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Nuclear ceilings accepted
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Ford and Soviet
leader Leonid Brezhnev have agreed to limit the nuclear
arms race for the next decade.
Returning Sunday night from the Vladivostok summit
talks, where the agreement was reached, Ford stressed
that “many details remain to be worked out by our
negotiators.”
“But ceilings on the strategic forces of both nations
have been accepted,” he said. “A good agreement that
will serve the interests of the United States and the Soviet
Union is within our grasp.”
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said the
agreement in principle was the breakthrough in nuclear
arms talks “that we have sought in recent years. ”
“We have achieved a cap on the arms race if we can
solve the technical problems of implementing the
agreement that was made here,” Kissinger told reporters
in Vladivostok. “But I believe that with good will that
should be possible.”
Administration sources said it allows the Soviet Union
to keep its advantage in numbers of intercontinental
nuclear missiles but lets the United States keep its
advantage in the number of missiles equipped with
multiple warheads.
Press Secretary Ron Nessen was exultant. “It is one of
the most significant agreements since World War n,”
Nessen declared, saying “Richard Nixon could not
achieve this in five years, President Ford achieved it in
three months.”
On Tuesday Ford will begin explaining still secret
details of the agreement to congressional leaders of both
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LONDON (UPI) — Luz Maria Osoria, Miss Colombia,
| accused the judges in the Miss World contest Sunday of
choosing Helen Morgan, 22, Miss United Kingdon, solely
I because she had an illegitimate son.
“It is wrong for an unmarried mother to be Miss
World,” Luz Maria Osorio, the 18-yearold Miss Colombia,
said.
“The organizers have adopted a double standard of
morals.
“Last year they sacked Miss United States for not
abiding by their rules, but this year they have chosen a
girl who is an unmarried mother.”
Pope Paul VI on visit I
VATICAN CITY (UH)-Pope Paul VI left the Vatican
Sunday to visit gravely ill Archbishop Luigi Rovigatti, the
third-ranking clergyman in the Roman Catholic
hierarchy.
The Vatican said the Pope spent 15 minutes at
| Rovigatti’s bedside in Calvary Hospital. The archbishop
| was visibly moved by the Pope’s words of comfort, the
| Vatican said.
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SWEETWATER, Tex. (UH) — Billy Graham helped
| honor his boyhood friend, Graty Wilson, with a surprise
| appearance Sunday at a tribute for the vice president of
his evangelist association.
“Graty has made a tremendous impact on my life and
my associations in the ministry,” Graham said of Wilson.
He said he and Wilson attended school together in
I Charlotte, N.C.
“I used to sit in wonderment listening to Graty’s
g sermons, that a kid I had known in high school could know
i so much in the pulpit,” Graham said.
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Ford back home
parties, and he will brief more members of Congress
during the week.
He could meet opposition from legislators such as Sen.
Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., who have resisted previous
U.S.-Soviet nuclear accords as giving too much away to
the Russians.
A spokesman for Jackson said his arms control subcom
mittee would hold hearings on the agreement “as soon as
possible.”
Administration officials said Ford expects to receive
within a week a written statement from Brezhnev
confirming points on which the two leaders agreed
verbally.
Broad outlines of the agreement were set forth in a
statement signed by Ford and Brezhnev Sunday in the
second floor solarium of a health spa near the icy Siberian
port city of Vladivostok.
U.S. officials hope the technicalities can be worked out
at U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation talks resuming in
Geneva in January and the agreement could be formally
signed when Brezhnev visits the United States the
following May or June.
It goes beyond an interim nuclear arms accord signed
between Brezhnev and former President Richard Nixon in
May, 1972, which expires in October, 1977. The new agree
ment would run from then until December 31,1985.
Ford appeared tired but elated as he walked down the
ramp of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force base near
here Sunday night after an 8-day, 16,550 mile journey to
Japan, South Korea and the Soviet Union, his first venture
into global diplomacy.
His wife, Betty, and daughter, Susan, kissed and hugged
Prosecution rests
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
prosecution rests its case today
against five former aides of
President Richard M. Nixon in
the Watergate conspiracy trial.
The question of whether Nixon
himself would be able to testify
remained unanswered.
Egil “Bud” Krogh Jr., once a
protege of defendant John D.
Ehrlichman and former co
director of the White House
“plumbers” special investiga
tive unit, was expected to
complete his testimony before
noon.
Krogh already has served a
prison sentence for his part in
the 1971 break-in at the office of
Pentagon Papers defendant
Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist
—a so-called “covert opera
tion” that Nixon’s aides feared
would come to light in the
Watergate aftermath.
An argument over national
security aspects of the Water
gate cover-up kept chief trial
prosecutor James F. Neal from
completing his case Friday as
planned.
U.S. District Judge Gerhard
A. Gesell had ruled in advance
of the “plumbers” trial last
summer that national security
could not be used as a defense
for the Ellsberg break-in, and
the subject did not come up
during die three-week trial.
William S. Frates, Ehrlich
man’s lawyer in both the
MP school
moving
to Alabama
ANNISTON, Ala. (UPI) -
About 65 military and 40
civilian personnel are scheduled
to begin arriving Dec. 15 at Ft.
McClellan as part of a plan to
move the military police school
from Ft. Gordon, Ga., to the
Alabama facility, officials said
this weekend.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Kingston,
base commander at Ft. McClel
lan, said the transfer would be
completed next May when 700
military and 100 civilian per
sonnel would move to the
Alabama base.
He said construction was
nearly complete on one multi
million-dollar project and bar
racks would be built soon for
the MP school.
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trials, was successful in bring
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But Presiding Judge John J.
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argument, was equally unsym
pathetic.
“There isn’t anyone above
the law in this country and that
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him. Ford told about 200 welcomers: “I believe we
accomplished what we set out to achieve —and perhaps
more.”
He referred to the nuclear agreement with Brezhnev as
an understanding which “established a sound basis for a
new agreement that will constrain our military
competition over the next decade.”
Ford arrived in Vladivostok Saturday, flying from
South Korea via Tokyo, where Air Force One picked up a
Soviet navigator and radio operator.
He and Brezhnev talked during a two-hour train ride to
Okeanskiy, a spa and sanitarium used by Soviet
government agencies.
Saturday night they met until half past midnight,
canceling a banquet, and resumed on Sunday. One U.S.
aide said the two leaders “hit it off famously.”
Brezhnev told Ford that if the nuclear agreement is
finally signed “You and I will be thanked by all the
peoples of the world. I think we have done a good job in
this respect, here in Vladivostok.”
The two leaders signed their joint statement with cham
pagne and celebrated later with vodka.
They also issued a joint communique calling for a just
and lasting peace in the Middle East, efforts to control the
spread of nuclear weapons to other countries and long
term economic cooperation.
They returned to Vladivostok by train and Brezhnev
gave Ford a tour of that city, which has been closed to
Americans for 26 years.
“Good-bye and God bless you,” Ford told Brezhnev as
he boarded Air Force One for the flight home.
lawyer for former White House
chief of staff H.R. Haldeman,
told a reporter that the defense
counsels had met and “de
spaired” of finishing by Christ
mas —the target date Sirica
has held out for months.
If Nixon testifies either in
person or by deposition, this
almost certainly would mean
the trial would not be complet
ed by Christmas.
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With First Lady Betty Ford standing by, President Ford
addresses the gathering at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.,
on his.return from 17,000 mile Far Eastern journey and
summit talks which produced basic agreement on U.S.
Russian arms ceilings to “constrain our military
competition over the next decade.” (UPI)