To speed Mideast negotiations
Kissinger plans visit
WASHINGTON LAP) Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger plans to visit
Cairo and other Mideast capitals early
next week in a bid to speed negotiations
between Israel and its Arab foes,
officials said last night.
Kissinger plans to go to China from the
Mideast, after a rest stop in Pakistan.
He is scheduled to meet with Chinese
leaders in Peking beginning Nov. 10.
Besides Cairo, the secretary of state is
likely to visit Jidda for talks with Saudi-
Arabian leaders, and possibly Amman,
Jordan.. He will not visit Jerusalem,
which initially was part of his itinerary.
Kissinger probably will leave for the
Mideast Sunday.
The trip surfaced as the pace
quickened in three-sided exploratory
talks involving the United States, Egypt
and Israel.
Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel is
due to call on President Nixon at the
White House Thursday. Ismail Fahmy,
acting Egyptian foreign minister, has
held talks with Kissinger for two days.
Last night Nixon conferred for two
hours at Camp David, Md., with
Kissinger and Soviet ambassador
Anatoly F. Dobr•ynin.
Blocs clash on cuts
VIENNA, Austria (AP) Blocs led by
the United States and the Soviet Union
yesterday clashed at the opening session
of the conference on reducing troops and
weapons in Central Europe.
East and West Germany, side by side
around the green negotiating table, were
the main speakers. Both were
represented by ambassadors.
Wolfgang Behrends of West Germany
told the delegates they should take
account of the "disparitie'S and
equilibriums" between Eastern and
Western forces. The Soviet Union and its
allies have more men and tanks in the
area than the Western powers, he noted.
It also is easier to bring
reinforcements from the Soviet Union
than from the United States should
circumstances demand it, he added.
"These negotiations should therefore
aim to ultimately bring about, at a lower
level, an approximate parity in the form
of a common ceiling for ground forces of
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Kissinger originally was due in Peking
this month for his sixth visit to the
Chinese capital. The Mideast conflict
caused him to postpone the trip. Instead,
he flew to Moscow Oct. 20 at the behest of
Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev to help
develop a joint U.S.-Soviet ceasefire
position at the United Nations.
His new plans are expected to be
announced at the White House today
after Fahmy meets with Nixon.
Kissinger is going to Cairo amid
indications that the United States is
pressing Israel to yield Egyptian
territory captured after the initial U.N.
cease-fire agreement. Tile fact that the
trip was planned before Meir scheduled
her arrival indicated Washington
already has decided on at least the broad
outlines of the diplomatic course it
intends to follow.
The United States and the Soviet Union
have pledged their "good offices" to
expedite negotiations between Israel
and Egypt on a permanent Mideast
settlement.
Washington clearly was playing a
dominant role, while keeping Moscow
informed. In that regard, Soviet
Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin called
each side in Central Europe," Behrends
said.
The opposite view came from Ingo
Oeser of East Germany. For him, and
for the Soviets, the aim is to keep the
present relation Ship in troops and
weapons between the two sides.
"This could be done," he said, "by
reducing forces and armaments at an
equal percentage or an equal
quantitative rate."
The United States and its allies want
movement toward numerical parity but
diplomats saw room for bargaining
between the two views.
Over - a million troops are in the area
immediately concerned: Germany,
Poland, Czechoslovakia and the western
part of the Soviet Union. Accord
ing to reports from Washington, the first
cuts sought by the West would affect
fewer than 100,000 troops, about 67,000
Soviets and 31,500 Americans.
on Nixon at his Camp David, Md.,
retreat yesterday evening.l
U.S. officials said Fahmy's first
session with Kissinger at the State
Department on Monday was "a
considerable step forward' that may
accelerate the peacemaking process.
Fahmy I delivered a message from
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, said a
knowledgeable informant, and is
reported to have stressed tliat a number
of states, including Egypt! and Syria,
are prepared to accept Israel's
sovereignty as a hard fact of Fe.
The two key- issues are becoming
entwined in the quickened! diplomacy.
The first is Arab insistence on Israeli
withdrawal from territory seized on the
west bank of the Suez canal ,b et we e n the
United Nations cease-fire agreements of
Oct. 22 and Oct. 23. The second is Israel's
demand for an immediate exchange of
prisoners.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The House
Judiciary Committee yesterday armed
its chairman with broad new subpoena
powers as a first step in its investigation
of possible grounds for impeaching
President Nixon.
