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Well, Ziegler's statement said the President has been following
this hourly. At 10:30 this morning after receiving the latest
report he gave the go-ahead to the State Department to take the
case to the Security Council. The President is dismayed by the
use of Indian troops in Pakistan and then he was asked, "Does
that mean you are giving up your neutral role in this conflict?
And he said it means that the Indians have said they are now on
an all out invasion of East Pakistan and this we have always said
that the American people would not understand. And that played
very well, very strong and Sisco is playing off that.
P:
Now how did Sisco handle it? Did he do what you told him that I
told him he was to do this?
K:
Exactly. Well, at first he didn't want to do it and Rogers didn't
want him to do it, but then when they saw the Ziegler thing which
featured your role then they decided they better get some State
Department line out too.
P:
Is that what did it?
K:
Yes. Which is OK. We don't want them to.
P:
Of course, you got the Ziegler played, that was very good.
K:
Right.
P:
And then Sisco did give a good backgrounder?
K:
He did give a good ba ckgrounder citing chapter and verse of all the
things the Indians have refused to do: no UN observers, no acceptance
of the.
P:
Did he also cite what we have done - that we have given $250 million
in aid and all that.
K:
Oh yes, oh yes.
P:
We're getting all that across, are we?
K:
Yes, and anything that needs to be done I can do Monday morning.
P:
I think what probably needs to be done, that Monday you may have
to give - basically, rather than having a white paper put out; that
what you ought to do is look over the facts very, very carefully and
then go out and give a hard hitting briefing.
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