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    "ocrText": "Telcon\nSecretary Kissinger\nAmbassador Dinitz\n10/26/73; 9:38 a. m.\n- 5 -\nD: Uh-huh.\nK: Well that at least wastes a little time and since I am then on the way\nto China nothing can happen until I get back.\nD: Yeah.\nK: I just don't want to do anything without telling you.\nD: Sure.\nK: Second, and I want to sit down with you and tell you what the General,\nmy General,\nD: Yes, I heard yesterday in your press conference that you had a very\nfruitful talk with Dobrynin about procedure, sites and methods for the new\nnegotiations.\nK: Yeah, I want to talk to you about that in a minute -- that's all baloney.\nD: Uh-huh.\nK: The trouble with you, Mr. Ambassador, is that you go straight ahead\nand I go in circles. If I can teach you people tactics --\nD: Yeah.\nK: Now the hysterical message from Sadat is: that their third army ish\nsurrounded and that you are trying to get them to surrender and that they\nwill have to take unilateral measures regardless of consequences and that\nyou are not permitting UN observers in there. All of this may be true,\nbut we want to give them an answer. Let me make a suggestion. First\nof all, of course you want to check with your Government. My recommendation\nis that we can tell him that you would permit observers in there and just\ntell me where they should go and just don't say in general. Secondly,\nI would consider it a very good move if you would say you would let non-\nmilit ary supplies in there of some kind because it can then be used against\nthem if they start an offensive.\nread\nD: Well, what I Aid in the morning, they have already started shooting."
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