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Kissinger visit aided
U.S., China relations
TOKYO (Reuter)-The United
States and China have advanced
closer to normal relations follow-
ing U.S. Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger's 'visit to Peking this
week, according to American of-
ficials accompanying Dr. Kissin-
ger.
The officials said here that
there were significant and en-
couraging changes of nuance in a
joint communique issued today
in Peking and Washington from
that issued in Shanghai during
President Nixon's visit last year.
OF MAJOR importance was an
apparent softening of China's
stand on Taiwan as a precondi-
tion for the normalization of re-
lations they said.,
In yesterday's communique the
U.S. reaffirmed its acknowledge-
ment that "all Chinese on either
side of the Taiwan Strait main-
tain there is but one China and
Taiwan is part of China." The
Chinese side reiterated that nor-
mal relations with the U.S. could
be realized only on the basis of
confirming the principle of one
China.
The Shanghai communique of
Feb. 27 last year was much
stronger by comparison. It de-
clared Taiwan was a province of
China and its liberation was a
matter in which no other country
had a right to interfere. It also
called for -the removal of U.S.
military forces.
U.S. SOURCES said that so far
as normalizing relations was con-
cerned that latest communique
was an advance in principle of
language.
But they emphasized that it
should not be taken as indicating
the two countries had agreed on
a scenario for the establishment
of diplomatic ties.
The sources said Kissinger and
the Chinese leadership had not
discussed the reduction of Ameri-
can forces anywhere in the area,
including Taiwan and Korea.
THE U.S. would continue to
maintain its position of reducing
troops in the Asian Pacific region
as tensions diminished.
However, Kissinger was said to
regard the change of nuance on
the China-Taiwan question as
highly significant.
He believed a substantial
agreement with the Chinese had
been achieved which did not
exist. at the time of the Shanghai
communique, officials said.
ALTHOUGH NO specific pro-
posals had been put forward on
normalization, and no date set
for achieving it, developments
could definitely be expected in a
matter of months, and in some
cases weeks, the officials added.
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ORIN ATKINS, chairman of Ashland Oil Co., testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee yester-
day, described campaign fund raising in America as bordering on extortion. He also testified that
Ashland Oil Co. was pressured into contributing $100,000 to President Nixon's campaign.
Oi co.'s claim pressure tactics
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WASHINGTON (T) - A senior
Gulf Oil Corp. executive told the
Senate Watergate committee yes-
terday that President Nixon's re-
election campaign set a $100,000
minimum quota for donations
from the nation's largest cor-
porations.
1 Claude Wild, Gulf's chief Wash-
ington lobbyist, and Orin Atkins,
chairman and chief executive
officer of the Ashland Oil Co.
testified their corporations each
illegally donated $100,000 in cash,
which was raised discreetly from
corporate sources overseas.
THE TWO men said they felt
under considerable pressure to
make the contributions to the
Nixon campaign but claimed they
did not do so in return for any
specific government favors.
Wild said the negotiations which
led to Gulf's contribution involved
both Commerce Secretary Maur-
ice Stans and John Mitchell.
"I certainly considered it pres-
sure when two Cabinet officers
asked me for funds," Wild said.
"It's different than someone col-
lecting for the Boy Scouts . . ,
I thought I got a message."
WILD SAID a $10,000 donation
from Gulf was first mentioned in
early 1971 by Lee Nunn, a fund
raiser for the Nixon re-election
committee. Wild said he checked
out Nunn's credentials in a face-
to-face meeting with Mitchell.
"After thinking the matter over
-and hindsight tells me it was
a mistake-I gave them $50,000,"
Wild said.
He said he got the money from
the comptroller of Bahamas Ex-
ploration LTD., one of Gulf's
400 subsidiary companies.
HE SAID that Nunn returned
the next year and asked for an-
other $50,000 which he said he
raised from the same overseas
source.
"The implication was that this
was the kind of quota they were
expecting from a large corpora-
tion," Wild said. He said he made
the donation after a personal
meeting with Stans.
"Mr. Stans indicated he was
hopeful of obtaining $100,000 from
the large American corporations
-ours being one of the top 10-
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they did not know whether the
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the cash came from illegal cor-
porate funds. But they asserted
they knew of no other source
from which to raise such large
amounts.
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