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Jimmy Carter: “I was distressed to learn of the violent earthquake which struck the southern coast of Yugoslavia earlier today.”

On the recordApril 14, 1979
I was distressed to learn of the violent earthquake which struck the southern coast of Yugoslavia earlier today.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Message to President Josip Broz Tito on the Earthquake in Yugoslavia

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