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William Helms: “But 400,000 of these highly armed, mean-as-a-snake troops, terrorizing their own citizens and locking up, as the Senator…”

On the recordJuly 25, 1996
But 400,000 of these highly armed, mean-as-a-snake troops, terrorizing their own citizens and locking up, as the Senator from North Carolina pointed out, the duly elected leader of this country in internationally supervised, Western-style real elections in 1990--they are a real pariah regime. Yet the crux of the Cohen amendment is, as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee pointed out, that it gives the President total discretion to keep on doing what he has been doing, which is nothing.
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William Helms
Republican · New Jersey
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Discussing the implications of the Cohen amendment on foreign policy.

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