Over - solid Republican opposition, the
committee authorized Chairman Peter
W. Rodino, D-N.J., to issue subpoenas
for evidence and witnesses needed in the
inquiry. •
Rodin() promised to use thi
sparingly and to consult vi
committee Republican, RE
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it. But that did not satisfy 1
who wanted Rodino to shali
with Hutchinson.
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power was defeated 21 to 17
party-line vote, and the same
awarded it to Rodino. HI
authorized to use the subpor
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confirmation of House
Leader Gerald R. Ford of
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starts Nixon inquiry
Rodino convened the meeting on a
somber note, saying he viewed the
prospect of impeachment "with a deep
sense of sadness and abiding concern for
the future of our democratic system of
government."
But he said since Nixon's dismissal of
Archibald Cox as special Watergate
prosecutor and the resulting
resignations of Atty. Gen. Elliot L.
Richaidson and Deputy Atty. Gen.
Williarn D. Ruckelshaus he has received
27,6341 letters and wires urging
impeachment action.
The Judiciary Committee has before it
13 impeachment resolutions sponsored
by 59 Imembers, and 16 resolutions,
spodsored by 111 members, calling for
an impeachment investigation, Rodino
said.
Meanwhile, Cox told the Senate
Judiciary Committee he may have been
the source of a news leak about an order
from Nixon instructing former Atty.
Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst not to
appeal one phase of the ITT antitrust
case.
The White House acknowledged the
President once told Kleindienst not to
make the appeal.
Bute it called Cox's testimony "an
admission of wrongdoing" and said it
showed "the partisan attitude that has
characterized his activities in recent
months."
Cox' "improperly disclosed highly
confidential details of his investiga
tion..." Deputy White House Press
Secretary Gerald L. Warren told
newsmen.
The ousted special prosecutor testified
if he had been the source of a story in
yesterday's New., York Times, he
Appropriations delay continues
as state legislature recesses
Appropriations for three state-related
universities appear to be delayed for at
least two more weeks.
The state House yesterday adjourned
until Nov. 13 and the Senate is in an open
ended recess with no agreement in sight
on appropriations for Penn State,
Temple University and the University of
Pittsburgh.
In,July the House passed a five per
cent increase • over last year's
appropriations for the universities.
Earlier this month, the Senate approved
a six per cent increase.
The bills are stalled in a confeience
committee where Democrats and
Report calls CIA
WASHINGTON (AP)-Congress' first
official Watergate report concludes the
CIA and its two top chiefs were
"unwitting dupes" in supplying
disguises for improper acts such as the
burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's
psychiatrist's office.
Rep. Lucien N. Nedzi, D-MiCh., said
"it is a little more difficult" to assess the
ClA's resistance to being used to cover
up Watergate in the first weeks after the
June 17, 1972, break-in at Democratic
party headquarters.
Nedzi is chairman of the House
intelligence subcommittee which issued
the report yesterday.
Nedzi said "I'm personally troubled
by the inconsistencies" in testimony by
Vernon A. Walters, deputy director of
the Central Intelligence Agency, on
whether he suggested a Cuban rather
than CIA involvement could be used to
cover up the break:in.
"But by and large there was
resistance on the part .of the CIA to
becoming involved," Nedzi said at a
news conference. "There is no objective
evidence that there was a willingness to
cooperate."
The 23-page report quotes Walters as
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regretted it and called it "an error of
carelessness."
The story quoted sources as saying
Kleindienst told Watergate prosecutors
Nixon called him about the antitrust
case after Kleindienst turned down a
request from then-presidential adviser
John D. Ehrlichnran to drop appeal of an
adverse court decision.
The appeal was halted and an out-of
court settlement was reached later by
which ITT was allowed to keep the $1
billion Hartford Insurance Co. while
giving up Canteen Corp. and other
holdings. •
The White House called the Times
story "distorted and unfair" and said
Nixon withdrew his objection to an
appeal when the case was explained in
more detail.
In other testimony before the
committee, Cox suggested a possible
route of inquiry for the House Judiciary
Committee which is investigating
possible grounds for impeaching Nixon.
Cox said the House committee may
want to inquire into "the extent to which
the President on an over-all basis has
cooperated or not cooperated with
attempts to get the truth about
Watergate."
