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Bill Clinton: “The deadline only makes the artillery positions subject to attack, and I think that we should keep the deadline and we…”

On the recordFebruary 20, 1994
The deadline only makes the artillery positions subject to attack, and I think that we should keep the deadline and we should keep working at it. There may or may not be some questions about whether all those weapons can be put into U.N. control, depending as much as anything else on the weather there. And we're just monitoring it. Right now the report I got just before I came to church here was encouraging, directly from Secretary Perry and the military command we have there. But we're just going to have to wait and see what happens as the day unfolds.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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