 A line of dialogue had to be cut from the opening helicopter  sequence due to legal reasons involving Kevin McClory (qv). The  bald man could not be called Blofeld as Kevin McClory (qv) had won  a court case some years previous and owned the rights to the use of  SPECTRE and Blofeld. The line read something like "I thought we  should celebrate the tenth anniversary of our last meeting", which  ten years previous was 1971 and _Diamonds Are Forever (1971)_ (qv).  This was the last time the character of Blofeld had appeared in an  EON Productions Bond movie.