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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nClark Mollenhoff/Mr. Kissinger\n11:00 a. ,m., November 12, 1971\nM:\nAre you aware of any problem in connection with racial\ndiscrimination in connection with the Mace(?) nomination to Sierra\nLeone?\nK:\nI'm not familiar with it.\nM:\nA suit has been filed in the Federal District Court in which\na couple of Filipino employees have alleged racial discrimination\ninvolving Mace. His nomination is presently up before the Senate\nForeign Relations Committee. You may be aware of the general\ncontroversy around this particular nomination.\nK:\nFrankly, I'm not.\nM:\nThere is an allegation generally of a lack of due process in\ngrievance procedures up there. It has gone in before the Committee\nand inaccurate, false testimony was given. The nomination has been\npassed over and is currently in the process of being investigated by\nthe Committee staff.\nK:\nI honestly don't know anything about that.\nM:\nI am told that the Sierra Leone Ambassador has had this\ncalled to his attention. I know he knows about the situation because I\nhad a conversation with him. He declines, as he should, to comment\nrelative to whether he has served notice on the Secretary of State\nor the State Department on this matter. They might find Mace to be\npersonna non grata. This gets to be a serious problem involving an\nAfrican country.\nK:\nI don't know enough about it.\nM:\nI was calling to find out if you knew about it and to let you know\nthere is a problem. You can get back with your office there to find\nout why you don't know about it.\nK:\nYou can bet I will do that.\nM:\nI haven't seen you since you got back from Peking. I'm anxious\nto sit down and chat about it.\nK:\nYes, it's been a long time. Let's do that sometime.\nlds"
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