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Soviet relationship. Such intelligence was made known Tuesday on condition the source not be identified. But The Washington Post reported in editions that the apparent White House warning to Moscow came in a background briefing by presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger. The Post said Kissinger briefed five pool newsmen who accompanied Nixon to the Azores for two days of talks with French President Georges Pompidou.

The Post said it was not part of the pool and learned of the briefing independently. Signing Likely On Land Claims Bill WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon is expected to sign into law a bill to give Alaska natives $962.5 million and 40 million acres in settlement of their aboriginal land claims. The bill, sent to the White House by Congress Tuesday, is a compromise worked out by a Senate-House conference committee, and is almost as liberal as one proposed by the administration. The administration had recommended $1 billion and 40 million acres to settle the claims of the 55,000 Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. The claims to most of the vast Alaska land mass are based on ancestral use and occupancy and have been recognized since the U.S.

purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867. The conference report, a compromise of bills passed earlier by the Senate and the House, sailed through the House, 307 to 60, and passed the Senate quickly by voice vote. This climaxed 20 years of consideration by congressional committees of land-claim-settlement proposals. They began with a few million dollars and a few million acres, but increased sharply after discovery of oil in Alaska. The compromise calls for federal appropriations totaling $462.5 million in 11 years and $500 million in royalties on mineral production in Alaska public lands.

The latter otherwise would go to the state. Most of the 40 million acres would be used for expansion of native villages in Alaska. The money and land selections would be handled by nat ive corporations. Funds would be used for grants, loans, schools, hospitals, investments and projects to benefit the natives. The bill also calls for a joint federal-state land-planning study and the reservation of up to 80 million acres of Alaska land for possible inclusion in national park, forest, wildlife refuge and scenic river systems.

At the White House, presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Tuesday night: U.S. official was suggesting or intending to suggest that the United States was considering canceling the United States Soviet summit. That report is not correct. An administration spokesman, who would not be named, noted that the Soviets three times in recent days vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for an Indian cease fire.

He suggested the Soviet Union may have been trying to prove to the world that mainland China, to be visited by Nixon in February, is powerless to prevent the virtual collapse of Pakistani forces in the Eastern sector of their country. The White House has gone out of its way to express strong displeasure at the Soviet vetoes of Security Council actions aimed at ending the South Asian conflict. The most recent denunciation came at 1 a.m. Tuesday when Ziegler summoned reporters, some clad in pajamas, to an impromptu briefing session in the Azores. Ziegler said the President strongly regretted the latest Soviet veto of an American sponsored call for an India-Pakistan cease fire and mutural withdrawal of troops from foreign territories.

It is suggested in some quarters here that principal objective is to halt the fighting before India, a clear winner over the Pakistanis in the East, can mount a determined offensive against the heart of Pakistan in the West. A presidential journey to Russia rates as more than just another summit meeting. It looms over the expanding range of U.S. -Soviet relations. No president has been to Moscow while in office.

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nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise and escorting warships out of the Bay of Bengal and has promised to give help to all foreign nationals seeking safety in the East Pakistan war. Ambassador Lakshmi Kant Jha, making this known to newsmen Tuesday, said he had received reliable reports the U.S. fleet might seek to a beachhead for the evacuation of not only American personnel, but also Pakistan army officers and men as well as civilians who feel Jha said he had sought a denial of the report from Asst. Secretary of State Joseph Sisco but had failed to receive a satisfactory reply. American officials continued their silence on activities of the 7th Fleet task force.

Defense, xState and White House sources have declined to comment on the movement of any U.S. naval forces. But it was learned from authoritative sourcemis ican fleet is poised at the Straits of Malacca near Singapore awaiting instructions to take part in an evacuation plan if necessary. At the same time, U.S. Intelligence sources disclosed that Soviet naval strength in the Indian Ocean is being increased to about 15 vessels.

One force is 800 miles south of the West Pakistan coast. A second, smaller group is some 1,500 miles off the East Pakistan coast in a southerly direction. Ambassador Jha said the Soviet fleet units not going to get anywhere near the zone of conflict. If they did we would be as sharp in our reaction as we are to reports of the American fleet He said India would consider as a hostile act evacuation of nonforeign personnel from Bangui Desh, the Indian name for East Pakistan. He said India is not objecting to use of foreign planes for evacuation of foreigners from Dacca.

