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Jimmy Carter: Fifty nations have petitioned the United Nations Security Council to condemn the Soviet Union and to demand the…

On the recordJanuary 3, 1980
Fifty nations have petitioned the United Nations Security Council to condemn the Soviet Union and to demand the immediate withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Address to the Nation on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

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