished by attempting to achieve more than is possible. He cannot escape from the dilemma between the necessity for ambiguity and the benefits of precision. He will have to settle for some of both. In pressing too hard for a "lasting peace," he could risk getting no peace at all.

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SAIGON (UPI) -- SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARATROOPS WITH ARTILLERY AND ALLIED AIR SUPPORT DESTROYED NINE NORTH VIETNAMESE TANKS TODAY NEAR QUANG TRI CITY FIELD REPORTS SAID.

UPI CORRESPONDENT KENNETH F. ENGLADE, REPORTING FROM DA NANG, SAID HE WAS TOLD THE NINE DESTROYED TAKNS WERE PART OF A NORTH VIETNAMESE COUNTER-ATTACK.

SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARATROOPS SOUTHWEST OF QUANG TRI CITY AND MARINE S

NORTHEAST OF IT HAVE BEEN INCHING AHEAD FOR SIX WEEKS UNDER ORDERS TO REGCAPTURE AS MUCH COMMUNIST-HELP TERRITORY AS POSSIBLE BEFORE ANY STAND-IN-PLACE CEASE-FIRE.

THE TANKS APPARENTLY WERE KNOCKED OUT BY BOTH AIRCRAFT AND ARTILLERY THOUGH DETAILS WERE LACKING, ENGLADE REPORTED. HE SAID THE FIGHTING CENTERED AROUND ARTILLERY BASE ANNE, 12 MILES (19 KILOMETERS) SOUTHWEST OF QUANG TRI CITY.

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IN FOUR SMALL SKIPMISHES TODAY THE MARINES REPORTED KILLING NINE NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS AT A COST OF TWO OF THEIR OWN MEN KILLED AND SEVEN WOUNDED, ENGLADE REPORTED.

IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, COMMUNIST TROOPS SHELLED AND ATTACKED SOUTH VIETNAMESE INFANTRYMEN SIX MILES (NINE KILOMETERS) NORTH OF KONTUM MONPYA.

THE INFANTRYMEN, WITH AIR AND ARTILLERY SUPPORT, REPORTED KILLING 52 COMMUNISTS AT A COAST OF FOUR OF THEIR OWN MEN KILLED AND 15 WOUNDED, FIELD REPORTS SAID.

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THE GOVERNMENT SPONSORED DEMONSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE MEKONG DELTA SOUTH AND WEST OF SAIGON TODAY. OPPOSING ANY COALITION WITH THE COMMUNISTS.

THE DEMONSTRATIONS APPEARED TO BE THE MOST ELABORATE AND HEAVILY ATTENDED YET TO BE SPONSORED BY A GOVERNMENT THAT, IN THE OPINION OF SOME OBSERVERS HERE, IS ONLY BEGINNING TO MOBILIZE PUBLIC OPINION FOR A POSSIBLE CEASE-FIRE.

THE DELTA HAS BEEN HEAVILY INFILTRATED BY THE VIET CONG. BUT MAJOR CITIES AND TOWNS ARE FUIRMLY UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL.

IN PHU VINH, CAPITAL OF VINH BINH PROVINCE, STREAMS OF MARCHERS FROM SCHOOL CHILDREN TO OLD PEOPLE CARRIED BANNERS AND RED AND GOLD SOUTH VIETNAMES FLAGS.

"THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT IS FOR THE PEOPLE-- THE COMMUNISTS ARE AGAINST THE PEOPLE," ONE BANNER SAID. "THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT PROTECTS THE FAMILY," SAID ANOTHER. ELSEWHERE IN THE GROUND WAR, FIGHTING SURGED ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST NEAR QUE SON, 30 MILES (48KILOMETERS) SOUTH OF DA NANG, THE SAIGON COMMAND ANNOUNCED.

SOUTH VIETNAMESE INFANTRYMEN REPORTED THEY KILLED 32 COMMUNISTS AT A COST OF TWO OF THEIR OWN MEN KILLED AND NINE WOUNDED IN FIGHTING MONDAY EVENING, THE COMMAND SAID.

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CANBERRA (UPI) -- EDWARD GOUGH WITLAM, 56, LEADER OF THE LABOR PARTY, WAS SWORN IN TODAY AS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA.

WHITLAM WHO BECOMES AUSTRALIA'S 21ST PRIME MINISTER AND THE EIGHTH LABOR PRIME MINISTER SINCE FEDERATION OF THE STATES IN 1921, WAS SWORN IN BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL SIR PAUL HASLUCK AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE IN CANBERRA.

