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OCR Page 1 of 52Telecon
Mr. Kissinger
Prof. Yoshida
4/15/70; 9:20 p. m.
Y:
My friend has asked me to assure you that it is his never changed
intention to honor his commitment and to go through with the negotiations.
He appreciates the embarrassing position of your friend and expresses
his personal regret for the delay in reaching a mutual agreement. As
you described it to me the other day, my friend realizes this is indeed an
unfortunate thing for both of us. At the final stage he will exercise his
political power to get this done. He knows that he will have to pay a
heavy political price.
K: How will we get to the final stage?
Y: I have made it clear to my friend that our counterproposal must be
based on your three conditions. He understood that. He has already told
that to the two top aides as his own idea -- nothing to do with our channel.
But he is not an expert on the subject. Apparently he has some confusion
and difficulty in getting this translated into a concrete counterproposal.
In light of the difficult situation here, just between us, when I come to see
you next week around the 24th, I wonder if you could prepare a few options
accommodating your three points SO that I could give them to my friend
so that he will be able to formulate his own counterproposals based on
one of your ideas and then we could put it to you.
K: I understand.
Y: You are not an expert, but sometimes I feel that an outsider can see
things much better and put them in the proper perspective. I would like
you to give me some options, if you can.
K: Right, I will do that. One other possibility -- I talked to my friend
this afternoon and he was picking up the suggestion of your friend that it
be done through private negotiations secretly. If you want to send somebody
here, he would let me take a personal interest in the matter to get the
thing settled.
Y: I see, with you?
K: Yes -- of course, I would have to take practical advice. It would not
be a bad time to do this before May 2 for one technical reason -- one of
the men with whom you were SO concerned, counterpart of your Mr.
M
-- will be away and therefore it will be somewhat easier
for us to be flexible.