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Robert Torricelli: “several weeks ago the French Government was complaining about the activities of American Government officials. This came…”

On the recordMarch 15, 1995
several weeks ago the French Government was complaining about the activities of American Government officials. This came as an enormous surprise. The Japanese, the Germans, and Americans did not know there was any technology in France that anybody needed. Yesterday the French President hosts Fidel Castro. Mr. Speaker, we are entitled to doubt whether if there were an island in the Mediterranean with a 30-year dictatorship, with no human rights for any of its people that the French Government would be so understanding. In the coming years France will have its difficulties in North Africa. Europe has not seen its last internal political problems. I trust that all of the people of the Americas will be similarly understanding and give the same difference to the French Government when it faces its own next crisis.
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Robert Torricelli
New Jersey
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Discussing French government actions and relations with Cuba during a speech.

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