Editorials

Saving Farmland:
Time to Move
On a Good Idea

The Suffolk County Legislature has already demonstrated its capacity to leap at a harebrained notion, such as battling the Atlantic Ocean with jetties. Now it's demonstrating its ability to dawdle in the face of a good idea.

The good idea, which County Executive Klein considers the most important he has encountered in his 18 years in government, involves a clever new way to save some of the county's dwindling farmland. Instead of buying the land to protect it from the march of development, which has already reached mid-Brookhaven, Klein proposes to buy the development rights to the land. The title would remain in the hands of the farmer, but he would have sold to the county his right to develop it himself or to sell it for development.

Development rights would come cheaper than outright purchase, so a given amount of money (Klein is asking for $60,000,000 in the capital budget) would buy more acreage. Since the idea has never been tried before, the county cannot estimate just how much land the $60,000,000 would protect.

The estimating process is further complicated by the notable independence of East End farmers. Some may refuse to sell the development rights alone, and demand outright purchase. Depending on location, the county plans to buy some land and even enter into condemnation proceedings for particularly important parcels.

Buying development rights has never been tried before in this country, and Suffolk has already received about 80 inquiries from public officials elsewhere.

Despite this interest, the legislature at its most recent meeting put off a vote on the plan. Some of the opposition comes from West End legislators who don't want to spend money on an East End project. That's an intolerable form of parochialism.

More understandable is the caution demonstrated by other members of the legislature, who want to make certain they understand the mechanics of the project. A meeting has been scheduled to explain the project in detail. After that, we hope the legislature votes to approve the project at its next regular session. Considering the progress of inflation, every month of delay is costing valuable land.

Don Wright, Miami News

The Kissinger Pact

If the Golan Heights truce works, there will be at least three reasons for rejoicing in Henry Kissinger's latest masterwork. The last embers of Mideast conflict will be dampened, permitting overall peace negotiations to begin at long last. Second, the agreement seems to confirm the vitality of American diplomacy; the machinery of state functions even with the President preoccupied in defending himself against impeachment. And—not least—long-needed evidence is furnished of Russia's continued interest in dotente. Kissinger's marathon of mediation could hardly have succeeded without firm pressure on the volatile Damascus regime from its friends in Moscow.

That's not to say yesterday's pact is cause for undiluted relief. Terrorists opposed to all peacemaking almost succeeded in sabotaging this tender beginning, and may be able to do so again. And the Golan Heights truce is only the merest beginning; there's a long and probably rocky road from the thinning cut of troops on one small corner of Israel's frontiers to the fashioning of a permanent, comprehensive settlement with all the Arab nations in which Israel's right to exist is finally acknowledged, its borders are finally agreed upon and the Palestinian refugees given permanent homes at last.

Americans have additional reason for reserve; whatever the potential cost of failure in Kissinger's mission, success also had its price. Because Syria rejected Israel's understandable demand for guarantees against terrorist border incursions, the U.S. apparently has agreed to shield Israel from UN condemnation if Israel retaliates against such incursions. At best that's a curiously flimsy umbrella; at worst it's al-

most an invitation to further terrorist activity, or perhaps the precursor of some more substantial commitment—or both. Also, President Nixon's eagerness to announce the new agreement on television unfortunately smacks of impeachment politics, which really has no business in diplomacy. And should the Secretary of State of the U.S. be totally occupied mediating border disputes to the neglect of all the other precincts of foreign policy?

Still, the foundation has now been laid for an end to the last significant armed international conflict in the world today. It is a tremendous personal achievement for Kissinger—and more than enough reason to hope that now, at long last, there'll be an end to the Mideast's Thirty Years War.

Parkway Tolls

One of the biggest transportation barriers in the region is the State Parkway system, which is free except for one 10-cent toll collected at the western end of the Southern State Parkway. Considering what inflation has done to the dollar, we're not surprised that the Long Island State Park Commission is now considering raising the toll. The revenues from the Valley Stream toll booths are used for maintenance and operation and for paying off the bonds that financed major parkway improvements in the mid-'50s. Those operating and maintenance costs have risen by 250 per cent since 1956, so even without the gasoline shortage—which caused toll revenues to drop by $167,000 between January and April—the commission would have a good case for an increase. It's clear that the day of the 10-cent toll, like the 10-cent beer, has passed.

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Kissinger's Tenacity Rewarded

Thirty-two days of incredibly complex diplomacy — punctuated by artillery, inflamed by terrorist murders and carried out against a backdrop of touchy superpower rivalries — has finally brought about a cease-fire between Israel and Syria. This "major diplomatic achievement," as President Nixon described it, is a tribute to the skill and tenacity of Secretary of State Kissinger. It is a significant step toward the ultimate goal of a final, permanent accord between Israel and all the Arab nations.

The terms, involving Israeli withdrawal from all of the territory occupied in last October's war and from a slice of territory occupied in the 1967 war, are painful for the Israelis. Not only did they suffer heavy losses in capturing this land in war, but they were forced by the aggressive Syrian tactics to continue to fight for it daily all through the long-drawn-out negotiations. In return, however, they get a peaceful border, guarded by United Nations forces, and — even more important — they get Syria to the peace table to hammer out a permanent peace.

