August 20 1970

From the desk of

MAURICE FELDMAN

Tel.: 212 758-2910

Cable: Pubrefeldi
New York

TO The Honorable
Prof. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

Dear Henry:

I take great pleasure in sending
you the enclosed story from tomorrow's Aufbau.

You will also find attached to this
letter the official bulletin of The City of
Vienna. As you can see from Page 3,
President Nixon is especially popular with
Vienna's city fathers. They praise his
initiative, action and work in the field
of environment and nature protection. Not
only in the capital, but all through Austria
officials and citizens are enthusiastic about
the President of the United States.

With best wishes,

MAURICE FELDMAN, PRSA Acc.

Public Relations Counsel

745 FIFTH AVENUE
SUITE 1404
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10022
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August 19, 1970

CABLE: PUBREFELDI NEW YORK

The Honorable
Prof. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Special Assistant for National Security
Affairs
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Henry:

Thanks for your note of August 16.

Enclosed is a story from the Rheinischer Merkur of August 14, "Sowjetische Vertragstreue", which shows that agreements made with the Soviet Union are as reliable as those made with Hitler.

Although our press rarely reports it, the terror in the satellite countries, especially in Czechoslovakia and Poland, is worse than during Stalin's time. Soviet Russia's new attitude--the SALT negotiations, the German pact and the cease-fire in the Middle East--is only a part of its tactical maneuvering and psychological warfare.

The next open aggressive thrust might not come for some time, unless Tito dies soon. Then, the USSR will try to occupy Yugoslavia by all means and methods: first, subversion (some of Yugoslavia's officers are still sympathetic to the Red Army); if that fails, outright war. This would, of course, mean critical danger for Italy, the conversion of the Adriatic into a Red ocean and the domination of the western Mediterranean by Soviet armed forces.

Best regards.

MF/ebm
Encl.

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Während in Wien das Referat LGL in der Stadtbau-
direktion die ersten Vorarbeiten leistete (dies
insbesondere auf dem zu Unrecht als nebensächlich
erachteten legislativen Gebiet: einschlägige Vor-
schriften finden sich zwanglos verstreut in der
Bau- oder Sanitätsgesetzgebung sowie in der Ge-
werbeordnung und anderen Rechtsnormen), wurde die
Weltöffentlichkeit nur gelegentlich mit Meldungen
aufgeschreckt: Mütter haben DDT in ihrer Milch-
Kühe, die in der Nähe von Autobahnen weiden,
geben bleihältige Milch und ähnliches. Die Massen-
medien druckten Sensationsmeldungen ab, die mit
angenehmem Schaudern gelesen wurden - mehr nicht.

Das Jahr 1970 jedoch begann mit einem Knalleffekt: Am 10. Februar richtete US-Präsident Richard NIXON eine Botschaft an den Kongreß der Vereinigten Staaten. Das Thema: Umweltschutz.

Nixon deponierte in dieser Botschaft nicht weniger
als 23 Gesetzesanträge und 14 Vorschläge für
sofortige Maßnahmen. Damit wurde das Thema zum
ersten Mal aus der Kompetenz der Einzelstaaten
herausgehoben und als nationales Problem der
gesamten USA deklariert. Nixon, der in seiner
Botschaft nicht mit harten Worten für die gegen-
wärtige Generation sparte - "We in this century have
too casually and too long abused our natural
environment. The time has come when we can wait no

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longer to repair the damage already done ....." -
forderte die Kooperation aller: "Machtvolle
Führung durch die Bundesbehörden, aktive Be-
tätigung der Regierungen auf allen Ebenen, Hilfe der
Industrie und privater Gruppen - über allem aber
die entschlossene Teilnahme der Bürger in jedem
Staat und jeder Gemeinschaft."

Und das erstrebte Ziel formulierte der Präsident mit
den Worten: "So werden wir schließlich mit dem
Vorhaben Erfolg haben, jene Umweltbedingungen
wiederherzustellen, die wir uns wünschen - und damit
auch jene, die die künftigen Generationen verdienen."

Zur selben Zeit (9. - 12. Februar 1970) tagte in
Straßburg die vom Europarat einberufene "Europäische
Naturschutzkonferenz", die immerhin durch Persönlich-
keiten wie Prinz BERNHARD der Niederlande und den
Herzog von EDINBURGH bereichert wurde. Die 350 Dele-
gierten erklärten das Jahr 1970 zum Europäischen
Naturschutzjahr und beschlossen eine Deklaration,
die den Regierungen Europas detaillierte Maßnahmen
zum Umweltschutz vorschlägt. Interessant war, daß
die Naturschützer sich dabei in ungewohnt häufiger
Weise des Begriffes "Umwelt" bedienten, also den
Teilbereich des reinen Naturschutzes bereits ver-
lassen hatten.

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Die Naturschutzkonferenz gliederte ihre Vorschläge in Richtlinien für die internationale, die nationale und die lokale Ebene. Die Präambel der Deklaration beginnt mit dem bitteren Satz: "Jeder Bewohner Europas kann heute die Zeichen der Verunreinigung und Zerstörung seiner Umwelt sehen."

Das Frühjahr 1970 bringt das Schwergewicht des europäischen Umweltschutzes wieder nach Wien: Die österreichische Bundeshauptstadt stellt das Europagespräch 1970 (19. - 23. Mai) unter das Thema "Mensch und Natur in der europäischen Großstadt". Bundespräsident Franz JONAS erklärt bei der Eröffnung: "Naturschutz ist Menschenschutz!"

Gleichzeitig wird in der Schmidthalle des Wiener Rathauses eine Ausstellung "Naturschutz in Österreich" gezeigt. Wenig später präsentiert der Verlag für Jugend und Volk den ersten Band der dreibändigen "Naturgeschichte Wiens".

Auch der Österreichische Städtetag in Graz (23. - 24. Juni) beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema: Der Grazer Bürgermeister Dipl.-Ing. Gustav SCHERBAUM hält dort ein Referat zum Thema "Bedrohte Umwelt" und schließt es mit den Worten: "Wir haben keine Zeit zu verlieren. Es geht darum, noch im letzten Augenblick Maßnahmen zu setzen, die auch in Hinkunft ein gesundes Leben ermöglichen."

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Das geschieht Ende Juni. Wieder vergehen ein paar Wochen, und dann wird die Weltöffentlichkeit plötzlich von den verschiedensten Seiten mit Meldungen größter Aktualität konfrontiert.

Der Sommer 1970 wird auf diesem Gebiet vielleicht einmal in die Geschichte der Menschheit eingehen. In Amerika, in Asien, aber auch in Österreich setzen die Umweltschützer zum Angriff an:

Ende Juli teilt der Generalstaatsanwalt des US-Bundesstaates Illinois mit, daß er beim Federal Court in Washington einen Prozeß gegen die vier größten Autoproduzenten Amerikas anstrengen wird: General Motors, Ford, Chrysler und American Motors. Die Klage gegen die Motorgiganten stellt die Behauptung auf, daß sie seit nicht weniger als siebzehn Jahren systematisch die Entwicklung und Herstellung von Geräten verzögern, deren Einbau in Kraftwagen die Luftverseuchung verringern würde. Der Klage gegen die "nationale Belästigung" wollen sich dem Vernehmen nach die Vertreter zehn weiterer US-Bundesstaaten anschließen.

Fast zur selben Zeit entschließt sich die japanische Regierung zu einem drastischen Schritt: Für die Fragen der Wasser- und Luftverschmutzung wird ein eigener Kabinettssitz geschaffen, der wenige Stunden später in der Weltpresse bereits seinen Spitznamen hat: der japanische "Smog-Minister".

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Inzwischen hat sich die Tokioter Stadtverwaltung im Einvernehmen mit der Polizei zu einer geradezu überfallsartigen Maßnahme entschlossen: Am 2. August sperrt sie in den vier großen Einkaufsgebieten (der Sonntag ist der japanische Einkaufstag Nummer eins) nicht weniger als 122 Straßen für den gesamten motorisierten Verkehr. Und der Erfolg gibt ihr recht: In den betroffenen Stadtteilen sinkt an diesem Tag der CO-Gehalt der Luft auf ein Fünftel des üblichen Werts. Im übrigen: Der Umsatz der Kaufhäuser steigt an diesem Tag sprunghaft an.

Kräftige Schützenhilfe geben die japanischen Gewerkschaften: Für den 21. Oktober beschließen sie einen Streik aus Protest gegen die Verschmutzung von Wasser und Luft. Vier Millionen Japaner werden einen Tag lang nicht arbeiten.

Einen Tag nach dem geglückten Tokioter Experiment tritt im Senat der Vereinigten Staaten der Junior-Senator des Staates Wisconsin auf den Plan. Er geht noch weiter als der Generalstaatsanwalt des Staates Illinois, der nicht mehr fordert als den Einbau von Geräten zur Verminderung der Luftver-pestung in alle PKWs bis zurück zum Baujahr 1953. Nein, Gaylord NELSON, demokratisches Mitglied des Senats, fordert nicht weniger als das Verbot der gegenwärtig üblichen Verbrennungsmotoren mit Wirkung vom 1. Jänner 1975.

