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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nFrank Shakespeare\n1/5/71 12:30 p. m. page 2\nK: Yes, and what role they visualize for us in that.\nS: The ruler in Abudabi may bring up the boundary between them\nand Saudi Arabia. I will just listen if he does.\nK: When will you be back?\nS: The 23rd. Then I go to Kuwait and call on the\n.\nIn Cairo I have lunch with largely media people.\nK: In Cairo, try to convince them that the White House is not after\nthem with State being big brother.\nS: Okay. I am seeing Hakel (?) and the Foreign Minister. Anything\nto say to them?\nK: I would make it clear to both, Hakel has said it's the White House\nwhich has taken the anti-Arab position. Bergus feeds them that stuff but it\ncan't be in anybody's interest. One other thing: Egypt can't get out of\nthe great power contest by just renouncing it. They continue in it as long\nas the Russians have bases there.\nS:\nI\nagree\nfully.\nThen on to Tunis. I'll have a three-day meeting\nwith public affairs officers. I have taken them from Saudi Arabia to Kuwait\nall the way over to Morocco that relate to this flank of the Soviet Union. I'm\ngoing to have a session on their sense of the way things are going. Bergus will me\nus there. In each case, I will be staying with the Ambassador. And the Ambas-\nsador, later on in the evening will say 'How are things going? 11 Is ther e any\nnuance I can give them?\nK: Let them know that they shouldn't play the game that one area is\nState's and another is the White House's and also give them our view on the\nArab-Israeli dispute, that is is important. And also the U.S. Soviet com-\nponent there and on Amab radicalism which won't be erased entirely by the\nsettlements there. But don't attribute these things to me or I'll be getting\nletters.\nS: Okay. Thank you very much for calling.\nK: Thank you. Have a good trip and I look forward to seeing you when\nyou get home."
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