10/05/1986
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"The United States and Italy are two of the world's great democracies."
"I felt it was necessary to let them know we were looking at them realistically."
"Our national economy was near the breaking point, and so were our local communities."
"failure to continue peaceful nuclear cooperation with the European Atomic Energy Community would be seriously prejudicial to the achievement of the United States nonproliferation objectives"