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
consulations with each other”
should the risk of a nuclear

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 conclu-
sion of their week-long con-
ference,

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
 deve ent of situations capa-
ble of causing a dangerous
exacerbation of their relations,
as to avoid military confronta-
tions, and to exclude the
outbreak of nuclear war be-
 {tween 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 en-
danger international peace and
security.”

In advance of the signing
Nixon briefed congressional
leaders of both parties on the
declaration which is a state-
ment of policy —not a treaty —

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.”
 
WASHINGTON (UPI: —
The federal government
says it has spent nearly $2
million improving Presi-
dent Nixon's homes in
Florida and California, al-
most all of it relating to
“security.” The expenses
ranged from fire sprin-
kKlers'ta gulf carts for the
Seeret Service.

The White House also
disclosed that business-
,man Robert H. Abplanalp,
who helped the President
buy his San Clemente re-
treat, has been getting
some moncy hack in the
form of rent associated
with Nixon's Key Bis-
eayne place.

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

LAST WEEK, after a
further search of record,
it raised this fugure to
$460,300.

On Thursday, General
Services Administration,
the government's house-
keeping agency, said a
still more extensive audit
put the total federal
expenditure at San Cle-
‘mente at $703,367 over
four fiscal years begi:

 
 ning July 1, 1969. This in-
cluded only the residence
there, not the White
House office space.

GSA listed for the first
time the federal expendi-
ture for impravements,
equipment, operation and
maintenance at ihe White
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 Se-
eret Service and White
House communications
staff. The total did not in-
clude an estimated $400,-
000 helicopter landing pad
built by the Army Corps
of Engineers.

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

The White House saic
all of the taxpayers
money spent in San Cle
mente and Key Bis
cayne was for security

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