ALSO SWORN IN DURING THE CEREMONY WAS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER LANCE BARNARD.

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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE AFTER THE CEREMONY WHITLAM SAID HE HAD INITIATED MOVES TOWARD ESTABLISHING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CHINA THROUGH AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO PARIS ALAN RENOUF

RENOUF HAS ARRANGED TO MEET THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO PARIS HUANG CHEN ON THURSDAY. CABLES HAVE GONE TO HIM SUGGESTING THE TERMS FOR FULL DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION BY EACH COUNTRY IN THE OTHER," WHITLAM SAID.

HE SAID THE TERMS WERE BASED ON THE CANADIAN FORMULA OF RECOGNITION WHEREBY CANADA" NOTED" PEKING'S CLAIM TO TAIWAN.

WHITLAM SAID HE HOPED TO VISIT PEKING NEXT OCTOBER.

HE ALSO SAID HE WANTED TO DEVELOP A MORE INDEPENDENT ROLE FOR AUSTRALIA IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS---

"AN AUSTRALIA WHICH WILL BE LESS MILITARY ORIENTATED, AN AUSTRALIA WHICH WILL BE LESS OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS OF RACISM, AN AUSTRALIA WHICH WILL ENJOY A GROWING STANDING AS A DISTINCTIVE TOLERANT, CO-OPERATIVE AND WELL-REGARDED NATION, NOT ONLY IN THE ASIAN AND PACIFIC REGION BUT IN THE WORLD AT LARGE.

WHITLAM SAID HE WOULD NOT CALL THE LABOR PARTY TOGETHER UNTIL DEC. 18, MEANING HE WILL NOT FORM A CABINET UNTIL THEN. IN THE MEANTIME, WHITLAM, THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND THE GOVERNOR GENERAL WILL FORM AN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO RUN THE COUNTRY.

WHITLAM SAID THIS WOULD ALLOW AN IMMEDIATE END OF CONSCRIPTION AND THE RELEASE OF ABOUT 20 MEN IMPRISONED FOR REFUSAL TO SERVE TWO YEARS COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.

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SAIGON (UPI) -- U.S. SEN. CHARLES PERCY (R-ILL) SAID TODAY A VIETNAM PEACE TREATY WOULD BE SIGNED WITHIN A MONTH AND U.S. PRISONERS WOULD BEGIN HEADING HOME.

PERCY, AT A NEWS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING A 24-HOUR STAY IN SAIGON, TOLD REPORTERS, "THE WORLD (CAN) LOOK FORWARD THIS MONTH TO AN END TO THIS TRAGIC EPISODE."

"INTERNATIONAL GUARANTEES" IN THE TREATY AND THE STRENGTH OF SOUTH VIETNAM'S ARMED FORCES WOULD KEEP THE SOUTH SECURE IN FUTURE YEARS, PERCY SAID.

THE SENATOR SAID HE WAS SURE THE PARIS TALKS WOULD BE CONCLUDED "PROBABLY THIS MONTH" AND CERTAINLY NO LATER THAN THE TIME CONGRESS RECONVENES, JAN. 3.

AS SOON AS A PEACE TREATY IS SIGNED, PERCY SAID, U.S. PRISONERS OF WAR WOULD BE FREED FROM NORTH VIETNAM AND BEGIN HEADING BACK TO THE UNITED STATES.

PERCY DESCRIBED HIS TRIP TO SAIGON AS A "PRIVATE VISIT," BUT HE TALKED FOR 32 MINUTES MONDAY WITH FOREIGN MINISTER TRAN BAN LAM. HE ALSO CONFERRED WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR ELLSWORTH BUNKER AND AMERICAN TROOP COMMANDER GEN. FREDERICK WEYAND.

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PARIS (UPI)--NORTH VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES HAVE EVACUATED AN ADDITIONAL NUMBER OF CIVILIANS FROM HANOI AS A SECURITY CAUTION, THE COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER HUMANITE SAID TODAY.

IN A REPORT FROM HANOI, HUMANITE'S NEW CORRESPONDENT THERE, ALAIN WARMES, SAID ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES IN THE SECRET PARIS TALKS IS THE FATE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN SOUTH VIETNAM OF WHOM HE SAID THERE WERE ABOUT 323,000.

"THE WAR IS STILL HERE. IT MAY LAST. DESIDES, IN HANOI, TODAY DEC. 4, NEW MEASURES FOR THE EVACUATION OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION HAVE BEEN PUT INTO EFFECT," HUMANITE SAID IN ITS CABLED PATED MONDAY.

