WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon and _ Sovie
leader Leonid I.  Brezhney
pledged today to avoid military
confrontations and threats of
force that might lead to nuclear
war between their two nations.
In a policy declaration, the
leaders of the two nuclear
superpowers agreed to ‘‘im-
mediately enter into urgent
consultations with each other’’
should the risk of a nuclear
conflict arise.

Nixon and Brezhnev. signed
 the agreement —the eighth
since the start of their summit
talks —in a ceremony in the

East Room of the White House
a few hours’ before their
scheduled departure aboard the
presidential jetliner for San
Clemente, Calif., for the conclu.
sion of their week-long con-
ference.

In the agreement, the two
leaders promised that the
United States and the Soviet
Union “will act in such a

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WASHINGTON, Ang. 28. —
{AP) —- Continuing conferences
with Republican campaign man-
agers in the east, Herbert Hoov-
er today was assembling informa-
tion upon which te hase a deci-
sion ag to the extent he will par-
ticinate personally in the presi-
dential fight there.

William H. Hill, chairman of
the New York state committee,
had an engagement with the Re-
publican standard bearer to sup-
plement the advices given him
yesterday by Charles D, Hilles,
national committeemaa for New
Boek, | And -Daniel E..Pomeroy,

    

 

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since .his return frm the west
{ndicate the eaatéen situation i
oné requiring. aftention and his
advisers ate urging him to gc
inte New York, Massachusetts
and New Jersey “for at least ont
speech for each state and more
time can he found for them.
 