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52. Memorandum of Conversation

neda. We’ve got to line up a group of core countries and really work on them. If they won’t play, we can tell them to shove it. We can go ahead on our own. Mr. Robinson : We’ve got to begin to use our leverage. The Secretary: I don’t know about this Nigerian plan that Ratiner likes. Jules tells me that if you go along with that, before long you’ll have the Enterprise running everything. Mr. Katz : We have to get over this idea that we are to be tolerated on the deep seabeds for some 20–25 years. The Secretary: It’s a basic fact that in the absence of a Treaty we can go ahead and mine the seabe…