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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nGen. Haig - Secretary Kissinger\nOctober 6, 1973\n4:15 p. m.\nK: Dobrynin says he will hear again in another couple of hours and\nas far as where we stand in New York, Egyptians are against the Security\nCouncil meeting and the Soviets who are without instructions are sup-\nporting Egypt, The British who wanted to call it are getting cold feet.\nTell the President we are still waiting for the Soviet reply. If we don't\nget it at 66:00, we will call a Security Council meeting.\nH: Right.\nK: By tomorrow the Israelis will have beat up the Arabs. If we have\nnot tried to stop it we will be accused of collusion. We have to have a\ncourse of action, to have an laternative to having a fight in a General\nAssembly debate. I have told Dobrynin that if this thing turns into a pro-\npaganda battle, in the General Assembly, we are going to shut off the\ntelephones, before the Israelis beat up on the Arabs, SO they had better come\nto us now\nI hope he will stick with us on this tough course.\nH: There isn't any question about that Henry.\nK: Some people were, not in the Department -- well I don't know about\nthe Department -- but in Defense they want to drop the Israelis.\nH: Why?\nK: We don't want to lose Arab oil. We are sort of in a similar situation\nto the India/Pakistan thing.\nwe return this military operation, get\nrewarded\nwill be to press weakness.\nH: Of course, I have no difficulty there at all. Sounds like the Canal.\nK: It is manageable here. He will want to know exactly what we will be\ndoing. At 6:00 we will call a Security Council meeting. I will say the\nPresident has instructed me to go back to Washington. And I will say\nthe President will have something to say at a later ti me.\nH: That's fine.\nK: So I thin it is well.\nH: So do I, no difficulties here.\nK: I have my own debates.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 13526, Section 3.5\nNLN09-08/12427 per Hr. 11/15/2013\nBy RS Imit NARA, Date 11/7/2016"
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