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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United
States and the Soviet Union Thursday
signed an agreement in principle to limit
and possibly reduce their stockpiles of
offensive nuclear weapons by the end of
1974.

President Nixon and Soviet Communist
leader Leonid I. Brezhnev raised their
champagne glasses in toasts to success at
the ceremony in the White House East
Room.

The agreement, the outstanding ac-
complishment of their week-long summit,
was forged by Nixon and Brezhnev earlier
at Camp David, the presidential retreat in
the mountains of Maryland. It is designed
to spur negotiators for the two countries at
 the recessed strategic arms limitation
talks (SALT) in Geneva.

For the first time, the two nations
committed themselves in principle to
actual reductions of their nuclear
weaponry as well as to permanent limita-
tions. Also significantly, the United States
evidently is bowing to Soviet objections to
onsite inspections.

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

Surveillance of multiple independently
targeted warheads MIRVS evidently
would be restricted mostly to observation
by radar and spy satellite while in flight
 tests.

Henry A. Kissinger, the President's
national security adviser, briefing
newsmen, said that ‘those MIRV
agreements that are not verifiable by na-
tional technical means would be difficult
to reconcile’ with the objective of
restricting complex nuclear offensive

weapons.

The two nations agreed in another
provision that efforts by one or the other to
obtain a nuclear advantage would be in-
consistent with the goal of strengthening
peaceful relations.

The arms limitation envisioned by the
end of next year would include not only
numbers but the quality of the missiles.
 Nixon and Brezhnev also agreed that
limitation on strategic offensive arms
must be subject to ‘adequate veri-
fication.’ Both nations would be permitted
to modernize and replace weapons only
under conditions to be agreed upon at
Geneva.

At the same time, Nixon and Brezhnev
signed a 10-year pact to expand
cooperation between the two countries on
peaceful uses of atomic energy. It suc-
ceeds a series of two-year agreements.

The major points of the compact in-
clude: (1) controlling thermonuclear
fusion; (2) research on ‘“‘fast breeder”
reactors which create more fuel than they
consume; (3) research on the fundamental
properties of physical matter.

A similar arms understanding between
Nixon and Brezhnev in 1971 produced,
when Nixon went to Moscow to see
Brezhnev last spring, an initial but limited
nuclear weapons agreement.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, the President's
national security adviser, told newsmen
that Nixon and Brezhnev are convinced an
expanded agreement by the end of 1974
would be ‘a major contribution in
reducing the danger of an outbreak of
nuclear war.”

He said they were agreeing now to seven
basic principles out of ‘‘sense of urgency.”’

The current SALT talks in Geneva have
become static and are recess. The new
understanding is designed to provide an
impetus for positive negotiations.
Knowledgeable observers estimate the
second pact would be ready by the end of
1974.
 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet
Union Thursday signed an
agreement in principle to limit
and possibly reduce their stock-
piles of offensive nuclear weap-
ons by the end of 1974.

President Nixon and Soviet
Communist leader Leonid 1.
Brezhnev raised their cham-
pagne glasses in toasts to suc-
cess at the ceremony in the
White House East Room.

The agreement, the out-
standing accomplishment of
their week-long summit, was
forged by Nixon and Brezhnev
earlier at Camp David, the
presidential retreat in the
mountains of Maryland. It is
designed to spur negotiators for
the two countries at the re-
cessed strategic arms limita-
tion talks (SALT) in Geneva.
 For the first time, the two
nations committed themselves
in principle to actual reductions
of their nuclear weaponry as
well as to permanent limita-
tions. Also significantly, the
United States evidently is bow-
ing to Soviet objections to on-
site inspections.

One of the seven stated prin-

ciples provides that ‘national
technical means’’ be the sys-
tem of verifying whether Wash-
ington and Moscow were living
up to a missile limitation.
- Surveillance of multiple inde-
pendently targeted warheads
MIRVS evidently would be re-
stricted mostly ‘o observation
by radar and spy satellite while
in flight tests.

Henry A. Kissinger, the Pres-
ident’s national security ad-
viser, briefing newsmen, said
 that ‘‘those MIRV agreements
that are not verifiable by na-
tional technical means would
be difficult to reconcile’ with
the objective of restricting
complex nuclear offensive
weapons.

The two nations agreed in an-
other provision that efforts by
one or the other to obtain a nu-
clear advantage would be in-
consistent with the goal of
strengthening peaceful rela-
tions.

The arms limitation envis-
ioned by the end of next year
would include not only numbers
but the quality of the missiles.

Nixon and Brezhnev also
agreed that limitation on
strategic offensive arms must
be subject to “adequate veri-
fication.”’ Both nations would be
permitted to modernize and
 replace weapons only under
conditions to be agreed upon at
Geneva.

The major points of the com-
pact include: (1) controlling
thermonuclear fusion; (2) re-
search on “fast breeder” reac-
 