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JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6

(Pj—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-
half miles over Jersey and Man-
hattan today, Miss Huth Nich-
ols, Rye, N. Y., flier, who holds
coast-to-coast speed marks, set
un unofficial altitude record for
women,

‘The altimeter on her speedy Lock-
heed-Veza monoplane showed near-
ly 30,054 feet. The sealed barograph
placed in the plane by the National
Acronautic Association, was imme-
diately shipped to Washington for
examination, If it shows 28,074 feet
or more, Miss Nichols will be award-
ed the record now held by Elinor
Smith, young Long Island filer.

Miss Nichols was informed that
to attain recognition as the record
holder, she must beat Miss Smith's
mark of 27,418 feet by more than
600 feet.

She took off frorn Jersey City air-
port at 12.33 p, m., and was uloft 90
minutes, . There-was.a 30 mile wind
blowing when she circled the city,
swung over Manhattan and started
the long climb.

“Everything went fine.” she sald,
“The engine worked perfectly. I
did not suffer any discomfort.”

She wore a flying suit lined witt
reindeer skin and the cockpit of her
plane was heated from the motor ex-
haust. She used oxygen apparatus
and had no difficulty In breathing
even in the thin, cold air at high at-
titudes, The temperature at the top
of her climb, was estimated at 50
degrees below zero by Clarence
Chamberlain, who coached Miss
Nichols for the attempt.

The plane was equipped with a
650-horsepower, super-charged nine-
eylinder air cooled motor, It is the
same ship in which she set cast-to-
west and west-to-cast transcontinen-
tal records,
 
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
“immediately enter into urgent con-
sultations with each other” should the
Tisk 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 exacerbation of their
relations, as to avoid military con-
frontations, 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 cther party, and
against other countries, in cir-
cumstances which may endanger in-
ternational 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.”

The decision of the two leaders to hold
a third summit conference in as many
years was announced at a lavish
banquet at the Soviet Embassy. In a
jovial atmosphere, Nixon and Brezhnev
dined and toasted each other after
signing pacts earlier in the day to speed
nuclear arms negotiations and
cooperate in research on peaceful uses
of nuclear energy.

Before they boarded the “Spirit of 76”
for a late afternoon flight to the Western
White House, Brezhnev arranged to
meet with 40 American businessmen to

sell them on expanded trade with
Russia.

(See 2 on Pose Twa)
 