Syria, too, had psychological obstacles to overcome, since it had never before contemplated a negotiated settlement with Israel. But Israel's offer of a limited withdrawal and the prospect of the return of Syrians to their old city of El Quneitra formed the basis for a solid cease-fire pact. While solid, however, the pact is only meant to be temporary. Like the withdrawal agreement with Egypt, it is intended as a prelude to a general peace conference.

The agreement is likely to have several encouraging results. There is now no likelihood of a resumption of the Arab oil embargo. President Sadat of Egypt, who gambled his future on the U. S. peace effort, will be reinforced politically and

will be able to move ahead with his moderate course of economic and political development for Egypt. And most important, the way is now clear for a resumption of the Geneva conference on an over-all settlement.

This will pose an even greater challenge to the world's diplomats. Considering the amount of emotion felt by the Israelis in giving up a ghost city of El Quneitra, one can easily imagine how difficult it will be to discuss the future of Jerusalem. And Russia, a co-chairman of the Geneva parley, will likely play a meddlesome role. While not opposed to peace in the Middle East, Russia is anxious to make sure that its foothold in the area is maintained. It is likely to back Arab demands to the hilt.

The concessions made by Israel are opposed by hawkish elements in Israel and some in the United States. Earlier this month, Hans J. Morgenthau, the political scientist, declared that the Kissinger policy was to seek detente with Russia at the expense of Israel. But there is really no alternative to negotiation. Even apart from the threat of a collision of the superpowers, there is a rising threat in the present no-war-no-peace situation. Each outbreak of Mideast fighting is at a more costly, more dangerous level as the Arab nations learn to co-ordinate their resources and to use sophisticated weapons. Arab oil riches provide a powerful source of both military and economic power.

Fortunately, the newly formed Israeli government of Yitzhak Rabin rejects any concept of a "greater Israel" including the occupied lands. In the coming negotiations, Israeli's watchword, as always, must be security. And as in the just-concluded accord, the greater wisdom will lie in flexibility, so long as Israel's security is not impaired.

Borrowing Is No Solution

We don't blame unions representing Buffalo city workers for trying to save the jobs of their members, but their proposed plan for amending Mayor Maowski's 1974-75 budget, hardly offers a workable solution to the city's fiscal ills.

Under the plan, all 289 presently filled unionized jobs earmarked for elimination by the mayor would be restored, and the proposed tax rate increase would be reduced.

Bles, Buffalo has grown used to deficit financing of its operation and maintenance expenditures in recent years. But that is not the same thing as resorting to such financing as a deliberate tax-evading device to balance a new budget still awaiting adoption.

No one wants to see workers laid off, but the city can no longer afford the luxury of waste, and the mayor himself believes that the reduction in the work force can be absorbed without crippling

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Increased gasoline prices and energy conservation are justification for reduced speed limits. Likewise attempts to reduce traffic congestion and idling time are justified for the same reasons. Reduction of speeds below 30 to 40 miles per hour increases gasoline consumption. Delaware Ave. in the morning peak has overall travel speeds of under 15 mph. Improving that situation reduces gasoline consumption.

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Jerusalem... May 27... The ACHIEVEMENT OF a ceasefire and military disengagement between Israel and Syria was overshadowed dramatically late today with word of a stunning new archeological discovery in the town of Quneitra on the disputed Golan Heights.

Uncovered at a remote site adjacent to an abandoned mosque, a small brownish flat rock bearing an inscription translated into English as "HAK the Almighty Was Here - 1923 BC Quneitra." The characters in the inscription appeared to combine traces of early Coptic and Greek formulations. Some observers commented that several of the letters bore a resemblance to early heiroglyphics seen only along the upper Nile River basin.

Archeologists and Biblical scholars were quick to acclaim this extraordinary unearthing as no less significant as the earlier discoveries of the Rosetta Stone and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Biblical experts pointed out that neither the Old nor the New Testament record the existence of any HAK from such an early date. Nevertheless, speculation grew immediately that the present Secretary of State, whose initials are HAK, is the present day incarnation of "HAK the Almighty," prompting one scholar to comment that the opening lines of the Book of Genesis will now be revised to read: "In the beginning was the word, and the word

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was HAK.

The flat rock, which measures 12 x 6 inches and weighs 11 pounds, was found by staff members of Dr. Kissinger's "Doomsday Machine," who were pricing real estate lots in the Quneitra for a site for a future home for the Secretary. Kissinger has reportedly told Israeli and Syrian Government officials that when he leaves office he wishes to retire in Quneitra.

Informed of this historical find today -- his fifty-first birthday -- Kissinger said: "On this rock will I build my house."

As the Secretary of State left the King David Hotel tonight voices among the crowd which inevitably throngs the hotel lobby whenever he arrives or departs were heard to exclaim: "And the word was made flesh and he dwelt amongst us." Some genuflected.

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Scholars Advise U.S. to Reappraise Foreign Relations

By KATHLEEN TELTSCH

A panel of foreign-affairs scholars advised the United States yesterday to make a searching reappraisal of its relations with other countries.

