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Robert C. Byrd: “The Soviets' response to the end of the embargo is more killing in Afghanistan. The free nations of the world must…”

On the recordMay 14, 1981
The Soviets' response to the end of the embargo is more killing in Afghanistan. The free nations of the world must continue to recognize and condemn this brutality. Afghanistan must not be forgotten, so that its tragic suffering will not be repeated in other nations.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
May 14, 1981

Editor's note · Context

Objecting to the lifting of the grain embargo against the Soviet Union while it occupies Afghanistan.

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