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    "ocrText": "is\nSANITIZED COPY\nTELCON (Home)\nSecretary Rogers/Mr. Kissinger\nR:\n(cont'd) think it is roughly 15 on either side in that area. The\nIndians have admitted 11\nK:\nYeah.\nSANITIZED pusee 1.4(c)\nR:\nWell, I'll be in touch with you in a little while. We're going over the\nfix now as we see it and then we will want to talk a little later about\nthe Security Council. I thought it went very well yesterday.\nK:\nI think actually it's come out well, I think the backgrounder played\nvery well.\nR:\nYeah, it did. You know, it's just really a question in the long run.\nWe didn't accomplish really what we wanted to do and that is to\nconvince everybody that we have taken all the right moves. But we\nperformed the other task the President wanted performed, that is\nto condemn India.\nK:\nNo, and I think it lays the basis for establishing the fact that we have\ntaken the right moves. You know, you don't expect the New York Times\never to like anything we did.\nR:\nYeah. Well, I think we have got a major decision if this thing continues\nto grow and that is whether we want to burn our bridges behind us or\nnot with India.\nK:\nWell, the other question is what do we gain by tacking towards them\nnow?\nR:\nWell, it isn't really tacking towards them now. It's just a question\nof how much do we want to get involved in the public mind with the\nwar itself and it's something we want to ask ourselves thoughtfully\nit seems to me now.\nK:\nWell, no one is against discussing anything thoughtful.\nR:\nThat's all I am saying. In the long run do we want to go all out and\ntake the exact Chinese position or do we want to be somewhere in between\nAt the moment we are somewhere in between between the\nSoviet\nUnion and China.\nK:\nWell, our present position is to try to be say two-thirds of the way\ntowards China but notall the way but above all what we have here is\na Soviet-Indian naked power play to dismember a country.\nSANITIZED COPY\nCNLN 05-33/14: 2g4]"
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