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Jimmy Carter: I think that is accurate to say, too, that the recent action by the United Nations to implement an arms embargo against…

On the recordApril 1, 1978
I think that is accurate to say, too, that the recent action by the United Nations to implement an arms embargo against South Africa was preceded by our own unilateral action implementing an arms embargo long before the U.N. acted.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters Following Meetings Between the President and General Obasanjo in Lagos, Nigeria

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