| T3dle29
26 Januzty 1957
different opinions about opening the chamol.
All right, I want to write down the opinions; get them dow in some
is this, there are things that ve don't have to knoy at this point, Wo —
éheuld not worry at this level ebout questions of using it or not using
it. We simply start with this point of vlew; we say, we don’t imow what
‘the weather situation is up there, wo'll assuze it’s all right, le don't
know what the difficulties are of getting a channel blested in there, but
in order fer us to use the place, clearly, it's going to have to be opened
up.
So ue start there, with the thing opened up.
If they can't open it
up, then the whole thing is out and it doesn't nake any differenee whether
te Te BAYS
I realize there are things we don't knew, but the thing
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Well, isn’t that the Nirst thing to bo dotermimd, whother or not it
can be opened up?
FELT:
No, not from cur poimt of view. We say it is openod up. We havo to mis
Sone assumptions as to the extent thet it's opened.
going to be a big channel liks the Erpgu chamel.
We knew St's nob
We kmar: it's going to
be difficult to get in md out, but we wi2L assuxe thet we eam get in ani
out, If it den't open that much, we might aswell quit now. But for this
thing to be of any advantage to uc, we shouldn't ait around and wait for
that answer, Je ehould go ahead and assure that itcan be epened and
modify the plens wien we find out whet the details aro, Now, I started
to aay that I dont belive that it's the 918,000 that's the road block.
I think it's the political qestion, TI tried to gst an answor in talking.
to Musick en the 28,000 without dneludine the polities question but Im
doxl sure that the real holdew 4s not where does the money cones from,
I think the recl proodlen is that Starbird is worried, he suspects that
the Comission 4s worried about the general question of what would appear
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