other summit talk in the So
viet Union next year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet
Union Thursday signed an
agreement of principles de
signed to permanently limit nu-
clear weapons by the end of
1974.

President Nixon and Commu-
nist leader Leonid I. Brezhnev
signed for their nations at the
White House. The agreement,
the outstanding accom-
plishment of their summit
talks, was cemented at the
President’s Camp David retreat
in the Maryland mountains.

The two nations agreed as a
matter of principle that efforts
by one or the other to obtain a
nuclear advantage would be in-
consistent with the goal of
strengthening peaceful _rela-
 The agreement is designed to
spur negotiators for both coun-
tries at now-recessed talks in
Geneva. Significantly, the arms
limitation envisioned by the end
of next year would include not
only numbers but the quality of
the missiles themselves.

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 com-
pact include: (1) controlling
thermonuclear fusion; (2) re
search on “fast breeder’ reac-
tors which create more fuel
 than they consume; (3) re
search on the _ fundamental
properties of physical matter.
A similar arms _ under-
standing between Nixon and
Brezhnev in 1971 produced
an initial but limited nuclear
weapons acreaamant
 
| Bismarck, N. D Aug. 28-—(AP)—
Governor A. G. Sorlie, of North Dako-
ta, died at the executive mansion here
lat 3:45 o'clock this morning.
Death came after an illness of
‘more than a month during the last
‘four days of which his condition has
/been critical. He was suffering with
heart disease.
| Walter Maddock of Plaza, who suc-
\ceeds Governor Sorlie as the state's
‘chief executive, will arrive in the State
‘Capital today to assume his duties.
Gov. Sorlie’s death brings to the
executive's chair a real dirt farmer
and one who is rated as a self made.
‘Self educated man, He was educated
in the common schools and business
‘college. Later he studied law and
‘civil engineering, taking mail courses
‘in those subjects.
| Of Norwegian Stock
Arthur Gustave Sorlie was born
April 26, 1874. in Minnesota. His
‘Parents were Iver and Mary Sorlie,
natives of Norway. When he was 19
years old he came to North Dakota
where he worked in a bank, operated
a general store and then became a
traveling salesman. |
Despite his extensive interests, the |
non-partisan league selected him as
its standard bearer in 1924 and he |
won the gubernatorial election after.
a, hot fight with R. A. Nestos, the Re- |
publican incumbent. He was re-|
elected in 1926, but did not seek |
renomination this year, saying that
he desired to retire to private life ati
the end of his term.
In 1900 Gov. Sorlie married Miss |
Jennie Odegard, who died after bear- |
ing three children. In 1919 he mar- |
ried Miss Grace Hilleboe at Grand |
Forks and two children were born |
One of Gov. Sorlie’s most impor- |
tant acts of his first term was the |
appointment of Gerald P. Nye, to the |
United States Senate to succeed Sen- |
ator E. F. Ladd who died in office. |
 