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TELCON
President/Kissinger
10:40 a. m.
12/16/71
K: The Indians have just declared a unilateral ceasefire in the West. We have
make it.
P: What's it mean?
K: Ordered forces to stop fighting.
P: What's territory? From what you said yeaterday -- taken Kashmir?
K: In West have
some desert and Pakistanis have taken a bit of Kashmir.
Major
is to stop defeat of Pakistan army.
P: What's the source?
K: Official announcement.
P: It's the Russians working for us. We have to get the story out.
K: Already a call from State. Until this morning we were running the UN thing.
Now they are and say they will go over resolution. They are pulling off the
British Resolution. You pulled it through and should take credit. I will give
a backgrounder tomorrow afternoon.
P: Get people in and set story for the weekly news magazines.
K: Can't do it today. We have to clean it up.
P: Any other thing -- in view of Time Man of the Year thing get Schechter in.
He will understand it. Or who at Time would know more about this subject?
K: I will start with Schechter. He has been decent.
P: Time might write best analysis of crisis. You really feel that they mean --
let me come back to it. You were bearish last k night.
K: I felt nothing happen until Dacca fell. Soviets were dragging their feet becaus
Indians took longer on taking Dacca then they figured. So this morning I said
next 24 hours will tell.
P: If Soviets have cooperated on this I think we have got to play on an
arms-length deal.
K: We have to get straight what they did.
P: What they did in '67 June war.
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