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Experten, sagt Nelson, haben bestätigt, daß es
möglich sein muß, einen anderen Antrieb für Autos
zu entwickeln, der sowohl wirtschaftlich als auch
leiser und vor allem frei von Abgasen wäre.

Wieder 24 Stunden später: Im österreichischen
Ministerrat berichtet der Vizekanzler der Regierung
KREISKY, Ing. Rudolf HÄUSER, über die Einsetzung
eines "interministeriellen Komitees für Umwelt-
hygiene". Häuser stellt fest, daß "die Entwicklung
der Technik und die zunehmende Industrialisierung
während der letzten Jahrzehnte zu wesentlichen Ein-
griffen in die natürliche Umwelt des Menschen ge-
führt" habe. Acht Ministerien, der Verfassungsdienst
des Bundeskanzleramtes, der Städte- und der Gemeinde-
bund werden dem Komitee angehören, das am 1. Oktober
zu seiner ersten Sitzung zusammentreten soll.

Mittlerweile ist in aller Stille ein illustratives
Beispiel gesetzt worden, wie supranationale Kontakte
zu etablieren sind und welchen Erfolg sie haben
können: Tschechoslowakische und österreichische
Experten haben ein umfassendes Gutachten über die
Maßnahmen erstellt, durch die die Flüsse March und
Thaya saniert werden könnten. In beiden Staaten
werden March und Thaya durch die Abwässer der Zucker-
industrie in ihrer Wassergüte stark herabgesetzt.
Eine Ratifikation dieses Gutachtens wäre noch im
Herbst möglich.

Eigentümer und Verleger: Stadt Wien. Herausgeber: Presse- und Informationsdienst der Stadt Wien (PID). — Für den Inhalt verantwortlich: Klaus Henning; alle PRESSEFORUM, 1 Rathausstr. 1, A 1082 Wien, Tel. (0222) 42800 Durchwahl Klappe 2979.

Druck: Druckereibetrieb der Magistratsabteilung 54, 3 Am Modenapark 1-2, 1031 Wien

Wiener
Notizen

SONDERDIENST DER
RATHAUS-KORRESPONDENZ

Nummer 30/10. August 1970

Sehr geehrter Leser !

Die Thematik des Umweltschutzes, lange Zeit gefährlich ver-
nachlässigt, beginnt einen markanten Platz im öffentlichen
Bewußtsein einzunehmen. Die österreichisches Bundeshauptstadt
hat sich von Anfang an bemüht, Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen
auf diesem Gebiet den Wiener Bürgern nutzbar zu machen.

Damit ist nicht nur die Tätigkeit der zuständigen Dienst-
stellen gemeint, etwa die Erwerbung großer Areale auf dem
Bisamberg zur späteren Ausgestaltung als Erholungsgebiet oder
die ausgedehnten Grunderwerbs-Transaktionen, wenn es gilt,
ein Ausflugsgebiet der Wiener vor der Verbauung zu bewahren.

Damit ist vor allem gemeint: Wien hat auf der publizistischen
Seite alles getan, um die Problematik des Umweltschutzes
im Bewußtsein der österreichischen Öffentlichkeit zu ver-
ankern. Diesem Ziel soll auch mit der heutigen Nummer der
"Wiener Notizen" gedient werden:

Interessante Maßnahmen und Erklärungen zu dem Thema werden
naturgemäß immer wieder als Einzelmeldungen präsentiert.
Im folgenden wird eine chronologische Darstellung des Ab-
laufes der Ereignisse gegeben, wie sie sich in den letzten
drei Jahren abgespielt haben.

Die Redaktion

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In aller Welt:

Umweltschützer im Vormarsch

Im März 1968 erhielt der Wiener Stadtbaudirektor, Prof. Dr. Rudolf KOLLER, einen Brief von Bürgermeister Bruno MAREK. In diesem Schreiben ersuchte der Bürgermeister, ein Sonderreferat der Stadtbau-direktion zu schaffen, in welchem die Angelegenheiten der Luftreinhaltung, des Gewässerschutzes und der Lärmbekämpfung zusammengefaßt werden sollten.

Der Stadtbaudirektor kam dem Wunsch des Bürgermeisters sofort nach: Schon kurze Zeit später wurde das neue Referat (LGL) geschaffen und mit seiner Leitung Oberstadtbaurat Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard STERNISTE be-traut.

Mit dieser Maßnahme war die Stadt Wien als Schritt-macher für den Umweltschutz in Österreich auf den Plan getreten. Tatsächlich war - hauptsächlich aus publizistischen Gründen - die Problematik des Umweltschutzes zu dieser Zeit noch nicht überall erkannt worden. Außerdem arbeiteten die "traditionel-len" Naturschützer noch weitgehend getrennt von den sich langsam formierenden "Umweltschützern", die der Natur der Sache nach ihr hauptsächliches Augen-merk auf die großstädtischen Ballungsräume richteten.

# Nixon's 'Dr. Strangelove' Denies Sinister Role

By SAUL PETT

WASHINGTON, D. C.-AP-"What do you think are the misconceptions about a man in your job?" a top United States national security adviser was asked — after he had kept his interviewer waiting more than an hour while he saw the president, talked with one of his own aides, then with another and then another.

Finally Henry Alfred Kissinger, 47, had found the time to be interviewed and had sunk low in an easy chair and graciously invited his visitor to do the same.

A German refugee at 15, who became a distinguished professor at Harvard, a renowned member of the Eastern intellectual establishment and world authority on the troubles between nations, he still speaks in a deep voice softly touched with a German accent. His brown hair rises from his forehead in small, orderly waves, and behind the horn rimmed glasses, in the blue-gray eyes, one senses the quiet struggle of a quick mind trying to be patient with the shortcomings of others.

Kissinger is noted in Washington for his wit, in which he builds upon the Dr. Strangelove image some have given him — for instance (as quoted by an associate): "Excuse me. I have to go down to the Situation Room and plot the war — and that sounds even better in German."

## Has Been Under Attack

But humor is not his mood of the moment. He has been attacked bitterly by his former Harvard colleagues for the Cambodia incursion. More recently, the papers have been reporting that there is increasing friction between him and the State Department and have suggested that he commands the president's ear on foreign affairs at the expense of Secretary William Rogers.

"One of the painful problems," he begins in reply to the question," is the inability of people to grant good faith to those with whom they disagree. They put a presidential assistant in the posi-

tion of either being disloyal to the president or make him the focus of bitter attacks.

"One of the worst misconceptions is the idea that a presidential assistant exercises some Svengali influence over the president. I've worked with three presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon). A man doesn't become president who

has a weak will. You don't establish any mesmeric influence over a president, and if you have a conscience, you don't try.

"It would be preposterous to pretend I don't have any influence. I do. But my position is something like this: I say to the president, you've got this problem and you have three or four different

ways of going at it and here are the different points of view. When he asks what I think, I tell him. But a president is never dependent on one man. He can't afford to be."

As for other misconceptions, Kissinger points out that the outsider cannot appreciate the enormous pressure put on White House people for their time.

"Before," he says, referring to his life at Harvard and as an occasional presidential consultant, "I could always deal with a problem in what I thought was a reasonable way. I could work at something until I thought I understood it. Here, I've had to put problems in order of priority and hope that the low priority ones won't hit us before we get to them.

"Also, the outsider believes a presidential order is consistently followed out. Nonsense. I have to spend considerable time seeing that it is carried out, and in the spirit the president intended. Inevitably, in the nature of bureaucracy, departments become pressure groups for a point of view. If the president decides against them, they are convinced some evil influence worked on the president — that if only he knows all the facts, he would have decided their way.

"The nightmare of the modern state is the hugeness of the bureaucracy and the problem is how to get coherence and design in it."

## 'Swinging Bachelor'

Away from the affairs of state, Kissinger has been pictured as "the swinging bachelor of the Nixon administration." He drives a white Mercedes and is a connoisseur of the ballet and fine restaurants. His dates have been widely noted. One of them, Barbara Howar, calls him "the super Kraut." But a White House aide also credits her with this definition: "Sex in the Nixon administration consists of Henry Kissinger slowing down to 35 miles an hour when he drops you off at night."

And so, the question: "With your six day workweeks and your 13 hour days,

Turn to page 3

-AP Photo

Secretary of State William Rogers listens to presidential assistant Henry Kissinger at a White House ceremony. "Regarding alleged contests between me and the State Department," Kissinger commented to an interviewer, "two or three years from now it won't matter a damn who signed a particular recommendation. If we do reasonably well in our foreign policy, there will be credit enough for everybody."

inspectors checked 10,781 trucks and 397 busses, only a small percentage of the total.

