wxpost AUG 11 1974 Tells

Strelnikov quotes Mr. Ford as telling a Pravda cor- ord of Hopes respondent a year ago, when the new President was mi- nority leader of the I-Icluse, that the summit talks "play an important role in easing On Relations tensions." On a special teleVision broadcast tonight, a Jilin of By Peter Osnos President Ford taking : the Washington Post Foreign Service . oath of office was shewn.'In MOSCOW, Aug. 10—The the dialogue with Washing- an accompanying commen- Soviet leadership sent a ton as they have for the.past tary, Leonid Zamyatin', the warm message of congratu- director general of Tass, lations to President Ford to- two years. •- - who serves as the official day and expressed That belief was doubtless So vie t spokesman, again "confidence" that relations strengthened today in a stressed the positive, contin- between the United States message from Mr. Ford to uing aspects of Soviet-Amer- and the will Soviet Communist party ican relations and observed continue to improve. that agreements between leader .,In The message was signed the two countries are signed Brezhnev's absence from by governments, not individ- by Nikolai Podgorny, who as Moscow on vacation . the chairman of the Presidium uals. Zamyatin said Ford message was delivered' by had told him in Washington of the Supreme Soviet is the Ambassador Walter J. Stoes- ceremonial chief of state. in May that he is an The telegram, as released by sel to Andrei Kirilenke, 'a "optimist" about detente. Tass, the • Soviet news Politburo member who:func- The Soviets had a more tions as an unofficial deputy agency, said: difficult time explaining "Major changes in the di- to the Soviet leader. 's resignation. Stoestel and Kirilenko rection of improving Soviet. Although the term American relations have met for about 20 minutes of "Watergate" was used, Zam- been achieved as a result of what Tass described. as yatin and commentator. the mutual efforts of our "businesslike and construc- Valentin Zorin said -only countries. We note with tive" talk. The contents of that Mr. Nixon faced pres-, the presidential message deep satisfaction your state- sure from a Democratic-eon-, ment of Aug. 9 about your were not disclosed, but Mr. trolled Congress in an elec-. intention to work for the Ford's statements in Wash- tion year. They said that the• good of peace. ington over the past two economic situation in the. days have made the general "We express confidence United States was that relations between the outlines of his policy clear. "complicated" and alluded. U.S.S.R. and the United Considering the extent to to "emotionalism" in the States will receive further which detente has been por- American media. But the. constructive development in trayed here as the corner- Soviets did not mention,the stone of Soviet foreign pol- the coming years for the Nixon role in the coverup-or benefit of our peoples, in icy, the Kremlin leadership the criminal charges against' the interest of strengthen. could hardly do otherwise presidential aides. ing universal peace and in- but welcome Mr. Ford cor- This was the first time ternational security." dially. Given the uncertain- that the Soviet spokesmen. The friendly tone of the ties of the moment in Wash- have made any effort- to ington, however, the Soviets message was in keeping give a reason for Mr. Nix- with the Soviet approach to could have chosen to feature on's resignation. the change in Washington. the substantial problems Gerald Ford himself is little that remain in Soviet-Ameri- • known here, but Moscow can relations. Instead, they has evidently 'decided that have been emphasizing• the in the short term, at least, wide support among Ameri- no changes are likely in the can political figures for American pursuit of de- closer Moscow-Washington tente. ties. The presence of Secretary President Ford was intro- of State Henry A. Kissinger duced to the Soviet public in the Cabinet and the today in brief page-one expressions of bipartisan newspaper biographies and support for continuing the a commentary in Pravda Nixon administration's for- from Washington corre- eign policy have apparently spondent Boris Strelnikov, persuaded the Kremlin lead- who noted Mr. Ford's "wide ers that they can carry on political and statesmanly ,ex- perience."