 

Washington, Aug. 28—(7)—Con+
tlnuing conferences with Republi-
can campalgn managers in tne
Fast, Herbert Hoover: today was
assembling information upon which
bo base aw decision as to the extent
he wlll participate personally in the
presidential fight there.

William HL. IML, chalrman of the
New York state Ioover committeo,
had on engagement with the Re-
publican standard bearer to suppte-
ment the advices given him yes-
torday by Charles D, ilies, natlon~
al committecenvan for New York,
and Daniel E. Pomeroy, vice chatr=
man of the New Jorsey commnittee,

Reporta received by Hoover since
his return from the West Indicate
that bho eastern situation Is ono re«
quiring attentlon aud his advisers
are urging Lim te ga into New
York, Massachusetts and New Jere
Sey for at least one speech for cach
state and more if Ume can bo
found for them.

After he has canvassed the cast-
trn situation, he will bo in a posl-
ton to fairly well” map out his
campiulgn up to election time Ib is
certain that he wilt take advantage
of his awing back to his home in
Californla to vate for making &
series of ardrosses Whether ho
wlll take the northein route home,
through Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Montana and Oregon, o: the south-
crn route remalns bo be deter-
mined.

Before that time he very prob-
obly will go Into the Middle West,
apeaklug ab Chicago and some
other cltles, and alse inlo the bore
ter states,

Should Hoover devlde to make a
Lianbor day address iext Monday,
it will be in Washington, with «
radio hookup, ib was steted today
at his office.

Trepresentatives of the Republi-
ean candidate still were sceking to-
day to secure 2 building in which
to open his personal bendquarters,
There has been some elelay In ob-
taining the home of the the inte
Ropresontalive  Prothingham, — of
Massachusetts, and some — obher
building nearby may have to be
leased.
 
FRSOVUV ES VOU S§tVos Vreastews

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.
 