For the next 60 days, inspectors will concentrate on charter vehicles, obviously easing up on other responsibilities, which include checking terminals as well as vehicles. They hope to reach 5,000 busses-only 20 to 25% of those in interstate commerce. The "spot" inspection will be done at resorts, tourist areas and historical sites where charter busses congregate. In some cases, vacationers will be delayed while faulty busses are fixed.

Drivers are supposed to check their own vehicles daily and report to their companies. Carriers also are supposed to check their fleets periodically and report to federal officials. Obviously such "self-inspection" has limitations.

The bureau is partially backstopped by state inspection in 31 states - not including Wisconsin, which still has passenger car inspection only on a pilot basis.

Like most enforcement agencies, the US Transportation Department says its inspection manpower is inadequate because of budget limitations. If that's true, it is poor economy and poor priority rating.

## The Clown Weeps

Coco, the clown with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, says that the clown business is failing. It's hard to make people laugh these days, he says. People are too "uptight, so tense," he says, that old ways of entertaining them don't work. For instance, the heart of the clown's act, as it was of vaudeville, was the "pratfall." All an entertainer had to do to bring down the house was fall down. Today, says Coco, "a man who falls down has social significance." It's under-

milk pricing and donation of government held dairy products to the armed services.

The "Poage-Hardin" name for the bill indicates its compromise nature. It is named after the House Agriculture Committee chairman, Rep. Robert Poage (D-Tex.), and the Republican agriculture secretary, Clifford Hardin. Perhaps it has all the "reform" that can be achieved in an election year.

## Edgar Snow Returns

Hopes that American initiatives to ease relations with Communist China would bring reciprocal action from Peking have found little or no encouragement. There has been no public response to the Nixon administration unilateral moves to drop some trade restrictions and allow Americans to visit China under a US passport.

There had been some optimism that the Chinese might invite American businessmen to the biennial Canton Trade Fair last spring. This did not materialize - despite US business and government interest.

Edgar Snow, the American writer, was allowed into China this month - the first US journalist to enter the country officially on a US passport since the Cultural Revolution. Snow is a longtime friend of China's leader, Mao Tse-tung, and was granted an interview with him in 1965, just before the Cultural Revolution began. If postrevolution image building is China's aim, then Snow's trip may signal that it wants the US to get a clearer view of what is happening there. Given the continuing conflict in Vietnam and other animosities between the two nations, the peephole constructed by Snow almost surely will not expand rapidly. But any direct contact is heartening.

it, the latest being "Bells and Pomegranates."

As a poet, Elizabeth Barrett was better known than he. She was a popular contributor to leading magazines, and had recently (1844) brought out two more books of poems. One of

amused, by the letter, and wrote to thank him for it - "such a letter from such a hand." She is shut up during the winter, she says, but when spring comes, she might be well enough to see him, and meantime she begs the criti-

fond of him, as he has a shown partiality for he encouraged her writing. health has always been cate, but the drowning of vorite brother many years vious had thrown her in nervous condition which

## Fishermen as Polluters

To The Journal: The breakwater at Port Washington is a favorite fishing spot for many. But, fishermen, you are destroying your favorite spot!

The beer cans and debris between rocks of the breakwater are appalling. The number of beer cans floating on the lake is unbelievable. If this continues, within a few years there won't be any room to toss a hook and line into the lake.

If fishermen can carry the beer cans out on the breakwater, can't they carry

the empties back to shore to the garbage can?

Are fishermen the worst polluters of all?

Greendale, Wis.

## 'Squashing' a Rock Show

To The Journal: The state of Wisconsin has been successful in squashing the "rock festival" announced for Tomahawk. The youth of Wisconsin apparently are not going to get another chance to get together within the boundaries of this state.

The foolish way in which the various government agencies handled this concert will do much to harm the confidence of youth in this state's government.

Had any of the "law" people involved sat down and analyzed the so-called festival they would have discovered that it was a show capable of drawing only 2,000 to 3,000 people. The entertainment hired, plus the fact that this was only a one day show, cut the drawing power to a minimum.

The state's apparent attempt to show off its "power" has only made the offi-

## From the

Letters must include name and address not evidence of good faith. They must be free to editors reserve the right to tr

cials involved (including Gov. Knowles) look rather foolish. This would have been a good chance for the state officials to help out the youth and gain their respect by working in co-operation with the motorer rather than jailing him.

The officials apparently convinced themselves that a one day outdoor rock concert in Tomahawk with one national act and no advertising could draw 20,000 people!

What was done to stop the polka festival at Merrill? Is the state discriminating against an age group?

Free enterprise and individual rights will probably win out over unfair government practices in the long run, but in the meantime many people are getting hurt and not getting it.

LARRY A. SCHUMANN,

North Central Productions, Inc.
Madison, Wis.

## The Case Against 'Sanguine'

To The Journal: It is unfortunate that some proponents of Project Sanguine have to resort to name calling, as in their letters to editors, making attacks on Walter Thoresen because of his sincere convictions that Sanguine is contrary to the best interests of northern Wisconsin.

Some people apparently believe that installing Project Sanguine in northern Wisconsin would improve the wildlife habitat, especially for deer. Those of us who are serious hunters agree with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that an abundant and currently unharvested deer herd now exists in the Sanguine area. Selective cutting and other practices can be carried out which

could hardly

For the deer found in the season area.

The ones side "they" seem to think in our opinion.

The state's character plans for the National Park service.

The deciduous forests of the North American

Rt. 3,

To the west

The deer in the forest

The deer get to the

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

OCT 8 1970

Dear Tom:

Thank you for your letter of September 28. It was good to hear from you and I was interested to read the editorial from the Plain Dealer I appreciate your thinking of me.

I am glad to hear of what you are doing and I am pleased to know that Tom Guthrie found the meeting in Chicago worthwhile. I enjoyed chatting with him.

I will be glad to pass your greetings along to David Rockefeller when I see him. Do stay in touch.

Mr. Thomas Vail
The Plain Dealer
1801 Superior Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114

jlp:10/7/70

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["THE MAIN DEALER, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1970", "3-R", "Humphrey Lags", "Muskie, Nixon Neck and Neck", "By LeRoy Harris\nIf this year, Sen. Edmund Muskie, of the Democratic", "city would be running dead even with President Nixon on at 43-43% each, a race that would be shown to be a complete rip accept record of the 1968 balloting.", "The Muskie race was in the same pattern of strong Democrats to be tested. President Nixon was running for President with Humphrey and John Lindley as possible Democratic standard bearers. Muskie runs 9 points better than either of the two.", "LINDLEY: \"I think we're going to have a third party would roll 10% of the vote.", "HARRIS'S\nSURVEY", "HARRIS'S\nSURVEY", "Wallace had a third party would roll 10% of the vote. Here is the trend of Nixon-Muskie-Wallace stand and an d-demonstrations in two basic areas, each at opposite ends of the spectrum.", "These results show President Nixon running into real difficulties. 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In the Deep South, ranging from Florida through the Caroli-", "ntry, Among college educated voters, Muskie is ahead of the President by a 46-39% margin.", "The slippage for Mr. Nixon is probably the result of the enforcement of the two candidates' election law, and the decision to end de jure segregation to end major cities of that region.", "THE NEWS OUT OF THIS latest presidential trial test is therefore two- fold:", "At the moment, Mr. Nixon is being rung at two opposite ends of the coalition that elected him in 1968. The moderate-minded higher education voters now find a more viable alternative in the Democratic field. He is becoming dis- chanted.", "Sen. Muskie gives every sign of being away from the rest of the Democratic field. If he can get a majority in his reelection campaign, he will be in a position to take the 1972 race in that state.", "In May, Nixon held a 7- point lead in the border states and back in April. He was ahead of Muskie by a 46-39% margin.", "Joins Club", "JOHN T. KOZLOWSKY, 106 Kennedy Boulevard. North- ward, has qualified for membership in The Poin- gle Deeler Gollon Club by being given the right to be admitted into the Poin- gle blood to the Red Cross blood program. He is a member of the Walton Hills Stamping Pint of Ford Motor Co.", "Speedy Firemen Rescue Man as Building Burns", "By Robert J. McAney", "To a second-floor floor,", "firemen Donald E. Semple, a former fireman, and Joseph Peachman, 22, searched through the thick smoke and flames where they found the man. The man, Joseph Kurnak, of 2304 E. 3rd Street, was admitted to Lutheran Medi- cal Center with first and second-degree burns of the head and arms. He was in satisfactory conditions last night.", "Firemen fought the fire three hours before beginning to put out control. A man was suspected in the blaze, but it is not known how much damage Police Lt. John R. Kukula discovered in a burning building at 409 Frankfort Avenue N.W. at 3:12 a.m. and heard a man smoking inside. Kukula radioed for help.", "WITHIN FOUR minutes a Fire Rescue Squad was in the scene hoisting a ladder", "WHILE THE fire was still burning, Kukula was told a 23-year- old Cleveland man was boosting he had set it. The man and two others were arrested and were held last night for investigation, Kukula said.", "The fire destroyed the building at 409 Frankfort and a nearby second-story building at 1288 W. 6th Street. The building on", "Frankfort was vacant. The one, on W. 6th housed Sher- man's Clothe and Cleveland Cuttery Co. Two near- by buildings were damaged by smoke and water.", "Fitzgerald said it took 110 freemen to bring the blaze under control. Fire officials made the damage estimate.", "Nixon Visit Finds Irish Surprised", "DUBLIN, Ireland — \"WE MUST, however, be careful not to lose a bit bitewildered by President Nixon's planned three-day visit.\"", "\"We didn't think we were that important, with the world of the state it is,\" said news vendor Cathal O'Conner of O'Connell Street. \"But maybe there's something to our way of life.\"", "THERE'S ONE unanimous reaction to the Nixon visit Saturday, Surprise.", "The White House announcement that Mr. Nixon intended to pay a visit to the landmass of Ireland, the same demen- tioned by President Nixon, coming here for a quick visit, could run into trouble.", "Maurice Hickey, political editor of the influential Irish Independent, put this way: \"The Irish concept is a bit vague and so far as relatives of the President or Mr. Nixon have been discovered.", "DON'T BUY A HEARING AID", "An oral statement from aю- рист, a leading journalist, and a leading manufacturer of habi- tual smoking cigarettes, and a well-known speaker on questions about smoking, said that you DON'T need a hearing aid.", "BUY A HEARING AID. 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Higbee Music Center, Seventh Floor Downtown and all Suburban Stores. Call 579-3786 for information.", "Married Priest Says Mass for Dutch Students", "From the News", "A Roman Catholic congregation in Amsterdam, openly defied church authorities yesterday by permitting a Dutch priest to say mass for sin. The priest, Hubert Oosterhuis — who was married six months ago — said the mass in the chapel of St. Ignace, the others wanted to be married in a Dutch church — the mass that the priest pre-", "tested and half a dozen persons walked away. Members of the Amsterdam student parish — students of the city of Amsterdam — said the priest would say mass in defiance of a ban by bishop of Haarlem.", "SEARCHES — Stanley R. Bond, one four fugitive sought in the machine-slaying case of astoned policeman, was arrested in Grand Junction, Colo. The FBI announced yesterday that the others wanted to be arrested in Grand Junction, Colo. 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September 28, 1970

