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    "ocrText": "-2-\nK: Within 30 days the SVN will collapse or they will be negotiating with us.\nL: The SVN aren't going to collapse, but that battle isn't going to be over\nthis year. I think they will come up with a ceasefire and we must be ready\nto prepare what our answer is. I don't like to get in a position where\nthere are no assets to continue over a long period of time. We can send\nthe\nSARATOGA\nover there withx I think the Pacific carriers have done\nyoemens work.\nK: If you send the SARATOGA it would give you the options of pulling the\nENTERPRISE out. Let's send the SARATOGA out and then if it looks like\nstabilizing I would pull the ENTERPRISE back or whichever you think\nis most in need of it.\nL: All right. For this period they will know we have the additional assets\nthere. On the 52s, when X we put the G and H's in we can only run 25 to\n26 bombs on them. That's 38-40 percent.\nK: I said this to the President and he said well he wanted another 100 out there.\nL: The thing is if we could fly them out, then justify flying out of Kadena.\nCouldn't we get permission? That is a 2xx 9 1/2 hour flight.\nK: Why don't you put the short-range ones into Thailand and the long-range\ninto Guam?\nL: There is a question of bombload.\nK: Why don't you put the smaller bomb load into Thailand and the big bomb\nload into Guam?\nL: The ones that can carry the biggest load we will put into Thailand SO\nwe can get the biggest use. When you get the turnaround out of Guam as\ncompared to Kadena. This is out of the question, do you think?\nK: I do, but shall I try State ?\nL: Try State.\nK: I will.\nL: You only get about 38 to 40 percent, something like that. In addition,\nyou have 9 1/2 hour flight as compared to one-half that out of Kadena.\nK: I agree."
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