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    "ocrText": "Dobrynin/Kissinger\n1:22 p. m.\n8/26/71\n-2-\nD: Really, what can I do?\nK: I think we should try to get it --\nD: Most clear statement I have heard from you -- \"since we don't want to\ndestroy what we have.' 11\nK: I have told you many times. Each side keep what they have. If we don't\ncome to an agreement, it's what will happen.\nD: Put it this way not from my government. You would like to have your\ntwo and with our capitol we will have one.\nK\" You will have one missle site and capitol and we have two missile sites.\nreflect\nI will need to consult. I would like to have a ? ? ? ? that doesn't xeffex that\nnothing was done on May 20.\nD: The main point as we propose now with two sites on your side and one with\ncapitol here.\nK: Moscow isn't the point. You have a circle of 100 kms. radious.\nD: You have 60 miles. ? ? ? ? ? ? twice as much as you have.\nK: On the numbers and SO forth we will come to a compromise if we can settle\nthe principle.\nD: Two is beginning of a net. One is not. This is our objection mostly. Perhap\ntoo much emphasis.\nK: If your people could make a proposal that takes in our proposal and saying\ntwo missile sites isn't offense against humanity.\nD: Your side and two by two.\nK: It would be a bargaining position. On the other thing, it's going along.\nPrivately, itx there's some feeling that you pressed for us urgently to give an\nanswer in three days and we YORK seem to have the same process.\nD: I received private letter from Gromyk o today and he said same two days.\nBreshnev is in the south and\nis in Moscow. He will go there.\nSenior member there for\n/\nHe is important. Others are outside\nMoscow. It's not a deliberate delay."
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