THE NEWSPAPER GAVE NO FURTHER DETAILS.

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JOHN S. KNIGHT, Editorial Chairman

JAMES L. KNIGHT, Chairman

LEE HILLS, Publisher ALVAH H. CHAPMAN, Jr., President

DON SHOEMAKER, Editor H. J. JURGENSMEYER, Gen. Agr.

GEORGE BEEBE, Associate Publisher

LARRY JINKS, Executive Editor

JOHN D. PENNEKAMP, Associate Editor

RON MARTIN, Maringa, Ill.

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EDITORIALS

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As the Man in Co-Charge
Kissinger Has Earned Respect

ON Oct. 26 Henry Kissinger predicted that a settlement was "at hand" in Vietnam, thereby hoisting himself and President Nixon out on a long limb. "At hand" may not equate with instant peace but neither would it seem to extend to five weeks.

Whatever the case, the limb remains in double occupancy. The White House has announced that Dr. Kissinger will be around for an indeterminate time during the second term, and that may mean the duration. While this leaves the Presidential surrogate on foreign affairs hopelessly AWOL from Harvard, it means continuity in White House councils, and we like it.

Henry Kissinger has upset some of the hawks in the Washington aerie by his casual style. They fear that out of the sheer exhaustion of his job he may make some small print concessions to the North Vietnamese inimical to U.S. interests. He has been criticized for appearing to throw off on President Thieu (which oughtn't to be hard to do) in a newspaper interview and for conducting a session of the Paris peace talks in a building owned by the French Communist Party. And, of course, les girls.

The critics forget — or perhaps remember too well — the Kissinger successes in negotiating the new understandings with Russia and China which were the most momentous events of 1972. Dr. Kissinger did the footwork. American businessmen and cultural promotions are doing the rest. The triad has brought the world closer to peace than at any time since 1945.

We regard Dr. Kissinger as an exhibit among President Nixon's talents for delegation of authority, with the right man in the right place. In American history, he is an uncommon man. Woodrow Wilson had his Colonel House, Roosevelt his Harry Hopkins and Judge Rosenman, and Truman his General Vaughan, among others.

Secretaries of State, save for the tragic Dulles era under Eisenhower, exercised varying degrees of influence or none at all in little more than a messenger boy capacity. Henry Kissinger, we think, is an exception because he is a man in co-charge, a power next only to the President.

Since it has been a good year in foreign affairs we are happy to see Mr. Nixon keep this particular specialty team intact. Henry Kissinger has had to sweat it out in the limelight because of the very nature of his power, and he has come through without any serious mistakes of non-humility. We think he has won the right to ask of public opinion a little more patience and the respect it reserves for a proven pro.

Military
Justice

IT IS unrealistic to expect the armed forces to eliminate totally the racial bias that is so much a part of American civilian life. But we agree with the biracial panel that has been studying the problem of discrimination within the military that there is no excuse for bias that is built into the system.

There have been large injections of the democratic spirit into all branches of military service since the end of World War II. Perhaps much more needs to be done.

What should come first, however, is reform that pledges equal justice. The sailor who comes back to ship late should be judged by a color-blind superior.

Equal punishment for equal offenses has been constantly demanded of the criminal justice system by the United States Supreme Court. It is not asking too much of the military to observe that same command.

We Don't

In his Nov. 19 column, Mr. John S. Knight stated in answer to a question about the 1972 election, "The two-party system will continue to be strong and stable although both parties face serious problems in the near future."

In the first place, we do not have a two-party system in any meaningful sense. A party must have at least some principles or philosophy in order to qualify as such. Neither the Democratic nor Republican party has had either since World War II, unless the exploitation of the many by the privileged few constitutes a principle or philosophy. If this is what Mr. Knight means, then we have only one party — separate in name, but run by the same crowd. Today the Democratic and Republican parties are conglomerates, as alike as two peas in a pod.

This has not always been true, at least not to the same extent as now. At one time, the Democratic Party claimed to believe in free trade and the Republican Party in the protection of our "infant" industries. Now both are controlled by the military-industrial-financial complex in all important matters. It was this combine which the McGovern group unsuccessfully challenged.

A similar combine has been able,

Healthy Discipline
Won't Hurt Kids

Press reports indicate that the issue of corporal punishment in the public schools in once again being studied. Even more important, it would appear, is a re-examination of the philosophy of discipline of various types.

