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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nRogers/Kissinger\n10:35 am 4/21/70\n-2-\nis peaches and cream.\nR: That assumes that in conquering a country xxxxxxxxxxx They had a great\nsystem going for them before. We were careful about bombing. If the take\nover Cambodia they will have open sanctuaries. There will be no bombing\nrestrictions. Psychologically it would give them an advantage.\nK: Psychologicall and moving forward is quite an achievement.\nR: If you compare that with the present, it would be to their advantage. But\nif you take it befor Sihanouk until after they take over, there's a disadvantage.\nK: I think they will come out ahead. Their gain may not be so great that we\nshould not pay the price of trying to stop it. But I do think that would come\npeaches and cream\nout ahead. It wouldn't be xxxxxx that would have problems.\nR: The questi n has to be related to what you are comparing it with.\nK:\nto the Sihanouk situation.\nR: Then no restrictions on our bombing. We arexa very carefuluntil the end.\nAll bets would be off if they conquered Cambodia. They would have trouble\ntaking control of it.\nK: It's absurd that 100 VN, 18 miles from Penom Penh should throw our people\ninto a panic. What can you do with a government that can be taken over with\n5 thousand.\nR: On this Australian thing, how would it work.\nK: The Australians would give it as their money.\nR: And we would re-pay it?\nK: That;s right.\nR: That's all right.\nK: M view, I agreed to hold it up yesterday when he thought it was being done.\nHe is SO determined on this -- we should raise your crucial question of what we\nwant to do. Not one problem at a time and slipping into somehting we don't under-\nstand. This money is only a slight psychological boast. We can say we didn't\nsand want to be publicly involved and it isn't our money. But where we are going\nshould not be decided daily on cables. Your man there cannot see the whole\nscope.\n(NLN07-20/7: P. 20f37"
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