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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nMr. Donaldson/Secy Kissinger\n11:32 a.m., January 3, 1974\nK:\nBill, two things. One, Akins has sent in a cable about a possible\nbilateral approach to the Saudis. Have you seen it?\nD:\nI've seen it, yeah.\nK:\nWell, I'm in favor of at least opening the discussion. So will you work\nwith Sisco on how to do it?\nD:\neah. You want to prepare a contingency thing or do you want him\nactually\nK:\nI want him to begin talking to Faisal. Nothing can come of it anyway\nvery quickly. But I don't want us to be the only country that is not\ntalking to him bilaterally.\nD:\nOkay. We'll start to work on that. You want the pros and cons on that?\nK:\nI want the pros and cons but I'll tell you right now which way I'm going\nto go unless the cons are overwhelming.\nD:\nOkay.\nK:\nWe can't be the only ones insisting on multi-lateralism when no one else\ndoes it. We can always go to a multilateral solution. Opening the\ndiscussion isn't going to get us anywhere very quickly.\nD:\nOkay. Sisco just mentioned that to me and I will try and put something\ntogether.t that's positive but also, you know, includes everybody's negatives.\nK:\nYeah, what are the negatives?\nD:\nWell, I guess maybe it could upset the embargo lifting thing.\nK:\nWhy?\nD:\nWell, if he thinks we're being squeezed so much that we've got to make\na unilateral deal with them, maybe he thinks he ought to keep it on a little\nlonger\nK:\nNonsense. That I don't believe.\nD:\nOkay.\nK:\nI think the embargo lifting has next to nothing to do with this; that depends\nentirely on the Israeli talks."
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