09/28/1988
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"America's strength is in its people."
"The United States International Trade Commission is therefore directed to make an immediate investigation under Section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended."
"Those critics are the same people whose ruinous inflation fell so heavily on the poor, especially in 1979 and 1980."
"Import relief would also adversely affect the export earnings of the foreign copper-producing countries."