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 If we can pull it off and get the bill, it is the best thing we can do.

Next week you will be hit with a recommendation for export controls. I would like a chance to comment.

I notice the Japanese are buying heavily.

That is he problem. It leads to scare buying -- like surpluses. Commodities are one of our big foreign policy tools.

Who is for it?

Not Butz. I think OMB and Treasury.

I will have a paper for you on Monday. I want to ensure it won't be decided on domestic grounds alone.

It won't be.