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JERSEY CITY. N. J.. March 6—
Climbing through cold blue skies more
‘than five and one-half miles over Jer-
sey and Manhattan, Miss Ruth Nichols.
New York society aviatrix who holds
coast-to-coast speed marks, set an an-
official altitude record for women today.

The altimeter on her speedy mono-
plane showed neariy 30.054 feet. ‘Tne
sealed barozraph placed in the plane
by the National Aeronautic associa-
‘lion was immediately shipped to Wash-
ington for examination. Uf it shows
BATS WC Of more Miss Nichols will
@ awarded the record now hald by
‘inor Smith, young Long Island flies,
Miss Nichols was informed that. to
ALAIN Tecognition as the record holder

   

 

  
 

 

   

 
 ishe must beat Miss Smith's mark of
127,418 feet by more than 600 feet,

| She took off from Jersey City airport
‘at 12:33 p.m. and was aloft 90 min-
utes. There was g 30-mile wind blow-
ng when she circled the city, swung
over Manhattan and started the long
climb. =

| vEverything Went Fine.” she said.
| “The engine warked perfectly, 1 did not
isuffer any discomfort,”

She wore a flying suit Hned with
‘reindeer skin and the cockpit of her
‘plane was heated from the motor ex-
naust. She used oxygen apparatus and
(Na HO CiMmer, brealuing even in
ithe thin, cold air of high altitudes. The
temperature at the top of her climb
wes estimated 2t 50 degrees below zero
by Clarence Chamberlain, who coached
Miss Nichols for the aztempt,

 

 

   

 
 
WASIIINGTON tAP) — The
United States ‘and the Soviet
Union Thursday signed un
agreement in-principle to fimit
find possibly reduce ‘thelr
stockpiles of offensive nuclear
weapons by the. énd of i974.

President Nixan and Soviel
Communist leader Leonid [.
Brezhnev raised their cham-
pagne glasses in toasts to
success at the ceremony in the
White House asl Room.

The agreement, the out-
slanding accomplishment of
their weeklong summil was
forged by Nixon and Brezhnev
earlier al Camp David, the
presidential retreat in the
mountains of Maryland. $L is
 designed lo spur negotiators for
the two counlries al the
revessed strategic arms
limitation talks (SALT) In
Genevat** :

For the first. time, the two
nations committed themselves
in principle to actual reduelions
of their nuclear weaponry as
well as to permanent
limilalions. Also significantly,
the United Slates evidently is
bowing to Stiviel objecliuns lo
on-site inspections.

One of the seven stated
principles provides that
“national Lechnieal means” be
the system of verifying whether
Washinglon and Moscow were
living up to a missile limitation.

 

  

 
 Surveillance of mutliple
independently targeled
warheads CMIRVS) ‘ evidenlly
would be restricted mostly to
“observation by fadar’ and: spy
satellite while in Might tests.

Henry A. Kissinger, the
President's nalional security
adviser, brieling newsmen,
said that “those MIRV
ugreemenls thal are nat
verifiable by national technical
meaus Id be difficult lo
reconcile” with (he objective of
restricting complex nuclear
offensive weapons.

The two nations agreed in
another provision that efforts
hy ane or the other lo obtain a
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 inconsistent wilh the goal of
strengthening peaceful
relations.

The arms Hmilation en-
visioned by Lhe end of next year
would include nol only numbers
but the quality of the missiles.

Nixon and Brezhnev also
agreed that limilation on
slrategic offensive arms must
he subject lo “tadequate
verification.” Both nations
would be permitted to
modernize and — replace
weapons anly under conditions
lo be agreed upon al Geneva

At the same time, Nixon and
Brezhnev signed a 10-year pact
lo expand cooperation between
the Lwo countries on peaceful
uses of alomic energy. [L
succeeds a series of [wo-year
agreements,

The major areas of the joint
arms effort include: (1) con-
trolling thermonuclear fusion
(2) research on “fast breeder”
reactors which ereate more
fuel than they consume; (3)
research on the fundamental
properties of physical matter.

Nixon and Brezhnev New
down by helicopter from the
Catoclin Mountains to sign the
histnrie document on the fourth
day of their summitry. A
similar arms understanding
between them In 1971 produced,
when Nixon went lo Moscow lo
see Brezhnev last spring, an
inilial bil Similed nuclear
weapons agreement,

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, the
President's national security

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