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    "ocrText": "Sisco/Kissinger\n2:30 pm 12/1/70\n-2-\nS: (cont) doesn't want to loose the leverage and neither does the President.\nK: Personally, don't you think this will get into the same screaming match?\nS: I think we can get by without making concrete commitments in the letter.\nK: It wiould be stupid to be specific if they aren't.\nS: It's a request. I have 2 or 3 alternatives to live with. I want to talk with you\nK: Let's do this. I will schedule a meeting of the Review Group for Thurs.\nand we will get together 1/2 hour before.\nS: Let's call the meeting to up-date but not discuss this reply. I want to\nsend out a letter today. The Secy. is seeing Schumann and Home. They will\npress him for discussion at the 12/7 meeting that we agree to begin discussions\nof 4 power settlement. I want to send a cable that says don't make such a\ncommitment because (1) in the fxx first place any indication to the French\nand British that we will talk now will slow down the Israelis and (2) the question\nof guarantees must be studied carefully. We are putting together a pre-\nliminary draft for his review and it needs to go through the NSC before we\ncan make a descision. It's premature to make an agreement on the ground\n? ? ? and XXXX second that we don't want to make Israelis nervous.\nK: I agree. Will he do it?\nS: I don't know. I wonder if itxs there's truth to the intercept that gave\ninformation he said something to the Soviet Ambassador.\nK: I can't believe that a high American official would say to klx a Soviet that one\nof his subordinates is out of favor because he is close to another high American\nofficial.\nS: I don't know. That's why I want to see you."
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