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Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 6, 1971 TrL lATTALIOt 1 i^issinger mission seems to lessen important Ol iiiina "mystery’ UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (^P)— Dr. Henry A. Kissinger’s second mission to Red China says a good deal about possibilities for future relations between Washington and Peking. It seems also to lessen the importance of the current “What’s going on in China?” mystery. The announcement of Kissin ger’s plans suggests that what ever group is in control, Red China means to establish effective com munication with the United States, regardless of political con flicts. It also suggests that despite worldwide guessing about enig matic goings-on in connection with the Oct. 1 National Day, de- [yelopments inside China don’t prevent plans for President Nix on’s trip from moving ahead. Peking says Nixon’s chief se curity adviser will be in Red China sometime in the last 10 days of October to prepare for the presidential journey. The party is expected to stay about four days. Any four days in that period will represent a critical time in U.N. debate on China’s seat. If the issue is not decided by then, the vote will be at hand. Only a day before the announce ment of the new Kissinger mis sion, Secretary of State William P. Rogers in a major U.N. policy speech had strongly upheld the Chiang Kaishek regime’s claim to retain membership. Thus it seems likely that the Nixon visit is not dependent upon the out come of the U.N. voting or the U.S. stand for Taiwan. Only a few days ago Rogers voiced concern that Chinese de velopments could affect the pres idential trip. Cancellation might have been dictated by a major Senate rejects added funds for missiles WASHINGTON GP)—The Sen ate Tuesday rejected three pro posals to add funds for major U.S. offensive-missile,, systems after Sen. John C. Stennis cau tioned against doing anything to jeopardize chances for a U.S.- Soviet arms-limitation agreement. It voted down also a proposal to stop U.S. air attacks in In dochina as it heard final pas sage, scheduled Wednesday aft ernoon, of a $21-billion military procurement authorization bill. Stennis, a Mississippi Demo crat and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, led the op position to added missile funds proposed by Sen. James L. Buck- ley, Con-R-N.Y., and backed by conservatives from both parties. Stennis said they would be inter preted, rightly or wrongly, as a U.S. bid for a first-strike nuclear capability. Their approval could upset chances of an agreement at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Stennis said. He added that in any case President Nix on wouldn’t spend any of the funds “at least until the last glimmering hope of success for the SALT talks ... is gone.” Buckley termed the argument by Stennis “something of a red herring” and contended his (amendments were designed to give the United States the op tion of making improvements in the quality of its strategic forces. In quick succession, the Sen ate voted: —6G to 17 against his proposal to add $5 million for long-range studies to modernize the land- based Minuteman missiles and increase their range: —By voice vote against adding $12 million to achieve a 40 per cent improvement in Minuteman accuracy; —68 to 12 against his amend ment to add $25 million for a similar improvement in the sea- based, multiwarhead Poseidon missiles. In the day’s only other vote, the Senate rejected, 64 to 19, an amendment by Sen. Mike Gravel, D-Alaska, to bar U.S. air attacks throughout Indochina and Thai land with the option for the Pres ident to continue air attacks in South Vietnam if needed to pro tect withdrawing U.S. troops. “I don’t understand why we’re bombing all over Indochina if we’re getting out,” Gravel told a virtually deserted Senate cham ber. Stennis said “You’ve got to do something to keep them on the defensive as much as pos sible.” FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED upheaval or by the loss of a top figure such as Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Possibly something like a po litical reshuffle involving the top leaders has been in prog ress. Possibly some external event, such as heightened Soviet border tension, prompted China’s recent enigmatic moves. Those moves included cancel lation of the National Day pa rade and banquet, cancellation of army leaves and commercial flights, omission of a major pol icy statement and slightly less ened emphasis on Mao’s person ality. There are signs that the deci sions resulted from a week of high-level party meetings begin ning in mid-September. If there had been a reshuffle near the top, the leaders might not have been ready to make it known. Thus the parade and banquet would be cancelled to remove any need to regroup the leaders by rank. As for lessened emphasis on the leader, Mao himself was reported not long ago to have expressed worry that the adulation was out of control. Perhaps with Mao’s blessing the pragmatists are ready to start a cautiously gradual de flation of the cult. At a time when Red China hopes to enter the world arena with a veto-wielding seat in the United Nations, it might make political sense, too, to show the world a new look. Such a trend could arouse alarm among ultraleftists who have been more Maoist than Mao and who also might resist the idea of a Washington-Peking rapprochement as a sellout of the revolution. A reshuffle in the party’s upper reaches could involve pruning out such ele ments. In any case, the U.S.-Chinese business is between governments, not parties. The original Peking announcement in July said Pre mier Chou En-lai issued the in vitation in behalf of his govern ment. Chou, as a leader who lacks [aicc ambition to be No. 1 could ,B; orC ; ford to push ahead with bi-J Cam policy aims, regardless of badl 1 m room party squabbling. I r 10 ‘ Peking is preparing to takeib'—" 1 place as one of three et>' ,1S ' whose policies will shape worli affairs. If it fears or suspect* 11 ' 6 '! the Russians, it will need oh Iin nels to the United States. Choi’T hea seems intent upon opening sucIh' 181 ^ channels and keeping them op, Blest . # llii^ HANDSOME MAYFAIR * IM ASSORTED COLORS. 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