U.S. SAYS ARMS TALKS HAVE NOW RESOLVED VIRTUALLY ALL ISSUES

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• Publication Date: April 19, 1979
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VANCE-DOBRYNIN GAINS CITED
Some Problems Left for Technical
of-Carter and brezhnev
By RICHARD BURT
Spx al toThe New York Times
WASHINGTON, April.18 - Adrnuiis-
tration officials said today that Secretary
of State Cyrus R. Vance and Ambassador
Anatoly F. Dobrynin of the Soviet Union
had eliminated virtually all the major
problems blocking conclusion of a new
treaty limiting strategic missiles and
bombers.
The officials said other Issues would be
settled in technical discussions by neg'o-
tiators in Geneva or at a meeting between
President Carterand Leonid I. Brezhnev,
At a diplomatic reception, Mr. Dotiry-
nin said thatsome issues would still have
to be.resolved in his talks with Mr. Vance
and that they would probably meet. o'er
the weekend. They are. also expected to
discuss plans for a Carter-Brezhnev
meeting. .
Modification Issue Is Resolved .;,
Defense Department officials said Mr,
Vance and Mr. Dobrynin had resolvedthe
question. of how far each side could go in
modifying existing missiles. The official%
said that Moscow had agreed: to. a pi
posai by Washington that the key spec;
fications, such as weight and size, of;ex?-
isting missiles would not be increasedOr
,
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reduced by more than 5 percent much less than three or four years to re-
They said instructions were going`out,,coup that portion of our intelligence to
F.: to negotiators in Geneva to incorporate verify SALT." He refused to estimate
this and other agreements into the treaty: , how long 'It. would take- to compensate
At the White House, a senior aide sal
`'that While the two sides had made;
progress on the issue: of making missile
test data available,- further details would
still have to be ? examined at ,senior
levels" and would probably be.discus4ed?
at a Carter-Brezhnev meeting.. g .,
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I fully for the loss of the Iranian stations.
In criticizing'committee members for
having disclosed details of Admiral Turn-
er's testimony, Mr. Powell said:
"It's very difficult for the Administra-
tion to provide sensitive, highly classified
information to the Senate, which they
need in order to make an objective judg-
ment, if you're going to be subjected to
leaking of that information, especially in
a distorted fashion. I assume that when
yne of the grou d the Is that you donut
go out and hand it to the press." _ '
Irr an interview with CBS television
today, Secretary of Defense Brown reit-
erated his statement of yesterday that
the ability. to monitor Soviet compliance
with treaty provisions would be ,gained
within a year.
"But considering the variety of our
monitoring techniques and also consider-!
ing the time it takes for the Soviets to test
missiles," he said, "I am convinced that
we're going to be able to verify a SALT
agreement fro m the moment it. is signed
and rat.f:,:A ''
At the C.I.A., a spokesman said there
will take five years to fully regain the
uvus, but only about a year to be able to
verify Soviet compliance with the treaty.
The spokesman explained that much
f
o
the information obtained by the Iraniarf~
posts was not relevant to verifying an as i
cord, and that. the United States did not!
immediately need to collect such data to,
guard against possible Soviet cheating. i
Despite this, White House officials pri-
vately expressed concern over Admiral
Turner's testimony and said that he had
not been sensitive to the complexities of
the verification issue. They also ex-
pressed annoyance over a recent meeting
with reporters in which he refused to taa position on whether the accord could-9.1
verified. Calling verification a "political
question," he said that he would confine
himself to expressing judgments only on
the extent to which specific provisions
Some White House aides said that Ad-
miral Turner's definition of his role was
too restrictive and that he had-a responsi-
bility to s peak'out on controversial ques-
tions. A C.A. spokesman .refused to.
comment on differences between the.
agency and the White House, but he said,
"Verification of the SALT. treaty is a
policy function ultimately performed by
the President with the specific advice of many agencies." ?
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In addition, the White House press sec-
retary' Powell, complained that a
"distorted" version of Admiral Turner's
recent testimony before the Senate Intel-
Iigence Committee had been given to The
New York Times by senators critical of
the proposed treaty. Mr. Powell called
the disclosure by the senators a breach of
security and trust.
In the testimony, Admiral Turner is-re-
ported to have said that the United States
would not be able to compensate fully for
the recent loss of intelligence listening
posts in Iran until 1984. The assessment
was repea'ted.yesterday by Defense Sec-
retary Harold Brown, who said that, de-
spite thisldelay in. restoring the complete
range of.,its monitoring capabilities, the
United S tes needed only about a year to
regain i capacity for adequate verifica-
tion of trq~
atyprovisions.
White-House aides, in private, were
critical of Admiral Turner for having pro-
vided the Senate committee with the esti-
mate on missile-monitoring capabilities.
They expressed concern over his reluc-
tance to:take a public position on whether
the arras accord could be verified.
One senior White House aide said that
officials were worried over the intelli-
gence chief's approach to the verification
question and that the issue had led to a
,'dispute between the White House and the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Powell, who is in Jekyll .Island,
V.Ga., said the disclosure of Admirl Turn_.
er's testimony in. news reports had be-
come a matter of concern to president
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.apparent that The Times has' Turner is partly responsible for the con-
been given an inaccurate account of Ad- troversy over the loss of the Iranian sta-
miral Turner's testimony," Mr. Powell tions because he is reported to have
said. He declined to divulge details of the earlier vetoed spending proposals for re-
testimony
placing the stations with spysateliites. -.
but he said `it would
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