WASHINGTON (UPI) — President
Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid I.
Brezhnev pledged today to avoid military
confrontations and threats of force that
might lead to nuclear war between their
two nations.

In a policy declaration, the leaders of the
two nuclear superpowers agreed to “‘im-
mediately enter into urgent consultations
with each other’’ should the risk of a
nuclear conflict arise.

Nixon and Brezhnev signed the
agreement —the eighth since the start of
their summit talks —in a ceremony in the
East Room of the White House a few hours
before their scheduled departure aboard
the presidential jetliner for San Clemente,
Calif., for the conclusion of their week-long
conference.

In the agreement, the two leaders
promised that the United States and the
Soviet Union ‘‘will act in such a manner as
to prevent the development of situations
capable of causing a dangerous exacer-
bation of their relations, as to avoid
military confrontations, and to exclude the
outbreak of nuclear war between them and
between either of the parties and other
countries.”

The accord also calls for the signatories
to proceed from the premise that each will
refrain ‘from the threat or use of force
against the other party, against the allies
of the other nartv and againct ather
 countries, in circumstances which may
endanger international peace and
security.”

In advance of the signing, Nixon briefed
congressional leaders of both parties on
the declaration, which is a statement of
policy —not a treaty — and therefore does
not require Senate ratification.

Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger
said the intent of the doctrine was ‘to
prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.”

Kissinger said steps toward the
agreement began at the end of the Moscow
summit meeting between Nixon and
Brezhnev in May, 1972. Kissinger said the
accord ‘“‘can be a significant landmark in
relations between the two great nuclear
powers.”

The accord, effective immediately, is of
unlimited duration and both parties said
nothing in it would affect or impair the
right of individual or collective self-
defense under the U.N. Charter or
separate treaty obligations, such as those
the United States has as a member of
NATO.

Kissinger said the declaration is a
“formal obligation’’ on the part of the
United States and the Soviet Union ‘‘to
practice restraint in diplomacy and to
build a peace that is permanent.”

Asked how the agreement might relate
to current American bombing in Cam-
bodia, Kissinger said only that such
military operations were in progress when
the agreement was negotiated.

But he conceded the use of force in such
circumstances could threaten ‘‘the letter
and spirit of this agreement.’’ Kissinger
said United States had consulted with
several allies before concluding the ac-
cord.

The signing of the agreement was the
major action of the morning for the two
leaders.

Raising their glasses in a red and gold
trimmed banquet room Thursday night,
Nixon and Brezhnev pledged a continued
effort to expand Soviet-American friend-
ship.
 ‘*_.. The Soviet Union’s line at improving
relations with the United States is not
some temporary phenomenon,’’ the stocky
Brezhnev said. ‘‘It is a firm and consistent
line reflecting the permanent principles of
Soviet foreign policy ... It is a line that
rests on the full support of our people.”

Nixon replied he hoped the third summit
meeting could be held next June. He in-
dicated he wished the meetings to become
annual affairs.

“These summit meetings have brought
us closer together, have brought greater
understanding of our differences and
greater determination to r e d uc e those
differences,’’ Nixon said.

The leaders of the world’s two super-
powers opened their summit meeting
Monday in Washington. They negotiated in
the tranquility of the presidential retreat
at Camp David, Md., Wednesday and
Thursday before returning to Washington.

Brezhnev wil! be a guest at Nixon’s
home in San Clemente, La Casa Pacifica,
from this evening until Sunday morning
when he flies back to Washington. He will
pre-tape a television address which will be
broadcast to the American people Sunday
evening.

Brezhnev leaves the United States
Monday for Paris.
 
PPV PEELE YB RENAE CES?

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The federal
government says it has spent nearly $2
million improving President Nixon’s
homes in'Florida and California, all of it
relating to ‘“‘security.”

The White House also disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who
helped the President buy his San Clemen-
te, Calif., retreat, has been getting some
money back in the form of rent associated
with Nixon’s Key Biscayne, Fla., place.

A month ago the White House had
listed $39,000 in federal funds for im-
proving the Western White House at San
Clemente since Nixon bought it in 1969.

Last week, after a further search of
record, it raised this figure to $460,302.

On Thursday, General Services Ad-
 ministration (GSA), the government’s
housekeeping agency, said a still more ex-
tensive audit put the total federal expen-
diture at San Clemente at $703,367 over
four fiscal years beginning July 1, 1969.
This included only the residence there,
not the White House office space.

GSA listed for the first time the federal
expenditure for improvements, equip-
ment, operation and maintenance at the
White House complex at Key Biscayne,
including both residence and office
space— $1,180,522, spread over five fiscal
years beginning July 1, 1968.

Included in the Key Biscayne figure
was $161,463 for renting two houses in the
complex for the Secret Service and White
House communications staff.

The White House said one of these
 houses is owned by Abplanalp and the
other is owned in the name of Edwin H.
Underwood, trustee for the Indiana
National Bank, Indianapolis.

The White House said all of the tax-
payers’ money spent in San Clemente and
Key Biscayne was for security-related im-
provements and that all work was done at
the request of the Secret Service, not the
President.

The GSA data showed items such as
$53,644 in fiscal 1970 for interior security
and communications at San Clemente. It
also included $3,303 in fiscal 1970 for golf
carts for the Secret Service patrol at Key
Biscayne.

Two years later there appears another
item of $5,230 for three Secret Service golf
carts there.
 