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    "ocrText": "-2-\nD: No, No, I understand the issues, buts because some session\nyou have. So we will take it and begin on Monday.\nK: I just had it before me now they have taken it away from meagain.\nHold on a second.\nD: Okay.\nK: Hello, I had a happy life before I had this bureaucracy.\nI even got work done.\nD: Well I think you are trying to get rid of them.\nBy not appointing your Assistant Secretary. Finally you will be\nKt You know there are things for example we cannot accept the\nreference to the nuclear testing as an objective to be comprehensive\nand universal, but we can accept comprehensive. But you know, there\nare a lot of minor things, you know the rights and interests of all\nstates and people in the area including the Arab people of Palestine.\nYou know phrases like that and at the end you say frank atmosphere\nand fruitful result. Frank usually means there was a lot of disagreement\nYou can say constructive, friendly.\nD: In understand\nK: But this is the sort of thing it is not worth; substantially\nit is agreeable.\nD:\nGo back and we will sit down with you together.\nK: Right. Now Anatolyv, I have the transcript of my conversation\nhere with Gromyko. Actually from Geneva.\nD: You mentioned to him 40, 45,000.\nK: Let me just read you what I have. I said the General Secretary said\nto me and to Kennedy that everybody without a security clearance can\ngo. Gromyko said we told you. Then I stad If it were possible for me\nto say this, and Gromyko says you can say this. Then if I could get an\nestimate of what this means in numbers, Gromyko says, what age would\nyou say. I said last year it was 35, 000. Gromyko says right. Then\nI said, if I could say 40 to 45, 000, Gromyko said for what period?\nI said for a year, Gromyko said what year, I said for the whole year\nas a yardstick. Gromyko said approximately as i a trend that is\nall right. Then I said, what I will say is my estimate is based on all\nmy conversations this means 40 to 45, 000. Gromyko says yess you will be"
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