This was a recurring theme in a day-long discussion initiated by former Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as part of a two-year analysis by the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, which he heads.

From this session and others like it, plus a series of studies now being commissioned, will come a report and later recommendations that the commission hopes will help shape Government policies. Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, who planned the panel, "Essential Elements of World Stability and Peace," was absent, accom-

panying the Secretary of State on his Middle East mission.

Panel members at the commission offices at 22 West 55th Street, described American relations with Europe as a "marriage gone sour" and those with Asia as a "continuing romance."

Developing the analogy, a scholar on Soviet affairs, Sevyn Bialer, likened American relations with Moscow to "a reconciliation with your mother-in-law."

Major Role for Military

In a more serious vein, the Columbia University specialist said Westerners tended to underestimate the influence of the Russian military and to exaggerate the domestic impact of Soviet intellectual dissidents.

"The role of the military in

Soviet affairs is much greater than in any other major industrial nation," he declared.

Prof. David S. Landes of Harvard University said that the souring of relations between the United States and Western Europe was reflected in a widespread trend toward "debunking Uncle Sam." The recriminations expressed by youth, by the media and other American critics may not have reached the highest levels, but they should not be underestimated, he said, adding that "difficult years lie ahead."

Analyzing relations with Asia, Prof Donald C. Hellmann of the University of Washington in Seattle declared that the problems of this region, which has two-thirds of the world's population, were not likely to

be resolved in the foreseeable future and that the continent would remain a source of tension. On China, he said it would be wise to the United States to "keep options open and remain very flexible."

Associated Press

IN ARKANSAS RACE: Senator J. W. Fulbright, left, in Fayetteville and Gov. Dale Bumpers, hatless, at Texarkana. They ran in Democratic Senate primary. Page 19.

Transcripts Vex Graham, stands by Nixon

H CUMMINGS

In a seeming allusion to a defense of Mr. Nixon's use of profanity by a Jesuit priest who is a salaried member of the President's staff, Mr. Graham said:

"Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain' is a Commandment which

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By MARCIA CHAMBERS

In a far-reaching decision, Supreme Court Justice Burton

for people with a small individual stake in a large important issue common to many others.

Under the Supreme Court's ruling, which was unanimous as to its general conclusions, it will be much more difficult in the future to get the courts to accept consumer, environmental, civil rights and anti-trust cases that affect large numbers of people seriously but do not touch any one of them extravagantly.

The majority held that Federal court rules clearly required notifying all identifiable parties to a class action, so that each of them can bring in his own attorney or drop out if he prefers not to be bound by the outcome.

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Wednesday, May 29, 1974

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gram for residual fuel.

FEA announced that 89
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generating stations."

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residual fuel supplies are in
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they were a year ago. For
example, reserves for
power plants now stand at
over 85 million barrels,
compared to 58 million bar-
rels at the same time in
1973, or an increase of 47
percent.

The same is true for mid-
dle distillate reserves for
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creased 63 percent from
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Specifically, the national
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million barrels during this
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JERUSALEM (Reuter) — U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's 4½-week attempt to get a Syrian-Israeli disengagement has cost the American government more than $100,000 in aviation fuel and hotel bills alone, according to estimates here.

Airline sources say every hour Kissinger's U.S. Air Force Boeing 707 spends in the air costs $1,500 in fuel. This brings the fuel bill to well over $35,000 for the 12 shuttles to Damascus.

Hotel sources say the 186 rooms his party has kept in the King David Hotel cost $5,000 daily for bed and breakfast.

Israel's information minister, Shimon Peres, has described Kissinger's exercise as unique — the secretary of state is now believed to have been out of the United States longer than any of his recent predecessors.

The schedule is exhausting. A rough calculation shows that in the past 25 days Kissinger has spent

some 80 hours in talks with Syrian President Hafez-Al-Assad, and slightly more than half that time talking to Israeli leaders.

The shorter period of talks in Israel, where he has in fact spent more time, is partly accounted for by the fact that discussions here are conducted in English.

These calculations do not take into account the time he has spent on the telephone with Premier Golda Meir and other leaders, and in formal contacts with Israeli ministers who call at the hotel.

Security has been very tight at the hotel. It is under the constant watch of well-armed border police units.

At the airport, the Boeing is under round-the-clock guard.

Servicing Kissinger's mission has stretched the resources of the American embassy and state department secretaries have been brought in from posts in Ankara and Greece.

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# Kissinger, Shifting Plans, Visits Syria Once More

## Returns to Israel for a Final Decision
Today on Acceptance of Accord—
Damascus Reports Optimistic

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

TEL AVIV, Wednesday, May 29—Secretary of State Kissinger unexpectedly flew to Damascus last night in an attempt to resolve “the very, very few problems” holding up a troop-separation agreement on the Golan Heights.

After four hours of talks with President Hafez al-Assad, Mr. Kissinger returned to Tel Aviv and drove to Jerusalem for an early-morning meeting with Premier Golda Meir and other top Israeli officials to set the stage for a decision later in the day by the Israeli Cabinet on whether to accept the disengagement package.

