02/12/1988
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"I don't see where there could be any compromise on weapons systems that have been chosen, because we believe they're necessary to redress the imbalance between ourselves and the Soviet Union."
"I don't think the people have heard the thing that we're trying to explain of what is going on."
"U.S. support for the freedom fighters is morally right and intimately linked to our own security."
"I want it clearly understood today that if we fall to meet this obligation, then history will hold us fully accountable to the consequences."