India seeks to avoid evacuation of Pakistani troops from the East to reinforce Pakistani forces in the West. By THE ASSOCIATED The Pakistani commander in East Pakistan has appealed to the Indian army chief of staff for a cease-fire, the government in New Delhi announced today. India ordered a halt to the bombing of Dacca and gave the Pakistanis 16 hours to surrender. Ge. Sam Mariekshaw, the Indian chief of staff, replied that he would order a cease-fire as soon as the Pakistanis confirmed their surrender, an Indian spokesman said.

The appeal was from Lt. Gen. A. A. K.

Niazi, who previously had vowed to fight to the last man. The exchange between the two generals came as an Indian army spokesman reported Indian troops fired mortars into Dacca from less than two miles away and the battle for the East Pakistani capital in its final Indian troops also were reported within four miles of Chittagong, East largest port. Its harbor area was hit Tuesday by an air and sea bombardment. Manekshaw warned that you do not comply with what I have stated you will leave me with no other alternative but to resume my offensive with the utmost vigor at 0900 Dec. This 10:30 p.m., EST, today.

Manekshaw told Niazi he had ordered the bombing pause at Daca as a of my good JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) The Missouri Commission on Higher Education was called on the carpet Wednesday by the Senate Appropriations Committee and asked pointblank if it had helped pad the University of Missouri budget by $2 million. Sen. Donald D-Kansas City, chairman, broke hearing schedule colleges and seek yes or Manford, committee into the for state universities to no from the commission. Manford said, General Assembly is going to take a rather dim view of the budget for higher education institutions.

Appearing in behalf of the commission, Robert W. Jacob, director of research, said he had no direct role in budget recommendations of the commission, but offered unequivocal to question. Jacob said a misunderstanding may have arisen from different a 11 ratio formulas used by tne University of Missouri and the state colleges. The university, Jacob said, used a formula calling for one faculty member for 21 students in the lower division, one to 15 in the upper division and one to 12 for graduate and special programs. The state colleges adopted a formula of one to 22 in lower divisions and one to 18 in upper divisions.

Jacob said the commission recommended this formula for the university knowing sufficient funds might not be available. But it would provide a base for adjustments on an equitable Manford replied he was not satisfied with that explanation and recommended the commission us a straight yes or to the padding charge. committee will not accept those kind of answers from he said of generalizations. If it is discovered that requests have been padded, Manford said, going to be even greater scrutiny of these Jacob predicted the commission is going to react with concern and great bewilderment about the source of this charge. assure he said, the intent is very much in harmony with this Manford requested a detailed report from the commission on the criteria usedin its recommendations, adding, intent of this committee, and I think I can speak for the entire General Assembly, is strict accountability and straight Tuesday the committee launched a new probe into all revenue of the state colleges.

Manford started the inquiry by asking the colleges to report how much interest they earned on invested funds at the local level. 17 jewels. Blue dial. Stainless steel $55.00 Upgrading State Personnel System Extended Until JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Upgrading the state's personnel system would be spread over a period ending in mid-1975 under one of the final recommendations of the state governmental reorganization commission.

The commission, also known as the Commission, made the recommendation Tuesday in a summary of its work since it was established in 1969. It said a phased transition to its recommended personnel plan would extend the costs over a longer period and allow it to proceed gradually as the money becomes available. the heart of the it said, establishment of the principle of uniform compensation for like work in state It said a hill would be introduced in the legislative session starting next month to provide for gradual achievement of this goal so that personnel systems would be upgraded to compare with the better The commission said its plan would not interfere with the professional employes in the Highway Patrol, Highway Department, Conservation Department or Department of Education but would extend a similar system of fairness and professionalism to all agencies eventually. Creation of an office of administration under the governor to handle day to day operation of the government will become effective when a new governor is elected in January, 1973. Other recommendations to create 10 departments to include all agencies with related functions will require constitutional amendments and implementing legislation later.

commission is under no it said in its summary. of its recommendations will meet resistance. agencies prefer the prestige of being designated a department or an independent agency, rather than being grouped with other entities. Some agencies have large constituencies and extensive public relations programs. the need to transform unwieldy, unmanageable state government into an efficient instrumentality of public service is so great that the general public good transcends other The summary report was issued over the names of the chairman, former State Sen.

and Circuit Judge D. W. Gilmore, now a Kansas City insurance executive, and the vice chairman, Fred Hughes, Joplin Globe publisher. The Indian armv chief made clear a surrender would be required before India would agree to a cease-fire. Radio Pakistan conceded that Indian troops were putting pressure on Dacca after opening up with an artilery shelling Tuesday.

