other summit talk in the So
viet Union next year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States and the Soviet
Union Thursday signed an
agreement of principles de
signed to permanently limit nu-
clear weapons by the end of
1974.

President Nixon and Commu-
nist leader Leonid I. Brezhnev
signed for their nations at the
White House. The agreement,
the outstanding accom-
plishment of their summit
talks, was cemented at the
President’s Camp David retreat
in the Maryland mountains.

The two nations agreed as a
matter of principle that efforts
by one or the other to obtain a
nuclear advantage would be in-
consistent with the goal of
strengthening peaceful _rela-
 The agreement is designed to
spur negotiators for both coun-
tries at now-recessed talks in
Geneva. Significantly, the arms
limitation envisioned by the end
of next year would include not
only numbers but the quality of
the missiles themselves.

Nixon and Brezhnev also
agreed that limitation on
strategic offensive arms must
be subject to ‘‘adequate veri-
fication."’ Both nations would
be permitted to modernize and
replace weapons only under
conditions to be agreed upon at
Geneva.

At the same time, Nixon and
Brezhnev signed a 10-year pact
to expand cooperation between
the two countries on peaceful
uses of atomic energy. It suc-
ceeds a_ series of two-year
agreements.

The major points of the com-
pact include: (1) controlling
thermonuclear fusion; (2) re
search on “fast breeder’ reac-
tors which create more fuel
 than they consume; (3) re
search on the _ fundamental
properties of physical matter.
A similar arms _ under-
standing between Nixon and
Brezhnev in 1971 produced
an initial but limited nuclear
weapons acreaamant
 
WASHINGTON AP — The United States
and the Soviet Union Thursday signed an
agreement of principles designed to
permanently limit nuclear weapons by the
end of 1974,

President Nixon and Communist leader
Leonid I. Brezhnev signed for their nations
at the White House. The agreement, the
outstanding accomplishment of their
summit talks, was cemented at the
President's Camp David retreat in the
Maryland mountains.

The two nations agreed as a matter of
principle that efforts by one or the other to
obtain a nuclear advantage would be
inconsistent with the goa] of strengthening
peaceful relations.

The agreement is designed to spur
negotiators for both countries at
now-recessed talks in Geneva. Significant-
ly, the arms limitation envisioned by the
end of next year would include not only
numbers but the quality of the missiles

themselves.
Niewnan and Rrashnoeyu alen acraad that
 limitation on strategic offensive arms
must be subject to ‘adequate verifica-
tion.’’ Both nations would be permitted to
modernize and replace weapons only
under conditions to be agreed upon at
Geneva.

At the same time, Nixon and Brezhnev
signed a 10-year pact to expand
cooperation between the two countries on
peaceful uses of atomic energy. It
succeeds a series of two-year agreements.

The major points of the compact
include: 1) controlling thermonuclear
fusion; 2) research on ‘fast breeder”
reactors which create more fuel than they
consume; 3) research on the fundamental
properties of physical matter.

A similar arms understanding between
Nixon and Brezhnev in 1971 produced,
when Nixon went to Moscow to see
Brezhnev last spring, an initial but limited
nuclear weapons agreement.
 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, the President’s
national security adviser, told newsmen
that Nixon and Brezhnev are convinced an
expanded agreement by the end of 1974
would be ‘‘a major contribution in
reducing the danger of an outbreak of
nuclear war.”

He said they were agreeing now to seven
basic principles out of ‘sense of urgency.”’

The current SALT talks in Geneva have
become static and are recess. The new
understanding is designed to provide an
impetus for positive negotiations. Know
Know-
ledgeable observers estimate the second
pact would be ready by the end of 1974.
 