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 cham-
pagne glasses in toasts to suc-
cess at the ceremony in the
White House East Room.

The agreement, the outstan-
ding accomplishment of their
week-long summit, was forged
by Nixon and Brezhnev earlier
at Camp David, the presiden-
tial 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 them-
selves in principle to actual
reductions of their nuclear
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