(Associated Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Aug. 28, (AP)—
Continuing conferences with re-

publican campaign managers in
the east, Herbert Hoover today
was assemblying information up-
on which to base a decision as to
the extent he will partieipate per-
sonally 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 ta
supplement the advices given him
yesterday by Charles D. Hilles,
national committeeman for New
York, and Daniel E. Pomeroy,
vice chairman of the New Jersey
committee,

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

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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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