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TELCON Roland Evans/HAK October 8, 1973, 8:51 a.m. E: I just want to know whether this is serious business in the Middle East or what? K: Serious. E: Is this to embarrass you, the United States, does it expect the Security Council to move. K: No they don't want the Security Council. E: It makes no sense Henry. K: I agree with you. E: They are going to be bloodied or smashed by Israel before this is over. A few days I would say. K: No matter what the Washington Post says we've been trying to get a ceasefire since Saturday. The only trouble is the Arabs don't want either a meeting or a resolution so they and their friends just won't cooperate. AThis is not to be attributed. E: I understand that. What about the Russians? Are they in on this at all as far as we know. K: I'm not sure. I doubt it. E: Then the upshot is going to be to restrain Israel from going to Damascus. K: That could well turn out to be the problem later this week. E: Can you see it clear on anything to--I mean the Israelis are SO obviously militarily superior power that I can't understand this without some fallback position in Cairo. There's got to be something a backboard-- athey're working against. K: Well if there is they haven't revealed it to anybody E: Do you believe the attack that they say the Israelis knawxaboxx made where the pipeline was

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