[In Damascus, the Syrian Government announced that agreement had been reached on “most of the issues concerning disengagement” with Israel on the Golan Heights.]

At Damascus airport before departing, Mr. Kissinger made no farewell statement but warmly shook the hand of Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam.

Aboard the Air Force jet, officials provided no guidance on whether the sudden six-hour trip to Damascus had overcome the remaining obstacles and cleared the way for Israeli acceptance.

It seemed as if the Americans did not want to appear to be putting pressure on the Israelis and therefore were reluctant to say whether they thought Israel should approve the agreement as it now stands. Israeli acceptance would produce an announcement sometime in the afternoon, officials

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MARVIN KALB: Good morning. The shuttle is over, an extraordinary diplomatic excursion at an end. The story in one minute.

(Announcement)

MARVIN KALB: This is the 31st day of the Kissinger journey to a disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel. There have been 16 visits to Israel, 12 to Damascus, 18,200 miles from Washington and back and forth between Jerusalem and Damascus, an extraordinary expenditure of energy and personal influence on the Secretary's part.

He wanted an agreement. That he failed to achieve it, it seems, is no failure of effort or commitment. There is always a chance, a very slim chance today, that Kissinger and his chief deputy, Joseph Sisco, can yet pull off the deal. Sisco returns to Damascus today, Kissinger stays here, a last ditch effort to break the deadlock on several issues the width of the U.N. buffer zone, the question of terrorism, and the drafting of language linking disengagement on the Golan front to an overall settlement between Israel and Syria.

The issues are few in number but deep in significance. They are, to quote one senior American official, "very tough." Everything about this negotiation has been very tough. Mistakes and misjudgments have been made. Perhaps Kissinger should not have come here at all, perhaps he should have sent Sisco to do the basic diplomatic spade-work and come here only when the differences had narrowed sufficiently for him to use his influence and crack the deadlock.

Perhaps after two weeks he should have gone home and not wait for the chance to conclude a final agreement, perhaps Kissinger should not have concentrated so heavily at the beginning on getting agreement on the line of disengagement, assuming that everything else would simply fall into place. Perhaps he should have anticipated a few more Syrian surprises and not assume that Syria and her reactions and tactics are anything like Egypt. Perhaps, with 20-20 hindsight, much will soon become apparent.

The fact is, though agreement has not yet been
reached, it is still possible. Both Syria and Israel have
come a long way towards narrowing their differences on the
questions of disengagement. A line has been agreed to. The
number of U.N. troops basically agreed to. The distribution
of strategic hills, settlements, cities, agricultural areas,
all agreed to. The division of Mount Hermon, agreed to.
The drafting of a basic agreement agreed to, too.

Protocols of implementation, not all of them
agreed to. Logically having come this far, both Syria
and Israel should wish to go all the way and get their
agreement. But as one official said, the cupboard is now
bare. Both sides have given as much as they think they can;
as it turns out, not enough for a deal, which is too bad.
Too bad for the Middle East, too bad for American strategy,
too bad for Kissinger.

He invested so much and he did not get his deal.
It is unlikely that he will ever invest so much again
on a single negotiation. He will return to Washington
probably tomorrow and then he will have to answer the many
questions that will be raised about the negotiation, about
his judgment, about the future of the Middle East.

Kissinger has always been fatalistic about
negotiations. There are things that can be done, things
that cannot be done. The worst sin for him is not to have
tried. He will not be guilty of that.

# # # # #

With Boss Away, State Department Lags

By DAVID BINDER

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, May 25 — The pace of work slows a bit in the vast reaches of the State Department and action on some vital policy decisions is postponed when Secretary of State Kissinger is off negotiating in foreign lands.

But his aides maintain that the work goes on, that most of the pressing decisions do get made and that most of the work is being conducted with Mr. Kissinger's participation by cablegram and telephone.

The secretary is now in the 28th day of his Middle East peace mission, the longest absence of a Secretary of State since the end of World War II. He is due back Monday.

But he has many more trips scheduled — to Canada, to India, to the Soviet Union, to Japan and still later to Latin America.

How does a bureaucracy of 12,100 function when the boss is away, and what if any differences are there between Mr. Kissinger's stewardship in absentia and those of his predecessors, Dean Rusk or the peripatetic John Foster Dulles?

Ruck Avoided Practice

Veterans of the Foreign Service remember that when Mr. Dulles attempted to run things from overseas, confusion ensued, sometimes with disastrous effect.

Mr. Rusk never tried to run things by remote control, merely receiving and reading

department cables when he was traveling.

Although a number of problems have arisen, remote control works for Mr. Kissinger in most cases, his defenders say, because he has superior communications, because he has deputies who are attuned to his thinking and because he knows most policy matters well enough to react effectively.

As of last Wednesday, the department had sent him 907 cablegram, an average of almost 40 a day, since April 28. For his part Mr. Kissinger sent 588 messages

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In his
first
trial
run be-
fore the electorate as a
potential candidate for
President of the United
States, Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger came in fifth.