It is quite evident that those who are required to exercise discipline, whether parents or teachers, must show evidence of being worthy of the respect and cooperation intended through discipline. Children and youth honor those who act like adults.

Likewise, every human being at his birth acquires maturity only through the aid of rightful firmness and discipline exercised in love. Children and youth do not possess the inherent ability to acquire true adulthood without training. To believe that children will, through their own knowledge and power, rise to maturity without firm guidance fails to account for the negative powers and drives that are in all of us.

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# The State of State

President Nixon has decided to preserve unchanged the imbalance in the making of foreign policy, at least until his prime international objective—peace in Vietnam—is achieved. That is the plain import of his reappointment of Secretary of State Rogers, coupled with his announcement that Henry A. Kissinger will stay in the White House.

Understandable as is the President's unwillingness to make any fundamental shift while Vietnam remains unsettled, the second-line changes he has instituted at the State Department can hardly be considered a long-range answer to the institutional erosion caused in that department by the creation of a dual State Department inside the White House.

Though Mr. Nixon appears convinced that competition between White House advisers and the established departments of government enhances creativity, recent experience demonstrates that it also provokes demoralization and wasteful in-fighting down the line. As it now stands, there is precious little competition between the State Department and the White House national security staff. Mr. Kissinger built his own admirable institution by raiding State of some of its best brains; those remaining, with a few exceptions, seem to roll over and play dead before the dazzle of the extended President.

As two veterans of the foreign affairs bureaucracy, Anthony Lake and Leslie H. Gelb, argued on The Times Op-Ed page recently, someone has to provide the policy follow-through after dramatic Presidential initiatives. Too often State is inadequate in this because of its pathetic exclusion from the initial policymaking.

Even more serious, the present structure effectively bars Congressional access to the real foreign policy-makers, who snuggle warmly into the shelter of executive privilege. Thus is embodied the élite diplomatist's dream of conducting his affairs free from the bothersome scrutiny of democratic process. It was bad enough for President Nixon to face the electorate through "surrogates"; it is inexcusable to apply this same tactic to frustrate Congress in its advisory responsibilities.

Renewal of the Rogers-Kissinger tenure can be only a stopgap. It should not preclude a long-needed structural overhaul of the foreign policymaking machine. Pending that needed change, the designation as key aides to Secretary Rogers of Kenneth Rush and William J. Casey will bring new strength and assertiveness to State. Mr. Rush arrives as Under Secretary from the equivalent No. 2 job in the Pentagon, where he won high marks; he also combined diplomatic shrewdness and sensitivity in handling the four-power negotiations on Berlin. Mr. Casey, now chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will insure that State has a proper role in the international trade and monetary planning that is bound to be a major feature of the second Nixon Administration.

election returns as a demand from the President for "change that works." In pursuing this goal, the President must decide precisely what changes he himself believes in; he must reach agreement with the Democratic-controlled Congress; and he must make the executive branch responsive to policy changes once they have been adopted.

At present, Nixon seems to be concentrating on the last of these, which may seem like trying to put on the roof before the foundation is laid, but nevertheless makes a kind of sense. The President cannot develop policy in a vacuum. He needs knowledge of what is going on in the departments and agencies and awareness of the creative ideas that are percolating in society at large. During the past four years, Nixon has been getting too little of each.

This lack of communication is sometimes blamed on the "iron curtain" erected around the President by the White House staff. Nixon has indeed been ill served by assistants who have seemed to regard it as their highest duty to see to it that he is not bothered. There is a good deal in America to be bothered about.

Every White House staff, however, is the natural enemy of the departmental bureaucracies—seen usually as the unsympathetic filter between the departments and the President. If a President relies too much on his staff, he is bound to become more or less isolated—a complaint made against L.B.J. and Ike as well as Nixon.

A superstaffer for domestic affairs—a sort of "domestic Kissinger"—is not the answer. Domestic problems are too complex and varied—and too "popular"—to be dealt with through concentrated attacks on a few critical difficulties, as Kissinger has done in foreign affairs.

There really can be no substitute, in domestic matters at least, for an effective body of line officers heading the federal departments and agencies. Understanding this, Nixon planned at the beginning of his first term to govern largely through his cabinet. He wisely avoided the practice, initiated by Eisenhower and followed to a great extent by Kennedy and Johnson, of headign most departments with nonpolitical Establishment types. These men, worthy as they were in their own fields, often did badly at dealing with the political intricacies of Washington.

