WASHINGTON AP — The United States
and the Soviet Union Thursday signed an
agreement of principles designed to
permanently limit nuclear weapons by the
end of 1974,

President Nixon and Communist leader
Leonid I. Brezhnev signed for their nations
at the White House. The agreement, the
outstanding accomplishment 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
inconsistent with the goa] of strengthening
peaceful relations.

The agreement is designed to spur
negotiators for both countries at
now-recessed talks in Geneva. Significant-
ly, the arms limitation envisioned by the
end of next year would include not only
numbers but the quality of the missiles

themselves.
Niewnan and Rrashnoeyu alen acraad that
 limitation on strategic offensive arms
must be subject to ‘adequate verifica-
tion.’’ 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
succeeds a series of two-year agreements.

The major points of the compact
include: 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. Know
Know-
ledgeable observers estimate the second
pact would be ready by the end of 1974.
 
| Shelby, N. G, Aug. 28. (1
N.S.)—Light persons were
killed, 15 injured and an unde-
termined number are missing
in the collapse of the First Na-
tional Bank building during a
rush hour today,

The death tol! may rise as
three hours afler the crash
workmen had heen abled to
clear away (the debris only at
the edge of the building,

Police estimated the death  tott
would mount steudlly as rescue
crews dug deeper inta the debris in
the search of bodies,

No aveurate check up could be
muade of the missing persons, but it
was known that a dozer or more
had net heen accounted for.

Early this afternoon the crews
had searched only ihe edges of the
huge pile of debris. and it was
feared many more borties would be
fonnd toward the center,

Te was feared that a crew_ of
seventeen negroes who were worke
ing in the center of the building
were all killed The rescue crews
had not heen able as vet in get to
the place where the negroes were
work lag.

Ht was huown that fifteen per-
sons were jnfured, several af shon
inty dio, ‘They were all taken ta 2
hospital were as they were evtract-
ed From the fallen structare.

Excavation work at a nearhy
building was generally assigned ax
the re of the collapse of the
link building, 1t was kuown that
several persmis were in a grocery
and a tatlor’s shop whieh were a
part of the building, but [t was
pected to be hours hefere that part
of the structure could be searched
Lheroughly,

The collapse seeurred during a
lsh hour on this Hitie town's main
thoroughfare, aud it was helleved
that severat persons fn the street
were trapped under the deluce of
stone awd timber,

The entire fire and police forces
rere taxed ta capacliy in control
fnz the crowds, Many voluntiers
lided fy the rescue aperations, ,

The buitting was located in a
msy district, and was one of the
argest In the town,

 

 

 

 

  
 