The poll, conducted in
San Diego county from
April 5 to 8 by Gayle
Essary and Associates,
shows Sen. Ted Kennedy
leading with 23.6 percent
of the vote. Next in order
are:

* Gov. George Wallace
  with 13.95 percent.

* Ronald Reagan with 13.62.

* Vice President Gerald
  Ford with 8.14.

* Kissinger with 6.48.

* Senators Muskie and
  McGovern with 6.31
each.

* Nelson Rockefeller
  with 4.82.

* John Connally with
  1.99 percent.

Some 15 percent of the
602 respondents in the San
Diego poll, conducted on
a door-to-door, face-to-
face basis, offered no
opinion or answer to the
following question: "Here
is a list of men who are
currently being considered
for President in 1976. If
the election were today,
whom would you choose?"

"Kissinger was included
in the list," says Essary,
"as a viable speculative
candidate because a con-
stitutional amendment has
been suggested in Congress
which would permit his
candidacy. He is currently
barred from the Presi-
dency by the Constitution
because he is not a
natural-born citizen."

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Kissinger Meets Syrian
In Bid to Complete Accord

ny Times 5-26-74

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 25—Secretary of State Kissinger arrived here today for decisive talks with President Hafez Al-Assad to determine whether the month-long effort at shuttle diplomacy will produce a Syrian-Israeli troop separation agreement.

American officials traveling with Mr. Kissinger said the negotiations were at the "make or break" stage and that Mr. Kissinger was convinced he had to wrap up the accord in the next 24 hours or return to Washington without a final agreement.

Aboard Mr. Kissinger's blue, white and silver Air Force 707 jet plane flying from Tel Aviv to Damascus this morning, newsmen were told that it was up to Mr. Assad to provide the final concessions for an accord.

## Forces Will Be Thinned

Mr. Kissinger, in talks that continued all day and night in Israel yesterday, extracted the final Israeli concessions that allowed him to present Mr. Assad with what he calls "an American plan" to clear away remaining obstacles to an accord.

The American plan dealt with the thorny question of the thinning out by Syria and Israel

of their forces in the front lines adjacent to the buffer zone that is to separate the troops on the Golan Heights.

Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Assad began their talks at 4:30 P.M. and continued into the night.

According to senior Israeli officials, about 93 per cent of an agreement has been achieved, but American officials said that this did not guarantee that Mr. Kissinger would be able to conclude the remaining 7 percent rapidly.

"They only pay off in this business if you have 100 per cent," a senior official said.

"In any other negotiation, if it comes this far it was bound to succeed," the official said, but he added that the Syrians and the Israelis have had "hang-ups" at every stage, thereby making it difficult to judge the time necessary to complete the talks.

Mr. Kissinger had originally planned to leave Israel at 10 A.M. today but his departure was postponed for nearly two hours by last-minute talks at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Lieut. Gen. Mordechai Gur, the chief of staff, and Simcha Dinitz, Israel's Ambas-

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Tomorrow, May 27th because it's May, it'll be business as usual. In City, to 9:00 p.m. In Bergen County, Manhasset, New Rochelle, Hamford: 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Hill open late Wednesday night.

## ON HONORS

courage, that Mr. Nixon would leave Washington on June 22 and stop in Brussels for meet

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Senators Query
Kissinger on
Missiles Bill

Associated Press

Three senators have asked Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger for his opinion on Defense Department proposals to increase the accuracy and field of U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The military procurement authorization bill as approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee includes $77 million for the weapons research. The Senate is expected to consider the bill in June.

Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D-Minn.) expressed concern in a letter that the programs would increase the danger of nuclear war and cost us increased billions to offset these risks." He was joined by Sens. Thomas J. McIntyre (D-N.H.) and Charles McC. Mathias, (R-Md.).

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the eviction of the tenants will
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# Getting Some Synopses

## Of Slick Monthlies and Ladies Mags

By Tom Donnelly

For an article titled "The New Mrs. Kissinger" (in the June McCall's) Jennifer Stewart has consulted Barbara Howar, Barbara Walters and Mrs. Winston Lord. Barbara Howar says of Nancy Maginnes Kissinger: "I guarantee you she's another Martha Mitchell. And now that Martha's gone, second to myself she'll be the most outspoken woman in Washington. She's not your usual namby-pamby, close-mouthed political wife."

Barbara Walters says Nancy is very bright and not at all the jealous type. Mrs. Lord, wife of one of Kissinger's chief assistants at the State Department, says that Nancy "won't be the kind of wife who'll be waiting on the doorstep for Henry when he comes home in the evening. She will be the kind of wife, however, who totally understands the problems he's dealing with. She'll be an excellent sounding board for him."

For a Ladies' Home Journal article titled "The New Mrs. Kissinger," Kandy Stroud has consulted Barbara Howar, Barbara Walters, and Mrs. Winston Lord for opinions and analyses. They repeat themselves: "not your usual namby-pamby close-mouthed political wife"; "Nancy was never jealous"; "won't be the kind of wife who waits on the doorstep," etc. The Journal says that career-wise, Nancy (a foreign policy expert) is Nelson Rockefeller's "very own Kissinger," and it is "not inconceivable that should Rockefeller become President in 1976, Nancy would follow in Henry's footsteps as Secretary of State." The Journal has this prediction exclusively.

