WOOTILINUGLUN CUPL —
President Nixon and Soviet
leader Leonid I. Brezhnev,
already planning another sum-
mit meeting next year, formal-
ly pledged today to avoid
military confrontations and
threats of force that might
trigger nuclear war.

The vows were contained in a
policy declaration which also
said the leaders of the two
‘superpowers would ‘immedi-
ately enter into urgent con-
sultations with each other” if a
nuclear conflict threatened.

Shortly before Nixon and
Brezhnev signed the
agreement in the East Room of
the White House, Treasury
Secretary George P. Shultz and
Soviet Trade Minister Nikolai
S. Patolichey met across
Pennsylvania Avenue in Blair
House to initial another pact
intended to strengthen com-
merce between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
About 50 captains of American
industry were present at the
signing.

The two latest accords
brought to eight the number
reached since the start of the
summit talks Monday. They
were signed a few hours before
Nixon and Brezhnev were to
depart aboard the President’s
jetliner for San Clemente,
Calif., where they planned to
conclude their conferences
over the weekend. ,

The decision by the two
leaders to hold a third summit
meeting in aS many years was
announced Thursday night at a
lavish banquet in the Soviet
Embassy.

Their promises to meet again
in Moscow next year were
accompanied by champagne
toasts. The jovial atmosphere
 reflected the signing earlier in
the day of pacts intended to
accelerate negotiations to limit
and reduce offensive nuclear
weapons and exchange re-
search on peaceful uses of
nuclear energy.

Today’s promises to refrain
from military confrontations
went into effect immediately
upon signing of the policy
declaration about 12:30 p.m.
EDT.

In the agreement, the two
leaders promised that the
United States and the Soviet
Union “will act in such a
manner as to prevent the
development of situations
capable of causing a dangerous
exacerbation of their relations,
as to ‘avoid military con-
frontations, and to exclude the
outbreak of nuclear wars
between them and between
either of the parties and other
countries.”

The accord also calls for the
signatories to proceed from the
premise that each will refrain
“from the threat or use of force
against the other party, against
the allies of the other party,
and against other countries, in
circumstances which may en-
danger international peace and
security.”

In advance of the signing,
Nixon briefed congressional
leaders of both parties on the
declaration, which is a state-
ment of policy —not a treaty —
and therefore does not require
Senate ratification.

Presidential adviser Henry
A. Kissinger said the intent of
the doctrine was “to prevent
the outbreak of nuclear war.”’

Kissinger said steps toward
the agreement began at the end
of the Moscow summit meeting
between Nixon and Brezhnev in
 May, 1972. Kissinger said the
accord “can be a significant
landmark in relations between
the two great nuclear powers.”

The accord, effective im-
mediately, is of unlimited
duration and both parties said
nothing in it would affect or
impair the right of individual or
collective self-defense under
the U.N. Charter or separate
treaty obligations, such as
those the United States has as a
member of NATO.

Kissinger said the
declaration is a ‘formal
obligation” on the part of the
United States and the Soviet
Union ‘“‘to practice restraint in
diplomacy and to build a peace
that is permanent.”

Asked how the agreement
might relate to current Ameri-
can bombing in Cambodia,
Kissinger said only that such
military operations were in
progress when the agreement
was negotiated.

But he conceded the use of
force in such circumstances
could threaten “the letter and
spirit of this agreement.”
Kissinger said United States
had consulted with several
allies before concluding the
accord.

The signing of the agreement
was the major action of the
morning for the two leaders.

Brezhnev will be a guest at
Nixon’s home in San Clemente,
La Casa Pacifica, from this
evening until Sunday morning
when he flies back to Washing-

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By ihe Associated Press. :

Los Angeles, Cal. Aug. 27.—A bill
of complaint demanding an account-
ing of $10,000,000 was filed in the
United States district court today
against Edward L. Doheny and the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans-
port company. The bill which charges
that stockholders of the company lost
this sum thru alleged fraud on the
part of Doheny in the famous Elk
Hills oil scandal, was filed by a Los
Angeles law firm on behalf of Frank
H. Kunkel, attorney, of Cincinnati,
who brought the suit in the interests
of himself and other stockholders.

The bill declares that the $10,000,000
was lost by the stockholders solely be-
cause Doheny acted fraudulently in
connection with the leasing from for-
mer Secretary cof the Interior Albert
B. Fall of the Elk Hills naval oil re-
serve, and thru large sums spent in
development of the fields themselves,
and elsewhere in connection with the
deal. It demands that an accounting
be made by Doheny and that such
money as was expended in the alleged
giving of a $100,000 bribe to Fall, and
in the development of the fraudulent-
ly leased fields, be returned to the
stockholders.

The complaint declares that neither
Kunkel nor the other stock holders
had any hand in the alleged fraud
whereby the money was lost. He al-
leges that demand was made some
time ago upon the board of directors
of the oil company for the starting of
legal action against Doheny to force
the accounting and recovery of this
money and that the board had done
nothing. He also demands that when
the accounting is rendered, the court
Issue a decree and judgment against
Doheny compelling him personally to
repay this money to the stockholders.

 
 