Los Angeles, Aug. 28 (AP) —

A suit against E. L. Doheny and
the directors of the Pan-American
Petroleum Transport company by
etockholders of the latter corpor-
ation who allege that the share-
holders were the real losers in
the Elk Hills naval oil reserve
leasing scandal, was on file here
today.

The complaint, filed yesterday
in behalf of Frank H. Kunkel of
Cincinnati, and other sharehold-
ers, declares that the stockhold-
ers lost $10,000,000 as the result
of the cancellation of the fraud-
ulent lease. It asks that Doheny
and the board of directors be com-
pelled to render an accounting.

The $100,000 which was de-
livered to Albert B_ Fall, former
secretary of the interior, by E. L.
Doheny. jr., in the much discus-
sed “little black satchel,’’ was de-
clared in the suit to have been
the rightful property of the stock-
holders. An -aceounting of this
exchange, which the complaint
branded as a bribe, was demand-
ed,

The lease, which was negotiat-
ed in behalf of the government by
Fall, was cancelled by a decision
of the United States supreme
court after the Pan-American had
spent several million dollars to-
ward developing the Elk Hills,
Calif., oil reserve and on the
building of oil storage tanks at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Kunkel’s complaint sets forth
that neither he nor any of the
plaintiff stockholders had = any
hand in the leasing negotiations.
Some time ago, aceording to the
suit, demand was made upon the
board of directors of the company
for the accounting but nothing
was done about it.

The suit demands that Doheny
personally be compelled to reim-
burse the stockholders for the al-
leged losses.
 
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 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 exacerbation 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 party, and against other
countries, in circumstances
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. Kissiner 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 at-
mosphere, 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 af-
ternoon flight to the Western
White House, Brezhnev
arranged to meet with 40
American businessmen to sell
them on expanded trade with
Russia.
 