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partly by more local upgrading of the resource. Some of the companies, as
you know and Alkan (phonetic) is one, does reduce the bauxite.into alumina
on site, some of the companies don't and I think it is his intention to encourage
them all to do so, but he didn't spell it out. Basically, however, in this
respect he's looking for increased productivity through future participation
and the last thing he wart S to do is even to talk about expropriation or confiscation.
He's not that kind of guy and I think you'll find he makes this kind of impression
upon you. And finally, he explained the purpose of his trips to Washington and
Ottawa in addition to this kind of explanation by hoping we would accept his
credibility as a leader who will in fact hue the line that he's - the message he's
delivering both to my Prime Minister and to you that this is not the first step
in a continuing line of activities against foreign-own industry in the country.
He's not that kind of guy, he says and he convinced us, we've known him over
a period of years, of course, that he's not and it will be his attempt to convince
you the same thing.
K: OK.
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H: But in terms/details, I don't think you'll find any from him. His first
meeting with one of the bauxite companies comences on Monday of next week.
K: What position did you take?
H: In response to this?
K: Yes.
H: We said that if this in fact was all he was going to do then we would not
scream and yell and say that he couldn't interfere with the production of the
companies that the companies had not come to us asking for help yet, and if
in fact he was being as fair to them offering incentives to increase production
so that their profits would increase and not simply a buying ode to the company
out of it's own profits which is what Guyana did to Alkan there then this sounded
reasonable to us but we would have to see what he was going to do and hear the
companies point of view as well. So we didn't give him any undertakings.
K: My associates have given me a briefing paper, which if I follow it must
totally confuse him because I don't understand what it means.
H: The one point we did make with him was that we could not stand idly by
if he was going to discriminate. I said to him in the presence of Mr. Trudeau
that it's all very well if he comes here and we seem to be friends with one another
and then he goes down and finds that you're a tougher guy and ends up taking
it out on the Canadian company and not on the Americans.
K: That's just my strategy.
H: It is.
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