WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet
Union Thursday signed an
agreement in principle to limit
and possibly reduce their stock-
piles of offensive nuclear weap-
ons by the end of 1974.

President Nixon and Soviet
Communist leader Leonid I.
Brezhnev raised their cham-
pagne glasses in toasts to suc-
cess at the ceremony in the
White House East Room.

The agreement, the out-
standing acomplishment 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 re-
cessed strategic arms limita-
tion 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 bow-
ing to Soviet objections to on-
site inspections.

One of the seven stated prin-
ciples provides that “national
technical means” be the svs-
tem of verifying whether Wash-
ington and Moscow were living
up to a missile limitation.

 
 
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—~-(P)—
Continuing conferences with fre-
publican campaign managers in
the east, Herbert Hoover today was
assembling information upon

which to base a decision as to the
extent he will participate person-
ally in the presidential fight there.

William H. Hill, chairman of
the New York state Hoover com-
mittee, had an engagement with
the republican standard bearer to
‘supplement the advices given him
yesterday by Charles E. Pomeroy,
vice chairman of the New Jersey
committee.

Reports received by Hoover
since his return from the west in-
dicate that the eastern situation
is one requiring attention and his
advisers are urging him to go into
New York, Massachusetts and New
Jersey for at least one speech for
each state and more if time can
be found for them.

After he has canvassed the east-
ern situation, he will be in a posi-
tion to fairly well map out his
campaign up to election time. It
is certain that he will take ad-
vantage of his swing back to his
home in California to vote for mak-
ing a series of addresses.

Before that time he very prob-
ably will go into the middle west,
speaking at Chicago and some
other cities, and also into the bor-
der states, but these addresses are
likely to follow those in the east.
Some of his advisers think he
should speak in New York and
nearby states not later than early
Ocroher.
 