Judy Garland is another personality being celebrated in both magazines this month. McCall's has "Under the Rainbow: The Lost Childhood of Judy Garland," an excerpt from a forthcoming

biography by Anne Edwards. "Perhaps no woman in theatrical history has been as exploited as was Judy Garland," says Miss Edwards. She draws a chilling picture of Judy's mother as the ultimate in "movie mothers." When Judy (born Frances Gumm) was barely 3 years old her mother was pushing her out on vaudeville stages and threatening to abandon her in this tank town or that one if "Baby Frances" got teary or fretful at being taken away from home and Daddy. (Daddy loved Baby, but he was too weak to stand up to Mommy.) Ethel Gumm had a lot of iron in her and was so much in control of her child that when Judy, now a bona fide star, was putting her foot and hand prints in wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Ethel "leaned over and with her own finger straightened a letter in Judy's signature."

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"Mrs. Lord says that Nancy Kissinger 'won't be the kind of wife who'll be waiting on the doorstep for Henry when he comes home in the evening.'"

Apparently Ethel made no objection when they started popping Judy full of pills to get her through one rigorous shooting schedule after another, and although greedy, she wasn't the smartest movie mother who ever lived. Louis B. Mayer bamboozled her into accepting, on Judy's behalf, a salary of $500 a week at a time when Mickey Rooney was making close to $5,000. Still, Ethel could do as she liked with the $500. At the time Judy was attaining stardom there was no provision made by law to protect a child actor's earnings.

In the Journal, Vincente Minnelli, Judy's second husband and Liza Minnelli's father, offers a somewhat different view of the "Over the Rainbow" waif. When Vincente was married to Judy she was fully established as a superstar and was locked into her pattern of alternating moodiness and exuberance; "her desire for constant approval was pathological." Minnelli says, "I drove her to the psychiatrist's every day waiting for her in the car. Judy would leave with her mood unaltered by these 50-minute hours." Someone at M-G-M figured that Judy had been sent to 16 psychiatrists. "So what?" said Judy. "I never told any of them the truth. There's more than one way to get even with you people."

Minnelli found this admission more than discouraging. "The months of near nervous collapse we'd both suffered had been for naught. She hadn't even tried... It was damn near impossible for me to forgive Judy for this."

Minnelli says he doesn't believe those "monstrous stories" to the effect that "some Lucifer" at the studio got Judy started on pills. He thinks fellow actors casually offered her the things on particularly difficult days: "Few people then knew about the long-range ef-

See REVUE, E2, Col. 1

Israelis React Favorably
To U.S. Golan Proposal

By Jeremiah O'Leary
Star-News Staff Writer

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has reacted favorably to a proposal drafted by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on troop and weapons deployment on the Golan front, the last remaining barrier to a military disengagement, it was learned last night.

The disclosure that Kissinger has now cleared an American proposal with Israeli leaders was made by Foreign Minister Abba Eban at a dinner for Kissinger and his aides.

Eban reportedly indicated to dinner guests that if the proposal is received favorably in Damascus when Kissinger arrives there today the Israeli negotiating group will meet to formalize the approval.

Guests at the dinner reported that Kissinger said he would change his travel plans if necessary because of this development and return again to Damascus Sunday to complete the disengagement package, assuming that both sides find the American proposal acceptable.

THE PROPOSAL focuses on the sole major issue still blocking a disengagement — the number of troops and weapons that each side may retain in "thin-out zones" on either side of the demilitarized area to be established between the two armies.

All other major issues in the disengagement have now been essentially settled.

Kissinger tried out his proposal on the Israelis to test its acceptability. He already knows the state of flexibility among theSYRIANS, but needs at least one more session with them at which he will present the U.S. government's take-it-or-leave-it proposal on the level of troop and weapons strength which the belligerents may retain close to the buffer zone.

If Kissinger presents a U.S. proposal to President Hafez Assad today, a senior official said, it would only be with the almost certain knowledge that both sides will accept it. Such a proposal would be non-negotiable and would encompass the known limit to which Israel and Syria can concur on the level of forces to be left on the Golan if U.N. forces are brought in to patrol the buffer zone.

The American proposal technique, successfully used in the Israel-Egyptian disengagement, spares either side the domestic difficulty of agreeing to an idea sponsored by the other. It is known that Kissinger would not make an American compromise proposal unless he was sure it had four

chances out of five of being accepted.

Although U.S. officials are warning that such a proposal should not be called a U.S.-Israeli plan, it is obvious that Israeli concurrence is necessary before such a plan can be handed to the Syrians today.

KISSINGER spent three hours yesterday at a joint meeting chaired by himself and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Later yesterday, working groups from both governments met again with Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Joseph Sisco as chairman of the U.S. side.

No details were made known of troop or weaponry strengths being discussed for the final American offer. But the issue of thinning-out is of prime importance to the Syrians since the Israeli front lines are within artillery, reach of Damascus. Assad has the problem of rationalizing troop reductions that might affect the defense of Damascus. Jerusalem is more than 120 miles away and the issue is less pressing for the Israelis on those grounds.

