BISMARCK. X. D. Aug. % aes
‘AP)--Governor A. G. Sortie,
North Dakota, died at the .
tive mansion here at 3:45 o’
this morning. ‘

Death came after an iliness of
‘more than a month during &
iast four days of which his -
‘tion has been critical He was
sutfering with heart disease. a

Walter Madock of Plaza,
| succeeds Governor Sorlie as
‘Slate's chief executive, will
jn the State capiial today to
sume his duties.

Gov. Sorlie’s death brings to
executive's chair a real dirt oa
er and one who is rated as a self
made, self educated man. He ,

educated in the common

studied law an civil e
taking mali courses in those
jects. =

Arthur Gustave Sorlie was

| April 26, 1874 in Minnesota. Tile
parents were Iver and Mary ‘lie,
natives of Norway. When &
was 19 years ola he came ©
North Dakota where he worked im
a bank, operated a general store
and tnen pecame » traveling salem

Despite his exunsive in
the non-partisan ieague

him as its stanaard bearer if 192
and he won tte gu jal
eiection after a ‘ot fight with 5 <
| A. Nestos, the Republican um-
bent. He was rvcelected in 19
' put did not seek renomination
year, saying that he desired to

tere to private life at the

his term. in

in 19% Gov. So:ie married Mas

Junie Odegard, who died afte
bearing three chidren. In 13%
he ried Miss (-race Hilleboe a
ur Forks and two childrer
were born.

One of Gov. Sorlie’s most im

- portant acts of luz first term w@

f tae appointment vi Gerald P. Ny¢

“to the United Statcs Senate to sue

| ceed Senator E. F. Ladd who died

s in office. “

   
  
  
    
  

   
  
 
  
 
  
 

   

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WASHINGTIN (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.
Breziney raised their cham-
pagne glasses in toasts to suc-
cess at the ceremony in the
White House East Room.

The agreement, the out-
standing accomplishment 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 meams’’ be the sys-
| tem of verifying whether Wash-
ington and Moscow were living
up to a missile limitation.

Surveillance of multiple inde-
pendently targeted warheads
MIRVS evidently would be re-
stricted mostly to observation
by radar and spy satellite while
in flight tests.

Henry A. Kissinger, the Pres-
.ident’s national security ad-
|| visr, briefing newsmen_ said
»; that “those MIRV agreements
.|that are not verifiable by na-
-| tional technical means would
1 be difficult to reconcile” with
|the objective of restricting
1 complex nuclear offensive
{ weapons.

1, The two nations agreed in an-
5 other provision that efforts by
1 one or the other to obtain a nu-

‘clear advantage would be in-
n| consistent with the goal of
1 Strengthening peaceful _rela-
4 | tions.
t| The arms limitation envis-
, toned by the end of next year
s | would include not only numbers
f but the quality of the missiles.
n Nixon and Brezhnev alsc
o agreed that limitation or

| Strategic offensive arms must
fi subject to ‘‘adequate veri
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fication.”” Both nations woulc
oO be permitted to modernize anc
a replace weapons only unde!
n| conditions to be agreed upon a’
,, | Geneva.
At the same time, Nixon anc
. | Brezhnev signed a 10-year pac
5 | to expand cooperation betwee:
the two countries on peacefu
..| uses of atomic energy. It suc
pi ceeds a series of two-yeal
| 48reements.
t The major points of the com
oe pact include: (1)  controllin;
9| thermonuclear fusion; (2) re
n| Search on “fast breeder” reac
tors which create more fue
than they consume; (3) re
a search on the fundamenta
| properties of physical matter.
,-| A similar arms under
a" standing between Nixon am
| Brezhnev in 1971 produced
| when Nixon went to Moscow t
see Brezhnev last spring a
, | initial but limited nuclea

a
; | WanowS agreement.
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