In New members of Parliament demanded a government statement of reports that ships of the U.S. 7th Fleet, led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, are headed toward the Bay of Bengla. Shipping Minister Raj Bahadur told members to be unnerved or give undue to the reports. Washington sources said the ships had been ordered to mark time short of the Bay of Bengal until it was decided whether an evacuation of East Pakistan was necessary. The Army spokesman in Calcutta told newsmen Dacca is surrounded and leading elements of Indian columns, advancing from the northwest, north and south, have opened up with mortars on the city from 3,000 to 6,000 yards.

The spokesman said waterways east of the city have been crossed and no further waterways remain between Indian forces and Dacca. A doctor in a Dacca hospital said the wounded Pakistani soldiers being brought in were than we can deal But despite a pledge Bob Hope Starts Annual USO Tour Education Commission Asked If It Helped Pad MU Budget The Daily Standard, Sikeston, Mo, Wednesday, December 15, Cashiers in the stores are, at this season, known as HOLLYWOOD (AP) Bob Hope leaves on his 21st overseas USO Christmas tour today following a for the dinner saluting his 30 years of entertaining American troops in three wars. is one of the greatest friends that the serviceman has ever Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staf, told a USO benefit at the Century Plaza Hotel Tuesday night.

The $EOOa-plate dinner raised $300,000 for construction of a USO building in Hollywood. Sen. Bary Goldwater, told the crowd he, as a ham radio operator, heard from correspondents abroad about the good work Hope has done with American GIs. is what America really thinks Goldwater said, declaring it was a different story from that told by people who publish unAmerican newspapers across the country. The dinner featured a taped message from President Nixon who said: pretty busy with my own road company Bob is going to Vietnam with Miss USA and going to China with Henry Nixon saluted the 68-year-old comedian for his achievement in entertaining American servicemen.

The USO benefit featured memories of tours of the past and the comedian acknowledged such former costars as Frances Langford, Jerry Colonna, Kaye Stevens, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marilyn Maxwell, Toney Romano and Irene Ryan. troupe this year includes comedian Jim Nabors, Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue, country singer Charlie Pride, the singing group Child Kerner Indicted WASHINGTON (AP) Otlo Kerner, federal appeals court judge and former Illinois goveror, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of bribery, mail fraud, tax evasion, perjury and conspiracy as a result of race track stock transactions while he was governor. Three appointees to administration, which ran from 1961 to 1968, and a Chicago businesswoman also were named in the 19-count indictment handed down in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Kerner, a Democrat, and the others were accused of conspiring to obtain about $356,000 worth of race track stocks for $7,158.

The grand jury said the money was used as a bribe to influence administration of horse racing in Illinois. The specific charges against the 63-year old Kerner, who sits on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, are that he evaded in federal income taxes and made false statements to an Internal Revenue Service Agent. and the Hollywood Deb stars. They will travel to Hawaii, Okinawa, Thailand, South Vietnam.

Iran, Italy, Spain, and Guantanamo, Cuba. from the Pakistani commander in the east to fight to hw last man, there were no reports of military activity by the defenders. As the Indian forces closed on the city, A.M. Maiik, East Pakistan's governor, and his council of ministers resigned and took their families to sanctuary with the Red Cross at the Hotel Intercontinental. Jack Foisie of the Los Angeles Times and Dan Coggon of Time magazine reached the front fighting Tuesday at Demra, on the Lakhya River seven miles southeast of Dacca, and reported a Pakistani rear-guard unit retreated across the river under fire as Indian and rebel East Pakistani forces entered a village on the west bank.

The Pakistanis settled into defensive positions for a delaying action and soon came under artillery, mortar and machinegun fire from across the river. The newsmen reported East Be igali guerrillas armed with Sten guns were operating along the road between Demra and Dacca. Bengali policemen were reported disarmed Monday night to prevent them from attacking the Pakistani troops. Red Cross officials reported a growing shortage of food even though the population of 1.5 million was estimated cut to less than half that by residents fleeing to the countryside. In West Pakistan, the figurehead civilian government which President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan hurriedly put together last week issued an urgent appeal to President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai of Communist China for There was no immediate response from Washington or Peking.

Trip May Be Pawn To Pakistani General.