Kissinger's plans are to fly to Damascus this morning. By the time he arrives, Kissinger will probably have decided whether to present the American proposal. The informed speculation is that Kissinger may remain overnight in the Syrian capital. Whether he can achieve disengagement or not will be known in the next 12 hours.

Either way, Kissinger will probably return to Israel once more and then journey on to Cairo for a meeting with President Anwar Sadat.

All signs are that Kissinger is making progress toward bridging the gap on the thin-out issue. The ultimate decision will be made in Syria today.

—United Press International

## and Fred Buzhard

The first of the remaining two items on the subpoena is Colson's handwritten notes of conversations with the President between June 14, 1971 and Sept. 15, 1971, kept in a file marked "Presidential Notes."

The second item is a "damage assessment" prepared in the executive branch to assess the impact of publication of the Pentagon Papers in June 1971. Ellsberg gave the Pentagon Papers to the press, prompting an investigation of him which culminated in the burglary of his psychiatrist's office.

THIS ASSESSMENT was among the papers submitted to the Supreme Court under seal during the government's attempt to halt

publication of the Pentagon Papers. (Gesell had been one of two judges to rule that that publication could go forward.)

In the motion to quash the subpoenas, St. Clair said that "we would be willing to submit this item to this court in camera only on the provision that the court issue a protective order adequate to ensure that it will not be disclosed by the court."

When St. Clair raised this argument orally, Gesell became livid. "I will not accept in camera a document with instructions from the President," he said. "I am not interested at all in the documents. I am interested in providing a fair trial."

"If I may, your honor, so is the President," St. Clair replied.

"I would like some evidence of it, Mr. St. Clair ..." Gesell said.

Earlier in the day, Gesell had rejected the five defendants' claim that the burglary was part of a legitimate national security operation, and refused to dismiss the charges on those grounds.

He also rejected arguments that since the defendants believed it was a national security operation, they had no "specific intent" to violate the rights of Ellsberg's former psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis J. Fielding, and therefore were not guilty.

Gesell did say, however, that he would allow the defendants to argue to the jury that they did not know an illegal burglary was going to result from their otherwise legal national security investigation of Ellsberg, and said he would allow limited subpoenas by the defense for information supporting this assertion.

Gesell pointed this out to St. Clair, saying that since other subpoenas are likely, he wants to settle the argument at the outset.

"WHAT I'M trying to say in as clear a way as possible is this," he told St. Clair. "If this represents a

decision which we are going to have to confront in a whole series of subpoenas which I'm going to issue in this case next week, there's something to be said for facing up to it now."

The question that must be answered, he said, is how Nixon sees his duty to enforce the nation's criminal laws where his own "former confederates are under indictment."

St. Clair noted that in the recent trial of former Cabinet members John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Star, "white House material was provided to the defense."

"You are not willing to do that with me, that's the point," Gesell said.

St. Clair said that in that case, the subpoenas were specific, while he described the Colson and Ehrlichman subpoenas as "broad scale."

Gesell retorted that he

had the right to do so, he said, and he thought that the former psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis J. Fielding, and therefore were not guilty. He also rejected arguments that since the defendants believed it was a national security operation, they had no "specific intent" to violate the rights of Ellsberg's former psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis J. Fielding, and therefore were not guilty. Gesell did say, however, that he would allow the defendants to argue to the jury that they did not know an illegal burglary was going to result from their otherwise legal national security investigation of Ellsberg, and said he would allow limited subpoenas by the defense for information supporting this assertion. Gesell pointed this out to St. Clair, saying that since other subpoenas are likely, he wants to settle the argument at the outset. "WHAT I'M trying to say in as clear a way as possible is this," he told St. Clair. "If this represents a

Two Issues Said to Delay
Troop-Separation Accord

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

TEL AVIV, May 22 — American officials said tonight that two major issues — the size of the United Nations buffer force and the limits to be placed on Israeli and Syrian troops — were holding up the completion of a troop-separation agreement for the Golan Heights.

The officials said that Secretary of State Kissinger had already worked out the basic text for the disengagement accord, along with the map specifying where the new cease-fire and troop-separation zones could be situated. Agreement had also been reached on the procedure for the release of prisoners and the role of the United Nations in supervising the accord.

But they said that as Mr. Kissinger neared another self-imposed deadline for returning to Washington in a few days two issues remained.

First, Syria and Israel have not agreed on the size of the

United Nations force that will supervise the cease-fire and patrol the buffer zone that will serve as a neutral area one to four miles wid between Syrian and Israel forces. The Israelis want a large force — one Israel source has estimated it at 3,000 —while the Syrians, who oppose having any foreign forces on their soil, want a smaller number. The buffer zone would be under Syrian civil administration and would include the town of El Quneitra, seized by Israel in 1967.

