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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nSecretary Rush/Mr. Kissinger\n6:32 p.m., February 28, 1973\nR:\nHello, Henry.\nK:\nKen, you called me earlier.\nR:\nHenry, I called you to tell you about my talk with Mrs. Meir.\nK:\nOh, yes. You talked to Scowcroft.\nR:\nI gave it to Scowcroft.\nK:\nWell, the Israelis are totally up in arms about our condemning them.\nR:\nOh, are they ?\nK:\nYeah. I hadn't understood that this Icao condemned them before there\nis an investigation.\nR:\nWell, this is the very thing, Henry, that we've dissociated ourselves\nentirely from the Preamble. The Preamble says \"condemn\" and Scali\npushed very hard to have instead of condemn the Israeli action, it was\n\"deplore\" the action. I've had no report back from him but the last I\nheard was that there is absolutely no support in at all for that. Then\nwhen the Resolution came to a -- was to come to a vote authorizing the\ninvestigation, Scali was to entirely dissociate himself from the Preamble\nmention of \"condemnation\" but vote for the investigation, which means\nhe had to vote for the Resolution.\nK:\nYeah.\nR:\nWhen our people briefed the Israelis about this, and also at the UN, they\nwere quite calm and relaxed about the whole thing. Then at the very end\nof our lunch, which was a very interesting one and vigorous one but very\nwell I thought, Rabin who strangely enough was acting -- he was really\nalmost rude to Mrs. Meir -- it was quite strange. But I'll tell you a bit\nmore about that in a moment. He brought up the Icao. It was obvious that\nshe had not been briefed on it at all and I explained to her why we felt we\nhad to vote for the Resolution and told her how we were dissociating our-\nselves entirely, not only from the condemnation but doing everything we\ncould to have that removed from the Preamble and the changes. So she\ngot a bit emotional and didn't think we should ever condemn them for\nanything and I said we weren't condemning, we were dissociating ourselves\nfrom it but that our credibility in terms of trying to bring discipline to\nthe air, interms of trying to bring about negotiations between the Israelis\nand the Arabs and would be undermined if we did not vote for it. Everyone\nelse is going to vote for it except the Israelis and maybe Costa Rica or\nsomeone like that. I didn't mention that we would be isolated with regard"
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