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
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Washington, D. C.

Dear Henry:

I am enclosing an editorial which expresses a viewpoint I have not seen anywhere although it seemed rather obvious to me. There are many days when we are all very glad you are on hand in the position you are and I hope your trip to Paris has helped to clarify our negotiations there.

I am sorry to have missed you in Chicago although I sent my assistant, Tom Guthrie, who said he had a good chat with you and found the meeting very interesting.

I have been serving on the United Nations Commission and we have been trying to come up with a constructive report as the U.N. has certainly fallen way down in everyone's consideration. Somehow Mr. Thant continues to bend against the western world which he apparently resents.

If you see David Rockefeller please give him my best. Perhaps we can get him into the government service in one way or another.

Best wishes and kindest regards.

Thomas Vail

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

OCT 8 1970

Dear Miss Collenberg:

Please thank HIM for me. I appreciate his thinking of me and was interested to see the Rogers-Stevens piece and found the idea contained in it equally amusing and true.

Miss Margi Collenberg
1750 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W.
Suite 1311
Washington, D. C. 20006

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OCT 8 1970

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# Sans Merci

## White House's Lame Ducks
Find They Dine Alone

By Art Buchwald

POWER, the opiate of the people who live in Washington, is starting to slip through the hands of the old Administration and is being grabbed by the new. There are signs of the switch taking place every day. For example, Tuesday I was at the Sans Souci Restaurant, the place where the White House power structure usually has lunch.

One of President Johnson's aides came in and was escorted to his usual table. He sat there for two hours, alone. The person he was supposed to have lunch with never showed up.

THE MAN I was with, who has lived through several administration changeovers in Washington, shook his head sadly and said, "The poor S.O.B. They're trying to tell him something."

"Is that how they usually do it?" I asked.

"Sometimes they cancel his table before he arrives. That way nobody knows he was stood up for lunch. This way everybody knows. It will be all over town in an hour."

"But suppose the person who was supposed to have lunch with him just couldn't make it?"

"You don't understand. If you've got the power, the person makes it. Somebody else gets stood up. But if you don't have the power any more, then you get stood up. He's looking over here and smiling at us. Whatever you do, don't smile back."

"BUT HE'S my friend," I protested. "If he smiles at me, I'll have to smile back."

"He doesn't want you just to smile back. He wants you to invite him to sit with us, so it doesn't look as if he's been stood up. We can't afford that."

"Why not?" I said.

"You don't know anything about this town, do you? Suppose word got out that we had lunch with him—I mean just two weeks before inauguration."

"Well, heck, he's still a decent guy, even if he is on his way out."

"That's not the point, stupid," my friend said. "We have to deal with the new guys over at the White House, and if they think we have any ties with the old guys, they won't trust us. If you still want to have something to do with that loser, meet him at a Hot Shoppe, but don't get me involved. I've got my job to think of."

"Are you trying to tell me that the new guys wouldn't trust us if we bought an old Administration guy a cup of coffee?"

"I'm trying to tell you that everyone in this restaurant is aware of what is going on. Sure, it would be a nice, brave, gutty thing to wave and say, 'Come on over for a brandy.' And there are probably a few people in the restaurant who would admire us for it. But a majority of the people in this restaurant feel exactly as I do. The guy came in here alone. Let him leave alone."

"IT SEEMS so cruel."

"Government is cruel," my friend said. "But he'll be all right. He'll probably get $100,000 a year when he gets out of the White House, not to mention a half-million-dollar

advance on a book, plus lecture fees. He's not going to starve to death."

"But the thought of nobody ever eating lunch with him," I said. "Couldn't I just go over to his table and say goodbye?" I asked.

"I wouldn't chance it. Herb Klein just came in." My friend waved wildly at Klein, Mr. Nixon's new communications chief. "Hiya, Herb, baby. How's the old boy!" My friend muttered to me, "Wave at him. Maybe he'll stop by the table for a minute. It won't hurt us if he does."

In the excitement, my friend from the White House got up from the table and left the restaurant. Not one person in the Sans Souci noticed he was gone.

© 1969 The Washington Post Co.

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September 22, 1970

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

HE said that you would like to see a copy
of the article about Roger Stevens, so here it is.

KISSINGER, HENRY A./NEWSPAPERS&CLIPPINGS

OCT 16 1970

Dear Dick:

Many thanks for sending me the articles by Fontaine and Aron. I found them most interesting and appreciate your thoughtfulness in sending them to me.

Again, it was good to see you, and I particularly enjoyed the dinner whose food I found easy to digest and whose food for thought I found rewarding.

Honorable Arthur K. Watson
American Ambassador
Paris, France

jk

WL:jlp:10/15/70

OCT 16 1970

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APRÈS LA DISPARITION DE NASSER
La tension entre les Grands

Les Américains commen-
caient à croire au succès des
pourparlers sur la limitation
des armements stratégiques
(Salt). Les Européens affec-
taient de se réjouir du traité
germano-soviétique et d'y voir
un symptôme favorable.

Le consentement au cessez-
le-feu au Proche-Orient confir-
mait, au premier abord, cette
interprétation optimiste et ré-
duisait la portée symbolique
de l'intervention directe des
Soviétiques dans les combats.
L'installation sur le canal non
de quelques missiles mais
d'une défense antiaérienne
comparable à celle que pos-
sède le Vietnam du Nord, a
d'un coup transformé radica-
lement la conjoncture : le pré-
sident Nixon éprouve, à juste
titre, le sentiment d'avoir été
joué. Exactement comme le
président Kennedy à la veille
de la crise des fusées, il a pris
les représentants soviétiques

en flagrant délit de mensonge.
M. Gromyko avait nié l'instal-
lation d'armes offensives à
Cuba, l'ambassadeur soviéti-
que nie, de même, les viola-
tions de cessez-le-feu. Mais les
Etats-Unis de Kennedy avaient
en eux-mêmes et dans leur
supériorité militaire une
confiance que les Etats-Unis
de Nixon n'ont plus.

Les violations du cessez-le-
feu ont modifié le rapport des
forces sur le terrain. La cons-
truction, à Cuba, d'une base
pour les sous-marins nucléai-
res soviétiques ne modifierait
que dans une faible mesure
le rapport des forces. De toute
manière, les sous-marins so-
viétiques, avec des fusées
comparables aux Polaris, croi-
sent au large des côtes amé-
ricaines comme les sous-ma-
rins nucléaires de la Navy au
large des côtes de l'Union

soviétique. Militairement, la
proximité de la base cubaine
éviterait aux sous-marins so-
viétiques les longs trajets de
retour. Le profit militaire
serait modeste.

