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After rejecting charges Kissinger reveals secret WASHINGTON (UPI) After strenuously rejecting charges of a secret arms agreement with the Soviet Union Monday morning. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger later in the day acknowledged the existence of a secret loophole the pad, according to Congressional sources. In a three-hour Senate arms control subcommittee meeting which members described as frequently acrimonious, Kissinger said the loophole was wholly unintentional, that he had not known about it at first, and that it was finally closed only last week. Sen.

Henry A. Jackson, reportedly accepted the explanation and said he had never intended to imply that Kissinger had made deliberate concessions to the Russians. "The issue here is not 70 missiles more or less," Jackson said. "The issue is the withholding from the Congress and the American people of a secret agreement." Senate sources said Kissinger told the committee the documents had been kept secret because it was thought they were consistent with the earlier public announcements on the arms agreement. Leg problem struck Nixon before journey WASHINGTON (UPI) The White House disclosed Monday that President Nixon recently suffered a circulatory ailment called "phlebitis" but said he is fully recovered and fit to depart Tuesday on his European and Soviet summit trip a prospective 14-hour-a- day grind of work, pomp and travel.

Nixon was scheduled to depart at 8:30 a.m. EOT on an eight-day trip that takes him first to a NATO summit in Brussels and then to a round of talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow. Obviously reluctant to discuss the ailment, several White House aloes confirmed under questioning that Nixon had suffered "a mild case of phlebitis" --an inflamation of the veins that impedes circulation and sometimes involves clotting --but had recovered from it before he departed on his Middle East tour June 10. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren quoted Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, as saying, "The President is in good health and is looking forward to Brussels and the Soviet Union." "That, Warren added, "is all he is prepared to say," and other aides contacted also declined to explain why the White House had withheld disclosure of the ailment, when it began and ended, or any other medical detail.

newsman.Dan.Rather broke the story on the evening newscast and said Nixon "is suffering from phlebitis" now, but the By a 65-33 vote White House spokesmen all insisted that is not the case --the President, they said, is now hale, hearty, rested after five days of retreat at Camp David, and raring to get off on his next round of travel to Brussels, first, and then Moscow. "He looks great," said one aide who preferred not to be quoted by name. "He's cool and calm as ever." Nixon, one of the healthiest of modern presidents, looked in good trim Monday as he posed for reporters before a White House conference with his economic advisers, and he laughed about the rigors of the impending tour like a man who thrives on such things. The president said he expected the NATO summit meeting in Brussels Wednesday and the talks with Soviet leaders beginning Thursday to produce 14-hour days of work and ceremony. "But we'll survive," he quipped and, glancing at the newsmen, added he only hoped the reporters could keep up.

He said travel fatigue is "all psychological." Rather said Nixon had been noticed limping, apparently from the phlebitis, during the June 10-June 19 trip to Salzburg, Austria, and the Middle East. Other reporters recalled only midway through the trip, but noted he was getting only three or four hours sleep a night on a schedule filled with public parades, uc back of wdion, cd. 4 Senate defeats tax reform bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate overwhelmingly defeated a tax reform package Monday, but liberals began a last- ditch drive to salvage amendments ending the oil depletion allowance and giving individuals a scaled-down income tax cut. Liberal senators failed 65 to 33 in their effort to attach their entire tax package to the pending debt ceiling bill. Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey, then introduced an amendment that would end the oil depletion allowance immediately and cut individual taxes by increasing the personal exemption from fTSO to an optional tax credit for low-income persons. The tax cut, which would cost the Treasury an estimated billion a year, is smaller than UK original liberal proposal which would hate increased the exemption to $825 with an $190 credit. The liberals dropped the portion of their, original amendment that would have ended certain export incentives and accelerated Chief remains in coma depreciation tax breaks, and that would haye strengthened the minimum tax. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, anticipating a possible filibuster against tne new amendment, filed a cloture petition for ta vote on Wednesday.

Humphrey said he would attempt to havfe separate votes on each half of his amendment and that he felt there was a chance the tax cut would pass. "If the Congress doesn't have the sense to enact reform, then maybe it'll have the sense to give a break to the low-income individual," Humphrey said. However, it was doubtful the oil depletion portion of the amendment would pass. Hum- concededliberals do not have the votes to stop a filibuster against it. Even if the liberals managed to pass the measure in the Senate, they still would face a conference with the Housepassed debt bill and a threatened veto by President Nixon.

Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said again Monday that Nixon would veto the debt bill if the tax amendments were attached. Police aren't sure letter about Cann is for real UNION CITY A letter supposedly sent by the Chicano Liberation Front taking credit for the shooting of Police Chief Cann "can't be authenticated." Police Lt. Jere Bashinski said yesterday. Although he is "taking the letter seriously." the acting chief said. "There is nothing in the letter which couldn't have been learned by reading the newspapers." Can remains in a coma a Washington Hospital since the shooting June 11 in Ihe parish hall of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, where three other persons suffered minor wounds in the sniper attack.

The special telephone fine, with the number 4B-3II1. which Bashinski installed to receive tips from the public, was used for a flurry of calls after it was first installed, but now receives cal Is only sporadically. All tips are being checked out. Bashinski ttid. and one of them could bring the tipster the 121.001 cash reward being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction ofthipjiiper.

Bashinski earlier said he thinks the scarcity of leads in the shooting is due to the probability that no one actually saw the sniper who climbed a wall outside the hall at 6th and streets and fired through a window at a group of citizens meeting with Cann. The letter which! claimed the CLF shot Can was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, which turned it over to Union City police. Patterned after a letter from the Sym- bknese Liberation Army when the SLA claimed credit for the assassination of Oakland Schools Supt. Marcus Foster, the letter employed military terms and sa id the shoot ing was "revolut iona ry justice." Unlike the SLA's letter, however, the CLF letter failed to expose any data which could nave been known only to the assassins, such as specific details on the make and model of the rifle which fired two' .30 caliber bullets into Cam's neck. The SLA, on the other hand, revealed that buljets lipped, with cyanide had been used to shoot Foster, a fact which was unknown ejen to the coroner at that time.

Earlier in the day, Jackson read newsmen an excerpt from one of the documents which said over Kissinger's signature that the agreement must remain secret "since the Soviet Union has not given its assent for public release at this time." There was no immediate clarification of just what the loophole consisted of, but in his press conference remarks early in the day Kissinger had referred to what he called a "super-clever interpretation of a clause" which could involve converting old diesel submarines to carry modern missiles with nuclear warheads. Kissinger said that the allowable number of such conversions was not nailed down because "it would be absurd for the Soviet Union to develop a missile for a submarine that is in itself obsolescent." Whatever the loophole was, however, the sources reported that the administration had attempted for some time to dose it but the Russians had steadfastly refused until last Tuesday. Russian negotiators, they said, had claimed that they were reluctant to agree to anything that would modify an agreement reached at much higher levels. "We now know that the loophole closing'will be among the agreements signed at the summit," a source said, and added that the remaining concern was what tad to' be bargained away to get the loophole closed, i When Jackson emerged after the subcommittee meeting, he tried to pour oil on the troubled waters of his confrontation with the secretary of state. He said none of his documents would be released until after President Nixon and Kissinger return from the Moscow trip.

THE Vol. XIV, No. 57 A consolidation and continuation of the News-Register Fremont-Newark, California, Tuesday, June 974 24 Pages 10 Cents He's not bashful Two Fremont letter carriers gaily sporting the cooler versions of the post office uniform for summer work are Herman Schneider and Helen Tucker. While the coulottes seem to be popular attire for women letter carriers, Schneider is only one of a handful of men at Ihe main post office who've adopted the short trou- sers for the sake of comfort. Perhaps, speculated one post office spokesman yesterday, the males have a aversion to showing their knees.

Schneider and Ms. Tucker, obviously, had no hesitations about com- paringjointform. good morning --it's Tuesday the weather Fair through. tomorrow except for night and morning low cloudiness. Highs in the 70s, with overnight lows in the 50s.

Westerly winds. 10 to 20 miles per hour in the afternoons and evenings. Yesterday's Fremont high was 78, with a low of 53. in the area Two youths steal a light plane parked at the Hayward airport and manage to get airborne, only to crash seconds later. Page 2.

School officials study the possibility of allowing families live in mobile homes on school 'grounds in hopes of discouraging vandalism. Page 4. California Stale University, Hayward and Ohlone College join 15 other East Bay colleges and universities in a new regional association to promote ce- operat ion in meeting education needs. Page 2. in the nation A psychological approach to weight' control offers new hope to overweight people.

First National Bank of Chicago raises it prime lending rate to a record high of 11.8 per cent from 11.5 per cent, and five West Coast banks moved to the 11.75 per cent level. Page 2. Exiled Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn says the Soviet Union is enjoying unprecedented over the West, partly because President xon i in such a wea 1 position. Pages. the inside story ArfwTopn 4 JodtAndmen Aitrofeqy 9 LJbttyfc 7 9 Comia 11 Qtituao.t -2 Crowwofd 11 RoyOrrocfc 9 Dr.SMncrahn 9 13-16 Mtood TV Log 6 7 Ad.

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