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
 
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT said in Washing-
(on it has spent nearly $2 million improving President
Richard Nixon's hames in Florida and California for
security purposes. The White Flouse disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who helped the
President buy his San Clemente, if. retreat, has
been getting some money bavk in the form of rent asso-
ciated with Nixon's Key Biscayne, Fla., place.

 

 

A5.5 PER CENT increase in 1974 payments to all 28
million Social Security recipients is considered certain
to pass the Senale and is likely to confront President
Richard Nixan next week. Its approval by the House
would test Nixon's post-Watergate mood of accommo-
dation with Cangress, signaled this week when he
signed three bills he originially had opposed.

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT Thursday slapped
down activily by roving border patrols arbitrarily
stopping and searching cars near the United States
border — even if they do find large amounts of mari-
juana. The court overturned the conviction of an indi-
gent Mexican who was arrested when federal officers
stopped and searched his car, without su
25 miles north of the Mexican border in California and
found 161 pounds of marijuana.

  

THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS Committee, ap-
parently unshaken by the upheaval within the FI,
voted today (o allow the full administration budget re-
quest of $366.5 million to operate the agency in the 1974
fiscal ycar thal starts July 1

ANUMBER OF East Coast Banks Thursday boosted
their prime interest rate from seven and one-half to
seven and three-fourths per cent, following the lead of
the First National Bank of Chicago, which made the
move earlier in the week. The prime rate is the interest
charged by a bank to its top corporate buyers.
 