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    "ocrText": "TELECON (Tape)\nProf. Yoshida/Mr. Kissinger\n10:35 a. m., December 16, 1970\nK:\nHow are you?\nY:\nI'm all right, thank you. I have met my friend for about an hour\nearlier today, and this was perhaps the most serious meeting I have\never had with him. My friend has specifically asked me to speak to you\nthis time on his behalf with full authority. As I informed you a few days\nago, he really would like to conclude this already too protracted\nnegotiations within the next couple of days. My friend strongly feels\nthat deadline time has come for the final political decision -- he would\nlike to emphasize the word political decision at the highest level\nwithin our two governments; that is, between your friend and mine.\nHe expressed again his personal regret for such a long delay in reaching\nan agreement as he meant to give it much earlier but due to the extremely\ndifficult and highly technical nature of the problem and the very limited\nscope of what he, himself, and his government can do to impose so-called\nvoluntary restrictions on the industry which is still showing stubborn\nresistance at home. In spite of all that, my friend does wish to have an\nagreement out of his personal conviction that this will better serve the\ninterests of our two countries. Now, in order to have an agreement\nwithin 48 hours, my friend would like to ask your friend through you to\nconsider the following propositions. This is almost the same basic\nposition I have already explained to you many weeks ago; that is, put\nin one sentence -- you should take substance and first give us name(?).\nMy friend is fully aware of the fact that your friend made a political\ncommitment to your industry and any agreement must be of that nature\nand contents; that your friend feels that he has redeemed the minimum\nrequirements of the commitment, even if your industry is not quite\nsatisfied by it.\nK:\nBut, of course, one problem is that if our industry isn't satisfied\nwith it, it doesn't help my friend to have met his political commitment.\nY:\nI see. On the other hand, from our internal point of view, my\nfriend has to dramatize this possible agreement as a product of so-called\nmutual.\nK:\nWell, why don't you tell me what your friend proposes rather than\ndiscuss it theoretically.\nY:\nIf my friend is to survive politically and to implement it\neffectively by the acquiescence of our industry; if this understanding of\nthe situation of both sides is a correct one, within this basic framework"
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