WASHINGTON AP — The United States
and the Soviet Union Thursday signed an
agreement of principles designed to
permanently limit nuclear weapons by the
end of 1974,

President Nixon and Communist leader
Leonid I. Brezhnev signed for their nations
at the White House. The agreement, the
outstanding accomplishment of their
summit talks, was cemented at the
President's Camp David retreat in the
Maryland mountains.

The two nations agreed as a matter of
principle that efforts by one or the other to
obtain a nuclear advantage would be
inconsistent with the goa] of strengthening
peaceful relations.

The agreement is designed to spur
negotiators for both countries at
now-recessed talks in Geneva. Significant-
ly, the arms limitation envisioned by the
end of next year would include not only
numbers but the quality of the missiles

themselves.
Niewnan and Rrashnoeyu alen acraad that
 limitation on strategic offensive arms
must be subject to ‘adequate verifica-
tion.’’ Both nations would be permitted to
modernize and replace weapons only
under conditions to be agreed upon at
Geneva.

At the same time, Nixon and Brezhnev
signed a 10-year pact to expand
cooperation between the two countries on
peaceful uses of atomic energy. It
succeeds a series of two-year agreements.

The major points of the compact
include: 1) controlling thermonuclear
fusion; 2) research on ‘fast breeder”
reactors which create more fuel than they
consume; 3) research on the fundamental
properties of physical matter.

A similar arms understanding between
Nixon and Brezhnev in 1971 produced,
when Nixon went to Moscow to see
Brezhnev last spring, an initial but limited
nuclear weapons agreement.
 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, the President’s
national security adviser, told newsmen
that Nixon and Brezhnev are convinced an
expanded agreement by the end of 1974
would be ‘‘a major contribution in
reducing the danger of an outbreak of
nuclear war.”

He said they were agreeing now to seven
basic principles out of ‘sense of urgency.”’

The current SALT talks in Geneva have
become static and are recess. The new
understanding is designed to provide an
impetus for positive negotiations. Know
Know-
ledgeable observers estimate the second
pact would be ready by the end of 1974.
 
BISMARCK, N. D., Aug. 28.—
(P)—Gov. A. G. Sorlie of North
Dakota, died here this morning.

Death was caused by heart dis-
ease from which the governor has
been critically ill for the past three
days.

Arthur Gustave Sorlie was born
April 26, 1874, near Aiberta Lea,
Minn. His parents were Iver and
Mary Sorlie, natives of Norway.
When he was 19 years old he came
to North Dakota where he worked
in a bank, operated a_ general
store and later became a traveling
salesman.

In 1907 he entered the fuel,
seed and feed busines at Grand
Forks. The enterprise was suc-
cessful and the basis for a con-
siderable fortune which he later
accumulated in other business en-
deavors.,

Despite his extensive interests,
the non-partisan league selected
'him as its standard bearer in 1924
land he won the’ gubernatorial
| election after a hot fight. he was
re-elected in 1926, but did not
seek renomination this year, say-
ling that he desired to retire to
private life at the end of his
term.

The first important act of office
came to Gov. Sorlie when in his
first term he appointed Gerald P.
Nye to the United States senate to
succeed Senator E. F. Ladd who
died in office.

Gov. Sorlie’s death brings to the
executive’s chair Walter Maddock,
the lieutenant governor, who is a
real dirt farmer. He was edu-
eated in the common schools and
business college. Later he studied
law and civil engineering by cor-
‘| respondence.

Since 1906 he has operated a
farm near Plaza and has been
jactive in forming several farmer
cooperative associations. He was
elected lieutenant governor after
serving in the legislature. He was
chairman of the North Dakota del-
egation to the last republican na-
tional convention. Haddock is mar-
ried, and has four sons and a
daughter.
 