Nixon's first cabinet was made up mainly of experienced politicians and former government officials. Some, like Melvin Laird at the Pentagon, did well. But several of the former state officials and campaign lieutenants in the Nixon cabinet proved even less capable than the Establishment luminaries had been at coping with the federal bu

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RADIO - TV
DEFENSE DIALOG

RADIO TV REPORTS INC. WASH., D.C., SUMMARIES NOT TO BE QUOTED.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1972 (BROADCASTS OF DEC 4)

SUMMARY OF NETWORK NEWS IN THIS ISSUE

ROGER MUDD, CBS: Henry Kissinger, his trail dogged by a hoard of reporters and his path crossed by a black cat today resumed his private peace talks with the NVNese. PETER KALISCHER, CBS: A round of talks that hopefully will bring a cease fire before Christmas began once again in the little subrban house on the rue D'Arte. LLOYD DOBYNS, NBC: There is speculation in Paris tonight that progress is being made, that the full negotiating teams would not have met had there not been at least a hope of substantial talk. There is also speculation that President Nixon wants some American prisoners home before Christmas and that Le Duc Tho has agreed. Neither delegation will confirm that. And finally, there is a report that the two sides have agreed to initial the accord about mid-December and sign it about five days later. There is no confirmation from either side. BERNARD KAPLAN, NBC: While the negotiations were going on elsewhere, the man who doesn't take part in them, SVN's Ambassador Phan Dang Lam, went to lunch here on Paris's Left Bank with newsmen. He insisted that SVN still will accept nothing less than a NVNese promise written into the peace agreement to pull all their troops from the South. But he said once the written pledge was given the details could be left for later. BILL GILL, ABC: President Nixon has taken personal and very close control of Henry Kissinger's Paris peace talks. According to White House sources Mr. Nixon is carrying on what amounts to remote control of those talks.

JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC: Defense Secretary Melvin Laird confirmed today something that has been predicted for months, that the Pentagon is going to spend more, not less, when the VN War is over.

HOWARD K. SMITH, ABC: On the battlefront, communist troops overran a government
ranger base in the Central Highlands.

MUDD, CBS: Amid considerable fanfare President Nixon named Donald Rumsfeld to be the new US representative to NATO.

SMITH, ABC: The US Command said that American troop strength in SVN dropped to 25,500 men last week.

MUDD, CBS: Lt. William Calley's life sentence for his part in the My Lai Massacre already has been reduced to 20 years. Today in Falls Church, Virginia, his lawyers appealed to the Court of Military Review to throw out the conviction altogether. BOB SCHIEFFER, CBS: George Latimer, the Salt Lake City attorney who defended Calley during the original trial, told the three-judge appeals panel My Lai was the worst operation he'd ever heard of, but, he argued, a fair trial became impossible because ranking officers were determined to convict the young lieutenant to save the Army's good name. Another defense lawyer, Houston Gordon, accused Gen. William Westmoreland, then Army Chief of Staff, of prejudicing the case against Calley by carrying out a highly unusual personal investigation.
GEORGE LATIMER: There were 30 men involved in shooting, the records show. There were a captain, a colonel, a general all involved in this assault mission, and Lt. Calley alone was convicted.

FRANK BLAIR, NBC: President Thieu convenes a special meeting of SVN's National Security Council to hear a report from Nguyen Phu Duc. NBC News learned that the Saigon Government has issued a secret directive telling cabinet ministers and other officials to prepare for a cease fire. TOM STREITHORST, NBC: What hasn't emerged publicly is the form that this so-called political struggle will take. But a reliable intelligence source in the Delta told NBC News that the Saigon Government has authorized a program of kdinapping and assassination to take place as VC surface.

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NBC NIGHTLY NEWS NBC-TV 6:30

Kissinger and Tho Meet

JOHN CHANCELLOR: This morning Kissinger and Tho with one assistant each spent two and a-half hours; this afternoon they spent the same amount of time accompanied by experts.

There is a strictly held black-out on news about the talks, but, for what it was worth, they were smiling at the end.

There's been speculation in Saigon and in Washington that a final agreement may be signed before Christmas.

Our Paris correspondent, Lloyd Dobyns reports now on what's being said in France.

LLOYD DOBYNS: There was no announcement of this morning's meeting. The camera crews and reporters were waiting when Xuan Thuy and Le Duc Tho arrived at rue D'Arte (?). The house is only four blocks from NVNese headquarters outside Paris and was one of two meeting places used the week before last.

For those two meetings and this one, the house has only been used for small meetings. Kissinger has only one aide and an interpreter with him.

