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90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1645 to FCO (0122Z) ("Occupied Territories") [inconclusive meeting between Secretary-General and Israel Ambassador to UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: UN Sanctions") ["Crown Prince replies helpfully, if somewhat testily, to your message about sanctions enforcement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's visit to Israel: Plenary Session: Gulf crisis") [Israeli concern that Arab support for Saddam will grow in any "long haul scenario"; containing Saddam if he survives; Jordan worries] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics for his visit; "The signs are still of lack of clarity and determination"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("The Gulf") [Cradock visit to Washington - limitation on topics he can safely raise because he has not been briefed on highest level American thinking] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Embargo Surveillance Unit") [essential but not glamorous work, could she see them as a "nice gesture"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Business Note") ["rather elaborate" note from Robin Butler, lising papers on crisis to prepare and put to cabinet committee OD(G); MT unhappy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gulf: ROE") [Foreign Secretary satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [publication of proposals for grant settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("Social Security benefits: 1991/92 uprating") [advance notice of main features of forthcoming statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: MT letter to Sir Ronald Millar (Conservative Party Conference 1990, Eastbourne) [thank you letters to speechwriters; "I Do, Ron Ron"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Gorbachev, Economy) [Hurd gets frosty reception in Israel] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [doing nothing is not an option] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [case for indexation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Mujahedin Attacks on Kabul") [report] [released Jul 2018]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS)	MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“speech-writing process seemed to be easier than in some previous years”]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2510 to FCO (2109Z) ("UNSG's mission to Jerusalem") [US policy towards Israel and PLO] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2105Z) (French draft SCR on Iraq/Kuwait) [early draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1655 to FCO (0415Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait") [message for Secretary of State in Jerusalem - continuing UK-US differences over scope of next steps SCR] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1656 to FCO (0430Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: comment") ['infuriating' that USMIS at UN was undercut by "yet another premature Baker press statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Message from Baker to Secretary of State") [wants a "clean humanitatian resolution" without reparations to address plight of foreign nationals; MT annotates strong disagreement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Primakov's Visit to Rome, 16 October") ["Soviets reportedly link Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait to a UN initiative on the Occupied Territories"; Andreotti preference for a negotiated settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Cradock ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics he can safely raise, excluding military options, timing and strategy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") ["this agenda would raise problems for me" - need to be able to "cover the issue in broad terms" to encourage US to think through options more clearly] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Telephone conversation with President Bush") [Scowcroft says President will want to call tomorrow or Friday evening; draft message for MT to send Bush first] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Robin Butler ("Gulf Business Note") [MT reaction - distinguish issues which can go to OD(G) and some that need "to be handled on an even more restricted basis"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Hurd, Primakov, Heath, Bush, UN, Kuwait Embassies), military, future work] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (King Hussein comment) [Saddam seized whole of Kuwait as bargaining chip for disputed territory] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("The Prime Minister's Telephone Conversation with President Bush") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow ("Primakov's Tour: Meeting with the Secretary of State") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Soviet Union, South Africa) [MT and Bush warn Hussein of war crimes charges] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("President Cossiga") ["A high and controversial profile in recent months after five quiet years"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Potter minute to Professor Griffiths ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap in government's capping powers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary") [Poehl said British hard ecu proposals too late to influence debate, too soon to broker agreement in IGC] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary to Bonn, 15 October") [Maude addresses German equivalent of CBI] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2520 to FCO (2220Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Primakov's Tour") ["Administration will take a tough line on the compromise solution which they expect Primakov to bring to Washington"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1664 to FCO (0030Z) ("Jerusalem: Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") [text agreed in five, aim to have resolution passed end of week, "but final US go-ahead still awaited"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1665 to FCO (0035Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [discussion in five on Soviet proposal for Military Staff Committee meeting, US without instructions, other four in favour] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1667 to FCO (1315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["US modus operandi in New York is certainly not designed to get the best results"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2010Z) ("US/UK New York text of 16/10") [draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's call on Israeli Defence Minister") ["cordial and detailed exchange" - Occupied Territories; UNSG's mission; Jordan; Iraqi military capabilities] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister") ["Good atmosphere but predictable differences"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Baker) ["Gulf Crisis: next steps at the UN"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [as agreed, draft message for Powell to send Scowcroft] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (overnight telegrams) ["The Foreign Secretary is in a fair amount of trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to FCO & Cabinet Office ("The Gulf") [top secret records of meetings, messages & calls with US Administration] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Baker message for Hurd (Security Council: next steps) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MOD minute for Powell ("Pay and Allowances in the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Gulf Crisis: Burden Sharing") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [analysis & advice on minute from Tony Newton & related correspondence] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: MT letter to Lawson (his decision to leave the Commons) ["The ERM has gone well"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Economy/EC) [Hurd's trip to Israel seen as a disaster] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Italian Prime Minister") [agenda for Rome European Council] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [protection for SMEs] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping: Impact on School Budgets") [next year's capping exercise to be more extensive] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French views on the European Council") [Jay conversation with Elizabeth Guigou] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to No 10 ("Local Authority Finance: 1991/92") [criteria for charge capping] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram 877 to FCO (1610Z) ("Informal European Council: Italian views on the agenda") [seeing MPs "Andreotti unsurpringly placed preparations for the two IGCs, at the top of the European Council agenda"] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [public expenditure negotiations; social security budget; economic forecast; the Gulf; family policies on taxation and child benefit] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chancellor Kohl on EMU") [Kohl on French TV suggests 1 January 1994 as the starting date for stage 2] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sir Michael Butler fax to Powell ('EMU') [Butler discussion with Padoa Schioppa] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [efficiency savings, tariff increases] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Bush & Scowcroft memoir	Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2457 to FCO (2357Z) ("Primakov's Visit") ["Primakov got a strongly negative response from the President ... to suggestions for a face-saving way out for Saddam Hussein"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2546 to FCO (2323Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: the mood in Washington") ["Administration remains uncompromising over the need for full implementation of the UN resolutions. But no suggestion this requires an early decision on the military option in the absence of a provocation"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2548 to FCO (2358Z) ("Arab/Israel") [Administration "concentrating in the first instance on relations between Israel and the Arab states"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: New York Times") [King Hussein claiming MT told him US troops were "half way to Saudi Arabia" before they were formally requested] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1681 to FCO (0200Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait Security Council resolution") ["No progress. Americans still do not have clearance. Council will revert to occupied territories on 19 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1683 to FCO (1945Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Americans agree to SCR as drafted by the Five. Text submitted to other Council members"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Foreign Secretary minute for MT ("Egypt, Israel and Greece") [account of visit; difficulties in Israel ("I landed in the mud and am sorry if this caused you difficulty"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Kuwaiti Crown Prince & Prime Minister letter to MT (Kuwaiti People's Conference) ["Your commitment to ending tyranny and torture is truly noble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to General Scowcroft (Cradock visit to Washington) ["He will not want to get sensitive areas of military strategy and planning"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Gulf Crisis: visit by Mr Primakov") [background] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 minute for MT ("Interview with Al-Hayat Newspaper") [background, draft and Powell rewrite] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Ingham minute for MT ("European Council - Rome") [key points briefing for Sunday Lobby] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Italian Prime Minister") ["I think your approach should be that frankly we doubt the utility of the meeting. But since it is being held, it should focus on the real issues of importance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Future Service Share Methodology") [teachers' pay settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child benefit and PES") ["Understandably, Mr. Newton sees attractions in his concept of a "family premium". But you may feel that you and colleagues should consider the new policy departure more thoroughly"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 letter to Newton PS ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [MT's "detailed points on the proposals"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Conservative Chairman briefing ("Eastbourne by-election - line to take") ["The parrot has twitched!"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics, Gulf, Industry) [SPD win Eastbourne] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("State Visit by President Cossiga") [outline agenda, with FCO briefing] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to Chris Patten ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation to ensure full benefit of reduction is passed on] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge 1991-92") [RSG settlement, use of capping powers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rates") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92") [likely to lead to criticism that authorities will escape capping by cutting education services] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [capping proposals will be controversial] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92: Wales") [agreement with local authority associations] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral Meeting with the Chancellor") [central forecast: exchange rate; wage settlements; oil prices; inflation forecast] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("The October Forecast") [expected growth of 0.5 percent in 1991; high figure for 1991 community charge] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU") [Kohl's suggested date for stage 2 "will have pleased the European lobby and displeased the financial community"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [essential to show we have been prepared to grasp the nettle on defence] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [has reduced massively initial demands for savings but cannot justify going further] [declassified Jul 2017]

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