Cox testified he. had broken
Kleindienst's confidence by telling Sens.
Philip A. Hart, D-Mich., and Edward M.
Kennedy; D-Mass., and two of their
aides about Nixon's telephoned
instructions in the ITT case.
"During the stress and strain of the
last two weeks I spoke more freely than I
intended with a few friends," Cox said.
Cox, fired on Nixon's instructions Oct.
20 after opposing the President on court
action to obtain Watergate tapes and
Republicans cannot ageee on a solution.
Senate Majority Leader Thomas
Lamb, D-Allegheny, last week offered a
compromise proposal of a 5.5 per cent
increase. House leaders agreed to the
proposal but House committee members
H. Jack Seltzer, R-Lebanon, and Frank
O'Connell, R-Kingston, rejected the
compromise.
Seltzer, O'Connell and Senate Minority
Leader Richard Frame, R-Vernango,
yesterday said they proposed to
Democrat conferees that they join
Republicans in agreeing to the five per
cent increase.
Democrats on .the committee are
Lamb, Sen. Henry Cianfrani, D-
first testifying to the subcommittee May
16 that when former White House
counsel John W. Dean 111 first pressed
him for ideas he said: "Perhaps the
Cubans who were anti-Castro might
have had a hand in it but the CIA did
not."
The report said that it is "in sharp
contrast" to Walters' testimony to the
subcommittee June 29 that:
"He (Dean) then asked if I had any
ideas and I said that this affair already
had 'a strong Cuban flavor and everyone
knew the Cubans were conspiratorial
and anxious to know what the policies of
both parties would be toward Castro.
They, therefore, had a plausible motive
for attempting this amateurish job...
"Dean said he agreed that this was the
best tack," the report said.
Nedzi said he was not accusing
Walters or any other witness involved in
conflicting testimony of perjury.
Chairman F. Edward Hebert, D-La.,
of the full House Armed Services
Committee said the CIA as an agency
"resisted every attempt to involve it" in.
the cover-up.
"The CIA is abgolutely clean," Hebert
said.
other White House. evidence, said he
hoped the committee would be
"charitable enough" to believe he had
not intended the information Kleindienst
gave him to be leaked to the press.
In other Watergate-related
developments yesterday:
The Senate Watergate committee
decided to attempt to renew a White-
House cancelled agreement by which the
panel would have had access to
transcripts of Watergate-related
presidential tape recordings.
The panel also decided to hear from
Berl I. Bernhard, former presidential
campaign director for Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie, D-Maine, and formr Nixon re
election committee chairman Clark
'MacGregor when it resumes public
hearings today.
And the committee unanimously
agreed to introduce legislation designed
to overcome a legal barrier raised when
Sirica dismissed the committee's suit to
get the tape recordings.
—The White House soon will submit to
U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica
a detailed analysis of the controversial
presidential Watergate tape recordings
for an item-by-item ruling of what
portions will be withheld from the
Watergate grand jury.
This Friday
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Philadelphia, and Rep. James
Gallegher, D-Bucks.
"We were refused," the three
Republicans said in a joint statement.
"As a result we can only conclude that
the Shapp Administration and its leiders
in the General Assembly are playing
politics at the expense of higher
education:"
Gallegher said with the small amount
separating the two sides, "We thinklthey
are playing games."
Gallegher said the Democrats want
the extra one-half per cent because they
feel the universities need at least :that
much to pay the interest on money they
have had to borrow because of the delay.
'dupes'
The report also said Dean put
"tremendous pressure" on then acting
FBI director, L. Patrick Gray, as well as
Walters to hold off investigating the first
evidence that campaign contributions
for President Nixon were involved in the
Watergate break-in.
Dean called Gray some 25 times in the
two weeks between June 22 and July 6,
the report said, to say pursuit of the so
called Mexican connection might expose
secret CIA activities and to hold' off
investigating it.
This was information the FBI had the
week after the break-in that Nixon
campaign contributions from Kenneth
H. Dahlberg and contributions
laundered through the Mexico City bank
account of Manuel Ogarrio had wound
up in the Miami bank account' of
Bernard Barker, one of the five men
caught in the break-in.
Weather
Mostly cloudy and cool today with
periods of sunshine, high 51. Mostly
cloudy tonight, low 38. Thursday clOudy
with rain likely, high 44.