Le profit politique, lui, se-
rait considérable. Il effacerait
le souvenir de la crise des fu-
sées de 1962. La construction
d'une base à Cienfuegos re-
présenterait très exactement
la revanche de 1962. Ce que
Kennedy avait interdit il y a
huit ans, Nixon le tolérerait
aujourd'hui. Bien plus, Ken-
nedy s'était ingénié à dissimu-
ler son succès, à ne pas faire
perdre la face à son adver-
saire. La construction d'une
telle base, au milieu des négo-
ciations *Salt*, après la crise des
fusées du canal de Suez, au-
rait un caractère exactement
contraire : elle tendrait à
faire perdre la face au prési-
dent Nixon.

Les intentions soviétiques à
Cuba demeurent incertaines,
mais les violations du cessez-
le-feu sur le canal de Suez
ne le sont pas. Pourquoi cette
agressivité soudaine après des
déclarations retentissantes de
bonne volonté et de concilia-
tion ? Chacun peut spéculer,
un seul fait offre au moins
un début d'explication : les
grandes puissances ne résis-
tent pas à la tentation. Les

Soviétiques disposent aujour-
d'hui de quelque 1.300 engins
intercontinentaux ; ils ont en
face d'eux un Etat, apparem-
ment paralysé par l'enlisement
au Vietnam, par les querelles
intérieures. Au Moyen-Orient,
ils ont une revanche à pren-
dre sur la défaite arabe
de 1967. Ils tâtent le terrain,
mesurent la vigueur des réac-
tions : jusqu'où iront-ils? La
réponse dépend de leur appré-
ciation du danger.

De manière peut-être para-
doxale, la disparition de Nas-
ser, plus que la visite du pré-
sident Nixon à la VIe Flotte,
donnera probablement aux di-
rigeants soviétiques la con-
science du danger. La situa-
tion en Egypte devient moins
prévisible, la conduite des suc-
cesseurs du Rais également.
Les Grands, les Egyptiens, les
Israéliens devraient reconnaî-
tre leur intérêt à la prolonga-
tion du cessez-le-feu. A condi-
tion que les Palestiniens y
consentent, que l'accord Hus-
sein-Arafat soit approximati-
vement respecté — hypothèse
evidemment optimiste — la
simple prudence incitera les
principaux acteurs à chercher
les moyens de prolonger la
trève dans un conflit appa-
remment plus insoluble encore
après la mort du héros et du
symbole de l'unité arabe.

Raymond ARON.

Suite de la première page

lorsqu'on considère

mensions de celui-ci, un centenaire marque une étape et une étape qui nous concerne tous.

« Lorsqu'on constate le rôle joué par ces organes régionaux, expression d'une région, rôle nécessaire, on s'aperçoit qu'il est parfaitement possible de faire coincider le maintien d'une ligne, car où serait l'indépendance si un quotidien, un grand quotidien parce qu'il est d'information, devait renoncer à avoir sa ligne ?

« Il n'est pas question, il ne saurait être question de cela, mais il s'agit de faire coexister, coincider une ligne avec les nécessités. les impératifs de la grande information, car chacun sait que la grande information se nourrit en réalité du pluralisme des idées que l'on exprime et aussi de la réalité de l'expression de tous les faits qui se déroulent. »

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HORS DU COMMUNISME

* La situation en vue des élections municipales a été étudiée par le bureau de la région parisienne du Parti de la démocratie socialiste. A cette occasion, le bureau a fait paraître un communiqué où il « engage les démocrates socialistes à susciter la constitution de listes d'union composées d'hommes et de femmes libres et décidés à travailler en dehors du communisme totalitaire à l'expansion et à la prospérité des communes ».

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Washington et les intentions soviétiques

Le Monde

I. — Une image détériorée

Oct 3, 1970

Par ANDRÉ FONTAINE

Les massacres de Jordanie, la mort du président Nasser, ont quel- que peu détourné l'attention d'un développement de la situation inter- nationale qui, s'il se confirmait, dé- passerait sans doute en gravité ces événements. Nous voulons parler de la soudaine détérioration, dans l'es- prit des dirigeants américains, de l'image de marque soviétique.

Il y a quelques semaines les progrès réalisés au cours des négociations stratégiques de Vienne et l'acceptation du plan Rogers par Le Caire avec l'apparente approbation de Moscou, avaient créé à Washington un climat proche de l'euphorie. L'ambassadeur Dobrynine et M. Rogers en étaient à s'appeler par leurs prénoms. On voyait dans l'U.R.S.S. une puissance consciente de ses

responsabilités internationales et dé-
sireuse de contribuer à la détente
en général et au rétablissement de
la paix au Proche-Orient en particu-
lier. Le traité soviéto-allemand, bien
qu'il ait été accueilli sans plaisir
par particulier, paraissait témoigner lui
aussi de ce même souci d'amélio-
ration des relations Est-Ouest.

Un premier nuage

Les bonnes raisons ne manquaient pas pour expliquer cette orientation du Kremlin : les difficultés de l'économie, l'embourgeoisement de la classe dirigeante, le désir d'assurer les arrières de l'armée rouge en Europe pour mieux faire face à la menace chinoise, la nécessité de rouvrir au plus vite le canal de Suez, enfin la volonté d'éviter l'affrontement majeur avec les Etats-Unis auquel risquait de conduire l'aggravation du conflit israélo-arabe. On

parlait d'une visite de M. Kossyguine
aux Nations unies et d'une rencon-
tre à cette occasion avec M. Nixon.

Il y avait bien, à l'OTAN et alleurs, des gens pour s'inquiéter du renforcement constant de l'arsenal de fusées et de la flotte de guerre soviétiques. Mais on avait tendance à penser qu'ils étaient en retard d'une guerre froide, et on préférait prêter l'oreille à l'idyllique discours que M. Brejnev avait prononcé le 28 août dernier à Alma Ata, s'abstenant pour la première fois de s'en prendre à ses boucs émissaires traditionnels : américains, allemands, israéliens et même chinois.

Le premier nuage dans ce ciel
serein a été apporté par les accu-
sations d'Israël au sujet des viola-
tions du cessez-le-feu. La mise en
route du plan Rogers reposait sur
un arrangement — understanding —
aux termes duquel les parties au
conflit ne profiteraient pas de l'arrêt
des combats pour modifier à leur
avantage la situation militaire.

(Lire la suite page 3, 1er col.)

El Fath

LA REVOLUTION PALESTINIENNE
ET LES JUIFS

le Fath propose le dialogue

Les Editions
de Minuit

5F

jet du cortège n'étaient que l'expression de la douleur de tout un peuple devant la disparition du leader.

Au total, dix-huit chefs d'Etat et neuf premiers ministres ont assisté aux obsèques.

Parmi les chefs d'Etat, il y avait le président Boumediène (Algérie), M. Cheikhsalman Al-khalifa (Bahrein), le président Bokassa (Centrafrique), Mgr Markios (Chypre), M. Rachid Ben Saïd Al Maktoum (émirat de Douba), l'empereur Hailé Sélas-é (Ethiopie), le président Pal Losonci (Hongrie), le roi Hussein (Jordanie), le cheik Al Salim Al Sabah (Koweït), le président Frangié (Liban), le éprésident Kadhafi (Libye), le président Ould Daddah (Mauritanie), l'émir Ali Al Thani (Qatar), le président Siyad (Somalie), le président Mohamed Ali Roubaye (Yémen du Sud), le président El Nemeiry (Soudan), le président Atassi (Syrie), le cadi Abdel Rahman El Iriany (Yémen).

Parmi les premiers ministres, M. Chaban - Delmas (France), M. Kossyguine (U.R.S.S.), M. Maurer (Roumanie), M. Bahi Ladgham (Tunisie), M. Demirel (Turquie), M. Ettemaadi (Afghanistan), M. Hoveida (Iran), Mme Bandaranaike (Ceylan), M. Strougal (Tchécoslovaquie).

L'Irak, l'Inde, la Pologne et la Zambie étaient représentés par leurs vice-présidents, et les autres pays par des ministres ou des envoyes spéciaux.

## LES SOVIÉTIQUES ATTAQUENT ISRAEL ET LES ÉTATS-UNIS

*(Suite de la première page.)*

Le Kremlin a donc réaffirmé, par la voix des responsables du parti et du gouvernement, la continuité de son programme au Proche-Orient. Il condamne les « agresseurs israéliens » sans contest er à l'Etat juif le droit à l'existence. Bref, il n'appuie, dans cette région du monde, qu'une seule politique : celle que Nasser suivait à la fin de sa vie. Reste à savoir s'il trouvera au Caire ou ailleurs des hommes d'Etat résolus à mettre en pratique une telle politique et cables de le faire avec autorité. Pour le moment, MM. Brejnev et Kossyguine rappellent des principes généraux, formulent des souhait s. Les dirigeants soviétiques ne peuvent d'ailleurs pas se mettre de présenter des suggestions précises alors que la succession du Raïs n'est pas réglée.

