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The President
12/16/71 12:40pm
P: I don't know whether with the other thing you are aware of it, but a
big story down here is the shoot-out
K: Yes, I was following it yesterday and we scrambled planes to
P: The wife of the captured captain is out here at the gate and I'm going
to go out and express my simpathy on it. We cannot have this situation where
the Cubans can pick up a boat in Bahamian waters and shoot it up. Are we
protesting?
K: Yes, we moved four F-4s to Guantanamo,
P: Is there anything wrong with my expressing smypathy on this?
K: I would like to know first what it was doing there.
P: It was not in Cuban waters or attacking.
K: It would have been on a raid.
P: It wasn't. But if it was, I'm for that too.
K: But you don't want to do it publicly.
P: But I want to take a hard line when Americans are being shot up. I
want a hard line, This boat was in British waters and was shot.
K: If it hadn't been dark we would have gone in to do rescue work last
night which is illegal, but the British would have shut their eyes,
P: Are you hitting Vorontsov hard on their joining with us?
K: I am do to hear from him today. If I don't by the end of the day
with unilateral cease-fire resolution
P: Are you watching for the Russians too?
K: There reply to what we gave them yesterday morning.
12/16/71
12:42 p.m.
P: You need to do some further checking. The report from our Coast Guard
is that $his ship dumped cargo at Haiti, It came down fromHaiti to the U.S.
unarmed. At 2:30 the Captain wired for assistance, So theyhad three hours of
daylight; what were we doing in those three hours?
K: We got word at 4:00. We ordered an immediate scramble of F-4s out of
here against everybody's protest. State was having a heart attack
P: Of course, No, why was that
?
K: Because it was in British waters and we had no right and all of that.
We
called C omer and he said he couldn't give us permission to get it. I said we
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