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Show i v J i I li hJl from UPI National WASHINGTON The United States and the Soviet Union signed historic agreements Wednesday settling Russia's debts from World War II and opening a new era of bilateral trade that was expected to triple in volume within three years. The comprehensive trade pact was signed at a State Department ceremony less than five months after President Nixon reached preliminary agreement with Soviet leaders during the Moscow summit in May. WASHINGTON The House adjourned at 8:47 p.m. EDT and the Senate at 8:50 p.m. EDT. but before doing so they junked President Nixon's federal spending ceiling, overrode his veto of a $24.6 billion clean water bill. ANCHORAGE, Alaska An Army mountain rescue team made its way into rugged Portage Pass Wednesday when poor weather grounded most of the air search for Democratic House Leader Hale Boggs and three others aboard a missing plane. International SAIGON Presidential envoy Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and Gen. Creighton Abrams conferred Thursday morning with South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu in high level secret talks on the Indochina conflict. PARIS The North Vietnamese peace delegation said Wednesday that secret talks held here by White House adviser Henry A. Kissinger so far have failed to break the negotiating deadlock because of President Nixon's "intransigence." SAIGON Communist forces stepped up their attacks in South Vietnam even as White House adviser Henry Kissinger flew in from Paris to discuss peace, military spokesmen said Wednesday. War communiques reported that Communist units launched 96 shelling and ground attacks in a 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning, an increase of 10 over the previous day. Fighting was reported as close as 13 miles from Saigon. SANTIAGO, Chile Regular army troops armed with machine guns set up a defensive ring around the presidential palace Wednesday while riot police nearby battled demonstrators both protesting and supporting the socialist government of President Salvador Allende. BELFAST A second consecutive night of violence in which two civilians were killed brought about a meeting Wednesday between militant Protestants and British military authorities seeking to avert a confrontation between the two groups. Members of the militant Ulster Defense Association (UDA), the Protestant answer to the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British army officials set the meeting after the bodies of a man and a woman were found in Protestant districts of Belfast. |