Kissinger was still in a good mood when he arrived this morning.

KISSINGER: See what we call a private meeting...

DOBYNS: The meeting was private and while a cat played on top of Kissinger's blue Mercedes, the two men apparently exchanged information from Washington and Hanoi, information they had gotten during their one-week recess.

Kissinger met during the week with President Nixon and with Nguyen Phu Duc, the man described as Saigon's Henry Kissinger. A member of the NVNese delegation had flown to Hanoi and arrived back in Paris Saturday night.

Whatever they learned then and discussed today, they are keeping to themselves. Everyone was smiling and waiving when they left rue D'Arte but no one was saying anything. Xuan Thuy waived off questions.

Two and one-half hours after the morning meeting broke up, motorcyclists followed the two delegations

to a second meeting at a new location. For this meeting, both delegations had the full number of men. They went to the home of a wealthy Parisian industrialist and sportsman.

Today's meeting lasted five hours, two and a-half hours this morning; two and a-half hours this afternoon.

Since November 20th, Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho have sat and talked together for 25 hours. No one knows whether anything has been settled to this point, but since last week the American mood can be described as determinly optimistic.

Lloyd Dobyns, NBC News.

CHANCELLOR: There is also the likelihood that when the agreement is initialed and before it is signed there will be an informal cease fire and that may be the point where the shooting actually stops in VN.

The US hopes that SVN will sign the agreement but some doubt about that came up in Paris today when a SVNese official told reporters his country might sign later. Our correspondent Bernard Kaplan was at that session and here is his report on the public attitude of the SVNese.

BERNARD KAPLAN: While the negotiations were going on elsewhere, the man who doesn't take part in them, SVN's Ambassador Phan Dang Lam, went to lunch here on Paris's Left Bank with newsmen.

Lam added that in the Kissinger-

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Le Duc Tho negotiations, various formulas for withdrawal had been offered to Hanoi. So far, all had been rejected.

Lam's was the first official disclosure about this aspect of the secret talks. He told the reporters SVN is equally concerned over the so-called national council of reconciliation, which is to be set up after the cease fire to supervise elections. Lam accused Hanoi of trying to turn the council into the real government of SVN with communists and neutralists included in it. This, he said, is completely out of the question.

If, as some reports suggest, SVN in recent days has softened some of its demands, nothing that Ambassador Lam said indicated it, nor did he sound like a man whose government is now prepared to bow to an agreement it finds unacceptable.

Bernard Kaplan, NBC News, Paris.

CHANCELLOR: Yet, despite what the SVNese are saying publicly, the official American view is that the peace talks are still on the track and that an agreement will come soon. Some officials dispute some of the timetables which have been mentioned but it would be hard to find a knowledgeable American official today who doesn't think we are, at last, getting close to a cease fire.

## Laird Confirms Pentagon To Spend More After VN War Is Over

CHANCELLOR: Defense Secretary Melvin Laird confirmed today something that has been predicted for months, that the Pentagon is going to spend more, not less, when the VN War is over.

Laird told reporters that the defense budget figure for the next fiscal year will be about $80 billion. That's four billion higher than this year.

Then he flew off to Brussels where he is expected to tell a NATO meeting that the US allies will have to spend more on their own defense.

SECRETARY MELVIN LAIRD: I anticipate that my fellow defense ministers will join me in Brussels in reaffirming our commitment to maintain and improve the strength of NATO. For my part I will be ex-

plaining to my colleagues all of whom are personal friends of mine, why it will be necessary for the Department of Defense to increase its budget in the next fiscal year. This is not the time to make unilateral cuts in our defense budget. This is the time to be strong and this is the time to show that we are committed as an alliance as we enter these negotiations.

## CBS EVENING NEWS CBS-TV 7 PM

### Kissinger Resumes Talks With NVNese

ROGER MUDD: Henry Kissinger, his trail dogged by a hoard of reporters and his path crossed by a black cat today resumed his private peace talks with the NVNese.

There were two sessions today in and near Paris.

PETER KALISCHER: Henry Kissinger's day began at two o'clock in the morning with a brisk walk around the nearly deserted Place de la Madelaine, accompanied by his aide Gen. Haig and Assistant Secretary of State Sullivan.

A round of talks that hopefully will bring a cease fire before Christmas began once again in the little suburban house on the rue d'Arte.

