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    "ocrText": "9\n15-L\nTELCON\nHAK/PRESIDENT\n7/19/74 8:00 p.m.\nK:\nHello Mr. President\nN:\nHi Henry.\nK:\nI\nwas just checking ;the line had gone dead. Mr. President it looks\nas if the Turks are going to land in Cyprus within the hour if they\nhaven't already landed there. At any rate they'v told us they re\ngoing\nto land there. And that they have given instructions to their troops\nto avoid fire if the Greeks avoid firing. And 80 my recommendation,\nif you agree Mr. President, is the following. That we send we\nfirst of all are going to get in touch with Taska immediately and give\nhim that message from the Turks about the firing. Secondly we're\ngoing to urge the Greeks to see whether they will accept the solution\nof the head of the national assembly Clerides. They'll never accept\nMakarios without going to war.\nN:\nYes.\nK:\nAnd the Turks have already told us they will accept anybody and if\nthey accept Clerides then actually we'll have come out very well.\nIf they don't accept Clerides we're going to have a war between the\nGreeks and the Turks. We're also drafting letters from you to the\nGreek and Turkish leaders urging restraint on them but the first\nthing we've got to do is get the message to the Greeks. We'll get\nthe message off your message off immediately. Immediately\nafter that. And then maybe in a few hours we can\nconsider\nthe question of a Security Council meeting.\nN:\nGood. Fine.\nK:\nI'll keep you informed as soon as we know more. I've got a call into\nCallaghan to see that we can stay lined up with the British.\nN:\nHe ought to. We'll see. He'll support us. Why are the Turks going\nto such lengths.\nK:\nThey have a very tough domestic situation at this point. That is just\nthe message that the Minister of Turkey has just told Sisco that they\nhave a tough domestic situation and Ecevit is trying to appeal to them\n-- the nationalists. And.\nN:\nWell, if it gets down to the Greeks and the Turks having at each other\nI mean if it does get to that we then have to go to the Security Council\nUNCLASSIFIED\nPARTIALLY DECLASSIFIED ON 9/10/03\nby NARA on the recommendation of the\nNSC under provisions of E.O. 12958"
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