Chou Flexible, Says Visitor

A group of sixteen Americans, including George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, talked for nearly three hours with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai last Sunday night.

"I got the impression that Chou En-lai will not be inflexible in his coming negotiations with Nixon," Professor Ishwer C. Ojha, a member of the group and chairman of the Political Science Department at Boston University, cabled from China yesterday.

Ojha said that differences of opinion on questions such as Taiwan would not prevent "full and frank" discussion in Chou's view, but added that "no encouragement was given to the idea of large scale exchanges or trade."

Wald, not a member of the delegation, was invited individually. His trip was sponsored by the Peoples Friendship Association, described by a spokesman as "an organization to promote understanding and friendship between the peoples."