WASHINGTON (UPI) — The federal government
says it has spent nearly $2 million improving President
Nixon’s homes in Florida and California, all of it
relating to ‘‘security.’’ The White House also disclosed
that businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who helped the
President buy his San Clemente, Calif., retreat,has
been getting some money back in the form of rent
associated with Nixon’s Key Biscayne, Fla., place. A
month ago the White House had listed $39,000 in federal
funds for improving the Western White House at San
Clemente since Nixon bought it in 1969.
 
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
 