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    "ocrText": "Telcon\nSecretary Kissinger\nMinister Vorontsov\n10/23/73; 9:47 a. m.\nV: (missed first part) message from Brezhnev and reads like that and they\nhaven't received your message yet. They crossed each other.\nK: Right.\nV: So it reads like that: First, President Sadat has informed us that in the\nmorning on the 23 of October Israeli forces in violation of the decision of the\nSecurity Council renewed firing on the West Coast of the Suez Canal and are\nmoving into the southern direction. We would like to underline that Moscow has\nits own reliable information which proves that this is the fact and that the Israelis\napparently decided to widen their bridgehead on the West coast of the Canal. Thus\nIsrael once again challenges the decision of the Security Council. This is absolutely\nunacceptable. All this looks like as a flagrant deceit on the part of the Israelis.\nWe will express the confidence that the United States will use all the possibilities\nthey have and its authority to bring the Israelis to order.\nK: Well, you have our answer before we got your message.\nV: That's right.\nK: And you can be sure we are in the most urgent contact of course, we get\nthe opposite claim from the Israelis.\nV: Well, but\nK: I just want you to know we do not have independent means of checking it.\nI think frankly today's order of business should be to stop it whoever started it.\nV: Exactly. Henry, and that's the way it goes later on in the statement. I will\ncontinue reading, okay?\nKt Oh, I am sorry. I thought you were finished.\nV: No, no. No, no.\nK: How the hell can I win an argument if I let you finish.\nV: You won this argument already but I think you will like what I will say further\non. So, it goes without saying that Israeli forces in this case should be withdrawn\nto the positions where they stayed during the acceptance of the ceasefire decision."
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