The second issue grows out of the unique character of the Golan Heights geography and the proximity to Damascus. Problems have arisen over the limits that would be placed on the size of the military forces in the Syrian and Israeli front lines. In the Egyptian-Israeli disengagement accord last Jan-

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# Two Issues Said to Delay Golan Accord

Continued From Page 1, Col. 3

uary, sharp limits were placed on the number and types of armament in each side's zone, adjacent to the buffer area. Syria has complained that severe limits might impair her ability to defend Damascus adequately. The Israelis want the zone to protect her settlements in the Golan Heights against long-range Syrian artillery.

Mr. Kissinger began his day with a two-and-a-half hour meeting with Premier Golda Meir of Israel and her top aides. He then flew to Damascus, his third consecutive day of shuttling and his ninth visit to Damascus during this Middle East trip, now in its 25th day.

## Return Discussed

Shortly after leaving Mrs. Meir's office, Mr. Kissinger told newsmen that he expected to return to Washington this weekend.

This deadline recalled Mr. Kissinger's intention at this time last week to return to Washington by the weekend unless agreement was achieved on the disengagement line.

But last Saturday, President Hafez al-Assad of Syria accepted Mr. Kissinger's compromise plan, and this led to a breakthrough and the Secretary's decision to remain and seek to complete the accord this week.

Since then, his mood has fluctuated from optimism to gloom, with newsmen cautioned that the agreement might not actually be achieved by the end of the week.

Today, newsmen were told that if Mr. Kissinger could bring the two sides so close together that an agreement could be achieved in a day or so, he would probably remain

beyond Friday or Saturday, the days he has mentioned as possible departure dates.

The problem, a senior American official said, was that the American side had to judge whether staying in the Middle East was worth it.

If Mr. Kissinger goes back to Washington, the Syrians and Israelis would be asked to send high-level negotiators to Washington to finish the discussions, the official said.

Mr. Kissinger, after three and a half hours of intensive discussions with President Assad tonight, said at the Damascus airport before leaving for Israel that they had "continued a review of all details of a disengagement agreement." He said he would return tomorrow for what American officials said would be a long and perhaps decisive session.

## Luncheon Planned

Before meeting with Mr. Assad, Mr. and Mrs. Kissinger will give a luncheon at the American interests section in Damascus for ranking Syrian officials.

Newsmen were told that this luncheon, which had been set up some time ago, did not mean that tomorrow was the final day of talks. Mr. Kissinger may come back to Damascus.

It was impossible to tell whether the two remaining issues would block promulgating the agreement this week. Mr. Kissinger and his aides have fluctuated so often that newsmen, lacking details, have been drawing conclusions from such outward signs as smiles or frowns.

Enroute to Damascus this afternoon, American officials said that the situation was such that the agreement could be wrapped up in one day or two

days or it could never be wrapped up.

## Egypt's Help Asked

Special to The New York Times

CAIRO, May 22—Egypt was asked by Secretary og State Kissinger today to use her good offices in Damascus to help remove some of the remaining obstacles to a Golan Heights troop-disengagement accord.

Informed diplomatic sources said that after the request the Egyptian Chief of Staff, Lieut. Gen. Mohammed Abdel Ghany El-Gamasy, contacted Syrian military authorities.

nuclear power plant.

Leaders of the Indian atomic-energy effort, for which planning began in 1944, have depicted efforts to develop nuclear weapons as an unrealistic diversion of scarce talent, money and equipment needed for developing nuclear power.

This point was made during visits to the installations of the Indian program in 1965 and 1966, when India first possessed enough plutonium for a moderate-size bomb.

## Safeguard Agreements

One research reactor at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center at Trombay, northeast of Bombay, and nuclear power plants at Tarapur, north of Bombay, and in the desert state of Rajasthan, generate about 500 pounds of plutonium a year, enough for about 50 such bombs.

fought vigorously by environmental groups. But in India, where natural gas supplies are few, such a program might appear more urgent.

The development of a moderate-sized nuclear explosive

parison with the personnel equipment and money necessary for developing military weapons deliverable by air plane or missile.

Foreign armament specialists have judged India's annual mil-

THE ROGER KENTS TAKEOFF

THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1974

INDIA BOMB LINKED
TO POWER PLANTS

Scientists Used Plutonium
From Expanding System
of Atomic Reactors

By VICTOR K. McELHENY

India's first nuclear explosion, described as "peaceful" in the face of worldwide skepticism, is a byproduct of her 30-year effort to build a nuclear power industry.

The plutonium used in the Nagasaki-size device set off under ground last Saturday is generated in reactors built for the power program. But the technology involved in building an explosive is not relevant to designing and operating the water-immersed arrays of fuel rods that form the core of a

The United States has used bombs in such coal-gasification experiments, which have been

intended for ultimate use in
mining would involve a very
small technical effort by com-

tary budget of $1.5-billion
wholly inadequate for building
a nuclear weapons delivery sys-
tem more impressive than the
Canberra jet bombers now avail-
able. The missiles that India is
developing are aimed at the
possibility of launching sma
communications satellites late
this decade.

Associated Press

In a comment on India's nuclear explosion, a cartoon in The Melbourne Sun bears the caption, "Isn't science wonderful—it's cured my appetite."

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