:13:03
Oh, my God!
:13:12
I know that.
:13:15
No. I'm not giving out any statements -
to him or to anyone else.
:13:19
It'll only make matters worse.
:13:22
Make sure that the cable
is noncommittal as well.
:13:26
Yeah.
:13:27
Let me see it before you send it.
:13:33
Gee. Can you believe that?
:13:38
Some sons of bitches from
the Egyptian opposition party
:13:41
want us to endorse their condemnation
of Israel for blowing up the Aswan Dam.
:13:46
How the hell do we know
Israels responsible?
:13:49
-My guess is it's the work of the NLF.
-Who?
:13:52
The Nubian Liberation Front -
a quasi-Marxist outfit.
:13:55
They've had a gripe against
Cairo since the '60s, when
the High Aswan Dam was built.
:13:59
They claim that it submerged
50 per cent of their homeland,
which, of course, it did.
:14:04
Until now.
:14:07
How'd you get this information?
:14:10
One of our Thorn relief teams - they were
on the scene ahead of the Egyptians.
:14:15
I wanna take a look at that.
:14:17
It's quite unofficial, of course.
:14:21
I don't have to point out to
you that... if we can prove it
had nothing to do with Israel,
:14:27
we could be averting
one mother of a major flare-up.
:14:31
I'll have to check it myself.
I wouldn't want to feed the
White House false information.
:14:38
As to the other matter,
:14:41
I'm afraid I can't accept the post.
:14:44
If I were ambassador to Great
Britain, I'd have to
relinquish my control over Thorn.
:14:49
Hell, no! We can take
care of that for you.
:14:52
-It is against the law.
-Then we'll just have
to bend it a little.
:14:58
But there are two other conditions.