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QUOTE ci AT 2200 HOURS MONDAY OCTOBER ·30 RECEIVED PHONE CALL .AT RESIDENCE FROM MANSUR AHMAD OF FMA STATING THAT IN A TELEGRAM FROM ANKARA PRESIDENT AYUB HAD INSTRUCTED THEM TO REQUEST ME TO MEET W!TH HIM IN KARACHI ON NOVEMBE~ lo I PROCEEDED To KARACHI LAST EVENING AND THIS MORNING MET WITH HIM1 FOREING MINISTER PIRZADA AND AHMAD FOR ONE HOUR• 
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AYUB APOLOGIZED FOR CALLING ME TO KARACHI BUT STATED HE HAD 
llECLASSlFIED NOT 0 E REPRODU .0. 12958, Sec. 1.5 
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GATHERED INFORMATION IN ROMANIA WHicH ~E CONSIDERED COULD BE URGENTLY IMPORTANT TO USG. HE THEN STATED THAT CHAIRMAN MAURER HAD ADVISED HIM THAT APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH AGO HF 
MAURER  HAD  VISITED  WITH  HO  CHI  MINH  IN -HANOI  AND  THAT  MINH  AHD  
STATED  THATt  
Al  NORTH  VIETNAM  DOES  NOT  REPEAT  NOT  INSIST  ON  A UNIFIED  VlETNAMs  

8) NORTH VIETNAM DOES NOT REPEAT NOT INSLST ON ANY SETTLEMENT WHICH WOULD RESULT IN LOSS OF FACE TO USGs 
C) A BOMBING PAUSE WOULD LEAD TO NEGOTIATlONS BUT APPARENTLY NO REPEAT NO TIME ELEMENT INDICATEDs 
DI IT WAS RECOGNIZED THAT "THE WITHDRAWAL OF USG AND ALLIED FORCES WOULD HAVE TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY BOTH ViETNAMES~ WI~HDRAW~L AND ALSO BY THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE IN sOUTH VI ET NAM TO SUP ERV I SE A REFERENDUM AND fo KEEP "THE PEACE• 
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E J UPON M~URER REQUEST OF MINH AS TO ~HY ·HE DID NOT SIGNAL 
THIS TO USG, MINH REPLIED THAT TO DO ·so WOULD BE TO SURRENDER• 
F ) AYUB INDICATED TO ME THAT HE BELIEVED THAT MAURER WOULD ·BE 
MORE THAN WlLLING TO TRY TO MAINTAIN A DIALOGUE W!TH HINH IF 
usG so DESIRED• 
G) AYUB GUEST I ONED MAURER ABOUT NORTH vI ETNA~ESE AB I l:. I TY ·ro c oNTINUE CONFLICT AND ELICITED REPLY "THAT WHlLE INDUSTRY ~AS LEVELED ON THE GROUND• FOOD SUPPLIE$ W~RE ADEQUATE, M~LIT~RY SUPPLIES GENEROUS FROM CHICOMS AND ussR AND THAT 'UNDERGROUND FACILITIES PROVIDED FOR MINIMAL NON~MI~ITARY INDUSTRIAL 
REQUIREMENTS I 
~l IN ALL THIS CONTEXT AYUB ADDED THA!s 
l ON HIS RECENT TRIP TO USSR KOSYGIN HAD INDICAiED TO HjM .THAT IF VlETNAM WERE SETTLED THEN THE USSR COULD AND WOULD 'COME 1 1 BE RE: uDUCED 

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TO HARMONIOUS AGREEMENT WITH USG ON ALL OTHER OU TSTANDING ISSUES BUT FOR POSITION IN COMMUNIST WORLD vr~-A ... VI S 'CHICOMS 'COULD NOT 
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REPEAT NOT PROCEED COOPER~TIVELY WITH USG BEFORE VIETANM 
RESOLVED a 

I I o D E G A UL LE H A D JU ST STA TE D T 0 AYU B . T HA: T I N H I S 0 P I N I· 0 N US G AND USSR COULD AND WOULD FIND "TOTAL AGCOMMODATIONS1 A~BEli NOT REPEAT NOT FRINEDSHIP.P IF VIETNAM :coULD BE GOTTEN OUT OF THE WAYo 
I ) AYUB ADDED THAT THROUGHOUT THEIR "TALKS DE GAULLE HAD NEVER REPEAT NEVER SPOKEN OF OR REFE RRED TO YSG WITH RANCOR AND WHILE HE HAD PRESSED A YUB FOR A JO I NT CONoEMNA Tl ON OF ·USG POL I CY IN VIETNAM HE HAD YIELDED TO AYUBVS INSiSTENCE THAT THEIR 'JOyNT COMMUNIQUE IN THIS AREA BE TEMPERED TO AYUs 0 s FORMULA OF ~EACEFUL SELF-DETERMINATION• END QUOT~o 
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NOT TO BE REPRODUCED ~~~~ITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY