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President/Kissinger
8:40 a.m. - 5/12/72
K:
Hello.
P:
You're going to do the Republican senators?
K:
Yes, but I've just been told that they couldn't work out enough of a
group so apparently it's been cancelled.
P:
Oh, I see. What was the matter - they didn't want to come or it's
Friday?
K:
I guess it's Friday, Mr. President.
P:
That's my guess.
K:
I had it on my calendar for a
P:
That's all right. You'll see them another time.
K:
But I'm going to see Howard K. Smith. I have him on the list today.
P:
Fine.
K:
Oh, on the military situation, the attack on An Loc is again very
massive. They put in 8, 000 rounds of artillery yesterday which
was about 600 to 700 tons. We put all our B-52 strikes in there
but they've just completed so we don't have a report how effective
they were. But apparently they weren't effective enough to stop the
artillery. But the casualties have to be very heavy. The VC claims
they have taken half of An Loc. We called out there and MACV
claims they haven't; MACV has often been right where our military
has been wrong.
P:
That's right.
K:
But I am having them check it right this minute. I haven't got the
report back. And in the rest of the area it's quiet. The attack on
Kontum hasn't developed yet. There are
ahead which
is about 25 miles northwest of Kontum which has been under attack
for four days and where they broke off the contact - the other side
broke off the contact so we went out and found over 300 bodies that
had been killed by air strikes. At this rate of casualties it's just
hard to see how they can keep it up. It's also interesting that the
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