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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nAmbassador Dinitz/Secretary Kissinger\nMarch 23, 1974\n1:00 PM\nD: Hello\nK: Communications from your Government which Eagleburger has handed\nto me. Let me make a number of points: First of all, I am sending it\nback to you, I refuse to accept it, and you can tell them that.\nD: This is not the communications that I was suppose to hand to you.\nK: At any rate. Just tell them I have refused to accept the first part\nof it in any form in which it has been communicated. Secondly, if you\nthink if it is in your interest to bring this matter to a head while I am\nin Moscow, you go right ahead and do it.\nD: But we don't think it is in our interest to bring it to a head.\nwith\nK: Thirdly, if Dayan doesn't come, I'll rodraw from the negotiation\nand state publicly what has happened and you do what you want.\nAnd then we will put somebody else in charge here. We have now\ncommunicated to other Governments that Dayan is coming. Your behavior\nis\noutrageous and frivolous and you know dam well we have told Sadat\nthey should be removed by the time we fly our next plane. yOu know very\nwell that he has told us the tanks would be removed and has not refused\nto withdraw the artillery. I have communicated with Fahmy yesterday\nso it is entirely up to you, if you want to play domesticate politics\nyou go ahead and do it, but I think and you just communicate this to the\nPrime Minister, I don't care to debate it. I cannot accept this communication\nin any of its points. We are talking about 72 lousy artillery piéces which\nwe have told you we would get removed and if you can't understand why\nwe wanted to get to Sadat personally for the first time we flew a mission\nand why it was SO desircable to do if after the embargo had been lifted\nthen and why we wanted to have the military photographer interpreter\nthere who could explain it to him.\nD: We understand this.\nK: So then the first part of your thing is just totally unacceptable but\nif you don't like our reconnaissance you do your own reconnaissance,\nwe would be delighted to stop it.\nD: Can I say something Mr. Secretary."
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