Shultz Holds 3rd Meeting of Day With Shevardnadze : Arms Aides Taking Part in Sessions

Secretary of State George P. Shultz met Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze late today for an unscheduled third round of talks on the first day of the American official’s visit.

State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said both sides brought members of their arms control delegations with them, indicating that they were turning to the major item on the agenda: a treaty to remove hundreds of medium-range missiles from Europe.

Redman, speaking to reporters outside a Moscow hotel, did not give any details about the surprise third Shultz-Shevardnadze session of the day.

The meeting began after a Passover seder which Shultz attended at the U.S. Embassy with about 40 prominent Jewish “refuseniks,” people who are denied permission to emigrate.

Wearing the traditional Jewish skullcap, Shultz told those assembled at the supper, “Never give up, never give up.”

Shultz also delivered to one of them, Vladimir Slepak, a photograph of the refusenik’s grandchildren that Slepak’s son Alexander gave him in Washington.

Shultz attended the seder, which recalls Jewish deliverance from slavery in Egypt, to demonstrate continued U.S. support for Soviet Jews. He told them that U.S. citizens are praying for them.

Shultz and Shevardnadze held two rounds of talks this morning and afternoon to try to stabilize relations in the midst of a bitter exchange of spy charges.

Those sessions and a working lunch were held at a Foreign Ministry guest house about a mile from the Kremlin. Sunny skies, melting the little slush left, spoke of spring.

‘Intrusiveness, Hostility’

A special van was set up to provide secure communications for Shultz to Washington and for meetings with his staff. The United States has accused the Soviets of infiltrating the embassy with the collusion of some U.S. Marine guards and gaining access to classified materials.

Shultz planned to complain to Shevardnadze about a “pattern of intrusiveness and hostility.” But he also said before coming to Moscow on a three-day visit that he wanted “to find our way to a more constructive relationship” and to lower the level of nuclear weapons.

No details of Shultz’s talks with Shevardnadze were made public. Tass press agency reiterated its critical view of Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and said “nuclear and space arms” are on the Shultz-Shevardnadze agenda.

Shultz brought a party of 120 to Moscow aboard two Air Force jets, including a dozen arms control specialists, a large press contingent and security agents. But when he emerged from his special Boeing 707 clutching a clipboard, he received a restrained official welcome for the first top-level U.S.-Soviet talks in five months.

Shevardnadze did not greet him at the airport as he did on his last visit in 1985. Instead he was greeted by Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnyk and Yuri Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to Washington.

Without making an arrival statement, Shultz entered a black Chaika limousine and left in a motorcade.