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Dr. Hannah/Mr. Kissinger
2:40 pm, March 29, 1973
K:
Hello.
H:
Henry
K:
John, how are you?
H:
Pretty good. I'm calling you about theproposal that's being put
together for the President in h9s negotiations with Thieu, and
the document that bothers me, not what's in it, but how we use it,
that is the possibility of requiring the use of $40/50 million of
Development Loan funds in Fiscal '73. Let me back up and say
I recognize that there's no more commitment that's more important
than that we keep our commitments now only reconstruction and
whatever for Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam. I was
out there ten week days ago in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia,
and came away with the conviction I've always had, we are going
to have to keep this commitment and the number one problem that
they are concerned with is not problems in March, April, May
or June, but the South Vietnamese are interested in what happens
in July, August and September.
K:
Right.
H:
And they requirement that there be enough money so that they can
provide jobs for their people and in a climate that will hopefully
encourage industrial development or investments from outside and
all the rest of it. In the conversations with the Minister of Finance,
Minister of Economy and with the President and so on, this is made
very clear and so on, and I recognize it, and I recognize that - -
K:
I understand your point. What is your concern.
H:
The concern is that if whatever the announcement is that we are going
to make available to them Development Loans for them in 1973, that's
no problem, but if the intention is, if they are actually going to collect
on it in the next month or two, this means that before we can make a
development loan to South Vietnm, I've got to get approval, prior
approval from Notret and from Passman. I think I can get it from
Enouye
nursing
Passman, but we've been doing job with Senator
INOUYE
for the last many months, he's coming along pretty well, and he's got
a very unfriendly staff assistant, a fellow by the name of
K:
What is it you say you can live with?
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