First, as usual, Hanoi's Le Duc Tho with Xuan Thuy. Around thirty Kissinger and Haig. Then just before the meeting broke up, two and a-half hours later, a new personality nearly stole the show. A mostly black neighborhood cat called Mignon jumped on the hood of Kissinger's waiting Mercedes and made himself at home. Good omen or bad? Well, he wasn't a totally black cat. He caused Kissinger to register surprise for the first time since newsmen discovered his secret meeting places.

The other visible indicators were good. Kissinger smiling, and a waive and a smile from Le Duc Tho. But the negotiators must have decided that either Mignon or the gallery of newsmen had jinxed the rue d'Arte and to hold the two and a-half hour afternoon session, the communist side chose the plushest site yet.

This estate at Ca Gem (?), 18

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west of Paris. Now the home of a
wealthy French manufacturer, it once
belonged to the man Princess Marga-
ret almost married, Captain Peter
Townsend.

When Kissinger and Tho emerged
after a day's total of five hours
of negotiating, they were not smil-
ing.

Peter Kalischer, CBS News, Ca
Gem, France.

MUDD: While none of the princi-
pals at today's session gave any
clue as to what was happening, SVN's
Ambassador to the weekly peace talks
said he had been briefed by the
Americans and they had told him the
negotiations are in the final stages

Laird Says Defense Budget

To Reach $80 Billion

MUDD: Contrary to the Penta-
gon's prediction of two weeks ago,
Defense Secretary Laird now says,
the defense budget for fiscal '74
will go over $80 billion. It is
currently $76 billion, and Laird
claimed today the $4 billion in-
crease is mostly because of higher
manpower costs.

Rumsfeld Named NATO Representative

MUDD: Amid considerable fanfare
President Nixon today named Donald
Rumsfeld to be the new US represen-
tative to NATO.

Rumsfeld, now the Director of
the Cost of Living Council and a
presidential counselor, will have to
move to Brussels to assume what the
White House calls one of the most
important diplomatic posts in
Europe.

The NATO job was not an impor-
tant one during the Nixon first term
however, but it will be Rumsfeld's
first diplomatic assignment and
could help a build-up for him to run
against Democratic Senator Adlai
Stevenson of Illinois in '74.

Calley Lawyers Ask To Throw

Out Conviction Altogether

MUDD: Lt. William Calley's
life sentence for his part in the
My Lai Massacre already has been re-
duced to 20 years.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Still under
house arrest at Ft. Benning, Ga.,
Calley was not present as his lawyers
went to court here.

George Latimer, the Salt Lake
City attorney who defended Calley
during the original trial, told the
three-judge appeals panel My Lai was
the worst operation he'd ever heard
of. But he argued a fair trial be-
came impossible because ranking
officers were determined to convict
the young lieutenant to save the
Army's good name.

Another defense lawyer, Houston
Gordon, accused Gen. William West-
moreland, then Army Chief of Staff,
of prejudicing the case against
Calley by carrying out a highly
unusual personal investigation.

Army lawyers argued that Calley
was fairly treated, but Latimer
contended the lieutenant should not
bear the My Lai cross alone saying
Calley was singled out early for
punishment.

GEORGE LATIMER: There were 30
men involved in shooting, the re-
cords show. There were a captain,
a colonel, a general all involved
in this assault mission, and Lt.
Calley alone was convicted. And I
could start a little bit early and
say that if you were to read the
early reports he's the one that is
most prominently mentioned.

SCHIEFFER: No decision is ex-
pected here for several weeks, and
if Calley does lose here he can
still appeal to one more military
court.

Finally, President Nixon has
promised his own personal review of
the case.

This means that the case is
still months, perhaps years, away
from settlement.

Bob Schieffer, CBS News, at the
Military Court of Review.

ABC EVENING NEWS ABC-TV 7 PM

Peace Negotiators Resume Talks

HARRY REASONER: The American
and NVNese peace negotiators resumed
their private talks on the outskirts
of Paris today, meeting in the morn-

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ing and again in the afternoon for
a total of five hours.

JOHN ROLFSON: Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho resumed their negotiations after a week's recess and amid widespread speculation that they could be successful within a short time. But the negotiators themselves gave no real indications except for their public display of good humor.

Xuan Thuy and Le Duc Tho arrived smiling at the meeting house, same one they used last time, only a few blocks from their NVNese headquarters on the edge of Paris.

Kissinger was driven out through
heavy traffic, his car unescorted
by police this time.

When ABC correspondent Lou Cioffi
tried to question him about the
talks, he was secretive as ever about
the substance, joking about newsmen
tracking him.

