PRESIDENT HAILS DRAFT ATOM PACT; Sees 'Step Forward' in Plan Given by U.S. at Geneva PRESIDENT HAILS DRAFT ATOM PACT
US draft treaty to prevent nuclear weapons spread presented to Geneva conf by Foster; Johnson hails it; Russians dismiss it as joke; Tsarapkin says USSR rejects any treaty that does not explicitly bar any arrangement giving W Ger direct or indirect access to weapons control; draft bars present nuclear powers from transferring weapons into natl control of any non-nuclear state and from aiding it in weapons mfr; pledges non-nuclear states not to mfr or acquire weapons; US sees draft as permitting NATO nuclear force or force under exclusive Eur control; draft formally approved by GB, Italy, Canada; Brit backing lukewarm; Chalfont says GB objects to Eur force that would control use of Brit weapons, news conf, Geneva; says Brit draft would have retained veto by present Western nuclear powers in any NATO force; W Ger reptdly objected to this and got US backing