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Jimmy Carter: I regard the Soviet invasion and the attempted suppression of Afghanistan as a serious violation of international law…

On the recordJanuary 19, 1980
I regard the Soviet invasion and the attempted suppression of Afghanistan as a serious violation of international law and an extremely serious threat to world peace.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Letter to the President of the U.S. Olympic Committee on the 1980 Summer Olympics Games To Be Held in Moscow

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