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 Cle-
mente, Calif,, retreat, has been getting
Some money back in the form of rent
associated with Nixons Key Biscayne,
Fla,, place.

A moath ago the White House had
listed $39,000 in federal funds for
improving the.Western White House
at San Clemente since Nixon baught

aa See
 —Ht-in-1960,

Last week, after a. further search
of record, -it raised this figure to
$460,302,

On Thursday, General Services ad-
ministration GSA, the government's
housekeeping agency, said a still more
‘wextensive. audit put .the.totalfedaral
expenditure at San Clemente at $703,-
367 over four fiscal years beginning
July 1, 1969, ‘This included only the re-
Sidence there, not the White House
office space, °

GSA listed for the first time the
federal expenditure for improve-
ments, equipment, operation and main-
tenance at the White House complex
at Key: Biscayne, including both resi-

 

dence and offlcé space - $1,180,522,
spread over five fiscal years begin-
ning July 1, 1968,

Included” in the Key Biscayne figure
was $161,463 for renting two houses in
the complex for the Secret Service and
White House communications staff.

The White House sald one of these
houses is owned by Abplanalp and the
other is owned in the name of Edwin
H, Underwood, trustee for the Indiana
National Bank, Indianapolis,

The White House said all of the tax-
payers’ money spent in San Clemente
and Key Biscayne was for security re-
lated improvements and that all work
was done at the request of the Secret
Service, not the President,

. THE GSA data showed items such as
$53,644 in fiscal year 1970 for interior
security and communications at San
Clemente, It also included $3,303 in
fiscal 1970 for golf carts for the Se-
eret Service patrol at Key Biscayne,
- ‘Two years later there appears ano-
ther item of $5,230 for. three Secret
Service golf carts there.
 
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.
 