Word: dobrynins
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...often before when confronted with decisive American action, the Soviets began to pull back. Late in the day Dobrynin reiterated his leaders' hope that we would not undo all that had been accomplished. "We will not under any circumstances let détente be used for unilateral advantage," I said. "Don't think we will accept a military setback in the Middle East...
...Friday morning, Oct. 19, the Israelis had 300 tanks on the west bank of the Canal. Minutes after 11 a.m., Dobrynin called with an urgent message from Brezhnev to Nixon. It spoke of the increasing danger in the Middle East...
...would keep the issue out of the U.N. until we had shaped an acceptable outcome. It would gain at least another 72 hours for military pressures to build. The Soviets could engage in no blackmail while the trip was being prepared or while I was in transit. I told Dobrynin I would leave early Saturday. I would not be prepared to start negotiations before Sunday morning; there could be no discussion of any subject except the ceasefire...
...leaders decided on a showdown. Dobrynin announced to me that Soviet U.N. Representative Yakov Malik had just been instructed to support a resolution calling for the dispatch of American and Soviet troops to the Middle East if someone else introduced it. This, I knew, would be easy to arrange. I just had time to tell Dobrynin that we would never agree when I had to interrupt for a call from the President...
...somber mood that at 7:15 p.m. I turned from the conversation with the President to resume talking to Dobrynin. I urged him not to push us to an extreme. We would not accept Soviet troops in any guise. Dobrynin replied that in Moscow "they have become so angry they want troops...