BERNARD FÉRON,

*(De notre correspondant.)*

Jérusalem. — C'est dans un ordre remarquable et avec une parfaite dignité que se sont déroulées jeudi les manifestations de deuil des Arabes d'Israël et des territoires occupés.

Les autorités israéliennes avaient eu la sagesse d'autoriser ces manifestations, et de régler avec les représentants de la population le détail de leur déroulement. La composition des cortèges avait été fixée d'un commun accord, de même que la teneur des inscriptions portés sur des banderoles. En fait, les organisateurs se sont vu seulement refuser tout ce qui pouvait donner à la manifestation un caractère politique trop lié à l'actualité la plus brûlante. De leur côté, les organisateurs s'étaient engagés à empêcher tout désordre et à éviter que la manifestation ne dégénère.

C'est ainsi qu'à Jérusalem comme à Nazareth, à Napouse, dans toutes les grandes villes de Cisjordanie, et même à Gaza, des foules importantes se sont rassemblées dans le calme au moment même où devaient commencer les cérémonies au Caire.

A Jérusalem, le cortège s'est formé à l'extérieur des murailles, réunissant entre douze mille et quinze mille personnes.

Un service d'ordre assuré par des membres des organisations de jeunesse encadrait la foule qui formait un masse compacte dans laquelle la couleur sombre dominait. Les femmes et les jeunes filles, en très grand nombre, étaient vêtues de noir. Les grandes banderoles noires portaient en lettres blanches des versets du Coran et des inscriptions à la gloire du disparu. Plusieurs centaines de portraits du Raïs étaient brandis par des femmes et des enfants des écoles, et de longes colonnes de jeunes filles tenaient des couronnes et des gerbes de fleurs.

Le dispositif de sécurité israélien avait été mis en place avec le maximum de discrétion. Pas un policier ni un militaire ne se trouvait à proximité du rassemblement, mais en certains points de la ville arabe, des policiers et quelques unités de parachutistes étaient prêts à intervenir.

Sur un ordre donné par hautparleurs, le cortège s'est mis en marche derrière ce cercueil symbolique surmonté d'un portrait de Gamal Abdel Nasser. Par la porte de Damas, la foule s'est rendue à travers les rues étroites de la vieille ville jusqu'à la mosquée El Aqsa, où a été célébré un ser-

vice religieux. L'esplanade du temple, avec ses deux mosquées, était emplie d'une foule recueillie dans un deuil profond. De temps à autre, cette foule scandait : « Allah Akbar! — Dieu est grand! — Nasser n'est pas mort! », couvrant la voix des muezzins, qui, de tous les minarets de la ville, faisaient entendre des versets du Coran.

Vers 13 h. 30, la foule s'est dispersée dans le calme, après une deuxième cérémonie religieuse au cimetière musulman du versant est du mont Moriah.

Pendant que la foule des Arabes se rendait vers la mosquée El Aqsa, une cohorte ininterrompue de juifs se rendait vers le Mur des lamentations, à l'occasion du Premier de l'an hébraïque.

A Nazareth, près de dix mille personnes ont également organisé un cortège de deuil qui, lui aussi, s'est terminé sans incident notable. Au cours de la manifestation, M. Emile Habibi, député arabe du parti communiste Rakah, a pris la parole afin de rendre hommage au président Nasser.

ANDRE SCEMAMA.

# Washington et les intentions soviétiques

(Suite de la première page.)

Pour vérifier le respect de cet enga-
gement, l'Egypte avait été jusqu'à
autoriser le survol de son territoire
par des U-2 américains. Mais la
Maison Blanche était tellement per-
suadée de la bonne foi de ses inter-
locuteurs que les missions de re-
connaissance n'ont pas été accom-
plies tout de suite, et que les accu-
sations israéliennes n'étaient pas,
au début, prises au sérieux.

On voulait croire qu'il ne s'agissait
que de « bavures » imputables à
une certaine lenteur d'exécution.
Mais, petit à petit, il fallut, dit-on
aujourd'hui à Washington, se rendre
à l'évidence. De très importants pré-
paratifs étaient en cours sur la rive
tenue par les forces de la R.A.U.
Aux Sam-2, qui peuvent être servies
par les seuls Egyptiens, s'ajoutaient
des Sam-3, armes beaucoup plus
compliquées et plus efficaces, contre
l'installation desquelles les Etats-
Unis avaient mis Moscou et Le
Caire en garde au printemps, et qui
ne peuvent être utilisées sans le
concours de techniciens soviétiques.

Chaque jour voyait de nouveaux
renforcement. C'est sur ces entre-
faites que la C.I.A. a avisé le prési-
dent que les installations portuaires
cours de construction à Cienfue-
gos, à Cuba, étaient apparemment
destinées à abriter des sous-marins
nucléaires. Sans en tirer de conclu-
sions particulièrement alarmistes sur
le plan stratégique, on trouvait pour
le moins curieuse, dans l'entourage
de M. Nixon, une pareille initiative
de l'U.R.S.S., alors que les Etats-
Unis étaient engagés avec elle dans
la recherche d'un accord sur la limi-
tation des armements stratégiques.
« Qu'auraient dit les Soviétiques,
faisait-on valoir, si nous avions, en
pleine négociation de Vienne, con-
truit une base atomique sur la mer
Noire ? »

● Le président des Etats-Unis est autorisé à vendre des armes en quantité illimitée à Israël. — Le Sénat américain a approuvé, jeudi, le projet de loi sur les fournitures militaires voté mardi par la Chambre des représentants. Le texte comprend, en outre, une résolution autorisant les ventes d'armes à Israël. — (Reuter.)

Depuis lors, les Russes ont dé-
menti la construction d'une base, et
Washington admet que l'affaire est
moins grave qu'on ne l'avait laissé
entendre sur le moment. Peut-être
la C.I.A., une fois de plus, avait-elle
forcé la note...

Il reste que, sur le moment,
M. Nixon s'est trouvé ainsi devant
une double surprise. Elle n'était pas
sans évoquer celle qui s'empara de
John Kennedy lorsqu'il apprit, en
1962, que les Russes étaient en train
d'établir en hâte à Cuba, des fusées

Selon l'explication que les diri-
geants américains — à l'exception,
dit-on, de M. Rogers — étaient géné-
ralement tentés de retenir, les sou-
irres de leurs homologues soviéti-\QUES n'auraient eu d'autre but que
de dissimuler provisoirement la lon-
gueur de leurs dents. Battu aux
points dans l'affaire de Cuba de
1962, obligé de renoncer à déloger
les Occidentaux de Berlin-Ouest,
évincé du Congo, du Ghana, d'Indo-
nésie, incapable en 1967 d'empêcher
la défaite par Israël de ses protégés
arabes, le Kremlin aurait minutieu-
sement préparé sa revanche en se
dotant de l'instrument militaire qui
lui avait fait défaut dans le passé.
Maintenant qu'il dispose d'une flotte
disséminée sur tous les océans, et
de mille trois cents missiles inter-
continentaux — contre moins de cent
au moment de la crise de Cuba, —
il reviendrait à la politique aventu-
reuse de M. Khrouchtchev, qui,
encouragé par le succès de son
Spoutnik, n'avait cessé, pendant cinq
ans, de tâter la capacité de résis-
tance américaine.

Dans cette perspective, l'accepta-
tion du plan Rogers n'aurait été
qu'une ruse destinée à endormir la
vigilance israélienne et américaine
le temps de renforcer le dispositif
de la R.A.U. et de mettre celle-ci en
mesure d'obtenir, par la pression
politique ou militaire, et sans contre-
partie véritable, le retrait total des
Israéliens des territoires occupés,
voire la disparition de l'Etat juif.
Quant au pacte germano-soviétique,
son but essentiel serait de détacher
l'Allemagne fédérale, après la France,
de la coalition occidentale et de
créer, sur le continent, un sentiment

capables de touches les centres neri-
veux des Etats-Unis, ce qui n'empê-
chait pas M. Gromyko de lui jurer, la
main sur le cœur, qu'il n'y avait pas
trace dans l'île d'armes offensives.

Cette fois-ci encore, les dirigeants américains ont eu très fort le sentiment d'avoir été joués. Mais, visiblement, avant d'envisager une parade, ils ont voulu d'abord comprendre et savoir à quoi s'en tenir. On frémit à l'idée de ce qu'auraient été, en pareilles, circonstances, les réflexes de M. Johnson.

Retour au khrouchtchévisme ?

de fausse sécurité, de nature à pou-
ser les Européens à se désintéresser
de la rivalité des superpuissances
outre-mer.

Le déroulement de la guerre civile
jordanienne a sans doute contribué
à confirmer, dans l'esprit du prési-
dent des Etats-Unis, une telle ana-
lyse. Si l'on en croit notre confrère
Joseph Alsop (1), Moscou, qui dis-
pose de conseillers dans chaque
unité de l'armée syrienne, aurait
donné à Damas le feu vert pour
venir au secours des fedyin aux
prises avec l'armée royale jorda-
nienne.

Américains et Israéliens se seraient
alors mis d'accord pour se répartir
les tâches, les premiers adressant à
Moscou, par la voie diplomatique,
une mise en garde particulièrement
insistante, accompagnée de mouve-
ments de la VIe flotte, sur les consé-
quences d'une intervention de la
Syrie en Jordanie, et les seconds
assortissant un avertissement paral-
lèle à Damas d'une importante con-
centration de blindés sur la fron-
tière. Cependant, sur le terrain, la
bataille tournait au désavantage des
Syriens, qui, selon M. Alsop, auraient
perdu, tant au combat que par suite
de défaillances mécaniques, près de
la moitié des trois cents chars enga-
gés. Bientôt les Russes envoyaient à
Washington une note d'un ton conci-
liant, et le monde, soulagé, apprenait
le retrait des forces syriennes.

Toujours selon M. Alsop, le chargé
d'affaires soviétique s'étant étonné
auprès de M. Kissinger, le conseiller
spécial du président, du retard mis

(1) International Herald Tribune
du 26 septembre.

par Washington à répondre à cette
communication, se serait attiré la
réponse suivante : « Nous nous som-
mes rendu compte, ces derniers
temps, que lorsque vous nous dites
quelque chose, vous faites généralement
le contraire deux jours plus
tard. Dans ces conditions, je pense
que le président a jugé préférable
d'attendre et de voir venir. » Pour
autant qu'on sache. M. Kissinger ne
conteste pas avoir tenu des propos
fort voisins de ceux que rapporte
le columnist américain.

M. Alsop est un « faucon » notoire
— rendons-lui cette justice qu'il
l'était déjà en 1940, lorsque le débat
portait sur l'attitude à prendre vis-
à-vis du nazisme, — et ses jugements
sont souvent sujets à caution. Mais
tout indique qu'il n'a fait cette fois
que rapporter fidèlement les informa-
tions — ou les interprétations — qui
lui ont été données par ses amis
du Pentagone, et qu'on retrouve
d'ailleurs sous une forme très vol-
sine dans la plupart des magazines
américains. Or c'est sur ces mêmes
informations et interprétations que la
Maison Blanche se base pour arrêter
sa politique.

Le risque est donc considérable
que M. Nixon soit désormais porté
à apprécier les initiatives soviétiques
non plus, comme au cours des der-
niers mois, avec un certain préjugé
favorable, mais à l'aune de la mé-
fiance, et à croire que décidément
le seul langage que comprenne le
Kremlin est celui de la force. Sa
visite à la VIe flotte, ses déclarations
à Time, suivant lesquelles, « alors
que les Etats-Unis cherchent la paix,
l'U.R.S.S. cherche la domination », sa soudaine et complète entente avec Mme Meir, qui a obtenu en quel-
ques minutes le matériel et les cré-
dits qu'elle réclamait en vain depuis
un an, la reprise des livraisons
d'armes lourdes à la Grèce, vont
indiscutablement dans ce sens.

Sa visite au maréchal Tito, grand
expert des questions soviétiques,
aura-t-elle amené le président des
Etats-Unis à une vision plus nuan-
cée ? Nous essaierons de voir
demain si l'on ne peut pas, à
la lumière des mêmes faits — et
de l'expérience de ces vingt der-
nières années — suggérer une
autre interprétation des intentions
soviétiques.

ANDRE FONTAINE.

(A suivre.)

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS 02154

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS

Oct. 11, 1970

Dear Henry:

I don't know whether you see the columns that the *Post* doesn't run. They are now scattered throughout the country in about 160 papers - 3 a week and it really is "publish or perish!" Enclosed is one you may have missed.

Next Sunday I have 4500 well-chosen words in the *Times Magazine* on our academic "friends" -- a salvo I have been stockpiling for over the past couple of years. I trust your buddies at Harvard will enjoy it.

If you ever need any help cleaning out Foggy Bottom, call on me -- no fee, not even per diem. The cease-fire is the first intelligent act of political warfare since Johns Hopkins . . .

Right On!

John P. Roche

KOSYGIN FORGOES
VISIT TO THE U.N.

10/10/70

Officials in Moscow Charge
Washington Is Inspiring
an Anti-Soviet Drive

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Special to The New York Times

MOSCOW, Oct. 9—Soviet officials said today that Moscow had decided against sending Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin to the United Nations for the 25th-anniversary session this month because of what they called an officially inspired anti-Soviet campaign in the United States.

The officials seemed perturbed by charges made by high American officials and leading newspapers that the Soviet Union could not be trusted in international relations. They said that such charges had a very damaging effect on relations between the two countries.

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A WORD EDGEWISE...
BY JOHN P. ROCHE
SECRETARY ROGERS MUST GO

One of the occupational hazards of being a political commentator is that one can easily get a vested interest in catastrophe -- if he has predicted it! If one has gone out on a limb to predict, say, that Nelson Rockefeller will defeat Arthur Goldberg for Governor of New York, he is likely to end up secretly rooting for Rockefeller. This is understandable; columnists are, after all, human beings. But it is something one must constantly guard against. Like the politician who observed that he didn't know what he thought until he heard what he said, the columnist who looks for the Truth in his earlier writings is over the hill.

I am particularly sensitive to this problem because for years I have been accused by many liberal associates of having lost track of reality, of suffering from hardening of the categories. According to this free psychoanalysis, I became a frozen Cold Warrior back in the 1940s and have refused to alter my fundamental premises about the Communist world, even though the reality of international Communism has changed drastically over the intervening years. Worse than that, my critics allege that I own stock in the continuation of the Cold War, that I oppose peaceful initiatives to the Soviets or China or Hanoi and undermine any atmosphere of trust. Some letters from readers of this column even suggest that I am on the payroll of the "military/industrial complex."

This is set out at some length because it is background for my recent silence on the state of negotiations in the Middle East. On July 25, I called for the appointment of a new Secretary of State on the ground that William Rogers had been "played for a patsy" by the Soviet Union, which had taken advantage of his innocence to alter the balance of power in the Middle East.

Shortly thereafter the press proclaimed that Rogers had finally pulled it off, that by his gentle conciliatory efforts the Soviets had been convinced that the U.S. genuinely wanted peace.

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BY JOHN P. ROCHE

xx peace.

Washington and Moscow proceeded to sponsor a settlement; Israel, Egypt, and Jordan agreed to a cease-fire, a 64-mile zone at the Suez Canal was declared off-limits to military buildups, and Mr. Gunnar Jarring began talking to representatives of the three powers about a permanent settlement.

My instantaneous reaction was that we had been mousetrapped, that Moscow was simply using one of its standard negotiating scenarios as part of an overall offensive strategy in the Middle East. But to Secretary Rogers and others this agreement seemed to be a hopeful first step towards peace and--in combination with the alleged "progress" in the SALT talks--as an indication that the U.S.S.R. had decisively moved towards detente. God knows, I want peace--so I put away a stinging column I had drafted and decided to give the Administration the initial benefit of the doubt. Maybe, I thought, I had become a bit paranoid on the subject.

Now, regretfully and somberly, I submit that I was not suffering from paranoia. The news that has filtered out of the SALT talks indicates that our definition of "progress" was simply that the Russians did not overturn the table and go home! They have yet to respond affirmatively to any of our proposals, though they have agreed to read them.

And in the Middle East, they have used the cease-fire to tighten the noose around Israel. In clear violation of the understanding with Washington, the Soviets have been installing SAM missiles (2s and 3s) in the forbidden zone. The point of this is to protect the artillery from Israeli air-strikes (they are also bringing into Egypt 203mm howitzers with a range of something over 18 miles). Once the missile umbrella is up, Israel is sentenced to death by inches, that is, to a war of attrition in which its population of two and a half million is hopelessly outnumbered.

The American response to this Soviet use of negotiations as a weapons-system was truly incredible: we got mad at the Israelis for bringing it up! Presumably Israeli intransigence might destroy somebody's hopes for the Nobel Peace Prize. But, for Jerusalem, survival itself is at stake--and, to use an old-fashioned formulation, American honor is also in jeopardy. The time has come for action, and--I repeat--a new Secretary of State.

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(MP)

9/9/70

American economist advocates tighter
control over military power

By Henry Stanhope
Defence Correspondent

American critics of the Vietnam
war would have welcomed a more
vigorous policy at Westminster at
any time over the past five years
Professor J. K. Galbraith, the econ-
omist, said yesterday. "Many of
us thought the Labour Government
unduly tactful in its relations with
President Johnson", he told a press
conference in London.

At the same time, he thought that
the Cambodian episode had shown
President Nixon the danger of
yielding to American military in-
fluences, and he praised the Nixon
Administration for handling the
Jordan situation well. It had had
the good sense to see that while the
crisis lasted anything it might do
would only make things worse.

"We must always be grateful for an Administration which senses the circumstances in which it cannot act as well as those circumstances in which it can", Professor Galbraith said.

