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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nSen. Fulbright/Kissinger\nOctober 27, 1973\n10:00 a. m.\nK. Hello, Mr. Chairman.\nF. How are you this morning?\nK. It has been another sleepless night. That is why I wanted\nto call you.\nF. We are not having another one?\nK. No, this one has had a happy outcome. All day yesterday\nwe received messages from the Russians and the Egyptians.\nThe basic problem is the Israelis have an Egyptian army bottled\nup by cutting their road after the ceasefire that was to last.\nThis is the basic problem from which stems most of the fighting.\nIt is hard to tell who is trying to break out and who is whittling\nthem down. All day frantic appears have come in\nThe Soviet\nnote was not nearly as brutal as before. It was much more civil\nthan Wednesday. We decided that we could not permit a situation\nto continue in which there was a danger of constant confrontation\nwith the Soviet Union as a result of action taken after a ceasefire\nnegotiated with the Soviet Union. We, therefore, decided that\nIsrael would have to permit non-military supplies to reach the\narmy . After receipt of the message by the hotline which more\nor less requested non-military supplies we told the Israelis\nif by 8:00 this morning they won't agree to this, we would join\nthe majority of the Security Council in expressing the sense of\nhumanity that something like this would have to be permitted\nand told him they would have to get in touch with the Egyptians\nand discuss the matter of implementation of the ceasefire.\nI told them we were in a position of being beseiged by Sadat\nand Brezhnev with claims of bad faith. They are ready for talks\non that last subject but went into orbit on the first one. They\nclaimed they would go public and say they were being raped by\nthe super powers for the crime of being small. This consumed\nhours of time last evening. We held our position. At any rate\nat 4:00 this morning the Egyptians accepted direct talks with the\nIsraelis on the Suez Canal to discuss the military problems that\nexist provided one convoy was permitted through today."
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