12/31/1981
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"It is important that the private sector take the lead in developing commercial reprocessing services."
"In a world filled with hatred, he was a man of hope."
"America has lost a close friend; the world has lost a great statesman and mankind has lost a champion of peace."
"His death yesterday—an act of infamy, cowardly infamy—fills us with horror."