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The President
6/13/70 11:17 a. m.
P: What's new in your shop today?
K: We're going to complete the evacuation from Jordan today
probably, at the latest tomorrow morning. But we'll have most of them
out today. The immediate situation is quiet--the long-term one is very
complex with the extremist wing of the Fedayeen, the Maoist wing, show-
ing that it can dominate the moderate Fedayeen and the King.
P: By getting rid of the generals?
K: Yes, and by removing the army as an effective counterweight
to them and letting the King run the day to day things while they conduct
the Arab-Israeli confrontation. It appears that within a month it will
spill over into Lebanon.
P: It already has. What about Vietnam?
K: We're picking up at the usual rate in Cambodia. We got another
hundred-plus rifles and 500 mortar rounds. We've got well over 13 million
in small arms and 16, 000 of the individual weapons. So that's going along.
The other side is doing its harrassing raids. I have asked Defense to write
a letter
they are still stonewelling the tactical air strikes you have
ordered. I have requested a letter explaining why they are not hitting
beyond a certain line they say they are but they're not, not beyond the
Mekong--just to galvanize them into action. They claim they can't find
targets, but they're surrounding the towns and taking them, SO we know
they're there.
P: Is that new man outh there now?
K: He just got out there. I've x lit as much of a fire as possible.
They have a program now of turning over captured equipment to the Cambodians.
Brezhnev made a speech yesterday which the New York Times plays as
an attack on you. But that's not true. He says that the differences are deep
but also that peaceful coexistence is their firm line and they want to settle
disputes with the U.S. on that basis. It's not soft, but it's not excessively
aggressive either. They have to make some bows toward the Chinese,
P: Ob sure, I understand why they do that. But the Times has to
try to show that their theory is right and that all of this trouble is because
of Cambodia. They are having a hell of a time because the Chinese didn't
march in and the Russiand didn't break off and the SALT talks are goingon
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