The press conference celebrated
publication by the Fabian Society
of his pamphlet *How to Control
the Military* (price 8s.)—already
published in America—which has

been described by Lord Ritchie-
Calder as "one of the most im-
portant works of our time".

In it, the professor says: "We
will have accomplished little if we
get out of Vietnam and leave un-
reformed the institutions and their
capacity for organized error that
got us and keep us there." The
goal is to get the military power in
the United States under firm con-
trol, which means electing a presi-
dent on the issue next time. "This
above all must be the issue in the
next election."

In every congressional district
there should be an organization
alert to this military power, and
candidates should be pressed for a
promise to resist military pro-
grammes.

"The time has come to constitute a special body of highly qualified scientists and citizens to be called, perhaps, the military audit commission. Its functions would be to advise the Congress and inform the public on military programmes and negotiations."

Professor Galbraith emphasizes
that his aim is not an anti-military
crusade or an attack on service-
men. It is merely to "return the
military establishment to its tradi-

tional position in the American
political system".

A "military audit commission"
of the kind he envisages could be
"the authoritative voice on
weapons that add to international
tension or competition, or serve
principally the competitive posit-
ion and prestige of the services or
the profits of their suppliers".

He criticizes the armed services
committees of the two Houses at
Washington—"with the exception
of a few members, a rubber stamp
for the military power"—and
urges that the present functionaries
should be ousted and replaced with
"acute and independent-minded
members".

At yesterday's press conference,
Professor Galbraith said there had
been substantial progress in the
erosion of the military power in
the United States. He looked for-
ward to the elimination of as many
hawks as possible in Congress, and
thought it possible that the mili-
tary establishment would become
an issue in the Congressional elec-
tions.

The Nixon Administration, he
pointed out, had been better in its
military budgeting than the Demo-
crats who preceded it.

Law Report October 5 1970

Newsday Photo by Mitch Turner

A Coulter Counter: Specialized Loot

# Stolen Device Is Traded In

By Bill Van Haintze and Howard Crook

A well-dressed thief who made off with a $5,000 blood analyzing machine from Manhasset Hospital by posing as a repair man apparently decided that it was not the right model.

Ninety minutes later, according to Nassau County detectives, he turned up at a hospital in New Jersey and, using the same ploy, traded it on in a new model of the same machine.

"It's weird," said Merle Zaldameda, the lab technician who was on duty at the Saddle Brook, N.J., General Hospital Thursday night when the thief took the second machine. "Why would anyone want to steal a far-out thing like that?"

The mysterious blood machine thefts began at 7 PM Thursday when Miss Zaldameda's counterpart at the Manhasset hospital, Charles Hughes, 30, of East Meadow, encountered the man, who was described as about 25 years old, five feet, 10 inches tall, and well-versed in how the machine operated. "I'm here to check the Coulter Counter," the man reportedly told Hughes. After turning it on and listening carefully to its whirring sounds, the man said that he would have to remove the machine for repairs.

"I'll have to take this one out," he told Hughes.

"I've got a new one up in the lobby." Hughes said that the man gave him a cart and asked him if he would get the new machine. When Hughes reached the lobby there was no new machine; when he got back to the lab there was no old one, either.

Ninety minutes later in Saddle Brook, Miss Zaldameda walked into the lab and found the same man, police said, bending over the hospital's new Coulter Counter blood analyzer. On a dolly on the floor was an older model—the Manhasset machine, police said.

"Oh, there you are," the man told Miss Zaldameda in a confident tone. She recalled, "He told me that he was from the Coulter company and that he was bringing back the machine's replacement. He said that the company had just loaned us the new machine. He seemed so sure of himself." The significance of the exchange wasn't discovered until yesterday when the day lab technician, Miss Randi Robinson, walked in and asked what happened to the new machine.

Victor Perkins, the superintendent of the Saddle Brook hospital lab, said that the 75-pound machine was used to speed up the process of testing blood. "We are not just striving for speed with the machine," he said. "What we are trying to do is eliminate technician fatigue."

# Suspect Charged in 5 Calif. Deaths

AP Wirephoto

ARRAIGNED. John Linley Frazier, 24, stands in Santa Cruz County Jail yesterday after being arraigned on five counts of murder in the slayings of Dr. Victor Ohta, three members of his family and his medical secretary.

Santa Cruz, Calif. (AP)—A shaggy, bearded, young "loner," charged with the murder of five persons in an isolated mansion Monday, was arraigned yesterday under tight security by officers fearful of community reaction.

John Linley Frazier, 24, was seized without a struggle yesterday morning as he slept in a shack only half a mile from the scene of the shootings.

He was booked at the Santa Cruz County Jail while mourners were gathering only two blocks away for the funeral of four of the victims: Dr. Victor M. Ohta, 45, a prominent eye surgeon; his wife, Virginia, 43, and sons Derrick, 12, and Taggart, 11. The fifth victim, the doctor's secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Cadwallader, 38, was buried Thursday.

The sheriff's office and local police called on officers from four nearby jurisdictions to help in heavy patrolling of the entire area as Frazier was taken in a windowless white van the three blocks from the jail to the Municipal Court. About 20 reporters and 50 spectators who were admitted were first painstakingly searched, and the rest of the building was evacuated.

The slightly built Frazier, wearing leg irons but no handcuffs, looked slowly around the room, nodding with a trace of a smile. Asked whether his name was John Linley Frazier, he whispered "Yes." Asked

whether he is known by any other name, he firmly replied "No."

Public Defender Gary Britton entered a plea of innocent to the five counts of murder. Judge Donald O. May set a preliminary hearing for 10 AM Oct. 23, refusing the district attorney's motion for an additional day to take the case to the grand jury. Then Frazier, still with a slight smile, was led back to jail.

He was shoeless and wore white prison socks and a blue prison coverall instead of the rough clothing and ankle boots in which he was captured.

The 6-by-6-foot shanty where he was arrested is separated by a rugged ravine from the luxurious estate where firemen found the five bodies in the swimming pool Monday night as they vainly tried to save the doctor's burning $250,000 million. The location is above the village of Sequel, overlooking Monterey Bay about four miles southeast of Santa Cruz.

District Attorney Peter Chang Jr. reported that three acquaintances of Frazier first gave officers information which led to his arrest. Learning of a strange typewritten note left at the scene, they came from their camp in the woods north of town at 3 AM Thursday and told authorities it was the sort of thing Frazier might have written.

The note, tucked under the windshield wiper of Ohta's maroon Rolls Royce, threatened death to all who "misuse the natural environment." It was signed with the names of the four "court" cards in the tarot fortune-telling deck.

# New Run for the Money in Suffolk?

By Jim Klurfeld

Riverhead—The long-running soap opera, "The 1971 Suffolk County Budget," was nearing the end of its run yesterday, and county officials were speculating on new ways to stage the show next year.

With only formal approval remaining on the agenda this year—with a possible encore if Suffolk County Executive Dennison vetoes any items—officials were looking for ways to save time and increase efficiency on what has become a three-month production.

Reviewers, who included Dennison and Legis. John V. N. Klein (R-C-St. James), chairman of the Suffolk County Legislature, offered these suggestions: that the legislature spend more time on major policy decisions than on time-consuming debates involving office furniture and postal appropriations; and that more decisions be made earlier, at departmental budget hearings in the summer with legislators present.

Because this was the first time that a county legislature, which replaces the old board of super-

visors, had dealt with a budget and because it was the first time that the executive had a complete staff to prepare it, both Dennison and Klein believed that the show could be improved. "I have talked with members of Dennison's staff and I think we are in agreement that major policy changes in the budget should be made known to the legislature well before the budget is even issued," Klein said, "That would give us a decent amount of time to evaluate these proposals."

Deputy County Executive Alex Ames said he thought that the legislature had spent too much time on individual budget items—some as petty as stamps—and did not have enough time for major policy questions. He agreed with Klein's idea, but he also felt that "the legislature has to discipline itself not to start going line by line in the budget."

Klein felt that, in theory, Ames was right but said, "As long as the charter gives the legislature the final responsibility in appropriating funds, I am afraid it will feel compelled to go over the budget in detail."

Dennison suggested that the summer depart-

mental budget hearings be attended by legislators. "That would make them aware of what is happening before we make our budget—not after it is issued and there are only three weeks to judge it." The county executive said that he wanted to prevent a repetition of this year's practice of department heads, unhappy with budget cuts, going to legislators for restorations. Dennison's budget director, Mike Gottliner, also suggested that his staff and department heads confer more closely during those hearings.

For those who might have missed Thursday's episode, the county legislature finished four consecutive days of budget review by coming out just about where it started. Almost $7,000,000 was cut from the $246,393,483 proposed budget. But almost the same amount was added. Preliminary figures indicated that the difference will be about $250,000 less than the proposed figure.

The show's result is a 14-cent tax rate decrease to $2.81 for each $100 of assessed valuation for East End residents and a 55-cent increase for West End residents, including police and District Court taxes, to $6.35.

Saturday, October 24, 1970

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