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Washington, D. C., Aug. 28. ()—
Continuing conferences with Repub-
lican campaign managers in the
East, Herbert Hoover today wasias-
sembling information upon which to
base a decision as to the extent he
will participate personally in the
presidential fight there.

William H. Hili, cuairman of the
New York state. Hoover committee,
had an engagement-with the Repub-
lican standard bearer to supplement
the advices given him yesterday by
Charles D. Hilles, national commit-
teeman for New York, and Daniel
E. Pomeroy, vice chairman of the
New Jersey committee.

- Reports received by Hoover since
his return from the West indicate
that the eastern situation is one re-
quiring attention and his advisers
are urging him to go into New
New, Massachusetts and New Jer-
sey for at least one speech for each
state and more if time can be found
for them. oe ,

After he has canvassed the eastern
situation, he will be in a position to
fairly. well map out his campaign up
to,,election time. It is certain that
he will take advantage of his swing
back to his home in California to
vote for making a series of addresses.
Whether he will take the northern
route home, through Wisconsin,

  

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United
States and the Soviet Union Thursday
signed an agreement of principles de-
signed 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 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
inconsistent with the goal of
strengthening peaceful relations.

The agreement is designed to spur
negotiators for both countries 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 per-
mitted 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 fun-
damental properties of physicai matter.
 