Military
chiefs not
eompletely
satisfied
with treaty

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's
military leaders yesterday gave
qualified endorsement to the SALT II
treaty while telling Congress that
"none of us is totally at ease with all the
provisions of the agreement."
Testifying at the third day of hearings
before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on the Strategic Arms
Limitation Treaty, between the United
States and the Soviet Union, Gen. David
Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said despite particular concerns,
the risks are acceptable.
"WE CONSIDER it absolutely essen-
tial that, if the nation accepts the SALT
II agreement, it does so with a full un-

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derstanding that we will be required to believe that, contrary to Soviet claims,
undertake a series of important the Backfire does have the range to
strategic modernization programs in reach the United States.
order to maintain strategic parity," "Nonetheless, the U.S. did obtain
said Jones. some constraintson Backfire, the most
He said the military chiefs were con- important of which is a production limit
cerned by the failure to reduce the size not to exceed 30 a year," he said.
of the Soviet heavy missile force and to Another factor, said the general, is the
include the Backfire bomber as a U.S. ability to build a comparable
strategic weapon. Another concern was plane.
the ability to detect any Soviet As for verification, Jones said the
cheating. risks are acceptable if the United States
The Air Force general said the is willing to vigorously challenge any
provision limiting the huge Soviet SS-18 questionable Soviet practices and con-
missile to ten warheads was "an impor- tinues with improvements in
tant restraint." monitoring capability.
JONES SAID the military chiefs See MILITARY, Page 9

Hasty Soviet OK of SALT would signal
MOSCOW (AP) - As public hearings problems- the Supreme Soviet, will approve the
and Senate debate on the SALT II SOVIET ratification could come any treaty in the form as it was drafted and
treaty begin in Washington, a look at day, but Western diplomats say this signed," Soviet spokesman Leonid
the Soviet ratification process offers a would be "a bad sign" indicating the Zamyatin told a Vienna news conferen-
study in contrasts. Russians are taking a hard line. The ce.
The White House already is con- diplomats suggest any quick And then he said, "I hear laughter.
ceding that some Senate amendments ratification here would be a sign of in- But I ascribe this laughter to a lack of
probably will be needed to gain flexibility, an underscoring of the knowledge of the Soviet structure."
ratification. But Soviet President Soviet refusal to consider any amen- THE SOVIET structure for treaty
Leonid Brezhnev was able to tell the dments by the U.S. Senate, ratification was laid out in its most
Americans at last month's Vienna When he talked with President Car- specific public form just a year ago,
summit that he was confident his own ter, Brezhnev "expressed his hope and with the publication of a law on
government would give him no such also his confidence that our legislature, Su reme Soviet nroedire

'hard line'
Nikolai Firyubin presented a resolution
recommending ratification of the
treaty, and speeches followed. Though
the speeches were formally termed
debate, none of them, as reported in the
newspapers, opposed ratification or
presented new ideas.
One week later the Presidium, or cen-
tral governing body, of the Supreme
Soviet met and was addressed by
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
An order of ratification and a
ratification instrument were signed by
Brezhnev at that meeting, and the
treaty formally went into effect.
The published law does not say what
vote is necessary to ratify a treaty -
whether a simple majority or the two-
thirds vote required in the U.S. Senate.
But the vote on the Vietnamese frien-
dship treaty was unanimous - as have
been all Supreme Soviet votes in
memory.

Talmadge claims his staff
'mis-handled' accounts

That ratification process was seen at
work shortly afterwards, following the
Nov. 3 signing of a treaty of friendship
and cooperation with Vietnam.
On Dec. 8 there was a one-day joint
session of the Committee for Foreign
Affairs of the two houses of the
Supreme Soviet - the Soviet of the
Union and the Soviet of Nationalities.
DEPUTY FOREIGN Minister

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hey'man
Talmadge (D-Ga.), his voice firm and
his tone defiant, testified under oath
yesterday that he never knowingly con-
verted public funds or campaign con-
tributions to his personal use.
Of Daniel Minchew, his former aide
and chief accuser, Talmadge said, "He
lies . . . he lies . . . he lies."
Answering a charge from his former
wife that he kept up to $45,000 in $100
bills in a closet, Talmadge said:
"AT NO TIME did I maintain a cash
hoard in the pocket of an overcoat or
anywhere else."
Occasionally thumping his fist on the
witness table, the 65-year-old Talmadge
testified he was too busy being a U.S.
senator to pay attention to how finances
were handled in his office.
"The people of Georgia did not elect
me to be a bookeeper," Talmadge said.
REPEATEDLY, Talmadge said he
spent all of his time focusing on issues
"of war and peace, energy and in-
flation" so did not know if members of
his staff were improperly handling his
accounts.
"If someone else had been Sen. Her-
man E. Talmadge, and I had been the
financial secretary, we would have kept
better records," he said.
After an audit last summer,
Talmadge repaid the Senate $37,125 in
expense funds for 1971 through 1977.
A member of the Senate for 23 years,
Talmadge frequently interrupted
questions put to him by Carl Eardley,
the committee's special counsel.

OVER AND over Eardley asked
Talmadge about expense vouchers
Talmadge had signed, and whether the
senator knew that claims were
regularly made for expenses which
were never incurred.
Each time, Talmadge replied,
"Senators must rely on their subor-
dinates, and I did."
The committee has accused
Talmadge of five separate allegations
of financial misconduct, including the
receipt of up to $50,000 in false Senate
expense claims and using thousands of
dollars of campaign contributions to his
personal use.
TALMADGE, chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee, broke little
new ground in answering the 74-year-
old Eardley's questions.
The senator agreed to testify after the
panel discussed the possibility of
issuing a subpoena, and made a formal
request that he be questioned under
oath in public for the first time.
Nonetheless, Talmadge said, "I am
here now as a willing witness to
establish once and for all that these
charges should be dropped."
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