Soviet-US arms curb talks end

THE VIENNA Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and the United States wound up yesterday without any firm agreement on how to mutually agree on a missile production curb.

The joint communique issued after the final morning session, however, stated that both sides felt confident of reaching a final agreeThe two delegations will resume their talks in Helsinki on November 2, where the first preliminary exchanges took place last year.

The fourth session, back in Vienna, is provisionally fixed for early next year.

And earlier this week while US officials examined States Senate ment to block the building of a new anti-ballistic system site in Missouri.

Nixon's supporters in the Senate argued that to block the building of a new site would take away a bargaining 'chip' from the US SALT team in Vienna. W GERMAN PACT deal WITHIN hours of Brandt's return from Moscow after signing the West GermanSoviet 'non-aggression' Pact, preparations began for closer economic collaboration between the two governments.

The first trade agreement between Bonn and Moscow expired after five years in 1963, and, because of differences over W Berlin and other problems, it was not renewed.

Anxious to make use of W German technical expertise, the Soviet government is now thought to be willing to make concessions on a continued western presence in Berlin.

Co-operation

Dr Karl Schiller,, Brandt's Economics Minister, is to visit Moscow next month to prepare a far-reaching trade and technical agreement with the Kremlin, while Dr Hans Keussink, Bonn's Minister of Education, Science and Technology, will be in Moscow on September 17 with a top-level delegation for 12 days of talks with Soviet leaders on technical co-operation between the two countries.

The most significant aspect to this new turn in economic relations between W Europe's most developed capitalist power and the Soviet Union