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    "ocrText": "TelCon\nMurray Marder/Mr. Kissinger\n2:40 pm - Oct. 28, 1972\nK:\nHello.\nM:\nHello, Murray Marder, Henry. nHow are you?\nK:\nOkay.\nM:\nHenry, could you give any guidance on the possibility of initially and\nthen proceeding or signing and proceeding--\nK:\nNo. I mean we won't do it.\nM:\nM:\nI was going to be cautious about that, but I couldn't get back to anyone\nyesterday and mention it, but with that uncertainty--that would apply to\neither one, anything our signing?\nK:\nThat's right. But, I don't know what it means that you initial something\nand then proceed to renegotiate it.\nM:\nWell, they tell me that this, of course, has happened before on many\nthings. I happen to know of anything as momentous as an ending the war\nagreement, though.\nK:\nWell, I have a ffirmedefexxexixe the essential provisions in the press con-\nference and they know we don't want to change the basic structure.\nM:\nUh huh. Do you really think this is any barrier here at the present time?\nK:\nNo.\nM:\nAnything said by Nuyen while in Paris that means anything fundamental\nfrom your position.\nK:\nNo. Because we base ourselves on direct communication we get from them\nand I don't know what their spokesman said in Paris.\nM:\nUh huh. Is there any guidance on the news of the resumption?\nK:\nNo. But, you know, Murray, you got through four years of this like\nkeeping your eye on the big picture. I really wouldn't play this game\nof taking the temperature every ten minutes to see if it was up a degree\nor down two degrees. You really know enough to know that having come\n90 percent of the way, it would be highly improbable to get it kicked over -\nover an arbitrary signing date,"
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