HENRY KISSINGER: See what we
call a private meeting now.

ROLFSON: The meeting lasted two and a-half hours, and whatever the mood inside, the exit was birthing-ened by a curious spectator, a neighborhood cat who jumped up on Kissinger's car and stayed there just checking around 'till he appeared.

Like Kissinger the NVNese said
nothing with big smiles, an unreliable indicator of course, since the negotiators smile even when things go badly.

They went to their separate
offices at midday and then met again
in the afternoon in a pastoral scene,
a village on the other side of Paris
and 20 miles out in the country est-
tate of a French industrialist.

Only the main negotiators were
at the morning meeting, but in the
afternoon they brought their staffs,
about 20 in all, secluded behind
high walls and shuttered windows.

They came out in the dark and
the rain from the meeting place that
protected their privacy better than
previous ones, no longer afoot but
out the gate in big cars, with motor
cycle escorts that sped them at 100
miles an hour back to headquarters,
to make their reports home and prepare for tomorrow's meeting.

This is John Rolfson, ABC News,
in Paris.

This is Bill Gill at Key Bis-
cayne, Fla.

BILL GILL: President Nixon
has taken personal and very close
control of Henry Kissinger's Paris
peace talks.

Immediately after the first
session in Paris today, Kissinger
cabled the President here at his
Florida retreat, and he promptly
received full-detailed instructions
to be followed in the afternoon
session.

The President will continue to
decide even the nuances of US
strategy.

A central aim in this new and
closer contact with Kissinger is to
dispel any hint that the President
and the chief negotiator are divided
on the terms to achieve a cease
fire in SVN. And so the Paris
talks will continue to be interrup-
ted as often as necessary to main-
tain contact between the President
and Henry Kissinger.

There will be no risk allowed
that could in any way delay the
signing of a cease fire agreement
as the President continues to push
for a full settlement by December
15th.

When the Paris afternoon sessions
had ended today, the President heli-
coptered away from his Florida home
enroute to Washington again, but he
remains available for talks with
Kissinger even while airborne.

Bill Gill, ABC News, Key Bis-
cayne, Florida.

HOWARD K. SMITH: In SVN today
the VC Radio called on communist
troops to step up their attacks to
force the US to sign a cease fire
agreement.

The broadcast also warned com-
munist soldiers to be ready to fight
several more years if a pact is not
signed.

Communists Overrun Government Base

SMITH: On the battlefront, com-
munist troops overran a government
ranger base in the Central Highlands.

US Troops In VN At 25,500 Men

SMITH: The US Command said to-
day that American troop strength in

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SVN dropped to 25,500 men last week. That's well below the ceiling of 27,000 set by President Nixon for December the first.

## Laird Says Pentagon Budget To Go Up

SMITH: Despite the winding down of the war, Defense Secretary Laird said today the Pentagon budget will go up in the next fiscal year from $76 billions to more than $80 billion.

Laird said the money is needed to maintain strength and to enhance negotiating positions.

## Calleys Lawyers Seek Reversal of Conviction

SMITH: Attorneys for Lt. William Calley argued for a reversal of his My Lai conviction today before a military review board in Falls Church, Virginia.

Defense lawyers contended that command influence had prevented any possibility of a fair trial for Calley.

## THE TODAY SHOW NBC-TV 7 AM

### Saigon Plans Terrorism

FRANK BLAIR: President Thieu convenes a special meeting of SVN's National Security Council today to hear a report from Nguyen Phu Duc, the envoy who conferred with President Nixon last week.

TOM STREITHORST: Some of the preparations, especially in the populous and crucial Mekong Delta have begun already.

The Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Lower House has announced that a quarter of a million government cadres in the Delta have been readied for the political struggle against the communists after a cease fire.

that the Saigon Government has authorized a program of kidnapping and assassination to take place as the VC surfaces.

The plan further calls for the destruction of homes and buildings which fail to carry the SVNese flag.

The Saigon program is predicated on the departure of American advisors who might be expected to try and stem government excesses.

The informant warned foreign journalists who venture into the region will do so at their own risk.

He added, the Saigon Government is preparing for cease fire because the Americans insist on it, but not for genuine peace, very much to the contrary.

Tom Streithorst, NBC News, Saigon.

Deputy Secretary Rush was interviewed on the Today Show, Dec. 4, 1972. Complete transcript available.

Richard Fineberg, investigative reporter for Dispatch News Service was interviewed on CBW Research, WTOP Radio, Dec. 3, 1972. Complete transcript is available.

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