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PNGED SO PAR AS PUTURE ASSIGNMENTS WERE CONCERNED'.
Ei KORNIYENKO RRUQlNBD THAT IP WE WERE IN PACT {NStStING
THAT THE NYAP PEOPLE COULD NOT BE TRAN$PERRBD TO ?ILL
VACANCIES.WHICH MIGHT ARISE IN WASHINGTON OR SAN PRANCISCO
THAT IN IBPBCT WOULD AMOUNT TO PNG ACTIQN--AND WOULD* OP
COURSE# BE AN EXTRA COMPLICATION FOR BOTH SIDES. KOKNI-
YBNKQ THEN ADDED THAf BOTH COUNTRIES AT THE MOMENT POUND
THEMSELVES WITH THEIR AMBASSADORS AT HOME'. IP Wl WERE
TO DECIDE TO PREI2E EMBASSY StAPPS AT PRESENT LEVELS#
WOULD THAT MEAN THE AMBASSADORS COULD NT RETURN* CHARGE
COMMENTED HE THOUGHT IT CLEAR THAT TKAt WAS NOT THE IN­
TENTION OP THE U.S. POSITION# AND KORNIYENKO HASTENED TO
ADD THAT IN MENTIONING THE AMBASSADORS HE INTENOED NOTHING
MORE THAN TO ILLUSTRATE THE ABSURDITY OP THE U.S. POSI­
TION,
10, KORNIYENKO ONCE MORI MADE THE OBSERVATION THAT IT
WAS NOT PERMISSIBLE TO SPEAK TO EACH OTHER IN LANGUAGE
SUCH AS THAT USED BY THE U.S, IN UNILATERALLY DETIRHXNING
HOW THE ISSUES WOULD BE RESOLVED, .AS WA£ STATED IN THE
SOVIET NOTES# HE ADOEO# THE SOVIETS RESERVED THE RIGHt
TO RETURN ‘TO tHE QUESTION OP MATERIAL* DAMAGES REgULfXNG
PROM THE U.S, ACTIONS WHICH WIRE IN VIOLATION OP SPtClPlC
AGREEMENTS.
11. CHARBE REPEATED THAT HE WQUL'D SEEK RESPONSES TO
K0RNIYBNKQ1S QUESTIONS ON LEGAL AND PRACTICAL' MATflRS#
BUT THE SOVIET SIDE SHOULD NOT LOSE SIGHT OP THE REASON

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